While following the lizardmen, Yale was happy about having told beforehand everyone about his transformation abilities and the fact that Wyba could change her form because that avoided that the others were shocked seeing those transformations.
Of course, the day Yale and Wyba showed their half-beast forms for the first time, Nurvey almost turned mad of happiness and spent quite a bit of time touching the ears and tail of their half-beast forms, which irritated Yale quite a bit despite enduring it till the end.
Moreover, Yale even heard Nurvey speaking with Julie, and he felt that Julie mentioned something regarding making plushies of the half-beast forms of Yale and Wyba, but Yale decided to ignore that topic since he felt that there was no way they could produce them well in the ocean. Furthermore, even if Julie managed to make them, Yale still preferred to not know about it.
At that time, Yale had doubted if his choice of disclosing it was good or not, but after reaching the western continent, he sighed in relief since the situation confirmed that he had made the right choice.
"Your friends called you Shirk earlier; you are quite weird for having that name."
The lizardman with the scar started to speak with Shirk because although Yale and the others were honored guests, Shirk was a lizardman who could join the tribe.
"Is my name that weird?"
Since Shirk didn't know anything about lizardmen, and he only turned a lizardman thanks to Yale's help, it wouldn't be strange if his name seemed strange for those lizardmen, but the answer was something he never expected.
"The weird thing is that you have a name. In the lizardman tribes, no one has a name and having a title is already considered a lot. Are you serving any of those esteemed divine beasts?"
The lizardmen of the western continent once enraged another species that they mustn't have offended, and in consequence, all the lizardmen became cursed and turned unable to naming themselves or naming others.
The only way for them to obtain a name was to become the servant of a member of another species and letting the other party bestow a name upon them, which usually was great humiliation.
Thus, the lizardmen thought that since Shirk had a name, it would mean that someone else had given it to him since the lizardmen were unable to do it.
Of course, Shirk obtained his name from his parents because he wasn't born as a lizardman and the curse didn't affect him even after the transformation of his bloodline because the origin of his bloodline was different from those lizardmen of the western continent.
"Shirk is an orphan and Sebe has taken care of him for a long time ago. I fear that he doesn't have any knowledge of the traditions of Lizardmen."
Since Yale knew that Shirk wouldn't be able to come up quickly with a decent reason, Yale needed to say a reason himself. In fact, Yale hadn't lied because Shirk's parents were already dead and Sebe had been helping him for a lot of time, and it was true that Shirk didn't have any knowledge about lizardmen because no one in the eastern continent had that knowledge.
As for the fact that no one told about the lizardmen to Shirk, the scour group just thought that there was no way that the powerful divine beasts had any interest in investigating the traditions of the lizardmen.
"Sir Yale, that isn't true! You have also helped me a lot!"
Shirk automatically replied to Yale's words because although Shirk felt great respect for Sebe, the respect he felt for Yale was even greater. Moreover, Sebe himself respected Yale, so he didn't feel it wrong that Shirk thought like that.
"How many times I need to tell you to remove that Sir when you talk with me…"
Yale didn't feel well when people close to him talk with him using so much respect, but sometimes Shirk couldn't avoid it despite knowing that Yale preferred to be treated more informally.
The lizardmen were hearing the conversation, and they confirmed in their minds that despite not being the most powerful of the group, Yale's position seemed the highest due to the way he acted.
Although they were unable to detect exactly how powerful were Yale and the others who had reached at least the Elder Rank, they could feel that Sebe and Swordmad were more powerful if they were only to take in regard the level.
"You had great luck for having found great divine beasts that treated you well."
The lizardman with the scar was the one who had seen more world and knew very well that the status of lizardmen among other species was about the bottom because of their lack of true experts, so they usually weren't treated too well by others. It was difficult for most species to give birth to a Law Master, but since Law Masters had an unlimited lifespan, over the course of the time, most species had some.
The exceptions were those who tried to attack the eastern continent because although Liye spared the weaklings, the Law Masters involved needed to be punished.
Thus, the lizardmen lost all their foundation and declined until turning into sparse tribes dispersed among the continent, and the same happened to other species that suffered the backlash of attacking the eastern continent.
If one were to count the Law Masters, the western continent was far stronger than the eastern continent, but even after more than thirty thousand years, the defeat of the invasion against the eastern continent still inspired fear to everyone making that no one dared to think in attacking the eastern continent just because they had less Law Masters.
Of course, the fact that a lot of experts died trying to find clues about Liye's death was still unknown to them, or someone might start to have some thoughts.
After all, in the continental war, there were still a lot of Law Masters even if they were outnumbered by the invader's forces of the western continent and other worlds. Being defeated in those circumstances provoked that people changed their mind about the eastern continent and fear appeared in their hearts after knowing how the war ended. Of course, Liye was the main reason for that fear.
If they were to discover that the power of the eastern continent had decreased so much and that even Liye had needed to reincarnate, it was difficult to ensure that it would be peace on the eastern continent. However, since it had been completely isolated, it would be impossible to enter or exit the eastern continent for anyone who didn't have at least a second level World Authority or was at least an Essence God.
"Do you feel bad for not having names?"
Sebe asked that question because he felt that it was normal for everyone to have a name.
"Of course not! The lizardmen acted wrong in the past, and we are still paying for it; we are already thankful for not being slaves or completely exterminated like some other species."
Without backing, almost all the species ended becoming enslaved or exterminated after the failed invasion of the eastern continent because those who hadn't participated used the chance to grasp more power on the continent. In that situation, the lizardmen didn't end too bad compared with others.
"Moreover, names aren't that important, beasts usually didn't have names at all, and they don't seem to worry about it."
Other of the lizardmen spoke while taking a look at the two wolves following Yale's group.
"Is that true?"
Yale turned and asked the two wolves. Yale had never asked their name because he didn't mind, and the wolves never said their names to Yale because they didn't have a proper name.
"It is true, Demon Lord. We are alright without names, so there isn't any need for the Demon Lord to worry about this matter."
Yale just nodded because he didn't feel like naming two big wolves. If it had been a wolf cub, he could still consider naming it, but those two were already grown up.
Hearing that the wolves calling Yale as Demon Lord, the lizardmen of the scout group were shocked because that title sounded powerful and they felt that it was related to Yale's background, but they didn't dare to ask and just planned to report it to the tribe chief later.
While the group continued walking, Yale obtained some more information about the lizardmen tribe like the fact that they liked fishing a lot because they were able to strengthen themselves eating sea monsters. Based on the words of those lizardmen, there were teams specially prepared for hunting sea monsters, but the success rate wasn't too high, so eating sea monsters was a delicacy for them.
Yale's group was already tired of eating sea monsters, and the ones they had eaten had been cooked by Aiwai which meant that the flavor and effects to the body were superb. In comparison, they could guess that the sea monsters that the lizardmen tribe ate weren't anything special.
The lizardmen only spoke about the effects of eating sea monsters, but seeing how great the effects were on Shirk, the cooking method also seemed important.
"This is our small tribe. We will go to tell about your group to the chief."
Two of the lizardmen including the one with the scar ran towards the village to avoid any misunderstanding due to the human looks of Yale's group.
