Chapter 42: Return to the Tribe
The goblin sitting at the door pointed toward himself.
The mbers of the White Scales Tribe and Black Scales Tribe slightly shifted their expressions, glancing toward High Priest Bai Ling.
Standing at the door, Bai Ling lightly nodded in response to their gaze.
Seeing this, the two individuals strode toward the thatched hut.
“Bai Ling, what are the identities of those two Lizardn?”
The goblin's question made Bai Ling frown slightly.
She lowered her head and answered Li ng truthfully.
“They are the Gray Scales Chief of the Gray Scales Tribe and the Black Scales Chief of the Black Scales Tribe!”
Hearing this, Li ng's eyes flashed with surprise.
“A chief of a tribe willingly acting as a tribute—what boldness. Those leading the Lizardn must not be simple either.”
“Yes, they are elders and elder wives of the two tribes.”
Li ng grinned, now understanding the situation.
If the leaders didn't lead by example, how could they convince their tribes?
To submit to the goblins was an imnse humiliation for any intelligent race.
Once the fire of rage ignited, both tribes would fight to the death.
By sacrificing themselves, the upper ranks of the tribes preserved their people.
The Gray Scales and Black Scales stopped five ters from Li ng.
With heads bowed and expressions of humiliation, they knelt on the ground.
Li ng was very satisfied with their submissive gesture.
Although these Lizardn were only pretending to surrender to buy ti, Li ng didn’t care about their petty sches.
After all, ti was on his side.
“Bai Ling, tell them: from now on, male Lizardn are their responsibility, while the females are under your jurisdiction. Tomorrow, we return to the tribe!”
Bai Ling relayed Li ng’s words to the kneeling Lizardn in their language.
The two raised their heads to look at Bai Ling and nodded.
With the Mind Reading skill, Li ng understood their conversation but pretended not to.
Soon, the two got up and left.
The gathered Lizardn in front of the hut were also taken elsewhere to be settled.
Ti ticked away, and the sun gradually set.
Before nightfall, the hunting team returned to the tribe, bringing back a large number of swamp crabs and swamp crocodiles.
That night, the White Scales Tribe was bustling.
Moonlight poured from the sky, slightly dispelling the darkness.
Inside one of the thatched huts crowded with Lizardn, over a dozen were whispering.
“These goblins seem different from those we’ve encountered before.”
“Indeed, they’re too rational.”
“The goblins we knew before were more like beasts. Today, they seed like true intelligent beings.”
“Is it because of that goblin?”
The day’s events left them astonished.
They had prepared themselves for humiliation.
Although the goblins ogled the females greedily, they restrained their desires.
Were these still the goblins they knew?
Moreover, the atmosphere surrounding the goblins was entirely different.
“For now, we can only wait and see. Disperse quietly and don’t alarm the goblins.”
Gray Scales ended the discussion.
The gathered group soon dispersed and lay down to sleep in the darkness.
Ti passed, and the night deepened.
The next morning, just as dawn broke, the White Scales Tribe grew lively.
Goblins rudely pushed open the doors of the huts, waking the sleeping Lizardn, driving them outside.
The massive group marched westward, leaving through the west gate.
By the afternoon of the second day, the group exited the swamp and entered the forest.
They hunted while traveling upstream.
By the afternoon of the fifth day, the group finally returned to the tribe.
“This is the goblins’ lair?”
Looking at the scattered wooden huts in the forest, Gray Scales mused silently.
Beside him, Black Scales was equally surprised.
The goblin army that conquered the White Scales Tribe was not small.
There were at least a thousand goblins.
How could such a small place house so many goblins?
Could it be that these thousand goblins were the entirety of their forces?
Soon, the massive group gathered in front of the largest wooden hut.
Dense figures stretched across the forest, covering every corner.
Li ng stood at the hut’s entrance, like a "king."
Outside were nurous Big Goblins.
After devouring a significant number of Lizardn corpses, over twenty goblins had evolved into Big Goblins, with so showing signs of further evolving into Goblin Warriors.
Even among the Big Goblins, these were hulking figures.
“Boss, boss!”
At that mont, Gobuge ran out of the forest with a group of goblins.
Panting heavily, it joined the ranks of the Big Goblins.
Li ng turned to Bai Ling at his side.
“Separate them: males to the left, females to the right!”
Bai Ling silently approached the Lizardn group.
In their language, she loudly instructed the Lizardn.
The Lizardn exchanged glances, fear evident on their faces.
So female Lizardn clung tightly to the males for comfort.
Seeing their hesitation, Li ng, standing at the hut's entrance, grew impatient.
He had no ti to waste with the Lizardn.
Li ng gestured to the goblins surrounding the Lizardn.
The goblins grinned and shouted, brandishing their weapons as they charged at the Lizardn.
“Males to the left, females to the right! Separate, separate!”
The goblins yelled as they jabbed the Lizardn with spear tips.
Although the Lizardn couldn’t understand the goblin language, they knew it related to what Bai Ling had said.
Under the goblins’ forceful commands, the Lizardn finally separated.
“Gobuge, the male Lizardn are under your care. Make them do hard labor, and rember—they are not food.”
Gobuge’s eyes lit up, nodding enthusiastically.
“Uh… Boss…”
Gobuge grinned, hesitating as it glanced at the female Lizardn with greed.
It wasn’t the males Gobuge wanted.
“Co see later!”
Hearing this, Gobuge was overjoyed and quickly led the male Lizardn into the forest’s depths.
The departing male Lizardn glanced back repeatedly, unsure of what awaited them.
Once they vanished, Li ng began assigning the female Lizardn.
“These are the mates of the three tribes’ elders. They rightfully belong to you!”
Bai Ling brought over a dozen female Lizardn to Li ng.
Looking at the females behind Bai Ling, Li ng smirked wickedly.
In a few months, he would have his own offspring.
By then, he would truly control the tribe.
“Take them inside.”
Bai Ling turned to the Lizardn behind her and spoke a few words.
A total of thirteen female Lizardn followed Bai Ling into the hut.
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