"The Blue Young Dragon in the south? I investigated it during the last cold winter when I was scouting the nearby environment. How should I put it? It's the strangest dragon I've ever seen. Although its size suggests it's only in its juvenile stage, it has already gathered a clan of over a hundred people. However, it seems like it might be a wild orphan dragon without parental care, so there's no need to worry too much."

The Dark Elf found the Jackal Wolfman Hog and heard this kind of introduction.

"Hog mentioned the dragon to me before, but at that time, the camp was in the construction phase, and it coincided with welcoming Master Grom, so we didn't pay much attention. Lord Adinlek, does Master Grom have any instructions?"

At this time, the Jackal Wolfman leader Simon also spoke.

When Simon initially came here to establish a forward base and clear the surrounding tribal area, Hog, following his orders, discovered the Dragon Nest Tribe along the southern smoke column.

However, later on, Simon and the others were busy with other matters, and even though it was just an infant Young Dragon, combined with a clan tribe of over a hundred people, their Bronze Level strength might not be enough to handle it. So they reported the dragon's situation to Master Grom and didn't pay much more attention.

In fact, during this time, the entire tribe was busy transporting and constructing. Nearby small micro tribes avoided moving away from this area. They were not very aware of Austin's repeated war activities nearby and didn't focus on the Dragon Nest Tribe, so they were unaware of the changes within the Dragon Nest Tribe over the past half-year.

Indeed, who would have thought a Young Dragon's tribe could grow from seven people a year ago to thousands now? The Dark Elves, bound by common sense, naturally believed the Blue Young Dragon only had a clan of one or two hundred people.

And this also doomed the tragedy of their operation this time.

"That dragon just flew over. Lord Grom commands: bring back its head to present to him. You go gather some manpower, prepare a hundred, no, three hundred people, and bring along the Black Rhinoceros Horn."

Understanding the Blue Young Dragon's strength, the Dark Elf conveyed Grom's order to the two.

Just because of a faint unease in his heart, the Dark Elf decided to take more troops to ensure safety.

"Do we really need three hundred people to deal with just a Young Dragon..."

The Jackal Wolfman leader Simon was a bit puzzled but ultimately didn't voice it and went down with Hog to assemble the army.

Meanwhile, the Dark Elf also prepared to return to the great hall to report to Leader Grom about taking troops out, but upon reaching the great hall, the surrounding hall guards informed him that the leader had already left, seemingly having received news from "over there" to head over.

The Dark Elf calculated in his mind that even with Leader Grom's speed, it would take ten days to reach "there" from here. So he decided to lead the troop to eliminate the Young Dragon first.

In this primitive Beastman Tribe, mobilizing for a dragon hunt was not a quick affair. At least with the primal social structure of the Jackal Wolfman Tribe, the initial preparations alone took quite some effort.

By the time the Dark Elf led a group of Beastmen away from the tribe heading south, it was already the next day.

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Meanwhile, within the Dragon Nest Tribe.

"Rodney, during the last cold winter when the Jackal Wolf People attacked your tribe, weren't there any signs?"

Returning from the Jackal Wolfman Tribe to the nest, Austin, wary of the Jackal Wolfman Tribe's strength, ultimately decided not to act rashly and called Rodney over for inquiries while training the three major armies created under his command.

In the last cold winter, the small tribe Rodney established with Quik's assistance was crushed by the Jackal Wolfman Tribe. They fled to the Dragon Nest Tribe and were defeated by the Kobolds during their attempt to break through the Dragon Nest Tribe, were captured, and eventually absorbed into the Dragon Nest Tribe's system.

"No, we spent a cold winter there, and by the second cold winter, the Jackal Wolf People suddenly appeared and occupied the nearby hill. We thought we'd be fine, but suddenly the Jackal Wolf People attacked and defeated us."

Rodney didn't have much regret about his small tribe being dismantled. Compared to his current life, being the leader of a micro tribe didn't seem that great.

But he knew little about the Jackal Wolfman Tribe that defeated him and his people.

Under Austin's persistent inquiries, it turned out that before creating his micro tribe, Rodney was a member of a Great Tribe, and after that tribe was destroyed by enemies, he snatched an axe amidst the chaos and escaped. He met the Fox-faced Man Quik while wandering in the forest, and together they established that micro tribe of twenty or thirty people, peacefully passing the first year.

Austin showed some interest in Rodney's original Great Tribe, but Rodney knew little. In fact, Beastmen tend to have simpler thinking and live day by day, rarely taking the initiative to understand their environment or other things.

What intrigued Austin was discovering that some large tribes in the Kawa Great Forest had interaction, and Rodney had followed teams to trading places among those tribes, though he couldn't clearly remember the routes.

This surprised Austin. It turned out Beastmen didn't just live by survival of the fittest but also traded and interacted. Ironically, he had been sweeping nearby small tribes without saying a word.

He wondered if it was possible to establish communication with the Jackal Wolfman Tribe and obtain copper ore peacefully.

Of course, it's just a thought.

It's not like he held a grudge over an arrow from the Jackal Wolfman Tribe.

Aside from copper ore, the wealth of the Jackal Wolfman Tribe included something crucial: a Breathing Technique that could evolve ordinary Beastmen towards an Extraordinary path.

That's what Austin desired most.

If he could acquire that Breathing Technique and spread it in the Dragon Nest Tribe, the power within the Dragon Nest Tribe would fundamentally change, and that was more important than copper ore.

Because of this, even if the Jackal Wolfman Tribe wanted to make peace with the Dragon Nest Tribe, Austin would eventually lead a force to crush the entire Jackal Wolfman Tribe and seize that Breathing Technique for the sake of benefits.

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