Chapter 158: Awaiting

Chapter 158: 158: Awaiting

"This is..." The antelope opened his eyes in shock. He couldn’t believe how this was possible.

It wasn’t a high rank. But what was shocking was how this female was able to upgrade at all!

It was no secret that this F-rank female had a terrible luck of not being able to upgrade in her rank at all! She was destined to be an F-rank female forever.

So an upgrade?! How was that possible?!

At that moment, everyone had also begun perceiving the pheromones of the energy change in rank. They were ultimately confused because this wasn’t the F-rank energy pheromones they were used to from the female!

It was different!

"Is this... An E-rank energy?" One of the beastmen asked.

"It can’t be.. How’s this possible..? I thought the female was said to never be able to upgrade? Then how is this..."

One shook their head. "This is impossible.. she is able to move up her rank?!"

Everyone marveled at this shocking phenomenon while the three tribe lords stared at each other in surprise.

Ayra then stared at the antelope while she added, "And secondly, why are you worried about me going to the wild cat? It’s not like I’m going to do anything with all attention on me, don’t you think so?"

"If you insist on your words so much, let me do what I should do. And then at the end, I’ll give you a satisfactory response," she added. "Or do you want to be the one to go and confront the wild cat instead? I’d gladly give you the opportunity to do so."

"..." The antelope was speechless. He knew he couldn’t step in there. He’d be torn into pieces!

He kept his calm as Lord Zark firmly said, "Let the female go and handle the wild cat." It was a command and no one dared protest.

And with that, Ayra turned and approached Ally. She smiled, running her hands through Ally’s ears. "I’ll be back, dear."

She said as she turned and made her way off to the cave, accompanied by Commander Lynn and some guards.

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As she left, the atmosphere exploded with talks about the change in energy from the female! Almost everyone active there noticed it and was speechless.

They never expected that the female could upgrade her rank contrary to what the rumors said about her!

Even the antelope was beyond speechless. He was worried that this increased rank from the female could harm his plan in some way.

But then again he kept his calm as he assured himself that it’s not possible. "Higher rank or not, she’ll still meet her doom now."

The antelope had tampered with the wild cat’s berserk level making it unstable and rampant. So he was certain that even the female couldn’t handle him!

His plan was simple: if the female stepped into the cave to try and soothe the wild cat, she would likely end up dead!

He smiled at his idea. It was a perfectly natural way to kill off this bothersome female without much suspicion.

He trusted his plan and knew it’d work. And then he turned to Lord Zark as he said firmly, "You should keep to your words and dispose of the female when everything is proven."

He added, "She might have cubs for the tribe. But a despicable female like her who harms everyone can’t be around us!"

The hurt beastmen lay there looking around without knowing what to believe or think. But they were leaning towards the antelope’s words in fear.

Lord Zark was furious as he stared at the antelope. He wanted to furiously attack but Lord Vale stopped him.

Then Lord Vale smiled as he walked up to the antelope. "Okay. We’ll do exactly as you said and eliminate the female if your words are true..."

But Lord Vale smiled as he said, "But what if it’s otherwise, then what happens to you?"

The antelope raised an eyebrow. "And what do you mean by that?"

Lord Vale smiled as he leaned closer to the antelope with a smile, saying, "What if all your words are lies. What are we supposed to do with you? Huh? Should we also kill you off?"

Lord Zark held a cold face as he said, "We should do more than that. We will throw you into a contaminated zone and let the wild beast feed on you. What do you say? Do we have a deal?"

The antelope trembled. He never expected the tribe lords to have such faith in the female and defend her like this!

He thought they’d buy his words of accusations by now. But he guessed they trusted her more than anything already, and the antelope was shaking.

But the antelope stayed calm. He was sure of his plan and was certain they couldn’t find anything against it. So he was safe.

And he was also certain about the fact that the female would soon be dead in there anytime soon, so no need to worry further.

He smiled as he said, "Sure. Anything you say."

"Ugly beastman! Bad!" Ally snapped at the antelope again with a furious glare while Lord Ash held her firmly from jumping off his hand and attacking him.

Just then, one of the warriors approached Lord Zark and passed down information.

They had been looking for the prisoner, the leopard beastman, for a while now. It was as though he disappeared from prison and they still couldn’t find him.

"Still can’t find him yet?" He questioned as the man nodded.

Lord Zark sighed as he said, "Continue looking for that leopard. He couldn’t have disappeared into thin air," he said firmly.

"Yes," the beastman said as he turned and went off to continue searching.

The antelope casually smiled at the news, knowing for sure that they wouldn’t find him anytime soon. He stood there calmly, pretending as if he had nothing to do with it.

And so they stayed around, waiting for news from the female who had gone to soothe the wild cat back to sanity as she had promised.