Mercenaries and Adventurers

The northern wolf with its weird hardened hair rushed straight towards the hunter's position. The running that other wolves needed to dodge didn't exist here at all. The hunters fired a volley, and the hard arrows hit the northern wolf, as if they had hit something equally hard. They made a pinging sound before being bounced around.

"What's going on! They were all bounced away!" An old hunter couldn't believe it. He had only seen this kind of situation when using a bow and arrow to shoot at the thick carapace of a monster. He didn't expect to shoot a Northland at this time. This incredible situation occurs to wolves.

"Woo!" Although the hunters' bows and arrows did not work and did not cause any damage to it, the impact of the arrows was real. It could barely hold on to one or two arrows, but the round of volleys just now not only forced it to stop, but also pushed it back by more than half a meter while it was on all fours, holding it on the ground.

The other three northern wolves partnered with the mutated northern wolf took this opportunity to immediately cross two big trees from behind the tree trunks in the distance, and hid behind the tree trunks not far from the hunters.

This situation was also noticed by the old hunter commanding the hunter. Although the mutated northern wolf looked very dangerous, once it got close, it would be a disaster for them. But if all the energy is used to fight off that thing, it will also be very dangerous for the other three northern wolves to approach them.

Experienced hunters immediately see through the tactics of these cunning animals. He blew a loud whistle, attracting the attention of Kil, who had just completely killed the northern wolf that was knocked down by a bow and arrow not far behind the position.

Then, the old hunter shouted to Kil: "Kiel! Come quickly! The troublesome monster is coming!"

Kil, who was about to chase the two escaping northern wolves, heard the call and ran towards the position in a strange way.

'Troublesome monster? ’ He was a little confused about what.

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Although he tried to summon Kiel, the old hunter still did not put all his hopes on Kiel's side. He commanded the two hunters on the left, an old man and a young man, to shoot the mutated northern beast that did not dodge with continuous arrows. Earth wolf. Half of the others took out ropes with hooks, and the other half tried to push back the three northern wolves hiding behind the tree trunks.

The two hunters, one old and one young, took a deep breath and grabbed four arrows from the quiver hanging on their belts with their right hands, holding each one loosely with their fingers.

Immediately afterwards, after seeing the strange northern wolf not far away from the opposite side that had recovered from the impact of being repelled by the arrow and started running again, the two of them quickly pulled the bowstring in turn. When the bow string is half full, he releases his fingers and releases the bow arrow containing his spirit and will.

The old hunter fired an arrow first, whoosh!

In less than a second, the young hunter squatted and fired an arrow.

Whoosh!

After the young man released the arrow, the old hunter had already transferred the bow arrow clamped between his fingers to between his index finger and thumb.

Open your bow and let go of your arrows!

Whoosh!

As if he already had a tacit understanding and rhythm, the young man also transferred an arrow between his fingers, and then pulled the bow string hard. Without aiming at all, he locked on the end that was hit by the arrow and stopped it where it was. The mutation of the earth is the boreal wolf.

Whoosh!

In this way, the two of them take turns, you finish shooting the arrow, and I will follow. After I release the arrow, you can follow.

Until all eight arrows in the hands of the two men were shot.

But the two of them were not worried about the interruption of the offensive at all. When their hands were empty, they shook their hands to move their arms and threw their hands to their waists. They fumbled briefly from the quiver on their waists and took out four more arrows. arrow.

While the two hunters were replenishing their arrows, the old hunter who was in charge also saw their gap and directed him and the hunter standing beside him to turn their bows in the direction of the mutated northern wolf. A volley of arrows was fired.

On the other side, the hunters took out the hooked ropes that they must prepare for hunting in the forest from the bags on the ground.

The ropes are already coiled, and the knots that bind them are strong, but with a little skill, the coiled ropes can be untied.

Hunters leave one end with a metal hook half a meter long, slightly hold up a large amount of rope with one hand, and turn the hooked end with the other hand.

