Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

"I'm sorry, Lord Fike, your battle just now was so spectacular that I haven't recovered yet."

Vanessa had nothing to hide. Serving a powerful "Dragon Shadow" was the dream of every member of the "Hidden Dragon Organization."

Originally, Vanessa had planned to let Lord Fike start by training his own strength, but she didn't expect that this step would be skipped. He could immediately prepare for training in strategy, power, commerce, connections, etc.!

"Lord Fei Ke, you have been hiding your strength before, right? Can you tell me your true strength level?"

Because the two had already signed a cooperation agreement, Vanessa asked the doubts in her heart directly.

In her opinion, Lord Fei Ke should be at least at the fourth level or level 100.

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Lord Fike did not answer directly, but asked Vanessa a question in return.

"Vanessa, what level and rank do you think I am...?"

Vanessa was stunned for a moment, and then in order not to offend Lord Fige, she made a bold guess.

"At least level 4, 120, right?"

Lord Fike smiled and gave Vanessa an ambiguous answer.

"Then I should have the strength you think I have."

After saying this, Lord Fike jumped on his horse and urged Vanessa to follow quickly.

Vanessa frowned slightly and followed reluctantly, because she always felt as if she had been fooled by Lord Fike, but she had no evidence.

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After dealing with the first wave of pursuers, Vanessa followed Lord Fike to the Camille Mountain area.

After seeing the horseshoe prints of Lady Ice Star Shirley and her companions on the road, Lord Fike deliberately attracted the wild animals in the surrounding woods and used their footprints to mess up the horseshoe prints along the way before continuing on his way.

Seeing that Lord Fige had such a strong anti-reconnaissa awareness, Vanessa couldn't help but sigh in her heart how difficult it was to be a Dragon Shadow.

In order to survive, these illegitimate children of the king must have experienced hardships that ordinary people could hardly imagine.

Later, as they continued on their journey, Lord Fike asked again about the feud between the Snow Deer family and the Werewolf clan. Vanessa still felt guilty towards Shirley, so she took this opportunity to confess to Lord Fike first.

When it comes to the feud between the snow deer family and the werewolf clan, it is actually difficult to determine which side is at fault.

Hundreds of years ago, when there was no snow deer family, the werewolf clan thrived in the Farnas Empire, which was suitable for sub-human races to live.

In the territory of the werewolf clan, there lives a large population of deer spirits. The werewolves will hunt deer spirits to eat from time to time, but they will abide by certain rules and will not let the number of deer spirits decrease excessively.

This balance lasted for a long time until a man named Rhindil broke into the werewolf territory.

And this man was the first patriarch who later founded the Snow Deer family.

Rhindil was born with a talent for communicating with deer spirits. He quickly signed a contract with a suitable deer spirit and became the first "Deer Serving Spirit" in the Prison Star World.

After becoming a "Deer Spirit", Reindil slipped out of the werewolf clan's territory and was lucky enough not to be discovered.

In the days that followed, Reindil continued to grow stronger, advancing from "Deer Servant" to "White Deer Servant", then to "Holy White Deer Servant", "Deer Soul User", "Holy Deer Soul User", "Divine Deer Soul User"...

Having gained great power, Reindil made countless achievements in the Kingdom of West. He was granted territory and was granted the title of noble. Then, when he began to think about what to name his family, he remembered the group of deer spirits who were still in the werewolf territory and were providing food reserves for the werewolves.

So, after many years, Reindil led an elite team across the border and once again came to the outskirts of the territory of the werewolf clan of the Farnas Empire.

Through intelligence work, Reindil learned that the werewolf tribe would hold a grand festival celebration in the territory soon.

Reindil used the festival celebration as a breakthrough point and formulated a detailed infiltration plan. Finally, he successfully took the entire deer spirit population away from the werewolf territory on the day of the festival celebration.

The werewolves were furious when they discovered too late that the deer spirit herd had been taken away. They chased after them all the way to the border between the Farnese Empire and the Kingdom of West.

However, they were unprepared and ultimately failed to stop the well-prepared Rheindir, and could only watch as the entire deer spirit population was taken away.

From then on, the deer spirit population lived in the territory planned for them by Rhindil. Even though the werewolf tribe sent troops to infiltrate the Kingdom of Wester several times, they were unable to take the deer spirits back.

Looking at these deer spirits that were as beautiful as snow, Reindil finally had an inspiration for a family name, so he decided to name the family "Snow Deer", and then officially became the first generation lord of the Snow Deer family.

But, how could the werewolf clan swallow this anger silently?

