Surrounded 

Two hours later...

Minos' group finally entered the Phoenix territory, passing one of the tribe's elders who was in charge of watching over the area they had come from.

His group had attracted the attention of the elder in charge of this piece of borderland. But with four Nine-Tailed Foxes in his party, including the leader of the tribe, Minos and his people were not stopped by the elder.

'What a strange group...' That guy, in his bestial bird form on a hill, thought as he looked in the direction of those moving individuals, the strongest two levels below him.

Feeling strange but not enough for him to move, this phoenix picked up his communication item with the tribe's headquarters and warned the people in that place about the group heading in that direction.

"Okay, elder Tinder. We'll keep an eye out for this group's arrival."

Someone at the headquarters answered his contact and quickly ended the call.