Mercenaries and Adventurers

After everyone judged the direction where the northern land wolf might exist, they originally planned to set off to find out, but in terms of time, including the time to go back from now, they probably had to arrive at the agreed place for assembly.

Both are very important. After consideration by Knight Lanisa, several people decided to return first. After all, these northern land wolves will not move without directly conflicting with the northern land wolves here.

Therefore, they can go back and gather more people to come again.

So, after leaving enough conspicuous signs on the surrounding tree trunks, everyone walked back quickly. On the way back, the female knight asked the hunters to leave a sufficiently conspicuous mark so that they could find it again next time.

More than a day later, they arrived at the agreed forest clearing with the carriage team first.

Simply resting beside the snow trail left by the carriage's previous movement, they waited for the carriage.

Around that afternoon, the neighing of horses and the sound of a carriage driving through the snow came from the south-facing side.

"Yo! Everyone has come here earlier. Now we are a bit late." After the carriage approached, one of the two old hunters driving the carriage said hello.

"Did the journey go well?" Knight Lanisa sat up from the ground, then turned on the horse in one breath, and asked while sitting on the horse's back.

Keir and the others quickly approached, and handed the things he was carrying on the horse back to the inside of the carriage. The two young hunters shouted from the rear of the carriage, put their hands on the rear partition of the carriage warehouse, and turned inside at once. .

"There are some. The villagers guarding the supply point said that there are always shadows of northern land wolves near them. At first, wolves howled only in the distance at night, and then as time progressed, they could also be seen in the forest during the day. There are faint traces of animal activities." An old hunter threw a piece of food to the female knight and Kiel, and then continued.

Keel caught something thrown to him by the old hunter and looked it over. It turned out to be a limp red pickled radish. It looked and smelled bad, but when Keel bit his mouth, a sour and appetizing taste bloomed in his mouth.

This sour taste not only revived his appetite that had dwindled due to poor eating and sleeping in the woods. It even made his brain stimulated by the sour taste, and his whole body became energetic.

He followed the carriage on horseback, listening to the chatter of the old hunters, and clicked, like a rabbit, cutting and chewing pickled radishes with sharp teeth.

"Recently, those northern land wolves have even come to the bottom of the sentry tower at night, howling loudly at the villagers inside the watchtower at close range. It not only makes it difficult for them to sleep, but also makes many villagers quite nervous .What did you tell me? It reminded me of a few years ago when the northern land wolf was at its worst, surrounding the village day and night."

Knight Lanisa narrowed her eyes: "The northern land wolves were probing at first, and then saw that the villagers who saw through the guard towers had no ability to come out and attack them, so they became more aggressive."

Another old hunter patted the bow and arrow on his body at this time: "So, after we arrived, we felt that we could ambush those arrogant northern land wolves."

"So how did you do it?" Keel asked.

A young hunter sitting in the carriage, near the driver's seat, took the conversation and said: "It was daytime when we arrived at the stronghold, and we confirmed that we were not spotted by the northern land wolf when we passed, so everyone discussed it at that time, and immediately came out to remove the carriage. Some of the traces near the watchtower stronghold have been removed."

"We also set up a few fires that can be lit remotely in the snow around the sentry tower, and poured lamp oil and grease. At night, we waited until the northern land wolf rushed to the nearby sentry tower and howled. Only then did everyone launch rockets on the third floor of the sentry tower. First, light the fires prepared during the day around the sentry tower to illuminate the snow around the sentry tower. Then everyone shot arrows at the bewildered northern land wolf."

The young hunter waved his arm: "I let those wolf cubs run away with their tails between their legs on the spot. When I counted the next morning, I found out that a total of two adult northern land wolves, seven and a half large northern land wolves, were shot dead. No Thinking that they even brought out the cubs, it made them afraid to harass the sentry tower."

"Hmph, they must think that the people in the sentry tower have no attack power, so they brought out the cubs from the wolf den." Keel thought so.

Afterwards, everyone did not encounter any twists and turns on their way to the rocky mountain stronghold. Although they found some snowy footprints and traces of strange animals, Knight Lanisa did not want to cause trouble, so everyone returned to the new stronghold all the way.

