Chapter: Chapter 402
A peerless expert landed lightly in front of the beastmen and beckoned to them, as if signaling them to follow.
Silver Fang exchanged a look with her little follower. She felt that their only option was to follow this peerless expert. It would be bad if the other party got angry if they stayed put.
Moreover, such a beautiful young lady wouldn’t be a bad person, no matter how you looked at it.
After following the white-haired girl for a few steps, Silver Fang saw another girl. Contrary to what the little girl from the Copper Blade clan had said, the girl sitting on the rock had long, jet-black hair, with no white hair at all.
“Hey, hey, can you understand me?” The girl looked towards Silver Fang and opened her mouth, speaking the common tongue of the beastmen in standard pronunciation.
Silver Fang’s eyes lit up. She could understand what this girl was saying!
With such standard common tongue, this girl had likely spent a long time learning their beastmen language.
“Mhm, I can understand!” Silver Fang immediately nodded and replied in the common tongue.
“Thank goodness, I’ve finally found a beastman who understands the common tongue, even if the accent is a bit heavy.” A flicker of joy flashed across the girl’s face. “I’d already thought there was no one here to communicate with. Fortunately, fortunately.”
Perhaps because they could communicate, the girl’s gaze towards Silver Fang softened slightly.
“Cough, cough, I haven’t introduced myself yet. My name is Leticia. I’m a demon who was stranded here from the human world. And this is White Ling, my good friend. She’s a normal human.” Leticia pointed to herself and then to White Ling, introducing herself.
“A demon from the human world?” Silver Fang’s expression became strange. What was all this? Weren’t humans and demons mortal enemies? Why were the two of you so chummy?
“Don’t make that face, little girl. The world is vast. What’s so surprising about us being good friends?” Leticia said with a smile. She extended her right hand and snapped her fingers with an exaggerated gesture.
A wisp of fire flashed and disappeared from her fingertip, confirming her identity. Only demons could do such a thing.
However, just snapping her fingers made her cough, clutching her chest. After coughing for a while, she looked at Silver Fang weakly, a look of embarrassment on her face. “I’m sorry, I was injured a while ago. Forgive my appearance, Miss.”
A severely injured demon, with a high possibility of having a certain status… Silver Fang made a definition of Leticia in her heart. From what the girl had shown, she could only infer this much information.
As for the other white-haired girl, having not communicated with her, Silver Fang dared not make any assumptions, only guessing that she was likely someone with strong combat power but not high intelligence.
This was just her intuition, with no reason. She just felt that way.
“Could you tell me in detail how you got here?” Silver Fang cautiously approached Leticia and asked, “I am one of the leaders of this tribe. If you need help, I might be able to assist you.”
“Ah, that would be great!” Leticia’s face showed pleasant surprise. “It’s a long story how we got here. Just now, she and I had a fight with someone incredibly powerful. My injuries were inflicted by that guy.”
As she spoke, Leticia, without any reservation, pulled aside her dress, which had a tear in the abdomen, revealing an unhealed wound.
This hideous wound, where blood could still be seen, instantly boosted the credibility of Leticia’s words by a notch. Having suffered such a serious injury, she must have encountered an extremely terrifying enemy.
“My goodness, how did you endure such a wound?” Silver Fang exclaimed, her surprise genuine, not an act.
Such a penetrating wound to the abdomen would be considered a very serious injury even for a beastman warrior, yet this girl could chat with her so calmly. What kind of iron will did this possess!
Leticia shrugged indifferently. “What’s the point of crying in pain? That enemy died worse than me; he doesn’t even have a complete body left. As for this wound, I won’t die and will be fine in a few days.”
“I initially thought you were a pampered noble lady, but I didn’t expect…”
“Ah, that’s true. I am indeed a pampered young lady, but my family fell on hard times. Sometimes, one has to face such things.” Leticia chuckled, but there was no unhappiness on her face. “If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t have met her.”
Following Leticia’s gaze to the white-haired girl, Silver Fang blinked in confusion. What did this swordsman girl have to do with it?
“I met her when I was being chased by my family’s enemies. If it weren’t for her help, I probably would have died on that rainy night.” Leticia spoke untruthfully without batting an eye, but her fabricated story didn’t elicit any suspicion from Silver Fang.
In Leticia’s narrative, she was like a princess from various stories, and White Ling was the knight or prince. With the knight’s help, she escaped her past life and gained the ability to fight alongside the knight.
“But my strength is still too weak. I always have to trouble her to protect me.” As she said this, Leticia’s mood became dejected again.
This time, having been moved by Leticia’s story, Silver Fang immediately reached out and patted Leticia’s shoulder, wanting to comfort this self-reliant young woman.
But before she could utter words of comfort, a gaze as sharp as a physical object suddenly came from her side.
As if a sharp sword was at her throat, Silver Fang broke out in a cold sweat and withdrew her hand. She looked in the direction of the gaze and saw the white-haired girl, her hand on her sword hilt, staring intently at her hand.
Goodness, she couldn’t even touch her? Silver Fang felt a hint of something unusual. The relationship between these two ladies didn’t seem as simple as Leticia had described?
If nothing else, that look just now was definitely not normal!
That possessiveness, that desire to exclude everything else, Silver Fang had only seen it in a few people, and those people were all renowned for their deep affection.
Could this swordsman girl be like that too?
