Mercenaries and Adventurers

Several hunters were carefully hiding behind the rocks not far away. Only half of their heads were exposed, and they were all quietly paying attention to the battle at the edge of the rocky mountain and the forest in the distance.

The young hunter was a little nervous. The two of them held the hunting bows in their hands tightly, and nervously grasped the tail feathers of an arrow with their fingers in their right hands, pinching the tail feathers until they were somewhat deformed.

Noticing the nervousness of the young hunter, the old hunter, who was also hiding behind the stone, patted the young man's shoulder and comforted him in a low voice: "Relax, Kil is quite capable. If he can't beat us and there is danger, he will call out to us." of."

The two young hunters nodded reluctantly, but they were still mumbling.

"To deal with so many wolves alone, is he a little overconfident?"

The old hunter breathed out: "Before Kil joined us, he dealt with beasts and monsters alone. Don't be nervous." As they said that, they saw Kil pull out the long sword in the distance.

The white light of the long sword lingered, not only illuminating Kil himself, but also conspicuously illuminating the northern wolves fighting with him one by one.

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When the sky gets dark, the northern wolf itself naturally expands its pupils, allowing more weak light to gather at the bottom of the eyes, so that it can see in the natural dark night.

But when Kil unsheathed his long sword, he deliberately controlled it to release the bright long sword that could illuminate the surrounding environment, but it suddenly dazzled the eyes of the northern wolves who were fighting him.

This was naturally what he expected. In battle, in addition to on-the-spot performance and pre-equipment preparation, small strategies can also play a big role.

Seeing the moment when the sword was drawn, several northern wolves on the opposite side closed their eyes tightly, or turned their heads and did not dare to look at him. Kil knew that this was an excellent opportunity.

He rushed towards a northern wolf that was turning its head. After getting close, he took advantage of the opponent's counterattack and stretched his long sword straight to the opponent's front door. After dazzling the northern wolf's eyes, he charged up a kick and kicked it out diagonally. The Northland Wolf kicked him to the ground.

Then he put the shield on top of the opponent's two front paws that were scratching on the ground, and then thrust the sharp long sword into the front abdomen of the northern wolf.

"Uuzuzu." The Northern Wolf howled.

Just by the feedback and touch from the hilt of the sword, Kil could tell how many internal organs he had punctured. By skinning dead wolves many times in the past, Kil had a rough grasp of the distribution of internal organs of the Northern Wolf, so this blow was aimed at the heart of the Northern Wolf.

Feeling that he had almost pierced the opponent's heart and some other internal organs, Kil quickly stopped thrusting. He was afraid that the long sword would go too deep and it would be bad if it got stuck on the bones of the northern wolf's back.

The sword penetrated halfway and was withdrawn, but the fallen North Wolf had no strength to stand up again.

Its body twitched, its four front and rear paws kept stirring the air, its mouth was wide open, but there was nothing to bite.

Ignoring the northern wolf, Kil swung his sword, then turned around and used his shield to block the charging northern wolf.

Boom. Kiel, who had solid steps, moved his body slightly back a foot distance, but directly blocked the opponent's attack.

The long sword in his right hand swings forward, and with the force of the swing, it stabs the northern wolf on the head. The heavy-forged hunting weapon is extremely strong and sharp. Just by piercing the wolf's head while swinging, it suddenly breaks open the wolf's head that could not be split before.

Wolf heads have many bones and are thick, so apart from their claws, their heads are the strongest part of their bodies. It is difficult for ordinary arrows to leave many effective attacks on wolf heads, unless they hit the eyeball or other vital points. place.

But Kil swung the long sword this time. The force was not very strong, but it cut open the strong bones of the wolf's head at once. Not only broke several wolf fangs, but at least he knocked the northern wolf slightly unconscious. , which is similar to the effect of punching a human on the chin.

There was no time to execute the northern wolf, because at the same time, another northern wolf squinted and pounced from behind Kiel.

Keir noticed, but seemed too late.

But just as the northern wolf jumped in the air, two arrows flew through the air, like antelopes hanging their horns, and hit the sneak attack of the northern wolf in mid-air.

The arrow was so powerful that the Northland Wolf could not use the force in the air, which forced its attack to change direction and miss the target. It fell into a ball on the ground next to Kil's body.

