The platinum unicorn comes from the Xia clan of the forest.
Unicorns are not tall in human form; adult Unicorns are smaller than adult Rock Squirrel Beastmen.
But they have a fearless personality and an imposing presence that makes Jiang Yunlan often overlook the fact that they are not tall.
Even now, she saw that the beast form transformed from Moon's Horn was about two meters long. She was stunned.
Is this reasonable? Her eyes widened as she saw Moon Horn leap out of her field of vision, jumping several times before landing on the sea monster's back.
He revealed a pair of claws as sharp as those of the hornless beastmen, gripping the sea monster tightly. His sharp teeth were biting into the sea monster's vital organs, and his long tail, resembling a whale's tail, was wrapped around the sea monster, preventing the frantically struggling creature from escaping.
After painstakingly killing a giant sea monster, Moon Horned Satisfied, he dragged it with his two claws and slithered like a snake to Lan's side, tossing the three-meter-long sea monster in front of Lan.
"The sea monsters are so delicious. Lan, why don't you guys come and eat sea monsters tonight too!" The platinum unicorn lowered its round head and looked at her, revealing a row of bloody fangs.
Unlike human hands, the unicorn's claws are webbed. They are short, barely touching, making them more suitable for patting the belly, far too short for his teardrop-shaped, slender body.
Jiang Yunlan reached out and poked the sea monster. It felt smooth and cool to the touch, and it looked delicious.
“Okay, we’ll cook this with rice tonight. Do you want to try it?” She turned to the unicorn and asked with a smile, just in time to see another angry unicorn swimming up behind him.
“Great! I want to eat the innards! Lan, I’m telling you, the giant sea monster is good whether it’s raw or cooked…” Yue Unicorn said excitedly, but just before she finished speaking, she was suddenly thrown into the water by the giant unicorn behind her.
"Whoosh—"
The sudden splash of water sprayed in all directions. The giant unicorn stood in front of the humanoid Jiang Yunlan, preventing her from getting wet. The other beastmen, including Feng Hong, were not well protected and were half-soaked.
Feng Hong laughed heartily, completely unconcerned about getting soaked. She told Lan where she was going, then grabbed her iron hammer and rushed off to find the sea monster trying to return to the ocean.
Using the beast-shaped Hati, he shook off the water and ran off to hunt sea monsters.
Seeing this, Heitu led the other beastmen of Xia to follow Fenghong and Hati, and together they surrounded the sea beasts that were trying to escape from the shallows back into the sea.
The platinum unicorn, Yue, lay in the shallow water, stunned for several seconds. She straightened up, her eyes accusing, and said aggrievedly, "Chieftain, why did you knock me over with your head again? I didn't disturb the semi-adults' hunt this time."
As Jiang Yunlan listened to his accusations, her gaze shifted to the semi-adult unicorn who hadn't caught the baby sea monster. She silently thought to herself: No, actually you disturbed them. Because your jump to catch the large sea monster was too loud, you scared the semi-adults away when they tried to catch the baby sea monster.
The unicorn chieftain's answer was exactly what she expected.
Then she saw the angry unicorn chieftain once again lift the moon up and send it flying into the sea a little further away.
"How many times have I told you! When you're hunting sea beasts, watch your surroundings! You're so impulsive again. If I hadn't asked my people to hold off the other sea beasts for you, do you think you could have waited until that giant sea beast died?" The unicorn chieftain was furious and struck Yue twice more with his tail.
Seeing Yue lying in the water, seemingly reflecting on his actions, the unicorn chieftain shook his head and stopped looking at him.
He always reflects on his mistakes after being criticized, only to repeat them later. The unicorn chieftain has seen through him. This guy is never reliable.
Jiang Yunlan sat beside the dead sea monster, propping her chin up as she watched the giant unicorn give its speech, her eyes unblinking. 022 sat on her head, also watching the scene intently, memorizing it all.
So this is how unicorns teach their people.
The patriarch of the entire tribe, the unicorn chieftain, finished her speech, venting her anger, and sighed helplessly. She turned her head and saw Lan and the creature on Lan's head looking at her with bright eyes, and felt inexplicably embarrassed.
It's all Yue's fault for being so difficult to teach; her image as the head of the clan was completely destroyed the moment she met Lan.
She coughed, pretending nothing had happened, and gracefully swam to Lan. She crouched down and approached Lan, communicating with her in the language of the grasslands, "Hello, chieftain of the Xia clan. I am Banman. Banman Unicorn."
“My name is Jiang Yunlan, you can just call me Lan.” Jiang Yunlan also spoke to her in the language of the grasslands.
Half-full-horned smiled at Lan, stretched out its two webbed claws, and pulled the sea beast ashore, saying, "The sea beast is heavy. I don't think you, being so small, can easily carry it. I'll take it to your resting place."
The orcs who were with Lan just went hunting, and if Lan wants to take the prey back, she has to go and call her people from the shore to come here first. This is too much trouble.
As she moved the items, she inwardly cursed Yue. That unreliable Yue was really something; she'd sent sea beasts to the Xia clan, but hadn't thought to send them to Xia's resting place?
Moon·Unicorn, still lying in the sea reflecting on itself: OvO?
The giant unicorn, half-full, dragged the sea beast away. Jiang Yunlan stood there blankly, her gaze sweeping over the Moon Unicorn floating on the sea.
Suddenly it became quiet... no, it became even noisier.
Hearing the intermittent commotion, she looked up in the direction the sounds were coming from. Unicorns and hornless beasts were driving sea monsters to the shore, and Feng Hong and the others were standing on the shore waiting for the sea monsters to escape.
