They made good time the first day.
The farmland route added two hours as Sera had calculated and delivered exactly what Maren had predicted — higher natural death density, the Domain's passage through cultivated fields claiming small deaths at nearly double the open country rate. Livestock. Field animals. The natural attrition of things that lived in proximity to human agriculture and died the same way.
[PASSIVE SOUL HARVEST — DAY 1 TOTAL][NATURAL DEATHS CLAIMED: 847][EXP GAINED: 847,000][LEVEL UP — LEVEL 51][LEVEL UP — LEVEL 52]
Two levels from a day of walking.
He noted it without ceremony and kept moving.
They camped at the road's edge where a stand of old trees gave cover — not for warmth, the early summer night was mild, but for visibility. The Commander organized watch rotation without being asked. Daren took the first position. The wraiths drifted above the treeline, Death Sense extensions that covered the approach from every direction while Kael slept.
He slept well.
