Final Lord

Chapter 86 The Fugitive

"There are four leaders in Ghost Falls. We captured another leader named Hege, but the other two leaders escaped with some harpies."

"Huh? Two escaped?" Lincoln frowned and asked, "Did anyone follow them?"

The crow lowered his head and said, "The leader quietly followed immediately."

"Heh." Lincoln laughed triumphantly. "You're worthy of being my subordinate. Send some more crows to keep us at a distance. They'll lead us to Kate."

"Yes!"

……

Wang Bufu, who had returned from another world, put away the broken flag and squatted in the cat sand beast cave covered with soft gravel, mixing the lavender culture medium with the moonlight shining through the cracks in the rocks.

Jin Shanshan led more than forty cat sand beasts to form a square formation, and their furry tails slapped the sand regularly, making a neat rustling sound.

"Brother, do we really not need an advancement ceremony?" Weiyi stared at the bubbling liquid in the pottery jar. "Just smear this on the cat sand beast's forehead and it will complete the advancement? The last time the poisonous miasma caveman advanced, it was a huge hassle."

"Is it the same whether there is a nest or not?" Wang Bushi tapped Weiyi's nose with a wooden spoon, "Living in the corresponding creature's nest is equivalent to completing all the advancement rituals.

This is why creature nests are so valuable. Let the cats and sand beasts sit down and we can begin.

The lavender liquid was evenly applied to the center of each cat sand beast's forehead. Just as one cat sand beast was about to lick the liquid that had flowed onto its eyelids with its pink tongue, Wang Bufu grabbed the back of its neck.

"If you dare to move, you will be deprived of three days of dried meat."

"Meow meow!"

When the last cat-sand beast finished its medicinal bath, the cave suddenly erupted in a flurry of purring. The previously lively cat-sand beasts, as if shutting down, collapsed in their warm sandy dens. One of them forced his eyelids open and saw Wang Bufu placing bundles of mugwort at the entrance to block out odors.

"Go to sleep." A warm palm covered his forehead. "When the moon rises to the top of the stalactite, your advancement will be complete."

Three hours later, a cat sand beast was awakened by the numbness of its tail. It instinctively wanted to stretch out its claws to scratch, but found that its originally fluffy tail had become unusually heavy.

"Meow?"

Curious, he looked back and discovered a hard barb had sprouted from the tip of his tail! Even more amazing was the tingling sensation on his forehead. When he touched it with his paw, he felt a section of an oval horn, as smooth as jade.

"Don't touch it!" Wang said with a smile, "The cornea hasn't hardened yet."

[Occupation: Horned Cat Sand Beast
Normal level 2

Attributes:
Life: 45/45
Attack: 20
Defense: 8
Speed: 11
Professional skills:

Rapid Attack: Attack twice quickly when attacking.

Horn of Agility: Use the horn on your forehead to increase your mobility, granting you a 25% chance to dodge attacks. Lasts 20 seconds, cooldown 60 seconds.

The Horned Sandbeast is a transitional stage between the Catbeast and the Spiked Sandbeast. Its agility is significantly improved compared to the Catbeast. Its newly born, immature horn acts as a sensor and stabilizer, helping it perceive its surroundings and maintain balance even at high speeds.

But this horn is also extremely fragile. If the horn is severely damaged, the cat sand beasts will inevitably drop significantly in speed.

Over thirty advanced horned cat sand beasts were rolling around in the sand. Their movement speed had increased significantly, and a crack that once took three seconds to cross now flashed by in the blink of an eye.

When Wei Yi threw the wooden dart for training in despair, the weakest horned cat sand beast was able to twist its butt to dodge and use its horn to deflect the wooden dart.

"That little cat step, that little body movement," Butler Ming adjusted his glasses, his eyes filled with satisfaction and affection. "It's like tap dancing!" A horned cat suddenly leaped onto Wang Bufu's shoulder. Its newborn horn rubbed against Wang Bufu's chin, making a purring sound. As Wang Bufu petted it, its tail hook quietly snatched away the small piece of dried meat from Wang Bufu's pocket.

Even Wang Bufu didn't notice when the dried meat disappeared until he was shaking his tail to show off, then Wang Bufu suddenly realized it.

"You little bastards!" Wang Bufu scolded with a smile, flicking the horn of the horncat sand beast. "It was originally given to you, but you insisted on stealing it. Return it to me honestly, and I'll give you an extra meal tonight!"

"Meow meow!"

The moonlight flowed on the new horns, casting a shadow of a jubilant cat.

Jin Shanshan licked his paws and lazily lay at Wang Bufu's feet. He said to Wang Bufu, "After growing horns, their brains will be much more useful. I will teach them to speak from tomorrow to save them from meowing all the time."

"Heh." Wang Bufu laughed. "That's good. Only educated soldiers know what they should fight for. I have high hopes for the Cat Sand Beasts. I think they will become a transcendental army as powerful as the Ice Barrier Corps."

"Just relying on these little guys whose hair hasn't even grown out yet? Can it work?" Jin Shanshan obviously didn't believe it.

"I can do it, for sure."

Just as Wang Bufu finished speaking, the panicked voice of Blind Cat suddenly came from outside the cave: "My Lord, Ghost Leaping Cliff has been attacked, and Heska and the others have escaped!"

"What!" Wang Bufu turned around abruptly, his expression tense.

……

Hera's broken claw dug into the cracks in the rock, and blood dripped into a small pool along the weathered stone lines.

When she stumbled into the Sunset Mountains, the nursery nest protecting her chest had already shattered, and three bird egg shells covered in putrid fluid were embedded in her exposed sternum, trembling slightly with her breathing.

Behind her, all the harpies had scars on their bodies to varying degrees.

The cat sand beast on guard duty saw the miserable state of the harpy and hurried back to the territory to inform the king of his dissatisfaction.

Wang Bufu ran out of the cave and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but clench his fists.

Hera

HP 8/30

Heska
HP 3/30

"Lord..." Hera's hoarse throat trembled with a discordant sound, and her blood-stained tail feathers brushed weakly against Wang Bufu's waist. "Ghost Falls off the Cliff, gone."

Heska, who was following Hera, suddenly knelt down on the ground, and something covered with mucus rolled out from under the charred wing membrane - it was half of the wing of a baby bird, and the feathers still remained in the terrified state of exploding before death.

"Quick, treat."

Wang's knuckles crushed the glass of the healing potion. He poured the potion on Heska's festering paws, but Heska seemed to feel no pain. He only spoke with sad eyes, intermittently: "Master... thirty-seven nests... sixty-eight, and countless tribesmen, all dead.

The crows poured poison into the nursery floor... the nursery nests were contaminated..."

"Now is not the time to talk about this. Healing potions! Uncle Ming! Quickly take out all the healing potions."

Wang Bufu shouted loudly to Butler Ming behind him. Butler Ming said anxiously, "Master, I've already asked the cat sand beasts to get it!"

(End of this chapter)