Ever since the day the deer spirit population was abducted, the werewolf clan has regarded all members of the snow muntjac family as thorns in their eyes and bones in their flesh. They have been trying every possible way to send people to sneak into the Kingdom of West all year round, and assassinate the members of the snow muntjac family whenever they get the chance.

Over the past hundreds of years, at least fifty members of the Snow Deer family have been killed by the werewolf clan. Although human lives and deer spirit lives cannot be compared, these dead family members have in turn made the people of the Snow Deer family hate the werewolf clan even more.

Vanessa herself has been attacked by werewolves several times, but her position is relatively neutral, believing that both sides are actually at fault.

"The Snow Deer family was at fault first, and the werewolf clan is taking revenge too far. If no one steps forward to reconcile the two sides, this feud will only continue in a vicious cycle."

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Jiang Ran was a little surprised by Vanessa's insights. He didn't expect that Vanessa, at such a young age, could have such an open-minded attitude and overall view.

After listening to the stories of the Snow Deer Clan and the Werewolf Clan, Jiang Ran could now understand why the Werewolf Clan went to such great lengths to attack the people of the Snow Deer Clan. Besides that, he also discovered a suspicious point.

"Vanessa, you said that werewolves are proud to kill members of the Snow Deer family, right?"

"Yes. After killing someone, they would cut off their head and take it back to show off. That's why there are many headless corpses in the Snow Deer family cemetery."

"Has there ever been a precedent of someone from the Snow Deer family being captured and brought back to the Farnas Empire?"

"Capture him alive? I've never heard of that."

Vanessa answered with certainty, which made Jiang Ran realize that he might have found some clues.

Just now, during the battle with the werewolves, when Jiang Ran read the mind of the black werewolf leader, the black werewolf Rekov had revealed his idea of ​​capturing Vanessa alive.

Although killing and capturing alive are both forms of revenge, there is a huge difference in how they are executed.

Combined with the news that even the werewolf royal family has been dispatched this time, Jiang Ran knew that he had found the key to the truth of this incident.

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[The screenshot above is from "8.04 - Taking Advantage of the Situation"]

8.07 - Wolf Tribe History (Part )

"Vanessa, tell me more about the 'Werewolf Royal Family'. What is the internal structure of the werewolf family?"

Jiang Ran remembered that the "Tigerman Tribe" where Heloise came from was also located in the Farnese Empire. However, according to Heloise, the Tigerman Tribe did not seem to have the complex class relations like the Werewolf Tribe.

"sure no problem."

Vanessa nodded and began to introduce herself to Lord Fige, but she was secretly thinking that Lord Fige's knowledge of cultural history was rather weak. He didn't even know the history of such a typical race as the werewolves. It seemed that she would have to help him improve in this area in the future.

Then, Vanessa briefly and clearly explained the origin of the werewolf clan.

The werewolf clan, as one of the earliest races in the world, has a long history.

According to legend, the first person to create the werewolf clan was the werewolf progenitor Orevol Helsing. He was very powerful, but he also made many enemies.

In an ambush, Orevol Helsing fought against many enemies alone. After killing all the enemies by force, he himself was on the verge of death.

When dying, Orevol dug out his heart, broke it into four pieces, and gave them special magical powers that could bring them life.

The four fragments of the heart were transformed into four little wolves, who shared Orevol's body and grew into the four ancestors who created the werewolf royal family over a long period of time.

The werewolf royal family emphasizes absolutely pure bloodline. The earliest members of the werewolf royal family were all descendants of the four werewolf ancestors. After that, they continued the tradition of inbreeding for a period of time, until a heretic gave birth to a bastard outside the royal family, or bit someone but did not kill him, causing the qualified person to be transformed into a werewolf.

The werewolf royal family's attitude towards these "accidentally born werewolves" is to kill them all, but after working hard for a while, they finally discovered that the wild werewolves outside of these werewolf royal family are simply impossible to kill.

So, the werewolf royal family changed their plan. They no longer excluded wild werewolves, but instead began to fully absorb wild werewolves into the werewolf family.

In addition to the concept of the werewolf royal family, a new large group, the werewolf clan, was added. The status of the werewolf royal family in it is equivalent to the nobles in human society, and ordinary werewolves are equivalent to civilians.

Whether in terms of status or strength, the werewolf royal family is overwhelmingly powerful over ordinary werewolves.

It is no exaggeration to say that what an ordinary werewolf can achieve in ten years of practice, the werewolf royal family can achieve in just one year, and this is just a comparison based on the average level.

