strictlysupreme Chapter 284 The Achilles' Heel of the Bright Moon Rabbit Clan
Chapter 284 The Achilles' Heel of the Bright Moon Rabbit Clan
The Moon Rabbit Clan, based on the fragile rabbit race, has mutated to possess incredibly sturdy skin, flesh, and torso. Naturally, they also have their inherent weaknesses.
Their inherent weakness is that it is extremely difficult for them to cross the threshold from the Gold Rank to the Human Rank.
Many Moon Rabbit Clan beastmen reach the Gold Rank, but struggle to advance to the Human Rank throughout their entire lives. To be able to advance from the Gold Rank to the Human Rank before the age of thirty is truly one in ten thousand.
However, there is one point to note: if a beastman breaks through from the Gold Rank to the Human Rank before the age of thirty, then beastmen over the age of fifty will be severely affected.
Like some tiny groups in the animal kingdom, once the offspring reach adulthood, the adult animals age rapidly.
The Beast King knew that Xia Weier's aptitude was entirely due to Xia Weier's Beast Mother enabling the Black Witch Doctor's forbidden technique to improve it.
Therefore, he never worried that Xia Weier, who had reached the gold-level ability early on, might one day break through and hinder the lifespan of the Beast King.
However, when Xia Weier was about to break through, both the gold-rank beastmen and human-rank beastmen of the Haoyue Rabbit Clan could sense it.
After the younger generation of beastmen breaks through to the Gold rank, they have five years. For the Moon Rabbit Clan's Gold rank beastmen, breaking through is very easy.
However, at the same time, Moon Rabbit Beastmen of Human Rank and above will age faster.
The Beast King had sensed that Xia Weier's abilities seemed to be growing rapidly, but he had hit a bottleneck.
His feelings at the time were hard to describe; he was gratified, saddened, perhaps jealous, yet also felt that the Moon Rabbit Clan had hope for the future.
But it got stuck there and then there was no further response. That must have been the first time Xia Weier took the Talent Enhancement Pill.
The Beast King also consulted the Silver Cup High Priest and the Silver Cup Witch Doctor.
However, both the priests and the witch doctors believed that Xia Weier's talent was obtained through forbidden magic. Furthermore, he had given his heart's blood in order to break the forbidden magic, making it impossible for him to break through to the human level.
The Beast King's emotions shifted from a complex mix of fear of death and loss of power to the pain of heartbreak and the lack of a successor.
If a member of the Moon Rabbit tribe living in the Snow Rabbit tribe has a young beastman who breaks through to the human-level ability before Xia Weier, then it means that his lineage will have to give way to the other party.
The Beast King sent his guards back to investigate. Fortunately, the other Moon Rabbit Beastmen with excellent aptitude were also stuck at the Gold Rank and could not advance any further.
Not long after the Beast King felt relieved, he recently began to feel old again.
Therefore, when Xia Weier returned to the Holy City this time, the Beast King specifically asked the witch doctor and priest to check on Xia Weier's condition.
Unexpectedly, Xia Weier made a breakthrough.
The Beast King frowned; he still had many things to accomplish.
The beast cities are all feudal and autonomous, and they are now paying less and less tribute to the holy city, and the tributes they pay are becoming more and more perfunctory.
After the Beast King ascended to the throne, he first alleviated the problem of insufficient manpower in defending remote beast cities during beast tides.
Some tribes were relocated, allowing some small and medium-sized tribes and beast cities to survive together.
Expand the training pool of carpenters and builders, and then send them to help the Beast City repair its defenses.
This series of reforms, while seemingly numerous, ultimately failed to achieve the level he desired.
In fact, if he showed these things to Ruan Xiyue, she would understand that the current Holy City Federation system is similar to the slave system of the Shang and Zhou dynasties in Ruan Xiyue's previous life.
As for the efforts the Beast King made throughout his life, if Ruan Xiyue were to see them, she could only say that the Beast King's understanding was rather limited, and that he had only learned what the previous beastmen had passed down.
His limited perspective restricted his actions. Any random, weak-willed college student from Ruan Xiyue's world could outperform the Beast King.
Of course, that's because the education they received was a distillation of the best of five thousand years of history.
As the Beast King, he worked really hard.
As a result, the Beast King devoted all his energy to maintaining the succession of his position. He even treated his children with a laissez-faire attitude, providing them with enough food and clothing, and his approach to raising them was even more laissez-faire than that of Ruan Xiyue.
This is why, in Ruan Xiyue's eyes, the children educated by the Beast King are either mentally ill or stupid.
The Beast King, realizing he still had many unfinished tasks, watched as Xia Weier broke through to the Human Rank. He then waved his hand, dismissing the witch doctor and priest from the hall.
Looking at the table full of animal hide scrolls, panic, anger, resentment, and jealousy surged into his heart all at once.
He suddenly thought of his younger brother, whom he had imprisoned in the underground chamber.
His younger brother once said to him, "So what if you become the Beast King? Look at Xia Weier, he has already reached the Brown Rank at such a young age. Don't you want to gain more vitality and lifespan from him?"
"Only I know this method."
The Beast King clutched the animal hide scroll tightly in his hand, his eyes were bloodshot, and he covered his ears.
But he knew that this wasn't a problem that could be solved by covering his ears.
The voice emanated from his heart, deafeningly loud.
Xia Weier was unaware of such secrets about the Haoyue Rabbit Clan. He had been bullied and humiliated since childhood.
His understanding of the Moon Rabbit Clan was limited to him crying and telling his elders that he had been bullied. They would only look down on him, thinking he didn't even know how to fight back and was unworthy of being a male in their Moon Rabbit Clan!
Other Moon Rabbit beastmen knew that breaking through from the Gold Rank to the Human Rank would cause accelerated aging in male Moon Rabbits over the age of thirty and above who were at the Human Rank.
However, they didn't care much. Because the Moon Rabbit Clan was growing weaker and weaker, and if they continued to weaken like this, the Beast King would eventually be taken over by another clan.
Therefore, they didn't pay much attention to this issue. After all, the Moon Rabbit Clan could count the number of Gold-Rank individuals between the ages of twenty-five and thirty on one hand.
If it weren't for the fact that the Beast King was not easily controlled by other races, they would have played a grand game, causing the once powerful Jiaolong and Dragon races to turn against each other.
As for their Bright Moon Rabbit Clan, if they really produce a beastman who breaks through from the Gold Rank to the Human Rank before the age of thirty, they would be overjoyed!
The Beast King sat in the main hall, lost in thought. The guards at the door had piles of animal hides at their feet, and they dared not disturb the Beast King in his current state.
Because no beastman told him about these things concerning the Moon Rabbit Clan, Xia Weier had no idea what was wrong with his breakthrough.
Inside the underground chamber, the unrecognizable, hunched, and foul-smelling figure suddenly chuckled softly.
So what if Xia Weier isn't his offspring? Back then, he thought Xia Weier was his cub, and he even suggested to the Beast King that Xia Weier's lifespan be used as nourishment, which led the Beast King to spare his life.
Otherwise, why would the Beast King have kept him alive until now?
He was just waiting for the Beast King to release him.
He wanted to see what the Beast King had to be proud of. In the end, wouldn't he still be outmaneuvered by him?
Just as he was feeling smug, the Beast King arrived at the secret chamber.
They brought lots of delicious food to that blind and mute healing orc.