The dragon just wants to stay at home, but the players are frantically upgrading their technology.

Upon hearing this, he realized that the silver-scaled dog-headed man was speaking in a gentle and amicable manner, and that he wanted to negotiate.

Could it be the Blackscale Clan?

The kobold clans are divided according to bloodline, which is based on the color of their scales.

The Blackscale Clan, as the name suggests, is a clan of dog-headed people with black scales.

Hybrids with colored scales are either driven out or marginalized by the kobolds.

You, a silver-scaled outsider who isn't even a bastard, are the leader of the Blackscale Clan?

That's impossible!

Besides, he had met the Blackscale Clan's leader a few days ago. The leader was weak but arrogant and looked down on everyone. He must have a Silver Guard family he had never heard of behind him, or he must be a branch member of the Silver Guard family.

Therefore, he immediately ordered that arrows be fired to capture the ringleader.

They wanted to offer themselves to the Blackscale Clan in exchange for cooperation in attacking Golden Wheat Town.

Before he could even get close enough to take a closer look, his loyal men immediately fired arrows.

He sensed something was wrong after hearing the enemy fire.

Looking back now, something just didn't feel right.

We should think about it more.

Hearing the righteous insults around him, Helkan was filled with regret. He couldn't help but think of the loyal guard who had carried out the orders, and then he cursed inwardly.

I may have made mistakes, but why are you so loyal? When I said to shoot arrows to capture someone, I was just using it as a figure of speech; why did you actually carry it out?

Although Helkan cursed inwardly, he remained silent on the surface. To outsiders, he appeared to be standing there listlessly, enduring the righteous indignation.

The two guards, who had been panicking, looked at each other, silently released their hands from the shoulders of the "Justice" guard, and quietly retreated to the side.

With the strain on his shoulders gone, and his entire body relaxed, he felt refreshed and invigorated, and he cursed even more vehemently.

After enduring the scolding for a while, Helkan realized that being scolded here was not a solution. He had offended the Blackscale Clan and even killed members of the Blackscale Clan. Given the Blackscale Clan's character, they would certainly not let this go easily.

Helkan ignored the insults that claimed righteousness and turned to leave.

Although the two guards did not understand what was going on, they knew that the unknown language spoken by the "caliber of justice" was cursing the vanguard officer Herkan.

Two centaur guards quickly stepped forward to untie the cleavage of Justice, and served it good food and drink, fearing that Justice would settle scores later.

After leaving his own tent, Helkan crossed a small part of the camp and arrived at the tents assigned to the priests.

In front of the animal hide tents painted with special blood-red runes, centaur priests covered in white bones stood.

Some were bleeding, some were smearing blood and sprinkling ash, some were dancing strange dances, and some were meditating.

Helkan walked directly into the main tent of the priesthood, bypassing the centaur priests.

Inside the tent, Priest Reddy was completely naked, his lower body, the body of a horse, submerged in a newly dug pool of blood, while the bone ornaments and crimson runes on his upper body gleamed with an eerie light.

"Ok?"

Hearing the noise, Priest Reddy, who had been meditating with his eyes closed, raised his head and looked at Helkan with a strange expression.

"Vanguard Commander Helkan, didn't you capture the silver kobold who was impersonating the Blackscale Clan's administrator? Why aren't you here negotiating cooperation with the Blackscale Clan?"

Herkan, his face grim, fanned the smell of blood in front of his nose in disgust. Recalling what had happened, his expression gradually became awkward, and the atmosphere in the air became subtle.

After much hesitation, considering the gravity of the matter, Helkan sat down by the blood pool and told Priest Reddy everything.

After listening, the priest Reddy, a centaur, stared at Helkan with a strange look in his eyes.

It's as if to say, we've already arrived at Golden Wheat Town, with human troops guarding the front, and only by joining forces with the kobolds can we secure victory, and yet you've managed to pull off this mess.

Do you not care about the future of your tribe, or do you not care about the tribal chief?

"Ugh."

