They had caused quite a lot of commotion while dealing with the magic beasts and the noise had spread to literally every part of the ironwood forest, attracting the attention of all the magic beasts inside it.
Alex had long sensed the presence of the beasts approaching them right after the fight started but didn't tell Eric. Their main reason for coming here, the steel-horned snake, had also sensed the disturbance and started to move towards them.
As one of the few mutated rank beasts in the ironwood forest, the presence of the steel-horned snake had scared away all of the common rank beasts that originally wanted to see what was going on.
As for the remaining few magic beasts that were of the same rank, they were more intelligent and knew that fighting the steel-horned snake wasn't a favourable battle, so they had retreated voluntarily. Leaving the snake as the only creature to come toward Alex's and Eric's position.
