The Steel Fang Tribe of the beastmen.
Once a military station left behind by the Golden Flower Family.
After being occupied by the beastmen.
The entire military station had been remodeled in the style of a beastmen tribe.
The walls and sentry towers had mainly been fitted with spikes.
The spikes were covered in highly poisonous vines gathered by the beastmen.
The entire military station looked primitive and rugged.
Outside the military station.
The beastmen had set up several warning camps.
The camps' defenses were not as complete as those of the military station.
They only had Wooden Sentry Towers covered in spikes, along with some beastmen sentries stationed outside the city.
At this moment.
Inside a sentry tower covered in thorny vines.
More than ten beastmen emerged, carrying weapons.
These beastmen were all patrolling sentries.
After being roused from sleep, each of them seemed to be in a foul mood.
"What Human Lord? They're probably just the Centurion Camp's men exaggerating the report."
"Yeah. We've already patrolled three or four times, and we haven't seen any Human Lord come over."
"Shh, what nonsense are you spouting? The shaman sent people to deliver the message. If the shaman finds out, do you want to die?"
The last speaker was a squad leader.
After glaring fiercely at his subordinates, he said,
"Everyone, patrol properly."
Then he raised his head and looked toward the distant mountain peaks.
"Why hasn't the second squad returned yet?"
"By the time, they should have come back to replace us."
"Could something have happened?"
The beastman deputy squad leader beside him said disdainfully,
"What could possibly happen?"
"The Human Lord is attacking us."
"That's impossible. The Centurion Camp is still up ahead. Those are the bravest warriors in our Steel Fang Tribe."
"The centurion commander is a warrior who awakened Bloodthirsty Battle Qi."
"The human territory has probably already been surrounded by the centurion commander's troops."
"How could they possibly come attack us?"
"I'd say there's an eighty percent chance the second squad went hunting because they were slacking off."
His words won the agreement of the surrounding beastmen.
"We only woke up recently, and our mouths are already so bland we could spit out feathers."
"Why don't we go hunt some beasts to eat too?"
"Let's go together. Maybe we'll even run into the second squad."
As they spoke, they urged the beastman squad leader to leave.
The main body of this beastmen tribe consisted of wild boar beastmen.
They were naturally lazy and gluttonous.
Especially since they had only just awakened, these low-level beastmen yearned intensely for fresh blood and meat.
Even the chief of the Steel Fang Tribe was chewing on hunted meat to fill his stomach.
How could the low-level beastmen beneath him possibly hold themselves back?
The beastman squad leader was unwilling, but he could not withstand the urging of his subordinates.
In no time, he wavered.
He raised his folded spear and shouted,
"Let's go, let's go. We'll patrol first, then go after we find the second squad."
The beastmen below immediately cheered.
One after another, they followed him along the patrol route.
And this was not an isolated case.
All the beastmen patrolling the outskirts of the Steel Fang Tribe were the same.
All of this was seen clearly by the Wolf Hunters lying in ambush nearby.
"Lord Christian, there are five beastmen warning camps in total."
"Each camp has three patrol teams."
"We let the first one pass. We've now completely annihilated the second beastman patrol team."
"The third patrol team has now begun patrolling along the designated route."
"Should we eliminate them immediately?"
The Wolf Hunter squad leader quickly reported the situation to Christian.
As the vanguard's commander.
Christian did not answer at once.
Instead, he asked, "Where are Lord Lilith's Flame Mages?"
"They're less than three li from us."
Upon hearing this distance, Christian fell into thought.
"Three li. At the Flame Mages' speed, they can arrive in an instant."
"Our attack can begin."
Christian stood and began issuing orders.
"Pass on my command."
"The vanguard Wolf Hunters will eliminate the beastmen patrol team."
"All other Wolf Hunters will immediately gather around me."
"Prepare to charge the beastmen warning camps!"
After receiving the order.
The main force of Wolf Hunters gathered beneath Christian, riding dire wolves.
Along the route the beastmen patrol team had to take.
The Wolf Hunter squad serving as the vanguard quietly waited for the beastmen to walk into their carefully laid trap.
