Everyone gathered at the mouth of the cave. "A territorial invasion has started" said a new blue window "Kill the enemy lord and claim their territory! Reward: New territory and the right to decide the fate of the subjects of the enemy lord". "Good news my lady!" Said Hera sensing the enemies "Looks like our lack of money will be solved if we survive this". Hera had been listening to the conversation through her connection with Sebas. "I don't mind this time since it was Hera but please make sure your subordinates aren't listening in on anything in the future please." Cynthia told Sebas. "I understand my lady. I would like to caution you as well though. I get a lot of secondary information on everything you think about when you use your connection to me. It may be dangerous to leak information to other subordinates in the future.". "I will keep that in mind, Sebas." Said Cynthia "Alright the plan this time is similar to what Sebas said to do during the fight with the beast wave.". "Sebas and I will cause chaos in the enemy lines while Yue will take a group of spiders into the cave, it should be the babies and some of the juveniles. Yue's unit will be in charge of ambushing any stragglers who make it into the cave, take the 2nd generation for that as your juveniles and obviously the 4th generation since they are the babies" Continued Cynthia "The third generation will be under Hera and will confront the enemy's front line.". "Does everyone understand?" asked Cynthia. "Yes my lady!" said the spider couple and the rest used "your majesty".
As the enemies came into view everybody still at the mouth of the cave other than Cynthia who already knew who their enemies were. Out from the forest came ape like beasts with a wide variety of fur colors who have humanlike faces with white ears and red eyes. Cynthia launched her first attack in a way nobody expected. She did it on a whim but it worked surprisingly well. She manipulated the arm of her armor which was created from her stigma and shaped it into a spear. The spear now floating in mid air shot towards one of the beasts which the first generation and the souls recognized as xingxings. The force of the spear took out the entire torso of the one hit and kept going until she sensed it had gone through about half a dozen xingxings and hit their leader. Cynthia in fact aimed in that direction on purpose to get the first strike on the enemy lord. From what she could tell, the enemy lord is also a baron. "First blood has been drawn by Cynthia! Congratulations, the world has started a new fable and you are the center of it! Kill, ally with, or subjugate every other key player in this fable and it will be drawn to a close, rewarding all who took part who are still alive!" said a new blue window "Hint: the reward for dead key players goes to the killer and rewards for subjugated key players go to the master, these rewards can be fused to make a bigger reward! Rewards that are still undecided that are in the possession of lords can be granted to subjects or saved and fused with later rewards".
Back in the midst of battle, the lord of the xingxings didn't manage to block the speeding spear but he wasn't nearly as hurt as his subjects. He had a large gash on his arm but no major injuries. Just then the spear liquified and turned into spikes sharper than a razor lashing out at everyone in the vicinity. Obviously those in the vicinity were the lord and his advisors. The lord even though not in his territory could still sense the shape of the enemy vaguely. "Human cultivator child!" he shouted out "this is between us and the spiders! You need not get involved!". "And why shouldn't I get involved?" replied Cynthia. "You are doing this to uphold justice are you not?" replied the xingxing "the context is different than you think! They have killed my son in cold blood!". It then clicked for Cynthia why his energy felt familiar. Cynthia then flew by manipulating her stigma armor. "Unfortunately for you" Cynthia said, picking up speed and crashing into him and slashing at him with sharp nails "I'm not human, and I'm the one who killed your son!". "You've badly misread the situation" said Cynthia calmly while standing surrounded by the xingxing lord and his injured advisors. "I'm not here to uphold justice like some misguided cultivator. I'm here because this is my territory and you've invaded it!" said Cynthia baring her k9's that were way too sharp to be human. Cynthia then transformed. Her skin grew and started sprouting fur as her teeth became bigger and sharper and her hands and feet grew into terrifying paws with claws sharper than razors her armor now melding into her fur, creating elaborate stripes as she fully transform back into a white tiger that was bigger than a regular fully grown tiger even though she was just a juvenile. "Tiger versus gorilla! Let's see who wins!" snarled Cynthia as the advisors dropped to the ground. The xingxing lord looked on in horror as he was now faced with a tiger twice his size while his advisors were all on the ground even though the injuries they had weren't serious enough to warrant such an impact. Cynthia then sprouted wings from her back and started flying up. "Why are my advisors on the ground? What did you do to them?" Asked the xingxing lord in a vexed manner. "Neurotoxin venom is quite potent isn't it?" Said Cynthia getting ready to dive bomb the enemy lord like she did his son. "A tiger with venom and wings?! What are you?!" shouted the xingxing lord in fear. "Funny, I think your son said the exact same thing before he died" Cynthia said as she dive bombed towards his throat just like she did to his son. By this point the enemy lord couldn't lift a finger because of the venom that had entered his system from the spear and her claw slash. "He had way more venom in his body than his advisor but still didn't go down until several times longer than they did" Cynthia thought after she had ripped out the xingxing lord's throat "I guess being a lord gives a bigger bonus than I thought. I wonder if a juvenile white tiger can beat Sebas.".
After Cynthia killed the enemy lord, she proceeded to massacre the entire back line. Doing so was rather easy because as she tested out, the stigma could penetrate the skin of even a lord and cut clean through a lord's advisors with ease. Cutting through back line enemies was easy enough so she quickly returned to the front killing any enemies she saw on the way. As she could feel that Sebas had the front handled practically on his own she took her time. She even ate some of the smaller xingxings whole with her newly massive tiger body. Once she had arrived at the front lines the fighting was already over. "You have decimated the invasion and killed the enemy lord! Your territory has been expanded to the Xingxing Canopy" said a new blue window "Congratulations you have killed or subjugated all main players in an ongoing fable!". "You have received the xingxing lord's reward! You have received the xingxing lead advisors reward! You have received Sebas' reward!" said another blue window "would you like to grant or fuse any rewards?". "Fuse the lord's and my reward together and fuse Sebas' and the lead advisor's reward together." Replied Cynthia "then grant the combined reward from Sebas and the lead advisor to Sebas". Cynthia ordered the spiders of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generations to clean up and bring all the loot inside the cave and for Hera to oversee that. Cynthia then went into the cave to rest.