Seeing Priestess Reddy's expression, Helkan felt embarrassed, but could only sigh helplessly and say, "I didn't want this to happen either, but it has already happened, and we have to find a solution."

"Then go kneel down and apologize to the silver kobolds. Whether it's a sheep-leading ceremony or some other ceremony, we must cooperate with the Blackscale Clan to secure a victory against the garrison of Golden Wheat Town and bring back enough food."

Priestess Reddy replied without even blinking.

"No."

Helkan flatly refused.

"What? You messed things up, and you still can't let go of your ridiculous pride?"

Priest Reddy sneered, glancing sideways at Helkan.

"It's not a matter of dignity. What does my dignity mean in the face of the peril of my people?"

Helkan sighed and explained, "Given the nature of the Blackscale Clan, they will certainly not let it go after we killed their people."

Then, Helkan recounted the events of the previous incident to Priest Reddy.

Why didn't you tell me about this sooner?

Priestess Reddy frowned, her eyes showing displeasure.

"I cleaned up the mess the young clan leader made, so how can you spread rumors about it?"

Helkan shrugged, then said thoughtfully, "Last time, it was just killing human slaves in the Blackscale Clan's territory that caused this. This time, we killed their people and captured their district administrator. Even if I beg for cooperation on my knees, won't they stab me in the back?"

"..."

Priestess Reddy fell silent for a long while before finally looking up and asking, "Then what should we do? You must have a plan to come to me, right?"

"Your condition... should be almost healed, right?"

Helkan glanced down at the pool of blood beneath Priest Reddy, which he had painstakingly collected, and paused in his speech.

"almost."

Although Priestess Reddy did not understand what she meant, she nodded nonetheless.

"so……"

Helkan lowered his voice and explained his plan.

"Are you crazy? This is meant to be used against the human defenders!"

Upon hearing Helkan's plan, Priest Reddy cried out in surprise, his eyes widening as he stared at Helkan in disbelief, his breathing heavy.

"Moreover, judging from the Blackscale Clan's attitude and the firearms they possess, they are very likely backed by the Silver Guard Clan, or even a branch of the Silver Guard Clan!"

"I'm not crazy."

Faced with Priest Redi's questioning, Helkan's expression remained unchanged, and his tone was extremely calm.

"Only in this way can our Clefthoof tribe survive this harsh winter."

After saying that, Herkan added, "And what are muskets and cannons? Don't forget that. We might have them after this winter."

A burning desire flashed in Helkan's eyes as he recalled the scene that Priest Reddy had described to him when the Northern Army used firearms.

"What if the Blackscale Clan is backed by the Silver Guard Clan?"

"Priestess Reddy said urgently."

"You said it yourself, it's just in case."

After asking a question in return, Herkan said coldly, "Even if they have the Silver Guard family behind them, we are not without our own backers."

"Where did we get our silver guards from...?"

Priestess Reddy blurted out instinctively, only realizing Herkan's meaning halfway through her sentence.

He looked up at Helkan: "You mean that matter?"

"Correct."

Helkan nodded: "You said that the Silver Guard family was behind that incident."

Priestess Reddy looked down at the blood-red pool of water, pondered for a moment, then nodded and uttered only one word.

"Row."

Helkan took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and got up to leave, but was stopped by Priest Reddy.

"If it's the Silverguard family, they most likely have long-range communication magic. Don't give anything away."

“But I have four hooves, there’s no way she couldn’t see them.”

With his mind and body relaxed, Helkan looked down at his lower body, which resembled a horse, and began to joke.

"..."

Priestess Reddy remained silent for a moment, then waved to Helkan, who was standing at the door, without saying a word.

"Go quickly, don't get in the way. With your plan, I'll have to work even harder."

"Row."

Helkan smiled, turned around, waved, and left.

After leaving the priesthood's camp, Helkan returned to his own main tent.

Upon entering the main tent, Helkan saw Justice, with two guards attending to him, sitting on his bearskin cushion, eating meat and drinking wine with gusto.

"you……"