Take Away My Sickly Beauty [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 26

Three days after the White Rain Festival, Tabu a small orc tribe consisting of only about thirty people.

welcomed three guests.

In the orc world, the White Rain Festival was a day when large tribes drove away the weak or executed serious offenders. It was also a day when small tribes welcomed new inhabitants.

Those sick, weak, or disabled orcs abandoned by the large tribes would be welcomed as guests of honor if they were fortunate enough to survive the trek through the torrential washing of the storm and encounter a small tribe.

This was because many orcs brought with them the life experience and knowledge of large tribes, and some disabled orcs were originally orc warriors. If lucky, an extremely weak tribe might welcome a powerful warrior capable of protecting them.

Although disabled orcs were seen as sinners cursed by the Beast God in the eyes of large tribes, in the eyes of small tribes, they were life-saving straws and heroes.

And today, the Tabu tribe welcomed three outcasts from a large tribe. Among them, one tall male orc warrior had lost his left arm, while another tall female orc warrior had lost an eye.

There was also a very small female orc, appearing to be only twelve or thirteen years old; she had no injuries or disabilities, yet she was unable to transform into her beast form.

This was a curse!

The Great Priest, who had originally been rejoicing that the tribe was about to welcome powerful warriors, changed her expression instantly. Her cloudy eyes were filled with fear and loathing as she shouted, “Get out, devil! She is a devil cursed by the Beast God! She is ominous! Drive her out quickly!”

The Great Priest’s shouting made the orcs of the Tabu tribe grow tense. They instinctively surrounded the three newcomers, their dark faces bearing expressions as if facing a formidable enemy, which displeased the two orc warriors.

This little female had met them halfway, and shortly after they met, she had confessed that she could not undergo beastification. If it were before, they would also have shouted “devil” and driven her away.

However, the one-eyed female orc Yaya and the disabled male orc Brooke had only recently been driven out of their own tribe by kin shouting “devil” and among those who drove them away were even their own parents and brothers.

“We all know clearly that we are not devils, so you don’t need to be afraid.” Along the way, the female orc Yaya and the male orc Brooke had taken great care of Kaino.

Kaino was very grateful to them. Because she could not undergo beastification, her father the tribal chief had followed the Great Priest’s words and driven her out. The heavy rain of the White Rain Festival had left her dizzy and blurred.

The sick Kaino had no way to hunt; fortunately, Yaya and Brooke helped her. Now that they had finally found a tribe willing to accept them, Kaino did not want to cause them trouble.

Despite this, Yaya and Brooke said to the crowd, “We are together. She is not a devil. If you want to drive her away, we will leave together.”

The Tabu tribe had many female orcs, but only two male orcs who were already elderly. Furthermore, among the females, there were almost no warriors capable of going out to hunt.

Therefore, the Tabu tribe absolutely could not let Brooke and Yaya go. But to ask them to accept a devil was simply impossible.

Le Li, who had been listening from the shadows for a long time, finally spoke. She was a newcomer to the Transmigration Bureau, and this orc world was the first mission world she had taken over.

Her mission was to become the wife of the Beast King and absorb the world’s destiny (Qi). Unfortunately, this world was a newly developed small world, so the information provided by the Transmigration Bureau was incomplete, and she was not clear on who exactly the Beast King was.

But it didn’t matter; she could use those male orcs as stepping stones. She would start by walking out of this small tribe, and sooner or later, she would find the largest tribe and identify the strongest male orc in this world. As long as she became his wife, her mission would be successfully completed.

Thus, she set her sights on Brooke.

Previously, she had used her “gold finger” (cheat ability) to help the Tabu tribe’s Great Priest extract relatively white and clean salt from salt stones, and was subsequently revered as a Saintess by the Great Priest.

A Saintess was a child of the Beast God, a treasure bestowed upon the tribe by the Beast God. Therefore, the words of Le Li, the Saintess, were more effective than those of the Great Priest.

“Enough. As the daughter of the Beast God, I pray to the Mother God to allow you to stay. But the devil will harm me, so the Mother God requires that the strongest among you becomes my attendant.”

Because of her high status, the resources of the Tabu tribe were tilted toward Le Li, allowing her to stand out among the group of dark and coarse female orcs.

She was so fair and beautiful that any orc who saw her would be reluctant to look away, wishing they could swear on the spot to fight for her and offer up their orcish loyalty and glory.

But her words and her naked gaze displeased Yaya. Yaya and Brooke were from the same tribe and originally had feelings for each other; Yaya’s eye had even been lost while saving Brooke. Consequently, Brooke had formed a mate contract with Yaya during their journey.

Although the only witness was the cub Kaino, the bond between the two was deep, and they would never betray each other.

The ambiguous expressions of the crowd brought Brooke back to his senses, and he finally understood Le Li’s meaning.

He then refused, saying, “I’m sorry, I already have a mate.” As he spoke, he took Yaya’s hand.

Yaya’s face flushed, yet she confidently held her head high and let the crowd watch.

Le Li’s expression shifted, her heart annoyed that these blood-drinking beasts of this world were so ungrateful. She snorted coldly, “If that is the case, the Mother God will not allow that devil to stay.”

A little brat who couldn’t even manage beastification would only be a burden if she stayed in the Tabu tribe; she certainly wouldn’t raise a useless person.

“…” Yaya and Brooke paused, looking at each other in silence.

Three days of long-distance trekking had exhausted their physical strength and energy. If they missed the Tabu tribe, they didn’t know if they would survive the journey to the next one.

Kaino was also aware of this, so she tugged at the corners of their animal-skin skirts and said calmly, “I’ll leave first. If I have the chance, I will repay you.”

“No.” Yaya and Brooke opened their mouths to stop her without hesitation.

They couldn’t allow a cub to wander out in the storm; she would die!

But Kaino was extremely fast, and taking advantage of her small size, she squeezed through a small gap in the surrounding crowd.

By the time the crowd dispersed, Brooke and Yaya could no longer see her figure. The heavy rain had washed away Kaino’s scent; they actually couldn’t find her!

While worried, the two were also secretly shocked. They had once been top-tier warriors in their tribe, yet they were instantly shaken off by a cub?!

Just what was the origin of this cub?

Kaino, who had run out with all her might, tumbled into a rocky hollow; her illness was getting worse. The piercingly cold rainwater was a blade named Death; it was held high, ready to harvest the life of this cub at any moment.

But not far from where Kaino fainted, in a very dilapidated small wooden hut, a gaunt female orc gripped a sharp wooden spike, warily staring at the figure that had suddenly fallen in the heavy rain.

Sana the female orc whom the Saintess Le Li called a devil was also Le Li’s half-sister. She had been driven out of the village by her clansmen a month ago and could only curl up and live not far outside the village.

Sana didn’t understand why her cute and sensible younger sister would suddenly seem like a different person after a major illness, not only driving her out but also saying she was a devil.

Just as she didn’t understand why, in such heavy rain, there would be a cub wandering outside, even fainting in the storm.

Sana’s parents and most of the orcs in the tribe had died long ago while resisting a beast tide; they hadn’t had time to tell her the stories of the White Rain Festival.

And since the Great Priest was old and lacked the energy to tell these things to the cubs, Sana had never been clear on why there would be guests arriving after the White Rain Festival.

She put down the wooden spike in her hand and rushed into the rain, covered by a broad blade of grass.

In such heavy rain, if she didn’t bring that cub back, she would die!

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