116 First Contact with Half-beast Villagers (2/2)

However, even if their consciousness were already convinced about Yale's lack of evil intentions, they couldn't avoid trembling due to being unable to control their instincts.

”I am curious about how is the lifestyle in this area. Can you tell me about it?”

The half-beasts in the village had too bad bloodlines; they had almost no human features; to them, Yale's appearance was one a young master from some powerful tribe or clan.

The one who replied Yale was an old man who looked almost completely like a squirrel. However, that old-man was still the most human-like, the younger ones seemed even more beast-like than him, even if everyone seemed to have the same bloodline.

”There is nothing to explain; we have just enough with obtaining food to eat and avoiding being killed by the bandits. We also try to expand our bloodline, but with our poor quality bloodline, there isn't anyone in the other villages who wanted our youths to reproduce.”

The village was too small, and all of them were blood-related, so they needed to look for people in other villages to have descendence, but their bloodline was impure and weak, the other half-beasts wouldn't dare to weaken their descendence by having children with them.

”Why didn't you try to improve your bloodline?”

Yale knew that half-beasts could improve their bloodlines. Although he didn't know the exact method, he had a rough idea.

”That may be possible for someone of the wolf family like you as there are powerful wolf beasts, but there aren't any squirrel-type beast with a good bloodline to use.”

The method to improve the bloodlines in their bodies was to absorb blood from beasts of the same species or similar ones.

Until that point Yale knew it well, the unknown part was how the half-beasts treated that blood before absorbing it, simply absorbing the blood from the beast would have more negative effects than positive ones.

Failing to refine the blood correctly would cause a loss of purity in the bloodline, those with luck at least would obtain more strength, but for others, they could turn even weaker.

Yale and Wyba could absorb any blood due to the system and the Origin Qi, even if the bloodline were from other species, the system would manage to refine it in a perfect state, but Yale was curious about how the half-beasts did it.

However, it was clear that the people in that village didn't know anything about it, looking their appearances and their reply, they had probably absorbed some fresh blood in the past and ended in a state inferior to even other half-beasts.

There were squirrel-type beasts of more than the 2-star Mortal Rank, maybe their power limit wasn't as high as wolfs or tigers, but Yale had seen squirrels more powerful than those half-beasts.

Although the elder said that there wasn't any, the real problem was that they had been unable to refine them well and they ended weakening their bloodline even more.

Yale had read that half-beasts who weaken their bloodlines too much could be turned into normal beasts. Initially, he believed that it was an exaggeration, but after seeing that village, Yale started to think that it could be true.

Those villagers seemed that would be turned into normal beasts in a few generations; it was already difficult to tell that the kids in the village were half-beasts and not huge beasts if one didn't look well at them.

As every generation seemed less human-like than the previous one, that village bloodline was really doomed.

The intelligence was also affected by their bloodline purities as they weren't humans turned into half-beasts, but they had been born as half-beasts. A human transformed, even with a bad bloodline will be able to have an human-mind even after turning into a half-beast, maybe the instincts could be stronger, but the intelligence wouldn't be lowered.

However, the descendants of those transformed had never been humans before, and thus the bloodline had a greater impact on them.

The instincts of those villagers were already surpassing their consciousness, that was a bad signal to a half-beast. Once they started to move only by instincts losing their consciousness, they would be only normal beasts.

In the end, Yale left without asking any other question to them; he didn't believe that he could obtain anything useful from those people who have a lifestyle like real beasts, only thinking about surviving and reproducing.