Weaver and the Green Dragon
After informing everyone present of the news that war might break out, the curtain behind the bearded guildmaster soon rippled with more detailed images.
They had been recorded by elite teams dispatched by the Adventurer's Guild, who had risked death nine times over to obtain them.
In the images, vast numbers of Demonic Beasts were gathering in orderly formations within the forest.
In particular, several of the forest's more famous Demonic Beast tribes were moving like ants relocating their nest, transporting supplies in a spectacle that was truly magnificent.
But considering that they would all become humanity's enemies in the future, the sight inspired a heavy feeling beneath the awe.
As one of the lords of the borderlands, the Green Dragon Queen held a status roughly equivalent to that of a frontier marquis in a human kingdom. Not only was she immensely powerful herself, but the Demonic Beast legion under her command was also terrifying.
Ordinarily, the targets of subjugation commissions that most adventurers encountered were wild Demonic Beasts or small Demonic Beast tribes. Yet whether in elite quality, weapons and equipment, tacit coordination, or overall aura, those Demonic Beasts were worlds apart from the former.
A Demonic Beast force like the Green Dragon Queen's possessed a very clear path of advancement within its ranks. Many large tribes in particular even had inheritances of magic and martial techniques. Combined with their relatively superior bloodlines, the probability of Demonic Beasts with Challenge Levels being born among them was far greater than in ordinary Demonic Beast tribes.
Thus, even with the same number of Demonic Beasts, the strength gap between the Green Dragon Queen's forces and a makeshift group of wild Demonic Beasts would be at least severalfold.
Onstage, Matthias Monroe, the guildmaster, likewise stressed the Green