Within these three days , Cabal had gathered as much info on his prey as he most possibly could.
The werewolves- who roamed the edges of the Eldritch forest and the Western wastelands , they were being opposed by a tribe of semi giant apes.
If he was to guess, he'd say that Monkey sent them. As the strongest of the eight generals, people that he sent wouldn't be so easy to deal with.
But it was precisely because of this that Cabal decided to attack them. He could make proper use of their strength.
After the Phoenix Queen announced his new position, as a Phoenix son, the one whose authority was just directly below hers , it had become much easier for him to roam about the capital.
In addition, some annoying brats *cough* Mongrel *cough* , became much more respectful. Like they were meant to.
He'd gotten a lot of answers that he sought , and got even more questions , but , through his inquiries , he'd decided , finally to attack the apes.
There were many reasons for his decision, but the most determining cause was that , the apes valued leadership more than anything in the world. They followed their chief , who received direct orders from Monkey. If their chief said they should die for them , they would die, without any hesitation.
They were also extremely arrogant and aggressive, and as such , they didn't use their heads. Although they were stronger than him right now , he could use their incompetence , and low level of intelligence to his advantage.
I have to say, Monkey is smarter than I thought, Cabal thought was he made some last minute preparations. He would go to the Western wastelands with the returning werewolves.
Monkey had allocated the apes to the werewolves, the strongest of the Phoenix's subordinates , because their abnormal strength would allow them to directly combat the werewolves. In addition , their loyalty would make it that they wouldn't betray him.
Since the Phoenix couldn't prove that he didn't send them, it wouldn't directly start a war. And Cabal was starting to think that they had another purpose for being in the Phoenix's territory. Since she was the only one without any of the contenders , he was sure they were to act as spies , and report any suspicious activity to him.
That means he'd have to move fast.
The plan was simple, but if executed well, would produce lovely results.
He synthesized the toxins that the three eyed Centipede had with the poison of the other poisonous creatures he could access , as well as added a few herbs and roots to intensify the concoction.
With that , everything was ready.
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The werewolves , through months of contents hunting and tracing , had discovered the location of the giant apes to be in an underground structure. A sort of temple , if you will, that their ancestors had created and abandoned over the course of time.
The humid and hidden environment , made it very convenient for them. In order for his plan to work , Cabal needed a distraction. He needed to find a way to get into the ranks of the apes , and luckily , he had he perfect skill for that.
He ordered the werewolves to attack the apes, specifically in their wolf forms so that he could hide within their ranks by taking the form of a smaller inconspicuous creature.
The attack was so abrupt that the apes weren't able to react in time.
By the time they gathered themselves to make a stand , they'd lost almost one-third of their forces. Before they could make a serious comeback , Cabal ordered a retreat.
The apes never expected the werewolves to launch an attack immediately after they returned from their meeting. If they could guess that something like this would've happened , they would've attacked the wolf clan while the top members were gone.
Only , if they did that , Renova would've probably directly interfered and wiped them out.
Oh , the ways of politics. He didn't miss it.
If he was to guess Phoenix Queen didn't slaughter outright slaughter the invaders because if she did , her colleagues might call her a tyrant. A bully of a ruler who killed the people in her territory for no apparent reason. With that excuse in the bag , they could try to usurp portions of her territory.
Although she was strong , could she really take in the other generals. That leads us to the current situation.
All these thoughts run through Cabals head as he approached and silently devoured an ape corpse while the apes chased after the retreating werewolves. He made sure to whose a low level one , so that he could gain its form almost instantly.
After giving himself some slight injuries, it was a simple matter of playing dead , and then waiting for the others to come and clean up the battlefield and asking for help when they passed by him.
Just like that he made his way into the tribe.