They walked a good distance with nothing of interest happening. There were occasional sounds, though whether it was screams or the forest making strange noises was unclear.
While they walked, Kiro had entered a meditative state, he was in Paradise training his jump skills. That's the kind of training he preferred when the skills were just too dangerous for the game world.
This time, it was Nikolai who spotted them first. For some reason, vibrations was acting up he couldn't get a perfect read, he surmised someone amongst those had a skill that could potentially cancel out vibrations. It was a scary thought, as he was already used to sensing things that certain way.
But he also accepted this as a challenge, he didn't want to depend entirely on one skill. That would be a detrimental mistake.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here, just a couple of mutts we can easily defeat!" The one at the forefront said, wearing a stupid smirk on his face.