With Jiao Yin's impenetrable guard and Hua Han's coordinated harassment, combined with the effective counterattack organized by the Lynx Tribe's Beastman Warriors after their initial panic, the sudden assault was finally repelled.
More than twenty corpses of Wandering Beasts were left on the ground. The rest, after their leader was seriously injured by Hua Han's sneak attack, fled in a panic into the dark forest with terrified howls.
As the first rays of dawn struggled through the mist, illuminating a tribe thick with the stench of blood and battle, the Clan Leader of the Lynx Tribe, supported by his people, walked unsteadily to the stone house where Jiao Yin and Bai Wanwan were staying.
The Clan Leader was an old lynx Beastman, his face etched with the deep marks of time, yet his eyes remained sharp.
