In Austin's mind, he uses his own abilities to artificially create a thunderstorm area within nature.

Given that this area is under Austin's control, as soon as ball lightning appears, he can clearly perceive the principles behind its formation.

Even if the principles are unclear, as long as he can personally witness the formation of ball lightning, Austin can use his giant dragon magic talent to create ball lightning, perfecting this terribly powerful attack technique.

This power, which directly invades the molecular structure and completely dismantles and reshapes the original structure, has almost touched the source level of power. Whether in power or scope, it is not inferior to the forbidden curse unleashed by legendary mages.

Possessing an attack magic with forbidden curse level power is undoubtedly very enticing for Austin.

However, now is not a good time for experimentation.

Austin has just awakened and is currently above the Dragon Nest Tribe. If he impulsively uses the Super Storm talent magic to turn the entire area into a thunderstorm region, wouldn't he be ruining the hard-earned possessions he has accumulated?

"I should go down first."

Suppressing the impulse within his body, Austin descends to the ground. At this moment, within the Dragon Nest Tribe, Vini and other tribal leaders are already waiting beneath the dragon's nest for Austin's appearance.

Having just ended his almost three-month-long slumber, Austin wakes up to test his newly acquired abilities, yet he hasn't seen the people of the Dragon Nest Tribe or knows about the tribe's current situation. It's important to remember the complicated situation the tribe was facing before his slumber.

Even though he wants to develop new magic, it cannot be completed in an instant. The tribe's situation needs to be sorted out first.

The reaction of the Blood Claw Tribe within the Beastman Alliance, the degree to which the mutated evil spirits and zombie horde have spread, and the current development status of the Dragon Nest Tribe—these are all matters concerning tribal survival that need to be resolved at the earliest possible moment.

"Vini, did anything happen in the tribe while I was asleep?"

Landing in the center with a huge gust of air, Austin directly asks Vini in front.

"Your Highness, everything else is stable, except the southwest side brought a lot of trouble. If you hadn't woken up in these few days, we were planning to wake you directly...."

Vini shows a trace of worry on his face, while the other Beastmen seem to be forcing themselves to keep up their spirits, looking exhausted, and Rodney is still injured.

Evidently, while the Dragon Nest Tribe hasn't faced a life-and-death crisis during these three months, it's probably close to reaching its limit.

Kobold leader Vini leads Austin to the tribe's medical facility and begins reporting the situation of the past three months.

"Your Highness, after you fell asleep, the tribe decided to withdraw its forces and halt the raids on other tribes..."

With Austin, Vini narrates while walking.

Due to Austin's slumber, the Dragon Nest Tribe's combat power has decreased drastically, and coupled with previous continuous raids and annihilations, the tribe's population is gradually approaching the thirty-thousand threshold. The extreme population growth puts considerable pressure on the Dragon Nest Tribe.

For these reasons, the Dragon Nest Tribe has paused its external military expansion and started solidifying its foundation, focusing on internal affairs.

A large number of captured Beastmen, after military training and transformation, have joined the tribe as members of the Dragon Nest Tribe, participating in land reclamation, hunting, fishing, mining, and copper refining work.

For a while, due to the massive population engaging in production, the tribe's food production capacity rapidly increased, ushering in a new round of great development for the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Meanwhile, Vini and other high-ranking members of the Dragon Nest Tribe didn't forget Austin's instructions before his slumber. They dispatched teams to seek retreat routes and monitor the Blood Claw Tribe, repeatedly embarrassed by the Dragon Nest Tribe, and the southwest's greatest threat, the mutated evil spirits' zombie horde.

They continuously solidified the tribe's foundation, increased the Beastmen's training intensity, manufactured a large number of bronze weapons, enhancing the combat power of Dragon Nest Beastmen to face the potentially looming war.

Initially, everything was calm and peaceful.

No news came from the Blood Claw Tribe at the Bloody Border. Instead, the Tribe Alliance acknowledged Austin's replacement of the Blood Claw Tribe branch, saying that if the Dragon Nest Tribe could indeed withstand the zombie horde from the mutated evil spirits when the Tribe Alliance breaches the Bloody Great Wall, they could offer a passage position to the Dragon Nest Tribe.

But regarding the Dragon Nest Tribe, they didn't hold it in high regard, only sending people to check every ten days or so to see if the tribe harbored any possible threats from mutated evil spirits, but didn't specifically focus on it.

Among Austin's other conditions, requests for weapons and manpower support seemed impossible. Even the inspection missions were brief, just a glance before leaving, with no intention of staying long-term.

This allowed the Dragon Nest Tribe to conceal its capability of mass-producing bronze metal weapons, preventing the Tribe Alliance from getting greedy and coveting this.

It also meant that when Austin really faced the zombie horde from mutated evil spirits, he would have to fight alone.

However, it didn't matter much. Austin had already hinted to Vini and the others that if they couldn't win, they'd still find somewhere else to retreat and flee.

With no reaction from the Blood Claw Tribe, the exploration teams heading east and north also found a rough safe retreat route.

Everything remained tranquil, with the Dragon Nest Tribe quietly developing and vigilantly preparing.

However, just half a month ago, a sudden upheaval occurred in the southwest, nearly catching the Dragon Nest Tribe off guard.

"Due to the zombie horde swiftly invading large territories in the southwest, the migration of large amounts of wild beasts resulted in an immensely terrifying wave of beasts. Terrifying giant beasts, powerful magic beasts, and countless ordinary wild animals constantly threatened the Dragon Nest Tribe's peace. During these days of conflict, the tribe's warriors suffered heavy losses. If not for the sweeping of the Wet Bone Forest discovering the cave tunnel where Snake Shedding Grass grows, which provided sufficient healing Snake Shedding Grass, they might have faced huge trouble."

Vini leads Austin to the tribe's medical department, where countless rooms house dozens or hundreds of wounded.

Most of these Dragon Nest Beastmen appear to have external injuries from wild animal bites, and each individual's expression looks extremely exhausted. Beastmen nurses come and go, applying the Snake Shedding Grass concoction to wounds to speed up recovery, while fractures and sprains are corrected with sticks.

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