Beneath the trees and hidden among the thick bushes, countless eyes watched the adventurers as they stepped into the forest. Sharp, vigilant, and full of hostility — the gaze of those watchers followed the nine figures as if they were enemies trespassing on sacred ground.
They were the tribesmen of this forest. Every forest had its own hidden people, but here, something more bound them together — a force that connected their minds into one. When they tapped into it, they became a single hive, thinking and acting as one.
Because of that connection, information traveled fast among them. Word of the five adventurers — Mark, Thorne, Selene, Kaela, and Eccar — who had already clashed with other tribes on their way to Qomore Kingdom had reached this forest long before the party arrived. Through the unseen force, the tribesmen here already knew their faces, their strength, and the power they had displayed during those earlier battles.
