Are you in a hurry?
Chen Hao calmly gazed at Setsuna, knowing the answer already. He had already read Setsuna's memories through the recovery magic, so he naturally knew why she was in such a hurry.
"Yes! I'm counting on you! Once we get to the clan, I'll make sure my father repays you properly! Please take me out of the city quickly!"
She grabbed Chen Hao's arm anxiously and shook it, stamping her feet in frustration.
"You're really impatient... But before that, let me tell you something first, and then you can make a decision."
Chen Hao wore a helpless expression, then, with a fleeting look of anxiety and confusion in his eyes, he continued:
“I just did some intelligence gathering outside and got some information from a soldier from the Kingdom of Geolar about your Ice Wolf Clan.”
"...What news?"
She asked hurriedly, her expression filled with unease, fearing that Chen Hao would tell her bad news about her people.
“Just a few days ago, a scout team returned with news about the Ice Clan’s territory. Then most of the soldiers of the Kingdom of Geolar stationed in Lanarita learned about this. The team disguised themselves as a large mercenary group and set off for the Ice Wolf Clan’s territory a few days ago.”
Upon hearing the news Chen Hao delivered, her eyes widened instantly, and tears uncontrollably streamed down her face. The hand that had been tightly gripping Chen Hao's arm slowly lost its strength, loosened, and slipped away.
In that instant, she felt the whole world plunge into darkness, and her body felt completely powerless. She knelt on the ground, her eyes devoid of light in despair.
It's too late, it's all too late...
My clansmen... they must all have been killed... my father too...
It's all my fault, it's all my fault for being too weak...
If I hadn't been the one holding them back... my companions wouldn't have lost to those scouts...
It's all my fault, it's all my fault for being so useless, it's all my fault, it's all my fault...
Boundless despair and self-blame, like a surging tide, overwhelmed Shan Shan's heart, and an unprecedented sense of powerlessness bound her body like shackles.
In that instant, she seemed to hear the countless souls of her people crying out to her, questioning her.
Why? Why? Why didn't you come back sooner to let us know?!
She clutched her head tightly, crying out in despair.
I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! But I'm too weak! I've been captured! I've been locked up as a slave!
If she had a choice, Setsuna certainly wouldn't want to be a weakling. The law of the jungle was undoubtedly a concept she had been instilled with since childhood as a demi-human, and Setsuna had never slacked off in her training.
But there are always some places in this world that inspire despair, and some people whose potential is inherently much lower than that of others.
Setsuna herself was one of them, and her level cap was only level seven.
She was born in a village of the Ice Wolf Clan, and in the home of the strongest warrior of the Ice Wolf Clan. Her talent was overwhelmingly high, and her strong Ice Wolf King bloodline gave her unique skills and an innate combat instinct that could not be seen from the data. This made her a complete genius among her peers.
However, Setsuna, who was known as a genius, underwent a strange change a year ago, and suddenly became unable to defeat children of the same age.
It wasn't that her fighting skills had declined, nor that she had slacked off in training her combat techniques; on the contrary, she worked harder than anyone else to hone her skills.
It wasn't that she neglected the training of her level; as the daughter of the strongest warrior, she had experienced far more battles than other people her age.
The reason is simple: she had reached her level cap. After confirming this information with the appraisal paper her father bought, Setsuna initially refused to admit defeat and continued to work hard to hone her skills, trying to develop more exquisite techniques to make up for the gap in her attributes.
Although there have been some achievements, there is a limit to the growth of martial arts skills. The limitations of her physical attributes mean that she can no longer develop or train stronger martial arts skills.
Martial arts are indeed something the weak use to defeat the strong, but when the weak pick up martial arts as a weapon, then she is no longer weak, but has also stepped into the ranks of the strong.
In battles between the strong, the suppression of physical attributes can render techniques futile. The all-out attack you painstakingly unleash is merely a casual, ordinary attack that the opponent can deliver. No matter how hard you attack, you cannot break through their defenses...
Not to mention that those powerful individuals with strong physical attributes can also use techniques!
This is how high-level monsters crush low-level weaklings. No matter how hard she tries, she can never catch up. The gap in levels widens, and she can no longer defeat anyone.
If I were stronger, I could have wiped out all those human scouts and prevented the intelligence from leaking out. But there are no "ifs" in this world, only cruel reality.
"...There's more to come..."
Chen Hao looked at Sha Na, who was kneeling on the ground and had fallen into despair, and slowly continued:
"Those soldiers returned yesterday, but they didn't capture a single Ice Wolf Clan member. When they arrived at that territory, they found it had become an abandoned village with no Ice Wolf Clan members left. Judging from the remaining traces in the village, they must have heard the news and moved away in a hurry."
"This information was obtained from one of the soldiers who went out. I used a little trickery, but the intelligence is absolutely reliable."
"The tribesmen...have all moved away? No one died? No one was captured and enslaved?"
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