Demon Hunter: School of the Wolf

Chapter 390 Corpse-eating creatures all over the mountains and plains=?

Aelin chewed the food in his mouth, digesting the shocking new news.

Others at the long table were eating silently, as if waiting for his speech.

For a moment, there was only the sound of cups and bowls rubbing against the tabletop on the dining table.

"Now that the situation is so critical," Aelin wiped the plate thoughtfully with a piece of bread, "What are you going to do now? Why did Vesemir and Ser Arthur have a dispute just now?"

"Remember the analogy I just gave?" Sara asked.

"A count...how many barons?" Aylin paused for a moment, "Under the command of an earl who faces foreign enemies, several men who are married to each other and have close relationships..."

Aylin frowned: "Could it be that you mean... not three 'barons', but two 'barons' and a 'count'?"

"That's right!" Sara nodded, "And what we have discovered for the time being are two 'barons'. There may be more hidden in the mountains."

"As for what to do and why to argue..." Sara glanced at Vesemir and Arthur, "This is actually the same issue..."

"We can't find the 'Earl'..." Vesemir sighed, "It's very cunning. We followed several trail clues, but in the end we were always led to the two 'Barons'..."

"There's no way to deal with the two 'barons' first?" Aylin asked.

Vesemir drank the wine in one gulp and shook his head: "Every time we want to deal with the 'Baron', a large group of corpse-eating creatures will always emerge from the Mahakam Mountains...ghouls, rot-eating demons, and giant corpses. Ghosts...even spiked demons..."

"And it's not just the number of monsters..."

"They even have some kind of stepped offensive strategy, like an orderly army, which is extremely difficult to deal with."

"I have never encountered a nest of monsters that is more cunning than humans. In the subsequent trials, I even vaguely felt that 'it' was making progress..."

Vesemil paused and emphasized:

"Therefore, finding the 'Earl' and eradicating the 'Earl' are the key. As long as the monster nest that gives orders is eliminated, the remaining monster nests will naturally kill each other according to the rules."

"That's why we need an army," Arthur interjected. "The demon hunting army and the knights of the guard contain the monsters. You demon hunters take the opportunity to look for..."

"You are committing murder!" Vesemir interrupted angrily with his eyebrows raised, "The demon-hunting army is just that, the knights of the guard don't know how to hunt corpse-eating creatures at all.

"They're not the scrawny, pitchfork-wielding farmers on the battlefield."

"They are crawling monsters, monsters that are several times stronger than humans in terms of strength, agility, and flesh fiber. They can even explode, spit poisonous gas and spikes..."

"Just smearing sword oil on the long sword, without in-depth training, using the body to remember the strength and direction of swinging the sword, and remembering the weaknesses of ghouls. It takes several knights to kill a ghoul. ?”

"Don't forget," Vesemir stared straight at Arthur, "On the night of May Day, how many knights of the Guards died just to contain them?"

"There are mostly steep slopes and gravel pits on Mahakam Mountain, but there is not much terrain suitable for horseback charging. If your soldiers are all wiped out, you may not be able to buy us much time..."

Arthur was silent.

This is where the monster lair becomes difficult to deal with.

There are pits everywhere, dangerous miasmas, wild beasts, and dark cliffs...

Not only is it difficult for cavalry to pass, but the rugged mountain roads will also cause a large number of abnormal attrition of infantry.

The deep mountains and old forests have never been human territory.

Corpse-eating creatures use defense instead of attack, and humans can only use their lives to buy time. And most of the time, time is not bought, and the dead warriors instead provide food for the monster lair.

Doesn’t the battle-hardened Arthur know this?

Of course he knew that, having never come into contact with monsters a few times, he even knew that from the "initial landing" until the monster nests disappeared a few years ago, humans had to deal with these formed monster nests by strengthening the walls and clearing the fields and shrinking the human gathering places.

Behind the solid stone wall, wait for the monster lair to attack.

But this monster lair appeared at some point and occupied the old tomb from three or four years ago, so there was no shortage of "materials" at all.

Arthur pursed his lips helplessly: "I don't want to use the lives of myself and my brothers to buy time for the possibility of you demon hunters."

