Beneath the pitch-black night, layers of dark clouds pressed low overhead. Thunder rumbled through the sky from time to time, and lightning winding through the clouds flickered in and out of view like a coiling dragon.
"Rumble!!"
A bolt of lightning flashed down, like a rising sun that lit up the entire sky in an instant. The torrential rain that followed brought new life to the forest beneath the night sky. At that moment, a faint candlelight shone from a wooden cabin in the rain-soaked forest. Judging by its old, dilapidated exterior, it was a place where passing merchants and hunters who had come to hunt in the forest could rest. Judging by the damage, however, it had not been used for a long time. Several years earlier, a group of magical beasts had migrated from afar and settled in this forest. Ordinary hunters could no longer enter to hunt, so they abandoned the place. Merchants also changed their routes, turning the forest into a paradise for magical beasts. And so the cabin was left to rot...
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
