Mercenaries and Adventurers

A large number of bandits rushed straight into the fog carrying slender tree trunks that were more than ten meters long. They screamed and roared, mustering up their courage, and cursed their target, the monster hiding in the huge white mist, with the most vicious words they knew.

As the bandits charged blindly, the huge monsters were unable to dodge the bandits who were hugging the trees side by side in the fog that obscured their bodies.

Boom, boom, boom.

The falling tree trunk hit the monster.

But apart from making the bandit who was hugging the tree fall to the ground, it seemed to have no other effect.

In fact, it was not like that. The Warcraft was also shocked by the actions of these humans. Where it was hit, there was a dull pain in the carapace, and a coincident tree trunk even poked straight into its mouth.

The huge mouth, which was not as hard as other parts of the body, was punctured, causing the monster to feel great pain. It became angry, stopped working on its belly, crawled forward, and pushed the humans who hit it in the mouth to the ground.

The magic beast circulated the magic power in its body and once again released a rapidly expanding white mist.

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The bandits outside were anxiously waiting for the bandits inside to succeed, but the sudden and rapid expansion of the white fog surprised everyone.

They can't see anything anymore.

The originally empty field of vision could only see about one meter around him, and the originally noisy environment suddenly became quiet, frightening many frightened bandits.

"Don't panic! Don't panic! Get together and don't wander around!" The bandits could only hear the weak shouts of the bandit leaders. Their loud voices now sounded like the dying wounded. A faint sound.

Old Khosrus was also startled. He did not expect that the monster in the white mist would react so violently. The suddenly expanding white fog shrouded all of them, more than a hundred people, and they couldn't tell each other. Everyone panicked when they heard the sound.

He roared loudly, causing everyone around him to move towards him. Fortunately, there were only a few of them and the formation was relatively tight. Even if the strange white mist weakened the sound, the surrounding bandits spontaneously listened to his voice and came closer.

Only then did he realize why the bandits who had entered the white mist before had lost all traces and could not make any sound. It turned out that the white mist had covered up their voices.

But the white fog of Warcraft is not big, why don't they come out? Unless, they were all attacked by monsters.

Thinking of this, he quickly directed the approaching bandits to prepare for battle, and tried to light the prepared firewood pile to see if the flames could disperse the surrounding white mist or drive away the monsters.

While old Khosrus was waiting uneasily for the fire to rise, the other two bandit teams were being attacked by monsters.

The satiated monsters no longer devour humans, but their legs and feet show no mercy either. It originally wanted to rest and digest the food it had eaten while the knight was not attacking it.

But these unscrupulous humans actually launched an active attack on it and even hurt it.

Therefore, the monster used its two legs to push itself hard to crawl on the snow. It also had two free legs to sweep through the human bandits who were at a loss in the fog.

Many bandits lost their lives when they were attacked by monsters while they were in a daze. But their screams before they died still put the other bandits into fighting mode.

They quickly raised the fire, and with good luck dispelled some of the surrounding fog. They launched an attack at the place where the monsters made huge vibrations when crawling. If they had anything on hand, they threw something over and barely forced it. He pushed back the approaching monsters and tried to attack several times.

Little Khosrus led a group of bandits under him and rushed over. When the monster was tested again, he led his men to throw a batch of throwing weapons, injuring some places on the front of the unwary monster.

But little Khosrus was not happy at all. He still remembered the huge black limb that was as long as a meat whip and stretched out from the white mist not long ago. If the team swept through, it would only take one strike to kill and injure most of them.

At this time, old Khosrus was gathering with two other bandit leaders, discussing the retreat in a low voice.

They had to retreat, although it seemed that the monster was a little afraid of fire, and if they used throwing weapons, they could temporarily force the monster back.

But this is just a false appearance. The cruel fact is that these people basically have no fighting ability to harm that monster.

A few brave bandits from their respective teams personally stepped forward to fight the slender limbs of the monsters that broke out of the fog. They couldn't go a few rounds before they were killed by the monsters, and then their bodies were pierced and dragged into the depths of the white mist.

