Mercenaries and Adventurers

There were a lot of wolf skins, and each one was frozen solid. Kil's throat was not feeling well these days, so he just went to rest. Before going to bed and resting, he pulled out his long sword, found a rope and hung it on a wall in the stronghold that faced the sky.

This time he was careful and did not dare to insert the long sword that absorbed the power of the sun into a high place. Instead, he did it casually in the camp.

The old hunters led the young hunters to simply clean the wolf skin they had finally brought back. They mainly used daggers to scrape off the fat layer on the inside of the wolf skin, and then put the wolf fat into a wooden bowl. Heat it next to a fire, and then use a wooden stick to apply slightly melted wolf oil to the surface of the wolf fur to prevent the wolf fur from being damaged and falling off.

Finally, the wolf skins are frozen hard and stacked neatly together.

Knight Lanisa came back and rested for a day, then went out for a walk on her war horse. The other horses preferred to huddle together in the stronghold during this cold winter and did not like to move.

Knight Lanissa's horse will lose its temper and become emotional if it doesn't run around for a day.

In addition to processing wolf skins, hunters also need a day to rest. So, after they all rested in the stronghold for several days, everyone recovered from their fatigue and injuries.

Kil's own Saturn badge was also much dimmer, and less than half of the power contained in it was used to heal the burn on his throat. At this moment, they were in a vast and deserted forest, so it was naturally difficult to restore power to this thing.

During the repair time, Kil also made some simple repairs to his armor. The main body of the hard cowhide fully covered armor was not damaged in the previous high temperature, but some of the straps used to connect it lost their toughness and strength due to the high temperature. They are dry and hard and can no longer be used to connect armor parts.

In response to this, Kil approached Lanissa Knight and asked her to approve giving him the fur of several young wolf tails to repair the armor and connect the belts.

The knight directly agreed. Not to mention Kiel's bravery in the previous battle, but to maintain Kiel's fighting ability in the future, part of it still depends on his armor.

Keer had seen how the Ganna craftsmen tinkered with the straps. Although it was located in the wilderness and did not have all the useful tools in the craftsman's workshop, Keer felt that the tail fur of the northern wolf pups was thicker than the original ones. The belt performance is better.

He cut off the stiff tail fur of the young wolf, then heated it close to the fire. After it softened, he used his dagger to cut the peeled fur into small strips, and then moistened and rubbed it with the remaining wolf oil. . After the properties of the fur changed, he disassembled the originally hardened and brittle belt parts, took out the metal parts, then used a dagger to drill holes in the wolf fur belt, and embedded the metal parts to block them.

After finishing it, Kil tried the strength of the new belt and pulled it. He had to use a lot of force to break it. Although it is not as strong as the previous belt, it is enough to cope with the coming battle.

After replacing the damaged connecting straps on the armor, there were still several deep holes in the armor left by the bites of adult northern wolves. Kil reluctantly used the remaining wolf skin straps to wrap around the damaged areas. It was considered a last resort. Mend your armor.

After everything was done, everyone was ready. One old hunter was left behind again, and an old hunter who had not yet been groomed was left to look after the house. The others were ready to follow Knight Lanisa out to look for clues about the Northern Wolf.

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Just when the hunters, including Kil, were all packed up and waiting for the female knight who rode and walked the horse in the morning to come back and set off, Knight Lanisha rode her horse all the way from the rock passage to the entrance of the stronghold. After opening the door from the outside with one hand, she directly He threw away the reins of the war horse and said to the waiting team: "Everyone. It seems that we don't need to go out to look for any traces of northern wolves. They can't stand it anymore, huh, and they came here on their own initiative."

"Sir, what do you mean?" someone asked.

Knight Lanisa pointed at the forest at the bottom of the mountain: "We defeated and killed two nests of northern wolves before. They can't bear more losses. When I went down to walk my horse just now, I discovered the surrounding forest. In the snow, groups of scattered guys sent by the Northern Wolf to investigate appeared. Those guys ran away early as soon as they saw me. "

Regarding this situation, the old hunters discussed it and felt that it was very likely that their battle with the Northern Wolf would be launched in the near future.

In fact, it was similar in previous years. Knights and hunters entered the forest to look for a team of northern wolves that would not hibernate. With the knights leading the team, they had the upper hand. So, when the Northland wolves can no longer bear the losses, they will all gather together under the leadership of the Wolf King and try to catch them all.

At that time, it was also the last stage that could cause a lot of damage to the northern wolf.

Although Knight Lanessa never had the upper hand when fighting against the powerful Wolf King of the North, her situation was rapidly changing as her knightly skills rapidly improved.

The hunters will kill a large number of northern wolves, push the northern wolves back as a whole, and then remotely participate in the battle between the knights and the wolf king.

Although they only shoot arrows from a distance, in a battle of equal strength, any foreign aid from one side will greatly affect the final result.

