Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 38 Ruins of Taran Village

Dire Eagle (Baby)
medium animals
力量11、体质12、敏捷18、智力8、感知15、魅力10
Special Abilities: Alertness, low-light vision, acute senses

Attack method: multiple attacks, beak pecking, bird claws, swooping

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The growth period of dire eagles is generally about three years, and the life span is about 15 years.

A full-grown dire hawk is about 5 feet long, with wings spread up to 11 feet.

Moreover, the strength of the Dire Eagle is at least 16 points after adulthood, and it belongs to a kind of raptor that mainly preys on pigs, sheep and even small horses.

When Thorne was in Fallstown, he had also seen images of dire eagles capturing goblins and kobolds.

The most obvious difference between it and ordinary eagles is that there is a bony protrusion on the upper part of the sharp beak, and several textured feathers on the lower part of the body and the tail.

This kind of hard tail feathers can make the Dire Eagle fly in the air and dive and attack without being affected by the air flow at all, and the huge body can maintain a perfect sense of balance.

At the same time, it is also the best material for making arrow feathers. The feathers of ordinary arrows are generally more common carved feathers and wild goose feathers.

The arrows made with the tail feathers of the ferocious eagle will greatly enhance their flying speed, distance and accuracy after being shot.

Even if a rogue with intuitive dodge is attacked, it is difficult to react without full preparation.

Thorne's animal companion is also considered to be a relatively rare ferocious animal.

The so-called ferocious animals are new species that appear after ordinary animals are affected by the violent elemental breath.

They're bigger, tougher, and more ferocious, basically all the ferocious looks of prehistoric animals.

However, relatively speaking, their intelligence is relatively low, and they almost always act on the basis of fierce and wild instincts.

Therefore, there is almost no possibility of successful domestication of dire eagles that have reached adulthood.

In the waterfall town where Thorne lived, because it was close to the Great Sword Mark Mountain Range, he would occasionally encounter various large and super-large ferocious animals such as dire eagles, dire wolves, and dire bears.

On those mountain peaks full of cliffs, it is not difficult for Thorn to get the egg of a dire eagle.

The intelligence of a wild dire eagle is only about 3 points at most even if it is an adult.

But Thorne's dire hawk was hatching and taming.

After a Druid who is proficient in domesticating animals pointed out some methods of cultivating animal companions.

As a result, under the meticulous training and growth of the original owner, the fierce eagle cub has almost lost its original ferocity, and instead has a lot of humanized agility.

Its intelligence was already approaching that of a human being, and it could understand many of Thorne's more complicated instructions, otherwise he wouldn't feel at ease leaving it alone outside the city.

Thorn looked at the ferocious eagle hovering in the sky, and walked towards the crowd.

"It's all packed." He glanced at it and asked casually.

In fact, there was nothing to pack, and the group of people only had Andelina's dimensional bag, and they had prepared the necessary camping tents for wilderness adventures at some point.

The other players have nothing but a standing drinking utensil and an improvised weapon at their waists.

After all, a magical item like a dimensional bag, which costs about 100 gold coins, is not affordable by ordinary people.

But fortunately, from here to Yuanshan Town, it takes at most two days to walk on foot, that is to say, they can only sleep in the wild for one night at most.

As for food, it was easier to deal with it. In this emerald field, wild animals were not so hard to find.

There are not many of them in a group, so it is easy to solve.

And Thorne himself has prepared dry food, so there is no need to worry about it.

"Let's go!"

Anderina nodded and said, and then she chanted a spell, gently waved a handful of horsehair in her hand, and suddenly a light blue summoning circle appeared in front of her.

When the light completely dissipated, a pure white light horse equipped with saddle and bridle appeared in front of everyone.

Anderina immediately rode it very proficiently, obviously she has good riding skills.

Thorne glanced at the other party in surprise.

He always thought that Andelina, a sorceress, was a housewife who spent all day in the tavern reading various magic books to pass the time.

Unexpectedly, the opponent still had time to practice riding.

What she used just now is: a ring of conjuration spells: summon mount.

Based on the opponent's professional level, it can last at least ten hours.

So Thorn waved his hand and led the crowd towards Yuanshan Town without saying a word.

Although the terrain of the Emerald Field is very complicated, with hills, swamps, and wasteland criss-crossing, the road is not difficult to identify.

As long as you follow a road straight to the west, you will soon find a wide river.

This meandering river is called: Emerald River!
Its birthplace is the northernmost peak of Warners on the Corina Peninsula, which is about 8000 meters high.

The river flows from the northernmost peaks through the Emerald Fields, and finally flows into the Shining Sea in the south.

Large and small human settlements and villages and towns in the wilderness are basically built near the Emerald River.

Also includes the town of Upper Falls, where Thorne lives.

So as long as you find the Emerald River, and then walk along the river to the north, you will soon find a wide road that is naturally formed by countless merchants.

If this kind of dirt road is not washed by rainwater, it is still very convenient to walk.

Thorne has long been used to walking through the wilderness.

However, in order to take care of the physical strength of several warrior players and Pardo, he could only deliberately lower his walking speed to a certain extent.

And his animal partner, the Dire Eagle, has been following him, hovering not far above, acting as a scout with its keen vision.

In this way, everyone followed Thorne on foot almost silently along the way.

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At dusk, the atmosphere is heavy, the air is filled with white mist, and the distant scenery gradually becomes hazy.

Thorn, who was leading a group of people walking in the front, saw the familiar jungle not far away, frowned slightly, turned around and said to everyone:
"Let's go here today, take a good night's rest, and set off tomorrow morning, and we will arrive in Yuanshan Town in the afternoon."

When everyone heard the words, their tired faces showed a serious expression.

