As time’s going, many things have changed. At this moment, Luinseer was invited to Lucashah for an unknown meeting when he was in Tandoll:

Master Luinseer

For inviting Lucashah to a meeting.

Keep this letter for yourself.

From King Evander

It wasn’t like an invitation, it was more like an offer. Luinseer didn’t expect that there were just two sentences in this letter. King Evander should write it specifically. “To a meeting” is not specific enough. He was doing an “investigation” on the border of Tandoll. He was going to Mahania for the next “investigation”, but he got this offer to Lucashah. He jumped on his old friend (a horse, who is called Lucy). He rode across the Black Road, there was something wriggling in the grass, it alerted him. He looked around. He threw his dagger to it. It wriggled for a minute and then it stopped wiggling. He walked to it slowly and curiously. What is that? He asked himself. — it was a Chrysanthemum Creature. It should have gone extinct around a thousand years ago. If it appears now, it is not supposed to appear here. This is the border of Tandoll and the middle area of Tuan. He carried it onto Lucy. He must rush to Lucashah to tell king Evander this, for that meeting as well.

The trip to Lucashah was supposed to be five days and five nights. But he hadn’t any rest or sleep so the trip was shortened by him to two days and one night. There it is. The door of Licashah, an invisible door, will lead you to a Wanderland, a Hidden World, a Greenland. Full of plants and flowers. He hasn’t been here for years. It actually did not change a bit. He was glad.

The stamps of hoofs appeared at the invisible door, he frowned. He turned his body around.

Other stamps appeared next.

King Evander was walking in the green house. He heard a lot of stamps appeared.

‘They have arrived, my lord.’

The king Evander was walking around on the striped floor, his shadow moving around with his body. A blackish green leaf floated down on his brown hair, he flashed it with nervous.

‘Entertain them in the meeting room.’ He walked to the meeting room. He walked down the wooden stairs. The guards were standing near the doors of the meeting room. They pushed the doors open to let king Evander when they saw him.

‘Thanks for taking the time to join this meeting,’ King Evander said. All the important people of The Five Great Cities sat on the chairs. They were talking to each other. They started to walk to king Evander. ‘There is no time for shaking hands. It’s about The five precious things. We must find those precious things of each city and put them together under the blood moon on the Sun Table.’ He looked around. Samira, the Lady of Night did not come.

‘Well, then who’s gonna do this?’ Someone said, that’s a big problem, isn’t it?

‘Um…… we need one human and two witches. No…..two humans and one witch. Yeah, that would be good.’ King Evander decided. He looked around. He was finding someone who is brave enough to do this. Kind Evander thought: Dian. No, he is too wilful. Eliana, very good choice, but she’s only 1,342 years old. This number is too small for a Witch. Who will be the best candidates?

‘Mr. Arnold of Shell Harbor. A great swordsman, very brave and enterprising. And Master Luinseer of Aribandon. A flexible archer and observer. Altruistic and cultured. Princ…. Ms Livia of Mahania. Who carries the Fourth Wand. Clear mind, dynamic and delightful, if you ask me, those three are the best candidates.’ An old man said. He looked at Luinseer, Arnold and me. We looked surprised.

‘Er…… two humen and one witch. Perfect. Then be it.’ King Evander had got his decision soon. He looked at us. ‘You three will do it won’t you?’

‘It’s very honoured to do this.’ Luinseer said first.

‘Of course I will.’ I said next.

‘It’s my pleasure.’ Arnold finally said.

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‘How are we going to do this even no one knows where it is?’ Arnold shouted out.

‘Who said it can’t be found? There is a map, hidden in Mahania.’ King Evander said. ‘You must find this map and follow it carefully.’

The sun set soon. And it was nearly night time. Arnold had found a room for himself. As well Luinseer and I did. ‘Have a good night, and we will set out tomorrow.’ I smiled with excitement. I lied on the bed. I was so sleepy. But when I was going to close my eyes, I saw a beautiful lady was singing:

In the still of night. It was deep and dead. The curse that you carry. The hope that you wish. Will it come true? At the end of day? When the blood moon’s up. When the Sun Table’s shine. When you relieve him. When it calls the……

‘Hey, what is the answer to the riddle? The thing in your song .’ It just made me ask a question.

