Shuttling Back

The will of the forest was an invisible barrier that hindered Richard’s progress. Multiple discussions with Nyris, Agamemnon, and Lina had borne no fruit. While Richard’s unicorn could provide some protection from its effects, there was only one of it. Having it wander around the forest with no target would be useless. If they depended on a single horse to search through hundreds of square kilometres, when would they find any other trees of life? Besides, the trees could migrate the moment they were seen!

He ruled out the bats once more. Even ignoring the elven archers, they had found many birds of prey and other creatures in the forest that could hunt down an airborne target. Even the elite bats were just flying pieces of meat on this plane.

It was not as though they were losing out in the current situation. The woodcutting helped them make some amount of profit, and with the disturbance from the other elves being minimal basically all the troops could be mobilised to cut down the trees. Richard had to buy another...