"Thanks!" Kil knew what was going on without looking, so he yelled and went into the battle again.

Striding forward, Kiel's shield opened the way, squeezing the Northland wolf who was on the opposite side of the shield and kept retreating.

The light shield was quickly retracted, and then swung out with all its might, forcing open the wolf's claws and bites. What followed was a straight stab with the long sword, but by chance, the stab was bitten by the northern wolf in front of him.

When the two were wrestling, the strength of Kil's single hand was naturally not as strong as the strength of the Northern Wolf's entire head and neck. Unable to retract his sword, Kil directly raised his kick and kicked the northern wolf in the chin.

His long sword was extremely tough, so Kil was not afraid of the long sword breaking due to complicated force. He shook his right hand left and right and felt that the long sword could move a little, then he directly grasped the hilt and stabbed deep into the mouth of the northern wolf.

The Northern Wolf's teeth clenched tightly on the sword, but it was still pushed into his mouth inch by inch. The sharp teeth in its mouth, which are as thick as fingers, bite the long sword body that is splashed with white light. It feels like it is swallowing a piece of light into its throat.

When the tip of the long sword pierced the Northern Wolf's throat, the Northern Wolf's resistance was quickly eliminated. Then the tip of the long sword pierced the neck behind the throat, and then stabbed out from the fur on the back of the northern wolf's neck.

The white light lingers at a very close place on the surface of the sword, but it does not directly contact the sword. Therefore, even if the strong sword is stained with the blood of the northern wolf, the vastness of its bloom is not affected.

Kil saw the tip of the sword coming out from the back of the Northern Wolf's neck, then twisted the sword in his hand and pulled and turned the entire hilt.

Hiss, hiss, boom.

Accompanied by the splatter of blood and the sound of metal severing bone fascia, most of the Northern wolf's head was cut off, and then fell down while maintaining a ferocious expression. Only a tiny bit of fur and muscle connected the head to the body.

"Hoo, drink." Kil exhaled a breath of hot breath, then took a deep breath and turned around.

Accompanied by the occasional whizzing sound of arrows, the northern wolf that had been hit by an arrow kept pounced and fell to the ground. It could not cross the area controlled by the hunters and attack Kiel.

After Killing the northern wolf at hand, Kil wiped the blood dripping from the sword with the wolf hair. Then he strode towards the last stubborn northern wolf.

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The lone hunter in these forests has a very tenacious character. Even when it was the only one left, it never ran away and still stared at Kiel with its shrinking eyes.

Fierce and desperate.

Kil is naturally not afraid. Continuous battles have made him a mature warrior. Any enemy that can be dealt with by the weapon in hand is an opponent that can be fought.

Pong, pong, pong.

The sword clashed with the shield, the rhythm matching his steps.

Every time he took a step closer to the Northern Wolf, he struck the shield with his long sword. Every impact caused the ears of the northern wolf on the opposite side to twitch. Although they did not show any fear of Kiel, the comparison in combat power between them was obvious.

It can't win, and it knows it.

"Hoo, ho, oooooooo!" After the northern wolf roared for the last time, he accelerated towards the human enemy with a few arrows that were hit on his body.

The hunters were concerned that Kiel was also moving around, so they stopped firing arrows.

Kil swung his long sword and struck the Northern Wolf with a heavy, slanted blow. The luminous sword blade drew a semicircle in the air, and struck diagonally from the neck of the Northland wolf, and then penetrated half a palm deep into the flesh. The huge force stopped the charging Northland wolf in mid-air.

With a flying kick, Kiel kicked up the Northern Wolf. Kil's body turned sideways in a circle, and the long sword stirred in the Northern Wolf's body as the arm turned.

Then, Kiel, who changed his posture, smacked the shield in his left hand toward the other side of the Northern Wolf's head and neck.

Bah.

The Northland Wolf retreated under the force, and bumped his head and neck more towards the long sword that had been chopped off in half. A large amount of blood flowed down from the sword, and more blood was vomited from the mouth of the Northland wolf.

Kil withdrew his sword and retracted it, while the Northern Wolf fell to the ground and looked at him with wide eyes, full of murderous intent.

Seeing the last look of the northern wolf through the white light of the sword, Kil was not happy. He stabbed with the long sword and pierced the wolf's eye and the back of his head.

