It's been nearly an hour since entering the forest.
The sound of bows came from the woods, soon followed by cheers from the mercenaries who surged forward to drag several corpses out from the bushes—those massive, pale yellow creatures covered in tumors, with heads resembling enormous malignant growths, lacking nostrils and eyes, as if devoid of facial features. However, beneath their folds of skin were hidden thousands of olfactory and auditory organs, allowing them to be hundreds of times more sensitive than humans in dim or even pitch-black underground environments—but the mercenaries quickly realized these creatures were already dead. The arrows had only caused surface damage, but each of these Cave Dwellers bore a lethal wound to their chest.
