Almost the mont after Cash spoke to warn the others, the entire Sea Thorn Squad sprang into action.
All were senior adventurers with professional levels, reacting swiftly.
Just having returned to the ground from the trees, their slightly loose formation instantly consolidated.
With the spellcaster Mint at the core, the group contracted inward, forming a configuration similar to "back to back," yet leaving enough space for combat.
Xia Nan, Vireis, and Cash each took responsibility for a region, with their gazes covering all 360 degrees around them.
After all, the team had not been together for long, and two mbers were newcors, lacking enough coordination and tacit understanding.
Under such sudden circumstances, having this level of response was already quite good.
Xia Nan tightly gripped the Beheading Longsword with both hands, while sparing so attention to guard teammates beside and behind him.
His pitch-black eyes stared into the foreboding night cloaked in mist, concentrating his thoughts to perceive any potential danger within.
If Cash’s scent bait were truly effective, such a long duration in the Mist Forest at night shouldn’t pass without any movent.
Leaving them with only two possibilities.
Firstly, Cash indeed bought a defective product, and the bait failed to work.
Considering the air still reeking with a pungent rotten stench, directly assaulting the nose up to the head.
It didn’t seem like it’s ineffective at all.
Xia Nan felt the probability of this scenario was very low.
Then, only one possibility remained.
The dangerous predatory animals dwelling in the forest, active during nightti, have actually sniffed the scent of the bait.
Perhaps even taking action, closing in on the place where traps have been set for them.
However.
There’s a more ferocious and brutal presence causing these predators to instinctively suppress their hunting desires, fearing to approach.
Unsure of when it started, the sharp wolf howls intermittently coming from deep within the mist had ceased for quite so ti.
Xia Nan’s expression focused, without emotional fluctuations on his face.
Yet his heart couldn’t help but feel this was troubleso.
Where is it?
Which part of their operations had a lapse?
The initial situation where the enemy was clear and they were hidden suddenly reversed; the Sea Thorn Squad maintaining their formation in the forest was like being under a spotlight, alert to the deep darkness around them.
Ti quietly slipped away.
A few minutes passed, not even enough to roast the wild boar at over the campfire.
But for those on the scene, it felt like several hours had gone by.
Clearly just standing still, without and not daring to make any extra move.
Yet Cash’s face was already covered with a fine sheen of sweat, his muscles tense like a spring compressed to its limit.
Just a little disturbance could cause it to explode instantly.
Vireis held twin daggers, her tall figure and face shrouded by a veil-like shadow, as if about to dissolve into the dark at any mont.
Though her precise expression was unseen, the nature of her reaction was proof enough of her attentiveness.
Protected in the center by the others, Mint still tightly grasped her tree branch Magic Wand, with her droplet-shaped pale green earrings gently swaying in the wind.
Her expression appeared tense, with her eyes lowered, seemingly using other senses to search for nearby enemies.
Compared with the three, Xia Nan’s deanor and movents seed unchanged from before.
This was naturally because he concealed it well.
Inside, he was also significantly more tense.
The Dead Line ring on his right index finger, under the moonlight, emitted a subtle dark gleam, the "Deflection Field" ready for action.
At that mont, all four mbers of the Sea Thorn Squad had completed their combat preparations.
Like a barrel filled with gunpowder, just needing the smallest spark, a concrete evidence of an enemy, and all restraint and suppression would ignite at once.
Yet, precisely because of this, the spark to set the whole scene afla remained absent.
As if sensing the tension among them, not a suspicious sound ca from the surrounding woods.
Like the most patient top-tier predator, hiding in unknown darkness, watching, letting them waste ntal energy futilely.
Gazing into the silent dim bushy forest ahead, Xia Nan even felt at a certain mont whether he was once again engaging in wits with the air.
Actually, everything happening was just a coincidence, such as the so-called wolves and enemies didn’t exist at all?
Yet just the next second, he dismissed his inner doubts.
On the level of the five senses, perhaps there was no special discovery.
But on another aspect, his Perception Ability far exceeding that of ordinary people, as if hallucinating, felt a distinctly clear hostility.
Greedy and cold gaze penetrated the space barrier, sticking wetly and chillily to the skin, infiltrating pores under high pressure, burrowing into flesh.
Ravenous and savage desires nearly solidified in the air, transforming into an illusive cold breeze brushing past his ears and neck repeatedly.
Absolutely, assuredly, there was sothing lurking within so shadow watching him.
Xia Nan felt certain in his heart.
Ti ticked by, second by second.
Just as Xia Nan thought they were going to waste ti here until dawn.
Suddenly, soone moved!
Infinitely aware that under these circumstances, continuing to delay would only tilt the scales of victory ever further to the other side.
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