There was a reason that the representatives were warned about going beyond the eastern markers.
Unlike here, the forest was a controlled environment, and the rank of beasts here had been purposefully limited to B, with the rest either being culled or pushed beyond the markers.
All that had been done in preparation for the festival, and the officials had hoped that the representatives weren't stubborn enough to cross the markers.
Unfortunately, they were.
But they couldn't stop the festival either, since this wasn't the first time representatives had crossed beyond the designated festival grounds.
The problem was that, this time, they were genuinely in danger.
However, unless the king personally ordered the festival to be halted, it would continue, even if someone ended up seriously injured.
The moment Adrian and Conan crossed the eastern markers, it felt as if they had moved past some type of bubble, though they were still within the same forest.
