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Xu carried his weapon at the front of the group, followed by 30-40 Feathered, including 12 Mechs, 8 Scholars and 3 Druids. The others were their dependents. Xu's daughter Lynn was among them. Their destination was the Miracle Tree Kaladrasi in the Feather Forest. Compared to the Giving Tree in the ancient forest, Kaladrasi is much younger. Although Bn had written several times that the Miracle Tree had grown to maturity, he was still concerned about whether Kaladrasi could support the whole race. He picked a wild fruit from the roadside and wiped the soil off. The fruit was ripe, juicy and refreshing. Only a fertile enough soil could produce such fruit. Perhaps as Bn had said, he had no reason to doubt the capability of this forest. His hometown, the Giving Forest, used to have such delicious fruits. But that was a hundred years ago. At first everyone thought it was just a bad harvest, but the fruit became more and more tart and inedible every year. The growing race placed a burden on the forest, so they were looking for new land. He gave those wild fruits to the others, asking the whole group to stop and rest. He then leaned on a large tree and fell asleep.

Some noisy sounds woke up Xu, and a harsh smell sounded the alarm of his nerves. It was a chaotic scene - black smoke shrouded the woods and the dark red sky seemed like doom had fallen. Baggages were scattered, and the crackling sound of things being burnt everywhere. A deer jumped out of the woods, the dark purple magic flame swallowed most of its body and dripped down again, instantly igniting everything it touched. Fire was rarely seen in a hundred years for Feathered, not to mention that this was not an ordinary flame. The team of 40 was only half left. While evacuating survivors, Xu was looking for a slim figure. And when he finally found his beloved daughter, came along the great pain - the magic flame had wrapped around Lynn's body, and the girl's desperate cries shattered her father's heart. He ignored the people around him and held his daughter in his arms. Enduring the bone-chilling pain from the magic flames, he exhausted his healing magic to save his daughter. He could feel Lynn's vitality slowly fading, like a petal falling from a flower, one after another. Finally, even Xu's magic could not resist the invasion of the magic flame, and Lynn's voice was getting weaker and weaker. He watched as the magic flame took his daughter's life from his arms, and the unbearable burning sensation spread all along his left arm.

A cool night breeze brushed through the forest, Xu awoke from sleep again. It was late at night. People of Kaladrasi had gone to sleep. The humming of the Hugo birds came from time to time in the quiet forest, reminding Xu that it was time to patrol the night. He came out of his tree house as a Great Druid. Under the leadership of Whisper Seer and him, Kaladrasi has grown from a small tribe of a dozen people to a city of hundreds on the Miracle Tree. What Xu had just dreamed about was something that happened thirty years ago, before they came to Kaladrasi. The disaster took away Xu's left arm - a broken branch of the Miracle Tree was used to restore Xu's left arm and body, dispelling the power of magic flame. Fortunately, Xu's daughter was saved in time and given a new life under the care from the Miracle Tree. Lynn is in the teenage rebellion period now, they often argue about some minor things. Xu believed that these were the gifts from the Tree. Although the forest has gone through hard times, the soil under the Tree will surely be able to nurture life again! He has decided to visit the endless forest where the Beast was located, A new Miracle Tree would be planted for the Beast, sharing such a gift to more people.