The Spencer Family (3)

An hour later, the Spencer Family's elites filed out of the council hall one after another, every face heavy with worry.

Clan Chief Di Lin had decided that tomorrow, one of the family elders would personally take Eskil City's "sincerity" to speak properly with Peter and several elders of the Icefield Giant Bear Tribe.

No matter what, and no matter why the Icefield Giant Bear Tribe's army of a hundred thousand was charging toward Eskil City, whether it came to fight or to make peace, it was better to first learn the Icefield Giant Bear Tribe's intentions than to have the Spencer Family sitting here guessing blindly.

The Icefield Giant Bear Tribe's army was still a thousand li from Eskil City. For the Icefield Giant Bear Tribe's elite cavalry, no matter how difficult the roads might be, they would reach the gates of Eskil City within the next few days.

Influenced by certain news—or rather, rumors—that so-called "sincerity" naturally meant the beautiful women of the Spencer Family. Now was the time for the family's women to do their part. The elder merely needed to bring along the woman selected by the family. If Peter truly was a lecherous man, the women of the Spencer Family had plenty of ways to demonstrate their worth and safeguard the family's interests. This was something every Spencer Family woman had begun learning from childhood.

In the Ice and Snow Wilderness, the women of every tribe's ruling family—especially those of the ruling families of Bear-level tribes—had always been tools used by the men of those families to preserve their rule. This had never been a secret. Aside from the Icefield Giant Bear Tribe, which once had no clan chief, every Bear-level tribe did the same thing as the Spencer Family. There was nothing shameful about