Chapter 276: Unexpectedly Unexpected
Switching up the lineup for who was responsible for combat didn’t immediately change anything. For the most part, there weren’t large concentrations of monsters roaming around or even high level monsters that required cooperation to take them down just hanging out in the Wilderness. The Wilderness was huge. It was a ring completely separating the Upper Regions from the Lower Regions. While there were objectively a lot of monsters and beasts in the Wilderness, there wasn’t a dense population.
Switching the responsibility around was more about assessing the situation when possible. Instead of letting the honor guards make the decision to engage and handle the monsters themselves, Refix had the final word. It was more about making judgment calls on encounters rather than handling all of the combat.
Most of the time, monster encounters happened too quickly for any necessary analysis. The honor guards were able to overpower monsters and beasts that popped up out of nowhere. The actual issue was that this dynamic could change rapidly on the far side of the Wilderness.
After assuming responsibility from the honor guard squad leaders, the expedition traveled another three days before Reivyn’s Party needed to step in.
There was no warning the first time. The Party was walking along a peaceful forest, keeping their eyes and ears open for any threats. Reivyn didn’t detect anything unusual within his sphere of Divine Sense, and his visual concentration was focused beyond what he could sense nearby.
A sharp whistle was all the warning anyone had. Reivyn hadn’t been in any fights, other than the fight against the Dragon which he couldn’t remember, since he had consolidated all of his Skills. His Prodigy Skills activated in an interesting way.
He could feel his Danger Sense activate at the same time the whistle sound rang out, but he wasn’t the intended target of the surprise attack. His Danger Sense Skill, before being consolidated in a Prodigy Skill, had never warned him of impending Danger to those near him. It had exclusively been a personal Skill.
That wasn’t the only interesting thing that happened, though. As far as Reivyn could recall, his Perfect Domain Skill only ever activated when he was unconscious. It tapped into his Divine Sense to detect the world around him and act accordingly. This time, though, Reivyn almost felt like a puppet with his strings pulled as his body moved all on its own.
That wasn’t the best analogy either, though. It was like his body was moving on reflex but he never felt like he wasn’t in full control. As his body darted toward the danger, he knew that he could alter the actions his body was making on reflex alone, but without actively intervening, he kept going.