Iron Powder and Spellcaster

The old hunter roared and opened his long bow like a full moon. In a flash of cold light, the heavy arrow flew across the mountain stream. Guided by the wind, the arrow accurately found the giant bear's left eye.

Plasma mixed with other things burst out from the giant bear's eye sockets. The kinetic energy of the arrow was not exhausted, but it continued to drill deeper until the arrow shaft was more than three inches deep into the left eye.

But even the hardest longbow with a weighted arrow hitting the eye directly could not kill this giant beast, but made it more dangerous.

Stimulated by the heartbreaking pain, the giant bear instantly became violent. It let out a roar that made the mountains tremble, abandoned Winters who was close at hand, and rushed to the other side of the river to tear the old hunter into pieces.

The old hunter who sprained his ankle did not run away, he just stood there and continued shooting arrows at the ferocious beast.

He shot quickly and accurately, and the stiff bow with a draw weight of nearly two hundred pounds was like a toy in his hands. The bowstring vibrated one after another, and every arrow accurately hit the beast's head.

But the arrows couldn't penetrate the ferocious beast's hard skull, and the giant bear ignored the arrows stuck in its head. The impact caused thousands of splashes in the river, and the six or seven-meter-wide shoal looked ridiculous beneath it.

The old hunter had nowhere to run and no way to escape, so Ralph roared and shot arrow after arrow at the giant bear in vain.

After regaining consciousness slightly, Winters struggled to get up from the ground. He picked up rocks and threw them at the beast: "Don't run! Come and kill me!"

The giant bear was approaching in an instant from a distance of more than thirty meters. The old hunter watched the beast getting closer and closer and closed his eyes in despair.

The giant bear was less than ten meters away from Ralph. At the critical moment, a tall black horse galloped out from the bend of the downstream river.

Seeing that Ralph's life was hanging by a thread, the black horse rider refused to dodge and slammed into the giant bear.

Even such a huge beast was staggered by the charging horse.

But the situation of the horses and riders was even worse. The war horse had countless broken bones and fell in the river, screaming in pain and struggling to get up.

The rider on the saddle was thrown away directly. He drew an arc above the giant bear's bulging shoulder blades and fell heavily into the river.

Of course Winters recognized the black horse, which was Girard's favorite horse.

"Mayor Mitchell!" he yelled and ran towards Girard's position.

The giant bear, which was staggering to balance, became even more furious. It swung its giant palm and smashed the black horse's skull into pieces with one blow. Hehanwu, the beloved horse that Gilad Mitchell regarded as a treasure, was killed on the spot.

When the ferocious giant beast wanted to tear apart the human who was shooting arrows, more riders rushed out from the bend of the downstream river.

Reinforcements are coming, Dussac is coming.

"Grass! Does this thing eat shit? It's grown so big! Grass!" Old Sergei yelled, and rode his red horse past the hunter at high speed.

In the lightning-fast space where a man and a horse were intertwined, Ralph grabbed Sergey's outstretched arm and jumped onto the horse's back with a set of acrobatic movements.

Chi Yanghong's speed did not slow down, and he carried the two of them to more than ten meters away in the blink of an eye.

The giant bear roared and tried to chase Ralph, but two more riders passed by it. When passing by the giant bear, the rider on horseback used the speed of the horse to throw the javelin.

The kinetic energy that the javelin can carry is far beyond that of an arrow. The spear head penetrates into the belly of the giant bear without any hindrance and pierces its internal organs.

Dussac, who was throwing the spear, saw the javelin hit, and immediately grabbed the rope tied to the javelin and pulled it in the opposite direction of the horse.

Meanwhile, more Dusak arrived on the battlefield. Although they were all frightened by the size of the giant bear at first, they soon came to their senses and used their horse speed to throw their javelins at the giant bear. Once they hit, they immediately pulled the rope in the opposite direction.

Riders hunting animals are like wolves fighting bears.

