On the mist-churned land, a Giant Scout slipped silently through the jungle, landed without a sound, and rolled behind a tree.
The Giant Scout poked his head out from behind the massive tree and looked into the depths of the mist ahead.
Up ahead, his target, a low-star-level Fool, was hurrying along without looking back, utterly unaware of the danger behind him.
Against such a tiny, fragile life, the Giant Scout was confident that a single kick or punch would easily smash his target apart, as simply as crushing a bug.
But he did not do so. He even kept carefully concealing himself, because his mission was to follow the Fool, record his movements without revealing himself, and use them to deduce the location of his base.
They could kill Fools anytime. What they wanted was to catch them all in one sweep!
Seeing his target still plodding along, the Giant Scout took out pen and paper, sketched a few lines, and added some written annotations.
Just then, however, he suddenly noticed that the Fool ahead had changed course, heading in another direction without slowing down.
The Giant Scout frowned. With his target about to leave his field of view, he had no choice but to put away his pen and paper and follow again.
Fortunately, his target displayed no strange behavior along the way afterward, such as suddenly looking back or stopping. Nor was he deliberately moving away from the scout. He probably had not discovered the pursuit, but had simply thought of somewhere else to go.
The Giant Scout continued following silently. Soon, he saw the Fool rush into a mountain pass.
Steep heights rose on both sides of a narrow valley. This terrain, unfavorable for a scout, made the giant hesitate for a moment.
But only for