Especially after the Magical Beast Kingdom collapsed.
Although Merkel spared some truly innocent races that had never dared interfere with anything, those already-timid creatures immediately relocated wholesale into the mountains afterward.
Some who felt they could not hold out even took many of their clansmen to seek out their former Undead companions... mainly the young, beautiful ones with soft, glossy fur.
Magical Beasts that had spent a long time with the Undead all knew their nature: animal companions did not need to be strong, but they could not be ordinary.
They either had to be uniquely ugly or breathtakingly beautiful; at the very least, they needed sufficiently smooth, long fur.
Otherwise, they could not compete with Hill's giant rabbits... These Magical Beasts were not planning to send their powerful, above-Legendary kin to follow the Undead, but rather those who had just come of age, had promising futures, yet were most likely to die before reaching their potential.
However, that was only a small portion of them.
To put it bluntly, Merkel had actually fallen into the most terrifying state of madness for a Magical Beast. Yet because of Alice's departure and the sliver of clarity left by his past experiences, even though he guessed the Human Pantheon must have had a hand in it, Merkel had not vented his madness upon humanity as his ancestors had.
But before he unleashed his fury, there had indeed been something wrong with his mind.
So although he slaughtered countless enemies and nearly wiped out the Magical Beast Kingdom's noble system, some who reacted quickly enough had definitely escaped.
With all the masterminds eliminated, Merkel's primary targets were still those Tiger-Leopard Clans who had betrayed him... Other Magical Beasts doing such things was not entirely incomprehensible.
Hadn't the Silver Wolf King also been betrayed