A distraction?

For the entire day, Eldrian kept making slow progress deeper into the forest. For the most part, he tried to be as stealthy as possible. This became harder and harder the deeper into the forest he went. Often he would also need to hide as a horde that would move past, likely going to try and assault some part of the wall. 

He failed to find anything all that special, even when he meditated and entered the magic abyss. He also got so used to circulating his mana to prevent the corruption from entering his body that he needn't think of it anymore. 

Though this was mostly because the amount of focus it took was so small. It was nothing compared to using Augment.