Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 96: Jackal

In the underground caves of the hills, contrary to outsiders' expectations, the caves were dug wide and tall, and did not appear crowded. Some torches soaked in animal fat were inserted into the grooves of the stone walls of the caves and burned fiercely.

There were also fires of hay mixed with animal dung on the grasslands that provided light for the wide and accessible underground nests.

Even so, some parts of the entire cave still seemed dark. A thin werewolf sentinel hurriedly passed through the dark cave passage, bypassed the werewolves and trolls huddled in front of the fire, passed the cave where dragon beasts were raised, and then passed by the rooms specially set aside for those werewolf spellcasters, and finally arrived at a tall cave.

This cave is extremely wide and tall, even a giant dragon can easily fit in it. There are more than a dozen wide and long passages connecting here. There are murals painted with the blood of various beasts and strange pigments around the cave and on the dome.

It was a scene of a tall gnoll wearing exquisite scale armor and wielding a three-headed flail of adamantite fighting against various monsters. Among them, the most common one was a huge minotaur demon with golden mane and wielding a long-handled heavy blade.

This is Yeenoghu, the King of Gnolls, the patron saint worshipped by the gnolls. It is rumored that Yeenoghu, the King of Gnolls, is a lord of the Abyss and possesses great power. He is the ancestor and patron saint of all gnolls in the world.

However, although most gnolls worship Yeenoghu, the King of Gnolls, they do not regard Yeenoghu as a god. They just regard him as a powerful gnoll warrior and ancestor. Some arrogant gnolls even aim to defeat Yeenoghu, the King of Gnolls.

The demon minotaur with golden mane and wielding a long-handled heavy blade who fought against Yeenoghu, the King of Gnolls, was Yeenoghu's opponent and mortal enemy, the Minotaur King Baphomet.

This masculine, cruel and brutal Minotaur King is also a lord from the Abyss in legend. He has a resounding name, known as the "Horned Demon or Lord of Horns" and the "Lord of Beasts".

He is the object of worship of evil rangers and barbarians, and the god of faith of tauren. He hates the king of gnolls and all gnolls, and will kill every gnoll he sees.

Under this tall dome mural, a dozing gnoll sat on a wide stone chair. Among the gnoll race, even the strongest gnoll soldiers were only about two and a half meters tall, while this gnoll was more than three meters tall, almost four meters.

The blood-red mane was flowing softly behind his head. There was no saliva on his short gray-red muzzle like most gnolls. The gray-red hair on his body also looked exceptionally clean, without the unique stench of decay that other gnolls carried. This was a clean and powerful gnoll.

This werewolf called himself Yougu. He was stronger than other werewolf cubs since birth. He was the leader of that generation of newborn werewolves, so he was very ambitious since childhood.

After he grew up, he hunted a dragon lizard that was said to have dragon blood on his own and won the support of most of the gnolls in the gnoll tribe.

This aroused the vigilance of the previous generation of Gnoll leader, but Yugu openly challenged the middle-aged leader during a Gnoll gathering, and easily killed the previous generation of Gnoll leader with his bare hands, and became the leader of the Gnoll tribe from then on.

Under his leadership, the gnolls moved to this hill, which was originally the lair of the dragon lizard he killed. With a stable lair, the gnolls no longer had to wander like wild dogs on the grassland.

With sufficient food supply, the gnoll tribe grew rapidly, from a tribe with only two hundred members to a large tribe with more than a thousand members today.

Not only did he have many gnoll spellcasters, he also enslaved many slaves of other races, such as trolls, orcs, hobgoblins, and bugbears, and captured many dragon beasts and fierce beasts for enslavement and domestication, as well as many animals and beasts on the grassland. Now the gnoll tribe has become the ruler of this area under his development. So the gnoll scout did not dare to make a loud noise to disturb him, and stopped at the entrance of the cave passage, where two strong gnoll barbarians stood guard. There were two gnoll barbarians guarding each passage, protecting the king of this tribe.

Following the whispered instructions from the Gnoll barbarian guards, the Gnoll Yougu opened his eyes. Even under the blazing light of countless torches in the cave, the blood-red eyes of this Gnoll still shone with its own unique light.

"Something happened," Yugu's rough and hoarse voice echoed in the cave.

"Chief, the hunting team just sent a signal for help. They must have encountered an irresistible danger. We can't hear their voices now. Maybe they have all been killed." The werewolf sentinel knelt on the ground, extremely humble in front of Yugu's powerful aura.

"What? Hundreds of powerful gnolls can encounter irresistible danger when they go out. What kind of enemy did they encounter?" Yugu showed a look of dissatisfaction on his hyena-like face and frowned.

In Yugu's impression, there was no creature on the grasslands of the area ruled by the gnolls that could resist the power of his warriors, and he behaved very restrainedly.

He also did not invade the territories of the ferocious beasts near the dragon's territory. These jackals did not know that the territories of those ferocious beasts had been occupied by the dragon's men, and the dragons never risked flying out of their own territories, so Yougu did not understand the current situation.

"I'm not sure, but some time ago a sentinel discovered groups of Centaurs appearing nearby. It's possible that these Centaurs had a conflict with our hunting team." The werewolf sentinel replied with his head down.

"Centaurs?" Yugu said to himself. In his impression, although centaurs were all powerful warriors, if they wanted to make the gnolls under his command feel dangerous, there should be a large number of them, and they should be a powerful centaur tribe.

"Go and gather the warriors and spellcasters in the tribe, take up their weapons, and lead the dragon beasts. I want to see how powerful these centaurs are to dare to offend the territory of the werewolves." Yugu stood up, his tall body covered with blood-red hair, and a three-headed flail gleamed brightly on the left side of the stone base.

Restless sounds rang out from every corner of the cave. Countless gnolls picked up their weapons, gathered together, and then rushed out of their nests in groups, waiting for their leader on the grassland.

Those spellcasters with purple manes who hold special status in the Gnoll tribe are also waiting quietly outside the cave. It is obvious that Yugu's status is supreme among the Gnolls and he has absolute authority.

The gnoll Yougu was the last to step out of the cave, but his tall figure was riding on a dragon beast. This dragon beast had rough hair and huge sickle-like bone nails on its hind toes. It was more than six meters long and looked like a dinosaur.

This is the Achilles dragon, a dragon beast that is said to have the bloodline of a giant dragon, a ferocious predator on the grassland, and a powerful creature at the top of the ordinary food chain.

But this dragon beast with enormous power was tamed by the werewolf Yougu and became a war beast and a pet. One can imagine the power that this werewolf possesses.

The gnoll Yogu swung a heavy three-headed flail and shouted loudly: "Attack, follow me to kill those invaders who dare to violate the gnoll territory, drink their blood, and decorate our nest with their bones."

(End of this chapter)