Chapter 34: She’s So Manly!
Akayo charged in at the front, hoisting Luoluo up, and in a few strides, reached Maya.
“Please take care of her for me.”
“Enough talk. Kill him first,” Maya said, pointing at Xiaoba.
After the princess had been forced into danger, Queen Lili immediately sent people to capture Xiaoba.
Unfortunately, they had searched twelve nearby tribes without success—he had hidden here all along.
Today, now that she had found him, she was determined to tear him apart.
Luoluo stared at Maya in awe. She exuded such dominance, so manly.
Even more formidable than her twelve beast husbands.
This was nothing like the kind and gentle Maya priestess described in the books.
“Maya, is my mother okay?” Luoluo asked.
“The Queen is fine. You don’t need to worry, Princess. Today I am here under her orders to save you.”
Meeting Luoluo, Maya instantly became gentle and obedient.
“Thanks to the Queen’s tracking beast mark, I was able to find you. My mother didn’t even want me to come, so look—if I hadn’t arrived in time, the Princess would’ve been in danger.”
Maya chattered on, and Luoluo felt as if she were seeing Lili in her.
It was her first time leaving home. She had been away for over half a month, and to say she wasn’t homesick, wasn’t missing her mother—that was a lie. Her nose suddenly stung a little.
Luoluo used a torn sleeve to bandage her bleeding arm.
Not far away, her three beast husbands were fighting Xiaoba.
Akayo charged recklessly and got kicked flying.
Ziye had barely walked a few steps before collapsing, too weak to fight.
The 1v3 situation suddenly became 1v1.
It was Xiaozhan versus Xiaoba—brother against brother, an 8th-rank beastman against a 10th-rank beastman.
“Ziye! Ziye!” Luoluo panicked, wanting to save him.
Maya said, “Princess, wait here. I’ll be back soon.”
Although she didn’t understand why Ziye was so weak, he was still the Princess’s first beast husband. She felt he deserved to be rescued.
Maya drew her bow again. Xiaoba dodged swiftly. He recognized the figure before him—it was the high priest’s daughter.
Maya was tall and muscular, almost like a man.
She grabbed Ziye, tucked him under her arm, and in a few leaps returned.
She threw him to the ground with a heavy thud.
Ziye spat out a mouthful of blood, squinting at Maya. “If you want me dead, just say it.”
Maya calmly checked his wrist and pried open his eyes.
“Don’t worry, Princess. He won’t die anytime soon. He’s just exhausted too much energy.”
Luoluo frowned. “But he hasn’t even fought. Why is he down?”
It didn’t make sense. Ziye was at least a 7th-rank beastman. His combat ability shouldn’t have been this poor.
“Because he’s an idiot,” Maya said, smirking, pointing at the hairpin in Luoluo’s hand. “He poured all his energy into this.”
Luoluo suddenly understood. No wonder she had been able to successfully blind Xiaoba earlier. She had thought it was her own skill, but it had all been Ziye secretly helping.
She couldn’t help scolding him, “Why are you so sneaky? If you’re helping, at least explain clearly!”
She had thought the hairpin was just for decorating hair.
She pushed him. “Next time, make yourself clear.”
Ziye, pushed again, spat blood, and muttered, “If you want me dead, just say so.”
Wasn’t it obvious he was badly hurt? Pushing him around like this—how could anyone treat an injured person this way?
He wanted to complain, but there was no one to complain to.
Maya’s face was stern. “What are you yelling about? Just now, the Princess risked her life to save you.”
Worthless. Useless, unable to protect the Princess—what good was a beast husband like this?
Seeing Akayo struggling to get up after a long time, Luoluo pleaded, “We need to save him too.”
Maya sighed. The Princess was too kind—she wanted to save every beast husband.
Reluctantly, she got up and shot another arrow, hitting the other ear of Xiaoba.
Xiaoba, furious, charged at her. Maya gave Xiaozhan a glance.
He leapt and tackled Xiaoba, ripping the bow from his hands.
Xiaoba’s ear was torn from a complete oval into two irregular shapes.
While he writhed in pain, Xiaozhan tore the other ear apart.
Covering his hands on the two bows, ready to gloat, he suddenly heard Maya shout, “Watch out!”
He jumped back instinctively. White powder floated in the air.
He quickly covered his mouth and retreated a few steps.
Xiaoba tried to cheat again. Last time, he had taken down a lion beastman, but this time against Xiaozhan, he failed.
With impaired ears and eyes, his combat power dropped significantly.
Maya glanced at him and walked straight toward Akayo.
She lightly lifted him and threw him over her shoulder.
Passing through a battlefield strewn with corpses, she dumped Akayo on the ground.
She couldn’t help swearing, “Useless!”
All of them were useless.
Oh, and there was still one useless one, desperately fighting Xiaoba.
Maya stood beside Luoluo, making a fist and pursing her lips. “This useless one… might actually be a bit useful.”
With a roar, Xiaoba finally fell to the ground.
Xiaozhan looked at the thing twitching in his hand and tossed it disdainfully.
“Your heart really is black.”
He stomped on Xiaoba’s face. “Goodbye, my dear brother.”
Xiaoba’s eyes widened, he twitched painfully, and then went completely still.
Xiaozhan sat cross-legged. After a moment, he stood, full of power.
He had successfully advanced to a 9th-rank beastman.
“Wow, my beast husband is amazing!”
Luoluo clapped her hands, genuinely happy for him.
Although Xiaozhan had wanted her life, seeing him defeat Xiaoba and advance a rank still made her heart swell with joy.
Xiaozhan approached Luoluo, noticing the floral cloth wrapped around her arm.
He bowed his head. “I… I’m sorry. I misunderstood you.”
“Just saying sorry?”
Maya exploded. She had already gotten the full story from Acang and Ajin.
She had just dragged the two little ones hiding in the cave out—they had been scared out of their wits.
Knowing Maya was the high priest’s daughter, they confessed everything that had happened over the past few days without hiding anything.
Of course, Ajin deliberately avoided mentioning her father’s growing dislike of Luoluo and hid his own displeasure.
The high priest was powerful, and his daughter was also formidable. She could even break through the arena’s fence formation.
“You nearly got the Princess killed. Losing your life wouldn’t be too much for that.”
Maya was furious and wanted to kill him.
But the Princess didn’t speak—Maya was only venting verbally and hadn’t acted.
Otherwise, Xiaozhan wouldn’t have had a chance to speak again.
Plop.
Xiaozhan knelt. “Please punish me, Mistress. Kill or mutilate me, I will have no complaints.”
Looking around, he grabbed the vine belt from Akayo’s waist.
He respectfully handed it to Luoluo. “Please, Mistress, punish me.”
Luoluo didn’t take it, just staring at Maya.
In the original book, all the beastmen sold by the original owner adored Maya.
They were loyal to her, even willing to die for her.
The author described it as every male seeing Maya would fall for her without hesitation—irrevocably, hopelessly.
If Xiaozhan had feelings for Maya, she could never allow it.
After all, she still had to win him over. Her plan couldn’t fail.
She still needed that 100 million small-goal to support her retirement.
But Maya wasn’t a bad person to him.
“Maya, what do you think should be done with him?” Luoluo asked tentatively.
