Volume 3, Chapter 14 – A Half-Beast Army?

Standing before the girl was someone even smaller than herself, a little girl wearing a pure white dress, with long silver-white hair.

The little girl possessed facial features so perfect that even the girl herself found them breathtaking, along with skin so fair it made others envious.

At this moment, the little girl tilted her head slightly, eyes wide with curiosity, showing an adorably confused expression.

Seeing such a cute little girl, for some reason, the girl’s originally panicked emotions gradually calmed.

“Hello… little sister. My name is Yeluo, and yes, I’m a half-beast who came here today… but little sister, how did you know I’m new here?”

The girl… no, Yeluo was quite puzzled. She indeed arrived today, but how did the little girl in front of her figure it out?

“Wuu…”

The little girl blinked.

“Well, it’s actually not that hard. After all, among all the half-beasts here who are looking around Eden with such curious eyes, you seem to be the only big sister doing that~”

As she said this, the little girl showed Yeluo an explosively adorable smile.

“Mm… oh, by the way, my name is Tianyin. You can also call me Xiaoyin, everyone calls me that~”

Seeing the friendly-looking little girl who had suddenly appeared before her, Yeluo felt her emotions growing complicated.

To put it simply, Tianyin’s cute smile had healed her a little…

“X… Xiaoyin, huh. Xiaoyin is really smart…”

To Yeluo, the Tianyin before her felt extremely pure and cute.

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And hearing Yeluo call her smart, Tianyin puffed out her flat chest proudly.

“Hmph hmph… of course! I’m very, very smart, not dumb at all. You know, I’m definitely not dumb, nobody says I’m dumb~”

Yeluo didn’t know why, but seeing Tianyin repeat “I’m not dumb” over and over made her feel that the little girl seemed extremely sensitive about the word “dumb”.

“Well, whatever. It’s rare for me to sneak out and play, but since big sister is new to Eden, you definitely don’t know how to register, right?”

“Register? Register for what?”

Yeluo felt embarrassed, like she didn’t understand anything.

“Register, of course! Big sister doesn’t plan to live here?”

“Live? You’re saying half-beasts can live here?”

Hearing that, Yeluo was stunned.

In the Stronghold, although half-beasts could walk inside the city, their living areas were limited to outside the walls. So when hearing about ‘settling down’, Yeluo couldn’t help feeling extremely shocked.

“Well, every half-beast who comes here reacts like that. But settling down here really means living inside. Housing is free too~”

“Eh…?”

Yeluo’s face showed only shock, but deep inside her heart, waves were crashing violently.

“Is it really okay? To settle… Can I?”

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“Of course you can~”

Tianyin naturally grabbed Yeluo’s delicate hand.

“Big sister, come with me. I’ll take you to register~”

Then, in a daze, Yeluo was led by Tianyin to Eden’s central plaza, the place designated for registering new residents.

But what shocked Yeluo even more was that the plaza was almost completely filled with people waiting to register.

As far as her eyes could see, it was a sea of people.

“Wuu, there are a lot of people. But big sister, let’s wait a little~”

Seeing the long line ahead, Yeluo nodded, agreeing. But she also noticed that the majority of the people waiting in the plaza seemed to be half-beasts.

“There are… quite a lot of half-beasts…”

Tianyin picked up her words and nodded in agreement.

“Mm-hm, definitely a lot. And not only that, among Eden’s 300,000-plus population currently, around 200,000 are half-beasts~”

“Eh? Two hundred thousand?”

Yeluo was utterly shocked by Tianyin’s sudden revelation.

Two hundred thousand half-beasts?

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That meant not only the previously missing hundred thousand half-beasts had come here, but another hundred thousand had silently joined this city called Eden?

“Surprised? But it’s the truth. After all, here we treat half-beasts very fairly~”

“Fairly?”

Yeluo noticed another unfamiliar word that stirred her curiosity.

“Well, big sister probably doesn’t know. But every half-beast who joins Eden, in terms of status and identity, is treated the same as any other race here.”

Tianyin patiently explained.

“Half-beasts can do any job. And right now, most of Eden’s military forces are trained from half-beasts~”

“Eh… a half-beast army?”

“Yup~”

Tianyin spoke as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

But to Yeluo, this sentence overturned her entire understanding of her people, of the half-beast race.

Since the moment Yeluo was born, Beastmen of the Stronghold had always judged half-beasts as weak and lowly.

Half-beasts could only do dirty, low-class jobs the Beastmen didn’t want. They could not become soldiers. They could not form a proper army.

The main reason was that, in Beastmen’s eyes, half-beasts were too weak, too weak to be allowed an army.

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And in this world, weakness was the original sin.

For countless years, half-beasts existed only as Beastmen’s vassals.

The lowest of the low in the Stronghold.

Beautiful half-beast girls could be captured and traded to Humans for grain, and to Beastmen, that was all half-beasts were worth.

A half-beast army was something they were never qualified to have.

Half-beasts had no Legendary-tiers, no Epics.

They were vassals, disposable “objects” the Stronghold’s Beastmen could abandon at any time.

But here, for the first time, Yeluo heard a sentence that shattered her worldview.

Here, half-beasts made up the majority of the army. Half-beasts became soldiers. Even more… they were the military’s main force?

“Th… this kind of thing…”

Her emotions could no longer be described.

Yeluo only knew that the common sense in her eyes had begun to blur.