According to Alexander's intelligence, the tails of the Tiger Beastmen are even more powerful than their arms, serving not only as a powerful limb that coordinates their bodies but also as their most unexpected weapon.
When the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard first embarked on their expedition to the Tiger World, they didn't use any weapons; they fought the wizards using only their own tails.
In other words, after thousands of years of enslavement by wizards, although they were turned into slaves, they were also given many advanced ideas, such as using weapons with both hands, which is more labor-saving and efficient than using bare hands.
Some clever Tiger Beastmen, after rigorous training, can even use their tails as weapons.
Watching the beastmen explode within the Gravity Domain, Leo frowned slightly. The strength of these Tiger Beastmen before him was clearly much higher than what was described in the intelligence; Leo estimated it to be at least 50% higher.
If it weren't for the powerful Tiger Beastmen specifically dispatched to guard against the spatial portal, there would be even more problems here.
The Tiger World is just a small world, with a maximum level of only four. Even when the Tiger, a beast-human race, reaches adulthood, they will not reach level one strength. They need to undergo training to reach level one, which means that most Tiger Beastmen will never reach level one in their lifetime.
There were originally two Level-Four World Lord here. One died at the hands of the newly promoted Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard, and the other died with the help of the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard.
After all, the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard had just advanced and was struggling against two opponents, so he asked the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard to help out.
Most of the Tiger Beastmen in front of them were below level one, but if you were to rank even the lowest tier, these Tiger Beastmen were at least at the advanced level, very close to level one.
Although being low-class is the foundation of the Tiger Tribe, the fact that so many high-level Tiger Beastmen are abnormal in every single toe speaks volumes.
As for the army, there are many level one beings, and even quite a few level two beings who can be considered experts in small worlds. The only beings I haven't seen are level three beings.
This is even more abnormal. The rebellion here occurred less than 30 years ago. How could so many powerful individuals suddenly emerge?
Reaching level one or higher is not something that can be achieved in a short time; it requires a significant amount of time to accumulate experience. These Tiger Beastmen haven't had extensive training periods, so how did they develop to their current state?
It was as if an invisible hand had suddenly accelerated their evolutionary process, saving them a great deal of time.
"Even the spatial passage is blocked. It seems the situation is worse than we thought. Let's get out of here first."
Leo moved his feet, and he and Yaoyao vanished instantly.
Shadow Walking allows Leo to enter the shadows, and so far, no creature has been seen able to detect Leo.
The information Leo received upon entering the Tiger World was all unfavorable and bad news, and he couldn't muster a smile.
As for Benji, he flicked his three tails and disappeared. Although his Shadow Talent wasn't as monstrous as Leo's, it was still easy for him to remain undetected by these low-level Tiger Beastmen.
With Leo gone, the Gravity Domain also disappeared. Without an opponent, the Tiger Beastmen did not cause any disturbance. After only a moment, he returned to the state he had just been in when Leo teleported over, standing quietly facing the spatial passage.
Standing there eerily, at least hundreds of thousands of Tiger Beastmen remained motionless, not even whispering to each other.
Leo, who Shadow Walking, did not go too far. He wanted to observe closer and see if he could discover anything.
The anomaly came so quickly.
"Although beastmen are evolved from wild beasts that mutated and developed rationality, they still retain many habits from their wild beast form. But these Tiger Beastmen...?"
Just like there's a hypothesis on Earth that says humans evolved from monkeys, why is it that only monkeys could evolve into humans, and what about other animals?
No one could give a precise answer on Earth, since no other life forms on Earth have evolved advanced intelligence. However, answers can be given in the universe.
That is the uncertainty of the evolution of life.
Every life form goes through a phase of explosive intellectual development during its evolution; the only difference is which one experiences this explosive development earlier.
The race that experiences a major intellectual breakthrough first will usher in a period of absolute dominance.
Humans dominate the Earth simply because primitive humans evolved faster than other races, developed intelligence earlier, and occupied the top of the food chain much earlier.
