Chapter 1126
"You mean the Lion and Tiger Clans wanted the Wolf Clan and the Great Horned Legion to wound each other, and even the defeat of the Howling Battlegroup and the death of Night Dweller were plots by the lionfolk and tigerfolk?"
Ice Storm shuddered.
Her father was serving as an adviser beside the Wolf Clan Leader, "Jackal" Kanus.
Although she had never met her father.
Nor had she ever held any expectations for so-called familial affection.
If "Jackal" Kanus truly stood within the vortex of a conspiracy.
Then her father, as his adviser, could not possibly remain uninvolved.
That added several more difficulties and uncertainties to her search for her father and her attempt to reclaim her mother's relic.
"Your speculation is truly astonishing."
Ice Storm stared at Meng Chao and said in a deep voice, "Although the Five Great Clans living in Turanze, including the various tribes within them, could hardly be called united, they did advocate selecting the strongest leaders through the fiercest competition.
"Still, proud warriors had never before used such despicable schemes to strike at their rivals.
"Using the ratfolk to kill with a borrowed knife? That is simply—simply too great a stain upon the glory of the ancestral spirits!"
"Nor had there ever before been an Era of Prosperity lasting a full half-century, during which every tribe's population swelled grotesquely far beyond Turanze's resource capacity."
Meng Chao's face remained calm. "The times had changed, and many things would change with them. Those who could not keep pace with transformation, or even refused to acknowledge that change was taking place, had only one road ahead: death."
"Evidence."
Ice Storm said, "I need to see more evidence before I can believe that the defeat of the Howling Battlegroup and Night Dweller's death had anything to