The night had already taken its hold of the land as the rixis guards who stood and gazed out into the star lit night did their duty.

Their tribe was one of the few who made it out of the frozen forest and had become the gaurdians against the red enemy.As proud hunters and warriors, they made sure to kill and hunt as many of these beasts as they could.

But for some unknown reason, very few packs had been found, and you would no longer find lone hounds wondering the earth.So they would either have to go deeper into the forest which they knew was a death wish or stand guard and wait.

The main reason why casualties on the jackrixis side was high was because of the enemies numbers and surprise attack.Also this would be the rixis first full battle against another candidate race who could have any number of skills and tricks to play.

A month of relative calm hovered over the tribes as they went about their days hunting and gathering while the elders taught the

young.

Some tribes would do things differently, whether it be how they hunted or talked, and even in some cases, their technology.

Just like with humans as they moved around and were subject to the environments around them and the whims of their leaders. Some live in different climates such as hot or cold, which affected their wants and needs.

But another factor would be the leaders and elders of the tribe as they hold sway over the liives of most of the tribe and enforce the rules. This included both religion,jobs, and who they let into the tribe such as the acceptance of the Little Blues.

Particularly, some tribes had already had a large leap in some small-scale technology that helped them more in the day to day. While other tribes just protected the Blues as they saw them more as states symbols they won in a fight.

So across the rixis lands, communities were forming, and groups were merging to become something more than they once were.Clans were growing also as they perfected their specific forms of ways that they lived their lives.

Most rixis forget that the Mountain Slammers exist as they have taken to going so far down the mountain many don't see them for weeks at a time.Also the clans weren't exempt from this change as some shifted their focus to grow or shrink their visibility and power.

This all came together to cause quite a lot of chaos among the Jackrixis Race and was only being held together through two things.The Jackrixis gods such as Renka and Themis but also some help from Minerva but the second was the skills jack chose.

Now, you may be wondering what this has to follow with the border tribes of the rixis and the war with the other candidate. Well, quite simply the waiting for the enemy mixed with the internal strife of the tribes.Allowed for the enemy to encat their plan, which was through the help of their creator was timed just right.

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Currently, a large meeting was happening in the largest tent of the tribe as different elders and leaders were conversing with each other.

Rixis weren't well versed negotiators, and with them being tribal people, things quickly turned into a shouting match on who was right.

So while all the tribes top leaders were in one concentrated area and distracted the ground, they slowly crumbled near end edges of the tribes camps only around 40 meters away.

it was almost impossible for the guards to see that far out in the darkness as 2 holes stretched from deep into the forest. The slow digging of the hounds had gone unnoticed as they used their excrement and saliva along with the body parts of their victims to hold up the tunnels.

Soon, the 2 holes entrance was made, and a single hound with no eyes but englargened ears popped out of the hole and scanned the area.

Once it realised there were no nearby threats, it went back to its burrow and signalled for its pack.Soon both holes and a slow and quiet stream of hounds surround the tribe and wait for their alphas command

They numbered 250 as each elder and leader from the other tribes would have brought some guards with them for protection. As for the tribe it's own people numbered 60 while those from the other tribes came to 30, not including children for the tribe.

The ravenous pack showed surprising restraint while waiting for the command, and after they received it is when the bloodshed began.

The hounds rushed out of the surroundings like reapers and aimed for the knecks and thighs of the shocked rixis who tried to reach for their weapons.

The two guards and some unlucky bystanders were quickly pounced upon and ripped to shreds their flesh was ripped of their bones.

The leaders and elders only realised what was happening after a bloodied scream sliced through the camp as the hounds could no longer contain their bloodlust.

Things escalated quickly as the hounds grew extatict at the taste and sight of blood, and they rampage through the camp.

The guards and warriors quickly took to bringing their bunarbale and weak to the tent while surrounding it. The leaders quickly went to action, not wanting to fight on the side lines as they clawed their way through the red sea of hounds.

The one advantage the rixis did have in this fight was skill as all those who became leaders were the best hunters there were. The elders advised the warriors of strategies on what to do while also helping with what little medical help they could provide.

Another and the most important card the rixis had that the hounds didn't know was that two blessed were actually leaders at the meeting.

Venadra was the leader of her tribe and had the blessing of Nyx Mob Mentality, which gives a boost to strength and defence by 10% and lasts for one week.

She had received this blessing 2 times so far, which was rare as most were lucky to get it once, which showed she pleased Nyx with her abilities.

Luckily, she still had 2 days left, so she quickly got into the fight and cut through the hounds that snapped at her arms and face.

The other blessed was Demaran, an elder of his tribe who had Harmony, which allowed a person to be at complete peace with themselves and gave an overall 5% boost to the person and lasted 1 week.

He quickly did some stretches and went off into the fight and soon found himself fighting side by side with the other blessed rixis.

The fight went on for hours until the day started to return, and the rixis could realise the full extent of the destruction as they pushed back the hounds to their burrows.

This is where the most life was lost, with about 15 guards and 10 tribesmen being killed in the initial attack.

And then another 20 guards dying in the burrows as they fought to calapse it from the middle so that they wouldn't have to worry about them popping back up straight away.

Once the tunnel finally fell and the rixis could breathe, they now number 30 and 10 when it came to warriors, and the tribe had lost many of it members.

Burials took place, and some of the leaders didn't survive. Those who were heavily injured or unconscious, with the blessed being the few to organised and order the clean up.

Some warriors would have to go back home with no leader, while some leaders would have to go back by themselves their warriors buried or burned at the back of the tribes camp.

The hounds had easily lost over half their numbers, but the losses for the rixis were much greater and had a psychological effect on them even with the skills that protected them.

News soon spread to the other tribes and gods as the word of the bloodied burrow massacre was spread.

As for their creator in all this, we'll have to have the god of knowledge wake him up and tell him the bad news.

"Crap, that sneaky bastard!"-Jack