“Grand Shaman!”
The most furious was probably the minotaur brother from earlier. Perhaps because he was so angry, his already massive body seemed to have inflated even further. “Because you were the Grand Shaman, I had so much faith in you! I never thought you’d turn out to be such a shameless beast!”
Golom and Gu Erdan quickly followed suit. Having interacted with the elves, these two beasts also felt deeply betrayed.
“Using dirty tricks to provoke a war between the Orcs and the Elves, even though those elven b*tches are sharp-tongued, Grand Shaman, your actions are a disgrace to your dignity and honor. You don’t deserve to be a member of the Orcish Horde!”
“Wait, wait a minute, that was a human frame-up. Yes, I was framed…”
With the evidence against him and the orc warrior elites of the Orcish Horde surrounding him, even the Grand Shaman couldn’t hold out any longer.
However, his hasty denial, coupled with his past actions, made him even less believable here. It was as if he had cut off the only possibility of calming these enraged orcs.
“Cut the crap! Haven’t you always looked down on the other clans!?”
“We thought you were smart, so we let it slide! Now we know you’ve been using us all along!”
The orcs were so enraged they were almost ready to tear the Grand Shaman apart. Seeing this, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
My task was to protect the little fox who might be exploited, and Kefir was supposed to accompany me and protect me as well. But I hoped she could find those elite orcs first and bring them here to witness the Grand Shaman’s true colors with their own eyes.
It seemed that the plan was working well. At least, I didn’t need to explain or expose the Grand Shaman’s conspiracy anymore. These orcs had already seen, heard, and figured it out. As long as the hidden danger could be eliminated, my adventure wouldn’t have been in vain.
Although, it seemed like things weren’t quite over yet. There seemed to be one last step!
“Fools, you stupid things!”
The Grand Shaman, who was almost surrounded by the elite orc warriors, suddenly pushed the orc in front of him away, his expression becoming even more ferocious.
“Since you’re so ignorant, don’t blame me for what happens next! I’ll just give a whistle, and my clansmen will immediately surround this place. If you don’t obey my orders, you’ll all die here!”
【The Grand Shaman is trying to go down with the ship!】
Is this his last struggle!? This guy really doesn’t want to live anymore!?
Just as the other orcs were stunned and Kefir and I were preparing to “finish this,” the script took another turn. At the same time…
A scene similar to the strange and dangerous one in the previous meeting appeared once again! The dark clouds in the night sky instantly covered the crescent moon, and the torches on both sides of the temple, as well as those held by the elite orcs, all went out in an instant!
The surroundings were suddenly plunged into darkness. The little fox I was holding seemed to have taken advantage of the chaos and slipped out of my arms! But I didn’t have time to scold or look for her, because next…
A pair of terrifyingly strange beast eyes appeared in mid-air!
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As for these suddenly opened, gigantic, beast-like eyes that have emerged from the shadows, I am no longer unfamiliar with them! This is clearly the true form of the Dragon God, the great tribe leader of the Austro-Hungarian tribe, who has never revealed his true self to the beastmen.
And this time, without any light, even the torches and candles were blown out by the fierce wind, and the eyes that opened in the darkness were even more terrifying and ferocious, as if the entire dark sky had become a part of its body!
“The great tribe leader has appeared!”
All the higher-ranking beastmen around me immediately knelt down, and the words spoken by the eyes, the opening of the shadow, also made the originally desperate great sorcerer, who had been thinking of “dying with honor,” ultimately lose all hope.
“Sorcerer, you dared to use our tribe’s inferior humans to drive conflict, to tarnish the dignity and honor of the Austro-Hungarian tribe. Do you still have anything to struggle or argue about?”
Indeed, the great tribe leader’s sudden appearance was only to deal with the great sorcerer’s already-exposed conspiracy! Although I still feel that the great tribe leader’s appearance is as coincidental as opening the heavens, I’ll just accept their good intentions for now.
This time, the great sorcerer did not kneel down like the other beastmen, and he, who was already on the verge of madness, poured out all his thoughts at this moment!
