As soon as they reached the 10-kilometer-thick strip of border between the two states, Seth's group stopped using their flying boat, descending to the ground to travel on foot by the hour.
As soon as they did this, they were noticed by a group of winged creatures, small, with rat faces, and in a group of more than 100 beings practically identical from the point of view of the six travelers.
They didn't have to do anything to be attacked by these 5th-stage creatures.
This first group of monsters in their path was the kind that only had physical strength. But there were magical creatures that had special powers and looked a lot like Sky People.
But the group of strange birds in front of them was not like that. When they noticed that there were strange beings very close to them, these creatures turned their puppy-dog eyes towards Seth and his people, not identifying the difference in strength between them and these individuals.