20 Blood dripping arm to his back, grabbing hold of one of his spear.

From afar it looked like they where mowing ants from the wall with trees.

None of the ants survived

Some of the panther beast folk scouts noticed that no ants where climbing up the cliff anymore.

so they started relaying the message to the rest of their kin in a language that dan still couldn't understand.

The rest of the beast folk stopped what the where doing when they heard the good news from the others and started cheering happily while also checking an making sure that no more giant ants started climbing the cliff wall.

the cute little panther like children with eyes yellow as the starts shining in the sky, black furred tails wiggling joyfully behind and beautiful dark panther like ears, they started jumping around with happy smiles and cheerfuller shouts, slowly changing the atmosphere in the surrounding and bringing wider smile to the other older beast folk in the surroundings.

Even their exhausted expressionless face's seemed to get life back in them because of the joyful atmosphere at the moment

how couldn't anyone be this happy when a catastrophe that was trying to claim the life of your loved ones and yourself, has been overcome.

Dan also stopped trimming more trees with his, now, bloody covered fists.

he started observing the atmosphere between all the surviving beast folk.

seeing the happy and blissful smiles on the panther beast folk, dan remembered one of his realizations from his youth before the change.

'i wont give a rats as about this world and its suffering people . its the only way for me not to feel even more pain that is brought by my empathy when observing their life, but if i ever get the strength and power necessary to change it , than i will.'

when dan was young he couldn't understand why other with a semblance of power or richer that the commoner would bring pain and misery to the week and innocent , alwayes wondering why not be happy together.

only for dan to grown and experience more of life helping him to come to his own understanding of the cruelty in this world's society , resulting in him hating everyone in power.

why?

simply because they where all rotten to the core, paying the wages to the bare minimum, barely enough for some to even try to save any money for a rainy day, blackmailing innocent and week individuals to do their biding or frame them to go to prison in their stead, getting their hand on any woman they wanted, most likely by force, destroying families, controlling the media and low enforcement for their advantage and constructing the social teaching in such a way that those whom didn't bother to question anything would end up being puppets for these rotten leaders, for their own benefits, such psychopaths need death.

Not to mention the destruction their greedy hands and ambition brought to the land by destroying forests and excavation rare ores.

Without caring for the land they stepped on , the land fought back by not shielding us from the sun or heat, while new diseases spread, which only the rich dicks could afford.

Especially in the last few years, the heat was getting unbearable by the year, if the apocalyptic change that inserted immense amounts of vitality back in our world didn't happen, by dan's observation and estimation , the world would have turned into a desert in about a decade or so from now.

dan always wished to get rid of these greed obsessed psychotic rulers an make a better world.

one time he even dreamed about himself walking in the big city and gather a crowd of people chanting

"kill the 1% percent !"

"kill the 1% percent !"

"kill the 1% percent !"

"kill the 1% percent !"

but even if he thought it was a good idea after he woke up , it didn't mean that it was something possible to achieve, no ruler being high up in power would allow someone to survive that is trying to uproot them.

like the saying goes, no ruler will teach you how to uproot him and do a better job than he ever did.

So he ended up continuing with his mundane life, closing himself from the outside world as much as possible so he wont get hurt and always searching for answers to his most curious questions about life and everything leading to his own understanding and realizations just to distract himself from others pain, or else he might have gone insane by now and become a serial killer of the corrupt.

'thankful , now i have a way to become a real powerhouse, and with this power i shall become the dictator of peace in the lands i can reach '

A few minutes later the beast folk group started to settle down

Their leader started to round them up and make sure that everyone was there

Before he turned around and sow the humanoid silhouette covered in a black hoodie with two spears on his back with a green glow at the tip and blood dripping from his hands.

The beast folk leader proceeded to walk a few meters forward away from his group before bowing with his head toward whom he considers as the savior of his people and spoke.

" O'dear benefactor , thank you for saving my people, I wish to ...."