Another horseman led an unridden red colt and rushed to Winters. Girard's son Pierre rolled off the horse, held the reins of the red colt and shouted: "Brother Winters! Lei Ri gram!"

This unmanned red horse is Winters' red mane, Ryzhik. Pierre brought the red mane to Winters.

"Leave me alone! Go save your dad!" Winters yelled anxiously: "Your dad fell into the river!"

Pierre's face changed drastically, and he turned around and rushed into the river.

Winters helped Pierre and dragged Girard, who had fallen unconscious, to the shore.

"We thought you were dead!" Pierre said incoherently: "We immediately swam up when we saw the horn cup floating down."

"Not dead yet." Winters laughed and spat out bloody spit.

The people who fell behind Winters were startled when they saw Red Mane returning alone. Mayor Mitchell immediately led Dusak to get rid of the horseless militiamen and follow the instructions left by the old hunter at full speed.

Fortunately, the Dussacs were able to rush to rescue Winters and Ralph. The militiamen of several other villages were still unknown where they were.

Winters first dug out the water from the base of Gilad's tongue, leaned on Gilad's chest and listened, and then probed Gilad's nose.

Pierre knelt beside him helplessly.

"Still angry! Come help!"

The two of them worked together to lift the unconscious old Dussac onto the horse, and Winters helped Pierre onto the saddle: "Take your father and go! Go quickly! Find Priest Carman!"

After saying this, he slapped Pierre's horse hard.

The horse was in pain and spread its hooves and ran. Pierre glanced at Winters with a complicated expression, then rode his horse and disappeared into the shadow of the trees at the bend of the river.

Old Sergei and Ralph crossed the river on a horse and turned back to Winters.

"Sir! This won't work! We have to let them all disperse! Get away!" The old hunter couldn't help shouting loudly when he was more than ten meters away.

The giant bear in the river had more than twenty javelins attached to its body. The riders pulled the ropes in all directions to the west. For a moment, the beast seemed unable to move.

"Why?"

"This beast has a wound in its mouth and can't eat. As long as we consume it, it will be unable to hold on sooner or later." The old hunter rushed to Winters and said anxiously: "Now this is bringing out its ferocity!"

Winters understood what the hunter meant. He jumped on the red mane and ran towards the giant bear. With the blessing of amplification, he shouted at the Dusaks: "Let go! Spread out! Spread out!"

But it was already too late, being unable to move was just an illusion. The giant bear roared and swung its body, and several Dusaks who did not react were dragged directly from the saddle, and everyone else's ropes were also released.

Losing the control of the rider, the war horse could no longer resist the natural fear of beasts, and threw down the rider in terror and ran away.

The giant bear immediately pounced on a fallen Dussac. When Winters saw this, he had no time to think. He directly pulled out a javelin from the saddle bag of the rider beside him, stabbed the horse's ribs and pointed towards the giant bear in a clamping posture. The bear charged at full speed.

The power of the man and the horse converged at the same time, and the tip of the spear hit the flesh and blood of the giant beast. Winters felt as if his right shoulder had been torn off, but the javelin in his hand also penetrated deeply into the giant bear's back.

The giant bear roared in pain, turned around and slapped Winters with its front paws. Red Mane nimbly dodged the counterattack, and returned to more than ten meters away with a few kicks.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, other riders rescued the Dussacs who fell off their horses.

The giant bear did not launch another attack. It stood in the river, panting violently and looking around at the humans.

From time to time, hot air with blood foam erupts from its nose and mouth. More than a dozen javelins were inserted into its body, and the blood flowing from the wounds dyed the river water beneath it into a dark red color, extending downstream.

Humans and beasts face off like this.

The giant bear let out a cry, this wild creature was now at the end of its rope.

There was no anger in its eyes. All Winters saw in the creature's dim eyes was despair, sadness and pain.

