Mercenaries and Adventurers

Several hunters were carefully hiding behind the rocks not far away. They only showed half of their heads, and they all quietly watched the battle between the rocky mountain and the border of the forest in the distance.

The young hunter was a little nervous. The two of them held the hunting bow tightly in their hands, and even used their right fingers to grab the tail feather of an arrow nervously, pinching the tail feather to deform it a little.

Noticing the nervousness of the young hunter, the old hunter who was also hiding behind the stone patted the young man on the shoulder, and comforted him in a low voice: "Relax, Kiel is quite capable, if he can't beat the danger, he will call out to us. of."

The two young hunters reluctantly nodded, but they were still muttering.

"To deal with so many wolves by himself, isn't he a bit overwhelmed?"

The old hunter breathed out: "Before Kiel joined us, he used to deal with beasts and monsters alone. Don't be nervous." As they said that, they saw Kiel pull out the long sword in the distance.

The lingering white light of the long sword not only illuminated Kiel himself, but also conspicuously illuminated the northern land wolves who fought with him.

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As the sky darkened, the northern land wolf naturally expanded its pupils, allowing more faint light to gather at the bottom of the eyes, so that it could see in the natural dark night.

But when Kiel unsheathed the long sword, he deliberately controlled it to release a bright long sword that could illuminate the surrounding environment, but it suddenly dazzled the eyes of several northern land wolves who were fighting with him.

This is naturally what he expected. In addition to being on the spot and preparing for equipment in advance, small strategies can also play a big role in battle.

Seeing the moment the sword was drawn, the northern land wolves on the opposite side closed their eyes tightly, or turned their heads and dared not look at him. Keel knew that this was an excellent opportunity.

He sprinted towards a Northern Land Wolf who turned his head. After getting close, he took advantage of the opponent's counterattack and stretched his long sword towards the opponent's front door. The northern land wolf kicked and fell to the ground.

Then the shield was put on top, and the opponent's two front paws scratched on the ground were resisted, and then the sharp long sword was pierced through the front abdomen of the northern land wolf.

"Woofufu." The Northern Land Wolf howled.

Based on the feedback from the hilt of the sword, Kiel could tell how many internal organs he had punctured. Relying on skinning dead wolves many times before, Keir roughly grasped the distribution of the internal organs of the northern wolf, so this blow was aimed at the heart of the northern wolf.

Feeling that he had almost pierced the opponent's heart and some other internal organs, Kiel quickly stopped stabbing. He was afraid that the blade of the long sword would go too deep, and it would be bad if it got stuck on the bone of the northern wolf's back.

The sword was drawn back half way through, but the fallen Northern Land Wolf didn't have the strength to stand up again.

Its body twitched, its four front and rear paws kept moving the air, its mouth was wide open but there was nothing to bite.

Ignoring the northern land wolf, Kiel flicked his long sword, then turned around and blocked a northern land wolf with his shield.

Boom. Keir's solid footed figure moved back a little distance from the sole of his feet as a whole, but he directly blocked the opponent's pounce.

The long sword in his right hand was swung forward, and with the strength of the swing, it stabbed straight at the wolf's head of the northern land wolf. The reforged hunt was exceptionally strong and very sharp, it just pierced the wolf's head while swinging, and broke open the wolf's head that couldn't be split before.

There are a lot of bones on the wolf's head, and they are thick, so apart from the claws, their head is the strongest part of the body. It is difficult for ordinary arrows to leave much effective attack on the wolf's head, unless it hits the eyeball or other vital points place.

But Kiel flicked the long sword with little force, but he chopped off the solid wolf head bones, not to mention breaking a few mace roots, at least knocked out the northern land wolf a little. , which is similar to hitting a fist on a human's jaw.

There was no time to execute this northern land wolf, because at the same time, another northern land wolf squinted and rushed over from behind Kiel.

Gere noticed, but it seemed too late.

But just as the northern wolf was leaping in the air, two swishing arrows flew in the air, like an antelope's horns, just in time to shoot the sneak attacking northern wolf in midair.

The arrow was quite powerful, and the Northern Wolf couldn't use it in the air, which made its pounce forcefully redirected, and it went straight to nothing. It landed on the ground next to Keir's body and rolled into a ball.

