Chapter 43: Wolf Tribe

  "Are you Bain?" Looking at the wolfman clan leader, who was wearing a blood-red long gown and had blood-red fur on his wolf head, Liu Yu's memory quickly returned to the Earth Fire Fortress eleven years ago. That year, during the Beast God Festival, he met the half-human and half-horse clan leaders, Brandt Wadden and Bain Halle.

  "Haha, Your Highness still remembers me. There have been many things happening within the clan since then and I haven't had a chance to return to Fire Fortress. Is His Majesty doing well?" Bain replied with great delight, laughing.

  "Your Majesty is doing well, I remember when you and Wadden followed me in the Earthfire Fortress for several days back then, how could I forget!" Liu Yu smiled faintly in response. This Bain's etiquette was indeed thorough, knowing to ask about King Kroe's situation, although it was just a symbolic question, it also increased Liu Yu's favor towards him.

  "Your Highness, since you're here, let me accompany you to take a good look around. And who are these two?" Bain offered to take Liu Yu and the other three for a walk, and Liu Yu naturally wouldn't refuse. He briefly introduced Fei Te and Ivan to Bain, and the four of them strolled around Lizard's Spine Fortress at will.

  In the evening, a large number of bonfires were lit on the square in front of the Central Wolf Claw Temple in Licheng. The beast tribe did not like to entertain guests with banquets, except for important occasions such as the Beast God Festival. Moreover, although there were some young masters from big families among the warriors this time, they all came to join the army as warriors, and it was not suitable to entertain soldiers with a banquet that had certain requirements for behavior.

  The werewolves brought out a large quantity of fresh game meat for the Bimon warriors, who roasted it themselves in the square. The werewolf chieftain, Erida Holle, and several of his sons attended this bonfire party.

  The inheritance of the werewolf tribe is also a competitive system, just like the Bimon tribe. The Holle family, where Erida Holle belongs to, is one of the powerful families within the werewolf tribe and has produced many werewolf chieftains. Just as Liu Yu and Feili were both called princes in the Earthfire Fortress, the sons of the chieftain of the Erida tribe are also called young chieftains, and Bain is just one of the several young chieftains of the werewolf tribe.

  "Ladies and gentlemen, mighty warriors of Bimon, welcome to the southern border. We, the Wolf Clan, have been able to defend the kingdom's south thanks to the generations of support from the Bimon tribe. Let us raise our glasses together to toast our kingdom." Erida stood in front of the Wolf Claw Hall, and was the first to lift her cup.

  "Bless our kingdom." All the present Bimon warriors and wolfmen also stood up to raise their cups. After everyone had a drink, the Erda tribe leader didn't say much more, just letting several of his subordinates try their best to entertain those Bimon warriors, making them eat and drink more. Soon after a lively bonfire party, many Bimon warriors fell drunk and went to rest in the military camp under the service of mouse servants, only a few Bimon and wolfmen didn't disperse.

  Liu Yu didn't drink much wine. Firstly, he wasn't too fond of drinking and always thought that getting drunk often would lead to mistakes. Secondly, he had to cultivate every day, especially meditation required spiritual clarity. Thirdly, today's gathering also couldn't get him drunk because there was an important guest who wanted to see him, Bairn's father, the current wolfman clan leader, Aireda.

  In the square of Wolf Claw Temple, Liu Yu stood upright, in front of him were several wolfmen.

  "Father, this is Prince Alexander." Bain stood between Liu Yu and Airdre, introducing Liu Yu to the wolf tribe leader. Like Bain, Airdre was also wearing a blood-red long robe, with red fur on his wolf head, and his figure was slightly slender. Behind Airdre were several young wolf men, who were his sons and also the junior leaders of the wolf tribe.

  The Huo Le family is a relatively rare blood wolf family within the wolf tribe, and their main attribute is still wind. However, their fur is all crimson red. According to legend, this bloodline of wolves possesses some powerful secret techniques that can only be passed down through strong blood wolf lineage, but Liu Yu doesn't know what they are.

  "Your Highness, welcome to Lizard's Spire. I hope you're satisfied with the servants and the bedroom. Your father and I have fought side by side for many years, so we can be considered old friends. Feel free to make any requests." Erida said with a humble smile to Liu Yu.

  "Thank you, elder. You can just call me Alexander. My father often mentioned your bravery on the battlefield with the Darkwind Wolf Knights in our conversations at the Earthfire Fortress. He said that it's thanks to your efforts that the southern part of the kingdom has been able to remain safe and peaceful all these years."

  Gaia is the Grand Marshal of the Beastman Kingdom, with a transcendent identity in the kingdom's army. Liu Yu decisively borrowed his father's name to first flatter Airdre, this late-stage 8th-order Dou Huang strongman.

