Mercenaries and Adventurers

Knight Lanissa released one hand holding the metal spear, grabbed the reins swinging in front of her, and pulled hard, twisting the entire horse's head.

Immediately, the entire horse crashed towards the Wolf King.

As for the Wolf King, as soon as the front paws touched the ground, they were pulled away by the impact of the other claws clashing and it was difficult to grasp the ground. The legs behind him that had not yet touched the ground were also in a mess.

But at the critical moment, it forced one of its hind legs to land on the ground, used the force to move its body, and at the end avoided the collision of the entire knight with its horse at an extremely dangerous distance.

Knight Lanisa spat, and she reluctantly slid the spear in her right hand back and stretched it between the Wolf King's forelimbs. Then she held the tip of the metal spear with her right hand and clamped the war horse with her legs to use it. Point, using the entire body and arms as a lever to throw away the long extended spear with force.

The staggering time during the battle was extremely short. This was the only attack the female knight could make in the moment after her horse failed to hit her.

Although the Wolf King barely avoided the impact of the knight, he was too late to make any more moves. He could only watch helplessly as the human knight handed out the spear and swung it away.

The tip of the spear instantly passed between the Wolf King's right front leg and his neck, instantly cutting off a long row of strong wolf hair, and flying a cluster of hot blood from the narrow wound between the muscles.

It was really hot blood. After this small cluster of blood fell to the ground far away, it first melted the snow where it landed, and then evaporated the water vapor nearby. After that, it even evaporated the dry grass under the snow, and then set it on fire. into ashes.

The Wolf King roared angrily, and a circle of air around it formed a wave shape and was blown away several meters by an unknown force. His eyes were fixed on the human knight who was turning on his horse, but a long tongue stuck out of his mouth, slid through the sharp teeth, and licked the wound between his leg and neck.

His eyes were filled with murderous intent.

Knight Lanisa pulled the reins of the war horse, causing the horse that had run a certain distance to slow down and turn around, and then fight again.

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On the other side, as the Wolf King explained something to the Northland wolves before fighting Lanissa Knight, the large group of Northland wolves no longer sat still, but became active.

They were divided into small teams according to the differences between the wolf dens. They bypassed the place where the wolf king and the human knights were fighting. Some of them began to divide into two teams and ran towards both sides of the entrance to the rock passage. The other part turned around and ran towards the forest behind them.

The cubs, which are young but about the same size as adult wolves, are quite excited and run happily, with their tongues sticking out of their mouths and flicking as they run, while the adult northern wolves leading each team are silent and serious.

Some of the northern wolves running toward Kiel and the others did not directly attack the human positions. Instead, they came to the sides of the passage that Kiel and the others could not see. Here, they began to follow what the Wolf King had told them before, using their claws to dig at the snow and cold soil on the ground next to the trench that Kiel and the others had made.

This is very easy for northern wolves. Usually after they excrete, they will dig holes and bury their excrement in the soil. At this time, only two rows of northern wolves quickly waved their front paws backwards, and the soil on the ground covered the short and thick spikes at the bottom of the trench.

"Damn it, those animals are really smart." Kil anxiously listened to the movement in invisible places on both sides of the passage, and he could guess what they were doing at this time just by thinking about it.

The companion next to him patted his shoulder comfortingly: "Okay, didn't at least last night have some effect?"

But another hunter had a different view: "I still think we shouldn't have spent time on those places in the first place. How about just using the excavated soil to strengthen the wooden wall under our feet? I think that's what Kendall City's outer city wall did. of."

Kil was embarrassed and wanted to scratch his hair, but after raising his hand, he could only reach the hard helmet.

"Okay, then why didn't you say it then? It's useless to say anything now. By the way, who among you knows what the other group of northern wolves who returned to the forest are doing?" A hunter came to the rescue for Kiel. Talked.

But as soon as he finished speaking, the northern wolves who returned to the forest in some topics came out sporadically.

The hunters, including Kiel, all had good eyesight and could see these northern wolves holding something in their mouths from a distance. Kil slapped his head: "I understand! They are trying to use the things in their mouths to trigger the metal clips we set up!"

Everyone looked at each other and realized what the Northern Wolf was going to do.

"Then what should we do now? We can't just let them break our position like this, right?"

