Ice Tempest told Meng Chao that her initial plan was simple. She wanted to settle down in the Blood Skull Coliseum for the time being. She wanted to gather information about the leopardmen from the merchants who traveled between Black Horn City and Pure Gold City, as well as the wandering warriors who fled from the Golden Clan to the Bloodhoof Clan. She wanted to learn more about the leopardmen's customs and family pedigree.
So that one day, he would be able to imitate a real Leopard Warrior and sneak into Pure Gold City.
On the other hand, she could use this opportunity to hone her totem power on the arena.
After all, while she had the talent to activate totems in the Land of Holy Light, she didn't dare to use it in a real fight.
It was obvious that the lineup used to hunt down a witch and the lineup used to hunt down a witch who used totemic power were two different things.
At that time, if she had dared to show even the slightest bit of totem power, she would have been killed by the night watchers ten years ago, along with her mother.
But Ice Tempest didn't expect her talent for totem power to be so high.
After a few battles, her talent awakened from the depths of her bloodline.
Soon, she stood out from the other gladiators and became the trump card of the Blood Skull Coliseum.
Even the owner of the Blood Skull Coliseum, Casava Bloodhoof, wanted to recruit her.
Unfortunately, Ice Tempest didn't have the fortune to accept Casava's "kindness".
One reason was that she couldn't hide the power of holy light in her body when she faced eight witch doctors and priests during the Blood Bestowment Ceremony.
Besides, Ice Tempest wasn't interested in joining the Bloodhoof Clan to fight for the so-called "glory".
She had two bloodlines, so she didn't want to get involved in the ten thousand year war between the Land of Holy Light and Turanze and become a chess piece.
She just wanted to figure out the mystery of her birth.
Also, she wanted to take revenge for her mother.
There was one more thing that Ice Tempest didn't say, but Meng Chao could guess.
Even though she said that she didn't look forward to the "loving father and filial daughter" scene.
But after her mother died, her father was her last relative in the world.
Meng Chao believed that when she planned to go to the Golden Clan's territory, she felt a little "homesick".
She didn't know how to face her father, who left without saying goodbye thirty years ago.
He was even more unwilling to speculate about his father's motive for taking away his mother's important belongings, or even his motive for getting close to his mother.
For many things, it was best to be annihilated in the sands of time.
That was why she was hesitant and had always stayed in Blackhorn City.
Until the Glory Era arrived, and her identity was exposed by Casa Va. She had nowhere else to hide.
"Do you have any specific information about Father now?"
Meng Chao thought about it and asked, "It's just as you said. Your father has a unique congenital disease, and he has much less hair compared to other leopardmen. His skin is also fairer, and his characteristics are very obvious. You should be able to get some information about his current situation, right?"
"Yes."
Hailstorm nodded and said, "I heard that Father isn't staying with the other Leopard-Men. Instead, he is staying with the leader of the werewolves, 'Jackal' Canus, as his strategist."
"What?!"
Meng Chao jumped up as if an icicle had stabbed his spine.
"Hmm?"
The Ice Storm looked at him in surprise. "Why are you reacting so strongly? Did I say something wrong?"
"No, no."
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath and calmed down his excitement. "Your father is staying with the leader of the werewolves?"
"Yes. I heard from the travelers and peddlers that my father's reputation isn't good," Hailstorm said.
"Since he has a congenital disease, his hair is sparse, and his skin is fair, so his people think that he lacks the spirit of a hero. At the same time, he doesn't seem to be very good at fighting. Even though he isn't weak to the point where he ends up as a rat, he is still a clown and a joke to the Leopard-Men Warriors.
"He doesn't seem to be fond of fighting either, but he travels around to search for lost epic scrolls of heroes. It's his greatest interest, and his lifelong occupation. It's as if he wants to continue playing the role of a wandering poet.
"In any case, the Leopard-Men Warriors think that he's a freeloader who doesn't do any proper work. He doesn't have the right to take up important positions in the family.
"He runs into walls everywhere he goes and gets snubbed. As time goes by, he can only hang out with people like 'Jackal' Canus!"
"Is that so?"
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes.
He did not think that a high-grade orc who had the courage to sneak into the Land of Holy Light by himself twenty to thirty years ago would be a freeloader who didn't do any proper work.
Compared to the clansmen who were all brawn and no brains, this freeloader piqued Meng Chao's interest even more.
Hailstorm's last sentence stunned Meng Chao a little.
"Someone like 'Jackal' Canus?"
Meng Chao's mind raced, and he said hesitantly, "I've heard of this name before. He should be the wolf king who rules over all the werewolves in Tulan Lake.
"Even though werewolf warriors are not the lion-men and tiger-men's opponents when it comes to one-on-one fights in the Golden Clan, their reproductive abilities are great, and there are a lot of them. The werewolf army has also contributed to the Battle of Glory.
