Chapter 42: Preparations

"The two of you stop! Please, Krag your brother Lerak is right. I know you want to avenge your father but fighting them is suicide! We don't have any more fighters.."

Mel stopped her two sons.

Krag bit his lower lips and turned around. He didn't want to face his mother and brother, especially their dead father. He knew that his plan was suicidal, but it was due to grief that led him to create such a rash decision.

"I…I'm sorry.."

Lerak was composing himself not to cry. As the new chief, he has a lot of responsibilities to do.

There was no time for grieving, he had to make a decision fast for his tribe to survive.

The only way is to surrender to the lion tribe.

"But brother...I will not allow you to surrender to the lion tribe. You are right we can't fight anymore, but if we surrender they will only harass us further. They will make our tribe into slaves, I will not accept that."

"Krag is right, Lerak if we do admit to surrender they will make us their slaves. The women cannot handle that Lerak.."

"So what do we do? Do we leave? This is where our people are buried Mom, we can't leave this place...This is where you and Dad and the others were born...I've been born here, I don't know anywhere else we should go."

...

"Huff, huff"

"Father? Are you alright?"

"Meo? Where am I?"

"We're glad your safe Father, you have been asleep for a week now. We are currently inside a small cave resting.."

Hugo glanced at his whole body covered in wounds. His memory had been cut into tiny pieces. Hugo is the chief of the rabbit Beastmen tribe.

"Daughter, your sister Bria where is she?"

Hugo held his head, the last memory he had was telling Bria to search for the village of the wolves. After that Hugo's memory had been cut.

Hugo looked at the other rabbit Beastmen who were covered in wounds, many of the small children were shivering and scared.

"Father, Bria we haven't seen her. You told her to search for the wolves tribe, it has been a week since, and she hasn't come back"

….

"Alright everyone, we plan to search for the other rabbit Beastmen and beastwomen. But there are numerous dangers ahead for us, from what Bria had told us there are numerous monsters just like the ones who attacked our village currently hiding inside the forest."

Dux, Fortis, and Callidus are the leaders, they are currently making plans to save the rabbit beast tribe.

Currently, many of the strongest and most trained men they had were all inside the hut, over 15 male Beastmen are listening to Dux.

"We have two days to prepare, after two days our goddess will guide us to save the rabbit tribe. In these two days, I want to see improvements! We must train hard and learn many skills and tricks. Just like the goddess had ordered us, we must save them before it's too late!"

"Aye!"

'So they're thinking of leaving…'

Primo who was outside of the hut was listening to the conversation. Primo was thinking of secretly joining the hunt.

"Hehehe"

With a devilish smile, Primo was also creating his plans.

….

Lerak was outside of the hut glancing at the night sky. From the very day he was born, Lerak was taught by his father about the existence of their goddess. The one who created them and protected them from harm.

But right now Lerak was left with the question if their protector was real.

"Father…"

"Oi Lerak.."

Krag sat down besides Lerak. The two of them were born at the same time, but the two of them had different personalities.

"Lerak…think it through if we surrender to them they will capture us and even treat us as slaves. Instead, why don't we run? Why don't we leave this f'cking place?"

"Krag…this is where father had died, this is where our people have lived. And you want to leave? You told me you hated surrendering but fleeing? That's the same thing.."

"Oh, then what do you want to do? Stay and be slaves? Oh, that's nice!"

"Also surrendering is telling them straight face to face that we surrender. Instead fleeing will ensure our people's survival, and wouldn't get harassed by those f'cks. Then maybe in a few years, we can come back and reclaim what's ours and become f'cking powerful bwahahahahaaha!"

Lerak sighed.

"Even if we do flee, will the lion tribe let us go that easily?"

Krag sat down and was rethinking his plan.

"Your right, I bet they have tons of warriors spying on us…But if it was me, let's flee…"

"Krag…"

"Lerak, Father wants us to be safe. Our safety here isn't guaranteed sooner or later those f'cks will attack us.."

Lerak sighed, stood up, and nodded his head.

"Alright, quietly tell everyone to pack their belongings were leaving.."

