Chapter 396: The Princess Attacks (1/2)

The black general noticed that only the fire hyenas had been targeted, making him even more careful. He was absolutely sure that the leading snake, which the reporting hyena had talked about, led this attack. For some reason, that snake had anticipated their invasion.

”Keep the formation! Don't wildly attack!” the black general shouted. Being careful was the best option right now. Sooner or later, the sea beasts would run out of these tactics.

When Shira saw that, she sneered. ”Idiot,” she commented again. ”Use the squid tactic,” she ordered.

Quickly a lot of beasts started moving around seemingly at random. Shira had had several hours to plan for the incoming fight. Of course, she had created a lot of plans and had informed her army about them. This invasion was meant only for the sea camp.

The main reason for that was rather interesting. It had everything to do with the recruitment of new members.

A lot of sea beasts had been scouted from the ocean by their tribesmen. Hearing that they only needed to win against one enemy to join a Tribe made these sea beasts go wild with greed. Therefore, most of the fighting sea beasts were new recruits from the ocean that hadn't proven themselves yet. If they managed to kill a hyena, they would be able to join the Tribe and also eat their enemy.

The hyenas that won the fight would also join the Tribe. Of course, they would be part of the land camp. Like this, both camps would get powerful, new members.

Shira's new plan would take some minutes to come into effect. Meanwhile, the front of the pathway was blocked by a lot of hard and annoying to catch sea beasts. The blocking party was mostly comprised of shrimp that could take a hit and retreat quickly.

Because of that, the plan was ready before the enemy arrived at the 50% mark. When Shira saw that everything was ready, she ordered the army to start.

SPLASH!

A lot of gigantic fish appeared at the surface and slammed their fins into the water, creating a powerful wave that swept towards the hyenas. Of course, this was a common tactic that sea beasts used. So, the enemy's Earth Movers were prepared.

Big walls appeared around the pathway that deflected the waves. Yet…

CRK! CRK! CRK! CRK!

Holes opened up beneath the Earth Movers, and long tentacles came out of them. The hyenas had been distracted by the wave and hadn't noticed the tunnels that had been created below them.

Of course, that couldn't be blamed on the hyenas. Usually, Water Makers didn't appear in such wars. On top of that, these tunnels had been created way too fast. Something like this needed more than one Water Maker.

The responsible Water Maker was also responsible for something else. Far away, many injured hyenas were thrown to the mountains of the River Tribe together with the sea beasts they had killed.

It was Orthar doing all of this.

Whenever a hyena won, he would transmit a prepared speech to them and throw them at the land by enlarging his tentacles. Changing his body's size made him weaker, but he was still way stronger than high-rank Spirit Beasts. The transmission of information was also very fast. Like this, Orthar had collected the new members for their Tribe.

Of course, creating so many tunnels wasn't an issue for a Water Maker Unity Beast. Shira had asked him for his cooperation, and he had agreed.

The squid-tentacles wrapped around many of the Earth Movers and pulled them into the water. Then, the squids would fight the hyenas in a duel.

Losing so many Earth Movers made the creation of the pathway nearly grind to a halt. When the black general saw this, he gritted his teeth. ”Retreat!” he shouted.

The formation stopped and turned around, walking back to land.

”Oracle, if you will,” Shira said.

”Sure,” Orthar said back.

BANG!

Their pathway was cut off before them. The hyena's Earth Movers went to work, but they couldn't outspeed Orthar. The pathway was vanishing way faster than they could create it.

”They've been weakened enough,” Shira transmitted to her army. ”Choose your target freely,” she ordered.

All the beasts had been waiting for this. In nearly no time at all, all sea beasts not currently fighting burst out of the water and jumped on land. Then, they charged at the hyenas.

The hyenas fought against them, but all the hyenas with a fire affinity had already been dealt with. The rest of the hyenas had to fight in close quarters with their enemies.

Of course, the hyenas were still very powerful. This meant that the casualties of the sea beasts were higher than the hyenas'. Yet, that didn't stop the greedy horde of sea beasts. They only needed to kill a single opponent to join the Tribe!

Shira also sneakily grabbed a hyena with the darkness attribute. She was pretty confident in dealing with such an enemy. She just needed to avoid its darkness-covered teeth.

Meanwhile, the hyenas on land that had managed to kill a sea beast were grabbed by some sharp tentacles from below the ground and pulled away. After this had happened a couple of times, the black general noticed something.