Shrouded Forest (シュラウディッド・フォレスト Shuraudiddo foresuto?) is the ninth, tenth, eleventh, or twelfth area of Sonic and the Black Knight for the Wii. It holds one of the four barrier stones. The Shrouded Forest was once a regular forest with many of the townspeople residing there in their own settlements. When Merlina attempted to use the scabbard of Excalibur to make the kingdom everlasting, the Shrouded Forest was corrupted by the forces of the underworld, leaving the entire forest covered in a layer of miasma. This transformed and twisted Shrouded Forest, giving it a menacing and poisonous look in the form of dark growths that would spread its corruption further through the forest by covering it in new sprouts and spores. This transformation forced out the inhabitants of the Shrouded Forest,