Shirou won the fight with the North Saint.
This fight seemed short, but it was actually more dangerous than any fight he had experienced before, even greater than the intense battle with the immortal demon king Atofe.
Perhaps only the pressure of facing the water god Reida could compare.
The reason for this was not only that Shirou used his real body this time, and did not activate the Servant form in advance, but also that he was poisoned by Giles in advance, and the start was already in a bad situation.
Giles, as the North Saint, would do anything sneaky. If he were even worse, preparing more traps and hostages, Shirou would probably have no way to deal with him without being able to use the Certain Victory Golden Sword freely, for fear of hurting the hostages.
Fortunately, Giles had enough confidence in his own strength, and did not make more preparations or use more traps.
Therefore, Shirou was able to easily destroy him just by releasing the Certain Victory Golden Sword.
Unfortunately, with Shirou's burst of power, the fragile blade of the Certain Victory Golden Sword finally reached its limit and completely shattered into pieces.
After this, it will probably only be possible to repair it by restoring it with extremely high skill.
But Shirou not only doesn't have the means to repair the Certain Victory Golden Sword right now, but the most important thing is that he has no way to ease the severe poison that Giles inflicted.
As the poison built up, he even passed out directly after the fight.
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The next day.
When Shirou woke up, he found himself lying in a beast tribe's wooden house. The wooden house was built temporarily, as the original forest had been burned down in a big fire.
The beast tribes had to move their position to this side temporarily.
Now that he was awake, it meant that, in all likelyhood, he had been saved by the beast tribe people.
He figured it must have been Gustav's help.
Thinking this, Shirou was about to get up, but felt a clear sense of dizziness. As he was confused, he saw several beast tribe girls come in from outside.
After finding out that he was awake, a bunch of beast tribe people rushed in at once, including Gustav of course.
From Gustav's mouth, Shirou learned what happened last night.
Since Shirou had already shot all the smugglers to death, including the mastermind Giles, who had also turned into a dead soul under Shirou's sword,
the beast tribe's crisis was officially resolved.
The beast tribes then focused their attention on putting out the fire.
It wasn't until later that someone found Shirou passed out on the altar.
Originally, some beast tribes who didn't recognize Shirou were going to arrest him, but when the warrior chief Gustav saw it, he immediately stopped this behavior, and settled Shirou down and treated him as soon as possible.
However, the beast tribe's treatment methods were limited, and they were only able to barely suppress the poison in Shirou's body.
If he really wanted to be completely cured, it would be best for Shirou to go to the Milis Holy Kingdom to receive treatment and baptism from proper priests.
The Milis Holy Kingdom, a country founded on religion, can be said to be the best place in the world for healing magic, and naturally, they are also good at things like getting rid of poison.
Shirou knew something about this and was about to leave, but found out that the great forest had already entered the rainy season, and it was raining heavily.
If the rain doesn't stop within three months, it will be impossible to cross the forest and go to the Milis Holy Kingdom.
This meant that Shirou could only stay in the beast tribe's territory for the time being.
By the way, Ruijerd and Eris had successfully reunited, and also came to the beast tribe's territory, and each gave a place to rest.
"Then thank you."
Hearing that the beast tribe was willing to take them in, Shirou said his thanks.
Gustav immediately showed a worried expression, and waved his hands again and again: "No, no, no, how could you be thanking us? Shirou, you are the great benefactor of our beast tribe!!"
Gustav's attitude was very respectful.
Last night, the spectacular sight of Shirou killing all the smugglers single-handedly shocked all the beast tribe people.
The beast tribe children have even come to see Shirou as an idol.
After the fact, the beast tribe also investigated the truth of the kidnapping.
In short, a huge smuggling organization tried to kidnap the Deldia tribe's guardian god, the [Holy Beast]
That's the big white dog.
Since the Holy Beast is a special creature, it seems that many people want to get it, but it is difficult to achieve the goal of kidnapping the Holy Beast by ordinary means.
Even if they succeed, the warriors with keen senses will quickly catch up, and it will soon be taken back.
So, the smuggling organization took advantage of the rainy season.
The rainy season lasts three months.
In order to cope with the rainy season, the warriors of each village put all their effort into preparation, and each village is very busy.
Most importantly, it is impossible to send ships out to sea during the rainy season.
As long as they kidnap the Holy Beast before the rainy season arrives and send it to the Demon Continent, they will not be caught up by the beast tribe's warriors, and they will be able to escape completely.
The smuggling organization's actions were originally going smoothly, and they even actually captured the Holy Beast, but they never expected that there would be a traitor within.
That was Giles.
Giles's goal wasn't the Holy Beast, but the beast tribe's slaves.
Moreover, Giles probably wanted to compete for power in the organization, so he destroyed his rivals' plan.
In short, he deliberately brought Shirou and Ruijerd, gave them the information, and then notified the beast tribe's warrior group, leading to a battle between the two sides.
Giles took the opportunity to attack the beast tribe's main camp himself, set a big fire, and stole the beast tribe's children and women.
If Shirou didn't have Clairvoyance, he was afraid that the other party's plan would really be realized.
