I can evolve everything

Chapter 93 Ideas

"I know."

Valen gave a wry smile: "Thanks, brothers. I'll remember this favor."

A brief silence fell over the room.

"But I have a question."

A sudden voice broke the silence.

All eyes turned to them.

Renn slowly stood up and walked to the table.

In this circle full of official knights, he, as an apprentice knight, should have had no say.

But the fighting prowess he displayed in that battle today was enough to earn the respect of all the official knights present.

"My lords."

"Before today, your respective defense zones must have also encountered beast tides, right?"

"certainly."

A knight with a thick beard nodded: "We encountered a group of them three days ago."

"How large is it?" Ryan pressed.

"Not many," the bearded knight recalled. "At most two or three hundred. Most of them are low-level monsters like snow goblins. Although they are annoying, it shouldn't be difficult to defend them with the terrain and bows and crossbows."

Garrick nodded. "Me too. I didn't even really draw my sword, and my soldiers took care of most of them."

"That's right."

Renn narrowed his eyes slightly and began to piece together the information.

"Something's not right."

He looked at Valen: "How many did Valen's Black Pine Forest encounter today? A rough estimate is at least two thousand. And among them were high-level monsters like two-headed ogres and blizzard apes."

"Two thousand." Renn's voice was deep. "That number is probably more than the total number of monsters we've encountered in all the surrounding outposts combined."

The knights looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Maybe it was just bad luck?" Garrick frowned. "The Black Pine Forest has a flat terrain, which makes it easy for monsters to appear."

"No, it's probably not just luck."

Renn shook his head. He turned around and scanned everyone present.

I have a question for everyone.

"Did you see any dire wolves among the beast tides you encountered?"

"A dire wolf?"

The knights were stunned for a moment, and then fell into deep thought.

"No," the bearded knight shook his head first. "They're all just ordinary dire wolves, without even a proper leader. They're just charging around in a swarm."

"I didn't have any either," Garrick recalled. "Those monsters were running around in a chaotic manner, some were even trampled to death by other monsters. They seemed like a bunch of headless flies."

The other knights also shook their heads one after another.

"Then my guess might be correct."

Raine took a deep breath and continued Nini's story: "There were quite a few dire wolves on the Black Pine Forest battlefield today. At least thirty."

Upon hearing this, the assembled knights fell silent, bowing their heads as if deep in thought.

"and."

Raine continued, the image of that final moment flashing through his mind—the giant wolf he had pinned to the tree trunk with his longsword.

"Among that pack of dire wolves, there was one special individual."

"It was a size larger than a typical dire wolf, and its fur was darker. It stayed at the very back and didn't participate in the fight."

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Raine looked at Ella.

The half-elf girl understood immediately and nodded: "That's right. That wolf kept howling behind us, as if... urging the monsters to attack."

"After I killed that particular dire wolf," Renn tapped his finger heavily on the table, "the entire beast tide collapsed instantly. The remaining monsters only knew how to run away and never put up any counterattack."

Upon hearing these words, the knights present all changed their expressions.

They were all seasoned, experienced knights who understood things instantly.

"You mean—" Valen's face darkened, "those dire wolves are commanding the beast tide?"

"That's right."

Ryan answered affirmatively, "That's why only the Black Pine Forest encountered the main force, while other places only experienced harassment."

"Because only here do those dire wolves exist."

"And those small hordes of beasts you encountered—" Renn continued, offering his conjecture, "were probably just scared away by the beast tide, and by chance they just happened to gather together and run towards the border."

This inference is terrifying, but also reasonable.

"I feel the same way."

Garrick, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up.

"Three nights ago, a horde of beasts passed below Eagle's Beak Cliff. There were about two hundred of them. But strangely, they didn't attack my camp; they just passed right by."

"At the time, I found it strange, thinking they hadn't noticed us. Now that I think about it—" Garrick gave a wry smile, "their target wasn't me at all; they were just fleeing in a panic."

"Damn it!"

Upon hearing this, Valen couldn't help but get agitated. He slammed his fist on his thigh, which aggravated his wound, causing him to grimace in pain. "When did these beasts become so intelligent? Usually, only the dire wolf king has this level of intelligence. Did it distribute its brains among its subordinates?"

Raine remembered Baron's words and the old monster named Hughes Bloodhoof.

"But that's not the worst of it."

Raine's voice grew even colder.

"My lords, have you ever thought about this?"

"Today, two hundred of us came from Shattered Tooth Canyon, and with the reinforcements of you and your men, plus the original garrison of Black Pine Forest, we barely managed to hold this place."

"But what about tomorrow? And the day after?"

"Since they can gather at least two thousand monsters in the Black Pine Forest, they can gather the same number, or even more, of monsters in other encampments."

"Next time, when three thousand monsters besiege us," Renn looked at Garrick, "the Valen Knights' forces need rest now. If the others are also tied down, then—how will you defend us alone?"

Garrick's face turned deathly pale instantly.

He wanted to argue, but when he opened his mouth, he found himself speechless.

If they don't change their strategy, they will most likely be defeated one by one.

"What can we do then?"

The bearded knight scratched his head in frustration: "We only have so few men, and we have to defend such a long front. Unless the commander sends the main force, we can only passively take the hits."

"No."

Raine suddenly raised his head and scanned the knights in front of him.

"We don't need to be passively attacked."

"We have another option."

All eyes were once again focused on him.

"Wait for them to come."

"Isn't that obvious?" The bearded knight slammed his hand on the table in frustration. "We've been waiting all along! But the problem is, if thousands of monsters attack at once like today, the walls will be breached before we can even kill them all! Our soldiers will be worn down!"

"If it's a conventional defense, they will indeed be worn down."

Renn looked at the knight: "Because we are trading the lives of our soldiers for the lives of countless monsters. The forces on both sides are completely unequal."

"But what if we change our perspective?"