The forest blurred past them.
[Running has levelled up: Level 5 > Level 6]
[Running has levelled up: Level 6 > Level 7]
Two levels in twenty minutes of sprinting with a kobold under his arm. The skill corrected his posture mid-stride, a smoother transfer of force in his ankles and knees that made each step push harder without wasting energy.
He stopped in a clearing about an hour southeast of the village and set Griks down. She wobbled for a second and grabbed a root for balance. Her tail was puffed up from the speed.
Eren pulled the drone out of the box and started assembling it. Rosa had picked a basic quadcopter, maybe 500 grams with a camera that could shoot decent video from half a kilometer to a kilometer away. Not military grade by any stretch but for scouting a forest from above it was more than enough. She'd packed two batteries and a tiny instruction card that Eren ignored because he'd used similar drones at a friend's birthday party two years ago.