By this time, Lanissa Knight's advantage has become huge. Although it still cannot seriously injure the Wolf King, it will be able to repel it and fight again next year.

This is why Lanissa Knight is so confident that she can completely kill the Wolf King after Kiel joined this year. Of course, those metal clamps that can cause massive damage and delay the rejection of northern wolves are also part of her calculation.

Everyone gathered around the fire, putting aside their previous plans and discussing what to do next.

Old hunters prefer to take advantage of the terrain of the rocky mountains to fight with northern wolves here. They brought a lot of food last time, and if they didn't consider the food for the horses, the whole group could last here for about a month at most. If we can take advantage of the opportunity before the large team of Northern Wolf has gathered, and go to the snow near the rocky mountain to collect dead grass on the grass, it should be enough for the horses to consume for half a month.

In such a long period of time, fighting based on the terrain will definitely bring huge casualties to the Northern Wolf as a whole. Maybe we can easily defeat the ordinary Northern Wolf, and then together we can defeat the Northern Wolf King and completely defeat the Northern Wolf. The wolves were dispersed as a whole, so that they could no longer threaten the lives and production of people in northern Kendall County.

Although the plan of the old hunters seems to be okay, they still stick to their stronghold and allow the northern wolves to gather and fight the entire northern wolf. This has never happened in previous years.

In previous winter expeditions, they would try their best to get in and out as quickly as possible. First, the supply point was far outside the forest, and the food and supplies each carried were not enough to support everyone's long-term battle. On the other hand, the overall number of northern wolves far exceeds that of their group.

Although the powerful knights and professional hunters allowed them to defeat any Northern Wolf team, everyone, including Knight Lanissa, was a little unsure about whether they could defeat all the Northern Wolves gathered together.

It can't be said that they lack confidence. In fact, everyone still knows the result, but they can't say that they are weaker than those beasts.

Others in the team expressed their opinions on the old hunter's plan, but Lanissa Knight didn't like it.

She prefers quick and intense battles to long protracted battles. In fact, she hoped that the Northland wolves could gather early under the command of the Wolf King and prepare to fight them under the leadership of the Wolf King.

After all, compared to ordinary northern wolves, the wolf king was the real purpose of Knight Lanissa's crusade.

It was a private revenge. She did not think that the powerful wolf king had anything to do with her father who disappeared in the forest many years ago.

Although she did not believe that her father was inferior to a northern wolf king, the wolf king that she had been unable to defeat many times was obviously the culprit who killed her father and led to his death and disappearance.

So this is a revenge. Not only was it about her father's murder, but it was also a roar about the ripple effects it had on her.

She has a younger brother. Although he is young, he is healthy and strong. He will definitely be able to assume her father's title and strength in the future. But her father's disappearance many years ago interrupted her studies in the provincial capital and disrupted her future life arrangements. Her slender arms and weak fingers had to pick up cold and solid weapons, and the heavy armor bent her waist more than once.

The bitter and painful knight training, if her father had not made some expected preparations for her when she was a child, she would have been overwhelmed by the arduous knight training.

So this is a revenge.

If she really felt that the Northern Wolf had affected the development and production of the entire northern Kendall, why not persuade Baron Kendall to let all the knights join her in killing the Northern Wolf in the forest.

Why not try to persuade the Baron and Knight Crow to lead hundreds of militiamen and all the people in Hekou Town and Wumihu Village to launch a clearing operation to kill all the Northland wolves in the entire forest.

This is a personal revenge. The responsibilities and pressure of her family, the complaints and rumors of the people in the territory, and the attention of her fellow knights all overwhelmed her. At most, she called on some unrelated hunters and warriors to guide her in the forest and look for traces of the Northern Wolf. .

Over the past few years, she has been forced by these pressures to think of various solutions. In addition to working harder to practice knight skills, spending money to create a large number of metal clips for killing animals, and inviting Kiel who can improve the overall strength of the hunter team.

But she would not ask Baron Kendall to mobilize knights or a large number of militiamen.

Because this is a personal revenge.

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Knight Lanissa proposed to attack directly, just like the previous battles, the Wolf King was looking to surround them, and they were also looking for the Wolf King. Attack or frighten the northern wolves who are scouting, find the wolf king, and then use all their own methods. When the wolf pack was weakened as a whole last year, they will definitely be able to defeat the northern wolf king this time.

This is completely contrary to the old hunters' plan, but because it was proposed by the knight, the four old hunters could not object. The young hunters thought that both were acceptable, so they had no position. It didn't matter to them.

Keir narrowed his eyes.

He felt that the old hunters' plan was a bit too conservative. Although it seemed safe, it could make full use of the metal clamps, and it could also take advantage of the favorable terrain on the rocky mountain to reduce the pressure when fighting a large group of northern wolves.

But there are also problems. If you defend for a long time, you will lose. Simply relying on the rocky mountain is equivalent to handing over the initiative of the entire battle to the Northern Wolf and the Wolf King, so that those guys can rest assured that the entire Northern Wolf team will be dispersed. All together.

