Chapter 49: This hyena-man is overly cautious

Huh? Sai Jia suddenly looked toward the left forest, eyes showing vigilance.

Ai Di, Pa Na and the others also followed Sai Jia's gaze and looked over.

Although Sai Jia's head is full of muscle and it likes to solve everything with force, its battle intuition is remarkably sharp; once danger approaches, it can sense it in advance.

Under the icy, wary gazes of the seven young dragons, a tall black-furred hyena-man slowly walked out of the forest.

The black-furred hyena-man raised both hands, indicating it meant no harm, and from afar said, "Your Highnesses, we are troops sent by Prince Lai Ang to support you."

The atmosphere eased.

However, the other six young dragons noticed that Sai Jia's gaze remained fixed on the black-furred hyena-man.

"What's wrong, Sai Jia?" Ai Di asked, sounding a bit strange.

"This black-furred hyena-man is probably quite strong, possibly not weaker than you." Sai Jia said.

Its mental power is not as strong as Lai Ang's, so it can only sense via intuition that Huo Ge's strength is not weak.

"Not weaker than me?" Ai Di instantly became somewhat displeased.

It's a giant dragon! That hyena-man may seem strong, but it likely couldn't reach Fourth Rank; without reaching Fourth Rank, how could it be a match? Those who wish to slay a wild giant dragon must at least field four beings of the same rank that can cooperate.

With that, one could only say there's a fifty percent chance of dragon-slaying success—naturally, the other half is being slain by the dragon.

Wild giant dragons are already this strong—what more, having received elite education from the academy?

That Green Dragon teacher 'La De', although his temperament is awful, his teaching methods are still not weak.

Even the laziest giant dragon, before graduation, besides possessing decent combat experience, can at least cultivate one profession to the peak of First Rank.

With a little effort, one can reach Second Rank; with more effort, Third Rank is not difficult. Of course, the word 'effort' itself is extremely difficult for giant dragons.

"Your alchemist profession hasn't even reached Second Rank, and this profession isn't combat-oriented but supportive; aside from decent combat experience, you and a wild dragon are roughly equal in strength." Sai Jia spoke bluntly.

When talking about other matters, Sai Jia doesn't want to think, but regarding strength and battle power, it can analyze things in detail.

Especially concerning his own older brother, whenever Sai Jia tires from cultivating Fury Battle Qi, gets annoyed or bored, it starts analyzing the older brother's battle power composition.

Which aspects are strong, which are weak, and what weaknesses can be targeted? Ai Di felt stifled by Sai Jia's words, and even began to dislike Huo Ge a bit.

But it still refused to accept that.

Even if its combat ability isn't great, it's still a giant dragon. Although the dragon race's biological level is only mid Third Rank, it is confident it could defeat even a peak Third Rank monster.

In the distance, Huo Ge keenly sensed the malice from one of the black dragons toward it, feeling somewhat puzzled but also keeping a wary eye.

Huo Ge intends to pledge loyalty to the mighty Prince Lai Ang; although Sai Jia and the others are also dragon princes, it will only show respect, not loyalty toward them.

Loyalty can be given to only one being; otherwise, it isn't loyalty.

"Come out." Huo Ge, with a calm mind, called the warriors in the forest to come out, so the seven Highnesses would remember their scent.

Otherwise, when battle starts later, they might be mistaken for wild monsters and slaughtered.

First to emerge were hyena-man hunters over two meters tall, with agile, smooth builds—mainly black-furred hyena-men, with some blue-furred hyena-men—these are the wild hyena-man tribe of Yu Ling Ze, possessing notable water affinity.

There are over thirty hyena-man hunters, each a Second Rank warrior, cultivating the battle qi method passed down by Huo Ge.

Behind the hyena-man hunters are over two hundred black- and blue-furred hyena-men; they also cultivate battle qi, but either their training is too brief, making their qi weak, or they lack talent, so they are all First Rank.

Further back are giants three to four meters tall or more—mainly swamp giants and toxic giants.

Among them, the toxic giants are shorter by a head and much frailer than the swamp giants, yet no one present would underestimate them; even the few young dragons like Ai Di who saw them felt slightly surprised.

Toxic giants are a rare variant among giants, unlike swamp giants which are rampant in the An Zhao Sen Lin.

Toxic giants possess incredibly toxic bodily fluids, emitting a foul stench all over, and often poison large numbers of living beings; they are despised by almost all creatures, and powerful monsters often kill them on sight to prevent their hunting grounds from being polluted.

Over time, the originally not-few toxic giants in the An Zhao Sen Lin have become scarce and rare.

"E Sen, lead your people to spread your toxin on the left and right." Huo Ge ordered the leader of the toxic giants.

The toxic giant named E Sen is thin-framed with a coarse skeleton, appearing already not young; it gave an evil, fierce grin (actually an embarrassed smile), nodded, and led six toxic giants forward along the path the fish-tooth merfolk would later have to pass.

One could see them standing on the ground, their bodies slightly trembling, droplets of colorless transparent sweat falling to the earth; as they moved, this transparent sweat began to spread across the soil.

A greenish-blue snake was disturbed, crawling over this land from the forest; the next second its movements slowed, then stiffened, and within a few seconds its entire nervous system was destroyed, killing it.

"E Sen's bodily fluids remain effective for several hours; unless one deliberately covers their feet with battle qi or has an exceptionally strong physique, any skin contact will collapse them to the ground from poison." Huo Ge explained this to the curious Ai Di and the others.

Of course, wearing shoes can also avoid it.

But this is the An Zhao Sen Lin, which is Yu Ling Ze; aside from monsters, there are only magical beasts—who would bother putting on shoes for no reason? They probably don't even have the concept of wearing shoes.

"A force of about twenty-five hundred dog-headed people and goblins will also arrive here in the forest shortly to set an ambush, intending to intercept those fishfolk foot soldiers." Huo Ge added this remark.

This giant demon and hyena-man unit is merely the vanguard; the dog-headed people and goblins move slowly and are prone to making noise, so they need to be gradually transferred over.

Ai Di and the seven others stared at each other, momentarily unsure what to say.

This black-furred hyena-man is overly cautious. It seems that even without those seven, Huo Ge could lead these monsters to annihilate the great army of fish-tooth merfolk.

Meanwhile, several kilometers ahead of Huo Ge, Sai Jia and the others, a surprise attack on the fish-tooth merfolk is about to be launched.

(End of chapter)