Mercenaries and Adventurers

"That's right." Kilby scratched the way he was holding an ax in both hands: "Didn't I have a very powerful blue ax before?"

Everyone nodded: "There is such a weapon."

Immediately afterwards, Keir patted his head: "At the entrance of the rocky mountain passage, the fierce battle made me seem to have a kind of, um, how should I put it, a spiritual connection with my weapon. feel."

The young hunters didn't know what Kiel meant yet, but the old hunters thought of something from the legends they had heard all their lives: "Is it hard to say that you have a spiritual connection with your blue ax? Or A connection of fate? Or is the weapon a soul?"

Keir quickly waved his hand, indicating that he didn't know: "I don't know either. It's just that I can vaguely perceive the position of the weapon in my mind."

"It's too bad, Lord Knight doesn't have this kind of ability!"

"It's not certain, maybe the adults didn't tell us. After all, we hunters have no qualifications to know the news of other knights."

"Master Crow Knight must have such abilities and weapons! After all, he is so powerful, he is an elite knight who came back from the Knights of the Kingdom."

The hunters started talking one after another, but they were quickly stopped by the old hunter Tost.

"Okay, let Keel finish."

He continued: "Keir, if what you say is true, what does that mean? Where is your weapon?"

Kiel quickly explained that the ax had been embedded in the wolf king's body since it accidentally attacked the wolf king's body.

"In this way, the current location of the weapon must be the current real-time location of the Wolf King."

All the hunters looked at each other, and then said in unison: "Then what are you waiting for? Kiel! Lead the way!"

"Huh?" Keir was taken aback. He didn't expect to persuade everyone to be so simple.

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Everyone didn't say much, Keir led the way, and the team immediately changed direction and moved quickly towards the depths of the forest.

Everyone left the trail left by the northern land wolf, and quickly turned in one direction. On Kiel's side, he not only relied on the location provided by the vague weapons in his mind, but also stopped and relied on the wolf king's empty wolf skin to correct his direction after walking a kilometer or two.

At first everything was fine, both pointing in a certain direction in the endless forest.

But soon, when he was resting during a routine march, he suddenly discovered that the wolf king's empty wolf skin was not in line with the spiritual orientation of the weapon.

Between them there is an azimuth difference that is clearly discernible in his mind.

Licking his lips, Keir's face turned red, which was also unexpected for him.

"That." He said in a low voice.

The old hunter Tost, who was putting the clean snow on the ground into the water bag, said: "What's the matter, Keir? The position of the wolf king has changed again? In fact, the position has changed, which means that the wolf king is still being chased by the knight." Among them, the situation is in our favor."

The others nodded in agreement, and their faces relaxed.

Lifting the visor of the helmet, Kiel looked at the three old hunters and said, "Well, the situation may have changed."

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Everyone didn't speak, but the atmosphere immediately became the same as the surrounding seasons.

"It's like this. I just suddenly discovered that the wolf skin of the Wolf King and the position of the ax I perceived in my brain. Uh, there is a slight deviation. They have always been in the same direction before!" Keel urgently Said it all in one breath.

After hearing Keir's words, everyone's faces were not as bad as he imagined.

The young hunter was more suspicious, while the three old hunters looked at each other, and then the old hunter Tost said, "Well, then let's ignore the wolf skin that should be burned and go directly to you. The weapon is in place."

Another old hunter next to him continued: "Compared with the things on the cunning northern land wolves, I think the weapons that can kill them are more reliable."

"It is so," said the three young hunters.

Patting his face with his hands, Keir let his face look normal and heaved a sigh of relief, then pointed to a direction in the forest with his finger.

In that direction, there are some trees that are slightly larger than other places. The difference is that on the trunks of those trees, there are some old claw marks left by beasts with huge claws.

Experienced hunters will know at a glance that this is basically the highest level of predation by wild beasts in the forest - the territory mark left by the **** bear in the forest.

Everyone got up and moved over.

An old hunter walked up to the tree trunk, gestured at the claw marks that he couldn't reach even by jumping up, and said bluntly, "It's a female bear among the huge black bears in the forest."

He then kicked a few slight claw marks on his chest: "And there are at least two little bears with their heads up."

Without him saying anything more, everyone immediately took out their weapons and held them in their hands. Kiel also took out his sword and shield, ready to fight.

Kiel took the lead, and everyone slowed down this time to form a battle formation and advance.

The originally quiet and tense atmosphere was broken by the old hunter who judged the forest black bear before. He said seriously: "The forest black bear has excellent hearing and smell. If the location indicated by Kiel is within its territory, I don't think that guy will be able to sleep."

Hearing his words, everyone relaxed their breathing, and their footsteps no longer stopped gently.

Soon, everyone passed through the tree claw marks arranged in a circle at intervals, and soon came to a relatively open place.

There is a bear cave formed by the fall of several big trees that were relatively close together. The ground in front of the bear cave has a large area where the ice and snow melted and then froze together again.