This made many bandits so frightened that they could not even hold their weapons tightly. At any moment, a frightened bandit might turn around and try to run out of the suddenly expanding white mist.

But old Chosrus didn't think they could just run away.

If the white mist released by the Warcraft was created by itself, then even if they escaped, as long as the Warcraft followed their large team, they would never be able to escape from the White Mist range of the Warcraft.

He would only be killed by that monster's little sneak attacks.

But the other two bandit leaders didn't care so much. They resolutely planned to disperse the three bandit gangs and retreat in different directions. It was the only one of those monsters. Although it would definitely cause serious casualties to one of the teams, the other two groups would definitely be able to evacuate from the area shrouded in white mist.

Old Khosrus held the belt around his waist tightly, with an angry look on his face, accusing these guys of being cowardly and unworthy of becoming bandits who dominated other people's lives.

But other thoughts were running through his mind. He believed that his team was not bad. He had expelled a monster that was entrenched here before. There was no way he could not deal with this monster.

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When the white fog suddenly expanded, Kiel pulled the horse directly and walked towards the previous wooden house.

Although nothing could be seen, the snowy footprints under his feet could show the path he should take. As he approached the wooden house, he alerted the surroundings and loudly told the people in the wooden house that the person coming was him, not a bandit or a monster.

"Kiel! Come in quickly." After an old hunter saw clearly that the person approaching was Kiel, he waved him into the cabin. But then he saw the two groups of horses held by Keir, and he was in trouble.

The cabin was already very crowded. The rescued women, young and old hunters were all crowded into a small wooden cabin. It seemed like they had nowhere to go, let alone letting Keir stuff the two horses into the wooden cabin. middle.

After taking a look at the situation in the wooden house, Kil pointed in a direction, even though nothing could be seen there, only a white mist remained: "I think we still have to evacuate here quickly, and first arrange everyone to a complex environment. In the forest, it's safer there. If there was no fog, it would be okay for us to hide in the wooden house, but now there is white fog around us. What if the monsters leave those damn bandits behind and directly come to trouble us? We may be attacked by the monsters at any time. If the cabin is crushed from above, we will all be dead."

"You are right, yes, yes. Did the Lord Knight say anything just now?" The old hunter called several other old hunters who were also guarding the door to discuss the current situation with Keir.

Although we just met this young man Kiel, he is pretty good. At least he is more experienced than the young men in their team. The few young people in this room didn't care about the importance at this time. They were hugging the frightened women and comforting them.

The old guys were so angry that they didn't have time to reprimand them. After all, we couldn't let those frightened women scream all the time, right?

What should I do if I attract a monster?

"Well, Knight Lanisa didn't say anything. She just asked me to bring back this thing. It seems to be quite valuable." Kil took out the gold dagger sheath from his belt and handed it to an old hunter nearest him.

Even if something made of gold only looks good-looking to a rough bandit, it still has the value of the precious metal itself and is worth a lot of coins.

This was not something that Kil himself obtained by defeating his enemies, but something that the knight obtained himself, so he did not think about hiding it himself. He still had some money recently, so he didn't want to annoy the new team with this ugly and tacky thing.

"No matter what, we have to move quickly. It's not safe here anymore. Even if we are fighting, if we are still here, we will bring hidden obstacles to Knight Lanisa." For this reason, the old hunter said They decided to evacuate quickly. Although the other young hunter had not come back just now, they had to evacuate.

Fortunately, just as the hunters were letting the two rescued women mount their horses, another young hunter who was collecting the bodies with Keel also followed the footprints left by the horses pulled by Keel.

Coincidentally, he was also holding a horse, and there were exactly two horses for each of the six women in the house, which greatly accelerated the movement.

They first walked along the location of another house before the white mist shrouded it, and found several other young hunters who were extremely nervous, as well as the two new women in the house.

No one warned the two men, so they had no choice but to wrap themselves in animal skins and be carried by two strong hunters as they retreated with the team.

All the way from the bandit camp, we crossed a large open space and came to the forest that we would definitely encounter if we went straight ahead. We were relatively lucky that we were not attacked by monsters in the middle.

I wonder if the monster was blocked halfway by the female knight, Kil thought.