Everyone tidied up a bit, and then arranged the supplies they carried, leaving another old hunter who was not feeling well recently in a safe stronghold, and everyone else followed Lanisa Knight's horse on foot, no longer going south Then turn to the east, and instead walk straight ahead in a straight line to the southeast.

After walking for more than two days in the flat snow-covered forest, the sharp-eyed old hunters discovered the mark that Knight Lanisa had left on the tree trunk by the young hunters along the way.

Animals and monsters in the forest do not leave some mark marks on the trunk, such as **** bears, they will use their claws to scratch on the trunk to mark their territory. Some mountain leopards that rest on the trees will also scratch off the bark at the lower part of the trunk where they live, and use the dead tree to mark their place of residence, reminding the surrounding animals not to disturb it. Various.

But no matter how exaggerated, the animals would not use a sharp blade to cut out the words of the common language directly on the tree trunk, and mark the arrow to indicate the direction.

It would be great to find these traces. Everyone followed the traces along the way and groped forward, and soon found the place where the footprints of the Northern Wolf were found on a large scale.

"So many footprints can be found here, which means that either their nests are very close to here, and they don't need to be careful to cover up their positions. Or this is the main gathering point for them to go south and north." An old hunter checked. Views after traces on the ground.

Another old hunter followed suit and pointed to a few places and said, "These places are left recently. I guess they should be traces left today. They are very fresh, and there is no damage on the footprints."

Knight Lanisa finally issued an order: "Whether it is close to their lair or not, we must judge it as if their lair is nearby! Take out your weapons and get ready to fight."

"Yes, Sir Knight." Everyone responded in a low voice.

The hunters re-checked the condition of their bows and the firmness of their bowstrings. At the same time, they moved the quiver bags on their backs to their right waists, and opened an opening for the quiver bags so that the arrows in the quiver bags Arrows are in a ready-to-take state. Not only that, experienced hunters also hold a bow in their left hand and an arrow shaft in their right, ready for battle at any time.

On Kiel's side, the ax behind his back is in a state where he can hold it at any time. At the same time, the shield behind his left shoulder is also equipped in his left hand, and his right hand is free. He can draw out his long sword to fight at any time.

Knight Lanisa lowered her body and leaned against the horse's head, leaned close to the horse's ear, and whispered something to the horse.

Of course, I don't know what the female knight said, but after that, her war horse stopped neighing, and her hoofs didn't move restlessly, and the whole thing became quiet.

As Knight Lanisa picked up her steel spear from the side of the saddle and swung it forward in the air, the group quietly dispersed slightly, moving forward.

Knight Lanisa rode in the front on horseback, with young hunters on both sides separated by a few meters, and behind the young hunters were three old hunters, and at the end, Kiel held the formation to prevent the northern land wolf from sneaking attack from behind. .

The old hunters checked the ground for northern land wolf traces at any time, and explained the direction in a low voice. In this way, everyone didn't talk much, and walked quietly for about two hours, until there was a sound behind a tree.

Riding on a horse, Knight Lanisa has the best vision, and her eyesight is far better than that of ordinary people.

"There." She only said one word, and then pointed the spear in the direction of the sound.

Immediately afterwards, a young hunter set his arrow and drew his bow. After aiming for a while, he shot an arrow in the direction indicated by the knight.

With a whoosh, the arrow pierced the air.

All of a sudden, it shot into the trunk of the big tree. The animal hiding behind the tree trunk was taken aback, and immediately knew that it had been discovered, so it sprang out from the snow on the ground, and ran in one direction continuously, while running, while uttering a short 'woo-woo' Howling.

"Don't shoot it to death! Try to keep up!" Lanisa Knight had just finished speaking, and the three old hunters who received the order adjusted the angle of the bow and arrow for a moment, and then released the arrow.

The arrows of the two grazed the back and tail of the fleeing northern wolf, one took away a small piece of hair on the back, and the other shot directly at the tailbone in the fluffy tail. But the third old hunter was the last to shoot.

The northern wolf that was shot in the tail rolled on the ground. After standing up in embarrassment, it instinctively wanted to bite off the human metal teeth that shot its tail, but it immediately realized that it should not stop.

