It was a month after the first recordings of a rixis being attacked when the unknown enemy started to attack once more and this time it was on a much larger scale.

The original winter tribe after everyone left and things had calmed down had split apart and moved across the frozen forest and made new homes.

The original tribe was still the largest but there were also about 8 smaller tribes that would still interact with each other and were on good terms.

But soon each village started having to fight off attacks from these aggressive beasts that would hunt in packs and look widely different from one another. Some had bulging muscles and giant fangs while others had long legs and multiple eyes and the rare few could even use fire or ice magic.

The Jackrixis held on okay as they were fighting in their home territory and still had large numbers in each tribe from 25 to 50. Of course, Jack and the gods knew this was happening but Jack could feel that this wasn't just your average wild beasts.

So he decided to make a safe decision and had his gods convince the winter tribes to move the other biomes temporarily while they watched how this situation developed.

Most of the tribes agreed to leave even if they were reluctant to and moved either to the plains, or the mountain biomes but made sure to stay on its edges so they could return home quickly. But 1 tribe refused the god's calls which angered many of the other rixis but that tribe stood resolute.

They for one didn't want to leave what they consider their homeland and also felt that they could take on what was to come and didn't want to run away.

"If we die then let us do it in the snow where we can feel our spirit embrace the ice and dance with the snowflakes"-Elder Ice Eye

These were the words that came from the village elder Ice Eye who was adamant they stayed and it did help that a majority of the tribe didn't worship the gods.

The tribe also grew bigger as a few of the other migrating tribe members wanted to stay and joined the last winter forest tribe.

Now they had 60 Jackrixis and 9 Little Blues which will work together to fortify and prepare for what was to come making more spears and gathering rocks.

Quiet seemed to settle in the land as even the animals tried not to make too much noise as the rixis started to get more and more nervous.

They now had stronger and sturdier weapons and more defenses with the help of the Little Blues but they still felt for some reason vulnerable. This was something their hunter-race felt very few times in their life and it seemed to suffocate the tribe.

Jack asked Nancy to keep watch of the situation while he tried to think of a plan for what to do with this new challenge.

It was a cold night and the only light in the surrounding snow-covered areas was the multiple campfires that were scattered around the tribe. The 2 guards at the front of the tribe's entrance were starting at the endless forest that surrounded their home as they looked for prey who would try to attack.

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The night like most was calm and quiet but for reasons unknown to them they just felt that the forest was too quiet and they started to tighten their grip on their weapons.

From above the tribe, you could see a large amount of movement in the trees as they stayed behind trees and huge them for cover, and a wave of shadows moved forward as if the darkness was matching towards the tribe to put out the last bits of light.

The two guards started to hear strange sounds and whines in the forest and they started to edge back closer to the tribe until they were right next to the entrance. You could see the warm air coming out of their mouths turning into condensation and from the outer edges of their sights. They could see hundreds of figures with different shapes and figures that were all slowly coming towards the tribe.

The two guards quickly yelled and screamed for their brothers and sisters about the incoming attack as those still awake ran to get their weapons. The beasts hearing this burst into action and started to charge at the gift-wrapped dinner that was before them.

The Jackrixis managed to all get up and fight but by the time half of them were up the few awake were already fighting for their life. The beasts just didn't seem to stop as they smashed through the defenses and slashed at the rixis as the battle began.

The Little Blues stayed back and their rocks or small spears at the enemy trying their best to help while being guarded by a group of young rixis.

All tribe members were fighting side by side and all across the camp of their tribe and each would be fighting uneven battles of 3 to 1. The rixis elder and Cheiftan watched the situation unfold as they fought with each other against the intruders as the elder spoke.

"We will lose at this rate they are too many of them and few of us we need to at least make sure our blue friends get to safety"-Elder Ice Eye

"But we can't give up we must protect this land!"-Chieftain

"I wish that too but our wounds are starting to stack up young one we must gather together and form a large fighting wall while a group of our young go and being the blues to safety"-Elder Ice Eye

The chieftain wanted to fight back against this but he knew that the reality of this fight was clear they would die on these blankets of snow beneath them. The least he could do was try to give those leaving as much time as possible and die fighting.

So that's what they did as they now numbered 40 rixis and 6 blues and they all moved to the back of the tribe that was blocked by large boulders and other rocks.

A group of 5 rixis claimed up the rocks and helped the blues up and ran towards the nearest tribe as they heard their family fight on behind them. And after 2 hours of fighting all of the tribe members were dead the elder had his throat slashed his eyes looking at the sky. While the chieftain fought till his last breath being covered in cuts and slash marks as bodies surrounded him and he bled to death on his knees.

The world wasn't always happy as if one of the members decided to try and ruin it and went the same way the group of rixis and Blues did. Then they would have discovered what was left of their corpses that were being ripped apart and consumed by the winner, eyes popped by fangs and stomach rummaged through and blood seeped through the frost as the hundreds of demon hounds feasted.

How did you know it was demons hounds well Jack knew because of the message he received from the system.

[]Candidate 10 Jack Darwin you have been attacked by another candidate[]

[]Candidate 1 has declared war on you and your race[]

[]Fight well and the winner will get great rewards[]

"Shit.....Minerva!"-Jack