Mercenaries and Adventurers

The Northland wolves first howled in unison, and then the adult wolves and two or three young wolves who were about to become adults formed a team that could be accommodated by the rock passage. They leaned closely together and officially entered the rock passage.

They crossed over the remains of the original first wooden wall, which was covered by debris. The ash warmth at the bottom burned the fur on the belly and paws of the northern wolves that ran over it black and scorched. The young wolves didn't have enough endurance, so they screamed as they ran across this still hot area.

The adult wolf disdains the endurance of the young wolf, so he shakes his head and butts the young wolf that makes the cry to make them quiet down.

After crossing the first burned wooden wall, turning a corner of the rock passage, we officially entered the second position designed by Kiel.

When the first row of northern wolves appeared in Kiel's eyes, an old hunter yelled: "Fire the arrows! In cooperation, hit one end!"

They learned from previous experience. After all, due to the terrain, it was difficult for the Northern Wolf to exert its numerical advantage. But at the same time, hunters are unable to use their hunting bows for long-range shooting due to the limitations of rock passages.

From the time when the Northern Wolf appeared at the turn of the passage in front, to the second wooden wall under Kiel and the others, the total length is only more than 30 meters. This distance is really too close, and it is basically in the same distance as them. The backyard of the house in Del City is almost the same length, and even wider than the backyard where we practice shooting.

Such a short shooting distance naturally greatly limits the hunters' advantage in attack distance. At this time, considering the speed of the northern wolf when it is sprinting, the arrows can only be fired for one or two rounds at most. The arrows fired at this point would hardly bring a fatal attack to the Northern Wolf facing them head-on.

So the veteran hunter who was in charge asked everyone to shoot at one or two targets, hoping that one or two shots would be enough to kill one or two northern wolves.

And don't forget, they also have metal clips all over the front channel to help defend.

He remembered the sound of swishing arrows flying through the air, and the vibrations of bowstrings echoed around Kil. At this time, he quickly took out a sugar pill that had been hidden in a small pouch on his armor belt and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he closed the visor, because the situation was urgent at this time, so naturally no one cared about his little movements.

Kil actually doesn't want to use this semi-homemade pill so frequently. After all, his eyes and brain will hurt for a while after each use, although the side effects have been alleviated a lot in recent times. But Kil is not stupid. The symptoms have alleviated, which does not mean that the harm caused by the pill is gone. It can only be said that his body may have gradually adapted to the sequelae caused by the pill.

Chew the pill in your mouth carefully and then swallow it.

The battle in front of us has gradually become more intense.

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The northern wolf, which was focused on by the hunters, was hit by multiple arrows in an instant, and its head and face were pierced by sharp arrows. The skills, skills and experience of the old hunters are very powerful. Even in such a tense situation, the four of them still steadily shot arrows into the eyes or front paws of the northern wolf. Hitting the eyes would have a huge impact. It is possible to shoot a northern wolf to death and hit the front paw of a running northern wolf, which will cause the running northern wolf to fall. Not only will it fall to the ground, but it will also trip the northern wolf behind it, increasing the number of enemies behind it. The speed of the rushing northern wolf running and sprinting.

The young hunters, on the other hand, could only shoot arrows at the northern wolves in a tight timing, which was enough for them.

Fortunately, they were not just fighting with arrows at this moment.

Click, click, click.

Continuously, the legs and claws of the northern wolves were clamped by metal clamps on the ground. They howled and then stumbled, and then were either hit in the torso by new arrows, or stepped over by the northern wolves following behind.

The continuous metal clamps greatly hindered the advancing northern wolves. Even some timid young wolves were frightened and slowed down when they saw the metal clamps in front of them and did not dare to move forward. However, other northern wolves behind them The earth wolf pushed them, but they were still pushed forward, and then their bodies were clamped.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

The hunters are all releasing arrows quickly. They often use their fingers to directly pick out the arrows from the quiver at their waist. After pulling them out, they use clever techniques to put the arrows on the bowstring one by one, and then draw the bow, quickly Aim briefly and shoot.