It was also because of Shirou's actions that the beast tribe was extremely grateful to him, and regarded him as a great benefactor to the entire race.
The beast tribe, from top to bottom, both men and women, were full of admiration and recognition for Shirou.
If it were placed in the human kingdom, it would even be to the point of building a statue for him.
Shirou, as a well-developed young man, was also favored by a large number of beast tribe women, which really made him feel a headache.
While Shirou was troubled, Ruijerd and Eris arrived.
The two helped Shirou solve the trouble.
Mainly, Eris alone drove away all the beast tribe girls.
And Ruijerd explained the previous situation to Shirou.
It turned out that it wasn't just Shirou who had a conflict with the beast tribe, but also Ruijerd himself, but because he didn't have the characteristics of the Superd tribe, plus the children's defense, the beast tribe people recognized him.
Ruijerd then attacked the smuggling organization's sea ships together with the beast tribe people, beat all the organization members half to death and arrested them one by one, and rescued all the captured slave children, from elves, mine tribe people to beast tribe people, there were about fifty children of various races.
Originally, everything was supposed to be happy, but unexpectedly, the Milis Holy Kingdom official from Zante Port ran out to try to look good.
The Milis country official said that the ships before the rainy season were carrying important goods, and attacking the ships was a serious crime.
This reaction greatly angered the beast tribe.
The human tribe and the beast tribe on the Milis continent almost went to war.
Fortunately, the Zante Port official was still scared. He originally just wanted to take this opportunity to get some benefits for himself, and didn't really want to start a war. After finding out that the beast tribe's attitude was tough, he retreated decisively.
From this point, it can be seen that the current Milis Holy Kingdom doesn't seem to be a harmonious country.
Lower-level officials can abuse their power to seek personal gain.
The degree of corruption in this country can be imagined.
Of course, these things have nothing to do with Shirou.
Shirou was just unable to get rid of the poison in his body, so he stayed in the beast tribe's village and had to wait three months before he could go to the Milis Holy Kingdom.
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One day, Shirou was still recovering from his injuries.
The poison in his body often made him feel tired, so that even daily training required rest.
In fact, this level of poison can be removed with just intermediate or advanced detoxification spells, and even Avalon is enough to purify it.
But the beast tribe people and Shirou don't know any detoxification spells, and Avalon has already been used up.
He can only rely on his endurance to hold out until the Milis Holy Kingdom.
In the past few days, he has become somewhat familiar with the beast tribe people, and learned that there are many branches of the beast tribe here, with the cat-like ones being the Tedludia tribe, and the dog-like ones being the Adludia tribe.
The chief of the Tedludia tribe is Gustav, who is also the warrior chief.
The cat-eared girl Shirou rescued that day was named Minitona, and is Gustav's second daughter.
Gustav also has an older daughter named Liniana, who is currently studying at the magic university.
While understanding this information, Shirou suddenly thought of something: "Speaking of which, do you know Ghislaine? She has cat-like features, so she should also be from the Tedludia tribe, right?"
"Ghislaine? That guy... is she still alive?"
Gustav was stunned for a moment, and was very disgusted by this name.
Shirou was stunned for a moment, and felt confused.
Gustav quickly explained.
It turned out that Ghislaine was Gustav's younger sister, who was like a princess of the Tedludia tribe, but her personality had been terrible since she was a child, causing the tribe members to hate her.
Even Gustav, her older brother, was very disgusted by Ghislaine, and thought that she was not worthy of being his younger sister at all.
Shirou was undoubtedly very unhappy with Gustav's words of contempt.
As his swordsmanship teacher, he recognized Ghislaine more than anyone else, and regarded her as someone he respected.
But before he could express his opinion, Eris burst out first.
"That's a lie! You don't understand Ghislaine at all!"
Eris's voice was so loud that people worried the house would crack, "Ghislaine is one of the people I respect the most! Ghislaine is amazing! Really... really amazing! As long as I shout for help, she'll come to save me right away! She runs really fast! And she's also really strong! If Ghislaine hadn't... wuu... wuuu... shouldn't be... talked about like that... wuuu..."
Eris's words almost turned into sobs at the end.
It was enough to see how much she valued Ghislaine, and how she didn't want her to be badmouthed at all costs.
Eris's reaction undoubtedly surprised Gustav, and he said blankly: "No, how is that possible? Ghislaine is... respectable? There can't be such a silly thing."
Regarding Gustav's words, Shirou tried to speak calmly: "Don't look at a person with fixed ideas. At least in our eyes, Ghislaine is a very reliable and dependable person."
"This..."
"Besides, Ghislaine is your younger sister. Even if your younger sister has any problems, why should you, as an older brother, show denial and disdain? Protecting and guiding your younger sister to the right path is our duty as older brothers, isn't it?"
Shirou spoke from the bottom of his heart, saying this.
After listening, Gustav was suddenly stunned.
"S-sorry..."
He didn't know if he was apologizing to Shirou and Eris, or to Ghislaine, whom he hadn't protected in the past.
After hearing Shirou's scolding, Gustav looked like a child who had made a mistake for a moment.
It seemed that he had finally realized his mistake after half his life, and showed a lost look, and his whole person became dejected.
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