"Captain, don't you feel that something's strange around us?"
A sensitive beastman seemed to have noticed something unusual.
But the beastman captain merely waved his long spear.
"You're overthinking it. We're so close to the tribe."
"How could anything happen?"
"You pig-brained fool."
The beastman who had been scolded looked around for a moment, sensing waves of chilliness around him.
But he had no choice.
He could only catch up with the group and say,
"Captain... I really—"
Before he could finish.
Suddenly!
A scream came from the front.
"Ah!"
"There's a trap!"
"My leg is caught!"
"Quick, form a circle!"
These beastmen were undeniably elite.
After being attacked, they immediately gathered toward the center and raised their enormous shields.
Unfortunately, they had encountered Wolf Hunters.
After hunting down the second patrol team.
The Wolf Hunters had already grasped these beastmen's tactics.
When the beastmen gathered toward the center.
The Wolf Hunters lying in ambush rapidly fired their deadly arrows.
The fierce arrows precisely nailed the beastmen who held shields and were still moving.
Once the shields' protection was lost, the arrows that followed continuously cut down the remaining beastmen.
The enormous casualties instantly caused this beastman patrol team to collapse.
"We can't hold out! The enemy is too powerful."
"Captain, we'll cover your retreat. Get out!"
The other beastmen said nothing more. They used their bodies as shields, blocking the Wolf Hunters' attacks.
As for the beastman captain, he charged forward, picked up a shield from the ground, and prepared to cover the remaining beastmen's escape.
But the instant he picked up the shield.
The Wolf Hunters lying in ambush drove their dire wolves out of the mountain forest.
At that very moment.
Before he could raise his shield, the beastman captain saw a flash of blade descending straight toward his head.
By the time he reacted.
The beastman squad leader saw blood spraying from his own neck.
"So... so powerful..."
Then he completely lost consciousness.
By then, the Wolf Hunter vanguard had completed the slaughter.
"Captain, all the beastmen have been beheaded."
"Good. Notify Lord Christian immediately."
"Yes."
When the message reached Christian.
He had already finished forming the Wolf Hunter cavalry.
Hearing that the beastman vanguard had been completely eliminated.
Christian mounted his warhorse and drew his greatsword.
He pointed toward the beastmen warning camp on the small plain below the mountain.
"For the glory of Wasteland Territory!"
"Wolf Hunters!"
"Charge!"
In an instant.
The muffled thunder of human cavalry charging once more rang out beyond the military station.
And the last time.
Had been during the Glory Era, before the Great Calamity!
But now.
Inside the beastmen tribe.
The beastman chief, Steel Fang, was gnawing on the flesh of a giant bear.
"Only blood can awaken the beastmen's bloodline!"
"Even though we now worship the Mist Gods."
Steel Fang swallowed a mouthful of flesh and said indistinctly.
Just then, the chewing chief Steel Fang suddenly stopped.
He looked toward the beastmen warriors in the tribal hall, who were also eating heartily.
"Listen. I think I heard the sound of cavalry charging!"
The surrounding beastmen warriors all turned toward Steel Fang.
"Chief, how could that be? The human cavalry was wiped out by us long ago."
"Yeah. The Pioneer Territory of the Golden Flower Family has already become a ruin."
"Chief, the head of this military station's cavalry commander is still in the prison. Where could this cavalry charge have come from?"
One after another, the beastmen warriors stubbornly refused to believe him.
The chief, Steel Fang, furrowed his brow.
"No. I couldn't have heard wrong!"
"Guards!"
He was about to call for the beastmen guards outside.
But in the next moment.
The guards outside the tribal hall rushed in.
"C-Chief!"
"Th-This is bad!"
"The h-human cavalry is attacking! They've broken through all five camps outside the city!"
"Right now!"
"The human mages have appeared beneath the city walls."
As soon as these words were spoken,
the half-orc chieftain's hall fell deathly silent.
After a long while,
the chieftain, Steel Fang, let out a furious roar.
"Impossible!"
"Absolutely impossible!!!"
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