Chapter 304 – Information About the Traitor (1/2)

Shao Xuan hadn’t heard the name ‘Dao Yu’ since a long time, but it had always been in his memories.

He was on the kill list of the Flaming Horn tribe. After making use of people (wanderers) of the tribe, he betrayed and murdered them, and then suddenly disappeared – Yan Zhi was one of his victims. After the Flaming Horn tribe returned to its birthplace, the Chief and the Shaman had told the leaders of wanderers that they would kill Dao Yu without hesitation if they encounter him anywhere. However, no one could find Dao Yu and some even thought that the traitor had died. After all, he was just a wanderer.

Unexpectedly, Shao Xuan heard of this person’s name again.

“Is Dao Yu here?” Shao Xuan became serious.

Lei and Tuo also knew about Dao Yu. They didn’t forget what the Chief and the Shaman had told them and had pledged to resolutely enforce it. When they heard this information, the only thing running through their head was to kill the traitor at the very moment.

Seeing the reaction of Shao Xuan and the other two, Su Gu was relieved. In order to prevent misunderstanding, he quickly denied, “No, Fallen Leaves City doesn’t take in any convicts or traitors of the tribes. Many traitors would seek Slave Masters’ help after being expelled from the tribes. The Fallen Leaves City used to accept them earlier. However, after my father started cooperating with the tribes, these traitors were handed over to their tribes as gifts.”

Noticing Shao Xuan’s expression, Su Gu continued, “However, other cities do not act like Fallen Leaves City. More and more expelled tribesmen enter the desert cities and become senior slaves. Every time they come to the desert, the Travelling teams of different tribes would look for and chase after those expelled people, but in most cases they fail in capturing or killing them. After all, the desert is the territory of the Slave Masters.”

The reason Su Gu spoke the last sentence, was to indirectly tell the three people of the Flaming Horn tribe that they should stay calm. If they chased and killed the traitor impulsively, they were likely to get killed in the process or as retaliation from the Slave Masters.

“Dao Yu is not a totem warrior who has been expelled. He is a wanderer,” said Shao Xuan. However, noticing that Su Gu was still confused about the difference between the expelled warriors and the wanderers, he did not elaborate, but asked, “Where is Dao Yu now?”

“I didn’t know it before. But, I asked Chi Shi just now and he said he had seen Dao Yu in the Beast Battle City last year,” said Su Gu. Before, he only thought about ways to avoid traps set by his two brothers, ways to survive and improve the ability of enslavement – he didn’t care to pay attention to other matters. However, after forming an alliance with the three people, he had started inquiring about matters that are related to the Flaming Horn tribe.

“That’s not a city which any Slave Master ruled. It’s the place where the Slave Masters had their fun every year.” explained Su Gu.

Beast Battle City was built by the three largest Slave Masters, deep in the desert, for their entertainment and amusement. Afterwards, since the three Slave Masters felt bored for being the only three parties who took part in the competitions, they invited the Slave Masters of the other cities to have fun together.

Beast Battle City, as its name suggests, is a place for beasts battles. Many Slave Masters would bring beasts that were domesticated by them, and have these beasts contend with the beasts of the other Slave Masters, in the Beast Battle City.

“In the Beast Battle City last year, Dao Yu represented the White Stone City and defeated a beast of my father,” said Su Gu.

“Wait, why did Dao Yu contend in Beast Battle City?” asked Shao Xuan.

“Dao Yu is the ‘beast’ of the White Stone City.” said Su Gu, considering such a scenario as common. “There are a lot of slaves who voluntarily act as ‘beasts’ in the battles, in order to prove their value. If they win, they would get more benefits from the Slave Masters, such as removal of one of their shackles.”

When Slave Masters enslaved someone, the people being enslaved would gain many abilities – but these abilities would be locked with shackles and could not be used or developed. If they wanted to use or develop these abilities, they had to request the Slave Masters, who enslaved them, to unlock them.

Removing a shackle would mean that a slave had the chance to make progress. However, even slaves had different qualifications. The Slave Masters were like the Fire Seed of the tribes. They could give the slaves talents, but how the talents manifested depended on the slaves themselves.

Shao Xuan understood a lot from Su Gu’s words. As for Dao Yu…

As a wanderer with weak strength, he cheated and got materials from clansmen, achieved strong abilities and a high status after becoming a slave. Not only talented, as a wanderer of the Flaming Horn tribe, Dao Yu was also deceitful, vicious and quick-witted. With such a combination of characteristics, Dao Yu even cheated people such as Yan Zhi who had spared no effort to help him.

However, would such a person put his whole heart into being a slave?

“I’ve heard that many Slave Masters want to enslave people from the Flaming Horn tribe, but the number of the slaves from Flaming Horn tribe is not many,” said Su Gu.

“What does that mean? Besides Dao Yu, there are other descendants of the Flaming Horn tribe who choose to be slaves?” asked Shao Xuan, with a frown.

“It seems to be.” Su Gu was not sure. He just heard about these things now. Seeing the faces of Shao Xuan and the other two people glower, Su Gu stopped himself from mentioning that he also wanted slaves from the Flaming Horn tribe. *The tribesmen seemed to dislike slaves. Forget it.*

“Those traitors! How shameful!” Lei was very angry with the people from the Flaming Horn tribe who had become slaves, especially Dao Yu, who not only murdered fellow tribesmen but also became a slave!

Seeing that Lei angry enough to kill those people, Tuo stopped him. Tuo was also angry, but he understood their current situation quite clearly.

According to Su Gu’s words, Dao Yu seemed to be a slave of White Stone City and his status was not low among the slaves over there. If they went to look for him, they would definitely be in a disadvantageous situation.

“White Stone City has a bad relationship with us. Chi Shi suspects that Dao Yu and by extension, the White Stone City, was behind the recent assassination attempt in Fallen Leaves City – so he stopped you when he confirmed that you are all from the Flaming Horn tribe.” explained Su Gu.

“I see.” Shao Xuan nodded. This was understandable, but Dao Yu was a threat. He murdered the people of Flaming Horn tribe and even ruined the reputation of the Flaming Horn tribe in the desert. They had to deal with him as soon as possible.