"Yoshhhh!"

Meanwhile in the real world. Cedric was watching the news.

[Gametube is now owned only by Ryan Peterson. Suddenly the news broke out, that Mr. Elias Sevon has retired and granted full authority to Mr. Peterson to manage the GameCube company!]

[After checking the paperwork, lawyers have determined that Mr. Peterson is now the only the sole owner of the Gametube. Now many people are wondering where is Mr. Sevon?]

[On another news, the pro-S-ranker Brooks Shield has captured, Gabriel Gallant aka the S-ranker Bomber who had made numerous headlines ten years ago after he had exploded the town square leaving many normal citizens hurt.]

[The casualties at that time were over 2,000, luckily none died due to the immediate response of many rankers.]

"They caught him? Sheesh, that guy is powerful as heck…And? Sevon retired? Hmm, that must be why he visited the store right? Aww man, now what do I do with this game of mine?"

...

The Wolf tribe was currently busy making preparations. Many of the men are vigorously training, they are learning many fighting skills and tricks from Fortis and Dux.

Callidus was busy making potions for everyone to drink and use.

The whole village was busy with their preparations. The female and men are doing their best.

But they weren't the only ones, Terzo was learning and following the footsteps of Diabo. Pan was training with Primo.

The three children were trying harder than the adults. Terzo was learning how to master making spheres in his hands. Pan was learning hand-to-hand combat with weaponry training with Primo. Primo also used his time-fighting Pan by utilizing his aura.

"Hah!"

"Your too f'cking slow Pan…You keep on spouting nonsense that you'll protect the goddess but with such weak punches and slow movements there's no way you'll achieve such a dream, you weakling.."

"Stop saying that Primo!"

"I'll only stop if you can manage to land a hit on me weakling!"

...

"Huff, Huff"

"Stand up Terzo.."

"I'm trying, but my body is drained out of magi.."

"How weak, truly"

Diabo sat down beside Terzo who was gasping for air.

"Everyone in your village is working hard, they are all busy making preparations as well."

"Hmm yeah they are, I only heard some bits of information but everyone's planning on saving the rabbit tribe…"

"Hmm, then you should go as well.."

"Eh? That's too dangerous, Mom wouldn't allow me to enter"

"Then go secretly I'm sure one of your brothers would go as well"

"Ughh I think I already know who would go.."

…

"Father your wounds still haven't healed yet.."

"I know, but I must search for you sister. I have told her to go to the end of the forest, I'm sure she has met the wolf tribe"

"But father…what if she didn't?"

Hugo looking at all the people's worried impression sighed. Luckily they were still capable warriors guarding them.

Hugo knew that the only people that could save them were the Wolf tribe. He had seen one of that tribe's people hunting many years ago.

After seeing them for the first time, Hugo was astounded by their strength and prowess.

"I must…"

Hugo glanced one more time at everyone and proceeded to run.

'Bria please be safe…'

Hugo who was running quickly nonstop for an hour stopped in his tracks. Hugo using his strong and fast legs climbed on one of the trees. Below a small grotesque creature was roaming.

The same creature who had destroyed their settlement. The creature beneath him was small and had huge eyes with a small body.

'I have to kill this monster, it seems like it's alone, not only that, it is also close to the cave.'

Hugo tightened his grip on the small knife. He knew he had to quickly take care of this monster in order not to alert the others of the same kind.

Hugo jumped out of the tree and with a quick dash managed to swiftly cut the monster's neck. Blood sprayed and the small monster slumped to the ground. Hugo who had blood on his body hid once again in the tree

Other small monsters the same size as the one he killed with grotesque proportions suddenly gathered and feasted on the creature he had killed.

'Ugh, how grotesque..'

"Rawrrr!"

Hugo hearing the sudden cry glanced at a small creature. It was a child with brown hair and black eyes, the child was wearing rags and had small ears.

'Strange, that boy has the same tail as us rabbits...but he has small ears.'

The child had claws and was positioning himself on fours.

'What is that child doing?'

Upon closer inspection, the child was bleeding.