Chapter 68: Being the Saintess’s dog isn’t so bad either

The Saintess of Temperance held her ground.

One person and one horse pierced through the beastman cavalry.

The beastmen ahead began to form a formation. Lilibell reached into the void, and a crystal-clear white longbow appeared in her hand. She lightly pulled the string.

A white light arrow took shape upon it.

Whoosh—

Arilan felt a strong gust of wind whip up around her, pushing her to take two steps forward.

In her eyes, a long white arrow, spinning with incandescent light, smashed into the beastman formation, carving out a wide path straight through them.

Arilan clicked her tongue.

“My sisters are all so strong.”

She felt her guess might be right; if her sisters appeared as NPCs, they might truly be able to act with total freedom.

On the other hand, what about herself?

Arilan could only say that her own appearance in the base game was more like a relic of a bygone era.

The two stepped into the path that had been shot through. The beastmen around them looked even more shocked and uncertain.

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A beastman shouted and rushed over.

The next moment, a spear of holy light appeared out of thin air, piercing the beastman’s body and pinning him to the ground.

Whenever a beastman stepped forward, they would be ruthlessly killed by a light spear, until no one dared to move another step.

Coming to the center of the beastman army, the Saintess of Diligence, Jagerlina, had already been waiting for a long time. Next to that unicorn stood a trembling beastman.

“Who… who… who on earth are you?” Hukba, the leader of the Jackal tribe, asked in a trembling voice.

Crack—

The pure long spear in Jagerlina’s hand struck the Jackal leader’s shoulder. The sound of cracking bones echoed as she instantly shattered his pride and his ribs.

As a look of pain appeared on his face, he knelt on the ground and begged, “Mercy, have mercy.”

Lilibell asked, “By harassing our human border, you beastmen are looking for war?”

Hukba shouted loudly, “It has nothing to do with us! It was you humans who invited us here!”

Lilibell tilted her head and said, “That’s not right.”

Under the great divine power of the Saintess of Temperance, the Jackal leader was lifted into the air by an invisible force. A soft light spear emerged from the void and pierced through Hukba’s abdomen.

[ Psh— ]

“We beastmen are innocent!”

Another light spear stabbed into Hukba’s thigh. Apparently, she was not satisfied with this answer either.

“What do you humans actually want?”

Thud, another light spear stabbed in.

“Despicable humans—”

Crack crack crack.

“I was wrong, I was really wrong, please let me go!”

Thud.

Hukba was almost stabbed into a pincushion by the light spears, but his pierced body was unable to die.

The healing magic of the Church was among the best on the Starry Continent. In front of the Saintesses, he even lost the right to die.

Finally, Hukba said miserably, “I was wrong, we were really wrong. Our Jackal tribe should not have harbored wild ambitions and intended to invade your human border.”

Lilibell stayed her hand and asked, “Then what? How should this matter be settled?”

“Our Jackal tribe will make amends.”

“How will you make amends?”

“Uh, what do you want?”

“Every Jackal soldier appearing here today shall leave one arm behind.”

“Impossible! Those are all our tribesmen, the elite warriors of the Jackals!” Hukba hadn’t finished speaking.

“I’m not negotiating with you.” Lilibell had already lost her patience.

While she pondered, a left wing of light grew behind Lilibell, and a phantom of an angel seemed to appear in the sky.

A pillar of light descended from the sky, exploding in the middle of the beastman army. Dozens of beastmen died on the spot.

Then came the second pillar, the third, appearing like an endless barrage of light.

Lilibell’s expression…

Seemed to be somewhat infatuated with that power.

Or rather, was this Saintess of Temperance’s desire for slaughter reaching a peak?

Just as the half-wing of light on her right side was about to unfold, the Saintess of Diligence suddenly showed a serious expression. She quietly came behind Arilan and pushed her forward into Lilibell’s embrace, also interrupting Lilibell’s spellcasting.

Arilan let out a cry of surprise: “Whoa!”

The next moment, she was caught by Lilibell. This elder sister Saintess also seemed to snap back to her senses, hurriedly retracting the second wing of light that was about to unfold.

She stroked Arilan’s head and pinched her cheek, saying, “Sorry, I was truly rude just now.”

Hukba was already scared out of his wits. He pleaded, “Please change the condition, I beg of you.”

Lilibell said nothing.

She simply pushed Arilan forward.

Clearly, she wanted Arilan to take charge.

After thinking for a moment, Arilan said, “I can let you go. I can even provide your Jackal tribe with food and weapons, allowing you to conquer the surrounding tribes and become the most powerful existence on the Southern Plains. What do you think?”

Hukba was stunned and said, “There’s such a good thing?”

But soon, he reacted and shook his head vigorously, “No, how could you humans be so kind? This is clearly to make me your shield. Wouldn’t I then become a traitor to the beastmen, a lapdog?”

Arilan’s face turned cold, and she said, “You’re not that stupid yet. But you’re unwilling? Then you can just go die.”

Hukba immediately begged for mercy, his eyes flickering with a cunning light as he said, “I agree! I agree! Will you really give me food and weapons?”

“Yeah.”

“Great, it’s a deal!”

“Not so fast.” Arilan went to Lilibell’s ear and whispered a few words. The scent on her sister’s body was so pleasant it made her nose itch.

Soon, Lilibell clapped her hands.

A curtain of light shrouded the area, making it impossible for outsiders to know the true situation inside.

Lilibell took out a set of Church clothes and a book of doctrine from her spatial storage.

Hukba blinked his eyes.

He had no choice but to put on the Church clothes.

He even opened that book and, following the young Saintess’s request, said tremblingly, “I, Hukba, leader of the Jackal tribe, hereby swear to join the Orthodox Church, resolutely uphold the leadership of the Church, and strictly abide by its doctrines…”

Holy crap, holy crap… I, a leader of a beastman tribe, am joining the Church?

Even more terrifying was that there was a diligent Saintess nearby setting up an image-recording magic stone, recording all of this.

Hukba cried.

How did things turn out like this?

He clearly just came to take advantage of the situation and then beautifully harvest the food given by the humans. How did it turn into swearing to join the Church and becoming a “dog”?

I am a proud wolf of the beastmen, but now I have become the Saintess’s dog.

Then, while crying, he declared his entry into the Orthodox Church, looking even more devout.

All of this was recorded by the image-recording magic stone.

Arilan put away the stone and then removed the curtain of light.

Hukba knew very well that if he behaved as a good dog, he would be fine. If he tried to get a seat at the table, then he could just wait for death!

If the recording stone were made public, regardless of whether he was forced or not, he would be dead for sure.

At the same time, he was terrified of Lilibell’s dreadful power. He had only felt that kind of grand divine power from the Beast King in the Beastman Capital and the Great High Priest.

Hukba tremblingly took out a letter to prove his innocence, saying, “This time it really wasn’t my fault. It really was you humans who invited me here.”

Arilan took the letter and nodded, saying, “I know.”

Hukba: “Then…”

Arilan: “You can get lost now. I will send someone to contact you later.”

Hearing this, Hukba hurried away.

When he once again gathered his army to count the numbers, Hukba’s heart couldn’t help but twitch again and again.

Hiss—

“In just that short while, 176 people died.”

Hukba took a deep breath and suddenly shouted again, “Warriors! This time our Jackal tribe has achieved a great victory! The humans have already surrendered under my, Hukba’s, powerful strength, promising to send us money and food! So—”

“Cheer for me!”

“Praise me!”

Beastmen: “…”

Wait, Chief, weren’t you just being hung up and beaten by them?

The soldiers?

They dared not say anything.

They dared not ask anything.

As for this matter, whoever asks, dies.