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After that night, Li and the group traveled at a consistent pace. The Vukanovi made a consistent and solid pace, its roots shambling it forwards past soil, mud, stone, rock, and any manner of terrain. Using its spider-like leg roots, it could even scale sheer rock formations. It far surpassed the pace of any regular work horse or even magical beast based transportation for this reason, and after a full day of traveling, it had left Riviera far, far behind.
In fact, it almost seemed like human civilization itself had disappeared. First off, there were almost no humans left at this distance. They did stumble upon one or two frontier villages, but they had long since been abandoned, their residents travelling eastwards to take shelter in Riviera or other more heavily fortified areas.
But it was not just the people that changed – the land did too.