"Thanks!" Kiel knew what was going on without looking, so he roared, and then went into battle again.

Striding forward, Kiel's shield opened the way, squeezing the northern land wolf on the opposite side of the shield to keep retreating.

The lightweight shield was quickly retracted, and then it was slapped out vigorously, forcibly opening the northern land wolf's claws and bite. Immediately afterwards, the long sword stabbed straight, but it was a coincidence that this stab was bitten by the head of the Northern Land Wolf in front of him.

As the two wrestled, Kiel's strength with one hand was naturally not as strong as that of the northern wolf's entire head and neck. So he couldn't take back the sword for a little while, so Kiel raised his kick and kicked the northern land wolf on the chin.

His long sword was extremely tough, so Kiel was not afraid of the long sword being broken directly due to the complicated force. He shook his right hand left and right, and felt that the long sword could move a little, so he directly grasped the hilt of the sword and pierced it deep into the mouth of the northern wolf.

The northern wolf's teeth were clenched tightly on the sword, but they were still pushed into the mouth inch by inch. The mouth full of sharp teeth as thick as fingers bit the blade of the long sword with white light splashing, it felt as if it was swallowing a section of light into its throat.

When the point of the long sword pierced the northern wolf's throat, the northern wolf's resistance quickly disappeared. Then the tip of the long sword pierced through the neck behind the throat, and then pierced out from the fur on the back of the northern land wolf's neck.

The white light lingered on a very close part of the blade surface, but it didn't directly touch the sword body, so even though the solid sword body was stained with the blood of the northern land wolf, its blooming expanse was not affected.

Kiel saw the tip of the sword protruding from the back of the wolf's neck, and then twisted the long sword in his hand, pulling and turning the entire hilt by a section.

Hiss, hiss, boom.

Accompanied by the splash of blood, and the sound of metal breaking the fascia of the bone, most of the northern land wolf's head was cut off, and then fell down with a ferocious expression. In the end, the head was connected to the body only by a little bit of fur and muscle.

"Huh, drink." Keel exhaled hot air, then took a deep breath and turned around.

Accompanied by the occasional whizzing sound of arrows, the northern land wolf that was hit by the arrow kept pounced and fell to the ground, so it could not cross the hunters' control area and came to attack Kiel.

After Kiel finished off the northern land wolf at hand, he wiped the blood dripping from the sword with wolf fur. Then strode towards the last recalcitrant northern land wolf.

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These lonely hunters in the forest were very tenacious. Even when there was only one of them left, it never ran away, and still stared at Kiel with shrunken eyes.

Fierce and desperate.

Keir is naturally not afraid, the successive battles have made him a mature fighter. The enemy that can be dealt with by the weapon in hand is an opponent that can be fought.

Pong, pong, pong.

The clash of sword and shield matched his pace.

Every time he took a step closer to the Northern Land Wolf, he hit the shield with his longline sword. Every impact made the ears of the northern land wolf on the opposite side twitch. Although they hadn't shown any fear of Kiel, the comparison of their combat power was obvious.

It can't win, and it knows it.

"Ho, ho, ah woo woo woo!" After the northern wolf roared for the last time, it took the few arrows that had been hit on its body and ran towards the human enemy at high speed.

The hunters were concerned that Kiel was also walking around, so they didn't shoot arrows.

Kiel swung his long sword, and sent a slanted heavy slash to the Northern Land Wolf. The luminous blade crossed a semicircle in the air, right at the neck of the northern land wolf, and cut it obliquely, and then penetrated half a palm deep into the flesh. The huge force stopped the charging northern land wolf in mid-air.

Kicking the northern wolf up with a flying kick, Kiel's body turned sideways in a circle, and the long sword in the northern wolf's body also stirred a full circle with the rotation of the arm.

Afterwards, Kiel, who changed his posture, patted the shield with his left hand on the other side of the wolf's head and neck.

bark.

The northern wolf retreated under the force, and bumped its head and neck more towards the long sword that had been cut in half. A large amount of blood flowed down from the sword, and more blood was vomited from the wolf's mouth of the northern land wolf.

Kiel withdrew his sword and retracted it, while the Northern Land Wolf fell to the ground and looked at him with wide eyes, full of killing intent.