"How is it possible? Well, uh, okay, everyone, please quickly pull back the wolf leather straps with the clips attached to them to prevent them from getting close to the metal clips at the entrance of the passage." Kil quickly came up with an emergency plan. .

Although they didn't know if it would be useful, the hunters followed Kil's method and quickly pulled back the wolf hide straps hanging on the edge of the wooden wall. Some of the metal clamps that were originally close to the wooden wall did not need to be moved. The main thing was to move the large number of metal clamps at the entrance of the passage slightly back.

As soon as Kiel and the others finished, the northern wolves with things in their mouths followed the two sides of the trench where the northern wolves had dug and buried them and approached the entrance of the rock passage directly.

As soon as a wolf head poked out from the edge of the rock at the entrance, an old hunter fired an arrow, which scared the northern wolf and quickly retracted its head and mouth.

It was also a little unwilling, and then hid on the outside side of the passage, shook its head diagonally towards the entrance of the passage and threw a fist-sized stone. The stone rolled and bounced twice on the ground, and finally stopped a hand away from an outermost metal clip.

Before the hunter could breathe a sigh of relief, a continuous stream of things were thrown over by the Northland wolves from the side of the passage entrance.

Branches, stones, fruit, dead bones.

Everything they could find from the edge of the forest was thrown in this way.

This made Kiel and the others look at each other in shock. Those scattered things were simply a pile of rubbish. It's really hard to find those Northern wolves who went to look for it. Kil even saw a strange-shaped humanoid skull, which made him guess whether that thing was a dwarf soldier who died nearby many years ago?

Although the behavior of the Northern Wolf seemed ridiculous, if Kiel and the others hadn't pulled the metal clamp back in time, a large number of metal clamps in the front row would have been closed by those 'things'.

Several old hunters pricked up their ears and listened for a while, and then quickly said seriously: "Attention! They are coming!"

As soon as he finished speaking, accompanied by the howls of a large group of Northern wolves, many Northern wolves emerged from both sides of the entrance to the rock passage in an instant.

As soon as they came out, they changed their running direction and ran directly into the middle of the passage, rushing straight into the wooden wall.

"Fire arrows! Shoot!" The hunters yelled and kept moving their hands, giving priority to shooting the fastest Northern wolves in an attempt to slow down and create obstacles for the Northern wolves behind them.

At the same time, the metal clamps placed all over the ground also worked. Every fast-running northern wolf was hit because there was not enough room to dodge. Once a certain leg or foot was clamped, the entire wolf would fall to the ground. The ground rolled and was trampled by the northern wolf behind him.

Kil, who had not yet fought the approaching Northern wolves, noticed something keenly. He carefully looked at the wave of Northern wolves rushing out, and saw the Northern wolves poking their heads at the entrance of the passage behind. The ones who discovered this and rushed out were all tall wolf pups. The truly experienced hunters had not yet launched an attack.

"Damn it!" With just this thought, Kil had to raise the spear in his hand, and then plunged the weapon into the wooden wall.

A lucky northern wolf pup crossed the obstacles and rushed to the wooden wall. At this time, it raised its upper body and tried to hold on to the wooden wall. Either for climbing or as a stepping stone for the companions behind you to climb over.

But Kil's spear thrust forced him to dodge to the right.

Its luck ended here. As soon as it avoided the spear, it stepped on the metal clip on the ground.

With a click, the sharp metal teeth that closed quickly clamped into the flesh of its legs and feet. No matter how it moved its legs and feet or gnawed the metal structure of the clamp with its mouth, it could not get rid of the pain.

On the wooden wall, Kier saw that the northern wolf was caught in the metal clamp, and then when the opponent tried to lower his head to get rid of the metal clamp, he stabbed from top to bottom, directly hitting the northern wolf pup. 's back.

The young wolf was bleeding profusely and its vitals were injured. It fell directly to the ground. After Kiel drew the gun, it could no longer control its twitching hind limbs and tail. It could only lie on the ground and let out a whimpering gasp. .

A northern wolf pup had just been seriously injured here, and the other two pups on the other side had come to the intersection of the wooden wall and the rock wall, and were trying to climb up one by one.

"Kiel! This way! This way!" The hunter above couldn't move his hand away at all. He was constantly aiming at the northern wolves trapped by metal clips on the position.

Grabbing the spear, Kil took two quick steps, passed the three hunters and came to the edge from the middle of the wooden wall.

