After Alya finished communicating with the wolves.
Gauss finally asked, "Well? Did you learn anything related to our objective?"
He had been watching Alya's expression. She must have gathered some useful intelligence.
"Possibly." Alya paused, then relayed to her teammates what she had learned from the pack.
As she spoke, she rubbed her temples.
The wolves had seemed to find an outlet for their pent-up emotions and kept going on and on about their fear and other negative feelings. It had taken her quite some effort to sort the useful information from it all.
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"That's the gist of it."
Wolves were fairly intelligent creatures.
There had been a lot of useless information, but by combining Animal Talk with her own deductions, Alya had managed to piece together a relatively detailed account.
In short.
The five wolves had originally lived with their pack in the forest, hunting and resting each day as they carried on a peaceful, fulfilling life.
Then, one morning, a group of goblins riding mounts had cruelly shattered their peace, surrounding and attacking the pack.
Even their strongest leader hadn't lasted long against that big Green-skin.
A few punches were all it took to knock him down.
The other Forest Wolves had then been captured one by one.
The goblins hadn't killed them. Instead, they'd smeared a black ointment with a pungent odor over their noses and fur. Once the wolves had passed out completely, they'd been locked up somewhere.
The place was full of wild animals like them.
Not just wolves, but lynxes, bears, and other animals were imprisoned there, too.
The males were tamed and used as mounts, while the females were reduced to breeding machines for the goblins.
These five male wolves had escaped by sheer luck when something went wrong with the door