Seeing the last look of the northern wolf through the white light of the sword, Kiel was not happy, and stabbed the tip of the sword through the wolf's eyes and the back of the head.

"Huh, it's finally finished. The rest probably won't be provocative and staring at us again." Kiel muttered to himself, raised the long sword above his head, and then swung it left and right.

The hunters responded, and came over carrying the shelves.

Without saying anything, everyone patted Keir on the shoulder of the armor, and began to pack up the dead northern land wolf body, and then carried it back in pairs.

Keel himself grabbed a wolf by the tail with his left and right hands, dragged them and followed them back together.

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After that, without the boreal wolf that has been affecting their logging work, Keel's efficiency has increased significantly. You can go a little deeper into the forest, look for trees that are not particularly big, cut them down and cut off the excess branches.

In these jobs, Keel's ax really did a great job. Not only does it have amazing lethality when chopping up monsters and beasts, it is equally effective when used for logging. With a trunk as thick as a person's waist, as long as one ax is brought to the left and right, the big tree can be chopped down directly.

If it wasn't too heavy, only Keel could use it for a long time among all the people, and the others were too heavy to carry on their bodies. This ax should bring them more wood.

But Keir did the math, they had cut down a lot of big trees in the past two days. Together with my partners, it should be enough.

So everyone stopped logging, but dragged the trunks with ropes, and used the snow on the forest floor to pull the trunks that were simply cleaned up one by one back to the rocky mountain passage.

Under Kiel's instructions, the hunters began digging ditches at the bottom of the rocky mountain, on both sides of the entrance to the rocky passage.

It doesn't need to be deep or long, just wide enough.

Deep pits one meter deep and four meters wide were excavated along both sides of the exit of the rock passage in the direction of the entrance of the passage. Although there were no suitable tools, everyone started digging with wooden shovels with the tops flattened to resemble shovels.

The hard soil dug out was piled up on both sides of the trench.

Kiel brought back the branches of the trees left by logging in the forest in bundles, cut them into 30 cm long logs, and then split them into four petals with his long sword, sharpened one end and roasted them over fire. Carbonization.

In the place that had been dug, Keel inserted these wooden thorns into the ground one by one, with the tips facing upwards and outwards, and asked an old hunter to pour the ice water from the simple wooden barrel dug out into the bottom of these pits.

The cold weather refreezes the ice water that has just melted from the snow into solid ice.

In addition, Kiel also cut the wood on the ground outside one by one to the size that he would pull alone, and then asked the hunters to be responsible for digging the trench outside the rock passage. Collect the snow on the ground outside, then raise a fire at the entrance of the rock passage to roast it, and finally pour it to the bottom of the pit to freeze.

In order to maintain their physical strength, the five of them directly did not throw away the corpses of the northern land wolves they had killed before. They cut off the meat and soaked it in cold salt water, then skewered it and roasted it.

Everyone ate the fishy and rough wolf meat with big mouthfuls. While supplementing the salt when the meat was soaked, they supplemented the fatigue and hard work caused by the heavy physical labor in the past two days with the food of whole meat.

Of course, hard work is hard work, at least these jobs are not dangerous. The hunters only need to follow the young and smart Kiel's instructions. If there is a problem, just call Kiel over.

Not only did they work hard during the day, but at night it got dark early, and everyone set up fires for lighting and worked non-stop. I was so tired that I couldn't bear it, so I returned to the stronghold camp and rested in this safe place.

Since Kiel has a steady stream of energy replenishment on the hilt, whenever he feels exhausted, he will sit down and rest holding the hilt and scabbard. The cyan light visible to the naked eye shone on his body, allowing him to quickly recover enough physical strength to work for a while.

Of course, he would still return to the stronghold to rest at midnight. The body and the mind still have to have real sleep time.

He himself was no monster.

Since they killed all the northern land wolves who were following around and threatened them, they were very relieved and efficient in their work. The sinkholes on either side of the rock passage were completed shortly after Keel joined the work.

Everyone took out the metal clips from the stronghold, and put all the metal clips on the ground facing the rock passage in turn.

Each metal clip is connected with a large number of wolf skin ropes that have been cut into strips from the northern land wolf skin before, and the long ones are connected to the entrance.

Here Kiel began to build the first position to hinder the northern land wolf.