Unfortunately, there were large messy footprints on the surrounding snow-covered ground, and there were nearly ten dead northern land wolf corpses.

"Oops!"

This sentence, who did not know who said it, immediately expressed the mood of everyone at the moment.

Everyone didn't see any danger, so they made a half circle and came to the front of the bear cave. The clutter here lets everyone know they're a little late.

No one said anything about Kiel, after all, Kiel led them here in a straight line, with basically no turning in the middle. If they still follow the traces of the wolves before, it is estimated that one step at a time, one step at a time, it is definitely impossible to come over so quickly.

After approaching, the hunters immediately started to investigate.

"There is something in the bear's den, but nothing alive."

"Oh, it looks like the owner here, but he is dead. Only the wolf king can solve it so neatly."

"Let me look at the dead northern land wolf. This one was punched to death. It was hit on the forehead, and the brains were knocked out. It must be the northern land wolf killed by Knight Lanisa. This head does not seem to be injured, and it really is." , I can find that the bones in the middle of the body are broken, and there are scratches from the gauntlet on the fur. It was also thrown by the knight to death."

"Others are similar, but there are no traces of weapons hacking. I don't know what these northern land wolves think."

"Look at this. This is the footprint of the wolf king. The wolf king, the knight, and the wolves all clashed here not long ago."

They were monitoring the scene, and Keel noticed a place where his spirit was directing.

Next to the place where the front of the bear cave melted and then re-frozen, a huge thing with a blue face was emitting a blue faint light, and there were faintly visible monster heads floating on the surface of the axe.

Kiel walked straight over, and those things that could not be seen clearly were grabbed by the long limbs that suddenly protruded from the axe, and then dragged back to the axe.

He widened his eyes, and immediately looked at the young companion next to him: "Did you see it just now?"

"What? Oh, your axe? Your axe seems to have lost the handle, but the axe is in good condition. You can put a wooden handle on it and it can be used again." The companion gestured for Keel to find a carpenter, and then The weapon is refitted with an ax handle.

Keir didn't say much, he suddenly realized that what he saw just now, maybe his companions couldn't see it with naked eyes. That thing seemed to be seen only by himself, he reckoned.

The ax doesn't look bad, at least the blade is still sharp. There were traces of being scorched by high temperature around, and Kiel immediately thought of the scene he had seen before, and after thinking about it carefully, he understood what was going on.

The wolf king gathered part of his wolves here, and after fighting Knight Lanisa, he somehow managed to force the weapon out of the wound.

The wooden handle of the ax was gone, which was not what Keel expected. The wolf king's blood has a very high temperature, and it can release a lot of heat when it comes into contact with the air. It only takes a little guesswork to know that the thing must contain very strong energy.

Seeing that the ax head was intact, Keel wanted to put it away. Although it is useless without an ax handle now, it is still very powerful after repairing it later.

Especially after Kiel liberated the inner power of the axe, he even established a spiritual connection with it.

Although I still don't know what to do, I must go back and make more contacts, maybe I can figure out what's going on.

He bent down and touched the surface of the axe. As if sensing the master's touch, the shining blue light that had been emitting from the surface of the ax suddenly disappeared, and it retracted into the ax.

This change did not frighten Keir. He used his fingers to grab the place where the handle of the ax had been inserted, trying to grab the ax and carry it with him.

As a result, the fingers immediately felt a surge of heat.

Startled, he pulled out his fingers and stuffed them into the snow beside him. After a quick look, it was found that there were obvious burn marks on the thick cowhide gloves.

"Huh?" He felt strange, so he turned an angle, lay down on the ground, and looked at the groove where the ax handle was originally inserted.

It was found that for some reason, an ominous dark red blood was entrenched in the depression.

"What's going on." He said to himself.

Then he grabbed the other parts of the ax with his hands, and carefully picked up the heavy ax, which was at least thirteen kilograms.

Facing the gray sky, Kiel finally saw that there were indeed those things inside. It looked like the blood left by the wolf king that had not burned itself completely.

And the color of these bloods is a bit strange.

It was very different from anything he had seen before. When he rescued Knight Lanisa before, the wolf king's blood was obviously bright red, and he looked very energetic and powerful. And this blood not only does not burn, but the color is so uncomfortable to look at.

The uncoagulated, unburned dark red blood seemed to contain something disgusting.

Although Keir felt that something was wrong, his curiosity still prevailed. He touched his body, found a small wooden shallow bottle, moved it to the side of the depression, turned the ax upside down, and let the blood flow into it.

Not only was the color of the blood wrong, but it was also as viscous as broth that had been left for a month in summer.

Not much, it took a while to finish.

Strange to say, the blood should have released all the energy contained in the blood immediately after leaving the wolf king, and after completely releasing the clean power, nothing would be left.

But this thing, not only does it emit heat when it is no longer in contact, it even seems to know what Kiel is doing, as if it is coordinating with Kiel's movements, slowly and peacefully flowing into the wooden bottle.

