Jack leads his group towards the new mountain. The adventurers guild had been planning to send an expedition into the Dark Forest for a few years now. But some hunters had reported seeing humanoids in the forest, but they were all dismissed as crazies and attention seekers. That was until Jack, the guild leader's son, had reported seeing one. Then they finally decided to send in an investigative team.

"Let's stop here for the night," Jack announces. "We will probably reach the mountain tomorrow. We will make our camp there, then do an in-depth search of the forest."

The group had had a rough time making it into the forest. The closer they got to the mountain, the worse the monsters were. The most dangerous part, however, was that most of the monsters relied on stealth, meaning they have to be constantly on guard.

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As they are setting up their camp, one of the guards hears a branch snap. He spins around and, seeing something hitting the ground, throws his spear at it. What turns out to be an elf, immediately starts screaming in pain.

The other elves, which were hidden up in the trees, immediately kill the adventurer with arrows. Unfortunately for them Jack specializes in wide area of effect attacks and hurls a fireball up. The fireball explodes creating a ring of fire. A few of the elves have time to jump down in time to survive, and start to shoot at all of the adventurers. As they start to flee from the elves, Jack is shot down. A few of the faster adventures manage to escape the elves and run towards the edge of the forest, hoping they will live to tell the guildmaster what happened.