‘Never relive him. NEVER!’ The lady ran away.

‘Hey! Come back!’ I frowned. I was a mystery. I will regret that I cuted her singing. I went back to my bed and I saw Luinseer was walking to Arnold’s room. He was in a hurry.

‘It’s still midnight, isn’t it? Why did you wake me up?Arnold rubbed his eyes and asked annoyed.

‘We need to leave now! Something’s happened.’ Luinseer said. His worries almost overflowed from his eyes.

‘What do you think will happen? And remember, we set out tomorrow, not today.’

‘My lords, lord Evander told you to leave quickly.’ A guard suddenly said.

‘Come on Arnold, I will inform Livia.’ He picked up his bow and arrow, walked to my room.

We walked quickly to the gate, and king Evander was waiting there. ‘On the way, the three of you should always be together. But go along through the Fear Forest, don’t be defeated by your fear. Find the queen of Mahania. Let her help you.’ King Evander said in a hurry. ‘Find it, the Statue of Lucashah’s hope.’

Luinseer, Arnold and I put on our weapons and jumped onto the horses speedily. We raided our horses into the path ultrafast. There’s not much time for us to waste.

(2)

It was dark. We were hardly walking in the swampland. ‘I can’t believe we need to go through this to get to Mahania.’ I complained. Because I never went out of Mahania. It is a big city, so you don’t really need to go out. It has all the things that you need. Arnold opened his mouth. His talking now.

‘So why don’t you just use some witchcraft to let us fly through.’ Arnold shouted. ‘I said, it is not witchcraft, it is magic and I used magic, otherwise we would have been trapped.’ I rolled my eyes to Arnold. I was already sick of being in this company with him. He always complains about this, this, or that. ‘Stop you two.’ Luinseer said. I looked at him. He’s annoying too. But at least he won’t argue with me. We just walked and walked. We didn’t know how long we had been in here. Luinseer put down a Morro stone on the swamp. ‘I doubt we are making a detour.’ As expected, we saw the Morro stone when we walked in another direction. We haven’t arrived at the Fear Forest yet, but we have one day left until they arrive at Mahania. The originally calm swamp began to squirming. ‘Uh……Luin? Arnold?’ I stared at the squirming swamp. I frowned. Suddenly, a creature similar to earthworm rushed out. It was enormous, disgusting and terrifying. It has thirty eyes and a huge body. A million noses set on his body. He opened his mouth, and many swamp drips down.

‘I think we woke him up …...’

‘Run!’ Arnold shouted.

We started to run. But here is swampland, not on the ground. We couldn’t run fast, what’s more, there was a huge unknown creature chasing us. No one could help us. So I turned my body slowly back and shouted out some spell. A magic barrier appeared.

‘I don’t know how much longer I can hold. It’s hard to apply two different magics at the same time. I hope you have come up with a plane.’ I said hard. My hands resisted the front. ‘If you haven’t, we are either eaten by him or sunk under the swamp.’ Luinseer and Arnold looked at each other. They started to walk out of the barrier. ‘What are you doing? You will break the barrier, and the impact force will harm you!’ I shouted. They didn’t stop, but exerted themselves. I cried out, and the great force of impact threw us all on the swamp. A magic spell went out of my mouth. And then three little bubbles of berries protected us. ‘What were you doing? It's a good thing that I used another magic so you wouldn’t get hurt.’ I said angrily to Luinseer and Arnold. ‘Great. We don’t have any protection, and now he’s gonna eat us.’

I walked to him. Good thing that I wasn't in the mood to punch him in his face. I can feel that it was very late and I was very tired after I used some magic.

Arnold laughed.

‘Excuse me, what’s so funny?’ I asked him.

He kept laughing.

‘Luin?’ Seeing no use asking him, I asked Luinseer.

‘The force of impact crashed the thing to a million little pieces.’ Luin explained to me. ‘But we are still stuck in this swampland. We need to find a way out.’

The next hour we kept finding the way out, but it ended in failure.