The beastmen were having a great time hunting sea monsters, and their happy laughter echoed from time to time.
Jiang Yunlan couldn't help but laugh as she listened, and asked the corpse of Yue Dujiao lying in the sea, "Aren't you going hunting? Your people are over there too."
"I'm going!" The platinum unicorn instantly stood up, leaped and ran off, leaving a message in the distance: "Lan~ When it gets tonight, we'll come find you for dinner, and we'll bring lots and lots of sea beasts with us!"
She waved to the departing moon, then turned and led 022 and Freya back to Xia's resting place.
Halfway back, the giant unicorn, having already finished delivering the food, swam over to meet her. Half-full Unicorn couldn't believe that Lan had only walked such a short distance after she had delivered all the sea beasts, and couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Lan is still a cub, just like the cubs in my clan. If you're not careful, you'll be left behind."
She placed her tail in front of Lan, turned to Lan and said, "Get on, I'll take you back. It'll be quick."
Jiang Yunlan was curious about the feeling of being carried along on her tail, so she didn't refuse.
The wind whistled past her ears, and Jiang Yunlan clung tightly to Banman's tail, afraid of being shaken off. Banman said he would take her flying back, and he was indeed moving at a speed that was almost like taking off.
take off!
"0, 2, 2, all caught!"
Her voice was drawn out by the wind, flowing into the transparent slime's ears along with the sound of the wind, carrying a lot of laughter.
“I’ve got it, Lan,” it replied with a smile.
A few seconds later, Jiang Yunlan landed with a bright smile on her face, just like a toddler who was finally able to ride the roller coaster she had been longing for.
Half-full-horned, seeing that Lan liked it, grinned, revealing a row of sharp teeth, and asked her, "Lan, would you like to try again?"
She was tempted, but seeing the blazing sun, she decisively shook her head. "You'll get hurt if you stay in the sun too long, so let's not. It's shady here, why don't you rest here for a while?"
Iwatoyu, who had been lying close to the wooden cart, stood up and shook off the slightly dusty downy feathers.
"There's an ocean here, so it's alright. We are ocean beastmen, and the sea will protect us. I'll soak in the seawater before coming out, and I won't get sunburned!" Half-Full Horn said proudly, flicking its tail towards Lan and carrying Lan back into the sea.
She is an orc protected by the ocean; wherever there is sea, that is her domain.
Yan Duoyu watched Lan leave, then silently lay back down, pretending that he had just stretched, but his eyes were fixed on the large unicorn that had taken Lan around.
stare--
Once again on the surface of the sea, Half-Full Horn jumped into the water and disappeared for a while before resurfacing. She had intended to spit water to help Lan San cool down, but then suddenly remembered that Lan's beast form was different from hers. The ball of water she had just spat out immediately fell straight below her, splashing up quite a bit.
Jiang Yunlan reached out and played in the water. Hearing the sound, she looked up and asked with a smile, "Are you feeling any better?"
“Much better,” Half-Full Unicorn said blankly, flicking water with her tail. She looked up and down at Lan several times before continuing, “I just bumped into Yue in the water. Yue said you wanted that water-repelling item as a bargaining chip.”
"Will you one day go to the ocean, to the original habitat of our people?" she asked.
When Jiang Yunlan heard the great unicorn use the word for "ocean" in their language, she nodded. "I want to know more about this world. I want to help more beastmen and nature. After my people and I have traveled the continent, I will go to the ocean, and perhaps to your original habitat."
If she doesn't go out, she won't know many things. So she needs to go out and experience the world.
The large, platinum-gold unicorn remained motionless. She stood where the waves crashed against the shore, gazing down at the tiny cub. "Lan, if possible… when you go to the ocean, could you take Yue and the others with you?"
"They are still too young and always want to see the place their ancestors spoke of. Please take them there; they will be a great help to you."
The orcs belonging to the ocean said this to Jiang Yunlan.
Young orcs are always curious about the homeland their elders speak of, and she was no exception when she was young. But now, she thought, it would be enough if Yue and the others could return from the ocean and tell her about it.
Jiang Yunlan saw the giant unicorn smile at her, not with sharp teeth, but with a gentler smile tinged with sadness.
“Okay, I promise you. As long as you’re willing, I’ll invite you to come with me on the day Xia goes to the ocean,” Jiang Yunlan promised.
The ocean was too distant and too vast; the Xia clan, who had not yet built sails, still had a long way to go if they wanted to reach it. She left behind a promise that she would fulfill in the future, focusing her attention on the present.
Tonight's meal for the Xia clan includes fragrant rice cooked after the shells have been removed, various ways of cooking sea monster meat, and vegetarian dishes for the vegetarian beastmen.
The orcs hunted sea beasts together today. It looked like they had captured a mountain of sea beasts, but in reality, they only caught three more sea beasts than the unicorns had caught last time.
Xia's beastmen are not suited for sea hunting, and this is the first time they have cooperated with Yue and Linshui to capture sea beasts. Jiang Yunlan thinks it would be great if they could catch three more sea beasts.
The chieftains of the two marine beastman clans, Half-Full Unicorn and Near-Water Hornless, clearly shared this view, praising Xia's beastmen a few times.
As they sat in Xia's resting place in human form, eating rice and sea beast meat, their praise for the Xia clan's beastmen became endless.
Chew, chew, chew.
How can the orcs of Xia cook food so deliciously? Chew, chew, chew, this is so delicious!
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