Whoosh, whoosh, after rounding it up, he threw it diagonally upward.

The hooked rope flew upwards quickly, and the rope in the hunter's hand quickly disappeared from his hand like a frightened snake.

The flying rope passed high over the thick branches of the big tree that was targeted, then exhausted its strength and fell down again. Part of it was blocked by the branches and rubbed, so one end of the rope with the hook fell down and then spun around the branches.

It kept winding around the rope, and finally, the metal hook snapped and hooked tightly onto the branch.

The hunter on the ground pulled the rope hard. The friction between the metal hook and the rope wrapping around the branches made it impossible for the hunter to pull.

That's right if it can't be pulled.

When the old hunter in charge saw what was happening here, he immediately ordered them to climb up the tree, ride on the branches, and shoot at the surrounding Northern wolves from a high position.

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While the hunters here were showing off their skills to stop the Northern Wolf, Keir also ran back in stride.

He did not come directly to the hunter's position because he was afraid of accidentally stepping on the metal clips they had placed in the chaos. Therefore, Kil rushed directly towards the weird northern wolf in front of him whose hair exploded and made a ping-pong metal collision sound when it collided with the flying arrows.

This thing is really weird. It doesn't cover or block, it just ignores the threat of arrows and keeps trying to rush straight towards the hunter's position. But it was held in place by the line-like arrow path shot out by the hunters.

Not only that, it was even hit by arrows and was unsteady on its feet, constantly falling back slightly.

It looked like it had suffered a huge defeat, but this was just the case with this mutated northern wolf. In fact, it was not injured at all. On the other hand, for the hunters, when the consecutive arrows reached the end of the second round, the two old and young hunters were already at the end of their crossbow. Although the young man's face was full of gnashed teeth, it looked like he could do it again, but the old hunter, whose physical function was declining, couldn't do it.

When he released the last arrow in the second round, his right arm began to tremble and twitch. The old hunter quickly put the bow on his body, and then rubbed his right arm with his left hand.

"I'm coming!" Kil yelled, grabbing the two-handed ax in both hands, striding through the snow and heading towards the strange northern wolf.

Oddly enough, when the weird northern wolf with exploding hair saw Kiel charging towards him, he ignored the hunters and charged towards Kiel as well.

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It didn't open its mouth and pounce at all. Instead, after getting a few meters away from Kiel, it jumped directly while running, turned its body in the air, and swept towards Kiel with its big fluffy broom-like tail.

Under normal circumstances, this would have no power at all. But it's different now. I don't know what happened to this weird northern wolf. The hair all over its body has become straight and hard, as if it is made of metal.

Therefore, this set of turning around in the air and sweeping with the tail is a very powerful move.

Kil didn't expect this weird guy to make such a weird move, but he remained calm in the face of danger. No matter what you do, I will sweep it with an axe.

With the power of striding forward, Kil lowered his entire body slightly, giving him a more stable base for his next attack. Then the waist rotates, causing the shoulders to rotate accordingly, and the arms also rotate to swing the ax horizontally to exert force.

The force came to his wrist, and he held the tail area of ​​the ax handle tightly with both hands. Using the amplification brought by the long ax handle, he swung the blue ax blade at the far end with the highest force he could achieve at this time. .

Clang! Snapped!

The ax collided with the tail of the weird northern wolf. In the end, the material of the ax head was better. In the collision between the two, the sharp edge of Kiel's ax cut off large pieces of the sharp and strong steel on the tail. Needle hair.

The broken hair was hit everywhere with great force, and each one was nailed to the trunk of the tree, making a dull sound. The hair shot hit the surrounding snow, leaving only small holes with no hair. Those that flew in left a horizontal trace.

Kil, who bore the brunt, was naturally the one who was hit the most. The front of his helmet did not look at the impact point, so his face was fine. Other hard hairs hit him, and some hit the metal parts of the armor, making a clanking sound. Then it bounces off. And his full-coverage armor of hard cowhide helped Kil absorb the most impact damage.

