Final Lord

Chapter 52 Hera's Help (Thanks to the Leader)

"The gentle slope east of Ghost Leaping Cliff is covered with loose shale, which we transformed into a 'trapping ground.' We planted many delicate leafy plants here.

When the wild goats trample here, they'll cause a landslide. We can use the sound of the falling rocks to mask the sound of the diving air and catch the nimble wild goats for a delicious meal. The hunting competition will begin there."

After saying this, Heska spread his wings, spun nimbly in the air, and disappeared into the valley.

As the other succubi dispersed to prepare for the competition, Hera approached the king, defiant. Her feathers exuded a cool minty fragrance, clean and pure, which was in stark contrast to the stench of the surroundings.

She whispered to the king, "The trapping ground is a trap. Hesketh told you this so that you can use it to catch wild goats. It's not the breeding season for wild goats now, so they won't go near a trapping ground."

"Thank you for telling me this. It was you who helped me stop Heska just now. But why did you help me?" Wang Bufu asked doubtfully.

Hera's wings fluttered gently, and she drooped her eyelids as she spoke, "Ten years ago, a male human also challenged the then-mistress with a hunting contest bet. He was used as an egg-laying puppet and died in the dungeon below the mountain."

Hera's voice trembled slightly. "That was my father. He proposed the hunting competition in order to take my mother and me away. My father taught me many human things, so I always felt that I was not a harpy, but a human."

"I understand. I'm sorry for bringing up your sad story." Wang Bufu nodded, looking a little guilty.

"twitter!"

Suddenly, Heska's scream came from the sky. Hera quickly distanced herself from Wang Bufu.

"Hera! What are you doing!" Heska looked at Hera, eyes full of jealousy. "Are you going to seduce him with your despicable body again? Just like you did before."

"I don't understand what you're saying." Hera said coldly, "He's not yours. I have the right to talk to him."

"Zha! I saw you rubbing him with your obscene breasts! Stay away from my prey." Heska suddenly jumped up and scratched Hera fiercely. Hera couldn't dodge, and a crack appeared on her abdomen, which was oozing with blood.

Heska said coldly: "This is a warning. If you get close to my prey again, I will not be polite to you."

"Hmph!" Hera used her wings to stop the bleeding in her abdomen and gritted her teeth. She glanced at Wang Bufu with concern, flapped her wings, and flew towards the trapping ground.

Wang Bufu looked at Hera's flying back, thinking about something.

Heska watched this scene with envy, feeling annoyed. It happened again! She was clearly the most powerful harpy, yet those human males had no regard for her and only looked at Hera. It was all because of Hera's inferior body. Was being big really that great?
She blocked the king's dissatisfied gaze and shouted fiercely:
"What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and catch up."

"coming."

……

When all the harpies gathered around the trapping grounds, Heska flew high and announced the rules of the hunting competition from the air.

"When the call sounds, the hunting competition officially begins. The four of us leaders and the male beasts will leave here and search for prey at Ghost Leaping Cliff.

During this period, all harpies cannot provide assistance to their leader or the male beast. Only prey caught by the contestants entirely by their own strength will count.

In a hunting competition, if someone manages to catch a tiered prey like a griffin or a cliff-saber tiger, the weight of that prey will be doubled: 1x for a tier 2 creature, 2x for a tier 5 creature, and 3x for a tier 10 creature.

We will weigh the prey once a day, and after three days, the harpy who hunts the most prey will become the next Matron.

If a male beast wants to become the mistress, he needs to hunt prey heavier than all the prey of the four of us combined.

Otherwise, even if the male catches the most prey, it will be considered a failure.

"Hero, do you understand?" "I completely understand." Wang Bufu said calmly.

"Okay! Then I declare the hunting competition officially begins!"

Amidst the harpies' screams, the four leaders transformed into black clouds and swooped down to the valley floor, racing against time. Harpies from many different tribes followed them everywhere, monitoring them for cheating, and many of them hovered over Wang Bufu's head.

Wang Bufu was not in a hurry. He ran to a rock near the trapping site and pulled hard at the vines clinging to the rock.

The midday heat was steaming in the cracks of the rocks. Wang Bufu sat in the shade between the rocks and fixed the ninth vine lasso to the base of the wind-eroded column to make a lasso trap.

The harpies watching the battle on the cliff were already restless.

"What on earth is he doing? A whole morning has passed, and the other leaders have already made some gains. But he still has nothing."

"It seems he hasn't eaten anything today. During the hunting competition, you have to find ways to obtain all your food yourself and you can't eat the tribe's stored food."

"Looking at his condition, he's bound to lose. We can't let him get too skinny. If he gets too skinny, he won't have the energy to work."

"What work?"

"Our butts!"

"Hahahaha!"

The harpies' wanton laughter reached Wang Bufu's ears. He smiled slightly, stood up straight and bowed to the harpies in the air, which made the harpies scream.

At that moment, Heska flew over Wang Bufu's head, clutching half of the torn rock lizard. She looked at Wang Bufu's empty hands with a look of disdainful mockery. She deliberately threw the entrails at Wang Bufu's feet and said arrogantly, "A male beast should kneel down and lick the food! Instead of trying to dominate us."

It's not too late for you to give up now. As long as you are my husband, I promise that you will only lay eggs with me and will not be eaten by other harpies. "

He turned a deaf ear to Heska's mockery. He smiled contemptuously, sharpened the trigger of the noose trap with a stone slab, and slowly installed it.

"Unfortunately, I like being on top. I'm not comfortable being on the bottom."

Heska snorted. "This is the third time you've rejected me. I won't give you another chance. You'll regret it."

Heska flew up again and continued his intense hunt.

As night approaches, it is time to test the results of the day.

The three leaders except Heska returned first, and their prey piled up together, looking quite spectacular.

Hera captured three mountain goats and twelve golden sand moas that were nearly the size of humans. The other two leaders' harvests were slightly smaller than Hera's, and more complicated, mainly hares and deer.

The Harpies have their own way of weighing their prey: they use vines to make a large net to load the prey, and then have the first-level Harpies work together to pull the net until it flies.

Whatever a harpy can just pull is called an eagle weight.

Obviously, this method of measurement was unreliable, but the king had no choice but to follow the local customs. He took out the scales, but the harpies refused to recognize them.

(End of this chapter)