Path of light

Chapter 312 313. Ambush 2

After the rain, the Pagisto Plateau has a clear blue sky.

Lu Qi, the headhunter captain of the Sixth Search Team, wiped the cold rain from his face, stared at the rising stream in front of him with a sullen face, and asked a headhunter next to him: "Is there any new news from over there? ?”

He looked up at the scattered clouds in the sky, and then at the men behind him who were wringing out wet clothes.

A headhunter quickly walked to Lu Qi's side and answered cautiously:

"Captain, the smoke column from the third team has not appeared yet."

Lu Qi's temper was notoriously bad, and this was well known to everyone in the entire search brigade.

Lu Qi stood up with narrowed eyes, took the reins of the argali from the team members around him, and said to the headhunters around him:

"No wait, let's go over and see what's going on."

"yes."

The headhunters did not dare to question anything and stood up one after another, leading the argali sheep and following behind Lu Qi.

They had to walk up the creek for a while until they reached a shallow, slow-flowing section before they could lead the argali across the river.

Argali sheep are far inferior to war horses when it comes to wading through water. Their advantage is that they can easily climb cliffs and are particularly good at walking on mountain roads.

Argali sheep live deep in the mountains of Pagisto Plateau. In the past, the dwarves left behind some methods of domesticating argali sheep. Now there are not many elves left who possess this skill...

Bypassing this fast-flowing river, the headhunters rode argali on the muddy road.

After climbing over two mountain ridges, the headhunters of the sixth team came to the foot of a mountain ridge. There were fault cliffs on both sides of the mountain ridge. It was quite troublesome to climb over the cliff, so they had to find a mountain pass to go around.

Lu Qi came to the mountain pass closest to the elf village and looked at the pile of rocks on the hillside without saying a word.

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The headhunter who was walking at the front suddenly pulled the reins and stopped. He was the best ranger in the team.

Lu Qi asked loudly to the headhunter who stopped in front:

"what happened?"

The headhunter quickly pulled the reins, turned back to Lu Qi, and replied: "Captain, there is the smell of blood ahead!"

Lu Qi hesitated for a moment, jumped off the argali, squatted on the muddy grass, and checked the hoof prints washed by the rain. Under the wash of the heavy rain, the hoof prints on the ground were very blurry, but Lu Qi It can be determined that a search team passed here not long ago.

He looked at the pile of rocks on the hillside again and said to the headhunter beside him:

"There is a search team passing by here. They must have gone through the rain. They are probably in front. Everyone should cheer up."

After saying that, he got on his horse and continued walking forward.

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In the pile of rocks less than two kilometers away from the headhunters of the Sixth Search Team, Kaka was comforting the griffon.

There was a freshly killed argali in front of it. Kaka even peeled off the skin of the argali, picked out the fine meat from the thigh of the argali, and placed it in front of the griffon.

This is his mount and his fighting partner.

This adult male griffon is a big guy, even bigger than the golden-armored male lion in the Elf Continent.

In the past few days, Kaka has been responsible for the security and sentry work of the adventure group. The griffin opened its mouth and licked the lamb leg meat with its scarlet tongue, and from time to time it would make a low roar.

Kaka was carefully wiping the griffon's wings with a dry towel.

Roy moved closer, and the griffon stopped eating and growled at Roy, as if to warn him.

Kaka quickly moved forward, hugged the griffin's furry head, whispered a few words of comfort, and asked it to continue eating.

Roy tried to move forward again, but the gryphon ignored him...

"Does everyone in your village have a griffon?" Roy asked Kaka curiously.

Kaka shook his head and said: "It's not... to be more rigorous, it should be that in our village, every animal trainer has a griffin, because they are easy to feed and can forage for themselves."

Kaka waved to Roy and asked Roy to come closer.

Roy squatted next to the griffin and reached out to touch its soft wings. These wings were not feather wings, but more like bat-like flesh wings. This is completely different from the Royal Gripen of the Green Empire. The Royal Gripen is covered with feathers, its head is like a bald eagle, it has a sharp beak, and its wings are also bird wings.

The gryphon squinted its eyes, licking the delicious leg of lamb while observing Roy from the corner of its eyes.

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Sabrina was drying Moira's wet hair behind a rock.

