The area where the Dragon Nest Tribe is located is extremely barren in terms of magic resources. Hence, both magic beasts and giant beasts are relatively scarce. Without sufficient magic power resources, it is fundamentally difficult to support their survival activities. To sustain a giant beast's survival activities, at least an area of five to six kilometers is needed in this magic resource-lacking region.

Before this cold winter season began, Rodney, who mingled in this area for a few years, had encountered traces of giant beasts only a few times but had never actually seen the true appearance of a giant beast.

Although rarely encountered giant beasts, which relates to these beastmen intentionally avoiding such dangers, prior to this, within a radius of ten miles from the Dragon Nest Tribe, Rodney indeed saw no traces of giant beast activities.

It could even be said that the surrounding region was generally a peaceful place.

However, now, not to mention the mercenaries attracting five giant beasts nearby seemed a bit odd. If five giant beasts gathered so quickly near the tribe, it indicates the number of giant beasts near the Dragon Nest Tribe has reached a certain degree. Yet, before this, the Dragon Nest Beastmen's production activities did not intersect with giant beasts, and traces of giant beasts were not found within a ten-mile radius around the Dragon Nest Tribe.

After deciding to hunt giant beasts later, Dragon Nest Beastmen often ventured out, hunting giant beasts heavily. But at this moment, thanks to Gory's reminder, Rodney realized that in this period, although Dragon Nest Beastmen had hunted quite a number of giant beasts, the number of giant beasts within the tribe's region did not decrease!

Such a situation is evidently unusual, and the only possibility is the increase in giant beasts due to unknown reasons, causing this series of circumstances.

Due to unknown reasons, when these giant beasts migrated in a certain direction, they passed by the area near the Dragon Nest Tribe, leading to an increased number of giant beasts around the tribe, resulting in the Dragon Nest Tribe continuously hunting giant beasts, yet the number of giant beasts showed no sign of diminishing.

"Gory, you've done well. After returning, go with me to report to Governor Vini, sir."

If the situation is truly caused by the migration of giant beasts, then it's not Rodney's concern alone. Why migrate, how many giant beasts will pass through the Dragon Nest Tribe area; any one of these factors might relate to the life and death survival of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Upon deeper thinking, Rodney would realize that starting a few months ago, the prey within the forest seemed more numerous than usual.

If wild animals also increased due to migration passing, then it is very likely that unknown reasons led to a massive migration of creatures, including the magic beast storm tiger that attacked the Dragon Nest Tribe initially, as well as those recently increased magic beasts, migrated past because of such unknowable reasons.

Of course, Rodney, who is somewhat careless, naturally wouldn't think so deeply; he merely instinctively sensed something wasn't right.

After tidying up the scene, Rodney hurriedly led a group of beastmen to bring back the giant beast corpse to the Dragon Nest Tribe.

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Returning to the tribe, Rodney casually handed over subsequent matters to the tribe, then led Gory to the Inner City Governance District.

On the surrounding open grounds, newly joined beastmen were undergoing strict military training renovation in the ice and snow, with squads of beastmen patrolling around.

As the Dragon Nest Tribe developed, the population recently approached four thousand people, and the construction of the settlement continuously expanded. The Dragon Nest Tribe quickly reaching four thousand people can now be called Dragon Nest Town, vaguely divided into inner and outer city districts.

Of course, these aren't residential area divisions based on status, but because the Inner City District was built against a cliff, where the entire tribe's highest leader, the great His Highness Austin, resides.

Moreover, the Inner City District is purely a governance area; every evening, the middle and upper echelons of the Dragon Nest Tribe gather here to hold meetings, summarizing the previous day's experiences and achievements, and begin organizing the work tasks for the next day, managing the entire tribe comprehensively.

Inside the Inner City District is also the location of the entire Dragon Nest Town's largest warehouse. Food is one of the most valued things to beastmen in the Kawa Great Forest, naturally placed in the most secure location.

Therefore, the security in the inner city area is relatively stringent.

"Lord Rodney."

As Rodney led Gory into the inner city, beastmen guards on both sides promptly saluted.

"Lord, what's this?"

The beastman guardian glanced at Gory, the implied meaning in his eyes was self-evident.

Within the entire beastman tribe, due to the initial reason for their attack, the human mercenaries' status wasn't very high, only as ordinary soldiers. After Austin exhausted their knowledge value, these mercenaries temporarily had no usefulness to him, so the beastmen didn't particularly care for them.

Even because of the previous incident of attacking the beastman tribe, a small portion of beastmen still held latent hostility towards these human mercenaries, although given they were part of the same tribe, there wasn't any explicit targeting.

"I brought Gory with me to find Governor Vini for a matter."

Casually explaining, Rodney led Gory into the inner city.

The inner city buildings were noticeably better than the outer city, all with brick and tile structures, and through unified design, looked very clean and tidy, possessing a unique aesthetic.

Gory looked around, feeling refreshed.

"Truly unexpected that such a city was actually established by a dragon, likely not even some small cities in certain duchies could compare."

As a war criminal captive, after joining the Dragon Nest Tribe, Gory entered the inner city for the first time under Rodney's leadership.

However, despite the inner city being clean and beautiful, not inferior to some duchies' small towns, it was ultimately a city belonging to beastmen, with cultural and economic lifestyle differences. Therefore, Gory didn't develop unwavering loyalty to Austin, instead, he hoped to return to the Human World when possible.

"Hum ha!"

Not far away, a series of swishing sounds echoed. Gory looked over, his vision bypassed the governance hall, then saw behind it a vast open area, where several beastmen of strong aura continued to slash swords in the snow, and amidst obstructed sight, he faintly saw that dragon.

"Lord Rodney, what are they doing?" Gory curiously asked Rodney.

"Oh, them? I heard His Highness Austin wants to develop a combat technique, so he picked them for experimentation." Rodney casually replied as he walked.

Gory kept silent but pondered inwardly, straining his view for a broader sight before entering the governance hall.

The next moment, his eyes widened suddenly, filled with disbelief.

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