Chapter 506 (2/2)

The guards were startled by the sudden spear. There had been odd activities in the forest recently, all of them were nervous but the chief banned all chatter about this matter. He said they would fight the moment Flaming Horn came, if that happened. That was why while these tribesmen were very curious about what was happening within the forest, they kept it to themselves. However, stopping these tribesmen from talking about it only backfired. It caused the guards to be constantly distracted by their thoughts on duty.

To shift everyone’s attention, the chief planned to send a team to rob a small tribe. If he could bring a few women over, perhaps these people would stop thinking about the forest.

That was why when the spear landed, the guard was thinking about the women and the wares they would bring back, he did not see the spear flying in the air. When it approached, he suddenly felt his scalp freeze and his hair standing on its end. It was instinct. He finally heaved a sigh of relief when he heard something land on the ground a few steps away from him. He looked over to see a long spear.

He would have forgotten about it, if it was just an ordinary spear. But this spear was coated in a layer of beast blood, he could smell it. The blood wasn’t dry either, some of it stained his fingers.

An animal skin scroll was tied to the end of the spear’s handle. The guard walked cautiously over to take it off. When he opened it, he was hit with the coppery smell of blood. It was a note written with blood!

After reading it, the guard hurried to bring it to the chief.

Soon, Fei Ji, chief of Wanshi, walked out of the village in huge strides, his face so dark it looked like a storm was brewing.

The blood-coated spear was diagonally standing in the ground. Fei Ji grabbed the handle and pulled it out. It didn’t take much effort but he realised its stone spearhead was gone. When they dug it out, he saw that the spearhead had shattered into crumbs, hence separated from the body.

How powerful was the person who threw the spear, to shatter a stone spearhead like that?

Fei Ji suddenly felt the wooden spear handle in his hand grow heavy.

What did Flaming Horn mean by this? A protest? Declaration of war?

After reading the scroll, Fei Ji thought it was the latter. Flaming Horn had just declared war.

The slave masters soon received news about it too.

After noticing peculiar activities within the forest, Wanshi had already sent reinforcements to stand guard outside, preventing sudden attacks. The slave masters did not plan to completely rely on Wanshi’s messengers, they trusted their own more so they also sent their own guards. That was why they knew about the spear soon after it landed.

Before Fei Ji destroyed the scroll, several slave masters and their slaves came demanding to know about the scroll.

He knew that the more secrets he hid from them, the more suspicious they would become. That was why after several questions, he finally took out the scroll he had planned to destroy.

“The Flaming Horns wrote this. In human blood,” said Fei Ji, looking at the slave master who was reading the note with furrowed brows.

After so much experience with killing, they could differentiate between human and animal blood. The blood on the spear was animal blood but the note was written in human blood!

“Flaming Horn has declared war against us! We have to prepare,” said Fei Ji.

The person holding the note did not acknowledge Fei Ji’s words. He did not even return the note to Fei Ji, he turned around and left.

Fei Ji’s expression worsened when he saw them leave.

The slave master was secretly laughing to himself. The Flaming Horns wrote about the enmity between them and Wanshi, they were obviously targeting only Wanshi tribesmen. It was none of the slave masters’ business! However, if the Wanshi people lost, then where would they go? It was a good place to stay, giving all of this up would be a pity. However, the Wanshi people had also become more and more disobedient, they had forgotten who was the reason they were so successful. Perhaps they should help raise another tribe to glory? He wasn’t sure so he planned to talk to the rest.

At the border of the forest, Duo Kang swung his arms, looking at Ta and Gui He with glee. “What do you think? That throw was amazing, right?”

Ta ignored him, Gui He shrugged. “I can throw a spear too. We can only truly compare our capabilities when the war begins.”

These three were competing for the chief’s position. The battle would be the time to prove themselves.

Ta looked away from Wanshi and turned to Shao Xuan. “What do we do if the slave masters won’t leave?”