<h4>Chapter 372 Savannah</h4>


    Contrary to Michael''s expectations, the Savannah region was like a vast, golden sea of grass that stretched as far as he could see. Shrubs of grasses and thorny bushes swayed gently in the breeze, creating an illusion of soft waves that rippled across thend.


    The ground was mostly t, offering little to no hiding spots for monsters and others. However, one could also spot some low, rounded hills every now and then. It was just that there were so few of them that one hardly noticed them.


    In the distance, Michael found scattered trees that offered patches of shade to the monsters of the Savannah region. These trees had long, slender branches and leaves that rustled softly in the wind.


    Flying through the sky on Icarus'' back, Michael''s gaze moved across the brilliant blue of the sky high above them. The sun hung high up in the air, casting a warm golden light on thend. It was a simplendscape with its beauty being the openness and the feeling of endless space.


    But it was also a ce full of death and danger. The Savannah had many predators traveling through the vast openness to hunt their next prey to feed their families. However, there was also Michael and his people. They didn''t travel to the Savannah region to witness the beauty of the vast expanse. They came for blood.


    While flying high above the ground of the Savannah region, Michael was able to pinpoint various things. He saw many small farm houses in areas that looked like gatedmunities. Fences, towers, and guards protected the farms from wild monsters and other invaders. For a moment, Michael considered attacking these gatedmunities to burn down the fields and eliminate everyone, but he quickly decided against it.


    He noticed that no Kitsun was working in the fields, and that the Guards were actually Awakened, who belonged to another race. Amid hundreds of ves, only a handful of Kitsun could be seen voicing out orders while swinging ck whips through the air in a threatening manner.


    The ves of other races were Summons of the Lords who were defeated by the Kitsun Lord in the past. The Guards of these gatedmunities were the Awakened of those Lords who had been defeated and eliminated. The Awakened had been forced into submission by the Kitsun Lord.


    Though Michael wasn''t sure how exactly the Kitsun Lord forced the Awakened into submission. But it was highly likely that the Kitsun Lord promised to not kill them and their people if they epted the Soul Pact that bound them to him and his territory.


    The Kitsun Lord was thus able to create several structures that used the ves as free workers, and the Awakened as cheap guards. Only a handful of Kitsun Summons were required to manage everything, thus creating arge source of food for his entire territory.


    Michael felt like throwing a few cicles into the farmhouses to pierce the throats of the Kitsun and free the ves of the other races, but he didn''t want to expose his location to the Kitsun Lord right now.


    Chances were that the Kitsun Lord was already informed about the two Greater Eagles flying across the Savannah region, but it was not as if the Kitsun Lord could teleport his reinforcement to the other side of his territory in the blink of an eye.


    Even if the Kitsun Lord had a n up his sleeve, Michael was not afraid. After all, he spent his time on Icarus'' backing up with a batch of ns as well!


    ["How is the n progressing? Did you already encounter the reinforcement, or are you still splitting up?"] Michael asked Sun Demos telepathically.


    Since Sun Demos and the Blood Oath Demon Monkeys would be easily exposed in the Savannah region, Michael had decided to split up their groups.


    Sun Demos and his troupe were the strongest, fastest, and deadliest in ces such as the Untamed Jungles. The environment was perfect to initiate swift attacks before disappearing in the densely grown jungle. The monkeys could move rapidly, using their long and flexible arms to grasp tree branches and change their movement pattern in the blink of an eye.


    That was why Michael decided to order Sun Demos and his troupe to stay in the Untamed Jungle and to split up. Even if it was better to stay in arge group to ensure that their enemies couldn''t overwhelm them with numbers, Sun Demos and the Blood Oath Demon Monkeys were not exactly hard to pinpoint as a group of nearly 1,000 individuals in a ce with hardly any cover to hide them.


    Instead of moving ahead as one big group, the Blood Oath Demon Monkeys were split up into 200 groups with five monkeys in each group. The number was perfect for swift attacks to disrupt a few enemies, potentially kill one or two Kitsun in the progress, before they would retreat at once.