After entering the forest, the fog here quickly weakened. It's not that the fog is receding, it's simply that they have stepped out of the maximum range of the monsters that are still releasing the fog to maintain it.

In a low pit, the team stopped. The old hunters quickly arranged for people to cut down branches and set up multiple fires, so that even if the monster came to attack them with a large fog, they could use the fires to resist for a while.

Kil looked up at the large fog they had just withdrawn from, and found that this fog was different from the fog he had seen before, which looked like a half-buckled wooden bowl. They were in the fog before, so they didn't know what the fog was like or how big it was.

At this moment, after stepping out of the fog, and outside the fog, we can get a glimpse of the scope and shape of the fog released by this monster.

The fog is actually not very high, only about five meters high close to the ground. For ordinary humans, it is naturally powerless. But what if?

Kil opened his visor and used his hands and feet to climb up a big tree that was a little thicker and easier to climb. After climbing to the top of the tree, he finally saw the full view of the mist released by the monster.

Beyond Kiel's imagination, this fog expanded into a circular range with a radius of at least 200 to 300 meters, centered on the fog surrounding the Warcraft that protruded from the fog elsewhere.

Although the weather is gloomy, you can still clearly see that a large area of ​​the ground ahead is blocked by white fog. Even the snowflakes falling in the sky are magically blocked by the fog, rolling on the top of the five-meter-high fog, toward the fog. The periphery slid quickly and landed on the outermost edge of the mist.

Judging the distance, Kil tried to determine where the Warcraft was now based on the fact that the fog around the Warcraft was higher than the fog in other places.

Calculating the location of the forest in the distance, Kil found that the monster was still where the bandits had gathered before, and did not try to attack them or take the opportunity to escape.

He called to other hunters to come up and take a look, and told the old hunter who climbed up what he had discovered.

"You are right. It seems that those damn bandits are indeed food that cannot be given up for the injured monster. But didn't the knight try to stop the monster?" A hunter asked in confusion.

Kil expressed his opinion: "Although it is not good to let the monsters eat the bandits that suddenly appeared, it will easily make our previous battle in vain. However, if we deal with the monsters first, and wait until the monsters are solved, we will always fight in the first place. How much stamina does Knight Lanisha have left to deal with those numerous bandits?"

"You underestimated the strength of the knight. Forget it, you haven't seen how powerful she is." A young hunter retorted, and his words were unanimously agreed by other hunters.

Kil pursed his lips, sat on a thick branch and crossed his arms: "Well, even after dealing with the monster, the knight still has enough physical strength, but she is only one person. Think about it this way, if What about those bandits turning to attack us? Not to mention that after we deal with the monsters, we can still be as strong as the knights, right? By then, we will be captured by the bandits who have been watching, and become a bargaining chip against the knights."

"I will fight to the end to prevent those damn guys from capturing me!"

"Me too!"

The young hunters said in unison that they were all loyal and simple people, and it was impossible for Knight Lanissa's honor to be compromised.

Kil curled his lips and looked at a few old hunters. They were all standing on the branches next to the tree trunk, holding the trunk with one hand and akimbo with the other: "What about you?"

"It's not impossible. So, does this become a simple beast-fighting chess game?" said an old hunter who had seen people in the city playing chess in their spare time.

Kil, who had also watched the old people in the city play chess in the residential area of ​​Kendall City, snapped his fingers: "Yes, we, I mean Knight Lanisa and you as hunters, of course, I have to be added. . We can deal with the monsters that were beaten away together.

As for Warcraft, as you can see, several bandit camps with a large number of people in the past were all slaughtered by that guy without much resistance, and everyone in the two camps was eaten. Presumably these more than a hundred bandits would not be its opponents. "

Having said this, Kil took another look at the location of the large fog, and looked at the raised section of the World of Warcraft personal fog that was swinging back and forth in the center of the fog. He knew that that thing was still lingering in place, and it probably hadn't been able to eliminate the bandits.

"Finally, there are several bandit gangs with large numbers and varying levels of skills. They will crush us with all their strength. If we fight, the knights will be entangled, and we will be killed and captured by more than ten times the number of bandits. Regardless. What do we think? The best situation now is to let the monsters destroy the bandits, and then we can deal with the monsters."

