Mercenaries and Adventurers

The next day, the two corpses were placed on the rocky platform at the top of the mountain and were tightly wrapped. They hung a small stone on the ropes that tied the shrouds.

The emblems of the gods are engraved on the small stones. One **** of hunting is relatively simple, with only one side carved, while the emblem of the **** of the dead has simple emblems of gods carved on six sides of the square stone.

The young hunter who was on guard with Kiel last night was embarrassed to hang his somewhat clumsy carved stone outside, so he had to secretly stuff the one he carved into the shroud of the dead old hunter.

Several hunters, including Keir, were guarding behind the last wooden wall not far from the platform at the top of the mountain. They were a little nervous, because they all felt that this rocky mountain had become strange since dawn.

It's not what happened to the northern land wolf. Those stubborn beasts were still squatting anxiously behind the burning wooden wall at this time, and finally waited for the cold weather to completely cool down the temperature of the burning embers of the wooden wall.

Because their wolf king was gone at the moment, they didn't want their furry feet to be burned, so they could only wait for the ashes to cool down.

Kiel opened the visor nervously, and then took out a piece of muslin from the thick pouch on his belt. He wiped his face, for some reason, he was sweating despite the cold weather.

He didn't feel that the next battle would make him nervous. After all, he had experienced the battles these days, and he didn't worry at all when facing those beasts.

But what exactly is my body secretly afraid of?

Not only that, behind the narrow wooden wall, everyone pointed to the mountains that could be seen around them. Obviously, there was no snowfall in the sky, and the weather temperature was extremely low, but a mist that should not have appeared slowly began at dawn. Appeared around this rocky mountain.

Those mist appeared in this extremely low temperature weather against common sense, not only Kiel felt something was wrong, but the hunters also quietly guessed something.

However, everyone speculated and discussed for a while, and they all felt that it was not in line with the current situation.

Keir looked at the empty wolf skin hanging beside the stone. This tattered thing was affected by the battle between the female knight and the wolf king when the wolf king landed in the camp before, and it looked tattered at the moment.

But even so, this thing can still float in the air.

But the thing that should have been swaying from side to side with the strong wind blowing high on the top of the mountain was pulling the rope weirdly at this moment.

Kiel shook his face left and right, judging from the cold wind blowing on his face, the wind direction here should be the same at this moment, but he turned his head and looked at the empty wolf skin floating in the air strangely.

Still feel weird.

Have a bad feeling.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooo!"

The continuous howling of wolves sounded, and the hunters listened.

"It's a lot less."

"Really, there are so many northern wolves, where are the other northern wolves?"

The old hunter stopped the guessing before the battle: "Okay, no matter what, we have only one way to go and one thing to do. Pay attention, they are coming."

As soon as the words were finished, a northern land wolf with black head and feet stepped over the remnants of the wooden wall and rushed towards it.

The first ones were a few clever guys. After running out of the corner in front, they did not rush straight to the wooden wall built by humans. They knew that as a group of wolves in the lead, it would be difficult to achieve any effect in the initial stage of human defense.

So these cunning and clever guys have been twisting their bodies left and right since they ran out, dodging the human arrows.

The young hunters missed two arrows and were stopped immediately by the old hunter.

Afterwards, the old hunters who hadn't shot their arrows all the time. The three old hunters in Tost spat out a word, and then the three neatly set their targets on a northern land wolf.

Without further communication, the three of them shot arrows at the same time, and after spotting a flaw in the northern wolf's movement together, they shot out three arrows, and all of them hit the northern wolf at once.

That northern wolf was also really miserable. It was directly hit by three arrows on different parts of its body. The powerful arrows directly knocked it over to the ground. It was able to scratch at random on the ground, but it couldn't get up again. up.

Afterwards, the three of them followed suit without any further communication. Relying on their rich experience and skills, they fired two volleys and overturned the other two northern land wolves.

The last northern land wolf ran at the back, seeing the end of the front companion early, turned around and fled.

The old hunters put down their bows, and took out a few more arrows from the quiver with their right hands, showing off to let the young hunters around them learn more.

"Pull it closer before killing."

"Don't shoot one by one, but fire in a tacit volley with your companions. But don't shout a salvo. The northern wolf on the opposite side is not deaf. They will realize something when they hear the shout, and then change their state of motion. .”

"And the so-called tacit understanding is not that the three of us have trained and cooperated before. It's that we each saw through the flaws in the northern wolf movement, and we are confident enough that the other two companions must have seen the northern land The weakness of the wolf. Needless to say, when the time comes, let’s just shoot the arrow.”

The three of them were quite excited, and it could be seen that although they said it was easy, the one-man volley just now was really not easy.

The three young hunters wanted to mutter something, but the new northern land wolves rushed over in large numbers.

This time, it wasn't just a few scouts. The old and young northern land wolves mixed with strong guys rushed forward while running and barking under the command of an unprotruded northern wolf head.

"Kill!"

The old hunter in command yelled, what does Kiel's natural way mean?