The other arrows between your fingers will once again be equipped with a new arrow.

And as the Northern wolves rushed forward, even if the hunters tried their best, one after another Northern wolves rushed to the second wooden wall in a very short time.

Standing on the wooden wall, Keir struggled to thrust the spear in his hand downwards, directly and violently pierced the back of a Northern wolf, pulled out the spear, and then pierced the abdomen of a Northern wolf diagonally from the side.

Just when Kiel was drawing his gun, a northern wolf tried to bite the shaft of Kiel's spear with its sharp teeth, but Kiel directly swung the spear, and the hard wooden shaft broke several of the wolf's teeth. teeth.

The spear couldn't take care of it anymore. More and more northern wolves rushed over. Then they stepped on the backs of those northern wolves stabbed by Kiel, and directly used the speed of running to rush directly to the human wooden wall. .

They wouldn't let them get what they wanted. Kil knew that the spear couldn't be taken care of at this time. He immediately let go of the spear in his hand and let it fall off the wooden wall. Then he pulled out the long sword directly from his waist to hunt, and used it on the head. The force of drawing the sword broke the jaw of the northern wolf that was trying to charge forward, splitting the lower half of the wolf's mouth into two.

Pushing the injured Northern Wolf down with his left hand, Kil easily removed the shield from his back, quickly held it in his left hand, and put the shield on his left forearm while walking to the right.

"This way! They're coming up!"

Another northern wolf jumped up. The wooden wall built according to the width of the passage was not large. Kil rushed over in two steps. He first used his shield to hold the northern wolf back, and then the young hunter next to him directly pressed his head against the northern wolf. An arrow was released from a distance, and the arrow went directly into the northern wolf's eyeball, killing the northern wolf.

"Dead!" the young hunter shouted, reminding Kiel of the situation of the Northern Wolf on the other side of the shield.

After hearing his words, Kil directly pushed his shield forward and threw the northern wolf three meters away. It fell to the front and hit two young wolves.

"Shoot the northern wolves that are farther away, and give all the ones that come over to Kiel!" The veteran hunter in command trusted Kiel's close combat ability, so he directly adjusted the hunters' shooting targets and targeted the northern wolves at the turn of the passage. as a target.

He also saw that if the hunters kept following the northern wolf closer to their target, then the northern wolf that fell under the wooden wall would naturally become the stepping stone for the other northern wolves behind to climb up the wooden wall.

The biggest problem with their defense line is that the wooden wall under their feet is too low.

Two meters high, even if the slope of the passage floor is included, the absolute height is not two meters high. For the Northern Wolf, some strong guys can run and run directly at this height without even stepping on collapsed objects. The claws rushed up directly against the surface of the wall.

As the hunters moved their attack targets farther away, the number of northern wolves rushing towards them suddenly decreased. But correspondingly, the northern wolves that had already rushed over were left unattended.

They boldly tried to rush up the wooden wall, but were stubbornly blocked by Kiel.

Kiel's technique is also very simple. Wherever the northern wolf rushes up, he directly smashes the shield in the face. At the same time, he thrusts the long sword against the shield, and then uses force to push the northern wolf off the wooden wall.

There were too many people on the wooden wall, and Kil couldn't swing the long sword properly, otherwise he would hurt his companions first, not to mention hurting the northern wolf.

If his companions were all armored warriors like him, then it would be fine, and his unintentional swing would naturally not hurt anyone else. But Kil's companions were all hunters who only wore some thick hunting clothes. The simply kneaded leather and the cold-proof animal fur underneath couldn't stop the reforged long sword.

Therefore, Kil had no choice but to either slash and chop straight up and down, or use more long sword thrusts to avoid lateral swings of the long sword.

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"Ooooooo!"

A roar of the wolf king came from the front of the invisible passage. Then, Knight Lanisa, who had been standing high on the rock wall without moving, picked up Kil's metal spear with her left hand, and entered the fighting position with her one-handed heavy sword in her right hand. She looked towards the entrance of the passage and squatted down slightly, ready for a fight at any time.

