But not the Chieftain. She stepped out from the tree line, pulled her arm back, and hurled a spear with the power of a cannon. The blackened tip drove straight into the back of the beast's knee, shattering the joint. Its massive body skidded across the ground and stopped just half a meter from the children's feet. Together, we finished it off, stabbing from a safe distance of two meters—exactly as I had taught them. When it was all over, every girl checked herself and the person next to her. Not a scratch, not a bruise, not a single drop of their own blood had been spilled.