Some hard hairs at just the right angle got into the hard cowhide armor, but in the end because they were too light, most of them got stuck. Only a few got in, and passed through the winter clothes under the armor, and the basic hairs were stuck. Erza's raw pain.

But the weird Northern Wolf was not unscathed. Kiel's ax was quite heavy. The weight of more than ten kilograms was not something that the Northern Wolf, which weighed only fifty or sixty kilograms, could bear.

After cutting off the tough outer tail hair, Kiel's ax took advantage of the situation and completely chopped off the Northern Wolf's tail, which had also become stronger.

The hair on the other side of the tail was also cut off, so there was no need to have the hard hair knocked everywhere again.

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Kiel and the strange northern wolf pass by

His legs swung up large swaths of snow, flying in the air. Try your best to smash the ax on the ground with both hands, so as not to cause the ax handle to fall out of your hand with too much force.

As for the northern wolf, after cutting off its tail, it tried to stay on all fours. However, most of its tail was missing to maintain balance, causing it to still roll over after landing.

In the distance, the young hunter saw the opportunity and shot an arrow straight into the eye of the monster-like northern wolf.

But somehow, as if he felt the killing intent outside the field, the northern wolf just shook his head for a moment, and the young hunter shot an arrow in the wolf's face.

Its face is also covered with short, thick, thin wolf hairs. They are also extremely hard, at least they are iron arrowheads that are worthy of the arrow.

Ding!

After catching an arrow with his face, the northern wolf's head was slightly dizzy, hissing in a low voice, and once again set the target of the battle on Kil.

It wanted revenge, but it didn't expect that the target of revenge would just hit it.

Kil saw the power of the wolf hair on this guy and did not dare to underestimate it. He held the middle part of the ax handle with one hand in his right hand, and took out the metal shield hanging from his back with his left hand and put it on his left hand.

The weird northern wolf with its hair standing upright and glowing with metallic light roared in a low voice. It was three to five meters away from Kiel and circled. Yellow pupils were hidden under dangerous hair, staring closely at Kil who was ready for battle.

Keir carefully tilted the left side of his body to face the strange northern wolf that might attack at any time.

Under the helmet, he licked his lips, regretting not taking a red-eyed mushroom candy pill before the battle.

Despite this idea, Keir was not very afraid of this guy.

Especially after fighting huge and terrifying monsters before, he no longer felt that these beasts about the same size as him were such tricky things.

When fighting a monster, there is no room for mistakes. After all, as long as the guy's legs and feet hit him head-on, it would be difficult for a normal person to survive.

But these guys, who were about the same size as humans and weighed less than ordinary people, would not be his opponents even if they had some strange abilities.

Kiel's eyes under his mask couldn't help but look at this opponent. Naturally, he felt a sense of hatred and murderous intent from the movements, demeanor and voice of this northern wolf.

But he didn't care, who cared what a beast thought?

Humans kill beasts, and beasts kill humans. This is just the most common part of remote areas. It has nothing to do with right or wrong, only strength affects the outcome.

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On the other side, under the command of the old hunter, two hunters riding on the trunk of a big tree shot from a high place and wounded a northern wolf hiding behind the trunk.

Knowing that it was no longer safe behind the tree trunk, the three northern wolves looked not far away and were confronting a human whose whole body was wrapped in strange things. The three northern wolves began to retreat.

Therefore, the three of them pretended to attack from behind the tree trunk, causing the hunters to draw their bows and shoot, and then fled backwards. However, one of them had been shot in the body by a hunter from a high place and ran the slowest when evacuating. All the hunters who had reattached their arrows fired a volley in unison and were killed by arrows in the distance.

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The retreating roars of his companions in the distance, and the howl of one of them before his death, made the strange northern wolf that was confronting Kiel unable to sit still any longer. It stretched out its wolf's mouth downwards and roared, then rushed straight towards Kil.

Kil immediately raised his shield and pushed forward. He calculated his advantage and decided to use it.