"You eat humans, and you are destined to have such a day!" Winters held a spear and pushed his horse forward. He knew that the beast in front of him could not understand human words: "Let's end it here! I will end your pain. !"

As if it was truly spiritual, the giant bear whined again in response to Winters' words.

It shook its head twice - with the heavy arrow from Ralph still lodged in it - and pounced towards the riders standing downstream.

Dusak, who was standing in front of it, did not dare to challenge the rampaging beast, so they all moved their horses to avoid it. The giant bear did not chase the rider and bite him, but ran downstream along the river after breaking out of the siege.

"As small as a katydid, as large as a bear or a tiger, no living thing except humans will give up the desire to survive." The old hunter came to Winters and said softly: "That beast can't understand your words. It means nothing to it." It’s just nature.”

"Let's chase! Two people ride together, the horse can't go fast, so only one person is left on each horse. The one with the mount follows me, and the others follow from behind. Give one horse to Ralph!" Winters said methodically Sort through the team in front of you.

Taking this opportunity, Winters picked up the two muskets. The Dusacs who had just fallen off their horses jumped off their companions' mounts, and several of them headed upstream to find their own horses.

Sergei ordered a rider, and Dusak, who was assigned, reluctantly gave up his horse to Ralph.

A team of men and horses quickly finished sorting out and headed downstream along the blood trail.

Old Sergey suddenly remembered something, his face changed drastically and he exclaimed: "No! Those farmers are following us, and I'm afraid they will hit that beast!"

Premonitions are often good and bad.

Realizing that something was wrong, Winters led the Dussacs in pursuit at full speed. The blood stains never reached the shore, and a group of riders galloped in the mountains and valleys.

They chased them to a shoal three or four kilometers downstream, where they lost track of the giant bear.

It's not that there's no blood left, but there's blood everywhere.

Apparently the militia behind them ran into an injured giant bear here, some were killed or injured, and the rest were scared away.

"It's broken! He really happened to meet him!" Old Sergey yelled: "How can we chase after this human blood and bear blood are mixed together? The farmer has no ability, so don't cause trouble! "

"Those who can join the militia are all brave men!" Second Lieutenant Montagne glared at Sergei: "Mr. Morozov, stop insulting them!"

Old Sergey closed his mouth in a sullen voice.

"Can you tell?" Winters asked the hunter.

Ralph got off his horse, looked carefully for a while, and pointed to the woodland southwest of the river beach: "That beast should have gone this way!"

The expressions of the Dusaks were a little frightened, and they were able to ride horses and deal with giant bears on the open river beach. But the forest is completely the home of wild beasts, and riding a horse will be very inconvenient.

"Ralph and I took the lead." Winters loaded the two guns with ammunition: "Don't fight hard, everyone should be careful."

"They shouldn't have gone far!" The old hunter encouraged everyone loudly.

Following the traces of blood and destruction, a group of riders entered the forest with weapons and searched carefully.

The giant bear's movements seemed to be becoming sluggish and staggering. The triangular pyramid-shaped javelin tip made it difficult to close the wound. The blood stains in the forest not only did not decrease but were increasing.

However, the lush vegetation caused serious obstacles to the riders' movements, and it was easy to lose sight. The distance between the teams inevitably gradually lengthened.

The usually peaceful forest now became extremely dangerous in everyone's minds.

"Sir! Look! Someone has marked it!" Ralph suddenly pointed to a fresh exposed tree trunk.

"There may be militiamen chasing that thing ahead." Winters took out the musket from the saddle bag: "Keep chasing!"

Moving forward, there is still this mark. It was obviously not a coincidence, but someone used a knife to draw arrows on the bark of the tree to indicate the direction.

Winters and Ralph no longer had any doubts, called to the other riders to gather, and quickly pursued them in the marked direction.

But after passing through a large birch forest, the marks and blood stains disappeared on the edge of a low cliff. The previous sign pointed to this place, but there was nothing on the trees on the edge of the low cliff.

