Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel found a rough cloth that was barely clean, and used it to wipe the weapons and equipment in his hand. Scratching, he was a little worried about Knight Lanisa who was chasing the wolf king alone. Although it seemed that the wolf king was frequently injured and his strength was declining rapidly, he might not be the knight's opponent.

But Kiel was worried that all of this was either the wolf king's strategy, or that the wolf king had some means or method to counterattack and reverse the situation. After all, the residents of this forest are the northern land wolves, and their human understanding of this place is only a little bit about winter.

It would be bad if the cunning wolf king came up with some ghost idea and defeated Knight Lanisa.

Thinking of this, Keir couldn't help but feel the idea of ​​supporting the auxiliary knights. It seemed that if his subordinates didn't hurry to support them, something bad would happen later.

He shook his head, took a few deep breaths of the cold air, and barely suppressed this thought.

Looking at the flesh and blood on the ground outside the wooden wall, he realized that these current difficulties were the main troubles for the few of them. If these things are not resolved, what qualifications do they have to support Lanisa Knight, who is far stronger than them.

After all, if the situation is really bad, Knight Lanisa can completely avoid the unfavorable situation through that kind of exaggerated big jump.

This is also the reason why it was difficult for Lanisa Knight and Wolf King with similar strength levels to deal a fatal blow to each other many years ago. After all, it is difficult for any of them to keep each other when the situation changes.

If you can't keep it, it will be difficult to completely defeat the opponent.

In the winter of the second year after the retreat, the two sides made a comeback and fought again. Everything went back to the way it was.

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Without keeping them waiting, those stubborn northern land wolves quickly regrouped and launched another attack.

As soon as the newly charged northern land wolf turned the corner of the rock passage, it was terrified by the crushed corpses of its kind. Some timid pups shy away, and only a small number of adult wolves dared to try to rush under the wooden wall.

However, it is impossible for a small number of northern land wolves to break through the three-meter-high wooden wall. Even Keir didn't do anything. Two adult northern land wolves were shot through the throat by the young hunters beside the wooden wall as practice targets.

After the two northern land wolves were shot through their throats, they first struggled to climb twice, and then fell from the wooden wall exhausted. Then the two of them could only lie on the ground and breathe hard, gradually losing their spirits.

"Don't look, Kiel. These two have been shot through their throats, and it's hard for them to breathe air." The young hunter beside him excitedly said to Kiel who was watching curiously.

Kiel nodded, thinking that this method is okay to deal with the northern wolf from a long distance. If it is close to fight, it will be difficult for him to wait until the opponent dies. After all, even if it is difficult to breathe air, the injured northern wolf still has a high fighting ability .

The northern wolves did not send wolves over to die. They may also understand that a few wolves are difficult to break through the wooden walls of humans. After all, there are human hunters with a high density of units on the wooden walls of just a few meters. When the northern wolf was at its most rampant in the past few years, they also attacked human villages.

The village also has towering and continuous wooden walls to block them, but compared with the wooden wall in front of them now, there are too few humans fighting back on the wooden wall of the village.

At that time, they could sneak into the village as long as they took advantage of the night, attacked secretly, or attacked east and west. Human livestock and poultry are a formidable delicacy, even human babies.

As long as the wooden door blocking the way is knocked open, there will often be many humans huddled inside. The guys were either yelling or waving non-threatening sticks in an attempt to scare them off.

But the final result is difficult to change. Compared with other animals raised by humans, they are more delicious to northern land wolves.

There was only one leading wolf left in command, which saved the remaining northern wolves who insisted on attacking from arguing over who to listen to.

"Wooooow."

The northern land wolves carefully emerged from the turning, and pulled the corpses of their tragic companions off the cold rocky ground, or tore off the **** fur from the ground, and returned to a safe place with their mouths.

Everyone has been hungry for a long time. Although it is not an honor to devour their dead companions, the northern land wolves have already gone crazy. For them, there is no more important thing than killing those hateful humans at this time.

I hope that the dead companions can bring them determination and strength, and avenge with them.

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Everyone on the wooden wall was a little silent, because everyone guessed what would happen to the flesh and blood corpses that were sneaked back by the northern land wolves.

"These wolves are really crazy."

"Yeah, huh. Fortunately, we still have an unexpected escape route, otherwise our end will be really miserable."

An old hunter shook his head: "What are you talking about, these old men have killed countless northern land wolves with the adults these years, and we have already made money."

"Yeah, hahaha. Who doesn't have the lives of a hundred northern land wolves? It's enough. I just hope that the northern land wolves will never attack the village again."

Keir was a little curious, so he asked the old hunter Tost about the wolves attacking the village.

It turned out that the old hunter Tost was from Wumi Lake Village. When wolves attacked the village a few years ago, all his family members were killed by the northern land wolves who broke into the village. At that time, the old man happened to be out hunting with his nephew at home. He did not expect to see such a scene after returning to the village with delicious prey.

"We found the broken bodies of our family members, and under the sacrificial ceremony arranged by the pastor of the Church of the God of the Dead who came from Kendall City, we burned them to ashes, packed them on a small wooden boat, and sent them to Wumi Lake Phew." Breathing out, the old hunter who had been directing everyone then took a bite of the roasted wolf meat.