The hunters looked at each other, and they all finally agreed on this.

"But what if the monsters devoured a large number of humans and recovered their physical condition?"

Kil smiled: "Then don't give it this chance! Allow it to kill the bandits, but don't give it time to eat and digest. Once the bandits are eliminated one by one, and its body has not had enough time to recover, it is our best It’s time!”

"Yes, now is the most favorable time."

"So, what should we do?"

Kil pointed to the center of the fog ahead, where the Warcraft was: "Knight Lanessa will understand the current situation. She will definitely summon us when she thinks it's the right time. For example, jump out of the fog-shrouded ground and blow in the air. A whistle? Or a shout?"

"However, even so, when we enter the fog, we still can't get close to the monster. After entering, it is difficult to confirm the location. It's okay if the monster stays in the same place. Once it moves, it doesn't need to move much. It will move from one side of the open space of the original camp to the other. On the other hand, it is impossible for us in the fog to find traces of the Warcraft. Unless the Warcraft removes this large-scale fog."

A hunter questioned: "But it wasn't Warcraft that released a fog that was not as big as this before, but was equally large. The fog dissipated quickly at that time. Maybe after a while, the fog will be gone?" "

Keir thought about it, this may not be impossible, but the situation before was different from now.

"The timing was not good before, but now the Warcraft has not recovered from its old injuries and has devoured a large number of bandits in a short period of time. This is when it is at its weakest. Once it relies on the humans it has devoured to recover the damage it has suffered, then we can still Are we going to chase it all the way again? For the next situation, we can’t think about the good situation, we have to think about the bad situation.”

Kil thought about it and felt that if he were a Warcraft, he would not run away, because once he escaped, he would probably be chased and hindered by the knights, and the favorable fog could not cover the surroundings and hinder the auxiliary helpers of the knights like Kil.

If the fog is maintained all the time, these people can be excluded. Only by defending against the knights and delaying the time, can we obtain an increasingly favorable situation for ourselves.

Kil told his conclusion to other hunters. Some of the other hunters felt that Warcraft could not be so smart, but some cautious hunters relied on experience and felt that the next situation would probably be as Kil said.

Compared to Warcraft, Lanessa Knight does have a huge flexibility advantage, but her physical strength is naturally not as good as that of the huge Warcraft. Once it is exhausted for a long time, Lanessa Knight will definitely be exhausted and defeated.

And if they can't help, they will only die in the fog created by the Warcraft.

"So? What should we do?" one person asked.

Kil jumped down from the tree. He grabbed the branch first and let his body fall. When he grabbed the branch he just brought, his feet were hanging in the air, only a little more than two meters above the snow on the ground.

And there is still thick snow on the ground to cushion it.

He loosened his fingers, fell into the snow, and quickly turned over.

"I have fought against it before in the fog created by Warcraft, and I can guarantee that I will not be hurt by it. To deal with it, I should be able to help the knight. As long as I entangle him at the right time as mentioned before, Keeping the Warcraft at bay and letting the Warcraft focus on me will give Knight Lanissa another chance to severely damage the Warcraft."

Patting the snow on his body, Kil continued: "Presumably by then, this Warcraft will no longer have the energy to release large-scale fog, right?"

After checking the weapons and equipment, Kil felt that the effect of taking red-eyed mushroom sugar pills was not as effective as eating a whole mushroom for the first time, and the time seemed to be much shorter.

He felt that he had to eat one more before the battle that was waiting for him. Sure enough, after making more sugar pills, whether it is the magical effect of the mushrooms or the time of use, it is not as effective as eating the dried mushrooms directly.

Of course, even if the effectiveness is reduced now, he is not as uncomfortable as before, probably because the side effects have weakened.

"I'm going to help the knights in the fog. Everyone, please seize the opportunity and come over quickly to provide support!" Kil waved his hands to the hunters, said goodbye to them, and walked towards the location where he left his backpack before fighting the bandits in this camp. go.

Of course, he circumvented the fog and moved forward outside the fog.