Harassment.

Fortunately, they didn't encounter any threatening beasts during their journey. They encountered some beasts, but they were not threatening to them.

They encountered a troop of monkeys. The number of monkeys in the troop was about two dozen.

The monkeys were small and weak, so they were not threatening individually. They were also not threatening as a group because they wouldn't be able to bypass his armor to harm him.

A fight with them would have been troublesome at best, not dangerous. But things didn't reach that extent because they were content with throwing stones at him and Ruff.

It wasn't exactly a fight. The monkeys just wanted to harass them.

The troop followed them all the way to the edge of the green forest while throwing stones, banana peels, tree branches, and fruit cores at them.

Aside from that harassment, the journey back was uneventful. He and Ruff managed to reach Death's Door safely, where they took a wagon back to Agate.