Chapter 158: Heirs? What Heirs?

The nobles, of course, understood clearly that these savages were certainly not intimidated by their momentum.

After all, aside from shouting a couple of times, they had not even begun fighting yet!

"Look over there, those tribal chiefs are coming toward us!"

Just then, a sharp-eyed noble suddenly noticed that the tribal chiefs, who had been observing and commanding from the rear of the army, had actually crossed the army lines and were approaching the crowd!

In the end, those tribal chiefs stopped less than a hundred meters in front of the noble formation.

The situation left the nobles staring at one another in confusion!

"What do they want to do?

"Could they be here to urge our surrender?"

Thinking of this possibility, Commander Narsi's expression darkened. "Gentlemen, everyone already knows the fate awaiting these tribal savage captives; I hope everyone will remain rational!"

The nobles, naturally understanding this, nodded in agreement one after another.

"Since all you gentlemen are clear on this, let us go meet those tribal chiefs; we cannot let the tribal savages think we fear them!"

Having spoken, Narsi led a group of nobles across his own remaining nine thousand battered troops and arrived before the tribal chiefs.

For the sake of their dignity, the nobles concealed all the despondency on their faces, putting on an air of calm and composure.

The crowd simply waited for the tribal chiefs to speak and urge surrender, then laugh heartily and humiliate them in return, thereby adding luster to their own knightly spirit.

But who could have expected that the very next words from the tribal chiefs left the crowd unable to comprehend.

"Truly unexpected; I thought that once you foolish nobles fell into our trap, there would be no possibility of struggle, but I underestimated you. Speak now: what conditions must you have before you release the heirs of our various tribes?"

"Uh? Heirs? What heirs?"

The nobles were stunned, then stared at one another, completely unaware of what these tribal chiefs on the opposite side were talking about!

"Stop pretending, you shameless nobles! Your three hundred-plus elite warriors succeeded; they seized the moment when our tribal camp was at its weakest and abducted our heirs!"

"Hand over our heirs now, and we can agree to withdraw our troops!" Black Tiger Chief, a burly tribal warrior, heard this and his eyes widened roundly, wishing he could rush forward and knock the nobles dead immediately.

At this, Narsi and the others finally realized that someone had indeed raided the camp of these tribal armies and abducted their heirs.

And these tribal chiefs thought it was them who did it, so they came to negotiate terms, even agreeing to withdraw their troops.

Narsi secretly glanced at the nobles and found everyone's reaction was no different from his own.

He understood; it certainly was not these nobles who did it either.

But having finally seen a glimmer of hope for survival, he certainly would not give up easily.

"Great Chief Silver Moon, may I confer with the nobles for a moment?"

This Great Chief Silver Moon was currently the supreme chief of all the tribes.

Through his own influence, he had integrated the various tribes, which led to this great battle that caused the Griffin Kingdom to lose dozens of nobles.

Even powerful tribes like the Black Tiger Tribe obeyed his command.

"No problem!" Great Chief Silver Moon replied calmly.

Seeing this, Narsi was instantly delighted and immediately signaled the other nobles with his eyes.

The other nobles were all shrewd; one by one, they silently moved more than ten meters away.

"Commander Narsi, did you perhaps dispatch an elite squad in advance to rescue those tribal heirs?" the nobles asked eagerly, for in their view, only Commander Narsi had the strength to arrange such a thing in advance.

After asking, the crowd wore expressions full of expectation.

Narsi thought to himself, "As I suspected," then helplessly said, "It was not me; in fact, I also wish to ask if any of you gentlemen did it?"

Among the nobles this time, although there were only two Count contingents, there were actually several heirs from families of Count lineage.

Therefore, if it truly was possible that these nobles did it, then it could only be these few noble families.

But now it seemed one hundred percent certain that it was not these nobles.

"Not you? Then who could it be?" The nobles stared at one another, and the excitement that had surged earlier instantly plummeted to rock bottom.

If it was not Narsi, and not anyone among this group of nobles, then their chance of survival would not be lost in vain.

"Gentlemen, this is the reason I requested to confer with you!"

"Now these tribal chiefs clearly do not know that we did not do this, so we still have a chance to find a way to escape!"

"Moreover, although those tribal heirs were not captured by us, they were certainly captured by our Kingdom's noble army!"

"After all, besides us nobles, who else would appear on this dangerous battlefield?"

"Therefore, what we need most right now is to stabilize these fellows, then buy time to find the squad that abducted the tribal heirs!"

"Additionally, even if we truly cannot find them, we can still gain more time to devise a way to break through and escape!"

The group of nobles naturally understood that what Narsi said made sense.

Thus, one by one, they all agreed to Narsi's proposal.

Narsi took a deep breath, organized his words, and then led the crowd back before the tribal chiefs.

"Great Chief Silver Moon, we have conferred and reached an agreement. To release your heirs, the conditions are simple: you must immediately withdraw from within the Kingdom's borders!"

"You scoundrels! You shameless nobles! Surrounded by us completely, you still dare to speak to us in such a manner!" Upon hearing this, Black Tiger Chief instantly flew into a rage.

Narsi did not even look at Black Tiger Chief; he only fixed his gaze on Great Chief Silver Moon.

He continued, "If we die, our subordinates will take all the tribal heirs to the Royal Capital. By then, His Majesty the King might make even more demands!"

"Of course, you may refuse, but in that case, I fear you will lose the heirs you have painstakingly cultivated for over ten years!"

Black Tiger Chief and the other chiefs were immediately stunned into silence.

After all, Narsi now appeared to have ample confidence, leaving them with no truly better option.

Great Chief Silver Moon's eyes flickered with light for a moment; he glanced at the assembly of chiefs, then suddenly laughed and said, "Commander Narsi, no problem. I can take responsibility and agree to your conditions! As long as you hand over the heirs, I am willing to withdraw the troops!"

In fact, among these heirs, there was no heir or child of his, Great Chief Silver Moon.

But these tribes had only been gathered and united by him not long ago; to prevent the tribal alliance from fracturing,

Great Chief Silver Moon had no choice but to agree to this excessive request.

Narsi's heart pounded; fearing the other might misunderstand, he reiterated, "Great Leader Silver Moon, we will completely withdraw from the borders of our Griffin Kingdom—that is, outside the city of Paka!"

"Outside the city of Paka," Great Leader Silver Moon nodded. "Then when, demon, will you return the offspring to us?"

Narsi forcibly suppressed his excitement, putting on a show. "Great Leader Silver Moon, to prevent you from forcibly rescuing them, I ordered my subordinate to hide his tracks immediately after succeeding."

"Therefore, I now need to send someone out of the camp to search before I can summon my subordinate back to trade with you. Thus, this will take some time!"