"The mark is gone!?" The old hunter was surprised and confused.

"Down there?" Winters frowned and moved his horse closer to the short cliff.

Their location is about eight or nine meters higher than the ground in front of them. It seems that there has been a subsidence here, forming this low cliff.

Just as Winters drove his horse to the edge of the short cliff, a voice whose voice was changing suddenly sounded from behind him: "Be careful!"

Then there was a blood-curdling roar, and the giant bear that everyone was chasing rose up from the ground, opening its bloody mouth and biting Red Mane's front legs.

Only then did Winters understand that there was a huge earth cave on the edge of this short cliff, and the giant bear occupied this place as its nest. However, due to viewing angle issues, this cave can only be seen when walking to the edge of the short cliff.

Red Mane was frightened, stamped on the ground violently, jumped to dodge, and would avoid the giant bear's sharp teeth. But Winters, who didn't react in time, was thrown off the saddle and fell heavily to the ground with his gun.

Before Winters could catch his breath, the giant bear, which missed the attack, abandoned its red mane and roared towards him.

The giant bear suddenly attacks, and Ralph, Sergey and the other Dusaks are unable to save them.

At the moment of life and death, Winters gritted his teeth and rolled directly out of the short cliff.

The ferocious beast missed two hits and jumped off the short cliff with a roar.

Before the Dusaks could react, another thin figure holding a spear ran out of the forest, shouted and jumped after the giant bear.

When his body fell and rolled uncontrollably along the cliff, Winters held on to the musket in his hand. Because he knows this is his only chance of survival.

However, he did not expect that the giant bear that jumped down would actually land before him. Its body hit the ground heavily, but the beast just shook its head and stood up again.

The moment he fell to the bottom of the cliff, Winters endured the pain and raised his gun to aim at the giant bear.

At the same time, the giant bear roared and rushed towards Winters.

Time seemed to have stopped at this moment.

If he's lucky, he might be able to put the 35g lead bullet into the beast's mouth - but it won't kill it, and Winters has already tried it.

shot? Or wait? There is only a split second to make a decision.

Accompanied by a shrill cry, a thin figure jumped down from the short cliff, and the spear in his hand was thrust straight into the neck of the giant bear.

The skinny primate could not have penetrated the giant bear's sebum using its own strength alone. But gravity came to the rescue—even though no one in this era knew what gravity was—and made it possible.

Height is speed, and speed is power. The tip of the spear pierced the fur, fat, and muscles of the giant bear's neck like a hot knife cutting through butter, and penetrated the body from top to bottom and pierced into the soil.

The giant bear was knocked to the ground by this heavy blow, and blood spurted out from the wound.

But the savage beast did not die immediately. It stood up again with its forelimbs on the ground, shaking its neck in an attempt to get rid of the foreign object stuck in its neck and the human on it.

But no matter how much brute force the giant bear used, it could not throw the thin figure off its body. The thin figure clutched the spear shaft tightly, causing the giant bear to cause more damage to itself with every swing.

Only then did Winters, who had narrowly escaped death, see the face of this fierce and thin spearman - it was Angelou, the young stable boy from Dussa Village.

Then it was clear what the cry was that was so shrill and inaudible that it was "Teleqing".

Winters struggled to his feet and Angelou created an opportunity for him that he couldn't waste. He rushed to the giant bear's side, and the moment he inserted the barrel of the gun into the bear's ear canal, Winters activated the gunpowder.

There was a "boom" and fragments shot out. Winters was shocked and his ears were ringing. The lead bullet failed to fire smoothly, and the matchlock exploded into two pieces in his hand.

This heavy matchlock gun exploded.

The giant bear became even more frantic and pounced on Winters in a frantic manner. Winters, who was caught off guard, was thrown to the ground by the giant bear. In desperation, Winters grabbed the powder cartridge and blocked the bear's bite.

The next second, he ignited the gunpowder.

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