CHAPTER 596: CHAPTER 569 THE CHIEF LEADER 87

They wanted to escape, but outside the Earth King Beast that had already dealt with the Fierce Beast Jungle Wolf was waiting at the exit, crushing anyone who emerged, completely severing the Cannibal Clan warriors’ escape route.

With no way to flee or survive, these Cannibal Clan warriors could only charge forward with their remaining ferocity, eyes scarlet with rage, desperately fighting against the warriors of the Yanhuang Tribe. The Cannibal Tribe warriors’ desperate counterattack caused a brief panic among the Yanhuang Tribe warriors, but they quickly regained composure and continued to attack.

The three Great Witches of the Yanhuang Tribe stood ready, prepared to rescue, ensuring there wouldn’t be significant casualties within the Yanhuang Tribe.

Yan Shuangshuang and Sang Nan did not join the battle; instead, they moved across the battlefield, swiftly rescuing anyone at risk of being killed, doing their utmost to prevent any Yanhuang Tribe members from dying.

This battle lasted from noon until the sunset painted the sky crimson, before it finally concluded. After the fight, all Cannibal Tribe members, including those Fierce Beast Jungle Wolves, were thoroughly dealt with and cleaned up.

Although exhausted after the battle, everyone’s spirits were exuberant, somewhat unbelievable that they had managed to annihilate a seven-thousand-member Cannibal Tribe with only three thousand men! This filled them with great pride and disbelief.

After realizing they had indeed won, everyone began cheering and hugging each other, exuberantly expressing their excitement. When their tribe was destroyed and friends and family were captured for fresh meat by the Cannibal Tribe, they had dreamt countless times of revenge.

No matter how deep their hatred, the terror of the Cannibal Tribe made them inherently assume they’d never have a chance for revenge in their lifetimes. Yet, unexpectedly becoming Travelers, they indeed found a new home and the strength to avenge!

Though this Cannibal Tribe may not be their direct enemy, once Yanhuang Tribe grows stronger and eradicates more Cannibal Tribes, someday, they firmly believe they’ll avenge their loved ones and family.

After this battle, these people who already acknowledged the Yanhuang Tribe loved it even more, a feeling as strong as for their own tribes, which had once fallen.

The warriors of the Yanhuang Tribe cheered for quite a while before calming down at Yan Shuangshuang’s reminder, starting with serious business, inspecting whether there were any survivors among the dead of the Cannibal Tribe.

Despite the large population of the Cannibal Tribe, due to their disposition and tradition, there were no elderly, and often no children either.

There are only two ways for the Cannibal Tribe to increase their numbers: either those banished by normal tribes who have harmed their own tribe.

For example, those who killed tribe members or committed other intolerable crimes. Tribes in this world never allow the killing of their own, even criminals, and these major offenders are expelled from the tribe.

In fact, the dangerous outside world implies their expulsion wishes them dead, but indeed some manage to survive out there.

To prevent these expelled individuals from being taken in by the Traveler Tribe, tribes tattoo unique patterns on their faces at expulsion, highlighting them as criminals expelled from a tribe.

These expelled criminals naturally aren’t accepted by the Traveler Tribe; normally tribes won’t even take in innocent travelers, let alone those who have committed wrongs within their tribe.

Only the Cannibal Tribe accepts such people; they even favor such brutal individuals. This is why many Cannibal Tribe members are covered in tattoos, often to cover the shameful tattoo on their faces.

This is the main source of population for the Cannibal Tribe, and besides this method, growth only occurs when, over years, the Cannibal Tribe doesn’t lack food and doesn’t need to consume the elderly, children, or common people, allowing children a chance to grow.

These children, though Cannibal Clan members, have no tattoos. These tattoo-free Cannibal Clan members are rare, as their brutality dictates even their children are ruthlessly consumed when hunger reaches a certain level.

Children growing up in such a twisted atmosphere are self-evidently vicious, so even upon encountering fierce twelve or thirteen-year-olds fighting desperately, Yanhuang Tribe members do not hesitate to act against them.

Though they are children, their hands are stained with untold deaths and flesh consumption, truly unworthy of pity.

Once confirming there were no survivors, they searched for any captives in the Cannibal Tribe, regarding fresh meat captives brought earlier.

The Cannibal Tribe’s cave was large and quite tidy, brightly lit by the Bright Light Seeds, surprisingly lacking many human remains.

After searching thoroughly, they discovered over a hundred people trapped deep within the cave in densely lined cages, these captives were not too thin but their health was terrible, many couldn’t even stand.

The Cannibal Tribe was afraid they would lose weight, unwilling to feed them much, hence confined them to small cages, never allowing them to move, depriving them entirely of exercise, thus eating less and losing weight slowly.

These people, trapped for unknown durations by the Cannibal Tribe, appeared dazed as if unaware of the outside world upon being rescued by Yanhuang Tribe members.

Even freed from narrow cages, they couldn’t stand or walk properly, requiring crawling due to permanently curled legs, a heartbreaking sight.

Many, witnessing them, couldn’t help imagining their own family and friends suffering similar ordeals if captured by the Cannibal Tribe, tears of fury wishing to revive and kill the Cannibal Tribe warriors a thousand times over.

Escorting those barely able to stand, the Yanhuang Tribe, despite their overwhelming victory, found little joy, their triumph overshadowed by longing for their loved ones and friends.