The wooden bottle was filled with this thing, and it didn't burn due to heat, and it was only slightly warm to the touch.

Through the small mouth of the wooden bottle, Kiel found that the ominous blood was entrenched at the bottom of the bottle, no matter how much the bottle was shaken, it would not flow.

He wondered, but now was not the time for this. He put away the wooden bottle, grabbed a handful of white snow and wiped the whole ax up and down.

Then I found a rope from the remaining materials that everyone carried, and wrapped the rope around other places where the ax had no sharp edge, and finally asked the companion to tie the ax to the place where the armor originally hung it behind.

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"Then what should we do now?" A hunter asked, not only to Kiel, but also to the old hunter Tost who could make arrangements.

Everyone saw the scene where Kiel put away the face of his axe, and after knowing that, he could no longer rely on Kiel's spiritual sensory weapon to guide everyone.

But fortunately, an old hunter found the traces of Lanisa's knight's war horse, and these traces were obviously in the same direction as the wolf king and the northern wolf pack.

And after careful observation by the hunter, he was excited to find that the hoofprints left by Lanisa's knight war horse were left later. Many horseshoe prints overwhelmed the footprints left by the northern land wolf.

This shows that Knight Lanisa is chasing the Northern Land Wolf and the Wolf King.

"Huh, this shows that although we are late, at least we haven't missed the crucial battle." The old hunter Tost finally set the tone.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

So, then they had two options.

The two old hunters except Tost hoped to follow the traces while they were not far away.

But Kiel still recommends that everyone use the empty wolf skin left by the wolf king to indicate the location of the wolf king. He believes that they all rely on their feet to move forward, and their speed is slower than that of Knight Lanisa, the Northern Wolves, and the Wolf King on horseback, not to mention that they have to wade through the accumulations in the forest at this time of winter. Xue Lai moved forward, and the speed was even slower.

If they continue chasing like this, they will only be separated by the former. When it comes to the crucial battle, they will definitely not be able to catch up.

Maybe the wolf king who defeated the knight will meet the wolves head-on, and the sheep will fall into the tiger's mouth.

Keir said straightforwardly that they wanted to make a difference, and in the key battles that would definitely happen later, they would use a force that could solve the wolf king and the northern land wolf. Only by chasing the whereabouts of the wolf king could they glimmer of hope.

Otherwise, not only would they be useless in the future, but they might as well go home right now, return to the sentry tower camp outside the forest, and wait for Lord Knight to return. Or go back to the water pool that was agreed before, and wait there obediently for the crusade to end this winter.

After all, Knight Lanisa suffered a serious injury that she said was not serious, and there will definitely be no more crusades after this winter.

The hunters thought about it for a while, and finally the young hunters all supported Kiel's plan. If they followed the trail of the wolves honestly, they would definitely be unable to do anything. If they wanted to help Lord Knight fight, they had to get ahead.

The old hunter Tost, who had been silent all this time, made the final decision. Although these old fellows are worried about the loose wolf fur of the wolf king, at this moment, they have to give it a try. Maybe good luck will favor them. .

Keel silently thought: "Good luck only often comes to people who take risks, because steady behavior does not like good luck."

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They didn't go down to the bear den, although they believed that the wolf king would definitely end up with the **** bear in the forest, after all, they were not at the same level of strength. But not afraid of 10,000, just in case, if the big forest black bear in the bear den is not dead~www.readwn.com~, there is really no need to suffer disaster.

The crowd did not follow the trail of the wolves and the horses, but turned in another direction and walked towards the forest.

At this time, every time Kiel walked for a while, he had to stop and reconfirm the direction of the wolf king.

Because he found that the floating wolf fur was constantly changing its direction slightly. This shows that the wolf king is constantly moving, and not moving in a straight line.

Is it the Knight Lanisa who is chasing after him?

He is not sure.

But he understood that if they really caught up with the wolf king later, they still had to avoid it a little bit.

With the strength of these people, Lanisa Knight's support cooperation is okay, but if they really meet the wolf king and the wolf pack head-on, it will be terrible.

Belongs to the white.

At this moment, they were far away from the rocky mountain. The rocky mountain was completely invisible, but through the thick clouds in the sky, they could still see the reflection of the fire on the top of the mountain at the bottom of the cloud.

Every time Kiel confirmed the location, he asked everyone to rest adequately, because the faster the location indicated by the empty wolf skin changed, the closer they were to the wolf king.

It's dangerous.

Suddenly, from the direction indicated by the wolf skin, came a panting wolf howl.

The distance is getting closer.

Kiel turned his head to look at the old hunters. Although the old hunters looked serious, they shook their heads: "It's not the howling of the wolf king. Strange, it's not even the howling of the northern land wolf."

Kiel and everyone were ready to fight. Although they were neither wolf kings nor northern land wolves, judging from the behavior of the other party approaching them in a straight line after a pause.

The other party is not good.