That's right, as soon as it paused, a fast arrow shot directly into its hind legs.

"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" of the arrow.

"Don't shoot to death." Knight Lanisa glanced at the old hunter behind him.

The old hunter who shot the arrow at the end shrugged his shoulders: "Don't worry, it hurts a leg, so we old men with old arms and legs can keep up."

"Don't be poor, keep up. Remember to maintain formation."

While speaking, the Northern Land Wolf, who had been shot in the hind leg with an arrow, had already hopped on three legs and continued to run.

The team couldn't keep up. The northern land wolf was really familiar with the surrounding situation, and was always trying to hide behind a certain tree so that the hunters who were chasing it couldn't find it.

But Knight Lanisa has been staring at the guy on the horse. She is actually very experienced in dealing with these northern land wolves. She herself often injured a northern land wolf, and then let the other howl, and gathered other northern land wolves to come over, and then she caught them all.

In the past few years, when she couldn't organize the hunters, that's what she did. Although it seemed that the speed and efficiency were higher than bringing the hunters, in fact, in those years, every winter, she had to spend time in the forest. It took many days of wandering alone before we could meet a northern land wolf.

Inexperienced Lanisa knights are more curious and casually break into some crypts or small caves, and often have to fight many monsters and ferocious beasts entrenched in the caves before they can retreat in embarrassment.

One can imagine the taste.

Although the stupid method is useful, it is too inefficient and embarrassing. After consulting Knight Crowe and Baron Kendall, she realized that she should find someone familiar with the forest to guide her.

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Everyone quietly chased the fleeing Northern Land Wolf not far away. After passing through a dense forest belt, many Northern Land Wolf footprints appeared on the surrounding ground.

An old hunter checked the footprints on the ground: "My lord, it's the footprints of the cubs. That's right, this is where they put the cubs that haven't grown up."

Keel looked around and found that this is a gentle shallow valley with high surroundings and low middle. The entire shallow valley is surrounded by a circle of relatively dense trees. This place is okay, as far as he can tell, those pups probably live in the middle of here.

Knight Lanisa pulled the reins of the horse, raised the horse's front hooves, and neighed loudly: "Make noise, tell those animals that we are coming!" After speaking, she clenched her fist and slammed into the armor on her chest, yelling Boom boom boom.

With a bang, Jier pulled out the hunt, and slammed the long sword wrapped in white light into the shield in his left hand, making a loud bang bang bang. What's interesting is that both his shield and long sword are very strong. When the two collide, there is no tremor or vibration visible to the naked eye.

The hunters, led by the old hunter, yelled in unison: "Huh! Drink! Huh! Drink!"

The neat shouts are still a bit imposing.

"You push forward slowly! I'll go in first." As soon as the words fell, Knight Lanisa clamped the horse's belly, and her metal boots collided with the horse's belly vest loudly. After receiving the order, the war horse quickly raised and lowered its four hooves, and immediately accelerated to the front.

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On the hunter's side, the old hunter called for everyone to gather. The three of them were in the center, followed by the four young hunters. On the outermost edge was Kiel, who could move and defend like a satellite.

Although everyone shouted loudly, they were still very cautious overall. Instead of chasing after Knight Lanisa quickly, relying on the few trees in this shallow valley as a support, he walked slowly.

The place here is quite big, but there are not many shelters. So after everyone walked a few steps, they saw the place in the middle of the shallow valley.

Surprisingly, there was a small frozen puddle, surrounded by cleared snow-free ground. It wasn't that there was nothing on the ground, but in some gentle places, some of them were picked up by northern land wolves. hay.

At this time, the entire shallow valley was full of young wolves running in all directions. They were like headless flies, screaming and running around, wanting to hide behind the tree trunks, and also wanted to run to the outer edge of the shallow valley, and wanted to follow. The adult wolf backed up, and wanted to throw down the metal guy on the metal monster with a powerful blow.

The adult wolves, led by a northern land wolf with a different coat color, tried to defend against Knight Lanisa. They all recognized Knight Lanisa, the hateful human being, and instinctively wanted to run away, because they knew that they were not their opponents. But there are panicked young wolves around, and the wolf king has assigned them the task of taking care of and raising these future companions. Even if they die, they must obey the wolf king's instructions.