He scrambled to the top of the rock face on either side of the wooden wall. This is already the high point of the rocky mountain, and the rocky channel that was originally covered by the mountain has gradually narrowed to the height of the rocky wall, and gradually leveled up.

However, Keir is not idle and has nothing to do. He flipped up to launch the real defensive power here.

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On the top of the mountain wall next to the wooden wall, there are broken stones of various sizes in the corners of the protruding rock gaps. When Kiel built this place before, he found many stones of suitable size for throwing.

Right now, as soon as he turned up, he immediately bent down and picked up a piece, then raised his head and smashed it towards the center of the rock passage in front of him.

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The stone fell, and immediately broke the back of the northern land wolf that was hit. With the half-wail of the northern wolf, the stone the size of a human head bounced and landed on the nose of the northern wolf who was rushing behind him.

His swarthy nose was rubbed sideways by a stone, and half of his nose was scratched off by the force.

This northern wolf fell to the ground in pain, its front paws holding its **** nose, and regardless of how it would affect the attack of other northern wolves, it rolled and twisted left and right in the sloping rock passage.

The stone rolled all the way down the sloping passage. Although it didn't have the force of throwing it down, it still caused a lot of trouble for the northern land wolves when it rolled down.

And soon, as Kiel kept throwing stones from a high place on one side, those falling stones slowed down and blocked the northern ground wolves in the rock passage.

The stone was not big, but the northern land wolf running on all fours would not be very tall if it didn't stand up. These stones that rolled down all the way often either crushed their furry soles, or hit the front legs of the northern land wolves during the rolling.

Although there was not enough acceleration distance for the fall, and this force could not break the northern wolf's front legs, but being hit like this is like being kicked on the calf bone of a human being, it is still very uncomfortable.

The stones that Kiel prepared were not very large, so bending down to pick up the stones and throwing them forward did not consume a lot of physical strength.

The hunters are also shooting bravely. Keeping in mind what the old hunters taught just now, the young hunters specially brought the northern land wolves that were slowed down by the rolling stones one by one closer, and after they were sure of aiming, they pulled the bowstring hard and shot the arrows. shoot out.

They were young and stronger than the old hunters, so even if the arrows they shot failed to hit the northern wolf's vitals, the strength carried by the arrow could still directly bring the northern wolf over and prevent them from approaching again.

The fierce battle continued intermittently. Although a large number of injured northern land wolves were hit by one or two arrows, none of them were fatal. They all backed away secretly howling while the new northern land wolf rushed up.

Keel bent down and fished down, only to find that the stones that had been piled up were gone.

He immediately yelled: "Be careful, I have finished throwing stones on this side, and I have to switch to the other side!"

After finishing speaking, regardless of other things, he directly supported the edge of the rock wall with his hands, and turned to the back of the wooden wall below. Then I stretched out my hand to grab the rock wall with a height of one person, jumped up and braced, and came to the height of the rock wall on the other side.

Here he also prepared some stones in advance. At this time, the Northern Wolf was attacking urgently, so he gasped for breath and resumed what he had just done.

However, before he threw two this time, the attack of the northern land wolves in the passage below slowed down. In a wolf howl, all the northern land wolves that were still able to move retreated back.

As soon as Kiel lifted a new stone, he was stopped by the old hunter, telling him to save and use the few suitable stones on the top of the mountain.

It’s not that there aren’t many broken stones on the top of the mountain, there are stones everywhere, some are connected to the mountain, some are exposed to the wind and sun, or they were broken by a battle a long time ago, all kinds of stones are everywhere .

It's just that it is very laborious to set up a too big Kiel, and it is too small to have the power to smash it down, so Kiel tried a few times before to find out the actual size of the rock that is suitable for its power. And he found all the stones he saw, as time allowed.

Those stones seem to be many, but in fact there are only two piles on the left and right rock walls. A pile has been thrown away just now, and a new pile on this side has also thrown down several pieces.

Seeing the northern land wolf retreating, Keel came down. Without further words from his companions, he immediately jumped off the last wooden wall which was not high under the cover of his companions, and first killed all the northern land wolves that had not yet died in the rock passage, but were injured or fainted.

Then he used the dagger at his waist to rough out the intact arrow from the northern land wolf's corpse, holding the arrow with a large piece of northern land wolf meat in his hand. After saving a handful, he returned to the wooden wall and let the hunters on the wooden wall deal with it by themselves.

In the end, he grabbed the left and right ends of the northern land wolf corpse, pulled the corpse under the wooden wall two at a time, and sent it to the noose that the young hunter fell from.

The young hunter would pull the corpse up, then turn around and throw it into the space under the wooden wall. As before, let these hairy and weak fire guys provide a little support for the subsequent burning of the wooden wall.

Since the wooden wall of the last position was narrow and low, the space below couldn't match the corpses of many northern land wolves.

Soon, the young hunter on the wooden wall indicated that there was no room for more boreal carcasses underneath.

