My Players Are So Fierce

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Code name “Pangolin”_1

719: 246.

Code name “Pangolin”_1

Pangolins are animals widely distributed throughout the continent.

There is more than one kind of them in Transylvania, and their body parts are often used by alchemists as basic materials.

However, due to the Ten-Year War, there were not many hunters to kill them, allowing these animals, which are adept at hiding, almost to overpopulate in the forests and mountains.

The wolf people’s favorite food are rabbits, wild boars, and deer, but when they’re starving, if they can’t catch humans, they’ll resort to pangolins to relieve their hunger.

The problem is that pangolin scales are hard to handle, even for the sharp teeth of the wolf people.

Hog dislikes the taste of pangolins, just like he can’t understand why he’s codenamed that way.

Actually, not only Hog can’t understand it.

Lady Adel, who came to deliver the order, also can’t understand why Sir Morphy insists on giving Hog such a strange codename.

If it’s derived from the characteristic of being elusive, wouldn’t “Night Bat” or “Snake” be more appropriate?

Moreover, it would more align with the vampire’s aesthetic sense for animals.

Although Sir Morphy explained he had the idea after seeing a nest of pangolins when he went out yesterday, Adel guessed the truth must not be so simple.

As a blood-related descendant, she could perceive Sir Morphy’s mood more clearly.

When Sir Morphy uttered the name “pangolin”, he had an inexplicable sense of joy in his heart, but she didn’t understand what he was happy about.

However, one thing was for certain, the codename was not chosen at random.

Now, the freshly-minted Blood Vulture “Senior Agent Pangolin,” Comrade Hog, is waiting in the melting cave of the third layer of the sewer.

He has changed into a set of trimmed old leather armor, with two waved assassin knives and two eagle-claw knives for cutting throats at his waist.

This attire is slightly different from that of the average wolf people.

Generally speaking, the wolf people make their armor themselves, giving it a distinct rough “clan style”.

But, they are barbaric and also learn.

Especially after the fourth Black Disaster swept through the continent, the wolf people learned a lot from the ruin of half the land, resulting in the leather armors made by some skilled old wolf people being no worse than those made by human artisans.

However, in general, the wolf people of Transylvania have not developed their own survival system, resulting in few among them who have armor.

Armor is also considered a status symbol in the wolf people tribes.

Now, all of the fifteen “tribesmen” of varying height and weight behind Hog are wearing armor.

Even though it has been scavenged from the leftovers of the Blood Rat Gang, it is considered well-equipped.

The tribe members Hog picked for himself included Gnolls.

Seven elite Gnolls are now mixed among them.

These timid but widely distributed tribes do not look as ferocious and strong as the wolf people from their appearance.

They are always hunched over with long, bare tails, heads similar to wild dogs, and a pair of “big eyes” that glow in the dark.

Gnolls are a truly mysterious race.

They breed more prolifically than the wolf people, producing ten or more offspring several times a year, resulting in the Gnolls’ population being so large that even the most learned psychics on the continent can’t predict their numbers.

The reason Gnolls can live well under the watchful eye of other races is because they are not bellicose and are good at digging holes and content with living in dark caves.

Their food is also easy to obtain.

Omnivorous Gnolls, when starving, can even survive on grass.

This easy-to-raise characteristic makes Gnolls the most favorite vassal race among the foreign races.

Gnolls’ civilization system is even more backward than the wolf people’s tribal system.

They do not even have their own language and characters, so they talk neither about honor nor loyalty.

There are a large number of Gnoll laborers helping the dwarfs mine in their pits.

But Gnolls have a very unsettling characteristic.

A part of their timid nature is very similar to that of “domestic dogs”, that is, they are not threatening when they don’t have a master.

However, once they have a master’s command, Gnolls quickly become belligerent and vicious.

They will offer loyalty and be very obedient as long as their masters are alive.

But once their masters die, these vicious creatures scatter, becoming harmless until the next master who can conquer them appears.

Wolf people tribes often tame a large number of Gnolls as slaves to help them dig out hiding caves, help them refine crude weapons, help them serve as cannon fodder in battles, and even serve as very good “hunger-relief food” in the years of great disaster.

Anyway, the cost of raising them can be basically ignored.

In addition, there is an aspect of the bizarre legend about Gnolls that infuriates the dwarfs.

It is said that because Gnolls have lived underground for a long time, they have received attention from Gaia, the mother of the earth.

As a result, among the vast number of Gnolls, some individuals who can use crude earth psychic powers are often born.

Such individuals are revered as earth diviners and often serve as the leaders of Gnoll tribes.

Considering the exaggerated total of Gnolls, even a low ratio is enough for many earth diviners to emerge among the Gnolls.

Rumors have it that the wolf people’s secret psychics originally learned their psychic manipulation methods from Gnoll slaves, but this rumor is without foundation.