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Chapter 634 - Moonlight Tribe's Decision - Part 1
After the Moonlight Maiden and the Elders entered the main hall, Chief Moon told Lusha to leave. The next meeting was not something in Lusha's position could attend. As Lusha left the hall, the hall went into a deep silence. Everyone was looking at Chief Moon as they went to their seats.
"Grand Elder Olming, you can brief them on what happened to The Beast Coven and also the Guardian Beast." Chief Moon looked to the side and told Grand Elder Olming. At the words, everyone was looking at the old man.
Grand Elder Olming took a deep breath and told what he had just heard from Lusha. "This might be hard to believe, but this is what happened to our ally..."
An Elder stood up from the chair and raised his choice. "There's no way I will believe that, Grand Elder Olming! Do you know what kind of a figure the Guardian Beast is? There's no way The Guardian Beast will bow to mere a human! Lusha may make up that kind of story to cover up her and her team's failure!"
"Do you think so?" Chief Moon looked to the Elder. "Why would she cover something that eventually gets revealed? That doesn't make sense, Elder Armsong. On top of that, her team is held hostage by the Tang Empire."
Chief Moon changed the way he addressed Tang Shaoyang's force with the actual name of the empire. He did not call them The Tyrant anymore, proof that he had accepted the existence of the new force.
Elder Armsong, the brown-colored Moonlight Rabbit, froze when Chief Moon interrupted him. He was just too hot-headed and could not accept that something like that had happened. Who would expect the Guardian Beast to bow down to a human? That was something impossible, at least, in the hundred years of history, that never happened.
Chief Moon looked at his own daughter, Moonlight Maiden Sylvia. "Moonlight Maiden, Lusha is your direct subordinate. You chose and trained her; do you think she would lie about her failure? Do you think she will do this far to cover up her failure?"
There was indeed a rumor about that, but they thought it was just something absurd and brushed it off as a joke. Everyone knew that the Kirin was the strongest individual in the forest. The Dark Tribe would not be that stupid to fight the Kirin. That was what everyone thought at that time, and Sylvia had the same thoughts at that time.
However, with the clues she found up to this time, that was most likely what happened.
"Let us hear about your conjecture, Moonlight Maiden." Chief Moon allowed her daughter to speak out. There was no harm in listening to her daughter's conjecture rather than the meeting getting stalled.
Sylvia took a deep breath and told everyone in the hall about the clues she had found out so far. The trace of the battle around the Kirin's lair and the missing Green Sky Serpent. She pointed out those two topics, and she said missing because the Green Sky Serpent was usually easy to contact. This was the first time in years that the Green Sky Serpent did not respond to their call.
The same for the Dark Tribe. They might not have a harmonious relationship with the Dark Tribe, but they always kept in contact, especially in an emergency like this.
"This sounds silly, but the Green Sky Serpent and the Dark Tribe worked together to get rid of The Kirin. That explained the trace of the battle around The Kirin's lair and also explained the phenomenon yesterday last night. They managed to corner The Kirin, and that was the time when The Tang Empire appeared.
The Tang Empire helped The Kirin to fight the Dark Tribe and the Green Sky Serpent. With the help of the empire, they killed the Green Sky Serpent and also took over the Dark Tribe. The reason why the people we sent to the Dark Tribe's territory did not return. Like I said before, this sounds silly, but this is the most plausible explanation as to why The Kirin followed the human."
That was a great deduction on her part, but not everyone believed that. An Elder raised his hand and spoke up. "Or maybe the Tang Empire has something to threaten The Kirin and force her to follow them. In this case, a further investigation is needed to be done before we can come up with the right solution. We should focus our force on investigating The Green Sky Serpent and the Dark Tribe. If we have Sir Suvan, The Dark Tribe, and The Elven with us, I think we can face the Tang Empire even with The Kirin with them."
As this Elder voiced his thoughts, the other Elders started agreeing with his opinion more than the Moonlight Maiden's silly conjecture. "Yes, that's right!" "Let's investigate things thoroughly!" "We can come up with a decision from listening to one source!" or so. Out of the twelve Elders, eight of them agreed to further investigation.
"What about the deadline? We need to respond to the Tang Empire within two days, or they will attack us next." Chief Moon looked at the Elder with his calm eyes. Despite the crisis, he maintained his emotion well. No one knew their Chief was thinking by just looking at his expression. "What if everything Moonlight Maiden said is what actually happened? If The Green Sky Serpent is killed and the Tang Empire swallows the Dark Tribe, we are in a dire situation."
"We need to conduct a further investigation. I agree with that, but that's not what I want to discuss with The Elders. But how do we cope with the worst situation where the Dark Tribe and The Green Sky Serpent could not help us? If The Tang Empire could defeat the Beast Coven, the Dark Tribe should not be an issue for the empire... We need to think of a way to survive the worst situation since we only have two days. What if our investigation leads to nothing? What should we do by then?"