Giant Beasts are powerful creatures that roam throughout the Kawa Great Forest, classified as something between ordinary beasts and magic beasts.

Giant Beasts do not possess Talent Magic, but magic power grants them extremely formidable physical conditions. Their massive bodies crush almost all hunters and are one of the top-tier monsters in the food chain within the Kawa Great Forest.

If one could hunt a Giant Beast, the meat from their mountain-sized bodies is enough to sustain the entire Dragon Nest Tribe for a day!

Giant Beasts are not uncommon in the Kawa Great Forest. When Austin initially chose the location to establish the Dragon's Nest, it was away from the roaming grounds of Giant Beasts. Therefore, neither the last cold winter nor other times have seen much of their tracks.

However, as the Dragon Nest Tribe developed and its hunting teams continually explored outward, several sightings of Giant Beasts have occurred. It is imaginable that within a radius of over a hundred miles, many Giant Beasts are active among the mountains and forests.

Given the current strength of the Dragon Nest Tribe, organizing Beastman Transcendents along with sufficient elite beastmen might be able to surround and kill them.

Giant Beasts are carnivorous hunters by nature. If they are slaughtered, they can provide the Dragon Nest Tribe with a substantial amount of meat and clear out top-tier hunters like them, increasing the animal population in the surrounding areas of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

"Hunt Giant Beasts?"

Vini frowned slightly upon hearing this, thought for a moment, and shook his head:

"The power of a Giant Beast isn't much different from an Extraordinary Magical Beast and may even surpass it. It might cause significant casualties. This isn't urgent; let's decide after His Highness awakens."

"With His Highness in slumber, it's best to prioritize stability during this period. Cold winter is approaching, and the more than seven hundred beastman captives don't yet have enough housing. The most important issue now is the Dragon Nest Base."

"Alright, but with the addition of Extraordinary Beastmen, the manpower for the hunting team's expeditions is now excessive. If needed, part of the hunting team could be redeployed for other tasks."

Although Vini rejected this suggestion, the Dark Elf did not find it strange, as after Austin fell asleep, the Dragon Nest Tribe immediately lost half its combat power. A contraction strategy is normal, with everything being for His Highness Austin.

With Austin in slumber, the Dragon Nest Tribe entered a stable period.

The Dragon Nest Beastmen were heavily training the beastman captives while continuously constructing the tribe's base and quickly harvesting crops like kudzu root, obtaining food from the external forest and storing it in the warehouse.

Externally, after the war with the Blood Claw Tribe Branch, the Dragon Nest Tribe didn't advance further or sweep across larger areas of other beastman tribes but instead began retracting its claws. Even the Dragon Nest Tribe's hunting teams didn't venture far from the Dragon Nest Base.

Yet even so, within tens of miles around the Dragon Nest Tribe, other scattered beastman tribes felt a sense of terror.

The terrifying power of that day's battle, visible even from over ten miles away, when later the beastmen cautiously investigated, they could see the ruins of the Blood Claw Tribe and the partially collapsed hill nearby.

Such power, who could withstand it?

In addition to the earlier period when the Dragon Nest Tribe launched multiple offensives, swept through, and annexed beastman tribes one by one, this overwhelming force already instilled deep fear in other, more distant beastman tribes. Now, the battle at the Blood Claw Tribe Branch had completely shattered their willingness to resist.

With cold winter approaching, it's impossible for these tribes to leave even if they wanted to. Compared to the unknowns of life and death outside, their old nests, cultivated over many years, with houses and food, increase their chances of surviving the merciless winter.

Amidst such circumstances, the beastman tribes around the Dragon Nest Tribe united and made a decision.

That is to prepare to submit and affiliate themselves with the Dragon Nest Tribe.

The law of the jungle is the principle of this world, especially in the Kawa Great Forest, affiliating with the strong is not something unbearable, on the contrary, it is quite natural, especially when the Lord is of the Giant Dragon Race.

The remnants of the Blood Claw Tribe, beside the half-collapsed hill, have already frightened the chiefs of these beastman tribes to the core. Instead of waiting for the Dragon Nest Tribe to come and sweep them away, turning them into prisoners, it's better to go over with their followers now.

Creating such a significant force in the Kawa Great Forest, certainly marks someone worthy of following, not to mention those beastmen from the beastman tribes who were conquered and annexed are still alive and well, aren't they?

Therefore, under the guidance of various factors, the remaining small beastman tribes around the Dragon Nest Tribe decided to submit.

The renown of the Dragon Nest Tribe was so great that these weak tribes surrendered almost without a fight, as emissaries brought "precious" gifts to the Dragon Nest Tribe, offering sacrifices to the great His Highness Austin in hopes of becoming his subjects.

When they entered the Dragon Nest Tribe, seeing houses neatly arranged, an orderly and disciplined army, complete armor and weapons, and the tall City Hall in the center built purely of bricks, they were even more resolute in their intentions to seek affiliation.

Now that Austin is asleep, he certainly couldn't be aware of this. Everything is handled by Vini, the current Governor of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

For the sudden appearance of dozens of beastman tribe "envoys," the Kobold leader Vini felt both happy and anxious.

He was happy that the Dragon Nest Tribe's reputation could make these small tribes around the Dragon Nest Territory surrender without a fight, actively requesting to join and affiliate with the Dragon Nest Tribe, a far stronger result than defeating each tribe in the past and annexing them.

His anxiety came from having no precedent for handling these affiliations and relationships with these subordinate tribes. Now Austin is in slumber, there's no way to report and obtain guidance, and he was unsure if his decisions were right or wrong.

After some deliberation, Vini finally decided to take these affiliates into the fold, expanding the scale and population of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Simultaneously, he had requirements. Firstly, it was non-negotiable that all affiliating beastman tribes must undergo the Dragon Nest Beastmen's military training transformation to be integrated into the Dragon Nest system.

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