Mission 2(The Summons)

"Hmm? I thought that your twin has the ability to control lethal shadows? I feel that would be magical enough. Anyways, as for the area, it is called The Forest of Flames. On certain seasons, the forest can catch fire due to high temperatures. There is also the matter of the region being considered close to the Realm of Fire. I don't actually believe in the Elemental Realms, but some scholars do.

Anyways, The Kingdom of Barovia has made its home within this Eastern region, due to how tough and foolhardy their ancestors were. Their culture used to have painful rituals using fire and combat. Of course, they later grew more civilised and became military-centric and offer their honourable service to Dendemun, the ruling kingdom of the Continent. But alas, the civilisation-ending war probably erased all that history away...

Here's a fun fact to ignore that depressing thought. The reason why the trees here have white bark is because of both the ashes of the past burnt trees, and that the species likely evolved to develope this colour as white reflects the most light and heat..."

Dr Matvox continues. "It seems rather odd of why a dragon would use this Tearstone Statue to ask humans to visit it. I'll try to search my memory of dragons..."

As the party takes note of the tree, the clump of leaves begins to shake and spread out. It now can be seen that a gathering of bat-like monsters are huddled together upside down. One by one they begin to screech.

"Ah! A family of Treewings! Watch out!" The researcher warns as he ducks down.

Gabrien shot down one of the Treewings, 3 are left. Reeve readies his weapon to attack.

Two Treewings are short distance from each other, as they were on different trees. Unfortunately, the creatures are able to swoop away around the arc as it forms.

The Treewings descended down to the group in a swinging fashion. Reeve timed his attack well as his talwar cleaves one cleanly as it comes in reach. They continue to circle around the group. From up close, the Treewings look like having skinny, brown-coloured, insect-like bodies.

Dr Matvox picks up his courage, and attempts to swing his dagger at one of them. However, they were too fast for him.

Reeve misses with his strike, but Ash and Gabrien both were able to take down one each. There were still a few smaller Treewings that are were part of the group. Instead of attacking, they flew away, and into the trees. From then, everything seems quiet.

The researcher relaxes a little and carefully examines a slain Treewing on the ground. "It seems that the adults are all killed. The remaining ones are now hiding in the nests they made in the trees. You can destroy the nests to control the monster population here, while I do some quick field study of these specimens." He starts taking out tubes filled with liquid from his bag as he gathered the carcasses.

You see a hollowed-out opening on the tree where the Treewings escape to. Climbing to it would be Difficult, as the trees are fairly smooth and have no low branches.