Shien’s group immediately climbed up onto Yulin’s back.
Not long after, Yuling’s wings flapped as it flew off into the distance.
Their target is the northern city of Cosmos.
…
On the day that Shien left, in Jiltry, a group appeared over in piece of wild and unowned area.
Those people were diverse in gender and looks, but they all had a certain commonality to them.
Foir example, all of them had a pair of animal ears and a tail. Only, some had wolf ears and tails, some had boar ears and tails, some had cat ears and tails, and some had leopard ears and tails. They also all wore skins and furs, giving them quite a wild look.
They were obviously a group of beastmen. A group of beastmen made of different tribes at that.
At the head of that group of beastmen was a seductive looking girl with fox ears and tail.
Anyone who sees this fox-kin girl would definitely be greatly shocked.
it’s because beastmen of the fox tribe hold a very special status among beastmen. They’re also extremely rare, and they haven’t appeared in many years.
Right now, though, a fox-kin girl had appeared her. If this were to get out, it would definitely cause a major commotion.
However, the foxkin girl who appeared here with a group of beastmen instead had a very heavy and cold look on her face. She looked like she was in a bad mood.
Looking closer, right before that fox-kin girl was several corpses that had been dug out, now exposed to the outside air.
Those corpses were actually the homunculi who had committed suicide right before Shien just the previous night.
Lasha had buried them here.
Only, how they’ve been dug back up.
A strong looking wolfman approached the fox-kin girl and spoke up with somewhat terrible expression.
“As expected, it wasn’t here, holy maiden.”
Hearing that, the fox-kin girl who was addressed as holy maiden looked like her mood had gotten worse.
Behind her, various beastmen also started complaining angrily.
“Yet again. Every time we find a clue, all that’s left ends up being a bunch of homunculi corpses.”
“The mastermind behind all this really is disgusting.”
“Even if they’re homunculi, something that can simply be made at will, to casually throw them away like this after using them up is worse than even the Old Demon Faction.”
“Enough already. That’s just the common methods of the mastermind behind all this. How could they possibly still be free to run about otherwise?”
“Yeah. If not the for the fact that it’s all homunculi who are sent out to take all the actions, we would have caught the mastermind behind all this a long time ago.”
“Gah! So annoying! I really want to just dig that guy up and have him drawn and quartered already!”
The group of beastmen all shouted angrily. It’s obvious that they’ve encountered the same things over and over now, to the point where they’ve already gotten sick and tired of it to the point of collapse.
If not for that, the holy maiden leading them wouldn’t be in such a terrible mood.
“Do we know who buried these homunculi here?”
The fox-kin holy maiden asked the wolfman.
“No, we don’t.” The wolfman spoke with annoyance, “We had already sniffed around this entire area, but we couldn’t catch the slightest scent of the person who buried these homunculi. It’s as if the person in question had purposefully erased all traces of themselves. They’re definitely extremely skilled, having done all this perfectly. It’s in fact even more flawless than any of the times we previously encountered before.”
“There was nothing at all?” The fox-kin holy maiden frowned, “This never happened the previous times we found homunculi moving about outside, right?”
“That’s right. The previous times, thanks to us beastmen with senses far sharper than that of other races, we had always been able to more or less find some clues and tracers, which thus allowed us to figure out what these homunculi had done and who they made contact with. It wasn’t like this time at all, where there was no clue at all to be found.” The wolfman spoke solemnly, “It should have been someone very powerful who did this. No normal person could possibly have been able to do such a thing.”
“… Is that so?” The fox-kin holy maiden fell silent for a while before speaking up again, “Is it possible that this person is the mastermind behind all this?”
The one to answer that question wasn’t the wolfman, but a catgirl next to the holy maiden.
“No, that’s not possible.” The catgirl shook her head and denied it, “Based on the previous actions of the mastermind, they don’t care the slightest about the lives of these homunculi, so there’s no way that they could possibly risk the chance of us discovering him to run out here to bury these homunculi.”
“Then just what’s going on then?” The wolfman voiced out his confusion, “Why were the homunculi buried this time?”
The group of beastmen immediately all looked toward the catgirl.
From the looks of it, this cute catgirl should be the brains for this beastmen group.
That was in fact the truth too.
“I think it could have been done by an unrelated outsider.” The catgirl went silent for a bit before giving the following explanation, “Although all traces were removed, based on the way they were buried, the person who did this should have at treated these homunculi with respect. That’s not something that someone who considered homunculi mere tools would do. Thus, it might be someone unrelated who had no idea of these homunculi’s histories who simply couldn’t bear to watch their corpses just left around outside who did all this.
“An unrelated outsider you say?” The fox-kin holy maiden immediately spoke with some worry, “It can’t be that this time, this matter finally ended up getting innocent outsiders involved?”
“Oy, oy, oy! Are you serious!?” The wolfman was very shocked, “That’s not something to joke about. If something goes wrong, then those innocent outsiders who got dragged in will be dead for sure!”
“That’s right.” The catgirl also spoke worriedly, “The thing that we were most worried about might have happened.”
Those words induced a sinking feeling in the hearts of all the beastmen present.
They absolutely don’t want to see any innocent outsiders be harmed.
“It looks like we’ll have to hurry up then.” The fox-kin holy maiden took a deep breath, “There’s no other way anymore. We’ll have to use some exceptional methods then.”
When she spoke those words, the other beastmen all reacted with alarm.
“Holy maiden!”
“Holy maiden!”
Both the wolfman and the catgirl also spoke up in alarm.
“Enough, don’t say anything more.” The foxkin holy maiden refused any more objections, “We cannot allow the hell from back then to appear again. For the sake of that, a little bit of harm to me means little.”
The beastmen had nothing they could say to that. All they could do was be even more angry and hateful toward the mastermind behind it all.
The fox-kin holy maiden took a knee and begun praying.
“———— Oh great goddess of life, please answer your faithful believer. Where is the catastrophe of darkness————”
With that, a holy light shone from the fox-kin holy maiden.
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