“Falk, I, Connie, am back!”


  In the dark, a figure was descending slowly down a cliff. The petite figure was making gentle landings on the cliff’s wall’s protruding rocks every time.

  “Meow~”


  Right then, a black cat suddenly dashed out from a small cave on the cliff.

  “Mamma mia!”


  The agile figure got a shock, and she lost her footing on the rock. She fell straight down from a three-meter-high cliff.

  “You fellows. To think that I have always brought meat for you guys in the past!” Connie got up from the ground, and patted away the soil on her body as she looked at those heads that popped out from the cliff with annoyance.

  Right at this time, sounds of explosions and fighting could be heard coming from the inner city.

  “Why did they start fighting? I wonder where Boss and the rest are?” Connie looked over there with befuddlement. After a brief moment of pondering, she dashed toward the inner city.

  The black figure was dashing in and out in between the buildings. She didn’t reveal herself, nor did she make any sounds. She got close to the inner city rapidly.

  “Seems like tonight will be very boisterous.” Rex appeared at the top of the cliff, and looked down at the small city that had many fights breaking out right now. His expression remained unfazed. His gaze turned to the northwest. He narrowed his eyes, and whispered to himself, “I wonder if that fellow Auster will appear?”


  After standing on the cliff for a while, Rex’s gaze landed on the inner city below again, and he gently sighed with a complex expression. He took one step outward, and fell straight down the ravine below.

  Having a disciple without any sense of direction was really depressing.

  ***

  In the west of the city, dozens of orcs in black clothes were in an ambush.

  The grounds were full of shattered rocks, and a giant hole was blown out. A dark pathway going downward could be seen.

  An orc used all his force to bump away a giant rhinoceros, and addressed a tall and lanky orc, who was performing fire magic continuously while he stood among the shattered rocks, as he said, “Lord Durward, we couldn’t find Young Master Ferdinand. We might’ve been tricked!”


  After he chanted a complex spell, a giant fiery beast dashed repeatedly into the surrounding crowd, giving the orcs in black who were surrounded a brief moment to regroup.

  “How about the other places?” The tall and lanky elderly orc called Durward had worry written all over his face.

  “I haven’t seen any signals of success rising up. I guess their situation could be worse than ours,” the first orc answered.

  Durward groaned for a moment before he decisively said, “Get our brothers to charge at them and leave here first!”


  “Durward, I’m afraid it’s too late for you to decide to leave now?” A sneering voice sounded in the dark, and a fat and stocky orc wearing a tiger-skin coat astride a giant black beast slowly walked out from the dark.

  Bone-chilling coldness began to rush over from a seemingly endless darkness, and the fiery beast that was running amok among the orcs seemed to be frozen instantly. It struggled a little before it was extinguished completely.

  “Durward, you’ve actually hidden very well, and completely fooled me and the chief. I didn’t expect you to lose your cool at the very last moment.” Jeremy looked down on Durward on his giant beast and sneered. “A loyal fellow like you is rare. I wonder if the old chief would be touched if he knew about what you did?”


  “Jeremy, you traitorous lackey! How could you repay His Majesty’s trust in you like this?!” Durward scolded Jeremy sternly. A faint light appeared on his magic caster’s staff again.

  “I was always loyal to Chief Gary. You could only blame the old chief for being too stupid, and giving such an important job of guarding the city gates to me.” There was a hint of glee in Jeremy’s smile. However, his gaze that was fixated on Durward began to get increasingly ruthless. “However, Durward, you old fool, Chief Gary has been very good to you. He even gave you a domain recently, and you actually committed such an act. How dare you call me a traitorous lackey?”


  “The old chief had devoted himself entirely to our Falk Tribe, which allowed us to survive the racial war. He even made the Falk Tribe become the second-biggest orc tribe. Gary is nice to me, but my morals cannot accept what he has done. Only Young Master Ferdinand can inherit the chief’s position. Gary is the kingslayer, and death is his only end. And it would forever be nailed to the pillar of shame!” Durward said clearly and righteously.

  “Ha. History has always been written by the victors since the ancient times. Only you losers will be nailed to the pillar of shame.” Jeremy smirked, and raised his black magic caster’s staff at Durward. “Since you want to see that little bastard Ferdinand so much, then I will arrest you and execute you together with him tomorrow.”


  “Although you’re called the top powerhouse just below the 10th-tier in our tribe, if you think you can manhandle me easily, you have thought too little of me.” Durward pointed his magic caster’s staff at Jeremy, and a red fiery dragon shot out from the staff and charged toward Jeremy.

  “Ice barrier.” Jeremy pointed the magic caster’s staff at the giant dragon, and layers of ice barriers like mirrors stacked up in front of that dragon.

  Bang, bang, bang!

  Accompanied by the sounds of ice shattering, the ice barriers were crushed by the giant dragon. However, the red flames on the dragon were slowly diminished as it crashed through them.

  The red giant dragon was so dimmed that it almost disappeared after it crashed through the last ice barrier.

  The giant black cheetah underneath Jeremy swung its tail, and smashed that red giant dragon into sparks that scattered in the air.

  “Durward, you’re already old, and are no longer the Falk Tribe’s fire god.” Jeremy smirked, and struck the ice barriers into the ground. Those orcs in black were still attempting to resist, but were frozen instantly. The other orcs rushed forward and arrested all of them.

  “Lord Flerken will never forgive you all for what you have done!” Durward released three fireballs to force the orcs who rushed toward him back, and then dashed toward the gap that he had forcefully blasted out.

  Jeremy moved the giant beast underneath him forward to chase after Durward as he nonchalantly said, “Lord Flerken doesn’t care who is the one that makes the offerings to him.”


  Boom!!!

  Right then, a loud bang that reverberated throughout the Falk Tribe came from the north of the city. The entire inner city’s ground seemed to shake along with it.

  “What’s that!?”


  Jeremy looked toward the north of the city in a shock. Could there be an even stronger existence that took part in this disturbance?

  “What a terrifying commotion!”


  All the orcs were shocked too. Some even had no idea how to react.