Each of the geniuses in the werewolf royal family is a monster that ordinary werewolves cannot compare to in their entire lives.

"Among the werewolves that attacked Dris Town this time, there were members of the werewolf royal family. Fortunately, they were not in the pursuit force, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to escape so easily."

Vanessa still felt a lingering fear when she recalled the scene when the werewolves suddenly appeared in the town at noon.

"Vanessa, what are the physical characteristics of the werewolf royal family?" asked Lord Fike.

"Yes, the royal family of werewolves only have blue and white fur colors. They are very eye-catching and you can tell at a glance that they are different from ordinary werewolves."

(So ​​that’s how it is. That’s easy to distinguish.)

After listening to Vanessa's introduction, Jiang Ran now has a basic understanding of the werewolf clan.

All that remains is to figure out why they wanted to capture him alive this time instead of killing him.

(What do the werewolf royal family want to do when they capture the members of the Snow Deer family alive?)

(Since even the royal family has been dispatched, does that mean they are determined to succeed in this operation?)

Jiang Ran thought about it, and then told Vanessa about his discovery. As for the part about mind reading, he changed it to say that he heard the black werewolf captain give orders during the battle.

"Perhaps... they just want revenge in a different way? If they're captured alive, they'll definitely be killed."

Jiang Ran was a little disappointed by Vanessa's indifferent reaction. He had hoped to get some clues from Vanessa.

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Vanessa didn't think that capturing them alive would make much of a difference, but Jiang Ran didn't think so.

If there was no secret in the werewolves' actions this time, then why did the werewolves who fought Jiang Ran commit suicide immediately after being defeated?

Moreover, since they had a way to poison Ice Star Shirley, why didn't they just poison her to death, but instead just poisoned her so that she couldn't fight?

Are they unable to do it, or are they deliberately leaving someone alive?

(It's still a bit strange... What exactly do the werewolves want to do?)

Jiang Ran had no clue for the time being, so he took Vanessa and sped up his journey, hoping to get new clues from others after meeting up with Shirley and the others.

·

On the side of Ice Star Shirley, thanks to the help of Fike and Vanessa to cover their retreat, they have now run for some distance, and Mount Camille is gradually appearing in their sight.

In the team, Chief Pame, the "Sniper Archer" with the best eyesight, led the team in front, and Captain Pride, the strongest physique, followed at the end just in case. Everyone rode silently without saying a word.

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[The above image is from chapter 6.57 - Dris Town Mission Guild]

Ice Star Shirley is in the middle of the team. She should have been protecting everyone, but now she has become the object of everyone's protection. This makes her very painful, but she is helpless.

After discovering she had been poisoned, Shirley concluded through process of elimination that the poison must have been in her lunch.

This poison, unknown to Shirley, is colorless and odorless, and takes effect extremely quickly.

After the poison took effect, Shirley's first symptom was general weakness accompanied by severe tingling pain. She soon realized that she could not use magic power, which was fatal for a magician.

Until now, Shirley was still unable to use skills or chant magic. Only the pain in her body was relieved a little, which brought her some comfort.

——(How long will the effects of this poison last...?)

Shirley gripped the reins tightly. She hadn't felt this helpless for a long time. What made her even more ashamed was that when she saw Fei Ke appear just now, she actually felt like she had "finally grabbed a life-saving straw."

She, the chief court magician of the Kingdom of West, Ice Star Shirley, actually has to rely on a junior like Fike to save her life?

If this matter were to get out, Shirley would forever become the laughing stock of the nobles in the palace.

Now the only thing Shirley was thankful for was that the letter she had left for Fike was not discovered.

Ironically, this was due to the fact that they were being chased by werewolves and the scene was in chaos. I guess the letter would have been trampled to pieces by horse hooves by now.

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[The above image is from chapter 7.22 - Goblin Camp (Part )]

In that letter, Shirley left a message to Fike saying that she and Branch Chief Pam would temporarily return to Dris Town to deal with "something" and would soon come to the maze to wait for him.

And the so-called "incident" was actually mainly about lunch, but Shirley happened to be poisoned by lunch, which made her really embarrassed.

Shirley thought about the "promise" she had made with Fike. If Fike had already found out the truth about the Feiqi family's maze operation, then...

"..."

Thinking of Fike's eyes that were always staring at her chest, Shirley couldn't help but shudder.

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8.08 - Survival

The agreement between Shirley and Fike is that as long as Fike can find out what the Feiqi family did in the maze, Shirley will unconditionally help Fike do something.