"Phew, the killing is finally over. The rest probably won't come back to provoke us and stare at us." Kil muttered to himself, raised the long sword above his head, and then shook it left and right.

The hunters responded and came over carrying racks to hold things.

Without saying anything, everyone patted the shoulders of Kil's armor and began to pack up the body of the dead wolf, and then carried it back in pairs.

Kil himself grabbed a wolf's tail in each hand, dragged them back together.

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After that, without the northern wolves that had been affecting their logging work, Kiel's efficiency increased significantly. You can go a little deeper into the forest, specifically looking for trees that are not particularly large, felling them and cutting off the excess branches.

In these tasks, Kiel's ax really made a great contribution. Not only is it capable of chopping down monsters and beasts, it is also extremely effective when used to cut down trees. A tree trunk as thick as a person's waist can be chopped down directly with an ax on both sides.

If it weren't for the heavy weight, only Kil could use it for a long time, and the others were too heavy to carry around. This ax should be able to bring them more wood.

But Kil calculated that they had cut down many big trees in the past two days. Together with my friends, it should be roughly enough.

So everyone no longer cut trees, but used ropes to drag tree trunks, using the snow on the forest floor to pull the simply cleared tree trunks back to the rocky mountain passage.

Under Kiel's instructions, the hunters began digging trenches at the bottom of the rocky mountain and on both sides of the entrance to the rocky passage.

It doesn’t need to be deep or long, just wide enough.

Deep pits one meter deep and four meters wide were dug along both sides of the exit of the rock channel in the direction of the channel entrance. Although there were no suitable tools, everyone started digging with wooden shovels with flattened tops that resembled shovels.

The excavated hard soil was piled on both sides of the trench.

Kiel brought back the tree branches left behind by logging in the forest in bundles, chopped them into 30 centimeter-long pieces of wood, then used his long sword to split them into four pieces, and then sharpened one end and roasted it on the fire. Carbonization.

In the dug areas, Keir inserted these wooden thorns into the ground one by one, with the tips pointing upward and outward, and asked an old hunter to hold the dug out simple wooden barrels and pour the ice water at the bottom of these pits.

The cold weather caused the ice water that had just melted from the snow to refreeze into solid ice.

In addition, Kil also chopped the wood on the ground outside into a size that he could pull alone, and then asked the hunters to be responsible for digging the trench outside the entrance of the rock passage. The two old hunters were responsible for handling the wood spurs and the other. Collect the snow on the ground outside, then raise a fire at the entrance of the rock passage to bake it, and finally pour it to the bottom of the pit to freeze.

In order to maintain their physical strength for work, the five of them did not throw away the bodies of the previously killed northern wolves. They cut off the meat and soaked it in ice-cold salt water, and then directly skewered it and grilled it.

Everyone devoured the fishy and rough wolf meat, replenishing the salt from soaking the meat and replenishing the fatigue and hard work caused by the two days of heavy physical labor with the all-meat food.

Of course, it's hard work, at least these jobs are not dangerous. The hunters only need to follow the instructions of the young and smart Kiel. If they encounter problems, just call him over.

Not only did they work hard during the day, but when it got dark early at night, everyone raised fires for lighting and worked non-stop. When I was really tired and couldn't stand it anymore, I returned to the stronghold camp and rested in this safe place.

Since Kil had a steady stream of energy replenished on the hilt of the sword, whenever he felt exhausted, he would sit down and hold the hilt and scabbard to rest. The cyan light visible to the naked eye emitted and shone on his body, allowing him to quickly regain enough strength to work for a while longer.

Of course, he would still return to the stronghold to rest at midnight. The body and brain still have to have real sleep time.

He himself is not a monster.

Since they had killed and threatened all the northern wolves who were following them around, they felt at ease in their work and were very efficient. The sinkholes on both sides of the rock passage were quickly completed after Kiel joined the work.

Everyone took out the metal clamps from the stronghold and placed all the metal clamps on the ground facing the entrance of the rock passage.

Each metal clip is connected with a large number of wolf skin ropes that have been processed and cut into strips from northern wolf skins, and are long and connected to the entrance.

Here Kiel began to build the first position to hinder the northern wolves.