"But we don't have that much time. Let's wait for you to find a new method and slowly find the 'Earl'."

"The number of corpse-eating creatures detected on the front line is increasing day by day, but the number of guard knights and demon-hunting troops is still certain."

"As time goes by, the time we can buy will only become less and less."

Vesemir shook his head firmly: "You can follow the usual method of dealing with monster lairs. While we are searching for the location of the 'Earl', first move all the people from the surrounding villages to Ireland..."

"No." Arthur sighed and interrupted, "Master Vesemir, you may not understand..."

He paused and then continued: "Not to mention such a huge number of ghoul creatures, even if one ghoul appears outside the city gate of Elland now, it is a big deal."

"We cannot afford a second Cinco de Mayo,"

Vesemir was silent.

He knew what Arthur meant.

Isn’t Ben Ade an example?

When the heavens and the earth met for the first time, the impact was small but not significant. However, after another disaster occurred ten days ago, except for those who died in Ban Ad, villagers in villages dozens of miles around abandoned their houses and started to flee. get away.

Although nothing has been finalized yet, it is almost inevitable that Ben Ad will be known as the "cursed place" in the future.

certainly.

The crisis facing Elland now in the Monster Nest is not as big as the Wild Hunt.

But the poor may have no choice, but businessmen and nobles will vote with their feet, and in this world, the poor are also the wealth of businessmen and nobles in a sense.

Once these people leave Elland, the city will inevitably fall into ruin.

"There's still a day left, right?"

Aylin suddenly interrupted the argument between the two.

He roughly understood the differences between the two.

It's just that Vesemir wants to continue searching the Monster Nest in the same way as a witcher, but Arthur hopes to use the Demon Hunter Army and Guard Knights to attract the attention of the Monster Nest and solve the threat before it becomes unmanageable.

"Take me to see the two 'barons' first?" Aylin suddenly said, "Maybe... I can find a way to find the 'count'?"

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Arthur didn't know why he agreed.

There are talents in swordsmanship and alchemy. Those with extraordinary talents can learn countless moves and formulas that people with mediocre talents can't learn in years with just one glance.

But investigation and tracking are different. This is purely the accumulation of experience.

He had also been a scout cavalry, so he knew that the enemy's clues were often hidden in the smallest details.

On an ordinary muddy land, how to tell whether the horse hoof prints on it are war horses or nag horses, whether they are from Temeria or Aedirn, or they come from Horler's pasture, the land of Pegasus...

...Is the feces soft or hard, with a slight smell of grass or a sour smell of beans...

Talented scout cavalry may be able to learn this detailed knowledge faster, but the strongest ones are undoubtedly those "Eagle Eye Riders" with the most experience.

Vesemir, whose age is unknown, is obviously an experienced "Eagle Eye Rider". Even if he is clueless about the "Earl's" whereabouts, Arthur admits this.

In fact, they were able to discover the two monster lairs and deduce the location of the third "Count" lair in just two days from chasing a group of ordinary ghouls who stole corpses four days ago. You have to give credit to him.

Otherwise, when the ghouls come to Elland, they may be aware of their lair deep in the mountains of Mahakam.

Of course, the more likely possibility is that he didn't notice anything from beginning to end and died in his hometown.

So Arthur was not angry at Vesemir's stubbornness, on the contrary, he was grateful to him.

All Vesemir needs is time, but unfortunately what they lack is time.

These times can be exchanged for either their lives or Elland's future.

In fact, every minute and second Vesemir spent arguing with him in the morning was a waste of time, increasing their casualties.

But this can’t be blamed on Vesemir, he is just not as cold and cold-blooded as the witchers are rumored to be...

So...efficient...

As for Aylin...

Arthur sighed as he supported an old oak tree.

He is only fourteen years old and just came down from the mountain at the beginning of the year...

"It's okay, it's just a day..." he thought to himself, "The hero of Elland is worth a day..."

Even if the price may be more lives...

It would be better if it was his life.

"Dong dong dong~"

There was a faint vibration on the ground, causing everyone to instinctively stop at the same time.

Arthur saw Vesemir wink at Arryn, then slow down and move forward slowly.

This was also something he couldn't understand.