“Struggle? Argue? You fools are the ones who are stupid!”
At this moment, he even pointed his finger at the shadow in the air, driving him to madness without any fear!
“You’re just a statue-like existence, you don’t understand anything! The Austro-Hungarian tribe can only become strong in my hands! I’ve only used a few inferior humans, these tools that are like dead objects, what’s the relationship with the ‘honor and dignity’ you speak of? I…”
The mad great sorcerer wanted to shout more, but unfortunately, he couldn’t say a word from the next moment on! The originally silent great tribe leader’s shadow suddenly went crazy, and the eyes also became angry, the shadowy aura directly blasting the great sorcerer’s body, scaring the other beastmen so much that they didn’t dare to look.
“You’ve abandoned the dignity of the beastmen, and even trampled on the most basic duty of protecting the weak. You’re no longer worthy of being a beastman! I strip you of all your identities, get out of the Austro-Hungarian tribe, and never come back!”
Another gust of wind blew, and the great sorcerer’s body, which had just fallen to the ground, was blown even further away. The punishment personally handed down by the great tribe leader of the Austro-Hungarian tribe was something no one dared to defy, and as for the dog-legged beastmen the great sorcerer had brought, they had already scattered like rats, fleeing in all directions.
[The great tribe leader banishes the great sorcerer from the Austro-Hungarian tribe!]
The script has been played out, and I won’t stop it. After all, this is the Austro-Hungarian tribe’s own business, and I’m not a saint to that extent. I’ll just watch as the desperate great sorcerer, who has no way to resist, crawls up and leaves in a sorry state. As for what happens next? Even without me and Kefir’s interference, the other beastmen will still drive the great sorcerer out of the Austro-Hungarian tribe under the great tribe leader’s direct order.
After finishing all this, the great tribe leader’s eyes in the shadow returned to us.
“Everything was due to the sorcerer’s madness and cruelty. The misunderstanding has been resolved, and you don’t need to conflict with the spirits anymore.”
“Human, thank you for your help to the Austro-Hungarian tribe, which didn’t let the sorcerer utilize and drive the tribe’s simple and brutal force.”
The dark clouds covering the sky gradually dispersed, and the shadow, along with the eyes, also dissipated, saying what should be a thankful speech, and then the great tribe leader’s shadow left, leaving behind a group of beastmen who had just regained their senses and were still lying on the ground.
As for me, I also let out a sigh of relief, because with the great tribe leader’s departure, the conflict between the Austro-Hungarian tribe and the Principality of Proust, which was triggered by this incident, had finally come to an end.
[The conflict between the Austro-Hungarian tribe and the Principality of Proust has been resolved.]
Ah… it seems like it’s finally over. “Black Shadow” is not important
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“Let’s head back; this place is a forbidden zone for now. By the way, what happened to the little fox you were holding just now?”
“It seems she got scared off when the Great Chieftain came out. No need to worry about her; that clever bear fox has definitely hidden away.”
I urged Kephiel not to search for the little fox anymore. To be honest… it would be a waste of time.
After all, while the conspiracy of the Grand Sorcerer has been exposed and resolved, my own considerations are far from over. Especially when the Great Chieftain just came out to punish the Grand Sorcerer…
The timing, the words, the method of punishment—those were all standard. But there was one thing I simply couldn’t ignore.
I hadn’t found the true “Shadow.” What I exposed tonight was merely the Grand Sorcerer’s conspiracy, intending to bury the matter of the “Shadow” beneath it! And this Great Chieftain… actually followed my lead, diverting the attention of the high orc warriors!
To put it simply: this Great Chieftain just helped me lie!
It’s not that I’m ungrateful or unwilling to express my thanks; it’s just that at this point, some of my doubts are nearing the time to seek an opportunity to quietly unveil them.
I took one last look at the silhouette of the Great Chieftain’s temple, which supports the mysterious and elusive leader of the Austro-Hungarian tribe under the night sky, then followed in Kephiel’s footsteps and left together.
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