The mont the Beastn race got involved with the undead in the human city, they saved as many humans hiding within the city. Thanks to the announcent of the Marshal they weren’t completely frightened by them. However, maybe it’s instinct they would avoid looking at their eyes as if frightened by them. Or maybe this is only a fear heightened by the current situation.
But the children acted differently, they were fearless and stared directly at the eyes of the beastn with excitent and happiness. Innocence that can only be found in a young one who didn’t know much about reality.
Huzi had just saved a mother and son who was buried under a fallen stone wall.
He just glanced at them to check their injuries and said, "Stand up if you aren’t injured. Go to that group and don’t move around. There are still undead roaming around."
The mother’s face was shocked when she saw a beastman but recalling the announcent made by the marshal which she heard before, her face turned serious and calm. She did as she was told and stood up from rubbles with her son and almost fell. A few tails caught them, preventing a bad fall.
"T-Thank you..."
"Kya~ fluff. Fluffu~" the boy hugs one of the fox tails of Huzi.
The mother panicked at that mont but her son didn’t want to let go.
"Sweetie, let go. Please don’t pull it."
Sigh~
"Hic! I’m sorry!"
"It’s alright. Children are like that. Moreover, it is going to start raining." Huzi said as he wrapped his tail to the shivering boy.
Then commanded his team, "Find a building and clean it up and wait for the people to pick up the survivor. It’s about to rain to create a temporary shelter."
"Yes, leader!" The beastn responded and made a move.
They left enough to protect the survivors and even clean up a place to shelter the survivors. There’s a healer among them and started treating the wounded. They gave them blankets and clean clothing. Though the humans were a bit defensive the beastn didn’t mind as they already expected this to so extent.
The children in the group were unexpectedly staring at the beastn leader with nine foxtails and a silver pair of pointy ears. Everyone was watching as the children were trying to catch the tail of Huzi. At first the adult humans were worried that the beastn might harm them. But seeing how the beastn were letting the children grab their tails and ears without rejection they couldn’t help but watch such a peaceful sight with a smile.
All of the sudden while the rain was falling a loud explosion happened nearby shaking the vicinity which was even felt to the nearby building causing the building Huzi and the others resting shook badly.
"Ah! Earthquake!!"
"Let’s go out!"
"Go out? There’s a lot of undead out there!"
Huzi checked the situation outside with his eyes and noticed that at so point the undead had mutated and rged creating an anomaly, undead warrior.
"Get ready to create a barrier in this building. We can’t leave as we are surrounded and targeted. We can only fight. Once we get out of the building hundreds of undead will jump on us," said Huzi.
A beastman said, "How can an undead have such intelligence? Leader, this can only an that there is a higher class undead among them."
"Hm. It might be an Undead Lord," said Huzi.
A beastman asked, "What should we do, Leader?"
"Keeping the building uninvolved is impossible now. Protect the humans, I will fight," said Huzi as he stood up heading out the building to fight alone.
The beastn knelt on one knee and said, "He wished for the leader’s victory!"
Seeing that only one of them was going out to fight, the humans in the building were bewildered. However, they didn’t know that beastn with stronger bloodlines had larger size and abilities ordinary beastn don’t possess.
"O-Oi, is it alright for him to fight alone? There’s a lot of undead outside!"
"We are going to alright. How about you go out and help him fight those things?"
"T-That’s right. We are going to stay put in here. Go help him! We will be alright."
Seeing the humans who were frightened enough not to talk to them the whole ti were now all stepping forward just to ask them to help the Ninetailed fox Beastman, Huzi.
It was only at this mont that the beastn felt that these humans were actually worried for their leader and explained to them what was happening.
"You guys don’t think we are sacrificing our leader and make him fight the undead alone don’t you?" A beastman asked.
A human responded, "Isn’t he going out there to fight alone?"
"Haha~ did you think that the leader would sacrifice himself? He is just going to kill so undead."
"Among the beastn, bloodline is also important. There are those who were born with ordinary beasts like cats, dogs, etc. There are also those who were born with wild beasts like tigers, lions, etc. However, there are rare bloodlines among the beast who were born with divine bloodline."
