Bringing a System to the Beast World

Chapter 414 This is the Ferocious Beast

The orc's eyes narrowed dangerously: "What do you mean by 'no more tribes'?"

The eagle-orc jumped onto the back of a giant beast and sat down: "I went to check the four large tribal settlements that the Poison Scorpion Witch mentioned. Although there were signs of activity, I didn't see a single person."

"No one?"

The orc leader of the super tribe frowned and looked at the eagle orc: "Didn't you search around these tribes?"

The eagle-orc shrugged: "Of course we looked, but we couldn't find a single person."

Although some small tribes still live in the more remote territories, none of them have any orc warriors, and they don't know anything about them when asked.

As for news about the four major tribes, well...

The eagle-orc warrior scoffed, "These lowly people only hunt in the small woods around the tribe. How would they know anything about the four great tribes in the distance?"

The news brought back by the eagle-orc warrior was hardly good.

The lead orc frowned and looked behind him: "Witch, come here."

The rock salt tribe's witch naturally overheard their conversation, and when she heard the messenger orc captain calling her name, her heart skipped a beat.

However, faced with overwhelming power, they dared not say anything and could only be carried forward by the orc warrior beneath them.

"Has anything changed in the Polar Forest since your last trade fair?"

The words of the orc captain made the rock salt witch frown. After thinking carefully for a moment, she shook her head: "Nothing is different. They even exchanged all the soft animal hides we brought with them."

Moreover, the Snow Tiger tribe had built many warm and sturdy stone houses, which didn't seem like they were planning to leave.

Building stone houses requires a lot of effort, so if a tribe is planning to migrate or does not intend to live in one place for a long time, it will not waste time building them.

Therefore, the most likely explanation for the sudden disappearance of the orcs from the four major tribes is...
The orc captain narrowed his eyes; the four tribes had learned that they were coming to the polar forest to search for crystal cores.

That's why they hid in advance or left the polar forest.

"It seems the polar forest already knows we're coming."

The healing witch looked out at the endless forest: "Someone leaked the information, or..."

He turned to the rock salt tribe's witch beside him: "You two tribes are not good at keeping your mouths shut. You talked about this while hunting, and the polar forest orcs who came to gather information heard it."

He leaned more towards the second point because they hadn't expected that this small polar forest would dare to send orcs to investigate, given their presence.

It is not unusual for orc warriors to be sent out to scout around various tribes.

As the healing witch finished speaking, the rock salt witch's expression also turned quite unpleasant.

She recalled that when she was in the tribe, she had indeed heard the people talking about this all the time.

Therefore, it is highly likely that the orc warriors who went out hunting leaked the information.

That wretched Snow Tiger tribe, they managed to escape once again.

"Without the guidance of these four tribes, it would be very dangerous for us to go deep into the forest."

The orc captain's gaze toward the rock salt witch held a hint of displeasure.

Noticing the undisguised gaze above her, the rock salt shrine maiden's cheeks twitched a few times, but she finally lowered her eyes and said nothing.

"Let's go in and take a look. If it really proves that this crystal core can be safely upgraded, we'll bring more orc warriors back with us this time."

The healing wizard said in a low voice.

Another wizard sighed with some regret: "It's a bit of a pity that the people from the four major tribes have all fled. Otherwise, it would have been even better to control them and hunt for crystal cores for us."

The other shamans didn't say anything, but their eyes couldn't help but drift towards the rock salt tribe shaman who was standing to the side.

Actually, there are still people who can use them.

Meanwhile, the Rock Salt Witch, who was only immersed in hatred towards the Snow Tiger Tribe, Yuan Lang, and Wu Yue, did not notice the different looks in these people's eyes.

Instead, because he had lost his target for revenge, he followed the group to the outskirts of the deep forest in a daze.

It was already noon on the second day.

The behemoths ridden by the super tribes look quite bulky, but they are extremely fast when traveling at full speed.

Not wanting to delay the journey of the rock salt shaman and her companions, they were allowed to ride on the back of a giant beast.

The polar forest tribes and the forests where wild beasts live are very different from the deep forests where ferocious beasts live. The most obvious difference is the dark and eerie feeling of the latter.

