Chapter 686 - 173 Unexpected Visitor
"Yes."
Lei Sai’s response made Lu Hong’s eyes light up, "What have you found? Speak quickly!"
Lei Sai organized his thoughts before speaking, "Firstly, the military configuration of the beast tribe is wrong. As you know, the beast tribe has always had two major military echelons, the family armies and the noble armies. Throughout the hundred wars we initiated, even among the nobles who clearly sided with family powers, we have barely seen many of the beastman family troops, which doesn’t make sense."
"Could those family armies be occupied with resisting the elf tribe and thus stretched too thin?"
Lei Sai shook his head, dismissing Lu Hong’s guess, "The beast tribe has always used the regular tribal armies to resist the elves, similar to the self-defense forces we are about to form, which are born from the family and noble armies and are national armies. Such forces always have plenty of reservists, and even if they were all defeated, forming new troops wouldn’t involve tapping into those private family forces. Moreover, a beastman family would not send all of its private forces to serve the state."
"So you’re saying that the beast tribe’s private family armies have now disappeared."
"Yes, in my travels and investigations over the past few years, I have never seen any main force of the private family armies. They have vanished without a trace, which I fear is the main reason for the beast tribe’s defeat and withdrawal from the central region."
"Mm." Lu Hong nodded solemnly, taking note.
Lei Sai took a sip of tea and continued, "Secondly, it’s the strength of the Beastman Deity."
"What about it?"
"A year ago, I encountered a Beastman Deity—a Winged Heavenly God, who has been a deity for over a millennium and was definitely more powerful than me. Yet during our battle, I found that the opponent seemed as if they had just entered the Heavenly God Realm and were severely outmatched by me, which is highly abnormal. Therefore, I sought out two more Beastman Deities and, after battling each, I found they were just like the Winged Heavenly God. Though they became deities early on, their strength hadn’t progressed at all, and they couldn’t even defeat me, who had just ascended to the God Realm. What do you make of this?"
Lei Sai glared at Lu Hong, "You’re asking me again? I haven’t even become a deity, so you want me to judge the Heavenly God Realm? Are you joking?"