From Nine Rank Psychic to a Totem of a Small Tribe

Gavin watched as the black stone wall formed by the clone trembled upon impact, the massive snake slamming against it with a thunderous crash. His wolf clone swiftly retreated, keeping just beyond the serpent's reach.

The wall vanished and returned to elemental form, revealing the furious Ice Poison Snake. It reared back, its glowing blue eyes locking onto the wolf, a menacing hiss escaping its fanged maw. From its mouth, a chilling blue mist poured forth, creeping across the battlefield like a deadly fog.

The wolf didn't hesitate. With a flick of its paw, white stone condensed in the air, forming a razor-sharp spear that shot toward the beast. The spear struck its scales but barely did more than scratch the surface. The snake lunged in retaliation, but before it could strike, the ground rumbled beneath its weight. A black stone spear materialized beside the wolf, crackling with raw earth energy.

At the same time, the wolf stomped the ground, channeling elemental energy to raise another stone wall. The delay, however, allowed the snake to unleash another wave of icy mist. The wolf leaped back just in time, watching as the mist froze and the snow-covered ground into blue ice, laced with venom potent enough to kill in moments.

With a guttural growl, the wolf circled its opponent, dodging lunges and snapping its powerful jaws at the serpent's body. The snake retaliated, ice spikes forming along its scales, stabbing into the wolf's side. It let out a snarl of pain but refused to fall.

Seizing the moment, the wolf summoned another black stone spear. The snake lunged, mouth wide open, its fangs dripping venom. With precise timing, the wolf hurled the spear forward. The black stone projectile shot straight into the gaping maw, piercing through flesh, bone, and brain. The spear emerged from the back of the snake's skull, the beast's massive form convulsing before crashing onto the shattered remains of the Snake Tribe's settlement.

The battle was over. Half the snake tribe's settlement lay in ruins, but victory belonged to Gavin's clone. 

After that Elder and the tribe members return, when the snake tribe member hidden underground learned their totem is dead. Slowly all of them came out and surrendered.

And they start collecting resources from the snake tribe for the return journey. His clone also started working on dividing the body of the snake. The tribe member does not have the strength even to break the snake's scale. 

Except Ajis who may break the scale but he also does not have the strength to divide the snake's body. 

So, Gavin speeds up the memory but he does not stop watching as the fight is already won. Because half an hour later the sense of his clone went into high alert as he felt danger. And from the corner of his eyes, he spots an arrow made of ice coming toward him.

He quickly moves at the last moment but the arrow still grazes his body. Injured and in anger look toward from which the direction arrow came. And spots three humans standing and the center standing with a bow which is now pointed at him with another ice arrow nocked at the bow.

His clone growls when he spots the arrow launched coming toward him, He does not have time to form a stone wall to block the arrow. So, gets out of the way of the arrow, and as the arrow passes him. He shot toward the humans a hail of black stone bullets. 

They roll and dodge the bullets but they are still slightly injured. Then his tribe members and the Snake tribe members with their weapons out stare at the human. They did not attack because more Humans came out behind the three Humans with magic guns in their hands.

One of the three humans named James shouts," Kais, do not worry we came to help your tribe."

But the answer he receives a spear thrown toward him by Kais. Because after the death of the totem, there is no snake tribe anymore, they are now a member of the Statue Tribe.

The Humans are not aware of the customs of the three-eyed race tribes. So, they got angry after Kais threw a spear at them when they wanted to help.

But no fight broke out, they outnumbered the humans but the humans' extraordinary number was higher than them. So, his clone did not order the tribe to attack and the humans were also afraid of him, as he killed the snake tribe totem alone, whose strength is similar to the Human leader Elan Wright.

After that humans went back and an hour later the clone and tribe members started their return journey.

When Gavin finishes watching the clone's memory, he finds the clone with the tribe members a few meters from the gate of the tribe. The tribe members inside the tribe run out from the tribe to check if every tribe member returned.

Finding all the return tribe members, the crowd erupted in joy. Gavin then from his seal space watched the tribe start a feast with the snake tribe totem. And after the snake tribe totem meat was served the former snake tribe member ate their totem meat.

They are showing loyalty to the new tribe. The feast went up to the next day's dawn when all tribe members fell asleep. The houses are congested as the tribe did not build new houses for the new members joining the tribe.

Gavin when his attention turns inside the spirit world finds the repairing of the altar picks up speed. It is so slight that time required for repairing the alter 1% which is in decades that speeds up by a few day.

Gavin knows that all the new tribe members do not believe in him but as time passes they will be also devoted to him. So, it is not his concern.

His concern is if he can increase his tribe's population the altar repairing will further speed up.

There are two ways to raise the population of the tribe for now-

1. Wait because as time passes the population will also increase. If he provides good health care and sufficient opportunities for all.

2. Kill the totems of other tribes and absorb their population.

He likes the second option better, it is faster and it is easy for him to kill the other tribe's totems. 

But if he does this, he will face the hostility of the Dark Panther tribe. The Dark Panther Tribe does not reside in this area but at the border of the other region. 

From this area named WinterMoon Forest to go to the next region Nine Spring Region, one has to cross the Manu River. The Manu River is dangerous with it fast current and magic and feral beasts inside the river water. The safest way is using boat of Dark Panther Tribe to cross the other side to Nine Spring Region. 

The Dark Panther Tribe is a middle-rank tribe with a long history. For a small tribe to become a middle-rank tribe the tribe has to have a Bronze rank Totem and a minimum of 10 people in the Great Shaman or Spirit Blood Realm.

The middle-rank tribes come with the obligation, of not attacking small tribes without appropriate region, maintaining order in the region where they are situated, and many other obligations. With so many obligations all small tribes reach the required strength of middle-rank tribes and ask for an Inspector from the Eyed Council to increase their tribe rank.

Because middle-rank tribes can buy practice resources from the Eyed Council.

The Nine Spring Region is named after a Large Tribe Nine Spring Tribe so the entire region is in control of the Nine Spring Tribe. With no power in their region, the Dark Panther Tribe considers this region as their backyard.

The Statue Tribe destroying other small tribes and absorbing their population would be considered a challenge to the rule of the Dark Panther Tribe. The Dark Panther Tribe is a very old tribe with a history of more than 500 years.

And even if his clone enters the Bronze rank for some years they will not match the Dark Panther Tribe. And he does not think they will be able to find their tribe's hidden location. 

He can only attack the northern tribes as because of a WinterMoon mountain range they are not closely connected to the Dark Panther Tribe. This is also the reason that the Snake Tribe started attacking other northern tribes.

The Southern Tribes are too closely connected with the Dark Panther tribe with many tribes with tribe members marrying with the Dark Panther tribe members. But now he cannot launch an attack on the Northern Tribes as they are closely connected. 

And if after his clone advances to the Bronze Rank and attacks the Northern Tribes. Then it may become an excuse for the Dark Panther to launch an attack on them. 

So, he had to plan carefully and then thought of the Wright family, they came to this region to earn merit points. He cannot let them set up a settlement but magic cores from the bronze magic beast can be exchanged for merit points. 

With Willie's memory, he knows Elan is one step away from advancing to the 6th-rank magic hunter. If he helps Elan to advance to the 6th-rank magic hunter after his clone advances to the Bronze Magic beast realm. Then the Wright Family will kill the four totems of the four remaining northern tribes and his clone will come at last and rescue the northern tribes.

With the plan made, He and his clone both enter a long retreat for the clone to advance to the magic beast realm.