Barbara added, "If we do nothing, the Beast Race will fall completely into Set's hands. Given how ruthless he is, he'll definitely order them to surround and attack me.
"When that happens, nothing I say will matter, because the entire Council of Elders will be under his control. Besides, Set is the Clan Leader."
"Don't worry. Of course we're going to do something."
Andrew smiled and said, "We can't act at the beginning, but once Set and the others are halfway through their plan, we'll find a suitable excuse to rescue some of the elders. Then you and those elders will lead some elite troops out of the Royal City."
Naturally, the Beastmen Clan had more than one city. There were plenty of other cities around the Royal City, and the same went for the humans and the Corpse People Clan. Although everyone's strength had been severely diminished after the end times, they were still far from extinction.
"Mr. Wang, are you trying to split the Beastmen Clan?"
Barbara asked in surprise. Andrew said, "No, I'm trying to save the Beastmen Clan. Barbara, you know how deep the conflict between beastmen and humans runs. Under normal circumstances, reconciliation is impossible. They'll only keep fighting to the bitter end."
"It does run very deep."
Barbara sighed. After hundreds of years of killing, how could that hatred not run deep? Any beastman soldier had relatives who had died at human hands—for instance, the eldest aunt of his seventh great-uncle's third niece. Well, distant relatives were still relatives.
How could they reconcile under those circumstances? Reality wasn't a novel where the commanders of two races fell in love and everyone made peace. What a load of crap. If that happened in real life, the soldiers under them would absolutely mutiny and chop both