Feeling the amount of life force in the surroundings gradually getting denser and denser as he moves deeper into the forest, Azrael couldn't help but start to feel wary, as with his decade of experience in the tower, despite it being only in the first floor, there is one fact that he learned that allows him to avoid getting himself into all sorts of troublesome situation.
That is the fact that whenever there is something peculiar going on in the environment he is currently in, no matter how infinitesimally small of a change it is, he needs to be extremely wary, as the tower just have a knack for taking its ascenders with things that will place them in absolute surprise, either in a great or tragic way, only those two extremes and no in between.