Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel and his companions put the seriously injured young hunter back into the camp of the original rock mountain stronghold as the fourth position. The injured companion had already woken up at this time. He asked how the situation was, and Kiel simply told him Suddenly they had set fire to the wooden wall of the third position.

"Can you hold on? Let's?" His spirit was a little sluggish, and naturally he lacked the confidence to hold on to the fight.

Kiel patted the shoulder of the injured companion, and another young hunter also friendly wiped the ashes stained on the injured companion's cheek.

"It's okay. I don't know if you have counted them. If you stick to it layer by layer, their number is not as much as the previous two days." Keel counted the two of them with his fingers. Combine the northern land wolves killed before the start of the rocky mountain defensive battle, the sporadic northern land wolves killed before the rocky mountain battle, and the northern land wolves killed by the three-tiered position.

After coming to this big snow-covered forest this year, they have killed too many northern land wolves.

"Those northern land wolves are carnivorous beasts after all. There is always a number of wild beasts that can survive in this forest. Excluding other carnivorous beasts, their number is even less. After our killing, even if they are about to grow up The young wolves are also used as adult wolves, and the number of these northern land wolves is still rapidly decreasing."

Kilton paused, patted his helmet, and made a bang.

"As long as Knight Lanisa can successfully kill the northern wolf king, these northern wolf races will be finished. The main force of a large number of populations has been wiped out, and it is impossible for them to regain a foothold in the forest."

Keel's analysis reassured the two young hunters in the warm camp.

"That's all right, huh." The expression on the injured young hunter's face relaxed while lying in the bedding.

Without disturbing the rest of the wounded, Keir and the two came out of the tent. The body of another old hunter was also carried back. The previous battle was fierce and the time was short. Kiel didn't pay attention to it. Only then did he realize that this dead old hunter was the one who believed in the God of Hunting in the hunter team. hunter.

Unfortunately, his **** failed to bless him.

But Keir thought about it again, maybe for believers who believed in the God of Hunting, as a hunter, dying in the action of hunting wild animals might be a noble and dignified way to die?

In other words, this kind of behavior may be more in line with the teaching content that the other party usually chanted?

Kiel doesn't know about this. I don't know if this old hunter entered the kingdom of the gods after death, as people in other worlds often say, or was escorted by the messengers of the gods, and arranged to carry out Reincarnation or something.

Keir hoped that the brave old hunter would find a good home after death, as he said.

But he himself did not believe in this category.

It's not that he doesn't believe in gods in a world where gods exist, it's just that he doesn't like things like reincarnation in the afterlife.

There is only one journey in life, birth, old age, sickness and death are enough. Although he was reincarnated into this different world with good luck after his inexplicable death in his previous life, he didn't think that similar good luck would befall him again.

This kind of idea has been subconsciously conflicting with the similar idea of ​​what reincarnation world becomes the protagonist.

Sometimes he can't sleep at night, and similar thoughts will come out from the depths of his mind. In the dead of night, each of them occupies one side of his thinking, fighting for the high ground of his thinking.

Keel chuckled and took a deep breath of cold air.

What is it like, this is not the time to think about these things.

He shook his head, tidied up the clothes of the dead old hunter, and placed his body where it would not interfere with walking and fighting.

"How about putting the corpse on the top of the rocky mountain? It's safe and cold there." An old hunter who knew the dead man touched his nose and said.

Everyone didn't say anything, and finally the old hunter in command, Tost, made a decision, and the dead old hunter was sent to the top of the mountain to be kept.

Because the next step is to wait until the wooden wall of the third-tier position in front is extinguished, and the stronghold camp where they are now will naturally become the forefront of the battle.

And that wooden wall can last until tomorrow morning if it is dead, and this is after the flames are extinguished, the remaining heat of the wreckage hinders the wolves.

Rubbing his hands together, the old hunter gathered everyone around the fire and began to prepare for the next battle.

Kiel recalculated the number of wolves eliminated in the northern land that he had just calculated in the tent in front of everyone, and the final answer made everyone very excited.

After all, the battle has been the worst and the worst. They have at least dealt a heavy blow to the northern wolves. If the next battle continues, can these northern wolves not be attacked by other animals in the forest after the beginning of spring? Elimination is a problem.

Without enough adult wolves to fend off other beasts and hunt, it would be difficult for the pups in those dens and the sure-footed boreal wolves to sustain their status.

If the wolf king can be eliminated this time, then the wolf problem in northern Kendall County will really disappear.

"Just a little bit."

"Yeah, let's work harder, and the beasts will be finished."

"Very well, in this case, let's eat something, take a break, and then Keir, you will take charge of the fifth line of defense behind us. Since this trick is very effective, let's put the fifth line of defense in your plan. Also. Also, you, and you. The two of you try to increase the height of the wooden wall at our camp stronghold. The camp has the most supplies and uses all of them. As for you, old man, you go and check the front passage For the small falling rocks on both sides, we don’t have the metal clips, let these falling rocks teach those beasts a bigger lesson!”