Vesemir should be the person who knows Aylin best, but why did he suddenly realize it when he heard Aylin claiming that he "had a way"? He seemed to have remembered something and had no objection...

Is there really a way, or is Vesemir just trying to think about the "Count's" location for one more day?

Originally he thought it was the latter, but now...

Arthur looked at the burly Vesemir with strange eyes, leaned over Aylin's ear, and pointed with his index finger in the direction of the distant vibration, just like a real guide.

In a daze, he couldn't tell who was the mentor and who was the apprentice...

"Is it possible that the hero of Elland can bring miracles again this time?" Arthur seemed to have some hope in his heart.

Although they are not afraid of death, who doesn’t want to live well?

…

The sun penetrates the dark clouds and shines on the endless mountains.

In the distance, there is a reddish-brown patch of blood, and scars of dried blood lie between the mountains.

There are maggots squirming among the scars.

"Damn it!" Vesemir cursed secretly next to him, "There's another giant ghoul!"

Aylin then discovered that the maggots were giant ghouls with pale skin. There were three of them at a glance, and there were actually two to three hundred ghouls walking around the rugged rocks.

Interspersed among them are some rotten demons standing still, and there are also thirty or forty of them.

"Where is the monster's lair?" Aylin asked softly.

Vesemir stretched out his right hand and pointed at the bottom of the cliff: "The narrow wall between the cliffs is a little blocked. It's not very clear here. You only need to know a little bit about the location. If you get closer, it may cause trouble." The vigilance of corpse-eating creatures.”

Alin narrowed his eyes, his blue cat pupils shrank into a line, and he could only see a faint dark red under the cliff.

During the few seconds of observation, a ghoul walked out of the dark red.

"Seven hundred meters... this is still downwind..." he murmured, "Is the alert range of the monster's nest so far?"

Vesemir nodded slightly with a solemn expression: "There are more and more corpse-eating creatures, and the alert range of the monster's nest is also expanding. Maybe we can't stay here even if we wait a few days."

"There were almost two hundred ghouls yesterday, and it's almost three hundred today. It seems that the monster's nest is producing corpse-eating creatures faster and faster due to the stimulation we just found the day before yesterday..."

"Look..."

Vesemir pointed to the two positions below and whispered: "The ones with darker red skin are those produced before we came, and the lighter ones are those produced in the past two days."

"So Arthur is actually right. The more time goes by, the more harmful this monster's nest will be..."

Because he mentioned the people present, Vesemir instinctively lowered his voice and glanced behind him, but he didn't expect to meet the eyes of the main person, and Arthur's eyes were weird, which always made Vesemir feel a little uncomfortable, and his tone stagnated.

"What's wrong?" Ailin asked vigilantly

"It's okay." Vesemir brushed off the uncomfortable feeling in his heart, and then leaned close to Aylin's ear and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to another monster nest, where you can see more clearly."

After walking for more than an hour, they finally saw another monster nest.

It was indeed much clearer.

Just like in the game, the monster nest is a cave, but the monster nest in reality is blood-red and flesh-colored, and it is much larger, after all, it has to spit out large monsters like giant ghouls.

There are many more corpse-eating creatures around this monster nest than the previous one.

At a glance, the whole mountain is as pale as corpses.

The two monster nests are actually not far apart, at most about one kilometer, but they have to go around the rugged forest for a long time, which takes a lot of time.

This is when there are only nine demon hunters and Arthur, an elite knight with good physical fitness.

Sara did not come, he was mobilizing for war in the temporary camp built at the foot of the mountain.

If Arryn and Vesemir didn't have an explanation before they went down the mountain, they would write a suicide note tonight, go up the mountain tomorrow morning, and rush straight to the two monster nests.

However, looking at the corpse-eating creatures all over the mountain, Arryn and Vesemir didn't think much about Arthur's decision.

Because the terrain where the two monster nests are located is really rugged, and there are stones everywhere that are not too big or too small, just stuck in the formation that will hinder the progress, but can't provide any protection.

"Can you find the 'Earl'?" Vesemir's tone is nervous.

Arryn glanced at Arthur, who was expressionless, and took a deep breath: "I'll try..."