The Violet Fox: The BeastWorld Prophecies After Bai Qingqing
They were able to be taken over by a weak old ape who showed them pictures of their greatest fears.
This second try at a city had tighter rules, a tighter hierarchy structure, and jobs for individuals. They thrived, quickly, becoming entirely self sufficient to the point that there was time for leisure. They had inventions, and - as Set learned during the night - art, and above all, the citizens made it clear, they were not like the common folk out in the woods, living in mud huts and begging for salt. These villagers didn't even know about the possibility of energy and life crystals, because they were too helpless to ever obtain a single one. And if the snake said that the forest villages h