The shout from Gross before he died still echoed in Austin's mind.

Who was the "Majesty" he spoke of? Could it be the mastermind behind the undead calamity?

Also, what was the thing that shouldn't have been taken? Could my destruction of the pyramid lair have drawn the attention of the person behind the scenes back then?

There were many things Austin didn't understand.

He didn't have the slightest clue about the great storm of change happening within the Kawa Great Forest.

However, Austin understood that his carefree days were already numbered.

Leaving everything else aside, after annihilating the invading forces of the Blood Claw Tribe, the strength of the Dragon Nest Tribe would inevitably be exposed, drawing the attention of the Beastman Alliance.

According to the confessions of the captured Blood Claw elites, this batch of elite troops constituted a significant percentage of the entire Blood Claw Tribe's strength.

The complete destruction of these elites, along with the death of the Blood Claw Tribe's first warrior, had severely crippled the tribe.

The significant loss of strength in the Blood Claw Tribe was sure to trigger a series of changes at the Border Tribe Alliance's territory.

According to the captured Blood Claw elites, the Beastman Alliance gathered at the border had reached some agreements with humans, receiving substantial support from them, while the Beastman Alliance ceased their war along the Bloody Border, turning to confront the undead army, even penetrating the core areas to destroy the controlling mutated evil spirits.

How the agreement came about, and what exactly happened, these elites were unaware of.

Gross might have known something, but now he's dead beyond rescue, and the information source is cut off.

Besides the reactions from the Blood Claw Tribe and the Beastman Alliance, the "mutated evil spirits" were also a problem.

Perhaps the puppet master behind the undead calamity had learned something, otherwise, Gross wouldn't have mentioned taking something he shouldn't.

Gross probably came seeking vengeance not only under the command of the Blood Claw Tribe but also to retrieve that thing as one of his objectives.

Reflecting on this, Austin's eyes flickered, and he looked thoughtful.

...

The Dragon Nest Tribe currently faces too many troubles, and there are too many mysteries destined to remain unsolved.

Austin is well aware that only strong power is the foundation for fearlessly facing any future upheaval.

So next, taking advantage of the remaining month or two of the cold winter, Austin began contemplating how to enhance his own strength.

Having awakened a trace of the Thunder Law during the battle with Gross, his strength had seen a significant increase, so there was no need to consider further raising his level in the short term.

As long as he could comprehend and master that trace of the Thunder Law, his strength could rapidly advance.

Once Austin could harness the power of that trace of the Thunder Law, he could then rely on its power to swiftly devour and refine magic power material, guiding its energy to temper himself, thereby stimulating his bloodline and rapidly increasing his level of power.

The power of laws represents a higher level of power.

Under the influence of such high-level power, there would be no bottleneck in Austin reaching the peak of the Gold Level; all that's lacking is sufficient magic resources to enhance his foundation.

However, the Thunder Law is not so easily comprehended; it's a chasm blocking the way to the legendary gates unless Austin takes decades or hundreds of years to mature, naturally awakening the legendary laws within his bloodline completely.

Otherwise, relying on that trace of the Thunder Law for self-comprehension, even if his bloodline has already awakened that trace of law, he's only slightly better off than other beings trying to comprehend the legendary laws, the difficulty remains very high.

The difficulty is high, but the rewards are equally great.

Because once he succeeds in fully comprehending and mastering the complete Thunder Law, the gateway to legend will fully open to Austin, his level realm rising instantly, without needing to wait decades or centuries to reach legend on reaching adulthood.

Austin began to slowly comprehend the Thunder Law, knowing it would not be a task completed in a day or two.

Meanwhile, Austin also started training to enhance the strength of the Dragon Nest Tribe's clan members.

The first issue was equipment, especially those suspected to be enchanted weapons seized during this battle.

Once the elite of the Blood Claw awoke, Vini had the beastmen interrogate them and learned from these suspected enchanted weapon users that the equipment was indeed made from materials of powerful magic beasts.

However, they were just users; the true forgers were the mysterious priests within the Blood Claw Tribe.

As for how they were forged, they were unsure, only knowing that forging an enchanted weapon required considerable effort from the priest.

Knowing this, Vini and others could only keep this matter in their hearts, hoping for a chance to address it in the future.

Better equipment couldn't be produced, but for now, Bronze Weapons were sufficient for the Dragon Nest Beastmen.

Since equipment enhancement was not possible, Austin looked into other possibilities for enhancing the Dragon Nest Beastmen's combat power.

"If the first base could be established successfully, then with the support from both places, the vast area could sustain a larger number of extraordinary Dragon Vein Beastmen."

Previously, due to food resource constraints, the extraordinary Dragon Vein Beastmen each required a lot of meat daily, and sustaining two to three hundred extraordinary Dragon Vein Beastmen was already the limit from herding and hunting wild animals from nearby forests.

Later, even after the Dragon Nest Legion battled continuously to kill giant beasts to obtain meat supplies, at most they could sustain around four to five hundred extraordinary beastmen during normal times.

It was due to these meat limitations that Austin hadn't rapidly expanded the extraordinary beastmen's ranks, nor undertaken large-scale extraordinary transformations of ordinary beastmen.

Over the past two years, the number of extraordinary beastmen, including those captured and rewarded with merits, had only grown to over three hundred for various reasons.

"Larger territory means more hunting grounds, and the current tribe's herding has reached a certain scale capable of producing more meat, making it time to expand the ranks of the beastman officers."

With the advent of herding, the Dragon Nest Beastmen Legion would deliberately leave young beasts during hunting to raise in farming grounds.

After two years of development, the farming scale had reached a certain level, providing a stable third of the Dragon Nest Tribe's meat supply daily.

With the stable meat supply from farming grounds, Austin had the confidence to expand the ranks of the extraordinary Dragon Vein Beastmen.

Though having decided to expand the extraordinary ranks, given the current cold winter period, large-scale transformations were not feasible, and would have to wait until after the winter.

Moreover, whether the first base could be successfully established was still an unknown.

Recently, news from there mentioned enemies seemingly near the base.

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