The old hunter Tost, who was in command, commanded and arranged everyone's actions one by one.

So, everyone took advantage of this time to rest, saying it was a rest, but everyone did not stop. Except for the old hunter who was cooking, the hunters cleaned up the arrows that Kiel had brought back before, or It is to simply repair some used and damaged arrows, change the arrows, or trim the arrow feathers.

When cooking, the old hunter followed everyone's advice and didn't put meat in the soup. After all, not far from here, the northern land wolf corpses piled up under the wooden wall really smelled bad when they burned. It smells good.

So the soup they drank was mostly root vegetables. In addition to the thick soup mixed with bread, the old hunter also cooked some potatoes. Everyone was very full, and the injured young hunter also ate something before falling asleep. Down.

In the evening, everyone took turns to rest. As the only close combatant, Keir was required to maintain his strength, so he was on duty the night before and tried to rest a little longer in the middle of the night.

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The next morning, Keel woke up suddenly with a dull and heavy sound.

After running out of the tent, it turned out that Knight Lanisa had returned.

Knight Lanisa was fully armed, and there was no change except for a little distress. As soon as she came back, she asked the old hunter to prepare food for her. Last night, she and the injured wolf king chased each other in the surrounding forest for a long time.

"That guy is really cunning, he actually wanted to lure me to some special place." She said: "But I have already seen through its behavior, I didn't move, just stood there and watched it lure me back and forth. Heh, It's ridiculous."

The old hunter next to him whispered to Knight Lanisa about the situation after the knight went out last night.

Said that one hunter was dead and one was seriously injured, Knight Lanisa was silent for a while, and nodded briefly, expressing that she would return to Kendall City to appease their families later.

It wasn't that the hunter team had no sacrifices before. On the contrary, when Lanisa Knight first formed the hunter team to assist her a few years ago, many hunters with poor skills died in this forest.

Everyone in the team is already used to death and injury.

The old hunter explained how the knight's horse was lured away by the northern land wolf during the battle last night.

Knight Lanisa waved her hand: "It's okay, I saw it on the flat ground outside the mountain, I let it hide, and it followed me after the battle. If I was riding a horse last night, hey, maybe I was You can kill that wolf king."

She didn't expect that the chase with the wolf king would take a whole night.

The old hunter went on to talk about their plans. They decided to continue to drag and even kill more northern land wolves here, and then passed through two positions to block them, and finally got a rope escape channel from Kiel to leave here, and then assembled with Knight Lanisa in the forest.

While munching, Knight Lanisa was thinking, and after eating a bowl of thick soup and a handful of jerky for the last few times, she gave her order: "In this case, you will go to the east of the rocky mountain. Meet me at a water pool one kilometer away." Just after finishing speaking, a wolf howled.

Just listening to the voice, everyone can know that it is the voice of the wolf king.

Knight Lanisa smiled: "You don't know how to live or die, thought you left me in the forest, and thought of coming over and killing you guys secretly."

Although she laughed, no one else, including Keir, could laugh.

Seeing Kiel's serious expressions, Knight Lanisa cursed with a smile: "What are you afraid of, little Kiel's ax is very powerful, it cut one of its legs, and greatly slowed down its running speed. Otherwise, I don't have a mount, and I can't chase it for a night."

Speaking of this, she rolled her eyes: "I'm hiding, you are preparing to fight. Wait a minute and I will secretly attack it!"

After eating a simple meal, Knight Lanisa found a piece of rough tent cloth to cover herself, hid under the wooden wall of the camp, and secretly observed the rocky passage through the cracks in the thick wood of the wooden wall.

The others immediately got ready and ran behind the wooden walls of the camp, ready to fight.

At this time, the sky was already bright. Although it was still blocked by thick clouds, the sun still brought the most basic light of winter cloudy days to this deserted forest.

Since the wolf king roared once outside the rocky mountain, he has never made another loud sound. But the other ordinary northern land wolves became lively, roaring chaotically.

"They are going to launch an attack." Knight Lanisa, who was hiding under the wooden wall, was not idle, eating dried meat in her mouth to recover her strength, while talking about her experience gained from fighting wolves all year round.

In terms of these experiences about northern land wolves, she actually has more experience than the old hunters. Because even old hunters have been hunting for a lifetime, but it is impossible to compete with wolves in their previous lives. Basically, ordinary hunters can only hunt one or two prey at a time. In more cases, the situation will often be reversed. .

Prey counter hunting hunter.

Since Knight Lanisa accepted the family arrangement and became a knight warrior, she has been fighting with large groups of northern land wolves non-stop.

She knew better than anyone how those northern land wolves attacked when they gathered together.

"These wolves look the same, but in fact they are no different from us humans. They all come from different wolf dens in the forest. No one obeys the other. If there is no wolf king, they will not even gather such a large wolf pack."