    Given that the Kitsun Lord had several small settlements across the Untamed Jungle and the Savannah region, giving him a much bigger span ofnd to control than Michael, it wouldn''t be easy to safeguard most parts of the Untamed Jungle with only 1,000 individuals. Fortunately, Sun Demos and his subordinates didn''t pay much heed to control. They traveled through the Untamed Jungle to ambush scattered groups of Kitsun, and the reinforcement sent by the Kitsun Lord.


    ["I found the reinforcement a while ago. My subordinates struck them from the side and the back, killing some weaklings. Two young Blood Oath Demon Monkeys sustained minor injuries, but it''s not worth mentioning."] Sun Demos reported to Michael.


    Michael was d that the Gueri Warfare worked once again. Using this kind of tactic in the Untamed Jungle was efficient yet also dangerous. A single mistake and the whole strategy would fail miserably. Fortunately, nothing went wrong.


    Over the course of the next ten minutes, Sun Demos and his people found a few small groups that had separated while traveling from the main group of the reinforcement and were a bit further. They targeted such groups, struck them from all sides, killed almost everyone and disappeared the moment the warning sounds reverberated through the surroundings.


    After that, the Gueri Warfare was halted for a few minutes to organize the groups and strike the enemies where they would never expect it.


    The Greater Eagles, on the other hand, reached the second Beast Ranch. The Beast Ranch was at the other end of the Kitsun Lord''s territory – close to 150 kilometers away from the Untamed Jungle. Michael and the others passed by a few Beast Ranches on their way to this particr Beast Ranch, but that didn''t matter. They would burn them down sooner orter, either way.


    Upon reaching their destination, Opars released Energy Imprint two times to fill the Elemental Empress with energy as she created the ring of fire around the Beast Ranch. The searing mes flickered brightly as they burned the dry grass in the vicinity. Afterward, the Elemental Empress pushed the mes of the ring of fire inward, burning down everything that entered the path of mes.


    Michael, Tiara, and Lilica jumped down into the center of the Beast Ranch once again to deal with the horde of bloodthirsty monsters as well as the Kitsun managing the Beast Ranch. Mika and the others readied their bows and arrows on the back of the Greater Eagles, patiently waiting for the horde of bloodthirsty monsters to charge into the center of the Beast Ranch.


    Michael broke the locks of the iron gates that held the starving bloodthirsty beasts imprisoned with a wave of his hand before he manifested several enhanced Qi cicle Swords. Each of them was strong enough to not only cut through the strongest defenses of a Late Tier-2 Monster, but also the starving and weakened bloodthirsty beasts. Not even the abominations that were born through the ritual of blood and death were strong enough to survive Michael''s Qi cicle Swords.


    They tried to evade the attacks, but using Spirit Disturbance with Eagle Eyes and Spirit Gaze was enough to disorient the abominations andnd a hit.


    ''There are more abominations inside this Beast Ranch. Was the Ranch in the Untamed Jungle new, or did they intentionally nurture more abominations in this ce?'' Michael wondered, only to realize a few secondster why the Beast Ranch had six abominations.


    "We killed the Kitsun. A dozen Awakened and a hundredbat Summons," Tiara came back to report, ignoring the warm blood that trickled down her hands. She smiled vibrantly at Michael with a map of the Savannah region in her hand.


    "Look what I found!" She eximed excitedly.


    Michael looked at the map while continuing to control the Qi cicle Swords around him. His attention fell on the ck marks located in the territories of the rival Lords. There were a total of six marks with each of them being located quite deep in the enemy''s territory.


    ''The Kitsun Lord is really a bastard. Blessing his enemies with those abominations and bloodthirsty beasts…"


    Even though the abominations were only Tier-2 Monsters, they were mutants working with the power of death – if Michael was right about their powers. If they were able to grow into Tier-2 Monsters within the Beast Ranch, Michael didn''t even want to know how quickly they could advance to Tier-3 killing machines upon iming freedom. They would feast and regain their peak strength before growing stronger by devouring their enemies.


    Last but not least, the abominations were extremely intelligent. They would avoid their enemies until they were strong enough to face them head-on. Or they would avoid attacking them head-on forever, focusing entirely on using sneak attacks to exhaust theirbat power by attacking their weak spots when they least expected it.


    One way or another, it was a good thing that Michael got rid of the abominations. He wouldn''t want such a deadly beast in his territory either.