The edges are overgrown with thorns, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of dead branches and leaves, beneath which live many dangerous and venomous insects and snakes.

Even at midday, the deep forest felt eerie.

Although she knew that the precious crystal cores were hunted from the deep forest, this was truly the first time the Rock Salt Witch had come to this place.

The scorpion tribe beastmen leading the way had come here once before with the sorcerer, but because they didn't know the territory of the ferocious beasts in the deep forest, their tribesmen were reduced to less than five people.

"My lords, the territories of the ferocious beasts in this deep forest are divided and have certain boundaries. If you go in directly without being familiar with them, you are likely to get lost or even wander into the territories of some mid- to high-level ferocious beasts."

We'd heard before that when the four major tribes of the polar forest hunt for crystal cores, they don't come out at night; they hide in places they've already scouted out—places known only to the four tribes."

The orc captain had already jumped off the giant beast's back and was looking at the gloomy forest before him with deep, dark eyes.

"Didn't the sorcerer say you went in last time?"

The orc warrior from the Poison Scorpion Tribe smiled bitterly upon hearing this: "Last time, because we didn't know the distribution of the beast territories inside, we went directly into the territory of a very terrifying beast. Of the dozens of orc warriors who went in, less than five came out in the end."

The ferocious beast was gregarious and could breathe fire; once it touched something, it was very difficult to extinguish, until the person was burned alive.

As the orc spoke, his face turned pale. He recalled the tragic deaths of his people, their agonizing screams making him press his feet firmly into the ground. He had no desire to step into the deep forest ahead, a place that had witnessed countless despair and death.

But in the face of a super tribe, his lingering fears were nothing at all.

"Let's go hunting and get some food first, then we'll go in early tomorrow morning."

The orc captain, acting as the messenger, made the final decision. The four wizards didn't say anything; since they couldn't find the orcs from the four major tribes of the Arctic Forest, they would naturally have to handle the task of entering the deep forest themselves.

What these orcs and wizards of the super tribes did not expect was that while everyone was sleeping soundly that night, a series of shrill screams came from outside.

It instantly woke everyone up.

The orc captain flung aside the rock salt tribe witch from his arms and ran toward the source of the screams.

But he saw that the orc warriors he had brought were with several wild boars with scarlet eyes, black and stiff fur, and bodies about the same size as the giant beast he had ridden before.

They looked like wild boars, but their fur, scarlet eyes, and even their tusks that were still dripping blood told him that these were definitely not the same breed as the wild boars they had hunted before.

If the orcs from the four major tribes were here, they would definitely recognize that those were the saber-toothed boars, the lowest-ranking of the ferocious beasts.

However, these people were clearly unaware of this; they simply thought the wild boars in the polar forest looked very strange.

Smelling the increasingly rich aroma of fresh blood and flesh in the air, the saber-toothed boar leader couldn't help but drool.

"Ow!"

Being a low-level ferocious beast, it only had a thirst for flesh and blood and didn't care about anything else. It roared and charged forward with its minions.

The orc warriors of the super tribe finally saw the 'wild boars' attacking them, and their tense nerves relaxed considerably.

When I first heard the roar of the giant beast, I thought I had encountered some powerful wild animal, but it turned out to be just a few rather unusual wild boars.

Lacking any sense of crisis, they were naturally happy to watch the show. The orc captain waved his hand, and the weakest silver-rank orc warriors in the group immediately went to meet them.

They thought it would be a quick and easy task, but to everyone's surprise, these wild boars were quite different from the ones they had seen before. Their formidable fighting power overwhelmed several silver-rank orc warriors.

"Captain, there's something wrong with these wild boars!"

A silver-rank orc was repelled by a saber-toothed boar, and immediately let out a low growl with a pale face and a hint of anxiety in his voice.

The other orc warriors standing to the side naturally saw what was happening and immediately abandoned their desire to watch the spectacle. Several more orc warriors at the late silver rank went up, and after a long time, the dozen or so orc warriors finally managed to take care of the saber-toothed boars.

Now, although the saber-toothed boar was dead, everyone's expressions were not good.