He didn't place the main wooden wall of the position close to the entrance of the passage, just to prevent the northern land wolf from rushing out from places that could not be seen and attacked from both sides of the passage. Instead, it was placed fifteen meters after the access to the rock passage.

There has been enough wood left by Kiel before to build a wooden wall as tall as a person. The wooden wall doesn't need to be very high, as long as it doesn't allow a northern land wolf to turn over directly.

The hunters and him will defend by the wooden wall at that time. As long as the northern land wolf can't rush over in one breath, they can kill and kill the northern land wolf in large numbers here.

Not afraid that the northern land wolf will not come to beat them. As long as the northern wolves living scattered in the forest gather together, because of the overall food problem, the gathered northern wolves can only attack them first in the first few days when they are not too hungry. Once they get together for a long time, the hungry northern wolves will either disperse, or they can only kill them in a hurry.

Kiel tried both his hunting sword and the overwater head two-handed ax in the rock passage, and both weapons could dig on the rock in the rock passage without injury.

Due to the weight of the axe, Keel handed over his hunting to a young hunter who was the second strongest in the team at this time, and asked him to follow Kiel to create depressions on the ground of the passage where the wood could be inserted with force. .

There is no need to dig too deep, because the entire passage is not very wide. When the wood is next to each other, it is easy to connect tightly with the tooth marks left on the wood.

We first dug a few deep pits on the left and right sides of the passage, and then placed several slender tree trunks horizontally across the whole, and put them on both sides of the passage. Then dig a hole on the ground, dig a few dozen centimeters shallow and you can close your hands. Put the thick tree trunks upright in the pits, and then close to the horizontal tree trunks. Soon, a wooden wall will be completed. up.

The old hunters were following Kiel's instructions, pouring the ice water that had been prepared a little bit from both sides of the wooden wall. The icy water was frozen into solid ice crystals by the cold weather before it flowed down the wooden walls.

When reinforcing the wooden thorns before, the old hunters quickly grasped when to fall down. The ice water in their hands is best when it is not frozen. The simple wooden wall was quickly frozen into a whole.

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The wooden wall designed by Keel has no access, so he specially prepared two slender logs to hang outside the wooden wall. A long sword was used to cut rough tooth marks on the wood that were easily trampled, and no matter whether it was a person or a horse, they could walk quickly.

The wolf fur strips attached to the metal clips on the outside will come in handy this time. The metal clips were placed in front of the wooden wall, and the long strips of wolf fur were attached to the back of the wooden wall.

During the subsequent battles, the northern land wolf caught by the metal clips on its legs and feet will be the first target of their attack. When there is a gap between the battles, they can be dragged back with the metal clips and the wolf carcass. In this way, the metal clip can continue to be used in the second layer position~www.readwn.com~after the first defensive position is done.

Keel also tried to use an ax to split the base of several half-person-high stones on both sides of the passage, and when the stone was about to fall, he took a wooden block to barely support the stone base. A rope was tied to the wooden block, and it was connected to a stone the size of a human head next to it.

This small stone was placed on the edge of the rock passage, visible from the first wooden wall of the position.

Keel asked the old hunter if he could shoot this smaller stone with a bow and arrow. For this reason, he also specially prepared a stone of similar size for the hunter to try.

The result works.

As long as the small stone is not so securely placed, it can be shot down with an arrow, and it will then fall down the passage, driving the rope to break the support point of another large stone.

After this was done, Keir and the others began to take advantage of the dark and night to build the second line of defense.

Because the next day was the last time they had agreed with Knight Lanisa to return. Going out to take the risk of disrupting the large-scale assembly of northern land wolves will return tomorrow at the latest. Since he didn't come back today, he will definitely come back tomorrow.

Keir calculated in his mind that half of the second line of defense could be done tonight, and half a day tomorrow would be enough. When the people who went out come back, there are enough people, maybe the third line of defense can be done before midnight tomorrow.

As for the final fourth line of defense, they will actually use their strongholds as the main body. And Kiel is even planning to set up a final line of defense in front of the top of the mountain behind the stronghold, using the steep terrain on the top of the last mountain and the flat rock platform on the top of the mountain to do it.

He even arranged a retreat route. I just don't know if I have enough time.