It seems that biting this piece of cooked meat can relieve his pain.

Kiel didn't ask any more questions. After all, the rest of the hunters, old and young, must have joined Lanisa Knight's hunter team and have been fighting until now.

"Why did the northern land wolf attack our human village? After all, Umi Lake Village is on the lake, right? The village is on the south side of the lake, and it is separated from this forest by a whole lake." Kiel then asked another question.

The young hunter beside him shook his head: "Who knows? Maybe they want to cross Wumi Lake and develop eastward. After all, there are too many wolves. Although this forest is big, there are so many northern land wolves. It’s probably too overwhelming.”

Another young hunter retorted: "There are continuous mountains to the east of Wumi Lake, and there are many more powerful beasts and monsters there. How could they settle there? When they attacked the village, I heard that they would bite people when they saw them. Like ordinary beasts. At that time, but not now, how could they have such a deep hatred against humans?"

Having said this, the topic stopped, because they are not northern land wolves after all, so naturally they don't understand what the northern land wolves are thinking.

Some people think that the place under the wooden wall is full of northern land wolf corpses and dismantled camp items. There is no place to store more northern land wolf corpses. It is better to light up the wooden wall now and evacuate everyone. the back place.

After all, if you shoot the approaching northern land wolf now, it's just a waste of arrows.

The three young hunters all meant the same thing, they didn't want to stay here any longer, they ended the battle early, and left this place they didn't like early.

However, the three old hunters felt that they could still 'communicate' with the northern land wolf. How could they have such an advantage in the battles in the past. Fighting northern land wolves in the forest or grassland is far more risky than standing on a wooden wall at this time to shoot arrows safely?

As expected, everyone looked at Keir in the end, and the remaining seven people, Keir's decision will affect everyone's next actions.

Although I feel that I should rush to Knight Lanisa for combat support as soon as possible, but Knight Lanisa also told them to follow the plan before.

Keir weighed it up and decided to stay here temporarily, and use the last wooden wall of defense. After all, the more northern land wolves are killed now, the later aid to Lanisa Knight or the later northern land wolves will have a different impact.

"I think it should be done according to the plan. We have fought four wooden walls with the northern land wolves these days. In fact, it has also shown everyone that this thing is still very effective."

He looked at the young hunter who was actually older than him and said: "Be patient, this kind of good opportunity may not come again in the future. The strength to kill a northern land wolf now will not be enough for us in other places." It takes several times more risk and effort to do it."

The young hunters froze, obviously they didn't expect Kiel, who was younger than them, to mean this.

"Okay. I have persisted for so many days, and the next day or two is not bad."

"But the corpse of the dead companion should be wrapped in something. No, it's not that I don't want to see the corpse, but I heard from the priests of the church that the dead should be handled in this way, otherwise something will happen. Bad things."

Then he muttered in a low voice: "Especially where so many beasts died."

Another young man also said: "Speaking of which, this rocky mountain is also very evil. I also think it's best to deal with it like this."

When they talked about this at this time, the old hunters realized that the handling of the corpses of their dead companions was indeed missing.

Therefore, everyone found extra tent cloth to wrap the corpses of the two old and young hunters separately, and then tied the corpses with a few ropes outside the wrapped corpses. What a mess.

Keel had seen dead and moving corpses before, but he felt that the simple two human corpses were definitely not as good as the corpse pit he saw in the mountain behind the bandits' lair in Luobagdong.

I don’t know how many innocent corpses were used by the bandits to dispose of that corpse pit. As the priests of the Church of the God of the Dead who dealt with it later said, they even used an unknown church ceremony to directly destroy the entire corpse pit. Erased from the world.

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Because of the saving of arrows, the hunters stood on the wooden wall and watched from afar as the northern land wolf 'cleaned up' the crushed corpses stuck to the ground. If the northern land wolf did not approach the wooden wall boldly, they would also Don't bother to waste arrows shooting the northern land wolf.

And once a dizzy northern wolf gets too close, several hunters shoot arrows together, and they will tell the northern wolf what the result of approaching the wooden wall will be.

At this time, it was necessary for Kiel to jump down immediately when the northern land wolf was scared away in the distance, retract the arrow, and then take the northern land wolf corpse and himself to borrow the rope to return to the wooden wall.

The corpses of Kiel and the northern land wolf were quite heavy together, and it took all the hunters on the wooden wall to work hard to pull the rope.

Time passed slowly like this, and Kiel couldn't even hold back, and went down to attack the northern land wolf many times. Once the northern land wolf was provoked by him, he would fight close to the wooden wall, giving the hunters more chances to kill the northern land wolf.

And after the Northern Land Wolf saw through his plan and receded, Kiel took back the arrow swaggeringly.

The sky was getting darker, which gradually became unfavorable for the hunters to shoot. So after everyone discussed, they withdrew from the fourth position and lit the firelighter under the wooden wall.

