Exiled Villainess: They Threw Me Out, Now Every Beastman Wants Me novel Chapter 188

Chapter 188: Work Smarter, Not Harder

Tera stood at the edge of the newly cleared field with her arms crossed and a grin on her face that she couldn’t wipe off even if she tried.

Before her, over thirty males were digging.

Wolves and Dow clan beasts worked side by side across the wide, damp clearing, digging up mounds and ridges with a coordination that shouldn’t have been possible between two groups that had been strangers less than a month ago.

Bessier and her mates took turns supervising and digging.

Bessier especially was more enthusiastic, shouting instructions and mimicking Tera while he mostly instructed the wolves.

"Deeper! No, not THAT deep! What are you doing?! You are not burying a body!"

A wolf paused mid-dig and stared at Bessier, visibly alarmed. "How deep IS a body?"

"It was a figure of speech! Dig to your elbow!"

The wolf looked at his own arm, then at the hole, then back at Bessier with the expression of someone who was doing his very best and still failing.

Tera chuckled and shook her head.

This scene had taken a lot of work to make happen, and the journey to get here had been a little too smooth.

While spending some time with her mates and the clan, Tera had realised that she didn’t have to go through a repeat of teaching the wolves how to dig proper ridges and mounds when she could have her beasts do it instead and save herself the stress.

So she had opened the portal two days ago, and a number of the Dow clan members had poured through with the organised chaos of beasts who had done this before and were excited to do it again.

Tera had brought nearly all her males and a handful of females, while the rest stayed behind to tend to the cubs and maintain the settlement. Even Xavi and Ermin had come through, excited to help Tera on this mission.

The wolves had been very nervous about the large number of varied beasts, but one of her clan members had broken the ice by literally going around to shake hands with every wolf he could reach while loudly complimenting their territory.

"Your trees are MAGNIFICENT! Look at the size of that trunk! We don’t have anything like that!"

The wolves didn’t know what to do with this.

Several of them had stood frozen mid-handshake, their tails caught between fight-or-flight and a strange, unfamiliar warmth.

But the real shock had come from the elders.

Tera had fully expected them to be hostile. Cold stares, muttered complaints, a wall of disapproval that she would have to chip through over days.

Instead, a number of the elders had come to suck up to her.

"Leader Tera. We are pleased by your return."

Tera had blinked. ’Eh?’

[Is this system seeing things?]

[(⊙_⊙)]

[Are these the same wolves who wanted Host to choke on her own cooking a while ago?] 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

The second elder stepped forward, his hands clasped in front of him. "Your contributions to our pack have been noticed and valued. Thank you. You have such beautiful eyes."

’What the fuck?’

"The water from the stream was wet. Very wet. Good water."

Another one just nodded aggressively, while more chipped in, commenting on her appearance and offering whatever help they could and Tera inched back with each step as the elders hounded her.

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