Commotion

Ryu looked down at the blood crystal in his palms. He had taken it out rather than hiding it, illuminating the surroundings once more. 

Selheira was still on his back in a deep meditative state, but she might as well have been in a deep sleep. 

His focus was primed, and he tried to sense the unique characteristics of the crystal.

His thoughts were more malleable than others, so how he looked at things was also different. The moment he realized that he could keep beasts away, he wondered if he could attract them. And then, he took it even a step further than that… was it possible to attract a certain kind of beast? 

It couldn't have been a coincidence. He was attacked the moment he tried to leave the boundary of the trial by that Omniscient God Beast. Then, when he entered the first layer, all the way to the third, he was continuously attacked by beasts. 

Did the fourth layer suddenly become so mellow, or was there another explanation for it?