Only then did Xianna and Eluvia finally snap out of their daze. They were Malcanthet's closest confidantes, so they were slightly more accepting of the changes in their queen. Moreover, just as Malcanthet believed, this was an emergency. Business came first; everything else could wait.
Eluvia immediately composed herself and forced herself to remain calm. "Yes, Mother."
"Then tell me, what exactly is going on?" Malcanthet had been in secluded cultivation within the secret chamber all this time and knew only fragments about Yeenoghu's affairs. She desperately wanted to understand the truth.
As for Yeenoghu, her archenemy, Malcanthet's knowledge of him could be called comprehensive. She could even tell exactly which female the King of Gnolls had slept with the previous night.
(Although gnolls looked vastly different from humanoids such as elves and humans, their sense of beauty was not all that different from that of other humanoids. Besides female gnolls, they also liked beautiful women. Of course, this so-called love was more often based on one-sided violence. At the same time, the strength of gnoll bloodlines meant that no hybrids would result; in other words, a gnoll mating with any race would produce pure-blooded gnoll offspring.)
Based on her understanding of Yeenoghu, Malcanthet knew very clearly that Yeenoghu's true strength was roughly on par with Baphomet's, perhaps even slightly weaker. Yeenoghu's advantage lay in the fact that his gnoll army countered Baphomet's minotaur forces. It was precisely because each had their own strengths and weaknesses that the two had fought for so many years without either being able to overcome the other.
But now, Yeenoghu's strength had suddenly surged, and he had thoroughly defeated Baphomet. There had to be some secret she did not know about. This was an enormous blow to Malcanthet. After all, she made her living