In the Tiger World, the Tiger race is undoubtedly the fastest evolving of all races. In order to adapt to their new life, they are gradually reducing their beast-like forms and habits, and evolving towards a more adaptable new environment.
For example, once they learned that they could use other animal hides for warmth, their body hair would gradually decrease.
This reduction will take a very long time, evolving over thousands of years.
For example, if they learn to make tools, their claws will evolve to be more conducive to gripping tools; the claws will become shorter, and the bones will become longer.
These are all manifestations of evolution, the foundation of the infinite possibilities for every race.
Once a race loses its ability to evolve, it means that the race is about to become extinct.
According to intelligence reports, the Tiger Beastmen is in the early stages of evolution and is still adapting to the pain and confusion that comes with the process.
Although the wizards used some methods to help these Tiger Beastmen evolve faster, the Tiger Beastmen mostly adapted and passively endured the evolution.
To put it simply and bluntly, their social structure was even less advanced than that of the primitive Giant World. If it weren't for the intervention of the wizarding civilization, they might have needed hundreds of thousands of years to reach the age of slash-and-burn agriculture.
Of course, the wizarding civilization also controls their evolution in order to produce more level one slaves and sell them for more money, so as not to let them develop a collective consciousness and cause major fluctuations.
So when Leo saw these Tiger Beastmen standing like javelins before the spatial passage, like the most rigorous army, he felt a chill run from his heels to his brain.
This is absolutely not the civilized form that the Tiger Beastmen should have; their current state is vastly different from their original social structure.
Judging from the current positioning, discipline, and weapons of the Tiger Beastmen, these are not things that their civilization should possess.
The rebellion of the Tiger Beastmen definitely involved external forces.
Moreover, it was an extremely powerful external force that forcibly altered the Tiger civilization. This was even faster than trying to force growth, allowing a race that had just developed a form of civilization to leap directly to a highly advanced level of civilization that understood collectivism and discipline in a very short period of time.
Leo even suspected that the minds of these Tiger Beastmen had been forcibly twisted, and that the Tiger Beastmen before him were nothing more than walking corpses.
Shadow Walking, Leo approached the spatial passage, wondering if he could return to the Wizard World through it.
As soon as Leo channeled his magic, a piercing alarm sounded in the spatial passage, and Leo's figure appeared. The Tiger Beastmen who had been standing still seemed to have received a command, their eyes red as they raised their weapons and charged towards Leo's location.
"Run!"
Yaoyao shouted,
Having no other choice, Leo immediately entered the Shadow Walking again and disappeared before the spatial passage.
With Leo gone, the Tiger Beastmen returned to their original positions, standing motionless like statues.
"No, the spatial passage has been tampered with; it can only teleport in one direction."
This situation was within Leo's expectations, but when he realized he really couldn't leave through the spatial passage, Leo's heart still sank.
"Let's contact Alice first and see if we can get through to her. It would be best if we could find out the current situation in the Tiger World. They've been here for twenty years; they should know more than we do."
Leo quickly left the spatial passage and emerged from the Shadow Walking in a lifeless valley.
Don't worry about Benji; he will find you based on the Battle Partner Contract he signed with Leo.
Leo took out the crystal ball from the Shadow Space and tried to contact Alice. In this bizarre Tiger World, Leo wasn't sure if he could still contact her.
Unexpectedly, the crystal ball reacted very quickly.
" Leo? What brings you here?"
Alice's voice, a mixture of surprise and disbelief, rang out from inside the crystal ball. She probably hadn't expected to receive Leo's message in this Tiger Lesser World.
"It's me. Where are you now? Let's talk in detail after we meet." Leo's calm voice held a hint of tension, or perhaps worry, that he himself didn't realize.
"Me too, I'm here too. Not just me, Benji is here too. Alice, we've come to save you."
Yaoyao moved closer to the crystal ball and grinned at Alice.
"Thank you, please come over quickly, I need to change seats soon."
Alice gave Leo a location. Leo looked up at the stars in the sky, then looked down at his own shadow, and immediately calculated the distance and direction between Alice and himself.
"Wait for me, I'll be there in an hour."
"I'm waiting for you."