  "Haha, your father exaggerated, in terms of military achievements, who among the current generation of generals in the kingdom can compare to him? Back then, I and he fought together to take down the city of Bana, beheading Governor Sasu, and defeated the Sassanid province's army of over a million, forcing them to hide in the city without daring to come out. Now thinking about it, indeed brings a wave of nostalgia." Liu Yu's flattery seemed to have a good effect, neither exaggerating Wolf's military achievements nor making this humble tribal leader laugh heartily.

  "Uncle, head of the clan, I have a request to make and beg for your permission." Liu Yue changed his tone immediately.

  "Oh, Your Highness, please speak." Although Aida still called Liu Yu "Your Highness", the tone and expression between them had become much more intimate.

  "My nephew is now an ordinary soldier, the quarters assigned to me by the tribal leader do not meet military requirements, I am not allowed to stay. Please allow me to live in the barracks like my comrades." Liu Yu said with a slight bow to Aida.

  Aida Gao Liu Yu is another leader of the clan, with a status equal to that of the Grand Marshal and the Elder of the Council of Elders, and he can still accept Liu Yu's courtesy.

  "Ah, Your Highness is right, a soldier should have the demeanor of a soldier. This matter with Bain is something you didn't handle well, go and arrange it properly for His Highness immediately, understood?" Upon hearing Liu Yu's words, Airda's eyes lit up, and she immediately ordered Bain to change Liu Yu's living quarters.

  Before that, Bayan had set up a separate bedroom for Liu Yu, and even assigned several mouse-like servants to serve him. However, the other Bei Mong who came together were all staying in the barracks, and Liu Yu naturally could not accept such special treatment. He tried to decline it but couldn't push it away from Bayan.

  "It's Father, I'm afraid I didn't think things through. I'll go and rearrange things for Your Highness right away." Bain bowed his head to Erida.

  "Ah, well, there are still some things to attend to within the clan, I'll take my leave first. These few are my incompetent sons, you're all young people, chat nicely." Erida bid farewell and naturally had to leave, with his identity it was impossible for him to be overly familiar with Liu Yu, lest he stir up unnecessary trouble.

  "Uncle, you have something to attend to, please go ahead and take care of it first. Baien and I are also old friends now, so it's a good opportunity for me to get acquainted with the new generation of strong wolves." With that, Liu Yu also took advantage of the situation to slip away.

  "Alright, then Your Highness can chat with them for a bit." After Erida turned and left, Bain pulled over the several brothers to introduce to Liu Yu.

  The fertility of the werewolf clan can't be compared to that of humans, but it's much stronger than that of the Bimon tribe. Bain has five brothers and he is the fourth, with a 14 or 15 year old brother below him. In the Bimon tribe, even four brothers like Croak are rare, let alone five.

  "If we were as fertile as the Mongols, perhaps we would have dominated the continent by now." Liu Yu suddenly thought to himself with a wry smile. After chatting casually with several young tribal leaders of the Wolf Tribe for a few sentences, Liu Yu excused himself and left, as everyone was observing etiquette and there wasn't much to talk about anyway.

  After Liu Yu left, several young tribal leaders of the Wolf Tribe came to the Wolf Claw Temple together. On the main seat, Airdre was carefully looking at some documents, apparently handling official business.

  "How is it?" Arida asked without lifting her head as several minority elders just stood still.

  "Hmm, as far as I know, the next Beast King will be born in four years. Currently, Cain of the Sobel family is the most competitive, and it seems we don't need to worry too much about that little one from the Weilin family." One of the younger clan leaders spoke up first.

  "Oh, Suri, you tell me." Erida asked her other son.

  "My father and I share the same view, the possibility of Gaius winning the next generation of Beastmen King is too low, we don't need to care about the Wulfgar family. Moreover, last time when Cain from the Sobel family led his army here to fight against Fanord, our relationship was not bad."

  After hearing the answers of two sons, Erida seemed to hesitate. He put down the document in his hand and walked down from the main seat to the side of several sons and swept a glance at them.

  Several of the younger men seemed afraid of their fathers; all of them looked down at their feet, except for Bain who met his father's eye.

  "Bain, you speak." Erida sat down casually in one of the chairs on either side of the great hall, seeming somewhat fatigued.

  "Father, for ten thousand years our wolf tribe and the centaur tribe have followed the Bimon tribe to retreat to the highlands. In these ten thousand years, no matter how strong Fanode's offensive was, we never betrayed the Bimon tribe, and the Bimon tribe never treated us two tribes unfairly."

  Although we have always been their subjects, they are actually inseparable from our two ethnic groups. Over the past ten thousand years, they have changed hundreds of kings, but none of them have ever taken any excessive actions against us.

  In reverse, the strength of Fano De is not something that our wolf tribe or centaur tribe can contend with. If we want to preserve our tribe's heritage, we cannot do without the strong ones from the Bi Mon tribe.

  "So I think, for the big families of the Mongol tribe, we don't need to take sides or try to please them during the elder's meeting, nor should we alienate any of the big families and risk offending any of them. We just need to remain neutral." Bain seemed to have been prepared for Erida's question and answered very smoothly.