During the first hour of the march, Lirian's watch began to beep.
Lirian had the watch read it aloud, as the commander all new discoveries would ring on his watch.
Someone had found a piece of fungus growing on a tree and decided to try their luck and recorded it.
This came as a pleasant surprise to Lirian, aside from the generals, scouts and cartographers, and psychics he hadn't given out any roles, and he wanted to give it when distress started to build up in the students.
A new discovery would make the students more eager to work hard without any additional incentives and in doing so prolong the time before problems arose.
The best part about the new discovery was that it came before they reached the unexplored area, which meant that they'd get extra credit for finding something that was previously missed, by other exploration teams.
It was a few hours later that the river entered into a proper forest, and it was there that the first problem started.
