Out Of All PlacesThe Cursed Beasts tribe was not that small tribe, it has number of tents with the population, the beasts were with half beast bodies while the other half was human, from normal to most deadly predator all were with the same, the half beats leader was a lion with the face mixed of human and lion features, the upper body resembled male human while the other half was with four legs like a normal lion.
Same goes with the beasts of this tribe.
They cannot live in a natural forest because the normal beasts evolved with the time and became strongest, they would never allow this mixed race to live around them and probably hate.
The human race also disliked them so they were forced to live here, fortunately the evolved beasts of Red Rider tribe were considerate and they let them live here, it was unknown why these evolved beasts decided to live in the dark region when they have choice to take hold on the vast forests of strong Manias where they could get the pure form of essence to become more stronger.
The evolved beasts wanted to remain mysterious on purpose or they were always of this type, it was also a mystery.
Jen could see number of wolves groaning with anger, for few moments she thought that she has been surrounded and anytime they would jump and perhaps kill her her.
"You all should stop it," the leader spoke with anger, with his order the half beasts started to retreat, now their center of attention was the leader, initially they thought the their leader brought this human to take revenge from human tribe, the human tribe killed few half beasts yesterday and blamed that they dared to enter their tribe, it cannot be truth because there was much distance between human tribe and the half beast tribe and the half beasts were not fool to walk in the den of enemy unless the enemy dragged them there.
The incident happened yesterday so it was natural for them to think about revenge and this girl was human since the leader himself brought her here that means they were allowed to pounce and rip her into pieces.
"This human is our guest until her wounds get better, till then she will stay here," the leader spoke, he had promised her to favor back so it would be improper if she was hurt by the members of his tribe.
The number of half beasts were displeased to here this, how come they shelter a human and cure her when the human tribe was constantly trying to walk on their heads and killing half beasts.
"Take few beasts and build a separate tent for this guest here and make sure it should be safe," he ordered his subordinates, though they were reluctant to listen but the order of the leader cannot be neglected.
They stopped to see that finally a wolf walked ahead to question the leader.
"Leader, can you explain why you are sheltering a human? Did you forget the recent incident?" a wolf who was much furious came in front to question the leader, the one died yesterday was a wolf too among other half beasts, they had not forgotten the incident and the leader was favoring a human right in front of their eyes, what was going on.
Jen could feel the anger and the aura from all half beasts, they surely were trying to control themselves from killing her that means the leader has strong impression of his presence.
"I know what I am doing, if you wanted to ask anything, come in the Bivouac and ask and all of you are welcome to ask why I brought her here, the human tribe has gone too far this time, he dared to complain about the leader of the half beast tribe in front of the Red Rider leader, this girl despite being weak and small came to explain the situation, and the human was humiliated in the end," the leader spoke with his sharp and authoritative tone.
The half beasts who were initially irritated with her presence came to halt, they saw her tattered condition and how humbly she was standing, indeed she was not arrogant as the other humans, more so she did not look at them with disgust in her eyes even once, it was clear that she was different from the people of human tribe.
They knew what it meant if someone complain about other, the first leader would sent warning first and last and there was another complain about that member from any tribe, he or should would be killed or exiled.
It was humiliation if this happened to the leader of their tribe, they knew that the first leader don"t care whoever was given warning, if he was strongest or weakest once ordered no one can go against.
The beasts who were ordered to build a tent moved now to complete the order, "I thought the leader has grown old to shelter his enemies," a fox smirked and also joined those who were a.s.signed to build tent.
The wolves followed the leader to talk about the whole matter since they could sense the leader has not spoken the whole scenario.
A monkey jumped down from a nearby tree in front of her, it looked her from left and then right curiously, "You are not a cultivator?" after making a squeaking voice, asked.
"I am a not strong enough but yes I am a cultivator," Jen answered, the squeaking voice could have harmed if she was only at the Sage realm, perhaps this way the half beast monkey wanted to know her level of cultivation.
A beautiful sambar came while a little deer was tagging along, "Don"t annoy this human with your tricks, go and find someone else to play with," the half beast sambar ordered the monkey to leave.
This female sambar could see that the human female was wounded and she needed care, the tent would take much time because the beasts would go to search strong woods for structure, or if they received order to build a stone chamber then it would definitely take two days and the human possibly can"t stand here for two days waiting it.
"You can come with me in my tent and rest," the half beast sambar spoke caring.
"It would trouble you, I will wait until the tent is build," Jen bowed slightly in response of her care.
"No, no it would not trouble, I am going to find some herbs those could be used for the remedy of your wounds, you are guest in this tribe so it is my responsibility to take care," the female sambar was delighted to hear the sweet voice of this human and reserved nature.
The half beasts could hear them talking, they were still suspicious and they should be, it was already sign of their bigger hearts that they let her stay in this tribe especially when the humans were killing their members with ridiculous excuses.
Small and big tents and stone chambers were not build in rows so it made it look pretty crowded when Jen walked between the tents following the sambar.
Jen shook her head to see various half beasts looking at her with disbelieve, out of all places she ended up here, one could easily reckon how unlucky she was, she should have keep a distance from her enemies and try to remain hidden until they were unable to kill her but here she was borrowing some time, the enemy was standing with open mouth ready to gulp her, she thought to herself.
They reached a tent, there were fewer things for the daily use, the inside was clean but it would be inconvenient if she occupied it, where would the half beast female rest or sleep? It was small for two residents and probably build only for single beast.
"Human, you should not worry, it will be fine once your chamber is built," female sambar reminded and went to collect herbs.
Jen could not believe anything, the place and the residents, these tribes and their conflicts, it seemed a whole different world and it was not part of Celestial Sphere but it was not true, she was in the Celestial Sphere and this place was part of Celestial Sphere, these half beast were struggling to live in this dark region while the humans were headache for them.
It means their everyday was a challenge, Jen cannot change anything nor she wished to bother the ongoing matters, she should focus on her recovery and leave this place, once she was away, she could find a secluded place for cultivation, the only problem was that mysterious human, and during her stay she should avoid that man certainly.
This was the only choice to avoid conflict and remain intact, her escape would also be a challenge for her but there was no choice.