So knowing that they are not human opponents like Knight Lanisa, these adult northern land wolves have to fight to the death. They separated a northern land wolf to divert the mindless wolf pups, and they planned to let those pups go to the wolf king for shelter when they held back the humans.

Although it was a desperate delay, the northern wolves didn't think that they would have no power to fight. Their little leader got a magical ability from the wolf king this year, maybe he could defeat this metal-wrapped female human.

"Heh." Riding on the horse, Knight Lanisa glanced over the audience. Naturally, she could see their plans from the actions of the northern land wolves. These cunning and clever animals tried to resist her?

Naturally, she also saw the strange little leader of the northern land wolf who was bigger and surrounded by the northern land wolf. At the same time, the overall hair was red and the ends were blue.

"Let me see what you're capable of!" She grunted, pulled the rein to turn the horse, and after turning from the wolf den, knocked the horse's belly again, and accelerated towards the strange northern land wolf opposite.

She leaned down and leaned out of the right side of the saddle sideways, grasping the end of the steel spear with both hands back and forth, aiming the slender and sharp tip at the strange northern land wolf that was approaching quickly.

On the opposite side, the strange northern wolf with red hair also knew how powerful its opponent was. It didn't dare to push it too hard, and directly shook its head to activate the hidden abilities in its body.

This is the summer time. After competing with other northern wolf brothers and sisters and completing the three challenges proposed by the wolf king, it was able to drink the blood given by the wolf king and gain the ability.

At that time, in the hot summer, it participated in the selection called by the wolf king together with more than a dozen equally brave northern land wolves. The great wolf king needs some of the best subordinates to be the main force against the ferocious female human in winter.

The first step is to participate in a melee in an open field. Only after defeating all the other northern land wolves in the melee can they be eligible to accept the test of the wolf king.

Relying on its tall stature, weight, and cunning wisdom, it didn't rush straight to the center of the melee at the beginning, but waited until everyone was exhausted from fighting, and then rushed in, knocking over the guys blocking the way left and right, and pounced. The guy who was biting each other upside down, turned around and slapped the insidious guy who was trying to sneak attack with its claws, and finally defeated another northern land wolf that could fight it head-on.

Become the winner of this melee.

Later, the wolf king summoned it, and it came to the frozen cave where the wolf king lived cautiously and humbly. In the deepest part of the cave, I saw a white wolf king with a length of more than five meters and a tail as long as three meters.

The wolf king rode an unconceived female wolf, drove the female wolf out of the den after a short time, and then stared at the winner of the melee.

It is trembling, stretching its limbs, and lying on the cold ground, showing its submission and pride~www.readwn.com~ It is a warrior, and lying on its stomach like this is already the most acceptable etiquette allowed by its dignity up. It is impossible to expose the soft belly to show submission like those ordinary northern land wolves who have no pride and dignity.

It seemed that its behavior was approved by the great wolf king. The wolf king gave a pleasant low and meaningless growl, and then stretched out the front paw of a white wolf fur as huge as it.

While it stared with eyes wide open, the wolf king's paws split open naturally, and a drop of boiling blood flowed out along the open and healed wound, then flowed along the tens of centimeters long claws, and finally at the tip of the claws gather.

It breathed heavily and panted, Fu Ling opened his mouth sincerely, and raised his head.

As the wolf king grinned and showed his sharp teeth, the boiling blood fell into its mouth.

Soon, the miraculous effect appeared.

The minor injuries it suffered in the melee just now healed quickly, and its physical condition has reached better than before participating in the melee.

The wolf king then spoke slowly, telling the winner the three tests in a whimpering, but actually loud, voice. After accepting and completing the test, it will gain more power and become one of the leaders of the northern wolf under the wolf king.

The three tests are:

Provoking a nest of poisonous bees in the forest and surviving the attacks of the poisonous bees is a test of the will to endure.

Defeating a **** bear in the forest alone, and tearing off the bear's head to show everyone after winning, is a test of courage in battle.

Going south to the human land, ambush and sneak attack and bring a human alive to the wolf king, this is a test of cunning wisdom.

It didn't understand what it meant, but after a brave whine, it retreated confidently.