Chapter 3

The Secret Realm had never been sealed for three long years before. And now that the force field was gone, the true state of the Secret Realm was finally revealed.

The ground was littered with the severed limbs of dead beastmen, puddles of dried red blood staining the earth, and calcified bones visible scattered here and there.

Besides that, the beastmen who had regressed into their original beast forms were all missing a body part or two. Elephants were missing their tusks, deer were missing their antlers, bears were missing their paws, and more.

It was just a horrible sight altogether.

The very few beastmen who still managed to retain their human form were filled with terror and unease. They were all emaciated with only skin and bones left.

The beastmen from all the clans could no longer hide their grief after witnessing the carnage.

"Who killed my grandson and dug out his beast core?"

"Who took away the Sacred Heart?"

The young beastmen sobbed as they revealed the harrowing truth, and all of the other beastmen were thoroughly enraged.

However, Priscilla and Jasper still remained perfectly calm even though they were the target of everyone's anger and fury.

She leaned against Jasper's shoulder and said disdainfully, "So what if this was all of my doing? It's always been a dog-eat-dog world in the Beast Realm. They have no one to blame but themselves for being such weaklings!"

It was all because I'd protected her too well in my past life that she turned out so arrogant and even dared to challenge everyone else in the Beast Realm.

This time, she was going to have to face the consequences for her arrogance and ignorance!

The leader of the Wolf clan, Conan Lupine, was particularly furious. He was the first one to step forward.

"You bitch! How dare you do such an outrageous thing to them?"

He was just about to attack when he was quickly stopped by a younger member of his clan who'd just escaped the Secret Realm. The pup's eyes were red as he said, "Mr. Lupine! Her mate is a descendant of the Dragon clan!"

At that, the other beastmen paled almost at once.

"The Secret Realm was sealed for three years, and we all saw the dragon emblem appearing in the sky at that time."

"But wait, haven't the Divine Beasts been extinct for nearly ten thousand years? How could a descendant possibly reappear in the realm again as the Snake clan's son-in-law?"

"We can never defeat a descendant of the Divine Beasts even if all of us beastmen joined forces…"

Everyone turned to look at me, their eyes filled with both fear and respect, yet also with pain and resentment.

Conan dropped to his knees before me, begging me to uphold justice. The rest of the other beastmen followed suit, with the exception of Priscilla and Jasper. Even the regressed beastmen also bowed their heads toward me in their beast forms.

When I saw what was happening, I felt my emotions surging and quickly made them get back to their feet. I went over to help Conan stand as well.

"Please get up, all of you! Priscilla and Jasper stole the Sacred Heart and harmed many beastmen. Their crimes are unforgivable. Whatever their fate is will be their own fault, and I will absolutely not interfere with it!"

I'd only just finished speaking when Jasper suddenly burst out laughing.

"Excuse me, Mr. Leech, but you know that you only managed to produce that dragon emblem because you've been feeding off Prissy's power the entire time, don't you? Who do you think you're trying to scare? And what's with you putting on airs now as if you're all that?"

Priscilla wrapped her hand around his arm and scoffed disdainfully at me.

"Even with our cultivation levels, Jasper and I still wouldn't dare to call ourselves the descendant of the Divine Beasts. Where did you even get the nerve to impersonate someone from the Dragon clan?"

I couldn't be bothered to argue with them.

"Idiots."

I looked forward to seeing if they would continue acting so cocky and arrogant when both of them were crushed later on.

Priscilla flew into a temper. "How dare you insult me? Wanna bet that the first thing I do as soon as we get out is break the bond between us?"

"Be my guest!"

Once the bond was broken off, the first person I'd kill was her!

Priscilla and Jasper were still not done berating and criticizing me, but I wasn't the least bit interested. I simply said to the other beastmen, "Go ahead and do whatever you want to them. You have my blessings."

Then, I walked out and left.

Behind me, the leaders of each clan began inching closer and closer to Priscilla and Jasper. I knew that their end was near.