Though the wolf clan leaders were usually ferocious beyond compare, able to decide a ratfolk tomb raider's life or death with a flick of a finger,
under the impact of the temple explosion and the collapsing rock strata, their tendons had snapped, their bones had broken, their internal organs were bleeding, and they had suffered grievous injuries.
The broken bones of several wolf clan leaders jutted out through flesh mashed into pulp. Through the horrifying wounds, their trembling internal organs could even be seen. They had been weakened to the absolute limit.
Yet, faced with wolf clan leaders who were barely clinging to life, the vast majority of ratfolk tomb raiders still did not dare resist. Driven by inborn terror, they let the wolf clan leaders take whatever they pleased.
Without lifting a finger, the wolf clan leaders seized all the survivors' food and water.
They then forced the starving, battered survivors to desperately dig an escape route to the surface.
The brutal environment and backbreaking labor caused the ratfolk tomb raiders to collapse one after another.
And after devouring all the food, the wolf clan leaders actually turned their attention to the ratfolk tomb raiders themselves.
At first, they merely gnawed the flesh from the corpses of ratfolk tomb raiders who had been worked to death.
But in order to regain their strength and heal their wounds, the wolf clan leaders desperately needed vast quantities of food. How could gnawing on the dead possibly be enough?
Thus, their ravenous gazes coiled around the throats of the living.
No one knew how much longer it would take to clear the escape route.
Every additional living person meant another share of food consumed.
Turning living ratfolk tomb raiders into food would improve their odds of survival by far more than merely