Although he didn't understand, Lambert still decided to follow orders and led a part of the elite of the Blood Claw Tribe away.

The movements of the Blood Claw Tribe naturally attracted the attention of other tribes within the Tribe Alliance. First, Gross left with part of the elite, followed by Lambert, which significantly reduced the strength of the Blood Claw Tribe.

Among tribes, there is no concept of keeping secrets. As long as one is keen, they can gather information within the Tribe Alliance.

Lambert's unusual actions also caught the attention of several Beastmen placed by the Dragon Nest Tribe within the Alliance, who uncovered the purpose of Lambert's movements.

Back then, Austin, feeling the lack of his own intelligence capabilities, selected several elite Dragon Vein Beastmen for discreet training and deployed them into the Tribe Alliance.

These Dragon Vein Beastmen held a certain degree of power. Within the entire Tribe Alliance, they weren't weak. Starting from being mere soldiers, they quickly infiltrated the Tribe Alliance, holding relatively important positions in certain tribes.

Now, these pawns have finally demonstrated their value.

The Blood Claw Tribe never anticipated that before Lambert's departure, the news had already been swiftly sent to the Dragon Nest Tribe via a covert route stationed in a remote area outside.

In reality, the main members of the Tribe Alliance are Beastmen. Although Austin in his past life never worked as a spy or agent, he had watched enough spy war films, remembering some of the more straightforward espionage techniques.

This intelligence gathered from the essence of modern society's civilization naturally is beyond the simple-minded Beastmen of the Barbaric Land, who solved problems using brute strength, to easily detect.

Blood Claw Tribe's strategist Rulga, though notoriously cunning, could never have imagined that Austin had already placed spies here due to the disparity in intelligence.

In fact, regarding Gross's disappearance, he had some suspicions.

Perhaps someone was behind the dragon, and it's highly probable that Gross and his elite subordinates perished at the hands of that dragon's allies. In any case, Gross's matter is definitely linked to that young dragon.

As for Austin, even if Rulga were more cunning, his intelligence still only registered Austin at the Silver level, making it impossible to guess that Gross was killed by Austin.

This marks the disadvantage of lacking intelligence.

In truth, if anyone speculated that a young dragon could, within one or two short years, succeed in breaking through ranks, growing from Silver Level to being able to slay experienced Gold High Tier warriors, they'd likely be deemed insane.

Because it defies all logic and seemed utterly impossible.

However, this biggest impossibility turned out to be the true reality.

It's not that Rulga was stupid. To rise as one of the top strategists within the Tribe Alliance, managing a Beastman population in the hundreds of thousands, one can't be deemed as stupid.

It can only be said that outdated intelligence kills.

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What transpired on the distant borderlands was unknown to Austin at the time. Before the information arrived, he perhaps would be wary of the Bloody Border but wouldn't devote excessive time or effort to it.

As time passed, when Austin had forged the Thunderbolt Divine Sword and had continually nurtured it internally, the cold winter which lasted over two months also came to an end.

The passing of the cold winter heralded the start of a new year again.

With the melting of ice and snow, the Kawa Great Forest revived with vitality. Some eager grass on the soil sprouted tender shoots before the ice above had fully melted.

Beasts emerged from their hibernation dens, and animals that had been hungry for over two months began foraging for food wildly in the wilderness.

The saying goes that the entire year's work depends on a good start in spring. Although the Barbaric Land doesn't have a spring in the strict sense, Austin habitually regarded the ten days after the cold winter's end and the ice's disappearance as spring.

With the arrival of spring, the Dragon Nest Tribe Beastmen, who had rested for over two months, began to stir and enter into work mode.

Austin didn't immediately start transforming the prepared Extraordinary Beastman seeds to increase the number of Dragon Vein Beastmen, as the demand to enhance the number wasn't urgent for the time being.

Moreover, since the cold winter had just passed and food was relatively scarce, the number of Extraordinary Dragon Vein Beastmen was a considerable burden for the entire Dragon Nest Tribe.

For the Dragon Nest Tribe, the most crucial initial task was still the cultivation of food crops.

After all, food remained the most fundamental resource for maintaining the stable existence of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Now, the two major threats to the Dragon Nest Base have been substantially reduced with Austin's improved power, giving him the confidence for self-preservation.

The threat from zombie undead a hundred miles southwest was resolved. Since the destruction of the first pyramid during the expansion of the undead calamity, no further spreading had dared occur.

The region two hundred kilometers away had become barren wasteland, devoid of grass, as though some force had drained the vitality of the entire land. The number of roaming zombie undead had become sparse, seemingly transferred elsewhere.

At least for now, the threat of the zombie undead tide over there is not significant.

Meanwhile, with the continued internal nurturing of the Thunderbolt Divine Sword and the understanding of the Thunder Law enhancing his power, Austin also gained the confidence to face the Blood Claw Tribe directly.

Even if the Blood Claw Tribe sent more people, he was confident he could resist.

The Dragon Nest Base entered a relatively stable environment.

The two major threats looming over the Dragon Nest Tribe had been largely reduced, and the thousands of acres of farmland cultivated near the Dragon Nest Town couldn't be easily abandoned, so Austin had the Beastmen continue planting in the nearby fields, restarting agriculture around the Dragon Nest Base.

At the first outpost established by the Dragon Nest Tribe, there seemed to be an Elf Realm nearby, frequently clashing with the Dragon Nest Beastmen, and wars occasionally broke out.

As the cold winter passed, these conflicts with the elves also grew more frequent.

The instability over there made it difficult to conduct stable farming activities for the time being.

Coincidentally, the vast fields awaiting cultivation near the Dragon Nest Base required farming, where the environment was relatively stable.

Therefore, at this time when ice and snow melted from the Forest Land, Austin relocated half of the elderly, weak, and production Beastmen, who had previously retreated to the first outpost, back to the Dragon Nest Base to start farming in the wild fields.

During the counterattack against the undead calamity, Austin moved most of the elderly, weak, and productive Beastmen from the Dragon Nest Base to the makeshift post northeast, now the first outpost, in case they needed an escape route.

After the victory in the war, while some of the elderly, weak, and productive Beastmen gradually returned, the subsequent cold winter arrived, leaving a significant portion of them still at the first outpost.

Now, with stability returned to the Dragon Nest Base region, and with a significant base for cultivation in the prepared vast fields, it made sense to relocate most of the elderly, weak, and productive Beastmen back from the continuously conflicted first outpost for stable production activities.

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