The Dark Fortress: A Brewing Storm

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Lena’s PoV

As we began to get close to Zane's fortress, the landscape began to change extremely. The trees were gradually thinned out. It was as if the deeper into the woods we got, the thinner the trees appeared, revealing unevenly cut twisted rocks that seemed to have been damaged by dark magic. I knew instantly that we were getting closer to this ominous darkness.

The air became very heavy and suffocating. It was getting really hard to breathe. Each breath we took felt more. It was as if the magic itself was trying to choke us. My heart began to beat a lot faster than usual. My heightened senses told me that we were dangerously close to our goal.

But I couldn't shake the feeling that we might also be entering into our doom and our end. As we continued onward, I noticed how the darkness that was around us had taken a new turn. It was like the quality had been enhanced or fortified,d or maybe more darkness had been added to it.

It wasn't just lacking light, no