Chapter 244: Its Black Hand, Not Grayclaw (1/2)

The Players were not actually in a hurry to advance throughout the Western Continent even though the Lifestone had connected the two continents.

Still, some of them tried to headed out for the lands of other nonhumans, but because of the Hyena-men’s blockade around the Long Ears’ settlement, they would run into those villains wherever they go.

Although the Hyena-men would never win against the Players in a one-on-one situation, they never were solitary creatures but were social animals instead in the truest sense of the word.

In other words, any Players running into one Hyena-men meant that there would at least be over twenty lurking nearby.

And when they fight, three Hyena-men would be easy to handle for one ordinary Player, five would take some effort whereas it’s time to run when there’s eight of them. If it was one against ten, one might even have to consider if they could escape.

Thus far, every Player who went out of the Long Ears’ village to explore came back dead. While waiting for his revival, the most miserable of them even described in horrific detail how the Hyena-men bit off his balls and then sodomized him to death, a gory scene that prompted many of the Players intending to go on a solo adventure over the new continent to withdraw.

Some Players even asked the Long Ears for information about the Hyena-men, and found that things were more or less the same as what the unlucky Player described.

Unlike the Graywolfmen who commanded great combat ability and would lead their packs in open conflict against their foes, the Hyena-men were definitely limited in their ability to fight alone since they were much weaker than Graywolfmen in both physical ability and power.

However, nonhumans feared the Hyena-men more than the Greywolfmen and there was a simple reason for it: the way the Hyena-men fought was unreservedly dirty and underhanded—ambushes were already their most honorable tactic, whereas attacking reproductive organs and delicate asses were their preferred methods.

And despite being much smaller than Graywolfmen and far less strong, their jaw strength far surpassed the Graywolfmen’s. That was the reason why anyone who could defeat a pack of Hyena-men would end up losing pounds of flesh, a victory worse than most pyrrhic victories…

Furthermore, their kind had an especially strong memory when it came to grudges. It wouldn’t matter if you killed dozens of them—once marked by their scent of hatred, they would keep coming, sneak attacking their targets with extreme prejudice.

“There’s only two solutions when it comes to handling Hyena-men.” Being the former chief of the Grayclaw tribe, Zonyan knew certain information and posted it on the forums—he naturally wasn’t going to hide it. “One is to assert absolute dominance to prove that their revenge and dirty moves would only with them being dead and no other meaning. They would acknowledge your power after some time and swear fealty, obedient to your every whim.”

“The other is to gather a force strong enough to destroy their entire race, which would make them swear fealty as well. Either way, the best description for their kind is that they bully the weak while fearing the strong.

His post caught much of the other Players’ attention.

[I’m Doug Ag: I see! I guess you really are the former chief of the Black Hand Tribe!]

[Zonyan: Grayclaw, not Black Hand!]

[Pec King Joe: I see! I guess you really are the former chief of the Blackclaw Tribe!]

[Zonyan: I’ve said—Grayclaw, not Blackclaw!]

[Warrior Princess: I see! I guess you really are the former chief of the Gray Hand Tribe~]

[Zonyan: Your Highness, surely you jest. It’s Grayclaw, not Gray Hand!]