As you would expect from a beast.

"So the last city in the plan has been captured?"

A man with bestial looks questioned as he glanced at the two men in front of him. The man had long white hair, sharp blue eyes, fierce eyebrows, thin nose, a clean face, there were black strips all over his body, even the face and he had tiger-like ears.

One look at him and one would thing that he was a Tiger-kin, however, an experienced being would quickly notice the differences.

For some reason, the man looked... incomplete... there was something odd about the energy the man radiated that made him different from the rest of the Tiger-kin.

Not that it mattered, the two men sitting together with him didn't even know about the Tiger-kins, let alone be capable enough to sense the differences.

Even if they were, they wouldn't dare to make a ask. After all, the man-beast was much more powerful than them.

"Yes, Lord Nawdren."

The man whose hair were growing grey because of his age answered, Herms Lyzander, answered with a respectful look on his face.

"With the last city down, our Army can now enter the 'real' Woods Dynasty, once we do that, the Skyfall will try to get involved in the War because of the Pact and Amletus from the Skadi would oppose them.

This would eventually lead to a War where me, Roone, and Amletus would face Astaria and Herms, once we defeat them, we simply need to deal with Amletus and everything will be yours."

Herms replied, his servile attitude would have surprised almost anyone who say him, after all, seeing the usually domineering being like a faithful dog was... quite a shocking site.

Roone, Herms's son, however, was not shocked. Unlike others, he knew just how strong the man-beast in front of him was, he and his father had no choice but to be submissive.

"Are you facing any problems? Any variables that might cause harm?" Nawdren questioned with a doubtful look on his face.

Seeing the uncertaninty on his face, Herms frowned in confusion,. This was the first time he had seen such an expression on the man's face. Herms couldn't understand how someone as strong as this man would care about anything.

After all, even if some elements of surprise does appear, wasn't he there anyways?

Even if Astaria and Alizimus have 5 Emperors together with them, once Nawdren shows up, those Emperors would be as useless as mortal soldiers in a War.

Sensing his questions from his gaze, Nawdren glanced at the old man and,

"I know, this place is small, no one here strong enough to hold against me but..."

Nawdren suddenly narrowed his eyes.

"Everything is going a little too well."

"What do you mean?" Herms narrowed his eyes in confusion."The Skyfall Kingdom is too silent."

"This is not their War."

"And you think as the strongest kingdom, they won't involve themselves with it? They are only sending spies and even though they know their spies are being killed, they are not making any moves, they are completely oblivious of our plans, and despite knowing that, they are still silent.

The Woods are constantly being pushed back, Alcimus is panicking and is starting to make some moves, everything is going according to the plan, and this bothers me."

Both Herms and Roone narrowed their eyes in confusion, just like the man said, everything was going as they expected, how is that a bad thing...?

They couldn't understand.

"I have not made any move and I find it hard to believe that the two of you are capable enough of executing everything so perfectly, after all, if that was the case, the 4 nations would have been unified a long ago."

"No one made a move before because they were all scared of your ancestor taking action."

Herms was quick to defend his pride.

Nawdren glanced at the old man and stayed silent for a while.

He agreed with the man's point, he knew about the pact, heck, he was responsible for holding the pact a few years ago. He knew why no one made a move, but despite all that, he couldn't help but feel wrong.

Normally, he wouldn't care about all this. After all, he could squash any bug that wanted to interfere with his plans, even the two men in front of him were nothing more than tools to ease up his plans.

However, for some reason, despite everything going like he expect them to, Nawdren felt strange, it was as if a monstrous existence had locked his eyes on him and although he couldn't sense anything, his beastly instincts were telling him to back off. The signals were weak but Nawdren wasn't foolish enough to completely ignore them.

This was why he was looking for variables.lightsnovel

However, seeing that everything was fine, he decided not to think about it, reassured himself, and,

"Alright then, continue with the plan, I want the Army to enter the Woods Capital within 3 days. Force the Emperor out, break the Pact and go for an all out confrontation and conquer the other three nations as soon as you can.

The Barrier is still weakening, we do not have a lot of time in our hands."

"As you command." Herms bowed his head, the son followed the father and did the same. Then, the two emperors excused themselves and left the room.

Nawdren sat on his chair in silence as if he was pondering something.

The nagging feeling he was feeling was still there, he just couldn't point out the reason behind it. Even now, his senses were at full alert, any changes in his surrounded and he would react in an instant, however, no matter how much he tried to look around and find something, he couldn't.

In the end, thinking that his worries were unfounded, he simply walked towards his bed and sat cross legged with his eyes closed.

Of course, his guard was still up, he was a careful being.

'Beastly instincts are quite strong huh...'

Nux, who was watching Nawdren's actions in silence couldn't help but comment.

As someone who had a large amount of experience in dealing with Beasts, he knew just how strong their instincts were and what's even more scary was that unlike other races, the Beasts trusted their instincts to an unimaginable level.

After all, despite gaining intelligence because of their high cultivation, in the end, they were still beasts, beasts who relied on their instincts to do everything.

This was also the reason Nux had so much problem sneaking around amongst the Beasts when he trained in Waranal. The Beasts there were simply too sensitive.

'Not that it matters.'

Nux thought. Glancing at the man-beast in front of him and then at the sword in his hand. It was a 7-Star Sword he brought from the System Shop.

After buying 10 similar swords, Nux returned from the Bloodhill Wilderness and came here, it was time to finish all this.

Nawdren was strong, with Nux's senses and experience, he could tell that even though he was completely invisible and had all the time he needed to initiate the first attack, he cannot kill Nawdren in one attack.

After all, even though he was only a Mana Cultivator, as a Pseudo Sage, his body was still too strong for him to fall in just one blow.

A fight was inevitable, something Nux had long prepared himself for.

"Haaahh..."

In the end, Nux exhaled deeply, then, with his golden eyes shined brightly, gathering all the Essence around him, he pushed everything into his sword.

Since he didn't have Devouring Mist in this life, incomplete Sword Aura was the only thing he could use right now.

His eyes shined dangerously as he took his stance, then, his sword moved, rushing towards Nawdren's chest at a ridiculous speed even for a complete Master Stage Cultivator's standard.

Pierce

lightsΝοvεl ƈοm The Sword pierced through Nawdren's skin, his sword piercing 1 cm deep into the beings heart, almost killing him, but just as he expected, Nawdren reacted at the last moment, stopping his attack.

'Well, fuck.'

Nux cursed as he glanced at man beast who was now staring at him threateningly.

"My instincts are getting rusty, maybe it is because I am not longer a complete Winged Linux." Nawdren commented with a calm look on his face.

He could sense the boy in front of him was not strong, no, he couldn't sense his cultivation, however, the speed and strength behind his attack was enough to tell Nawdren that the man was even weaker than an Emperor, let alone him.

"To think you were the bug my instincts were warning me about."

"Heh."

Nux smiled.

He tried his best to push to sword even deeper, but with the man holding his sword's blade with his hand, it was a contest of strength, a contest he would never win.

"As you would expect from a beast." He commented as he jumped back, taking out another sword as he prepared himself for the upcoming battle.