Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 43 The Crisis from the Deep

The night is like ink, the stars and the moon are dark.

Thorn looked up at the bloody banner in Taran Village, which was blown by the cold wind.

He also looked at the double-shield guards who blocked the endless stream of jackal miscellaneous soldiers at the entrance of the village, and the reaping warriors behind them with swords.

Ten double-shield guards covered in plate armor stood in a row at the narrow intersection.

The flexible two-sided shield in his hand firmly resisted the fierce blows from the wolf man's claws, bone crushing hammer, mace, and flail without retreating a single step.

Behind them was a row of warriors with sharp blades. They didn't care about their own safety at all, and they opened and closed their sharp attacks, because the attacks of the jackals would be easily blocked by the guards with double shields.

The blood-stained blade shone coldly in the night, and every time it pierced and slashed, a jackal fell down with a roar.

In human wars, as long as the number of troops is defeated by more than [-]%, the morale of the soldiers will easily collapse, and eventually the originally neat formation will be scattered.

These evil gnolls were different, the more ferocious the attack and the scarlet blood, the more they could arouse their ferocity from the instinct of wild beasts.

The double-shield guards at the entrance of the village were still working tirelessly to kill the jackal soldiers who were trying to rush into Talan Village.

Inside Talan Village is a group of agile professionals: mainly rangers and rogues, and less than 5 warlocks and druids.

Although they didn't directly participate in the battle, their tense expressions and vigilant glances that kept scanning all directions showed their inner uneasiness.

In the dark night shrouded in torches, a strong smell of blood permeated the entire small village.

The collision of weapons and the roar of fighting continue to echo!
"The situation is not good. The gnolls are likely to launch a surprise attack from the forest." Thorn quickly walked up to Gerst and said in a deep voice.

Seeing Thorn with blood on his clothes, Gerst didn't ask too much, but looked in the direction of the battle at the entrance of the village:
"It seems that you have also noticed that these cunning gnolls are not as stupid as you think. The cannon fodder at the entrance of the village is just to attract our attention."

Suddenly, Gerst's handsome face suddenly changed color: "Oops! My animal companion was killed in the depths of the forest on the left."

"Youde, the number of jackals at the entrance of the village has gradually decreased. You should divide the village into five people to defend the village." Gerst immediately said to a double-shield guard at the entrance of the village.

The double-shield guard named Youde slammed the steel shield in his hand, and after instantly repelling the attack of a wolf man, he ordered four of them, and a hoarse voice came out from the blood-stained iron helmet mask:
"Four of you come with me!"

The four double-shield guards did not speak too much, and they withdrew from the battle with Yoder in an orderly manner.

Walking towards Talan Village without saying a word, the remaining five people looked at each other and immediately readjusted their formation to make up for the vacancy.

Thorn didn't speak any more. He took off the composite longbow behind him, glanced at the fourteen armor-piercing arrows in his quiver, and prepared to find a shelter in the ruins.

When he passed by the sorceress Anderina, he paused and said, "It's too close to the woods, it's dangerous."

After speaking, he immediately walked towards the ruins of the village.

Andrina's beautiful eyes froze for a moment when she heard this, and she immediately followed in the direction of Thorne, followed closely by the troll Trundle.

Tweet!
At this time, the ferocious eagle hovering over Talan village screamed loudly.

Thorn, who was hiding behind a stone wall, sank.

Although he has no so-called emotional connection with the Dire Eagle, every time the Dire Eagle calls at different frequencies, he can determine the general meaning.

The alarm just now is the highest level of danger!

So Thorne immediately whistled lightly, and the Dire Eagle immediately swooped down and landed in front of him.

Thorne looked at the human eyes of the ferocious eagle, stroked the eagle's head, and then said: "Thank you for your hard work, go and rest!"

Choo Choo Choo!
The Dire Eagle rubbed against Thorne's hood and let out an uneasy cry.

"Don't worry, I'm fine, go to bed early, and I'll have to rely on you to make the journey tomorrow." Thorn warmed his heart and said with a smile.

Tweet!
The dire eagle looked at him with nostalgia, flew high into the sky, and disappeared into the night.

Seeing the Dire Eagle disappear, Thorn's originally relaxed expression suddenly sank.

"What's the matter?" Andrina, who had just arrived, walked up to Thorn and said softly.

Sensing the faint scent of Anderina's body, Thorn moved his body slightly, kept a certain distance, and said in a deep voice:

"Four razorboars are clearing the way for the gnoll's warg riders through the thick jungle."

The back and right of Talan Village are basically cliffs, and with the racial characteristics of the wolf man, even if they can climb, it will take a lot of effort.

However, the left side of Talan Village is a dense jungle. The trees in the jungle grow densely, and there are rotten and smelly black leaves everywhere, making it almost difficult to pass through.

But if there are razor boar's sharp tusks to open the way, then the meaning is different.

No matter how dense the woods are, facing the fangs of those beasts, they will fall to the ground one after another like a scythe for harvesting wheat.

Then Thorne looked back and said, "If you can't resist the Razorboar's attack, make plans to escape as soon as possible."

Razorboar!

Anderina's complexion changed, but when she heard Thorne say that she was ready to escape, she thought about it, took out a magic scroll from the dimension bag, handed it to Thorne and said, "You take this Bar!"

"A teleportation scroll? It's not cheap, but unfortunately, I can't use it. Put it away, thank you!"

Seeing the scroll in Anderina's hand, Thorn first glanced at her in surprise, then shook his head in disappointment.

Thorne is not a spellcaster, so he has not learned the skills of using magic scrolls.

He thought that even after learning, he couldn't afford to use these expensive scrolls, after all, he was too poor!
Although he wanted this kind of life-saving thing very much, he didn't have the ability to use the magic scroll, and it couldn't play any role.

The price of a lowest-level teleportation scroll is at least 1000 gold coins. Thorne was surprised at the other party's extravagant spending.

At the same time, he was a little puzzled about how strong this sorceress Anderina's financial resources really were.

After all, for players who were born within the scope of Winter City, the exchange rate of gold coins suddenly soared for a period of time, and the supply was in short supply.

Even Pushang Town, where he lives, has been affected, so that he can't do anything if he wants to krypton gold.

"Then you have to be careful, Yuanshan Town has fallen, and I still count on you to take me to Twilight Town." Andelina put away the scroll, looked at Thorn and said softly.

She can't go back to Winter City, the Emerald Field is a stranger to her, and the road to Twilight Town is even more at a loss.

In this dangerous wilderness, if there is no one to lead the way to find the human settlements, how easy is it to survive?

And Thorne in front of her was her only hope.

"Don't worry, I don't die so easily." Thorne smiled at the other party, and his mood, which was originally heavy because of the upcoming Razorboar, suddenly became relaxed.

He is a ranger, in the vast emerald field, like a fish in water.

Thorne not only has high-level stealth and hiding skills, but also a concealment bonus from the shadow ability of "Shadow Hand Pie".

And when he chose the race, the elf blood in the half-elf blood was still wood elf blood, so he had the wild mask characteristics of the wood elf race.

[Wild mask: Your wood elf blood can make you try to hide when you walk in the bushes, heavy rain, snowfall, fog, or other natural phenomena to get light cover. 】

So as long as he wanted to, after hiding in the jungle, it would be very difficult to track his whereabouts with the wolf man's ability.

Right now, I can only hope that Gerst is prepared to do something, Thorne prayed in his heart.

There is no weak player who can establish a territory in the Emerald Field. In the final analysis, they all spend money, so they must have many powerful emergency measures.

Whether the players in Talan Village can survive depends on whether the Druigst's backhands have not been used up.

(End of this chapter)