"Captain, are the wild beasts in the polar forest already this powerful?!"

After the orc finished speaking, the atmosphere in the open space became somewhat heavy.

"This is not a wild beast, nor a wild boar, but a low-level ferocious beast, the saber-toothed boar."

The Poison Scorpion tribe orcs, who had been hiding in the distance, only dared to slowly approach after seeing several saber-toothed boars die, and immediately spoke up.

The orc captain's eyes lit up: "Since they are ferocious beasts, then go and search whether these saber-toothed boars have any crystal cores inside them."

The flesh on the scorpion orc warrior's cheeks twitched, and he chuckled twice, about to say something, but when he met the indifferent gaze of the envoy orc captain, he immediately swallowed the words that were about to come out.

He swallowed hard and stepped forward, his right hand transforming into a sharp claw as he searched the beast's head.

A moment later, nothing was found.

“Your Excellency, there is nothing on these saber-toothed boars.”

Seeing the envoy orc captain's unpleasant expression, the Poison Scorpion orc quickly continued, "I had heard from the orcs of the Flying Eagle Tribe that the least likely of these ferocious beasts to have crystal cores is the Saber-toothed Boar, and it was indeed true."

Hearing this, the orc warriors of the Super Horde looked a little better.

They had killed seven or eight saber-toothed boars, but hadn't obtained a single crystal core. It seemed that crystal cores were indeed rare.

Orc warriors carried the dead saber-toothed boars to a distance. If they were left there, the stench of blood would be too strong, and who knows how much danger it would attract.

After the saber-toothed boar incident, the orc captain sent two more orc warriors to patrol, and everyone finally fell asleep again.

The next day at daybreak, the members of the Super Tribe woke up. Having eaten the saber-toothed pork yesterday, they didn't go hunting today. They simply ate some food and headed into the deep forest.

Wu Yue had just woken up in the newly settled cave. After eating some food stored in the system space, she leaned on a witch's staff that she had redeemed from the system shop for a full 200 points and set off to continue searching for Yuan Lang and the others.

These past few days, while searching for Yuan Lang and the others in the deep forest, Wu Yue would also look for herbs or rare plants around the caves at night to sell to the system, and she did manage to exchange them for some points.

Through these few days of exchanges, Wu Yue discovered that the system always gives a high number of points for the first exchange, but the price is much lower for subsequent exchanges.

However, Wu Yue wasn't greedy. As long as she could exchange for points, she naturally worked very happily.

The witch's staff in Wu Yue's hand looked very intimidating, and the attributes of the staff were also very much to her liking.

This is a staff that is very suitable for healing magical powers.

When activating magical power, healing attributes are increased by 20%, and this increase will be even greater with future upgrades.

Moreover, this staff is incredibly heavy. Before it was bound to its owner, Wu Yue couldn't budge it an inch even with all her might.

However, after recognizing the master, the staff in his hand clearly resembled a small wooden stick.

With a light swing, she knocked down a tree trunk as thick as her waist.

This made Wu Yue, who had spent 200 points, instantly feel that it was worth it.

As for its incredibly impressive appearance, needless to say, I have no idea what attributes my system has.

It was just a witch's staff, yet she made it incredibly ornate, especially when she activated its power. The rich and sacred feeling it gave her made her feel like she was heavenly excrement.

"Host, if we don't find it after searching this area today, Yuan Lang and the others have probably gone deeper into the area."

The system didn't reveal another guess, which would definitely displease the host.

However, the possibility of something going wrong is very small. Even if the corpse was eaten, some of its belongings would still be lost. But with Ta Yun's help, they searched the entire area near the Snow Tiger Tribe, but found nothing.

Wu Yue's face was grumpy. Yuan Lang was really too bold. Now that the ferocious beasts' activity range has shifted outwards, he still dared to go deep inside.

"Host, if we can't find it today, we'll have to venture deeper into the territory of the intermediate-level ferocious beasts to search, but we still can't... um?"

Tongzi's small body paused, and even Ta Yun under Wu Yue tensed up and looked in one direction, growling softly.

(End of this chapter)