The Arcadia Chronicles III: Wood Elf Quest

Red-Eyed, White-Haired 'Demon'

Sylvia's POV

After a while of examining this tree, I now remember where I saw such tree as this! Back in the future, I went to this amazing museum in Garami City that's so big that one could've mistaken it for an ordinary, company building. Inside it, there are lots of things that the best archeologists and paleontologists have unearthed and displayed there - from ancient, native people's bows, arrows, stone knives, and necklaces. Jars, paintings, and skeletons unearthed from lost and buried cities, villages, and towns to fossils of prehistoric animals and plants from beyond our time.

Yep, the museum is so mind-blowing! There's so much stuff that I want to learn there that I stayed in the city for a couple of days just to examine each display and learn from them - because of thousands of years of human discoveries and science, these old things are now replaced with electric objects then complicated machineries like cars and trucks to power plants that now made life easier.

Which also resulted in damaging the planet, aside from the Mutant Flames.

The museum has a special place for their most prized display - an extremely huge greenhouse for the tree like this one that the experts say is the last of its kind - the tree is fifty feet high and the trunk is about twenty meters thick, can you believe that? They say that the tree rings of stumps tells how old the tree is but I don't know how to read tree rings, the experts estimated with the thickness of the trunk, they theorized that the tree could be a hundred or probably a thousand years old!

I sighed, putting my hands on my hips Seeing one is amazing enough but a forest of such trees is totally spectacular! I pulled my phone and jogged some distance away, I unlocked it and checked the calendar first It's all blank still. I then switched to camera A little classified selfie! I pressed the screen and I'm done, I look at it Yes, perfect.

I saw something like a fire fly past above me and saw the fiery bird of Kiyan named Flame Hey, bird! It stopped and flew down then fluttered in front of me Master Sylvia, what are you doing here? I thought you were with Master and the others? I replied I was just checking something out, anyway, where were you also? You were gone for a long while that the others already entered the forest.

I was looking for food and I find it hard to look for one in this place. I'm about to rejoin Master until you called me.

I wore my headphone Let's go together, just give me a minute. I cleared my throat Okay, Hernel, give me an eyeball on where they are now. I swiped a finger in front of me and a hologram of the video feed from the drone appeared, I frowned What the heck?

The carriage is empty and stood on the middle of the road What happened, knowing them, they must've ran into some kind of trouble. I asked Did you notice anything strange when you found this? Hernel answered No, Miss Sylvia, the vehicle is already empty when I arrived here.

Okay, I'll drive up and see what happened to them.

Flame asked Who are you talking to, Miss? I can hear a voice but I can't detect any presence. I said to it I was talking to my assistant. I materialized my motorcycle and started it Let's go, Liliana and the others probably ran in some kind of trouble.

You mean Master is in danger?!

I corrected him I did say 'trouble', but...you know what? Let's just move and see what happened. I said before gunning the engine I hope you don't fall behind.

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It's almost afternoon when I found the abandoned carriage, I dematerialized my bike then materialized my pistols. I scratched my head How am I suppose to fnd them? I'm not a detective that can track footprints. I look at the forest on either side of the road They could've gone either way.