Chapter 126: Nearly Exploding with Rage!

Lion Pass — the Lion Clan's mighty fortress on the western front!

The Lion Clan's territory was extraordinarily vast, with mountains, grasslands, and lakes filling every corner of its lands.

It could be said that the Lion Clan occupied the largest and most fertile region of the beastman kingdom east of the Mist!

After Chief Rick led a thousand elite Lion Clan warriors off to pursue the Cat Clan, Lion Pass was left with only a few hundred Lion Clan warriors!

Now, those few hundred Lion Clan warriors had all become corpses!

On Lion Pass, raging flames had been lit!

Every building on Lion Pass had caught fire.

When Prince Bert arrived with three thousand Lion Clan warriors, the buildings on Lion Pass had not yet finished burning!

Looking at the Lion Clan warriors' corpses strewn across the ground, Prince Bert's expression darkened to the extreme!

A few hours earlier, in the great hall, he had absolutely not believed that those thousand centaurs could have wiped out a thousand Lion Clan warriors while suffering only a single casualty!

That originally gravely wounded Lion Clan warrior had nearly been shaken apart by Prince Bert, yet he still clung to his account.

Until fresh battle reports arrived!

Lion Pass had been breached by the centaurs!

The Old Lion King was greatly alarmed!

Every member of the Lion Clan royal family was equally alarmed!

The Lion Clan had ruled this beastman kingdom east of the Mist for decades, and such a thing had never once occurred!

Therefore, Prince Bert led his troops here at once, determined to retake Lion Pass!

Although the Lion Clan could still muster five thousand warriors, another two thousand would take time to gather.

In his urgency, Prince Bert had only taken three thousand Lion Clan warriors from Wang Cheng!

However, when he arrived here, he discovered that the centaurs who had overrun Lion Pass had long since departed.

All that remained here were flames and corpses carpeting the ground!

"Damned bastards!"

Prince Bert punched a tree, snapping it clean through — the trunk was as thick as a thigh.

This displayed his tremendous strength.

Yes, Prince Bert was powerful — at the very least, he was a Fourth-Rank warrior!

Beastman warriors were on par with human knights in rank; a Fourth-Rank warrior could hold his own against a Fourth-Rank knight!

"Help!"

On a hillside, a gravely wounded Lion Clan warrior cried out.

Several Lion Clan warriors immediately pulled him up.

"What happened? Lion Pass was built so sturdy — how did they break through?"

Prince Bert seized the gravely wounded Lion Clan warrior by the collar and demanded.

That Lion Clan warrior's eyes were filled with thick terror.

His gaze somewhat vacant, he said: "Your Highness, it was fire — fire falling from the sky. That fire was so terrifying it could melt even stone. Any of our men who touched it turned to ash. So terrifying…"

Fire!

"It seems the enemy has a Gao Jie fire-element mage!"

From behind Prince Bert, an aide said.

Prince Bert's gaze sharpened slightly as he pressed on: "How many of them were there?"

That Lion Clan warrior said: "N-not many — at most a thousand! They were covered head to toe in thick armor. Our arrows and spears couldn't pierce that armor, and our blades couldn't cut through it either!"

A thousand!

The centaurs who had annihilated Rick's force were also a thousand!

Moreover, both surviving Lion Clan warriors had mentioned armor covering the entire body!

Could it possibly be the same group of centaurs?

If it was the same group, wouldn't that mean that after those thousand centaurs wiped out Rick's thousand Lion Clan warriors, they really had…

Lost only a single centaur?

"Impossible!"

Prince Bert refused to believe this result!

"Release the hunting eagles, the hounds — chase them down! Chase them to the ends of the earth!"

Prince Bert roared hysterically!