No one knows how many wolves there are in this forest in the entire Northland. Maybe there are just that many. The slaughter of two wolf dens has made the wolf king unable to sit still and must gather all his strength to attack them. Maybe it is beyond their imagination. Two wolves in a row. The continuous appearance of unusual and strange northern wolves may also indicate that the scale and rise of northern wolves cannot be underestimated.

But Lanessa Knight's plan is also somewhat path-dependent. It is also a different kind of conservatism. It seems radical and full of offense, but it completely relies on previous experience and considerations. Not only did they fail to take advantage of their own changes this time, but they also greatly ignored the changes in the Northern Wolf.

Those cunning and ferocious beasts will not sit still and wait for death. After being attacked by knight hunters year after year, they will not let their communities bury their bones under the snow and soil of the forest, or crush and digest them in the mouths of other animals.

One of them was that there were more wolf cubs than Lanissa Knight had expected, and the other was the weird northern wolf that greatly exceeded ordinary animals and ordinary northern wolves.

Those weird northern wolves surpassed ordinary monsters, but were greatly weaker than the monsters they encountered before. Worryingly, they don't know exactly how many of these weird northern wolves there are.

If every Northern Wolf team had one of these guys, the old hunter's plan would just be to sit back and wait for death, seeking his own death.

There are also many variables in Lanisa Knight's plan.

After Kil coughed a few times, he attracted everyone's attention, and then said what he had just thought about. Now that he himself is in the team, he has to say something when faced with the team's major decision-making differences and possible consequences.

After all, if he didn't say a word and the team as a whole ended badly later, Kiel might even regret his decision at this time.

"So, you object to the two plans?" Lanisha Knight did not get angry or angry. She convened the team herself, and all the roles played by everyone in the team at this time were to provide assistance to her, even if it was against It was also helpful to have objections to her plans.

In fact, many years of studying and studying as a girl helped her develop many good habits, and one of them was not to speak lightly of violence.

Keir looked at everyone and saw that everyone was sitting by the fire, just looking at him in silence. The expected anger and argument did not appear. He smacked his lips, feeling that the other world was still very different from the original world.

The original world was peaceful but full of disputes over interests. Most people are in contact with each other for their own interests. Faced with various possible interests between people, a simple dispute is a very minor behavior. Only when it comes to the greater good, will everyone be polite and act together with ease.

There are people and things that are simply not related to interests, but they can all appear in the media as conversation pieces or news.

Simply outrageous.

A world of peace and distance from struggle has made people forget that compared to superficial interests, everyone's personal life is the most important source of interests.

When Kil figured this out, he smiled, scratched his golden brown hair, and told his plan.

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Kil's plan is not complicated. It is mainly a comprehensive plan that brings out the advantages between the old hunter and the female knight and eliminates the disadvantages as much as possible.

There are plenty of supplies in the Rock Mountain stronghold, which can support them for a certain period of time.

Not so with the Boreal Wolf.

Why do boreal wolves living in the forest live in scattered places? The reason is simple: it is difficult for the herbivores in one place to meet the survival needs of the excessive number of carnivorous boreal wolves.

Even though northern wolves are ferocious and smart, they are still animals after all. Without human intelligence and organization the habit of storing food for war would not have been possible. They are worse than some rodents and forest monkeys at this kind of thing.

Fighting is different from everyday survival. As a member of the forest, northern wolves usually spend a lot of time hunting. If they cannot catch prey, they will starve.

The Wolf King has gathered all the northern wolves together, and it seems that their strength has increased. The number will definitely exceed their numerical advantage. But it also brings great hidden dangers. As hunting animals, when they gather in large numbers, the herbivores in this area will be killed or run away.

In less than half a day, there will be no other animals present in those places where northern wolves gather.

What do they eat?

Therefore, if you stick to the Rock Mountain stronghold, the most dangerous period may be the first few days when the Northern Wolf is gathered by the Wolf King. Afterwards, a large number of northern wolves will still leave here, either returning to the den to take care of the young wolves, or spreading out in large numbers to attack other animals that have escaped.

But it is difficult to say that they can survive the first two or three days.

After all, although the Rock Mountain Stronghold has a terrain advantage, when the Wolf King and Lanissa Knight fight, it is a matter of debate whether these terrain advantages will be destroyed by their battle.

Hearing what Kil said, Knight Lanisa looked at the armor patterns on her arms in embarrassment, because she also thought that when she fought against the Wolf King before, the battlefield would often be completely destroyed.

The old hunters and the young hunters who had participated in the battles in previous years also looked scared. If the battlefield was really placed here, it would be really hard to say what the situation would be like.

But this does not mean that it is not good to place the battle here. On the contrary, the terrain here is perfect for dealing with a certain number of northern wolves.

Kiel then began his analysis.