The darkness is wafting on the moist-cold air of the midnight. Holder was uncomfortable of the darkness, but he had no choice but to travel with its path, for it was what he decided to do. He would go to the direction where the mining of Xaphan crystal could be found. It was at the northernmost part of kingdom, at a once domineering forest but now a plain field filled with dug spots of explosions, barracks for the workers, and a now dead land. The once abundant-rich, green forest is now changed into white-dusty land with remnants of explosion—and still coming explosions. It must have been cold. The mist in the air, though the place is utterly dark, is seen to be swirling on his path, and to the whole forest. He felt worry to Jiji’s welfare. He has long been maintaining his form as being