A twisted and sharp sound of impact came from the shield, and the snow on the branches of the surrounding trees was shaken off by the sharp friction sound.

Keir lowered his body and took the initiative to hit, and the result fell into his calculation.

Although the northern wolf opposite has sharp and strong hair all over its body, it is not really made of metal after all. Therefore, the northern wolf that looks very dangerous, in the final analysis, except for the ability to get injured when it gets close and provide it with excellent defense, is not the same as the ordinary northern wolf in other places. Both.

The material used in Kil's metal shield is not ordinary metal, it is a metal obtained from the ruins of ancient elves. It is extremely light in weight and has very high hardness. After the entire shield is forged at high temperatures, the entire shield surface is integrated and difficult to damage.

During the many previous battles, only a few left marks on the surface of his shield.

The collision between Kiel and the weird northern wolf caused those metal hairs to be sharp and sharp, but they only scratched the decorative skin on the front of the shield, but the shield body underneath was unscathed.

Amidst the intense friction, not even a single white scratch could be left behind.

Since the weird northern wolf's stiff hair couldn't work, the northern wolf, which was not as heavy as Kiel, was knocked directly to the ground by Kiel's force after the two collided.

After knocking over the wolf with his left hand, Kiel swung the two-handed ax in a circle from behind with his right hand and struck hard at the strange wolf that fell to the ground in front of him.

But Kiel missed the hit this time. The Northern Wolf rolled away immediately after reaching the ground, allowing Kiel to miss the target and only hit the ground under the snow.

"Secure it! Create opportunities for me!" Kiel yelled.

The hunters not far away understood after hearing this, and immediately shot at the last northern wolf that had not yet evacuated.

Although the hunters' arrows couldn't cause any damage to this weird northern wolf, Keir didn't care about it. What he wanted was for the opponent's body to pause for a short moment after being hit by the arrow.

Seeing the opportunity, Kil swung the ax and hit it on the back of the weird northern wolf's body.

Amidst the crackling noise, a large number of the hard fur of the northern wolf broke and scattered. Kil used his shield to block most of the flying hair. He pulled the ax and used the edge of the ax blade to drag the northern wolf down.

The hair on its abdomen leaked out, and the hunters fired a tentative volley, and all the arrows hit the northern wolf's abdomen.

The result was disappointing. Apart from the same jingling noise, it only made the fallen Northern Wolf even more angry.

Falling to the ground, the northern wolf was unwilling to be beaten passively and immediately swung its forelimbs to hit Kiel. Keir blocked left and right, and in a moment, he used his shield to block all the attacks from the Northland wolf without missing a beat.

"This is not the way! Old man! Think of a way!" Kil once again used his shield to topple the weird northern wolf that had just climbed up, and said loudly towards the hunter's position.

Over there, the old hunter had already figured out a way: "You lead it over, trap its legs and feet with metal clamps, and we all go up to the tree."

"Okay! I'll lead it over." Saying that he was leading it, Kiel immediately became fierce. He grabbed the connection between the ax handle and the ax face with his right hand, pressed the back of the ax face behind the shield of his left hand, and used both arms to pull it. He lowered his body and bumped into the side of the strange northern wolf.

After knocking it to the ground, he used his legs to push this dangerous and weird northern wolf to run quickly on the snow.

Regardless of howling indiscriminately, the northern wolf began to scratch its limbs towards Kil. Every time he scratched Kil's body, the soft fine hairs on his claws would scratch off a layer of hardened cowhide on the armor's surface. .

On the other side, the hunters climbed up the branches of the big tree along the ropes. They didn't need anything else and just threw it on the ground. The two hunters, whose arms were sore from using continuous arrows, used their other arms to grasp the rope tightly, and the hunters above pulled the rope upward.

Finally, he reached the branch safely before Kil pushed the weird northern wolf over.

Everyone was riding on the branches, their thighs tightened on the branches under their crotches, and they all held bows and arrows in their hands, ready to support Kiel at any time.