BMN Chapter 166

Chapter 166: Kaede: I Am the True Mountain God of the Divine Mountain!

"Elder Kaede!"

"We want to see Elder Kaede!"

"You must give us an explanation today, or we will not rest!"

"..."

Just as Bai Luo was contemplating how to deal with Frey's invasion, discordant, noisy voices cut through the air.

Without even thinking, Bai Luo knew who was speaking.

The Warhawk faction Tengu.

People who had backed Zhuyu had come looking for trouble.

"Do you need me to step in?" Bai Luo looked at Kaede before him. The beautiful woman shook her head, but her eyes revealed flashes of killing intent. "Momiji, make those fools quiet down."

"Yes, Mother."

Momiji had long been unable to hold back. She couldn't kill them, but she could teach them a lesson first.

"Momiji!"

"Are you still Tengu or not?!"

"How could you allow outsiders to wantonly kill our compatriots in the village!"

"Hand those people over, now!"

"The Tengu clan will never compromise with invaders, much less become vassals to some bullshit Demon Lord of the forest!"

"..."

Before Momiji stood a group of Tengu in their seventies and eighties.

Most hailed from the same era as Kaede.

Among them were many who had once madly pursued her out of admiration.

Kaede's heart already belonged to another, though. She had secretly pledged her life to Hakurou.

However, no one reckoned with how the jealousy and dissatisfaction from back then would become the fuse for today's conflict, jeopardizing the unity of the Tengu clan.

No matter the world, racists have always existed.

The Warhawk faction practiced Tengu supremacy and were extremely dissatisfied with Momiji—tainted with the Oni bloodline—as well as Kaede herself.

To seize back power, they didn't hesitate to sell out their clan's interests to the Harpy Queendom.

Yet they had never considered the reality before them.

If the Harpy Queendom truly attacked, would Queen Frey's personality really tolerate this bunch of petty villains acting tyrannically?

They'd let the wolf into the house, thinking they could control the situation.

Little did they know, the moment they opened the gates for Frey, they had already lost all their value.

Whether to appease the Tengu clan or to maintain internal stability, both Frey and the Tengu leadership would dispose of this group.

"Huu~~"

A myriad of thoughts swirled through Momiji's mind, and her expression grew darker.

The young woman wasted no more words. She waved the paper fan in her hand repeatedly.

Her Unique Skill, Sarume-no-Kimi, greatly enhanced her control over wind-attribute energy.

A terrifying surge of magical power instantly routed the clamoring Tengu before her.

"Ahhh!!"

"You... how dare you..."

The Warhawk faction Tengu, never expecting Momiji to actually strike, scattered and fled while clutching their heads.

"In what capacity are you questioning me?!"

"A bunch of fools, pulling rank with your age!"

Momiji scanned the Tengu lying scattered across the ground, her anger crackling through the air. "Do you really think the position of Elder is one that just anyone can sit in?"

Momiji had completely thrown her own position—and that of the Tengu clan—behind Bai Luo's side.

Facing this group of people, already labeled as traitors, she showed them not a shred of courtesy.

"I became the Acting Elder of the Divine Mountain."

Momiji cast aside her usual caution, her domineering aura leaking out. "It is because of my strength. I am the strongest of the Tengu clan!"

In any world, power was the only reason to be king.

What "Tengu clan" this, "Tengu clan" that. In the world of monsters, did such concepts even exist?

Did they really think they could grasp the right to speak just because they had lived a long time?

Don't make her laugh.

Without enough power to protect the clan, the Tengu would have long since been devoured alive by other monsters.

Momiji didn't understand what the Warhawk faction Tengu were thinking.

But if she had ever seen the faces of human nobles, she would understand just how similar the two were.

They possessed no real power, nor any talent.

Yet by relying on so-called "superior bloodlines," they stood on the heads of countless experts and acted tyrannically.

They spoke grandiose words, but the moment they turned around, they would sell out the common people underneath them—clean and complete.

'Is this what Lord Bai Luo called corruption?'

Momiji increasingly felt the weight of Bai Luo's words. 'Arrogant Tengu, the Long-Nosed Tribe... so that's how it is.'

The life of the Tengu was simply too comfortable.

Over hundreds of years, a group of Tengu, protected in the rear and never needing to fight personally, increasingly felt they were superior to others.

These Tengu felt Kaede should belong to them.

They wanted to obtain the power of the Divine Mountain.

Even the entire Tengu clan had to live according to their ideas.

Before, Momiji never understood why their clan was called the 'Long-Nosed Tribe' by other monsters.

After all, Kaede had gone down the mountain to train hundreds of years ago.

She'd studied swordsmanship under Araki Byakuya, training alongside Hakurou.

With such a humble attitude toward seeking knowledge, how was that arrogant?

'The reputation of the Tengu clan has been ruined by these bastards!'

If a group of Tengu constantly sent out signals of contempt for others, it wouldn't be strange for everyone to think that way.

As it happened, the Warhawk faction Tengu were precisely the ones responsible for the Tengu clan's foreign trade.

In other words, these guys were the source of outsiders' stereotypes about the Tengu!

"Momiji, you... you actually did such a treacherous thing!"

"How audacious!"

"How exactly did Kaede teach you? Even she wouldn't dare treat us like this!"

"As expected, tainted by a dirty foreign bloodline?"

"As a descendant of the Oni, you are completely unworthy of becoming the Mountain God!"

"..."

Hearing their words, Momiji's patience reached its limit.

She could erupt into murderous rage at any moment to vent the fury in her heart.

"Enough!!"

And just as Momiji's killing intent became harder to suppress, Kaede's figure emerged from behind the young woman.

Many Tengu clan members followed beside her.

They were Kaede's confidants—the true elite of the Tengu clan.

"Someone, 'invite' the Veteran elders back."

"As you command!"

With Kaede's order, numerous experts of the Tengu clan immediately surrounded the Warhawk faction Tengu.

In terms of strength, Kaede's side held the absolute advantage.

The Warhawk faction Tengu seemed aggressive, but in truth, it was limited to talk.

If a real fight broke out, they wouldn't withstand a single blow.

"Kaede, you will regret this!" the Veteran elder of the Warhawk faction Tengu said, grinding his teeth.

"Heh."

Kaede turned around, her voice dripping with disdain. "I am the Tengu Elder, the Mountain God of the Divine Mountain!"

Kaede's words struck directly at the heart of the Warhawk faction Tengu.

For a moment, their faces turned ugly, but they didn't dare speak.

It couldn't be helped; the authority she had accumulated over 300 years was not so easily shaken.

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