"Among them the strongest is the mythical bloodline of the Ninetailed Fox. It was said that they are ssengers of gods. As for our leader, he had married the Beast God of the core region in the barren land."
"A re undead lord is not his opponent. He just wanted to kill it as soon as possible or the corpse poison might taint your land making it unliveable."
"Moreover, the leader’s real form is extrely large. He is afraid of accidentally killing us, that’s why we couldn’t join him in this battle."
While the beastn and the humans were having a peaceful conversation, they heard the children looking out of the window say sothing.
"The sky turned dark."
"Night had fallen."
"The moon is so big!"
The adults were confused after all, despite the gloomy gray color of the sky due to rain, they were sure that it was still in the middle of the day. They approached the window and saw the sky truly dark and even the moon descended. But what caught their eyes were not the whole fire that covered the land but the huge silver furred fox with ninetails stomping on the headless undead warrior.
As if feeling the eyes on him, the huge silver fox disappeared and Huzi in his beastman form replaced it. He fell from the sky slowly like a beast god descending in the world. The night and moon disappeared, replaced with the original weather, a rainy day.
However, regardless of the rain falling from the sky, the white flas that cover the city don’t fade. Only when Huzi claps his hand does it slowly disappear. One of the humans couldn’t help but ask about the white flas.
"What is that white fla? Even the rain can’t extinguish it?" A human asked.
A beastman answered, "It’s not an ordinary fla but fox fire. Flas created from our leader’s ability. It’s not sothing a re rain can extinguish."
"The undead warrior died just like this? He is so powerful!"
"Of course! Our leader is the best!"
The beastn and the human had gotten along until the soldiers who were supposed to pick them up ca over. These soldiers were surprised when they saw a small hill of ashes. They knew that to prevent undead from reviving one needs to burn their bodies. However, for sothing big like this hill to appear left them dumbfounded.
The soldiers saluted at Huzi and respectfully asked for permission to leave after taking all the survivors with them.
"Lord Huzi, we have secured all the survivors. Thank you for saving them."
"I keep my word. Report to your leader that an Undead Lord might appear and it might not be just one. Just now I had killed a mutated undead. It’s an undead warrior with the size of a building." Huzi said.
The soldiers turned serious when they heard what the Beastn Leader had said. If an undead lord truly exists that ans cleaning up the city will not be easy. After all, an undead lord can create a hundred undead easily. If there is more than one undead lord then these undead will not be easily eliminated.
"I will report this to the Marshal!" The soldier said as he left with the group of survivors and his team. They planned to send the survivors to the evacuation center for safety.
"Beautiful uncle, thank you for saving us!" The children said with a big smile and waving their hands at him.
The usually indifferent Beastman Leader smiles at the children and waves his hand. Everyone was srized by his beauty and were stunned on the spot. However, his smile imdiately faded as soon as he noticed the reaction of the soldiers.
Huzi said, "What are you still doing here? Go back now!"
"Y-Yes!!"
The soldiers talk to one another on their way back and their topic ends up being the Beastman Leader which is supposed to be a symbol of massacre who killed their kin.
"This is the first ti I saw the leader of the beastn smile!"
"Umu, he is so beautiful. As expected of a fox!"
"So it’s true that the beastn love children. I heard that the Beastn leader personally killed the undead warrior before it could approach the building where the survivors had stayed to avoid the rain."
"The beastn race were well known for their mild temper. As long as you don’t offend them, they wouldn’t even attack you even if you accidentally said the wrong thing."
"It is also true that they only have three chances to have a child. That’s why they love children even if they are from other races."
"If only those mad scientists didn’t do such a thing! We wouldn’t have beco their enemies at all."
"Just thinking about it annoys the most!"
After the humans had taken their leave, the beastn who were sent to scout had returned.
"Leader, there is no presence of the undead after you had used the fox fire. Should we retreat?"
"The effects of my fox fire would only last for a half a day. Take a rest. Until there aren’t any instructions from that human marshal we shall continue cleaning up this land," Huzi said.
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