He did not place the main wooden wall of the position close to the entrance of the passage, just to prevent the Northland wolves from suddenly rushing out from places on both sides of the entrance where they could not see or hit. Instead, it was placed fifteen meters after entering the rock passage.

There was enough wood left here by Kiel to build a wooden wall as high as one person. The wooden wall does not need to be high, as long as it is not high enough for a northern wolf to climb over directly.

The hunters and he will defend themselves against the wooden wall. As long as the northern wolves cannot rush over in one go, they will be able to kill a large number of attacking northern wolves here.

They are not afraid that the northern wolves will not come to attack them. As long as the Northern wolves scattered throughout the forest gather together, due to the overall food problem, the gathered Northern wolves can only attack them first in the first few days when they are not too hungry. Once they stay together for a long time, the hungry northern wolves will either disperse, or they will have to kill them all in a hurry.

Kil tried his hunting sword and cross-water head two-handed ax in the rock passage. Both weapons can dig into the rocks of the rock passage without any damage.

Due to the weight of the ax, Kiel handed over his hunting to the second strongest young hunter in the team at this time, and asked him to follow Kiel to carve out depressions on the ground of the passage that could be used to insert wood. .

There is no need to dig too deep, because the entire channel is not very wide. When the wood is placed next to each other, it can be easily connected tightly through the tooth marks left on the wood artificially.

We first opened several deep pits on the left and right sides of the passage, and then placed a few slender and not thick tree trunks horizontally and placed them on both sides of the passage. Then dig a hole in the ground. Just dig a few dozen centimeters shallowly and then stop. Place the thick tree trunks upright into the pits, and then place them close to the tree trunks placed horizontally. Soon, a wooden wall will be completed. .

The old hunters were following Kil's instructions, pouring the ice water they had prepared little by little from both sides of the wooden wall. Before it flows down the wooden wall, the ice water is frozen into solid ice crystals by the cold weather.

When reinforcing the wooden thorns before, the old hunters quickly learned when to fall. The best time is when the ice water in their hands is about to freeze but not frozen. As long as it falls, the old hunters who have mastered the skills will quickly The simple wooden wall quickly froze into a whole.

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The wooden wall designed by Kiel had no passage in and out, so he specially prepared two slender logs to be placed on the outside of the wooden wall. A long sword was used to cut rough tooth marks on the wood that could easily collapse. Whether it was people or horses, they could walk over quickly.

The wolfskin strip attached to the metal clip that was previously placed outside can come in handy this time. The metal clip was placed on the position in front of the wooden wall, and the long wolfskin strip was connected to the back of the wooden wall.

During the subsequent battle, the northern wolf whose legs and feet are caught by the metal clamp will be the first target of their attacks. During the break in the battle, they can drag the wolf carcass back with the metal clamp. The metal clip can continue to be used on the second level of the position.

After setting up the first defensive position.

Kil also tried to use an ax to split the base of several half-man-high stones on both sides of the passage. When the stone was about to fall, he used a wooden block to barely support the base of the stone. A rope was tied to the wooden block and connected to a stone as big as a human head next to it.

This small stone is placed next to the rock passage and can be seen from the first wooden wall of the position.

Kil asked the old hunter if he could use his bow and arrow to shoot at the smaller stone. To this end, he specially prepared a stone of similar size for the hunter to try.

The results work.

As long as the small stone is not so stable when placed, you can shoot it down with an arrow, and it will then fall down the channel, driving the rope to tear off the support point of another large stone.

After this was done, Kiel and the others began to build a second line of defense overnight while it was dark.

Because the next day was the final return time they had agreed with Knight Lanissa. If you go out and risk disturbing the large-scale gathering of Northern Wolf, you will return tomorrow at the latest. Since he didn't come back today, he will definitely come back tomorrow.

Kiel calculated in his mind that he could finish half of the second defensive line tonight, and another half day tomorrow would be enough. When the people who went out come back and there are enough people, maybe the third line of defense can be completed before midnight tomorrow.

As for the final fourth line of defense, they will actually use their strongholds as the main body. And Kiel even planned to build a final line of defense in front of the top of the mountain behind the stronghold, using the steep terrain of the last mountain top and the flat rock platform on the top of the mountain to do so.

He even arranged a retreat route. I just don’t know if there is enough time.