Victor stared into the trees, his eyes fixed on the place where the pale shape had disappeared. For a moment, everything around him seemed to fade into the background. The voices of the students, the footsteps on the dirt and even the rustling leaves became distant as the golden words remained suspended before his eyes.
[Warning.]
[Host has entered the detection range of an unidentified creature.]
[Do not engage.]
Victor's expression remained calm, but his mind was already working. The system had analyzed countless things for him since he arrived in this world, from people to monsters, yet this was the first time it had failed to identify something completely. More importantly, it had never directly warned him to stay away from an opponent. Whatever was hiding in those trees wasn't simply another weak creature he could kill for experience.
"Victor!"
