Gloria and Emma look at Mila and ask her perplexed: "An aura of a subdragon?, how is that possible?, do they have one on their side?"
Mila shakes her head: "I do not think so, it is just a very, very small fragment of aura, it is almost as if they had smeared it onto something that had prolonged contact with a subdragon and not that the subdragon injected its aura into the medal."
Then the two of them calm down a little and Emma says: "It makes sense, if they had a subdragon on their side they would have already wiped out the fauns, but it seems they are having trouble doing so."
Gloria then touching her chin curiously asks: "That relieves me, but I have a doubt, can you tell who this subdragon is?"
Mila, Emma, Lily, Clara and Haru stay still a little embarrassed, before Mila speaks to break the awkward silence that formed: "Miss Gloria… certainly our temple could identify almost any dragon including heretics and sinners or isolationists or deserters, but a subdragon is not a dragon… its position is a bit awkward in the temple."
Then taking a breath she explains a little more: "To put it a bit more clearly… many do not respect them much, since they do not have complete dragon blood and their minimum dragon blood reaches 50%, so…"
Gloria who has always been so direct interrupts to complete the sentence for Mila: "So they are discriminated against… is that what you were going to say?"
Mila a little embarrassed says: "Yes, although the doctrine of the temple says that everyone regardless of their race can worship the venerable emerald-golden dragon and refers to dragons, those of the space clan, those of the time clan, including subdragons, as his children, many dragons do not think the same and since after all the leadership dome are dragons well… the situation is complex."
Mila finally sighs and finishes explaining: "Leaving that aside, subdragons can be born from lower realms and are weaker in general, they have less talent, among other things, so their birth rate is larger and therefore there are more subdragons, many more than dragons, although of course it depends on whether they are from a numerous species like wyverns, besides that their habitats are too varied, so keeping track of all of them is almost impossible…"
Gloria then sighs and says: "I understand, can you at least identify their species?"
Mila blushes even more with embarrassment and says: "No… the aura is too weak to even be able to decipher it, we would need the venerable lord or Miss Mariane to decipher it."
Gloria shakes her head and says: "Well there is nothing that can be done, come on enter the camp, the reason for my request although it is the medals, the reason why I want to know what they have is to see if we can use them to steal the mounts and other combat beasts from this camp."
Gloria walks away quickly, Mila, Emma and the others follow her closely, while they tell her everything that happened, soon they arrive at the stable, Gloria approaches with one of the medals in her hand raises it and points it at the beasts then says while pointing at one in particular, the lizard growls just like the other beasts: "You blue-colored hound lizard, come closer, I order you."
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Everyone waits but absolutely nothing happens, Gloria confused turns to Mila and says to her: "By any chance do you know how this subdragon aura medal is used then?"
Mila touches her cheek with a finger and says: "Well it is quite simple, although it is a very weak aura it is enough to intimidate these very weak beasts, especially if they live close to the subdragon's territory."
Gloria then finally understands how they can dominate them without contracts, without pacts without the taming skill or summoning, it turns out it is because they are part of the fauna of the subdragon's territory.
But Gloria keeps frowning: "But how do you activate it then I injected my energy, but nothing happens?"
Mila gently and politely takes the medal from Gloria's hand and stands in front of the stables then injects her energy, when she does a light emerges and that makes the beasts that were still roaring and on the defensive suddenly calm down at once.
Gloria is left perplexed by how easy she did it and clearly says in a voice of impressive disbelief: "But how is that possible?, is that not too unfair?, you did the same thing as me…"
Mila smiles softly and says while pointing to the center of the medal: "What happens is that you cannot disperse your energy, you have to inject it exactly at the inflection point of the medal."
Gloria then a little embarrassed receives it, but Mila does not stay still, she takes her own medallion and before they even ask her, she activates it softly…
When she does a light of three colors comes out and with it all the beasts not only calm down but directly lie submissively on the ground without moving even a centimeter.