It looked like he was about to succeed in trampling the northern wolf pup who was trampling his companion below. Kiel held the spear in his left hand and pulled out the dagger from his right belt with his right hand, stabbing it directly into the mouth of the snarling northern wolf pup. .

The sharp teeth that had not yet grown in were unable to damage the armor on Kil's arm, but the dagger directly penetrated the young wolf's brain from the upper jaw along the open mouth.

Without looking, Kil stabbed the wolf into the mouth with one hand, then used one arm to lift the northern wolf and threw it back, slamming it into the inside of the wooden wall.

Kiel kicked the body of the northern wolf, and with the help of the force, Kil took out his arm and dagger, and then inserted the dagger back into the dagger sheath on his waist. Kil turned around and lowered the head of the spear, and stabbed it at the bottom. Companions provided trampled on the collapsed Northern Wolf.

Afraid that he wouldn't be able to kill the northern wolf underneath with just one strike, he added two more strikes.

The hunter next to him pushed him: "Okay, there are several coming over there." Kil turned his head and found that indeed, a large number of young wolves quickly crossed the rocky passage set with metal clips. They came under the wooden wall one after another. Some even dragged the metal clips on their claws and ran over surrounded by their companions.

The hunters' bows and arrows simply couldn't stop this wave of extremely large numbers of northern wolves.

Kil placed the spear on the ground, took out the ax from behind, rushed to the other end of the wooden wall, and struck the head of a northern wolf with his entire upper body on the top of the wooden wall.

The momentum was overwhelming, and with a thud of wood hitting the wood, the wolf's head fell off.

Kiel's ax actually chopped off the head of the northern wolf. He raised his foot and kicked again, knocking the headless wolf body off the wooden wall.

Then he leaned out half of his body and swept the ax vertically from the edge of the wooden wall, cutting off the forelimbs of several northern wolves to prevent them from clawing up.

As soon as the siege was relieved, Kil looked up and found that it seemed that because the young wolves had done better than the adult wolves imagined, the adult Northland wolves also began to run here from the entrance of the passage.

Kil calculated that if the adult northern wolves followed and attacked here, it would be difficult for them to directly block it. To be honest, Kier didn't expect these northern wolf pups to be so unafraid of death. They didn't even care about the fear of death as adult wolves.

This can't go on like this.

Kil then killed a young wolf that rushed up with an axe, then grabbed the body of the young wolf and smashed it directly outside the wooden wall, smashing several young wolves building ladders in another area.

He patted an old hunter next to him, raised his hand and pointed directly at an inconspicuous mechanism on the upper side of the entrance to the passage.

"It's time! Old man!" Kil shouted loudly on the battlefield where wolves were howling and people were scolding him.

The old hunter didn't say anything, nodded and took a breath, then forcibly stabilized his arms, raised his bow and nocked an arrow, aiming at the small mechanism not far away.

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It was a short and thick branch standing upright. In order to stand out, it was wrapped several times with a blood-soaked cloth strip. Moreover, the position of this branch can only be seen from the wooden wall where Kiel and the others are. From the perspective of the attacking Northern Wolf, it is impossible to pay attention to it from the outside because it is blocked by the rock wall.

Only when the Northern Wolf ran to the wooden wall, then turned his head and looked up, could he see a small red dot on the gray and white mottled rocky mountain.

Whoosh, the arrow drew an arc, and the high-angle upward shot accurately hit the short and thick branch tied with a cloth strip.

The force of the arrow directly penetrated the branch. The metal arrow broke and exploded and scattered most of the branch, causing the branch that could barely support the stone at one end of the branch to break directly.

The stone the size of a human head was missing its support and fell directly down the rock passage.

However, there is a rope tied to the stone, which leads to the bottom support of another boulder that is slightly higher than it.

As the stone fell, the connecting rope was pulled and then straightened. With the force, the upper support was also taken away and fell into the rock channel.

While blocking the northern wolves that were coming up one after another, Keir paid attention to the mechanism he had prepared.

The rumbling sound of rolling stones was heard, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

Looking up, on the high side of the entrance to the rock passage, a stone larger than a horse rolled twice, making a huge collision with the sloping rock wall, and then fell straight down from the entrance.

There was a loud bang.

