About 70 card artisans had entered the forest, and there was a depressed atmosphere among the troops. Each of the card artisans looked bewildered and wary. They treaded carefully, afraid to take heavy footsteps. The card artisans responsible for detection were behaving as though they were facing a big enemy.
"He's in the vicinity!" A small card artisan unconsciously swallowed. He had studied the perception of smell, and there were quite a few card artisans like that in the troop. They had stained the enemy with a green-ish palm juice, which made it so they wouldn't lose their adversary's trail. However, since they had studied it along with a different subject, their attainments with the perception of smell weren't very deep. They could only roughly determine whether he had been in the vicinity and couldn't determine his accurate position.
Dong! A sound like dull thunder came from behind them, and all of the card artisans' faces shifted!