This makes everyone's eyes open except for the members of the temple of the emerald-golden dragon god, who do not seem surprised, after all if the beasts are like that because they fear a subdragon, with the aura of the Supreme God of dragons it is normal that the first thing they do is practically kneel before an infinitely superior being.
Emma smiles and says: "With this we solve one problem, now we have another… how to take them without drawing much attention to the nearest and largest hideout…"
Mila smiling says: "Why don't we take them out in small groups?, each one carries a beast and we also separate in different directions to mislead, after all they are really only about 50 creatures and we are 50 people, there are 10 hound lizards, 10 harasser lizards, 10 breeze lizards…"
Emma interrupts her surprised saying while pointing at some beasts in particular: "Are those wind lizards?, on top of that 10 in total… what madness and that is without the ones they took as you said before."
Gloria also smiles in a bitter way and then points to the back at the last 10 beasts saying: "Do you think that is impressive?, look they have 3 poison lance turtles, stalking snakes and 4 armored lizards, I was also left like that when I saw it, it is clear that they are determined to a war with the fauns."
Alexei then approaches and a little embarrassed tells them: "Girls I think we should withdraw, I feel that we would be in danger if we stay longer, let us take the beasts and get out, anyway, we already took all their provisions and resources stationed here."
The three women look at him and nod, they are also a little worried about that, so they quickly gather all their things and just as they planned, each person carried a beast with them and they moved away in all possible directions to mislead in case of leaving tracks.
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After a while, just as if Alexei's prediction were fulfilled the group of lizardmen finally returned.
Some alpha lizardwomen are talking happily: "Hahaha, those damned fauns of the thorny rock tribe are cowards."
The other responds: "Yes, hahaha, poor idiots, ah forgive me my life please!, I can serve you better alive than dead!, why do you do this to us!?"
The first lizardwoman says: "Indeed idiots, when did those bastards have mercy on us?, when the force is reversed, now they want peace, while they continue killing our sisters and our tools."
They are so distracted that when they crash into something that stopped at the entire entrance they are about to start a fight saying: "You damn-"
Then they realize who it is…
The small shaman who stops in front of the entrance of the small depression and immediately frowns and stopping everyone, raising her hand and says: "I feel something strange… I cannot locate the guardian serpent totem in the camp."
All 150 lizardmen stay still paralyzed, from the 95 who left the camp before, to the 55 who joined them later, even the beasts that accompanied them stayed still.
The small serpent shaman then sighs and grabs a lizardman by his neck before telling him: "You… Atoleki, it is your duty to ensure the well-being of the Ktazki and their alphas, so go and check."
The lizardman looks at the serpent shaman and wants to answer, but he does not dare, the Atoleki like him… the "sacrificial servants" or also called lizardmen or males in this species were only this… beings without true value, they are generally physically weaker, less agile, less talented and with fewer racial abilities, besides they are born in larger quantities, a 75% to 25% of females…
Their only reason for being is to serve the Ktazki or "legitimate heiresses of the four guardian goddesses" or although in reality it only means legitimate heiresses…
The lizardman sighs and as soon as he is thrown to the entrance he gets up with his spear in hand and enters the camp expecting to find dozens of fauns.
But what he finds is… nothing?, there is literally nothing else, neither buildings nor guards, if it were not because only the empty stable remains and some blood stains, one would think that there was never an auxiliary camp here…
The lizardman quickly and fearfully returns and says: "M-m-miss s-s-shaman, e-e-everything i-is s-s-safe."
The shaman nods and gives the order to enter and just like that the slave also quickly notices the strangeness and frowns trying to smell something, but he cannot and says: "Damned and disgusting fauns… we will make sure to end this war once and for all, when the glorious lady finds the guardian serpent, I swear that there will be no more room for you and you will pay us for everything you did not do…"
The shaman clenches her fist with an oath of vengeance for her fallen sisters…