Leaving the chief's office, Kaibu looked at Lotkar beside him with a smile.
“I didn’t expect that the old patriarch really values you. If you were not at the mercy of that power, you might have become the patriarch long ago.
But, as I said, I'm not sure yet whether you are still controlled by that force.
I will never allow any dangerous person to become the tribe leader and lead the tribe into the abyss step by step."
Lotkar closed his eyes slightly, not knowing how to answer. He could feel Kaibu's obsession with the patriarch.
But he didn't understand why Kaibu had become so obsessed with the patriarch.
After thinking for a long time, Lotkar finally relaxed his shoulders.
"It's really unexpected that you would let me meet with the old clan leader and that you would support me as the clan leader candidate without any objection."
Kaibu smiled and spread his arms. "Of course. The position of clan leader has always been held by capable people. I will never refuse a capable person to become clan leader. I will not be as pedantic as the old clan leader."
"You have won the championship four times in a row. This year is the last time."
"To be precise, it can't be considered consecutive wins, but if we win once more, it will be five wins. I have discussed with the clan leader and we should also count the time you escaped. Escaping from the battlefield is a shame for the Silver Fang clan."
"In the past, I did think it was a shame, but now it's different. Whether to decide to escape depends on the situation at the time. Not all escapes are called desertions. They can also be called tactical retreats."
After saying this, Lotkar took a step forward.
"I will ask about what happened a few years ago, and I will also prepare seriously for the sacrificial battle."
"I'm looking forward to it." Kaibu fixed his eyes and showed a disdainful smile, "However, you are maintaining your primitive posture like this, which does not conform to the rules of the sacrificial battle. The ritual clearly states, 'On the night of the full moon, the two sides will return from their orcish postures to their primitive postures and fight it out.' You can't attend the sacrificial battle like this."
"But I will still come, even if I can't return to my original form in the end. I will come back to witness the end."
"As expected of cousin Lotkar, you are quite a man. There is still more than a week until our Full Moon Festival. Where are you going to go during this time? There is no place for you in this village."
"I have my own ideas."
As he spoke, Lotkar walked into the street, and while returning along the familiar road, he lowered his head and shamelessly asked about Kaibu.
Looking at Lotkar's departing back, Kaibu's brows flashed with a hint of cruelty, and he secretly complained, "There is still a week before the Full Moon Festival. They should be taking action soon, right? I don't hope to see them at the festival when the time comes."
At the same time, Yu Luo from the Silver Fang tribe who was in charge of guarding heard some strange noises.
The sound did not come from the forest, but from underground. It was so fast that it left his position in the blink of an eye and quickly approached the village of the Silver Fang clan.
With Yu Luo's speed alone, there was no way he could keep up with them.
"Underground? Traveling at high speed?"
There was only one possibility that Yu Luo could think of.
"Why are they visiting our village?"
Just as Yang Yu thought, even though Lothcar had sincerely lowered his head and asked about Kaibu's affairs over the years, the villagers still immediately turned hostile when they saw him and didn't want to say a word to Lothcar at all.
Yang Yu and the others were now like rare animals. Wherever they went, sharp eyes followed them, but no one approached them for fear that Yang Yu would bite them.
It is almost impossible to investigate.
But Lotkar still didn't give up. He walked through house after house, looking for something.
suddenly.
Lotkar noticed that the population of the entire village was much smaller than he had expected, especially his good playmates, none of whom could be found.
They were the people most likely to still believe in Lothcar and be willing to tell him everything that had happened during that period, but they disappeared one by one.
It is impossible for so many people to go out hunting at this time.
Lotkar felt a little strange and walked to the roof of a former friend, where he heard the sound of a crying child.
"Dad, why haven't you come back yet? It's been so long. He clearly said he would play with me."
"Don't ask again and again. When the war is over, your father will come back."
"When will the war end?"
“Should be soon.”
"How soon is soon?"
"Very soon."
A silver-haired woman pushed open the door and saw Lotkar. She immediately lowered her head, not meeting Lotkar's eyes, poured the dirty water in her hand to water the flowers, and then quickly closed the door as if avoiding the plague god, and no longer made a sound.
Even though he felt the woman's reaction was strange, at this point, Lotkar couldn't force her out to ask her questions.
Yang Yu, sitting on Lotkar's back, opened the enlistment booklet that Iyas had given him, took a look, and sighed as if he knew everything.
“Excluding dissidents is indeed a common tactic used by politicians.
Lothkar, don't feel strange. After that guy became the acting patriarch, he probably expressed his stance to the Wansheng Kingdom.
Sending troops to provide support is completely normal.
You are an extremely rare race, and if you all express your willingness to participate in the war, it will be relatively easy to convince other races."
Yang Yu rolled down from Lotkar's back and opened the last page of the recruitment advertisement.
The last page is a hodgepodge of portraits of various races, with the words "Defending the motherland is everyone's responsibility" written on it.
What puzzled Yang Yu was why there was a slightly large Husky drawn in the corner of the last page of the recruitment advertisement. At first, Yang Yu thought that the Husky was a military dog of the Wansheng Empire.
Now it seems that this Husky is a painting of the Silver Fang Clan. Unfortunately, the painting is too abstract. Apart from the color, Yang Yu can't recognize that this is a giant wolf incarnated by the Silver Fang Clan.
What surprised Yang Yu was that on the last page of the recruitment advertisement, not only was there no Lamia, there was no elf at all.
Lotkar glanced at the recruitment advertisement given by Yang Yu and sighed helplessly,
"What a despicable move! No wonder he said so confidently that there is no place for me here anymore, destroying my last bit of hope."
"What are you going to do next? Let's find a place to discuss it first. What do you think? If they continue to ask questions in this way, there is absolutely no way to get anything out of them."
"Well, that's the only way!"
Lotkar agreed with Yang Yu's opinion, but just as he was about to move into the forest, he heard a sound coming from underground.
Suddenly, the ground under Lotkar's feet cracked and collapsed. Lotkar reacted quickly and jumped away immediately. He saw two creatures drill out from the ground without warning, raising a cloud of dust.
In the smoke, a slender figure with an umbrella-like decoration on his head appeared, followed by another graceful figure entangled by vines.
(End of this chapter)