Moira sat on a stone and whispered in frustration: "Sister, am I useless?"

Sabrina leaned over, hugged Moira, and then said to her: "How could it be? This is your first adventure. There must be an adaptation process to this kind of thing. How you behave now very good already."

Moira pouted and said a little aggrievedly: "I have participated in field practice classes six times at the Elf Academy, and my results have been excellent every time."

Sabrina patted Moira's back with her hand and comforted her: "How can the college's outdoor practical classes be compared with an adventure trip! This is the real adventure trip."

Moira turned around, stared into Sabrina's eyes, and asked curiously:

"Sister, you just killed five headhunters. Do you have nightmares at night?"

Sabrina patted Moira's fair and delicate face and whispered: "That's not true. After knowing the evil deeds they committed, even the last worry is gone..."

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As a shape-shifting druid, Woods usually needs to restore his mana through meditation.

He sat in a low spot on a black rock, and could just observe the situation outside through the cracks on the edge of the rock.

He woke up from his meditation and happened to see the headhunting team gathered at the bottom of the hillside.

Woods quickly jumped down from the black rock, ran to Roy quickly, and whispered to Roy:

"Roy, they're coming!"

Roy quickly stood up and said to the members of the adventure group around him: "Everyone, prepare to fight."

Sabri quickly pulled up Moira, tied her hair up again, hugged her, grabbed the long sword placed aside, and walked quickly towards Woods.

Seeing a hole in Roy's thick leather shoulder armor, Sabrina took the opportunity to ask:

"Roy, how's your shoulder?"

"It's almost completely healed, there's nothing serious!" Roy replied.

Miss Tiffany was walking at the back with her staff. At this time, she couldn't help but said to Roy: "It's sunny, and my water magic may be greatly weakened, so you should be careful for a while."

"Got it!" Roy responded.

Woods had already found an ambush point at this time, hiding on top of a rock.

Roy began to give the 'blessing of strength' and 'blessing of wisdom' to all members of the adventure group, even Lysander was not left behind.

Feeling the magical 'blessing of power' for the first time, Lysander stared at Roy with wide eyes and asked, "How could this happen?"

Roy chuckled, pointed to his chest, and whispered to Lysander:

"Because I am a priest..."

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Lu Qi led the headhunters into the pile of rocks, and felt that the place seemed very messy.

He braced himself and carefully paid attention to the movements around him.

The headhunters behind him also held weapons in their hands, each responsible for a direction.

When we were at the bottom of the hillside, the smell of blood was still very light. When we came to the pile of rocks, the faint fishy smell became clear.

No body of the mixed-blood elf was found near the pile of rocks. Captain Lucci's mood became heavier and heavier. He thought about it and decided to lead the argali out of the area on his legs.

Several headhunters behind him followed suit...

If the third search team hadn't sent out a gathering signal, Lu Qi wouldn't have wanted to go this way at all.

In fact, he also knew that the elves in the nearby villages formed a fighting team to resist the headhunters. If he had his character, he would lead the search team to the mountains instead of conducting a carpet search after attacking an elven village. …

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Woods was hiding behind a boulder. The last time he raided a headhunting team in the rain, he turned into a giant bear and knocked one of the headhunters unconscious.

This time the rain cleared up, and the headhunters' reaction ability was significantly improved...

This time Woods also jumped down from the top of the boulder, but the headhunter captain, holding the reins with one hand, calmly raised his head and struck Woods with a machete.

Woods transformed into a giant bear...

A sharp sword flashed, and a wound was made on the giant bear's chest.

The giant bear suddenly became very violent when it encountered blood. It didn't care about the wounds on its body, opened its bloody mouth and bit Luke's neck.

Behind Luke, a demon holding a scythe appeared for the first time.

Then the demon's shadow merged into Luke's body, and the ethereal giant scythe appeared inexplicably in Luke's hand...

Luke took half a step back, twisted and swung with the giant scythe in his hand.

This time Woods clearly felt the killing intent. He quickly rolled his body and jumped to the side, narrowly avoiding Luke's scythe.

The ambush of the adventure group was easily resolved. Sabrina saw the headhunter leader Luke chasing Woods with a scythe, and quickly caught up with the Seruki sword. The long sword firmly held Luke's scimitar. .

