Chapter 516 (1/2)

Mixed Feelings

The warrior rushed forward to tend to the injured Caesar. The medics followed behind the front line during the attacks and were currently rushing around healing troops.

Caesar recognised the warrior as his own team so he didn’t reject the treatment.

The ground was filled with carcasses, many of which were missing limbs. The bite marks were obvious on them. Sounds of sticky footsteps were heard as the men stepped on the half-dried blood. The smell of blood was pungent enough to induce vomit.

Shao Xuan’s nerves calmed down, the pulling force he felt was getting stronger as his energy drained out of his body. He walked to Caesar and wiped the blood flowing from its eye. The bite mark from the beast was obvious.

After taking a look at Caesar’s injuries, Shao Xuan patted it and said, “Lucky you’re still alive.”

He ignored everything on the floor and sat down right there to look at the battlefield.

The medics were trying their best to save the injured. The totemic warriors of the tribe have strong recovering powers, as long as they can bear through this moment, they can live past this.

Not too far from here, the phorusrhacos fell to the floor, belly facing the sky. It’s two legs were wrapped in herbs and animal skin, it wasn’t sure whether the injury was serious but there was still a lot of blood flowing from the many cuts on its body. A medic was tending to it.

From what Shao Xuan could tell, the beasts had varying degrees of injuries and not necessarily in a better state than Caesar. Their opponents were ruthless, there was no way they could come out of this battle smoothly.

Luckily, the beasts had recovering powers comparable to the totemic warriors. Caesar could recover in a few days but that eye of his was a lost cause.

Shao Xuan patted Caesar's blood-stained fur again. “You did well.”

Caesar bopped his nose against Shao Xuan and rested on the ground.

As Shao Xuan was observing the battle, the warrior tending to Caesar glanced at him from time to time.

The warrior was curious.

He heard that the fire seed of Wanshi was extinguished by the Grand Elder’s fire seed!

How did the Grand Elder extinguish it? It was a pity that they were too far away from the fire pond to see what happened. The flame being grey in colour didn’t help. They could only feel the flame slowly dying out.

Dusk was soon arriving, the three hunt leaders brought their man back. They pursued long and far but they couldn’t catch up with the slave masters so they headed back.

In the Washi tribe, other than the people of Flaming Horn, there were some other prisoners of war brought back by the Washi tribe. Other than that, there were no living Wanshi people.

The children and women of Washi had left a long time ago, before the battle started.

“We spotted an underground cave during our pursuit. The children and women of Washi were probably kept there for safety but when we found it there were no living people there anymore. There were dead bodies of some old people. They were probably killed. No women and children. Oh, there were also some dead slaves. The rest was probably taken away by those slave masters,” said Gui He to the two heads.

The members of a defeated tribe are prisoners of war. In the hands of those slave masters, they were definitely going to be slaves. As soon as they were, it would be hard for them to escape.

There were no Wanshi people with totemic powers on the battlefield. Only a few managed to escape the attacks from the Flaming Horn tribe. The slave masters didn’t grab as much, the smart ones already wiped out the elders from the tribe earlier on.

The Wanshi tribe was now history.

Fei Ji, the leader of the tribe, killed himself with a sword to his neck when the fire seed was extinguished.

The Wanshi Shaman fell into the pond and puked blood as Shao Xuan turned to leave. Using the power of the fire seed had exhausted him. He had a chance of living if the fire seed was still in existence but with it gone, he was like a gas lamp that ran out of gas, useless and dead.

Chief Zheng Luo quietly listened to the three hunt leaders' reports and thought to himself. Today the Wanshi fire seed is no more. Those that escaped the hands of Flaming Horn would only become travellers with no home or slaves. If that happened to Flaming Horn… How could Flaming Horn reach that point anyway?!

“Maybe, it is a good thing that the original fire seed disappeared,” sighed the chief.

This was the first time they experienced a battle like this, the first time they saw the impact of a destroyed fire seed to a tribe. With the evolution of the fire seeds, there were now ways to prevent something like this happening to the fundamentally weak fire seed.