Chapter 1676: Forcing The Hands Of The Snow Leopards

"technically, yes."

grey's response angered the tribe leader even more, it couldn't believe there was such a human who didn't know how to act. the human has been surrounded, no way to run, yet he was still running his mouth confidently.

"human, return what you stole and i'll leave your corpse intact." the tribe leader said as it tried to reign in its anger.

"what treasure?" grey asked with a confused expression.

"don't play dumb with me human, you took the treasure when you came to my tribe." the tribe leader was starting to lose its temper.

"what treasure? i was with you all through my time there. did you see me take any treasure?" grey asked, still with his confused expression.

the tribe leader's eyes twitched when it heard grey's words, to be honest, it indeed didn't see grey take any treasure, but the only person that came to their tribe was grey, so it's only natural that he is the only one who can be blamed.

"you worked with someone else to steal the treasure. hand it over, i won't say it again." the tribe leader growled.

"i genuinely don't know what you're talking about." grey said, he paused and asked, "is it like an orb and has a small cat inside?"

the eyes of the tribe leader widened as it nodded, "yes, yes, that's it. where did you see it?"

"i haven't seen anything like that in my life." grey replied.

grey's reply almost made the tribe leader explode from exasperation. grey just perfectly described the treasure to him, yet he was saying he has never seen such a treasure in his life, even a newborn can't be fooled by these words.

"what do you take me for?!" the tribe leader roared.

it was at its limit, and grey wasn't giving it much of an option.

"i'll kill you, i'll skin you alive you filthy beast!" the tribe leader roared and attacked. it was very fast, and within a second, it was already in front of grey, swirling its claws at him.

grey smiled and his eyes locked with the tribe leader, the next thing, his figure changed from that of a human to a snow leopard.

the tribe leader wasn't able to pause, and its swiping claw hit the new figure present there, a snow leopard in the early stages of the eighth rank. from what grey could tell, it hasn't been long this one crossed to the eighth rank. an attack from the tribe leader who has lost control isn't something this snow leopard could take. it slammed into the ground, injured.

"human, that treasure is valuable to us, please return it." the tribe leader calmed itself and pleaded.

"it's not that i don't want to give it to you, i don't know what it is." grey replied.

"what do you mean you don't know what it is?!" the mid stage leopard grey fought with before asked in anger.

"you're talking about an orb with a figure of a cat inside, correct?" grey asked.

the tribe leader and the other snow leopards nodded.

"like i said, i've never seen that orb in my life." grey added after they nodded.

he described what they were searching for, but then told them he has never seen that thing in his life.

to be honest, he learnt how to mess with people from klaus, and since he was bored, he wanted to see just how these snow leopards would react, and to be honest, he was quite impressed. most humans would've tried every means they could to kill him since he was messing with them. but due to the safety of the others, the snow leopards couldn't do anything to him.

grey studied the snow leopards and shook his head.

'they're better than most humans.' he thought to himself. he has been in such positions with humans and they always want to make sure they kill him at all costs, so he knew that most humans in such positions wouldn't care about the wellbeing of some unimportant people.

"since i hold your kind in high esteem, i'll stop switching places with others." grey said to them.

however, he added something else before they could attack....

"that is if you believe me."

his creepy smile at the end of his statement froze the snow leopards in their spots, none of them dared to make a move. the two times grey has been attacked, he changed positions with just one figure, the same snow leopard. the tribe leader's attack injured it, same as the other attack. given its current state, any other attack and it will certainly die.

grey's words are vague, there's a good chance that he might switch places when he's attacked. and the moment he chances places with that leopard, it means it will die, and purely under their attacks. grey could be blamed, but they know that he never attacked anyone.

grey saw them and knew that his words and actions had affected them significantly, a smile appeared on his face as he said, "why don't you guys let me leave? it's not like you want to attack me."

the snow leopards looked at him, but they didn't say anything, they couldn't attack him. attacking him might put the already injured snow leopard in serious danger. at least they could still heal it at the moment, but any further will endanger it.