Two ice bombs passed through the rocky area and exploded above the heads of the headhunters, turning into ice powder and flying everywhere.

This layer of light ice mist almost covered the entire battlefield.

At the same time, Kaka in the sky rushed out of the clouds again and rushed down towards the area covered by Miss Tiffany's ice fog.

The gryphon activated 'Iron Will' to protect Kaka.

The gryphon was smashed down like a cannonball, creating a stone pit in the ice mist.

This also killed two of the headhunters in the ice fog and injured one. The other four headhunters luckily escaped Kaka's surprise attack.

Roy followed Sabrina, and the three of them worked together to kill the headhunting leader Lucci.

Claire, Moira, Lysander, and Miss Tiffany also followed closely behind. They all planned to work together to kill their headhunting leader before the headhunters rushed up.

This battle was much more dangerous than the one in the rain just now.

The nine people worked together to kill the headhunter captain. Under Lu Qi's near-death counterattack, he used the giant scythe in his hand to cut a hole in Woods' chest, and rolled out from under the giant bear's two sharp claws.

A one-meter-long wound appeared on the chest of the giant bear transformed by Woods, and blood spurted out from the wound.

Roy was frightened by this scene. He only had time to throw the hammer of judgment before running to check Woods's injury.

The scythe in the headhunter's hand, Lucci, almost cut his chest open. Fortunately, the earth bear incarnate as Woods had rough skin and thick flesh. The scythe did not cause fatal injuries to Woods... Roy breathed a sigh of relief and gave him the drink. A bottle of life potion, turned around and went into battle again.

The experienced Lysander hid behind the rock and took the opportunity to shoot an arrow at the headhunter captain, which just hit the left eye socket of the headhunter captain.

Miss Tiffany's ice gun exploded on Headhunter Lucci, almost freezing him into a lump of ice.

But even so, Lu Qi seemed to be possessed by a demon and didn't care about his injuries at all. He grabbed the sickle and ran away in the direction of the headhunting team.

His body was as fast as a ghost. He only made a few jumps and flashes, and returned to the middle of the headhunting team with an arrow in his eye socket.

But before he could stand completely, a phantom like blue smoke emerged from the cracks in the rocks beside him. It just paused behind him for a moment and inserted a short sword into the spine of his lower back.

The headhunters saw an elf girl suddenly appear behind the captain and stabbed the captain.

The headhunters were eager to show off, and stabbed Moira with the scimitars in their hands. Moira's body flashed in the gap between the swords, and she narrowly avoided the headhunters' attack...

Roy and Sabrina rushed towards Moira at the same time, blocking the headhunters chasing behind him...

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The elves in the elf village naturally didn't know that just a few kilometers away, an adventure group helped them block two headhunting teams.

The battle on the pile of rocks was over. After resting for a while, Roy got up and bandaged the wounds of the injured members.

All members of the adventure group were exhausted and sat down to rest against the boulders. The corpses of the headhunters were lying in the muddy water among the rocks.

Roy's adventure group went through three battles with the plateau headhunters. In the end, everyone cooperated quite well this time, and they were the first to kill the headhunter leader when they rushed up. Even though everyone was fully prepared, they still suffered during the battle. Some injuries.

Woods was the most seriously injured. He drank the life potion and was treated with the 'Holy Light Technique', and his injuries recovered very quickly.

The sky gradually darkened, and Lysander led the adventure group to withdraw from the pile of rocks. They did not go to the elven village immediately, but camped next to a cliff. After a night, everyone was almost done repairing, and then rushed To that elven village.

At this moment, the Elf Village has long been deserted, leaving four abandoned stone houses and a pile of haystacks that have been completely reduced to ashes.

In the small courtyard in front of one of the stone houses, there is a row of brand-new graves. There are neither tombstones nor trees planted in front of these graves. Instead, there are some broken scimitars inserted, which are weapons used by headhunters.

Lysander didn't believe that those lying in the grave were the elven headhunters, so he used a broken scimitar to dig out a grave. When he saw that the corpses of the headhunters were indeed buried in the soil, he breathed a sigh of relief and threw his ass down. Sitting on the mound next to him.