Villain : I reincarnated as a Prince! Shouldn't I have a Harem?

"Where are we going, master?"

Moyun asked, glancing at Ashen who was walking leisurely in front.

"Quiet! Just follow me and you'll know."

Ashen had a confident yet calm smile on his face as if everything was under his control.

Soon, Moyun and Gang Zhao heard a faint scream from the direction they were walking in. They instantly looked at Ashen to see his reaction.

However, Ashen didn't show even a slight change in his expression. It was as if he hadn't even heard that scream. Instead, his confident smile widened a bit as if he were pleased to hear that scream.

As they were getting closer to the source of the scream, the sounds became clearer and louder.

It was the sound of a group of humans fighting with a group of spirit beasts, however, it appeared that this group had encountered some trouble.

Gang Zhao and Moyun expected Ashen to help his fellow humans, however, Ashen was as relaxed as ever. Even though he was leading them to their fight, he didn't seem in a hurry to help them.

After a minute or so, the group became visible as Gang Zhao and Moyun were able to grasp the situation.

The group was made up of mostly Core-formation realm cultivators with one King realm cultivator. They all fought using beasts they had enslaved, hinting at their identity as Zhuji tribe cultivators.

They were ten in number with one or two corpses lying around along with multiple beast corpses. It appeared that these corpses were of the human cultivators whose screams they had heard before.

This group of humans were fighting in a circular formation with a girl in the center and it appeared as if they were trying to protect this girl.

Their opponent were beasts that surprised Gang Zhao and Moyun. The reason being that these beasts would never work together unless it was a necessity.

This beast group was made of one core-formation realm seven-tailed silver night fox, one king realm metal claw eagle, and one king realm Blue Lightning bull.

They were all different species of spirit beasts and why they were fighting a group of humans together was a mystery.

Right now, the humans only had one line of defense, the king realm human cultivator and his spirit beast —— Golden Mane Lion King.

It was probably his bond beast and was somehow fending off the two king realm beasts despite being severely wounded by their attacks.

On the other hand, fighting the seven-tailed silver night fox was a four-tailed crimson-eyed fox, a core-formation bond beast of one of the human cultivators along with different core-formation realm spirit beasts that assisted the Golden Mane Lion King in fighting the King realm spirit beasts.

Gang Zhao and Moyun looked at Ashen, awaiting his command. It was obvious that Ashen was going to interfere in this fight judging by the fact that he was the one who had led them here. It was just a matter of which side he was going to aid.

At this moment, Ashen glanced toward them and ordered:

"You both should hide. You are too large in size and they could notice you. For now, let's watch from the sidelines."

They both adhered to his command, hiding their presence to the best of their capabilities and observing the situation from afar. Unless someone were to search for them specifically, they wouldn't be discovered.

At the location of the fight, The king realm human cultivator groaned as he requested the girl in the center of the group:

"Princess Fanrong, you should escape! I'll hold these beasts until you escape."

Fanrong, wearing an expression of bitterness, refuted his request:

"It's not possible, Uncle Shizi. Even if I were to fly at my top speed, the metal claw eagle would easily catch me, not even giving me a chance to fight back. You also know how fast that beast can fly. Moreover, It is only due to my crimson-eyed fox that we are able to keep the silver night fox at bay. If I were to leave, it would only bring our deaths sooner."

Zhu Shizi, the king realm human cultivator, clicked his tongue in anger at his own helplessness.

He looked at the ground and cursed:

"Just how did this happen? We were only here to help you enslave that Silver Night fox after hearing the rumors about it, how did these two king realm beasts appear here? And why did they start attacking us? Moreover, our teleportation talismans aren't working here. Someone has laid a space-breaking formation here, but who and why?"

Fanrong, listening to her uncle's frustration, tried to calm him down. It was already difficult to defend against the beasts and if her uncle were to lose focus, they would surely die.

"Calm down uncle. It won't benefit us to cry over something out of our control. It is already common knowledge that many cultivators lay their formations in this forest to hunt these beasts. It is our mistake that we didn't check the area before starting our hunt."

Zhu Shizi sighed, calming down before focusing on the fight with the beasts in front of him.

As time passed, the cultivators accompanying Fanrong and Zhu Shizi began to die because of rampant attacks from the metal claw eagle and blue lightning bull.

It was always more difficult to defend than to attack. Each time the Golden Mane Lion would dodge their attacks, it would only lead to the deaths of the cultivators accompanying the human group.

These cultivators were only at the core-formation realm and after their bond beasts died to the attacks of these King realm beasts, they didn't have any means to defend themselves.

Moreover, they were more focused on protecting Princess Fanrong.

If an attack was going toward the princess, one of the cultivators would jump in the way and sacrifice themselves.

In just under ten minutes, their whole group was reduced to only three people. Zhu Shizi, Princess Fanrong, and her closest friend and the daughter of Zhu Shizi, a core-formation realm girl named Zhu Loyan.

"Gaaah!"

The Golden Mane Lion King screamed in pain as a claw attack from the metal claw eagle dug into his skin.

Zhu Shizi instantly used his enslavement path skill — The Healing Fog.

A dark green fog gushed out his hands, attaching itself to the newly created claw holes in the Lion's body as the wound began to heal.

It was only due to Zhu Shizi supporting the Golden Mane Lion king with his enslavement path skills that he was able to fend off two King realm spirit beasts.

Zhu Shizi looked around, cursing his luck:

"Ha-ha... If only I had brought all my spirit beasts, we could atleast have had a chance to escape from this nightmare, but who would have thought that two King realm spirit beasts would attack us without any reason."

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(A/N - Thanks for reading. ^..^)