Mighty Lord

23: Chapter 23 Target 23: Chapter 23 Target The position of leader carries many privileges, many of which Zhou Tian is already aware of.

For instance, he can command his subordinates to come to his rescue when in danger.

As long as his subordinates have enough merit, Zhou Tian can appoint them as Beastman Warriors or Beastman Champions.

At the same time, apart from the powers that Zhou Tian already knows, the Beastman leader has many special privileges that Zhou Tian doesn’t know.

He would not have thought before becoming a leader that all monsters are, in fact, independent branches.

Although they’re currently under the control of the Blood Moon Lord, if Zhou Tian intended, he could split off and establish his power at any time.

Of course, Zhou Tian indeed holds such thoughts, but he is also aware that he doesn’t possess the strength to act that way at this moment.

Therefore, although the idea occurred to him once he knew the circumstances, he kept it suppressed deep in his heart after serious consideration.

The issue of independence, although seemingly easy, carries significant risk.

If Zhou Tian were to act, he would risk angering the Blood Moon Lord—the biggest backer of the Beastman Clan—and potentially jeopardizing its very existence.

According to the information Zhou Tian has acquired, he knows that such incidents have happened numerous times before.

Hence, unless Zhou Tian has the strength to confront the Blood Moon Lord, he doesn’t entertain the thought of independence.

Although Zhou Tian currently doesn’t need the power of independence, the other abilities conferred by the leader’s position still hold some utility for him.

Monster groups vary in strength.

The Blood Moon Lord’s group, for example, consists of elite monsters, even the weakest among them is stronger than Zhou Tian.

The Beastman Group, however, belongs to the lowest tier and is always at risk of being overpowered by superior monsters, unless unforeseen circumstances occur.

However, while lower-tier monsters are controlled by higher-tier ones, they also have opportunities to change their fate.

But this process is extremely challenging and virtually impossible without the guidance of a formidable leader.

According to the information Zhou Tian has, a monster’s power is determined by the size of its territory.

The Blood Moon Lord’s group, despite living in a small area, controls nearly an entire continent, hence their terrifying strength.

In contrast, the Beastman Clan only controls land not exceeding a county’s size, which in-game is probably smaller than a city.

Naturally, such circumstances explain the weakness of the Beastman Clan.

Zhou Tian wasn’t aware of the relations among monsters due to the limited intelligence of the previous Beastman leader and the clan’s weakness.

Now, as a leader, Zhou Tian finally learned that there’s competition among monsters as well.

Although the size of this world is similar to Earth, land is still limited.

Therefore, after monsters have occupied over ninety percent of this world, internal conflicts naturally arise over the division of territory.

It is no longer feasible to investigate how the monsters initially divided themselves into hierarchical ranks.

However, by this point, there is a fixed rule for the division of territories among the monsters.

When a monster force shrinks to a city’s size, other monsters generally will not invade their territory under normal circumstances.

And for the Beastman Clan, this is their current situation.

When the size of a territory is not too small, monsters can change the area of their respective territories in three ways.

The first way is that after a clan has made a significant contribution, the race it belongs to will carve out a part of the territory from itself or other vassal races as a reward.

The second way is that after two monster races have some feuds, they can gamble their territories.

Given the nature of the monsters, no matter how the gamble is, there is no need to worry that the losing party will default.

The last way is to directly occupy the territory of other monsters.

Although this kind of behavior is not explicitly prohibited within the monster camp, if one does so, it is very likely to offend the monster whose territory has been occupied.

In such a situation, after a struggle on both sides, races like the Beastman Clan might directly face the danger of extermination.

It can be said that no matter which of the three methods, it’s not easy to truly execute.

It is probably due to these reasons that even though the Beastman leaders have been replaced one after another, a leader who truly wants to enhance the strength of the Beastman has never appeared.

As for Zhou Tian, he is naturally completely different from those previous Beastman leaders.

Who wouldn’t, after all, Zhou Tian has such a large ambition, he’s always thinking about creating a big foundation.

In this case, a position of a Beastman leader could not possibly satisfy him, so at that time, expanding his own territory and making the Beastman become a stronger monster race became the target Zhou Tian had set for himself.

Based on the revelation in Zhou Tian’s mind and some memories from when he played the game, Zhou Tian had chosen a target for his upcoming action at that time.

Among the three ways to improve the strength of the Beastman Clan, Zhou Tian preferred the third one.

After all, according to their current situation in the Beastman Clan, the first and the second scenarios are quite difficult to achieve.

In this case, Zhou Tian had to gamble with his existing capital, otherwise, he probably had no ability to turn the situation around.

And Zhou Tian’s target at that time was not other monsters, but the Skeleton Clan that the Blood Moon Lord had prepared for him to reincarnate into, and Zhou Tian had refused.

The situation in the Skeleton Cave’s Skeleton Clan was actually similar to the Beastman Clan.

The two even had similar racial structures, but compared with the Beastman Clan, although the Skeleton Clan’s strength was not strong, they had retained some foundation.

They could not compete with those powerful monster branches, but they were slightly stronger than the Beastman Clan.

The composition of the Skeleton Clan was similar to the Beastman Clan.

The members of its clan were classified from low to high were Skeleton Warrior, Skeleton Blade (Archer), Skeleton Warrior and Skeleton King.

The two had similar structures, but the strength of the Skeleton clan was slightly stronger.

It was not absolute, but even the strength of Skeleton warriors ranked among the Beastman Clan could compete with the weaker ones among the Beastman warriors.

In this situation, it naturally seemed that the Beastman Clan was much weaker than the Skeleton Clan.

According to the situation of the two races, no matter how you look at it, Zhou Tian’s decision to act against the Skeleton Clan seemed a bit like seeking death.

After all, the strength of both sides was there.

If there really was a war, there were very few beings in Zhou Tian’s hands that could fight against the opponent’s low-level soldiers.

In that kind of situation, what could Zhou Tian use to defeat the opponent?

If there were other choices, Zhou Tian would not be in a hurry to deal with the Skeleton Clan.

If there were monsters with lower strength than theirs, Zhou Tian would naturally prefer to target those with weaker strength.

But the problem now is that if Zhou Tian doesn’t make a move on the Skeleton Clan, there simply aren’t any other targets for him to act on.