After Alira repeated herself, Shin snapped out of the confusion. He then decided to look at the situation right now and think about other beasts later.
But of course, there was definitely one thing that he had concluded. He thought that all the beasts that were present towards the edge of the forest had moved towards the deeper parts perhaps to spectate the Arena and the Clan wars of the wolves that were soon to be conducted.
Nevertheless, he doubted if lower beasts that weren't intelligent could think about doing such a thing.
He then looked at Alira and the rest of the wolves and dumped a lot of meat that he had stored in the inventory on them.
Of course, he saved the bodies of the three apes and the red-tailed foxes for himself. He had a mission to complete and also had a thought about eating the apes later.
The wolves didn't start eating. It was as if they were waiting for Shin to start.
But of course, he had eaten earlier so he asked them to continue.
Within q matter of an hour, the entire meat was eaten by all of them.
Of course, in between, Shin too joined as he couldn't resist the tempting smell despite his stomach being full.
Regardless, after eating and resting for a while, Shin then said, "Let's start moving."
"We need to cover a lot of distance today."
He never planned to reach the destination today. There was still a long road left before he could enter the middle of the forest.
Yes, since Islea was large, this much was common.
Anyway, the wolves agreed and were about to move when Shin recalled those highly intelligent Ogres.
'Did they really run away?'
'Or did they prepare some trap ahead?', this was something Shin was not so sure about.
Therefore, he asked others to rest for ten more minutes. And during this time, he asked Deoras and Terran, to go ahead and check if there were any trips laid out.
Of course, as they ran to check, Shin too activated his all-seeing eyes to take a look if anything was wrong or not.
He could literally see through any objects thanks to the eyes, but it had one disadvantage, and that was the range.
The range of all-seeing eyes was quite limited due to which, he couldn't see through the entire forest or anything else.
In any case, others waited and rested for some more time as per Shin's orders.
Time passed and soon another ten to twenty minutes had passed but there was no sign of Deoras or Terran.
It was weird because Shin had asked them to just take a look at the next 1 km which was not that far. It wouldn't have even taken them five minutes to go and come back after having a look.
But yes, right now, both of them were missing.
'If something had gone wrong, then Deoras would have mentioned using telepathy...'
"..."
'Come to think of it, he never mentioned about the ambush of the ogres before I arrived here.'
'He could have mentioned that too using telepathy...'
"..."
Shin became a bit skeptical, 'What is it? Did Deoras end up becoming a fool or did he seriously forget one of his skills?'
While he tried to limit himself to only these thoughts, other thoughts just came flooding in.
'Did he betray? Or was he planning to betray?'
Shin didn't want to have such stupid thoughts but oh well, in the end, he ended up thinking about this possibility as well.
And just as he was thinking this, Deoras finally used his skill to communicate with Shin. Of course, it was no good news!
'Your Highness...'
'Yes Deoras!?', Shin responded quickly.
He was thankful that Deoras hadn't betrayed him and it was either of the first two options.
'Massacre...'
'Massacre?', Shin was confused with what Deoras said.
'Yes your highness, we are watching a tribe being massacred.', he said
'Huh?', Shin was intrigued and astonished at the same time after hearing his words.
'Tell me properly Deoras, what do you mean by Massacre of a tribe?', Shin asked.
And then Deoras explained what was going on.
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"Terran, I think we should head a little further for examination...", Deoras said after checking around the 1 km distance that Shin had mentioned.
'But his highness only mentioned about the first 1 km. He never Saud anything about going ahead.", Terran debated.
"But I have a weird feeling about the place ahead."
"We would be walking all the way forward, so don't you think it's for our best if we check a little-"
That's all Deoras could mention before a cry broke out.
"Help!"
Someone, rather, many were shouting for help.
Deoras and Terran, after agreeing to their condition of scouting a bit forward, ended up moving forward to take a look at what was happening when they found a village in the forest caught in a fire.
"Wha-"
It wasn't surprising. There were no beasts around and there was a village in the edge because of it - it was as if somehow all of these seemed connected.
When they took a good look, the residents of the village were no one other than elves.
Yes, a village of elves was being attacked. Of course, the elves here looked way different than the Arb elves.
They had dark skins and thus, it wasn't too difficult to identify who they were – Dark Elves!
Terran and Deoras immediately identified them.
Yes, the dark elves were getting massacred by the same Ogres that they had encountered earlier.
In the tribe of Dark Elves, about 90% were females and the remaning were males. Of course, due to this, they weren't that physically attributed.
Though, in terms of magic, they were second to none.
If an elf and a dark elf were to fight using mana, then the dark elf would be the victor. While elves are indeed loved by mana, Dark elves can store much more mana than any normal elves.
However, since the word 'dark' is associated with their name, almost all the races in the world hate them and think of them as lower beings or evil beings!
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