Mingxi looked at Tai and Kant with nervousness. He was having a very bad feeling in his heart.
Tai and Kant gradually came to a decision after hearing all the backtalk from everyone.
"Mingxi, we have decided to revoke your head elder position, and you will, from now on, have no vocal rights on any saying." Just as Tai finished saying that, Mingxi's heart shattered and fell into a deep abyss.
Everyone was a little surprised by Tai's decision but felt it was normal to not kick Mingxi totally. He was a head elder and a strong clan member after all; it would be cruel and a bit stupid to kick him out.
However, for Mingxi, it was worse than anything else. He now would get ordered around everyone and would silently watch everyone do whatever they wanted while he just sat in the corner. Additionally, he would have to live in shame among everyone.
At that moment, Vik's voice resounded in their ears, telling them to come and help the soldiers.
Everyone quickly left, including Mingxi.
From the sky, Vik glanced down at Mingxi, who was walking with his head down. 'Those old guys made the right decision. They knew I would let go of such fighting power at such times.
Then he looked to his side, where Julie and the other ancestors were standing. "Let's go do a bit of cleaning up, the soldiers might get tired again. Also, I feel we will have many ambushes in the future, so we should save the energy on the frontlines as possible."
The others nodded their heads and charged into the sea of beasts while ordering their elders.
Mingxi also rushed in, but unlike the previous times, he rushed in deep like he had gone mad, which made him escape everyone's sight.
Just as Mingxi accomplished that, he ran away without killing a single beast. Slowly yet surely, he got out of this tide and rested on a tree branch.
Mingxi looked at the scene, in which one could see it as a grinding machine, and thought. 'Do you old geezers think I will stay with you guys? I won't live with such shame. I will retreat from this place for a while, and when I come back, I will let you know the consequences for making me lose everything.'
Because everyone was focusing on their surroundings, no one noticed Mingxi's escape, not even Vik, as he was focusing on the soldiers more than anyone here.
A couple of hours later, when Vik and others were done with their job of letting soldiers have sufficient rest, they came back to the tent.
However, when they looked around, they were not able to see Mingxi.
"Where did he go?" Tai asked the elders, but from them he got no answer.
Rag slammed his fist on the table before him, smashing it into pieces, and yelled out loud. "Did that fat idiot leave us while we were fighting!?"
This brought anger to everyone's faces as they were working so hard and here was someone who deserted silently.
Vik, who was sitting on the other end of the tent, had his face darkened. He had warned earlier not to do this, but this guy was actually brave to escape and right under his nose. 'Pray you don't stumble in front of me in future.'
Then they tossed Mingxi's escape out of their minds as they were busy with other stuff.
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Close to one month later.
In this time span, many things have changed inside Highload Town.
The refugees went back to their houses and built them from scratch, just to make an affordable one for now.
Because of the beast horde, all routes for merchants to come have been blocked. For that reason, the price of food, clothes, and any kind of daily necessity increased exponentially.
People were having a hard time affording anything, to live a decent life. The food shortage was showing signs of a major upcoming famine.
The merchants that were able to enter with the help of strong cultivators sold their goods at a price that made people wish to eat dirt rather than use their remaining bits of wealth.
Fortunately, the Ragingwave, Burnheart and IceFire brought out their food supplies from their reserves and distributed them among the common people as aid. However, they also stopped distributing after a week, and they were also running out of supply.
One could say Highload Town was in a dire state.
However, it was fortunate that they were seeing hope—hope in their self made heroes.
These heroes were the ones who were performing greatly in defending them.
The one who was reigning supreme was Vik. His strong sense of justice and strength made many almost believe that he was their god. He was given the title, The Sword Deity.
And the others were stolen by Gale's harem. Their performance stole the spotlight from the big guys and their offspring.
Their beauty and power also made people give them titles; like Julie was known as "Ice Queen", Fiona as "The Merciful War Angel" and "Shadow Princess" for Jasmine, whom they had a hard time spotting.
Unfortunately, there was nothing for Kaley, as she didn't participate much in this campaign. Instead, she was busy with another thing that she fell in love with, and that was blacksmithing.
When Rag met Kaley for the second time, he handed her their clan's blacksmithing, which had been thrown away. Rag wanted to see if she had any talent, and he had put all his hope in her as he didn't know if he would live long enough to see another good genius from their clan.
Fortunately, all of Rag's worry was for naught. Despite having a rough start, Kaley grew passionate about blacksmithing and was now capable of creating Early Human Rank items easily.
Rag believed that, if given just a few more months, Kaley would be able to produce Mid Human Rank items like it was nothing.
Rag was almost about to tear up when he saw such progress from Kaley. "Our clan's legacy will be revived."
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