"Why do you sound so disdainful when you mention 'Jackal' Canus'? Is the wolf king's reputation bad?"
"Of course. You don't understand the situation in the Golden Clan, but everyone in Pure Gold City knows that the so-called Wolf King Canus is just a puppet of the lion-men and tiger-men!"
Hailstorm told Meng Chao that it was precisely because werewolves' reproductive abilities were much greater than those of the lion-men and tiger-men that they were the tribe with the most people in the Golden Clan, that they had the potential to become the master of the clan.
Hence, over the past thousands of years, the two heroes of the Golden Clan — the lion-men and tiger-men — had always been wary of them, and they did everything they could to suppress them.
The internal strife in the Golden Clan was even more intense and mysterious than that of the Bloody Hoof Clan.
After all, the two heroes of the Bloody Hoof Clan — the minotaur and the boar-man — were not famous for their quick wits.
The minotaur and boar-man preferred to measure the diameter of each other's fists to decide who was the boss of the Bloody Hoof Clan.
As for the Golden Clan, the tiger-men, lion-men, werewolves, and leopardmen were all natural hunters and backstabbing experts.
The fight between these hunters for power was a hundred times more thrilling and exciting than that of the Bloody Hoof Clan.
After thousands of years of fighting openly and covertly, the lion-men and tiger-men, who were the leaders, had long since developed a very mature method to control a large number of werewolves.
It was nothing more than coercion, temptation, division, suppression, and support of the weak. They stirred up conflict among the werewolf families and settlements so that the werewolves were in a state of disunity.
In this state, it was difficult for any werewolf to convince the masses. If they wanted to rise to power, they had to obtain external power, which was the support of the lion-men and tiger-men. Then, they would sink deeper and deeper into the mire. In the end, they would either lose control of themselves or become loyal to the lion-men and tiger-men.
"Jackal" Canus was a textbook example of a puppet.
"There are rumors that Canus isn't a pure-blooded werewolf, but a jackal," Hailstorm said.
Hailstorm said, "Although the Jackal and Wolf races are often lumped together, they are very closely related to each other.
"But compared to the werewolves, who have the right to challenge the lion-men and tiger-men, jackals are closer to canine-men, and they are relatively weaker.
"Even though Canus tried his best to get rid of the 'rumors' after he became the chief, and he even invited a highly respected wolf priest to verify his bloodline, it is still a fact that he has a portion of the werewolf bloodline, and there should be no doubt about it.
"Due to the limitations of his bloodline, Canus wasn't very strong before he became famous. At that time, he had a really insulting nickname — Corpse-eating Dog.
"Of course, that doesn't mean that he would really eat the corpses of his enemies.
"Instead, for the sake of survival, he dissected the corpses of the totem beasts in the team that hunted the totem beasts and collected the totem armor fragments and totem cores."
"Is that so?"
When Meng Chao heard this, he was a little stunned.
Corpse-eating Dog was the harvester of the Turan civilization!
He did not expect that the future Apocalyptic Wolf would be in the same line of work as him!
"It takes a lot of skill to perfectly collect all the materials from the totem beasts!" Meng Chao could not help but say.
"That's true," Ice Storm said.
"But the Turan people did not place much importance on collecting materials. They paid more attention to their fighting strength. Only those who dared to face the totem beasts and fight with their fiercest might could be considered true heroes! If they only knew how to cut the totem beasts' corpses, it was only natural that they would be looked down upon. "
Meng Chao listened with great interest, and he could not help but ask, "Then, how did this Corpse-eating Dog suddenly become the master of the werewolves?"
"Naturally, it's because he had no dignity or integrity. He bowed down to the lionmen and tigermen, and he flattered them to the extreme," Ice Storm said.
"Ever since Jackal Canus became the master of the werewolves, he suppressed and chased away a large number of werewolf warriors who did not obey him. Many werewolves ended up in Black Corner City.
"I heard from the werewolf gladiators in the Blood Skull Arena that this fellow joined a hunting party consisting mainly of werewolves and werewolves. He racked his brains to serve the werewolves very well, but I heard from the werewolf gladiators that the werewolf gladiators were in.
"One day, this hunting team received a mission. They were to accompany a noble of the Gold Family to hunt a very rare totem beast.
"All along the way, Canus even exerted all his ability to win the favor of the noble, and he became the noble's attendant and was able to serve at the noble's beck and call all day long.
"As the noble's status in the Gold Family grew, Canus naturally used his connections to intimidate others and bullied them.
"But at that time, a few powerful werewolves appeared one after another, and they made the lionmen and tigermen feel pressured.
"Hence, after a series of open and secret fights, the werewolves who could have challenged the lionmen and tigermen died. They were either reduced to Origins Warriors or disappeared into the depths of the wild.
"Casa was a loyal dog who worked for the lionmen and tigermen with all his heart, but he was pushed onto the stage and became the ruler of dozens of werewolf towns and settlements!"
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