SSS rank Mother-In-Law to an Invincible Family - Chapter 435

Chapter 435: An Easy Win Turned Into A Nightmare
In a swampy forest far away from the main battlefield zones, a large group of beast-type creatures was gathering.

The area was covered in thick fog and smelled strongly of rotting plants.

It wasn’t the most pleasant place, but it was close to a newly discovered spirit vein that had appeared after the world upgrade.

A large rhino beast stood at the center of the camp, overseeing everything with a smug expression.

He had thick gray armor-like skin, glowing red eyes, and a horn that pulsed with spiritual energy. His name was Garuum, and he was the commander of this beast force.

Even though he wasn’t one of the top leaders from the turtle base, he still saw himself as important.

In his mind, this operation was going to be an easy win. The humans wouldn’t even know what hit them.

Garuum looked around at his army. There were over a thousand beasts gathered—ranging from mid-tier spirit apes and venomous lizards to armored bulls and flying mantis beasts.

They were loud, chaotic, and clearly not the most disciplined bunch. But Garuum didn’t care.

To him, numbers were enough. Power was enough. He didn’t believe strategy mattered much when you could just crush your enemy head-on.

“We’re almost ready to take the mine,” he said loudly, addressing a group of beast captains.

“The humans don’t know we’re here. Even if they do, they’re too busy crying over the last wave we sent them. This area? They’ve probably written it off already.”

One of the captains, a winged snake with emerald scales, nodded. “We’ve already scouted the outer edge. No humans. Just wild animals and some abandoned cultivation fields.”

“Exactly!” Garuum said, laughing. “That’s what happens when they get comfortable.

One little upgrade, and they all start dreaming again. Thinking their fancy cities will protect them forever.”

Another beast spoke up. “Should we wait for more backup?”

Garuum waved him off with his thick hand. “Why wait? We already have more than enough. If a few humans show up, we smash them.

If a sect shows up, we’ll still crush them. These humans think they’re so smart, always talking about formations and spirit tools—but they bleed like everyone else.”

He stomped his foot into the muddy ground, leaving a deep crater behind. “We’ll take the mine by tomorrow night.

I want this place secured before any of those weaklings realize what’s going on.”

A few of the beast soldiers cheered. Others let out low growls or beat their chests.

Garuum walked through the camp, grinning as he watched the others sparring or sharpening their claws.

Some were setting up rough sleeping spots using logs and rocks. Others were eating raw meat or soaking in small spirit pools to recharge their energy.

This wasn’t a clean or fancy operation. But Garuum didn’t care. He believed power was everything, and with the strength boost from the world upgrade, his forces were stronger than ever.

“They’re probably sitting in their stone towers, looking at maps and pretending to plan,” he muttered to himself.

“They think they have time. They think the beast tide is moving slowly. But we’re already here.”

He looked toward the direction of the spirit mine. It wasn’t that far—maybe another hour’s march from their location.

The fog was helping them stay hidden, and the terrain was hard to move through unless you had a tough body.

Which worked perfectly for beasts.

“This mine’s going to be ours. And once it’s under our control, we’ll use the energy here to make the next group even stronger.

And if the humans show up late, they’ll find it already taken. Just like that last valley, we snatched last week.”

He laughed again, full of pride.

“Let them come. I want to see the look on their faces when they realize they’re too slow. I want them to cry and beg when we chase them out.”

Some of his soldiers joined the laughter.

“They’re weak. Spoiled. They rely too much on pills and formations. They don’t know how to fight anymore. Not like us.”

The truth was, Garuum didn’t even bother checking if the humans had already noticed. He assumed they hadn’t.

In his eyes, humans were always late to react, always overconfident, and always thinking everything was under their control.

He looked over at his second-in-command, a large red-furred ape with three scars across his face.

“Rathor, how long before the last units arrive?”

“Maybe two hours. They’re coming from the riverside.”

“Good. Once they’re here, we’ll march straight for the mine. I want it surrounded by nightfall. Then we start absorbing the energy and building fortifications.”

“Yes, Commander.”

Garuum gave a satisfied nod.

He had no idea that Shadow operatives had already passed by this zone.

No clue that the mine had been marked by the Xu family and reinforced with formation traps and surveillance arrays.

He didn’t know that some of the trees nearby weren’t real trees—but well-hidden talismans waiting to be triggered.

And he definitely didn’t know that a squad of elite cultivators from the Xu family were already watching him from a distance, their auras suppressed so well that not even the spirit-sensitive beasts could notice them.

Garuum didn’t know.

But he didn’t care either.

Because, in his mind, he had already won.

That’s how confident he was.

No—arrogant.

And while he marched back to his camp’s center and called for food, the human side was already planning a response.

The mine wouldn’t fall easily.

And Garuum was about to learn the hard way that just because something looked unguarded didn’t mean it was.

But for now, he laughed again, enjoying his moment.

“To the humans,” he shouted to his troops, raising his hand, “may they never realize what hit them until it’s too late!”

The beasts howled in response, thumping the ground and slamming their weapons.

The fog around the camp thickened.

But hidden in the trees, two Shadow scouts quietly watched and wrote down everything—ready to pass the information back to the camps behind the ridge.

Garuum didn’t know it yet…

But his easy win was about to become a nightmare.

And it would start very soon.

Very, very soon.