After a pause, she swallowed the roasted wolf meat in her mouth: "Because the gathered wolves have no food to support them. I read that these northern land wolves are actually forest wolves, and there is another kind of wolf besides this." They look similar, but have completely different living habits."

Keir was a little curious, so he asked Knight Lanisa about the prairie wolf.

"I've heard that those coyotes are the ones that can gather the really big packs, thousands. They gather to attack more migratory animals. The locals call it the 'big game hunt.'"

"The 'Great Hunt' held every few years is a major ceremony watched by the gods. I heard that every time after the 'Great Hunt', the hunters favored by the gods, regardless of whether they are beasts or humans or aliens, as long as they are in the 'Great Hunt' The strongest hunters in the 'Great Hunt' will receive powerful blessings from the gods."

She finally muttered: "The rank of life will be promoted. Hmph, who would believe it."

After Knight Lanisa said this, the embers of the wooden wall of the third line of defense blocked by the rock wall, which could not be seen in front of him, were smashed by the direct impact of the wolf king just like the previous few times.

Everyone carefully looked at the wreckage that exploded and flew up not far away, and found something.

"It seems to be smaller than before?"

"That's right, the wreckage that was hit by the wolf king didn't fly as much and as high as last time."

Hiding under the wooden wall, Lanisa Knight looked excitedly through the gap in the wooden wall: "It is injured, and its strength is estimated to be only about 80% of what it was before. If I am not injured, I may be able to fight it directly. .”

85%?

Keir was a little puzzled, shouldn't it be that there are so many problems with strength? Why, in Knight Lanisa's view, 85% of the opponents can be directly won?

Although he has doubts, he knows that this is not the time to ask.

He clenched the long sword and spear in his hand, ready to fight at any time.

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But after the wreckage of the wooden wall of the third line of defense was broken away by the wolf king, what appeared in front of them was not the figure of the wolf king, but the impact of adult wolves mixed with cubs.

Without the hindrance of the metal clips, they ran fast, and even the rocky passage ramps all the way up could not slow down their speed.

"Master Knight, do you see?" Seeing the Northern Land Wolf rushing towards him, the old hunter hurriedly asked Lanisa Knight who was hiding under the wooden wall.

"Fight! What are you waiting for me to do! I will not participate in the battle until the wolf king appears!" Knight Lanisa scolded in a low voice.

The people who came back to their senses quickly released their arrows and shot a target together in groups of two. Although this kind of shooting is very powerful, the northern land wolves rushed fast and many times, but in a flash, they rushed over.

Kiel immediately stepped forward, stretched out his spear and stabbed down.

As the fourth line of defense in the original rock mountain stronghold camp, its gate was built a bit taller. Although the original wooden door partially weakened its structural firmness, the taller wooden wall still brought Kiel and the others. Better defensive effect.

Although it was only about one and a half meters higher than the previous wooden wall, for the northern land wolves, it was impossible for them to charge up so easily.

The northern land wolves rushed under the wooden wall first. Although they avoided the hunter's arrows when they rushed over, they were extremely anxious at this time. The sharp teeth are useless, and the claws can only scratch off some fragments of sawdust outside the wooden wall.

The young wolves screamed anxiously~www.readwn.com~ The adult wolves cleverly climbed down, letting other northern land wolves step on them and try to climb up.

But Kiel only attacked the stacked northern land wolf, stabbing the spear from top to bottom could easily injure the northern land wolf trying to climb up, if he missed, he swung the spear downward, The northern land wolf fell down, and naturally an arrow from the hunter shot the northern land wolf that fell to the ground and exposed its soft belly.

Just as Kiel and the others were fighting hard, there was a shock from the height of the passage behind them, followed by a loud noise and a huge shock. Keir and the others turned their heads and found that the Northern Wolf King had bypassed the front from the height of the rock passage on one side and fell from behind them.

However, before the wolf king who fell behind them howled excitedly, Knight Lanisa, who was hiding under the wooden wall, stood up and walked out, flung the coarse tent cloth wrapped around his body, and roared directly holding the double-edged metal The long gun rushed forward.

"Waiting for you! Suffer!"

Her voice was full of excitement, because she chased the wolf king all night last night, but was sneaked around several times by the wolf king. This new resentment was mixed with the previous one, and she was bound to win now!

But the wolf king was terrified. He thought proudly that he had bypassed the human knight, but he didn't expect that his self-satisfaction was completely seen through by the other party.

Facing the rushing human knight, it endured the pain and turned around to retreat. As soon as it retreated, Lanisa Knight accelerated and poked forward, the metal gun pointing directly at the wounded place of the wolf king.

As long as one of its legs can be abolished, this huge beast that is on all fours will be completely defeated by her.

But at this moment, the empty wolf skin that had been hanging above the camp turned bright red and rushed towards Knight Lanisa.