Kai continued to follow Damos for several minutes.
On his way, he noticed that the tall grass he was surrounded with initially had begun to get thinner with distance.
The more he walked, the shorter the grass grew, making the vision clearer.
His eyes continuously moved from one direction to the other as his field of view had increased tremendously and was still increasing.
Tall trees that stood out amidst the grassy plains, Countless large patches of bushes that seemed to form an encirclement towards a single point, The tall and dense grass fields that could be used as a hiding spot anytime—He noticed all of it.
'Strange... This looks like a perfect breeding spot for Monsters, yet we haven't encountered a single one.' Kai narrowed his eyes as his mind naturally began to suspect his surroundings.
'It's definitely possible that Damon and others have already killed them all,' he slowly rolled his eyes to the front and looked at Damon's clothes and a giant battleaxe that clung onto his back with the help of latches.
'Nope, his clothes and weapons are way too clean for something like that to happen. But then what exactly could it be...?'
His mind fell into a vortex of questions and thoughts while his body continued to move subconsciously.
Kai was confused.
"Why didn't the System show the details for the Trial?"
"Where are the monsters?"
Questions continuously screeched inside his head like an annoying morning alarm. Each time, its sound grew louder and louder.
"KAIIIIIIIII—"
Suddenly, he snapped back into reality as he heard Damon call out his name.
"Huh? Oh, sorry... I was lost in my thoughts," Kai said as an apologetic smile crept on his face.
"It's fine, don't worry too much about the Trial. We all panicked at first, but apparently, you can only receive information once you reach the village with all four participants of the Trial."
Damon remained calm as he told Kai about the current situation of the Trial. Kai, on the other hand, seemed to have found the last missing piece of the puzzle as his eyes widened and concentrated in an instant.
His brows furrowed as he began to connect all the dots in his head.
'Hiding spots... Encirclement of bushes toward a single point... A village... Trial of Endurance...'
His heart skipped a beat.
'Oh Fuck!'
Kai had realized the true objective of the Trial of Endurance, "Protecting the village from the waves of Monsters."
"Hmm?" Damon stopped as heard his words and turned around. His smile had disappeared, as he looked at Kai with a rather Stressful look.
"By any chance... Are you... A scavenger?" Damon asked as his eyes seemed to be gnawing at him.
Kai stood frozen at his spot with his head bowed towards the ground in disappointment. Unknowingly, he had blurted out his mind.
Being a Scavenger was the last thing he wanted to tell Damon and others when talking about himself.
Scavenger was a term used for the lowest of the lowest-ranking players. As the name suggested, they were a bunch of low-lifers who were hated by both humans and NPCs.
Why?
Because the only thing they were capable of doing was to steal the items from a player's or NPCs corpse.
That was their way of living. Although, it's also true that Scavengers were the best in terms of analyzing the ground.
They were not good in their strengths but in terms of war planning, even the veterans were rendered useless against them.
And Kai fitted such a position at a single glance—A frail body that inhabited a great sense of analysis.
Damon silently glared at Kai; noticing his silence, he understood that his suspicions were correct.
"Do not tell others about it." Letting out a deep sigh, he turned around and started walking once again.
Without raising his head, Kai followed behind. He didn't utter a single word out of embarrassment.
Kai wasn't all weak, but he wasn't exactly strong either. It was tough for him to handle 3 goblins at once but this time... There could be 30 at once.
It was the worst situation that he could've faced, but things couldn't be changed at the last second.
'Either way, I have to work with them to pass the Trial, so it's better to just hide my identity.'