Keel then told them to stuff the carcasses behind the wooden walls, so that they couldn't fit and provide food for the attacking coyotes. He could see that as the fighting time lengthened these days, the attacking northern land wolves were getting thinner and weaker these days.

This shows that the food supply of the northern land wolves is very problematic. Many northern land wolves can't eat enough. In this cold weather, they have been relying on the fat supplemented by their bodies in autumn.

If the corpses were left on the ground like this, then the northern land wolf would definitely eat the corpses of their dead companions to maintain their fighting ability. Although some intelligent animals mostly don't use the corpses of their own kind, the northern land wolf is not in this category.

According to the old hunters, the northern wolf is a kind of beast that will eat the young and the old to maintain the survival of the mature northern wolf when the times are tough.

In fact, Keir feels that in many cases, humans are not much different from northern land wolves in these places.

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Kiel disposed of the corpse of the northern wolf near the wooden wall. He could do nothing if the corpse was too far away. It was no longer within the support range of his companion's bow and arrow on the wooden wall. If the northern wolf saw the flaw, it might be Being entangled by them in the distance can't come back.

That would be dangerous.

Keir went back to the wooden wall, then grabbed the rope handed down from above, and as soon as he pulled it to gain strength, he turned over in one breath.

"Will they attack soon?" Kiel asked as soon as he came up.

The old hunter shook his head: "Probably not." He continued: "Those guys thought they trapped us on the top of the mountain. After this trial attack, they probably tested our defensive strength. They want to attack here , of course you have to pay more.”

He exchanged opinions with the other two old hunters, and then analyzed: "If they urgently want us to die, then they will naturally gather more northern land wolves, but if they just want us to die, or both I want us humans to die here, but I don't want more casualties."

He paused: "Then they should try to trap us to death, freeze and starve us to death here."

Hearing this, everyone laughed. Although the northern land wolves thought beautifully, they didn't know that with the help of ropes, Kiel had created a route to escape from the top of the mountain.

We discussed it, considered the number of arrows on the hunters, and decided that when the northern land wolves attack later, as long as Kiel throws the stones prepared before, they will light the wooden wall to save some arrows, and then go from the top of the mountain. Evacuate this rocky mountain.

According to the previous agreement with Knight Lanisa, they will secretly meet at another agreed place nearby.

They felt that as long as the last wooden wall was lit, Knight Lanisa should be able to see it no matter what. After all, the nearby rocky mountain top is the highest point. Flame like a lighthouse.

It's just that Keel pointed to the strange mist inexplicably appearing at the bottom of the mountain in the distance.

Around the rocky mountain, on the grassland between the forest and the mountain, at an unknown height on the ground, it was shrouded in some strange mist.

"The fog makes me feel bad. After all, there shouldn't be water fog in such a cold weather."

An old hunter squinted his eyes and observed carefully: "It doesn't look like ice fog."

The young hunter pointed to the thick clouds in the sky: "There is no snow in the sky either."

The old hunter in command touched the gray beard on his chin, thought for a while and said, "Since something is wrong, let's make some changes. Let's evacuate now."

Everyone froze for a moment, but after realizing it, they all acquiesced to what the old hunter said.

They all actually felt slightly out of place.

This rocky mountain was originally used by foreign races to launch wars. A tragic war broke out many years ago. All the traces here show that a war with countless casualties took place here.

Although the Griffin Knight who I met by chance said that there is nothing wrong with this rocky mountain, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com But everyone doesn't believe it, and the other party obviously doesn't come here very often. If something strange and evil really happens here, the other party will Don't know either.

But Kiel and the others have been here for so long after all, and they have fought and killed such a huge number of northern land wolves. No matter in any horror story or adventure novel, some bad things will happen here. matter.

The hunters consciously deal with some wild beasts in the forest can also come in handy, or under the leadership of the female knight, crusade against some powerful monsters and beasts.

But those guys are all flesh and blood guys, their bows and arrows and knight's blades can handle it, but there are more things that they don't think they can handle.

While Keir was nervous, he felt a little eager to try.

Just considering that the current situation is unclear, the battle between Lanisa Knight and the Northland Wolf King has not yet been decided, and the result is unpredictable, so he can only restrain his thoughts in this regard.

Everyone packed up their things, and carried some tools that might be used later with them, and more inedible ones were hidden in the crevices of the rocks next to them. As for the more food prepared before, after everyone was full, they would eat Excess food was placed on the wooden walls and a fire was lit to burn it off.

Naturally, they couldn't take it away, and they couldn't leave it to the remaining northern wolves.

Kiel was strong and powerful, and naturally carried the dead young hunter on his back. The strongest of the other young hunters carried the dead old hunter on his back.

He tightened the rope that wrapped the corpse tightly, carried the companion who had fought side by side behind his back, and followed everyone to the top of the mountain.

But Keir turned his head to look at the empty and broken wolf skin of the wandering wolf king, thought for a while, and told everyone that he wanted to take that thing away with him.