Chapter 528 - Flame City (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

As Winston spoke, he glanced towards the tree hole at Bai Qingqing. She happened to be gazing outwards, so their eyes met.

The reluctance to part briefly flashed by in the tiger’s eyes, which he suppressed almost immediately.

Winston turned towards Curtis and said, “You need to protect Qingqing. The village… I’ll leave them in your hands. Qingqing needs a safe village.”

Curtis agreed after considering his suggestion for a moment.

Qingqing indeed needed a village, and it would be best if they could stay with the tiger tribe where Winston was in charge.

Although Curtis and Winston had come to an agreement, the tiger beastmen didn’t believe in Curtis’s capabilities. Voices of doubt started ringing from the crowd.

“Your Majesty, he’s only a feral beast without any animal stripes. What abilities does he have to protect the village?”

Curtis allowed him to finish what he had to say. Right after he uttered out the last syllable, the crowd merely saw a black and red figure flash by, and the next moment that three-striped tiger beastman was being tightly squeezed by his snake tail.

The crowd instantly backed off, emptying a round-shaped area where Curtis was standing, instinctively flashing their teeth and letting out growls.

“Curtis!” Winston called out immediately. The muscles all over his body involuntarily tensed.

Even though it didn’t look like the snake tail was exerting any strength, the bones of the tiger beastman held in strangulation could be heard cracking. The tiger opened his mouth but wasn’t able to let out a howl, and only a breath of foul air escaped from his mouth.

“Curtis, don’t kill him!” Bai Qingqing shouted from above. She stuck one leg out of the tree hole, wanting to come down.

Curtis flung the beastman into the far distance with his snake tail and slithered towards Bai Qingqing.

The crowd instantly cleared out a path for him amidst gasps.

Winston heaved a sigh of relief and said to the tribal head, “I’ll get going now.”

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The tribal head was still in a state of shock. By the time he managed to react, Winston had disappeared from view.

That three-striped beastman ranked number two in terms of abilities in the village. Yet, he was overpowered by the snake beastman in an instant, with the speed at which it happened rendering him unable to react in time.

And even if they were to fight head-on, he wasn’t sure he would be able to avoid the snake beastman’s attacks.

What kind of beast was Curtis, exactly? His capabilities seemed on par with their tiger king.

But judging from how their king looked wary around him, it seemed as though the snake’s abilities might even be superior to their king’s.