Looking at the gradually burning wooden wall and the increasing howl of the northern wolf on the other side of the wooden wall, everyone looked at each other, and then retreated to the last position led by the old hunter Tost.

They took all the things they could take away from the original stronghold camp. The tent was barely set up in a crack in the rocks behind the last position.

This place is almost at the top of the rocky mountain, and the originally towering rock walls of the passage on both sides are gradually no longer towering at this time, and the ground of the original rocky passage has become the highest place around.

Looking up, the surrounding forests are open, but the gloomy sky has a good view because there is no snowfall.

After the wooden wall of the fourth position burned, not only did the raised fire light illuminate the surroundings and even the high places, but also the northern land wolf corpses under the wooden wall burned together, and thick black smoke rose high, covered by the fire below. When it is shown, it is like a huge torch.

Kiel looked at it from a distance, and felt that the flame could be clearly seen even if it was far away. After all, the forest as a whole is relatively flat, and the rocky mountain is already the highest place around, so the fire here should be visible as long as you are not blind.

He told everyone about this discovery. After discussing for a while, everyone thought that as long as Knight Lanisa pays attention, they will definitely find out what's going on here. Although they can't communicate with each other, Lord Knight can still grasp the progress of their plan here.

They're still here, they're still fighting.

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Jenny Ranisa tightened the cloak outside the armor, and the skin on her body felt itchy.

She knew that this was the result of the dried ointment applied to the wound bandage, which was gradually rubbed and shattered by her movements. The itching wasn't her wound healing.

How is it possible to heal, the deep burns have completely destroyed the skin, and her blood vessels and muscles can even be seen in some serious places. This kind of injury is not very serious to her but it is not something she can heal on her own.

In the records of family inheritance, there are analyzes and responses to the possible injuries of various knights. Although the injuries on her body looked serious at this moment, they basically had no effect on short-term battles.

The key bones and large blood vessel muscles were not damaged. To her, losing an arm was more important than burning her skin. Of course, for ordinary humans, this kind of injury is already fatal. But the strength of knight-level fighters is often here.

She's in trouble.

The wounded wolf king who had been tracking all the way suddenly disappeared at this place.

There are some tall trees all around, straight and strong, which are perfect for making wooden pillars of houses, but her attention is not here at the moment.

The intermittent footprints on the ground disappeared here, and there were only some earlier footprints left by ordinary northern land wolves occasionally passing here. The wolf king's washbasin-sized animal paws disappeared inexplicably, which made the female knight quite anxious.

She wasn't worried about the other party hiding and attacking her, but she welcomed it. She was afraid that the other party would use an escape trick, which would make her fight this year in vain.

This wolf king is quite weird, once a year, the inexplicable peeling will eliminate all the serious injuries on his body. In this regard, it can even be compared with the great healing spells of various churches.

And the wolf king's ability is free once a year. If she also seeks this level of magical treatment, it will cost a lot of money and a religious tendency that will never change in her life.

Speaking of which, because she was studying in the capital of the province when she was a young girl, and she had no intention of taking over her father's knighthood at that time, she has always been influenced by the scholars who taught her in terms of belief.

Different from a small place like Kendall City, churches of all kinds of gods are everywhere in the provincial capital. Although there are not many qualified believers among the residents due to the complex and impetuous environment of the city, there are really many types of churches. Too much.

Moreover, not only are the official **** churches on the surface, but also some illegal associations and secret religions are everywhere.

Her teacher is a serious person, without the weird background in other stories. After the teacher's guidance, she secretly joined the belief in the God of Knowledge and Libraries early on.

There is no way to join secretly, after all, joining other religions that are not suitable for the family is really difficult to tell the family. She originally planned to return home and tell her family after she had acquired knowledge and became an adult, but her father's sudden disappearance~www.readwn.com~ disrupted all her life plans.

Thinking of this, she looked at the missing wolf king in front of her, and couldn't help humming a short prayer from the Church of the God of Knowledge and Libraries.

"The world is complicated and chaotic, but there is order in it."

"I came from ignorance and returned from seeking wisdom."

The soft humming floated in the silent snowy forest. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she felt that the injury on her body was no longer so obvious.

"Oral eloquence is not correct, but falling paper is magical."

"Distinguish the veil of reality and reality, and the law lurks in it."

She stopped humming suddenly and lifted the visor of her helmet. He carefully looked at a big tree beside him. On this straight and thick trunk, there were many scratch marks left by wild animals.

This is normal. In the forest full of animals, you can see all kinds of traces left by various animals. Most of the marks on the trunk are left by scratching with their claws.

It's just that she suddenly realized something when she was humming a prayer just now, not to mention other places, isn't the trace left on the tree trunk here too high?

The highest parts of those scratching marks were much higher than her height, and she might not even be able to reach the highest places with her hands.

She took a closer look and found that the claw marks were very much like those left by bear claws.

What does this mean?

Explain that there are bears around. These claw marks are the marks left by them when they usually play, but they are also a way for them to mark their territory.

About this knowledge, she still heard it from her old hunter.

winter.

Bear's claw marks.

Bear territory.

Her eyes lit up, she knew where the wolf king was hiding.