Chapter: Chapter 435
“Lady, something terrible has happened!!!”
The door of the cabin was kicked open by the hurried dog-girl with a loud bang.
Letitia, who was sitting in front of the mirror in her pajamas and filing her nails, was startled by the noise. Almost instinctively, she drew her magic sword and pointed the tip towards the door. Several sparkling orbs of light appeared silently behind her.
Fortunately, she quickly came to her senses. The person at the door was one of her own people. Otherwise, if she had unleashed those magic spells, neither the house nor Silver Fang would be intact.
Leaning on her magic sword, Letitia opened the bedroom door and poked her head out. “What happened, why are you so flustered?”
Seeing Letitia’s attire, Silver Fang blushed. She knew she might have come at the wrong time, but the news she had just received was so shocking that she had no choice but to act.
“The Steel Spear tribe is cornered!”
“Cornered? What did they do, self-destruct?” Letitia was confused. The Steel Spear tribe had just suffered a major defeat, so how could they be so desperate?
Even if they had to regroup their army and fight the Bone Wing tribe again, it would take some time. How could they have assembled a fighting force by the afternoon of the same day they were defeated in the morning?
“No, they attacked the hunting grounds! All the beastmen hunting on the grounds were captured by the Steel Spear people!” Silver Fang explained anxiously. “Several people from our tribe were also captured!”
Among them was the confident young beastman. He had gone to the hunting grounds in the morning and had not returned by evening. Silver Fang was worried that he had met with some misfortune. However, when she received the news, she realized that he had been conscripted by the Steel Spear tribe.
Wasn’t that as good as dead?
“Wait a minute, how did this news come about? Could it be a rumor deliberately spread by the Bone Wing tribe? Perhaps your tribesmen simply hunted too much game and planned to spend the night in the hunting grounds?” After thinking for a moment, Letitia felt there was more to this matter.
However, Silver Fang’s next words directly refuted Letitia’s speculation. “One person from our tribe saw it with their own eyes. He was chasing a deer into the jungle. When he caught the deer and returned, he happened to see the Steel Spear tribe’s soldiers escorting the beastmen from the hunting grounds. He hid in the jungle and escaped the search!”
After witnessing everything, the beastman didn’t even have time to carry the deer back. He ran directly back to the Silver Fang tribe and told Silver Fang and the Great Priest everything he had seen.
According to him, the number of beastmen who escaped the search was not large, but he was not the only one. By now, other nearby tribes should also know what the Steel Spear tribe had done.
“By doing this, the Steel Spear tribe is essentially making enemies of all the tribes. What are they thinking?” Silver Fang was confused. Forgive her for not being very bright; she really didn’t understand what the Steel Spear tribe was doing.
They had just been defeated by the Bone Wing tribe, and instead of forming an alliance with other tribes to resist the Bone Wings, they were offending all the nearby tribes. Wasn’t this pushing everyone to their deaths?
In other words, they were courting death!
“They are courting death. Things that are unusual must have a reason. The Steel Spear chief is indeed a bit problematic, but no matter how problematic he is, he wouldn’t do something like this.” Although she had always looked down on the intelligence of the beastmen, Letitia still acknowledged that these guys had some brains. At least they could make simple judgments about the situation.
But in the current situation, the Steel Spear tribe should not be acting like this. What use was this action, other than making themselves completely isolated?
Unless the Steel Spear chief believed that with these captured beastmen, he would be able to counterattack the Bone Wings and suppress all the nearby tribes.
The strength required for that would probably be a bit difficult even for a full-strength Steel Spear, let alone the current Steel Spear that had just suffered a major defeat.
The alliance of the Bone Wing tribe could achieve such a feat, but everyone knew that it was better to make more friends and fewer enemies, right?
The neutral tribes were all potential allies. By acting like this, the Steel Spear tribe was pushing all these potential allies towards the Bone Wing side.
Linglong would probably die laughing after receiving this news.
“Is it possible that the Steel Spear tribe chief’s brain is just overloaded?” Miss Bai, still wet after her bath, came out wrapped in a large white towel.
As Letitia’s magical abilities gradually recovered, they could at least take a hot bath.
She had clearly heard the conversation between Letitia and Silver Fang. After all, the soundproofing of the house was not good, and Miss Bai’s hearing was very good. Even through a wall, she could clearly hear what the two of them were talking about.
Now that she had finished bathing, she naturally came out to join the discussion.
Three heads were better than two when it came to figuring things out. Once they figured it out, Silver Fang could leave, and then Miss Bai could go to bed with Letitia to continue their intimate exchange.
Yes, that’s what Miss Bai thought.
It was only on such matters that she would let her clever little brain work for a while.
“You might be right. It’s really possible.” Letitia slapped her forehead, feeling that what Bai Ling had said seemed to make some sense. The Steel Spear chief’s brain was indeed a bit problematic. “A normal person probably wouldn’t make the mistake of changing generals at a crucial moment and losing the entire army. And Miss Bai, do you remember those strange beastmen soldiers today?”
“You mean those with exceptionally strong combat power?”
“Yes, their existence is clearly abnormal, and only the chief could have made them that way.” Letitia nodded. “Linglong and the others clearly haven’t seen such beastmen warriors. This means that these beastmen warriors are appearing on the battlefield for the first time. This might be the chief’s confidence. He thought that with such warriors, the Steel Spear army could defeat the Bone Wing tribe.”
“But his army has already been defeated,” Bai Ling tilted her head.
“Um, who is Linglong…” Silver Fang wanted to interrupt.
But Letitia completely ignored Silver Fang. “Then what would he think? Would he think that his failure was because there weren’t enough such warriors? If the entire army were composed of such beastmen warriors, wouldn’t he be able to turn defeat into victory?”
If an entire army were composed of such beastmen warriors, Letitia felt that the Bone Wing army truly couldn’t withstand such an army.
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Happy Lantern Festival to everyone!
