From the Death Sands to the Great Plains

After the battle, the team moves 100 yards away and makes camp for a long rest. A sense of danger looms over us as we drift off. We wake up and chat with Ling and Hamuro. Ling uses the teeth of the purple worm to attempt to contact the spirits of the desert. She senses WOAh in our future.
 
61: Desert. Screams ahead. Goes for a sneaky peek. Sees giant salamanders harassing some travelers. Ritsu sends out an arrow and hits one of the salamanders. Basir shoots another one with a gun. Hideo obliterates the one Ritsu attacked. Khoda rages down the hill and attacks the closest salamander. The salamanders begin to fatally attack the civilians. Hideo keeps getting the final kills. Khoda kills the one he was attacking then heads to the next closest to wail on that one. We kill all the salamanders. Hideo steals the last shot from Khoda. Meets Mugami a civilian in the party. Mugami's son wants to tell our story.
Talking to Hamuro afterward he tells us: We are not planning on coming back. Ba Ku is not the only demon in the sky, the sun goddess is also a demon! Ling is going to connect us to the sun demon to use demonic magic to fight Ba Ku. Khoda takes a moment to be mad about helping demons then settles on killing demons and continuing on the path
 
12: Traveling through shifting sands. Coming towards the ends of the sands.
 
20: Next hour, nothing happens. Expecting to get to the plains in an hour or so.
 
45: It starts to rain. Travel is difficult, its hard to see, but progress is being made.
 
91: Start seeing the great plains and seeing grass and trees! Leaving the sands finally!! Not super pretty, but its new terrain which is refreshing. Archway on the hill. Alter with protective spell around it devoted to the local spirits. Ling leads the way. Communicates with the spirits. Spirit says "walk with the shadows". All of our torches turn blue. Hideo dreams of dark sand and black skies and it looks like a purple swamp; he sees an arch that is twisted and corrupted then hears "Ba Ku is weak. come find me".
 
68: Thicker tree density but still loose formation. Hears a sizeable army of footmen. Ritsu scouts ahead. blue twinkles and whispers twinkle in the trees. A large caravan of orcs akin to the kind we were hurt by before with two warg riders between Ritsu and Khoda and the caravan. Khoda trips and is almost seen, but the warg rider almost sees him. The orcs just ride right past us without even noticing we were there. Khoda asks Ritsu if he should ask the orcs what they were doing and Ritsu responded with no, and the orcs heard but they didn't see us more than just hearing whispers. The blue flames from the alter spell are less lively now at like 50%.