gentle beast

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Crew and Flick stopped.

“Chief, what do you mean?”

Ryan lifted a long leg. “Stop you fighting. Send this Olympus female to Bersen’s house. Remove her from the race and send her, along with the other females, up to the to the Uhland Snowfield.”

Berson was the leopard that replaced Scarlet as elder. He and Scarlet were about the same age, but Berson was of a much milder personality.

Crew shifted into his human form and asked, “Uhland Snowfield? Why do we need to send our females up to the barren land?”

Flick also expressed his doubts.

Ryan carried Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu past them, saying, “Call all the young males of the race. Tomorrow I will explain why.”

There was a group of snow leopards in the depths of Uhland’s deep snow fields. After the sudden change in environment on Bornia, they had gone into hiding and weren’t included in the overall Leopard race.

This group of snow leopards actually had only a dozen or so members. After hundreds of years of breeding, there were not about two hundred of them and most of them were female.

Ryan had always intended to take care of them, but they had always acted too cautiously and traces could hardly be found.

Now, Ryan had come up with a plan. Beasts would relax their vigilance towards those of the same kind. If they were to use their females to draw out the snow leopard females, then finding their whereabouts would be easy.

The following day, Ryan explained about the Uhland Snowfield and the males formulated a careful plan to take over.

That afternoon, Dole and Corey led the tribe to the field.

Ryan did not go. This kind of trivial thing could be settled without him.

Things went as well as Ryan had expected.

Olympus and two other females walked into the snow-capped mountains. One of them pretended to be injured and successfully lured over a snow leopard.

Dole and Corey easily followed the snow leopard and found their settlement.

First they tried persuading them to return to the race, but they were used to their freedom and refused to compromise. Afterward, Dole led the tribe to overtake them with him. Because most of these snow leopards were female and lacked combat skill, they quickly fell and had to surrender. They obediently followed Dole and Corey back to the leopard tribe.

In fact, returning to the race was going to be good for the two hundred snow leopards.

With the protection of the race, they would no longer have to live out their lives displaced and could settle into Camuda Valley. They wouldn’t have to suffer the bullying of the other races either.

Of course, the leopard males were much happier.

With the extra females, numbering more than a hundred, it would quickly solve the scarcity of the females in their race.

Ryan let Berson register the names of the snow leopards and assigned them to males of the race.

Although some males still did not get a spouse, most of the males that gained a spouse were very satisfied with the results. They gained an additional layer of “reverence” for Ryan.