The Taunting Tactic

Although Zhang Tie could not sense the presence of a Beast Tamer as Krel could, he could still sense the strange aura filling the entire Maple Leaf Fort outpost.

Iron-Fanged Hyenas were only level-one creatures. No matter how many there were, they could not possibly breach an outdoor outpost guarded by experts above level six. Besides, judging from what Malni and the others had said, there was clearly human involvement behind this.

Zhang Tie swept his gaze around. The whole Maple Leaf Fort was like a slaughterhouse, flames and smoke billowing everywhere, corpses strewn across the ground. At a glance, there were more than two hundred dead. Those bodies had been gnawed beyond recognition by the Iron-Fanged Hyenas, sickening beyond belief, and it was impossible to determine anything from them. Even if someone came later to investigate, they would never be able to draw any conclusions from the current scene.

Every corpse was incomplete. That meant the evidence of someone tampering with things had been destroyed. Even an expert above level six dying in a beast tide like this, surrounded and attacked by several thousand Iron-Fanged Hyenas, would be perfectly normal.

In a few days, this incident would become one of the mysteries of this beast tide, then gradually be forgotten.

Zhang Tie and Krel cautiously made a circuit through the Maple Leaf Fort outpost, but found nothing.

In the end, the two arrived at the open area in the center of the outpost where airships could take off and land. The last people who had remained to resist had gathered here to fight the Iron-Fanged Hyenas in a bloody battle. Naturally, not a single one had survived. Of the entire outpost, this was the bloodiest place.

Human blood and Iron-Fanged Hyena blood had pooled across the ground in countless