Volume 3, Chapter 39 – A Changed Attitude

“They really did disappear…”

The catgirl did not particularly want to hide the answer to the question Fisiel had asked.

“Well, those hundred thousand clansmen have actually already been found… however, the Beastmen at the Stronghold are not planning to deal with those Half-beasts they found for the time being…”

Not planning to deal with them.

More accurately, right now the Stronghold had focused all of its attention on the Northern Fortress, so they had very little desire to resolve the issue of those Half-beasts who had vanished.

“So they already found the Half-beasts? As expected, even with the Half-beasts found, the Beastmen still want to get their hands on the Northern Fortress… That just means we can let the Beastmen succeed even less…”

Fisiel became even more certain of the Beastmen’s ambition.

At the same time, her determination to resist the Beastmen and hold the Northern Fortress grew even firmer.

“Well… the main goal of the Beastmen is the Northern Fortress… so whether they can find those hundred thousand Half-beasts or not is only secondary…”

Yeluo saw through the Beastmen’s plan very clearly as well, but even though she already understood the Beastmen’s aim… at this point there was no other effective method available besides resistance.

“Right, why did those Half-beasts disappear, and where did you find them again?”

Now that she thought about it, Fisiel was still a bit puzzled about the Stronghold having found the Half-beasts in the area of the Northern Fortress.

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After all, judging from the map she had brought, there were no other cities around the Northern Fortress at all, and there was not any proper settlement nearby either.

But the fact remained that the Half-beasts had been found in the area around the Northern Fortress…

That really was hard to understand…

“Mm…… even if I do not say it, before long you would find out anyway…… Since I have already come this far I cannot keep quiet, the truth is that at a place not too far from the Northern Fortress, we discovered a newly built city that is quite large in scale……”

“A city?”

Fisiel wore a bewildered expression.

However, that confusion only lasted a few seconds before something surfaced in her mind. She thought of the recent incidents in the Main World, where all sorts of Outsiders had been building cities of their own.

“Could it be that those Half-beasts were actually taken in by one of those cities built by Outsiders?”

This line of reasoning was not a random guess.

Based on what Fisiel knew, for the vast majority of Outsider-built cities in the Main World, there were practically no natives willing to join them, and the only city that had people willing to join was made up of refugees who had been displaced by the Undead War, who had lost their homes and had nowhere else to go, and who could no longer be resettled.

So if the most downtrodden Half-beasts at the very bottom of Beastman society were willing to join a city built by an Outsider, that would be understandable as well.

“Mm… although I will not spell out exactly what is going on, it seems that the ruling class of that newly founded city granted the Half-beast race very equal rights… which is probably the reason that attracted those one hundred thousand Half-beasts to join…”

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In truth, Yeluo had only guessed half right.

Certainly, granting the Half-beast race equal rights was one important reason that drew Half-beasts to join, but the other half of the reason was that Tianyin’s Eden possessed a very special continuous buff called “Attract Refugees.”

In addition, the lord of Eden… was actually an NPC, in other words a native, and this was another reason why Eden ended up with so many Half-beasts joining.

One could say that of the conditions mentioned above, the first was something any player could accomplish, but the latter two were advantages unique to Eden.

By the way, Eden was located on the border of the Stronghold’s territory, so when it came to attracting Half-beasts to join, it also enjoyed the advantage of location.

“I see, so that is how it is? Right, then have you Beastmen sent people to scout that city?”

Once she understood why Eden had drawn so many Half-beasts to join, Fisiel began to take an interest in this newly built city near the Northern Fortress.

“Uh… We have. To be honest, I previously volunteered to go and scout that city suspected of having been built by an Outsider…”

Yeluo very straightforwardly admitted that she had been to Eden before.

“Really? Then could you tell me what information you have on that city… mm, please do not misunderstand, I am not planning anything against that city. I just suddenly thought that we might be able to go there and trade for some supplies and provisions we need…”

In fact, this idea of trading for supplies was something Fisiel came up with on the spur of the moment while she was speaking, but after only a second of thought, Fisiel felt that this kind of plan… was very workable.

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And because of that idea of obtaining supplies from an Outsider city, Fisiel could not help but also form another plan in her heart, to send some people secretly back to the Kingdom to seek out those newly joined Outsider lords of the Kingdom and try to obtain supplies through them.

Of course, if they did that, there was a chance that those Outsiders would leak the plan to the upper echelons of the Kingdom, so for now the best option was to directly approach this Outsider lord whose city was not far from the Northern Fortress, and whose camp belonged neither to the Stronghold nor to the Kingdom, and try to obtain supplies from them.

“Mm… I see…”

After hearing what Fisiel said, Yeluo understood in an instant what Eden now meant to the Kingdom army.

However, when she remembered that Eden was also willing to shelter the Undead, Yeluo’s feelings became complicated again…

But the reality before her told Yeluo that even if she did not want to acknowledge the fact that Eden was willing to take in the Undead, the Kingdom’s army at the moment… really needed Eden’s support…

“As for Eden… I actually do not know it very well either… but if you want Eden to provide supplies and support…

As she spoke, fragments of her memories from when she first arrived in Eden began to surface in Yeluo’s mind.

The streets, neat and clean.

In that city, whether it was humans who had once been displaced and uprooted, or Half-beasts of low status.

Everyone’s faces were full of a smile called “happiness.”

You could see hope in their eyes. At the moment she first stepped into Eden… back then, she herself… had already been unconsciously drawn in…

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“I think… it should be very easy…”

With an Eden like that… even if its lord was an Outsider, anyone who could make the people of their territory smile from the bottom of their hearts would definitely not refuse, right?

The catgirl suddenly found that such a thought had risen in her heart.

Although… they did take in the Undead…

But that person had to be gentle and kind, right?

Only now, at this point, did Yeluo suddenly realize… that she who had gotten angry because of the Undead back then was still just a little girl who was sulking because her parents had been killed by the Undead…

“Little Yeluo has to hurry and grow up~”

That was what her mother had often said to her when she was young.

“Then Mom, how can I grow up?”

“Grow up, huh? Maybe you will suddenly grow up when that time comes~”