Broken Tooth was the vice-captain of Venom Sting Squad.
He was also the strongest of all the house-rat servant soldiers, surpassed in size only by pure-blooded Boar Warriors.
Though the tusk jutting high from the left corner of his mouth had broken halfway, it was still longer and sharper than the tusks of the other house-rat servant soldiers.
That tusk had snapped in the middle after becoming lodged in the flesh of a Totem Beast.
That Totem Beast had left him with a head full of shocking scars, as well as the courage-filled name "Broken Tooth."
—Escaping alive from the jaws of a Totem Beast was enough to prove that he was no ordinary ratfolk.
In fact, Ironhide Family blood flowed through Broken Tooth's veins.
His grandfather had been a bona fide Clan Warrior.
Unfortunately, his father had been born deformed and failed to pass the Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
He, too, could only serve his distant relatives as ratfolk, living a life of utter humiliation.
But all that was about to end.
Broken Tooth was confident that, in the Era of Glory, he could accumulate enough resources and strength to receive the sacred blood-gift and return to the embrace of Ironhide Family.
Of course, first he had to follow his masters and crush these cowardly weaklings.
Broken Tooth had not the slightest doubt about that.
Especially after, just moments ago in the Hall of Glory, they had charged through these pathetic wretches who did not even deserve to step onto the arena, scattering them into chaos.
He even began to feel faint pity for them.
They had never been warriors to begin with.
They were merely wriggling slugs.
They should not have appeared here at all, suffering mockery for nothing.
They should have died and rotted soundlessly in sunless dungeons.
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