[Stealth]
The first skill I had ever earned—the reward for killing that damned mooncat.
The moment I activated it, the world changed. The sounds of the forest dulled, my presence folded inward, and the air around me rippled faintly as if reality had taken a quiet breath.
My outline melted into the environment, shadows wrapping around me like a cloak.
And that was when she came into view.
The "invisible" one wasn't so invisible anymore.
I caught her outline first—a faint shimmer, like heat distortion, moving just a few meters behind where I'd been standing. She froze mid-step the instant my presence vanished, her eyes darting around in confusion.
So, she had been following me.
But when I stepped into her sensory range under the cover of [Stealth], something in her instincts reacted. Our skills clashed in that invisible field of awareness, and suddenly, both of us existed in each other's sight.