Even thou he was tanking his savior , it was pointless since dan didn't understand the language, but before he could even finish his sentence, he was interrupted by dan's next action

in font of him, the humanoid silhouette extended his blood dripping arm to his back, grabbing hold of one of his spears.

seeing that action, the beast folk leader and the rest of the group that where behind him go tensed up, wandering what was going to happen , some even praying for some peace and quiet.

who wouldn't tense up if someone that can trow a hundred meter tree of the cliff picked up a weapon while facing you.

Some of the children, already exhausted, weary , and terrified from the experience that they just had gone trough, started trembling even more when their happy smiles vanished, while their imagination going wild out of fear, afraid to die and lose their parents and tribes folk that they grew up to adore and cherish and look up to .

The hooded humanoid silhouette and metallic spears with green pointy blades on his back in front of the beast folk leader proceeded slowly to point with the pointy green tip of his spear at the leader and than in a circular motion to the rest of the group before taping the spear three times on his own knee and than pointing the tip of the spear at the ground

Akirigera, the leader of the beast folk with the shadow flame panther bloodline understood the intention of the silhouette in front of him.

but understanding and following such instructions are two completely different things.

while multitude of different thoughts ran rampant and chaotically in his mind, in the end of the day only one thought stream shined brighter than the rest with unlimitless resolve.

'my people need to be safe, and to achieve that, i will swim trough lava if i have to, i will cross the sky if i have to, and as long as they can have a peaceful and blissful life i will accept becoming someones slave if i have to'

Understanding that the gesture of the silhouette in front of him meant for them to kneel and accept him as their new master.

looking back at his kin, especially those that had fear leaking out of them so obviously, Akirigera he spoke up .

"guy, no need to be afraid , from the looks of it he wont kill any of us, what he just did with his spear was just a gesture for us to kneel to him, and since he is our savior and benefactor, also the fact that we have no idea where we are and we are all very exhausted and weak from running so long, for our children's safety we have to accept our current predicament"

said akirigera with conviction in his voice

"damn it, so we escaped from one powerful being only to end up in the hands of another "

shouted one of the elderly from the left side

" yeah , we cant have our shadow flame panther bloodline to continue and degrade, i say we fight till the last one of us"

said the biggest looking warrior in his team

"yes we should fight, we..."

the teen was interrupted before he could continue.

"and tell me , whats the point of our bloodline increasing in strength if we are not alive alongside the ones we love and care, to enjoy the life we built? didn't we have a good life under the demonic blood willow tree? we only left to increase our shadow flame panthers bloodline and acquire more power , but the peaceful life we had there is no more "

once that was said , even the other brave and strong warriors that didn't mind to fight to the death, had a change of expression, i mean, who wouldn't right? who wouldn't prefer to live a peaceful life by the side of those they cared, alive and well?

one of the wise elders said something that might have helped everyone with a new resolve.

" and what if he doesn't care and treats our loved ones like his play things?"

hearing that the leader answered.

"quite simple actually, fight for our freedom till the last man, i am pretty sure that nobody has a problem with that"

"but what if its a blessing in disguise, "?

asked the leader back, witch made most of the beast folk change their thinking.

"anyways , we have been talking here for a while now and this powerful spear man still hasn't done anything to us to make us decide quickly or force us under him, and instead he is patiently waiting for our decision, to me , that already tells me that he has a better character than the demonic blood willow tree"

"i say we take a chance, nay, i order you , from now on he is our leader unless he proves inadequate to take care of those that kneel to him. "

after saying his peace, Akirigera turned around and proceeded to kneel on the ground , baffling the other beast folk that have not come to a decision yet because of the chaotic and different thought stream passing trough their minds and causing a chaotic havoc of indecisiveness

seeing their leader kneel to someone else and considering the order that they just received , some of the older ones started to kneel as well , one by one , until the rest of the group was kneeling in front of a humanoid silhouette with a spear in his hand pointing to the ground while his blood kept dripping from his arm along the spear, finally falling to the ground.

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