The catalogue team's investigation of zone fourteen's northeast section was scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
Kai went in Thursday morning.
Not to engage the creature. He had a standard contract—two Stone Warders in the central section—and the northeast was not his target. He had been running zone fourteen twice a week for two weeks. The Warder kills were efficient now. The contract would be done in ninety minutes and he would exit without going anywhere near the boundary.
That was the plan.
He finished the first Warder in two minutes forty seconds. He was moving toward the second when Extended Hunter's Instinct gave him the northeast boundary's path-layer read, the same automatic read it ran on everything in range.
The creature's territory had expanded again.
