Inside the priest's treehouse in the Sacred Serpent Tribe.
"Are you saying that after searching all day, you didn't find even half a trace of an aberrant beast?"
Baha spoke with a deeply frustrated look. Egu remained silent. He had been ordered to hunt aberrant beasts, but whether it was the centaur tribe's heavy cavalry legion or the eldest son of the Abyss Dragon flying overhead, none of them had found even a single trace of an aberrant beast in this vast area.
It was as though, after Aberrant Beast had been slain, every other aberrant beast on the tribal faction's territory had realized that something was wrong and hidden themselves without leaving the slightest trace.
This reminded Su Xiao of something. The current conflict and hatred between the Beast Tribe and the Sea Tribe had originally been caused by aberrant beasts. After the Beast Tribe and Sea Tribe rose to power, had they never retaliated against the aberrant beasts?
The answer was, of course, that they had. They had retaliated frequently. It was only in the past hundred years or so that they had stopped looking for the aberrant beasts. Because of the Beast Tribe and Sea Tribe's retaliation, the aberrant beasts had hidden themselves in the tribal faction's territory, honing their powerful survival skills through the long years of retaliation and pursuit.
That was also why, right after Su Xiao finished hunting Aberrant Beast, all the other aberrant beasts on the tribal territory had vanished without a trace.
With that in mind, continuing to hunt here would clearly yield an unfair ratio of effort to reward. Su Xiao simply had Egu lead the centaur tribe's heavy cavalry back to Iron Fortress City through the teleportation array provided by the Sacred Serpent Tribe before entering the main battlefield.
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