Keir felt the wooden wall under his feet shaking violently, and the thing almost fell apart. Everyone on the wooden wall, except Kiel, was knocked down by the huge impact and vibration of the wooden wall.

As for boreal wolves, the same goes for them. The wolf ladder with one wolf pressing down on the other was knocked down directly. Since they were on all fours without the buffering effect of the wooden wall, they could only lie on the ground to ensure stability. Moreover, the loud noise made them very uncomfortable with their keen hearing. The northern wolves that were slightly behind covered their ears with their front paws.

As for the Northern Wolf who was closer to the entrance of the passage, his whole body was covered in blood holes by the flying gravel from the boulder. He lay low on the ground and kept wailing.

As for the adult northern wolves that were originally hiding on both sides of the entrance and tried to rush in to join the fight, except for a small number of them that were crushed into pieces by boulders, the others were either knocked down by the shock, or ran away howling in the distance. .

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After waiting for a while, Kil saw that no other Northern wolves rushed in after the boulder fell at the entrance of the passage, and immediately shouted: "What a good opportunity! The stone blocked the rush in from outside, everyone should take the opportunity to kill them all." These northern wolves at your feet!”

The hunters came to their senses and stood up one after another to respond to Keir.

As for Keir, he boldly jumped down from the wooden wall and landed directly on a northern wolf pup lying on the ground covering his ears. The huge impact directly crushed the body of the young wolf. The fracture of the spine was extremely clear, and part of the internal blood and body fluids spurted out from the head and tail of the northern wolf.

With the northern wolf as a buffer, Kil stood up directly and chopped off half of a northern wolf with one swing of his axe. Then he slashed down with both hands and rolled several northern wolf cubs into a ball under the wooden wall. Wolf smashed.

One ax after another, until all of them were dead, he turned around.

The northern wolves began to retreat. They spent many lives to swarm in front of the human position in large groups, but at this moment, the rolling boulders shocked and blocked the subsequent attack of the northern wolves, causing the young wolves in front to finally know their fear.

They ran away from where they were at a faster speed than when they attacked, quickly passing over many of their companions whose legs and feet were caught by metal clamps during the impact, squeezing them away without even looking, crossing over them, and then jumping over the falling boulders. The wreckage escaped the sight of the hunters.

"Shoot those that can't run first!" the old hunter commanded on the wooden wall, first targeting those northern wolves whose legs and claws were trapped by metal clamps.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

Although their arms were sore, this was the time to beat up the drowned dog. Everyone shot hard. Originally, they were worried that the arrow would be taken away by the injured Northern Wolf and never be recovered, but at this time, the Northern Wolf below It's all food on one's own plate. There's no need to worry about returning the arrows, so everyone uses their full strength.

The same goes for Kiel. He killed a northern wolf cub with an ax and then ignored it. He directly pulled out his long sword and hunted. He didn't need a shield. He caught up directly, slashed left and right, and knocked down everyone who was carrying him and just trying to escape. Northern wolf pups.

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Until the last wolf pup was cut into two pieces by the sword thrown by Keir at the debris of the falling rocks, this wave of northern wolf offensive finally ended.

Although his body was covered in blood and stained wolf hair, Kil did not bother to clean it up, and immediately called on the hunters to pull the wolf leather strap connected by the metal clips, retract all the metal clips, and use them as a second line of defense.

He himself took back his weapon, and then dragged back the dead bodies of the northern wolves one after another while the northern wolves were regrouping. It's still the same principle, don't give the northern wolves even a chance to eat the corpses of their own companions.

Animals were originally reluctant to approach the rocky mountain. Although Kiel and the others didn't know if it was related to the battle decades ago, this was obviously good news. Plus, it was winter, and the animals were either migrating or hiding. Those who dare to wander around during the winter are either social predators like northern wolves, or they are powerful animals with special abilities and are not afraid of being preyed on.

Not giving enough food to the large group of northern wolves will force them to either disperse or intensify their offensive, making the situation even more dangerous. Not only the northern wolves, but humans themselves as well.

However, unlike the Nordland Wolves who are playing away games, Kiel and the others have more advantages at home.

Kil thought as he dragged the wolf corpse behind the wooden wall. In this battle, he not only had to defeat a large group of northern wolves, but also the wolf king. He felt that through the battle just now, he would definitely be able to get them all and win them all.