Fortunately, the swordsman girl did not take any drastic actions besides the warning glare, allowing Silver Fang and Leticia to continue their conversation.
“Ah, is there anything you need? If possible, please prepare an open space for us and give us some food. With magic, it’s quite fast to build a house.” After thinking for a moment in response to Silver Fang’s question, Leticia finally stated a not-so-excessive request.
All the help combined was just some food. For such a large beastman tribe, providing food for two girls should not be difficult, right?
Uh, considering the appetite of a certain white-haired lady, perhaps it wouldn’t be that difficult?
“By the way, these stones fell from the sky with you two. Do you know what these things are?” Finally, Silver Fang mustered up the courage to ask the most important question.
Were these two girls related to this disaster from the sky?
In fact, Silver Fang had already concluded in her heart that these two were related to these stones. After all, they fell down together with the stones. Did she expect the clever dog-eared girl to believe it was a coincidence?
How could that be?
Leticia knew this too, so she didn’t hide her connection to these building debris. “These are the remains of a large building. We were fighting an enemy in a mirror space, and during the battle, the building was torn apart by a powerful force, becoming what it is now.”
Leticia gestured with her hand to indicate the height of the building, then explained, “Originally, we were waiting in the space for our companions to pick us up and take us out. But somehow, we ended up here, and the mirror space collapsed. These broken stones fell out of the space.”
What is a mirror space? Little Silver Fang’s eyes were starting to spin. She found that she knew every word Leticia spoke, but when these words were put together, she couldn’t understand them at all.
Also, the building she just gestured to, wasn’t its height too terrifying? It could directly reach the clouds!
Could it then directly reach the cloud kingdom of the great god?
“Ah, sorry, I think I said that too complicatedly. Just consider it a profound spatial magic. Fighting within it won’t affect things in the real world. Actually, you’re quite lucky. If all those stones fell out of the space, your camp would probably be completely buried, leaving no survivors.” Leticia said terrifying words with a smile.
Of course, she wasn’t trying to scare Silver Fang, but telling the truth. If all the stones in the mirror space fell out, this small tribal camp would definitely be buried by the stones.
“Haha, then we’re really lucky.” Silver Fang muttered as she scratched her head. Why did she feel like this lady was intentionally or unintentionally threatening her?
It must be an illusion, right?
“Please follow me to the temple. The High Priest lives there. If you wish to stay here for a few days, obtaining the High Priest’s permission is necessary.” Silver Fang stood up and extended an invitation. She felt that she couldn’t make a decision in this situation and decided to let her learned and wise teacher make the decision.
“High Priest? I’ve seen this title in books. Generally, this should be the occult leader of a tribe. Doesn’t your tribe have a chief?” Leticia wanted to get up with Silver Fang, but the half-completed movement led to another coughing fit.
White Ling quickly walked to Leticia’s side and helped the weak girl up.
My heavens, isn’t this a princess carry? Silver Fang’s face instantly turned red. Was the relationship between these two ladies really like this?
No, no, her thoughts couldn’t be so impure. The white-haired lady probably just wanted to make the black-haired lady more comfortable. There was no other meaning, yes, that’s it.
Patting her chest, which was slightly breathless from her accelerated heart rate, Silver Fang answered Leticia’s previous question. “We used to have one, but the former chief angered an envoy of the great god and was killed by the envoy in a duel. The members of our tribe were also exiled to the edge of the great plains as a result.”
Silver Fang tribe’s story wasn’t very interesting. It was just that the chief of a small tribe was unwilling to be oppressed by people from larger tribes and wanted to resist. The resistance failed, he died, and his tribesmen were exiled to the edge of the great plains.
After hearing Silver Fang’s account, Leticia became more interested in the so-called great god and great god’s envoy. “What is that great god’s envoy? A messenger of a god?”
“The great god is the faith of us beastmen, but the great god has not descended any true divine pronouncements for a long, long time. As for the great god’s envoy, it is actually the title of the most valiant warriors among the beastmen.” Silver Fang shook her head. Among the beastmen, the great god was essentially a tool; whoever had the strength was considered the great god’s chosen one.
“Legend has it that the great god’s envoys are all super experts capable of fighting ten thousand enemies on the battlefield. I don’t know if this is true, but when the old chief dueled with that great god’s envoy, he had almost no chance to fight back.”
Experts capable of fighting ten thousand enemies each? Leticia felt this was debatable. At least, she didn’t know of such strong individuals among the beastmen.
Regarding the top-tier combatants of the beastmen, she was most familiar with that group of lion-heads. They were the nominal leaders of the beastmen, but in terms of strength, compared to the leaders of the other three races, they seemed a bit lacking.
This wasn’t to say they were weak. After all, they were dignified Heavenly King-level combatants. Excluding White Ling and Leticia, who were outliers, they were the first tier, without a doubt.
However, humans and demons held trump cards, while the beastmen lacked such a hidden master hand. In terms of strength, they would be at a disadvantage, which was a harsh reality.
As for the elves… those who used elegance as an excuse were hard to say whether they had hidden something. Perhaps one day they would suddenly dig up an ancient archmage from beneath the roots of a large tree?
“A warrior used to resist injustice. His sacrifice deserves our reverence.” Leticia showed a look of pity, seemingly regretting the old chief’s fate. “If he were still alive, I’d like to have a cup of tea with him and talk about the future.”
