Gnolls.

This hyena-like species had protruding snouts and black spots on their brown bodies. They had rough tempers and were obsessive over power structures, so they fought frequently amongst themselves, but the overall opinion of the players of The Lost World was that they were still worthy of consideration despite all these shortcomings. Their physical ability and intelligence were both high on average, so they were known to be a good species to have at the start of the game regardless of what the player’s Small Area was.

But these facts about the game had no bearing on Owen and the unknown man next to Owen.

The man said to Owen, “What are you gonna do? As far as I know, Gnolls and Lizardmen aren’t really on good terms right now.”

“That’s right.”

Owen looked down with a bored face.

“There’s still time until they reach the top of the hill, so let’s think about what to do. It also doesn’t seem like they’ve noticed us yet. Do you think they are Salkait’s men?”

Salkait was the tribal chief of the Gnoll tribe, Ears Cut Tribe, which were hostile towards the Black-Scaled Lizardmen. The Black-Scaled Lizardmen from the south and the Ears Cut Tribe from the northeast were the two largest tribes of the wilderness, so all the other smaller tribes had great interest in the two.

Salkait and Lakrak believed in different gods. Therefore, it was inevitable for both tribal chiefs to be hostile...