Lord of the Sky City

Chapter 719 - 682: Monsters Gather in Groups

As they followed He Nan into the tribe along the way, Rocky saw nothing but Beastmen, a good half of which were strapping adult Beastmen, but there were also many women and children, with some Female Beastmen even holding children in their arms.

Under the gaze of these people, it wasn’t long before Rocky reached the center of the tribe, where he saw a massive bonfire belching thick, black smoke, with Demon corpses burning within!

“This is…”

Seeing this, Rocky frowned and looked puzzledly at He Nan.

“Ever since you started the bombardment, the Demons have been increasing. This is already the third batch of Demons we’ve killed today,” said He Nan in a deep, resonant voice, his eyes fixated on the bonfire and the Demon Corpses on it.

On the way to the tribe, He Nan had said that the naturally occurring fog in the forest could block Demons from finding and attacking the tribe, thus allowing their tribe to survive in what seemed to be a small patch of forest; but after all, the fog was an external force, not capable of blocking the Demons completely, and occasionally a few would inadvertently enter the village. Fortunately, all Beastmen are born warriors— even a child’s combat ability could rival that of a human soldier, so occasional Demon incursions were not a significant threat.

Therefore, despite the tribe led by He Nan appearing to dwell merely in this small patch of forest, their life was relatively ‘comfortable’ compared to the old days in Backhill Village. However, all that was disrupted with the arrival of Rocky.

Rocky’s ongoing bombardment of the Stone Forest had alarmed almost all the surrounding Demons. Not only that, but he had even ordered the Fleet to harass the Demons in groups, drawing them into the Stone Forest to eliminate them together. While this seemed inconsequential to Rocky, it spelled disaster for the Fireteng Tribe.

More and more Demons were alerted and naturally, more stumbled into the forest, increasingly bypassing the barrier of fog and finding the village. In just one day, He Nan and his people had already been attacked by Demons thrice, and not in small numbers either—each wave consisted of dozens of Demons, thus, throughout the day, the Beastmen had killed more than a hundred invading Demons, and in the process, over ten Beastmen had died.

In keeping with He Nan’s character, he certainly wouldn’t explain this process in such detail to Rocky, but this wasn’t Rocky’s first visit to the surface, so after hearing just a sentence from He Nan, he roughly understood the reasons behind everything, including why He Nan wanted him and the Fleet to leave, and why the other Beastmen were showing hostility towards him.

“I didn’t know things would turn out like this,” Rocky said reluctantly after looking at the blazing bonfire, especially at the ‘grilled’ Demon Corpses on it.

He didn’t apologize, for he didn’t even know there was a Beastmen Tribe by the West Bank of Red Water Lake, so this situation was merely collateral damage. On this matter, Rocky couldn’t possibly apologize, and he had no intention of halting his plans either.

As Rocky had said before, he held the Beastmen Tribe led by He Nan in high regard, but let’s not forget what all Rocky’s actions were for—his priority was to ensure the successful upgrade of Thunderhawk City, and that mission took precedence. As much as he respected the Beastmen present, they were secondary to Thunderhawk City.

“No, it’s nothing,” He Nan said, somewhat surprisingly to Rocky. Far from harping on the problems caused by Rocky’s actions, He Nan displayed a casual attitude, “The attacks by Normal Demons are not a big deal for us, they just give us more food.”

Food?

Upon hearing these words, both Rocky and others including Liliya were stunned, and then they instinctively looked towards the bonfire, or more precisely, at the grilled Demon Corpses in it. It was then that they noticed something—all the burned Demon Corpses in the bonfire were Poison Fang Demons.

Realizing this, Rocky and his companions understood.

Since Poison Fang Demons could produce potent venom, those particular Demons were clearly not edible, but other Demons, like the Bull-horned Demons, Black-eyed Demons, and Mole Demons, though seemingly unlikely, were theoretically edible. This was something that sky-residing Demon Scholars had re