dognovel Chapter 166 White Eagle Azhi
Chapter 166 White Eagle Azhi
A-Zhi led Lin-Ni's companions up the mountain. The men moved quickly, bypassing several trees and then taking a steep path uphill. As they walked, Yao asked A-Zhi, "Are you a bald eagle, A-Zhi?"
"No, I am a white eagle." Azhi lowered his eyes and looked ahead. He didn't dare to turn his head. This very beautiful and cute little female kept staring at his face. He was afraid that he would unconsciously meet her bright and beautiful eyes and be unable to look away.
Yao smiled: "White eagles are quite rare. A-Zhi, a level seven single beast, must be very popular with the females in the tribe. Why hasn't he found a mate yet?"
A-Zhi said, "I haven't met any females I like before, so I'm single for now."
Night suddenly asked, "Are there wandering orcs here who snatch females?"
Azhi glanced at Ye, then looked ahead and said, "They didn't exist before, but they attacked our tribe once this spring and we drove them away. The Hotblooded Tribe across from the Stone Dam is frequently visited by wandering orcs, so the orcs from that area want to come and live here."
Linni asked, "Is the tribe in the rainforest across from the stone dam?"
Azhi glanced quickly at Linni, then looked back ahead and said, "Actually, the area opposite used to belong to Wanren Stone Cliff, which was originally the territory of the Cat-Owl Tribe. However, it was too chaotic there, so the Cat-Owl Tribe has migrated here and now lives on that stone mountain north of our Eagle Beast Tribe. The area opposite is now inhabited by a Hot-Blooded Tribe from the Rainforest Swamp Kingdom." After saying that, he glanced at Ye and Ling, "They are an alliance of Hot-Blooded Beastmen and don't allow Cold-Blooded Beastmen to enter."
Just then, Linni heard singing coming from the mountaintop. It wasn't a woman singing, but a dozen or so men singing together. Before Linni could even make out what they were singing, it ended, followed by cheers and whistles. Then another dozen or so people started singing. Linni listened carefully; the melody and lyrics were very similar to those of the Eagle Beast Tribe.
Although it was a very high and steep rocky mountain, the group of men quickly reached the summit. The summit was bustling with activity, with bonfires already surrounded by orcs, making it even more lively and crowded than the bonfire party of the Tiger Beast Tribe.
The beastmen on the mountaintop were happily singing around their individual campfires, creating a joyful scene.
Azhi led the group towards the platform to the south. Along the way, the beastmen on the mountaintop all turned to look at Linni and her group, and then whispered among themselves. Linni could barely hear that everyone was praising her beauty or her partners' strength. It seemed that the beastmen of the Eagle Beast Tribe were all quite positive.
Linni and her group stopped with Azhi in front of the campfire directly in front of the platform. Around the campfire sat Sheng, the chieftain of the Beast Carving Tribe, and several high-ranking males and their partners. They had all stood up in advance to wait for Linni and the others.
Seeing that she wasn't sitting with a bunch of single people, Lin Ni secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The woman beside Sheng had long, waist-length flaxen hair, which she braided into many small braids about the thickness of a thumb, cascading down her back and shoulders. She wore a wreath of colorful flowers on her head, making her look like a stunning Mongolian beauty. She approached Lin Ni and said, "Are you the Beast God's Messenger, Lin? You're so beautiful!"
Yao put Lin Ni down, and Lin Ni smiled and went up to greet him: "Hello! You are very beautiful too."
The elegantly dressed woman approached Linni, took her hand, and smiled, "My name is Ping. Come and sit with me." She then looked at Yao, "Your partner is very beautiful too; her hair is gorgeous. You don't mind sitting with me, do you?"
Linni smiled and looked at Yao: at that moment, not only did his long hair, which had gradually turned from gold to red, look handsome, but his gold and red feathered outfit also made him look particularly noble; he was truly dazzling. Linni was also happy that the person she liked was being praised by others, and she smiled and said, "Of course I don't mind."
Lin Ni was led by one hand by A Ping, and with the other hand she held Yao's hand, and they sat down together by the campfire.
Summer nights on the Orcish continent are usually quite hot, but perhaps because of the mountaintop location, it wasn't particularly hot at this moment. After the two women sat down, their respective partners sat down on either side of them. Besides Linni and her group of six, there were fifteen other orcs sitting around their campfire.
Azhi didn't sit with them; he went to sit by the campfire on the left, where there were only level seven male orcs.
Aping introduced everyone present to Linni. Besides Linni and her group, the guests included Lan and two guests from the Cat-Owl Tribe. The Cat-Owl Tribe—just from the name, you could tell their beast forms were owls. Cat-Owl beastmen were characterized by their large heads and exceptionally large eyes; their eyes were truly enormous, like copper bells. The two Cat-Owl tribe beastmen were both level eight; one was their chieftain, named Liang, and the other Qing. The hosts were Aping and Chang, along with three females named Qian, Qing, and Aruo, five level eight beastmen, and three level seven beastmen.
Aping said that their Beast Carving Tribe has a total of nine level-eight beastmen and twenty-eight level-seven beastmen, making a total of thirty-nine (plus one level-nine Chang) high-level male beastmen. Those who didn't come are patrolling outside.
Their strength seems even greater than that of the Tiger Beast Tribe.
Sheng explained that because the males of their tribe frequently fought in the rainforest swamps, their leveling up was much faster than that of the orcs from other tribes in the Ten Thousand Cliffs, although they also suffered more losses. Their tribe had about a thousand people in total, and another three hundred were sent from other tribes every year. In the past, most of the newcomers were single orcs, but because so many remained, the males who came in recent years were all already in relationships.
After everyone introduced themselves, they officially became acquainted.
While eating fruit, Linni asked, puzzled, "It's so dangerous here, why did they all choose to stay?"
Aping covered her mouth and laughed: "Because there are a lot of females in our tribe! The rainforest and swampy lands have done too much harm to the females, so everyone wants to migrate to our Wanren Stone Cliff!"
They didn't explain the chaos in the Rainforest Swamp Kingdom, nor the situation there. They only said that on the last day of each season, they would bring three to five females from the Blood Tribe, but each female could only bring five males with her—these spots were highly sought after. The Beast Carving Tribe now had over a hundred females. The male-to-female ratio on the Beastman Continent was roughly twenty to one, a conclusion Linni had drawn from visiting many tribes, but in the Beast Carving Tribe, it was close to ten to one! There were truly a lot of females here!