Even Anderina, who was riding a horse, showed a rare smile, which attracted everyone's attention.

Among them, the only ones who didn't feel tired were Thorne and the troll Trundle.

A few warrior players threw away the wooden sticks they were using to travel, and lay on the withered grass, looking up at the sky that was about to usher in the dark night.

Under Thorne's leadership, in order to find a place to stay before dark, they almost never stopped except for a short rest along the way.

Although there are dangers everywhere in the emerald field.

But they have not yet stepped out of the sphere of influence of Winter City.

Except for the occasional eyeless beast and wandering humanoids, I have never encountered a single group of evil humanoids numbering more than 10.

Within the sphere of influence of Cold Winter City, their army will conduct multiple missions to clear the surrounding area from time to time every year.

These subdued intelligent races have already infiltrated fear deeply into their blood.

In the entire Emerald Field, except for the wolf man of the Great Sword Scar Mountain Range, no force dared to invade on its own initiative, not even the sphere of influence of Winter City dared to approach.

This is the road paved with blood.

Either completely subdue it, or completely destroy it!
After Thorne finished speaking, he turned and walked deep into the jungle.

The reason why he chose to rest here was precisely because there was a village that had just been deserted in the depths of the jungle, so it was very convenient to camp and rest.

After the players saw the village in front of them under Thorn's leadership, they walked in talking and laughing.

When Thorn walked to the gate of the village, he suddenly stopped.

Looking at the well-preserved stone houses and many familiar building facilities in the overgrown village, he sighed softly, feeling a little depressed.

Thorn's slightly trembling hands gently stroked the large black bloodstain on the door, with a deep sadness in his eyes.

Then he sat directly on a long stone bench at the door and leaned his body against the wooden fence, looking at the hazy sky with some absentmindedness.

Some intermittent memories here come to mind.

A few months ago, when the Gnoll tribe in the depths of the Great Swordscar Mountains hadn't planned to launch an attack on Winter City, there were nearly 200 players living in this small village.

Because this place is within the sphere of influence of Cold Winter City, no intelligent race tribe dares to attack the village at the risk of extermination.

But when the jackals launched a full-scale invasion of Winter City, almost all villages and towns within the sphere of influence of Winter City suffered a devastating blow.

Naturally, this small village called Talan Village was not spared.

When Thorne passed by here accidentally from Fallstown, more than half of the players here had been killed or injured by the impact of the gnolls.

After a brief introduction from both parties, Thorn found that many players here were actually his fellow countrymen and childhood friends in the real world.

So he assisted them without hesitation in repelling the last attack of the Wolf man.

It was a tragic defensive battle, which resulted in the death of almost all combat professionals in Talan Village.

The rest are also some living players who are seriously injured and have no combat effectiveness.

In this critical moment, Thorn decided to seek help from Yuanshan Town, which is the closest to here and has not been affected.

Escort these more than 100 players to Yuanshan Town before the Jackals launch their attack.

Everything went very smoothly, and the lord of Yuanshan Town readily agreed. After all, the lord of each territory does not have too much player resources.

In this way, Thorne rushed to Talan Village overnight with the reinforcements from Yuanshan Town.

But an accident happened again, and all the remaining players in Talan Village were killed by a group of bandit players.

Seeing bloody corpses everywhere in the village, Thorne immediately launched a bloody revenge.

He is a ranger proficient in tracking ability, and Thorne easily traced the traces of a large number of bandit players.

The Broken Tooth bandits were secretly hunted down by Thorne all the way, and when they finally fled into Winter City, there were only a dozen players left.

"Have you been here before?" At this moment, Andrina came over, looked at Thorne who was looking down, and sat down beside him casually and asked curiously.

"That's right, it's a pity that all the players here are dead." Thorn said softly, looking up at the sky in a daze.

"Even the high-level leaders of Winter City did not expect the full-scale invasion of the wolf man, let alone us players. It is a pity that the players in this area are indeed dead."

Anderina was taken aback when she heard the words, and said slightly sadly.

The attack of the wolf man caused almost all the villages and towns in the sphere of influence of the cold winter city to be cleaned up.

Only a small number of players were rescued by the forces from Yuanshan Town and Twilight Town, and she was very clear about these things.

"But the players here were killed by bandit players who claimed to be broken teeth, but I have already helped them avenge."

Broken tooth?After hearing this, Andelina felt a little unbelievable.

She has heard of this player bandit group before, but she has never seen it before. She only knows that it is a mysterious gang that makes a living by robbing passing merchants and villages.

I didn't expect it to be so cruel!
"So the players you killed in the bar are all broken-tooth bandits?" Anderina asked tentatively with a change of expression.

"That's right!" Thorne replied lightly.

"Then why didn't you make it clear? Otherwise, you wouldn't have been captured by the city guards." Anderina was a little puzzled.

If she understood what was going on, even if she couldn't help much, at least the city guards would not notify her.

After all, more than a dozen players died in her bar at that time, and it was difficult to end it. In the past, one or two players died, and as long as no one talks nonsense in the downtown area, it is easy to hide it.

But the city guards of Cold Winter City couldn't remain indifferent to the dozens of bloody corpses.

Thorn glanced at her, smiled and shook his head slightly, but did not answer Anderina's question.

Tweet!
At this time, the Dire Eagle, who was in charge of scouting in the sky, suddenly sent out a signal, and then landed on Thorn's shoulder.

Thorne gently stroked the head of the Dire Eagle and briefly communicated with it, then immediately sat up straight, turned around and said to Anderina in a deep voice:

"There is a group of humans approaching here, all armed with weapons, the number is at least a hundred or more."

(End of this chapter)