It was impossible to ride a war horse in this place. Although it looked disadvantageous to her at first glance, on the contrary, as a knight-level strongman known for her explosive power, she was truly powerful in close combat alone.

Kiel and the others, who were inside the rock passage, could not see the scene after the turn ahead, but there was a sudden loud noise at the corner of the rock passage, and many smoldering wood ashes and charred and smoky wolf bones flew out.

Those things seemed to be blown away by a huge force, flying straight out, and these high-temperature things were falling all over the sky.

Some of them were flaming.

At this moment, not only the Northern Wolves in the passage, but also Kiel and the others had to avoid these things, or use weapons or something to fight off the burning objects that were about to fall on them.

"Be careful, don't let these things ignite the wooden wall under our feet!" Kil shouted loudly, and the hunters also noticed this. Everyone had to dodge the scattered high-temperature falling objects and use boots. Kick away the objects falling from the wooden wall, or stamp out the small flames.

The old hunter directed a young hunter to get down from the wooden wall and take care of some prepared wood at the bottom behind the wooden wall so as not to be ignited by these things.

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After the explosion, the Wolf King appeared.

It panted slowly and walked out from the end of the passage. Not only that, its whole body was vaguely enveloped in a layer of high-temperature air.

Because of this, no other ordinary northern wolf came close to it, not even the possessed fake wolf kings before. Instead, it turned into empty wolf skins flying around the wolf king again.

These empty wolf skins were glowing with bloody red light at this time. Not only did they look evil, but the dropped objects they touched would be knocked away by the red light the moment they came into contact with them.

It seems that the red light is not only used to bluff people, but also seems to have the ability to counterattack with force when it gets close.

When the Wolf King turned his head to look at Kiel and the others, Kiel heard more than one gasp of air, and everyone looked scared.

But under the influence of the red-eyed mushroom sugar pills, Kil felt a little strange. Not only did he not think the Wolf King was scary, he even felt that he should be able to compete with the Wolf King.

Especially when the ax behind his back vibrated, some vague voices were saying something to him. Even though Kil couldn't hear clearly, he seemed to know what the ax meant.

Fight, fight, beat it, beat it.

Kil couldn't help but want to change the long sword in his hand into an axe, and rush forward to fight with the Wolf King.

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"Your opponent is me!" A soft cry came clearly from the rock wall of the rock passage. Knight Lanisa jumped directly from the height of the rock wall, and the metal spear in her hand stabbed the Wolf King in the middle of the passage.

The Wolf King instantly turned to look at the female knight, and then the two empty wolf skins flying around it, emitting red light, twisted, stretched their bodies like weapons, and pierced the human knight in the air.

However, the movement of the spear held in Knight Lanissa's left arm remained unchanged, and she still stabbed the Wolf King. The heavy one-handed sword in her right hand slashed left and right, and the empty wolf skin flying towards her sparked scattered red lights in the air, It flies away.

Those red lights were not just fake, not only did they protect the seemingly unprotected wolf skin from being chopped into pieces during the fight, it also played another role.

The red light had force when it came into contact with the object. Although Lanissa Knight knocked it into the air to protect herself, the direction of her falling from the air was changed when she was hit by that force.

The spear that was meant to stab the Wolf King was unable to reach the Wolf King. Not only that, the Wolf King seemed to have calculated the distance accurately and struck the human knight with a powerful and heavy front paw swing.

Knight Lanissa had just landed in the passage, and before she could stand still, she faced the Wolf King's attack.

She simply did not change from the half-crouching position when she landed on the ground. The moment the Wolf King swung his claws, she slightly changed the direction of the metal spear clamped on her left arm. The gun head changed from facing the Wolf King's head to facing the head and face. Wolf King Claws.

The tail of the gun was slightly grounded. She did not intend to rely on her own body to withstand the subsequent force, but let the metal spear bear the blow of the Wolf King on its own.

With a pop, the Wolf King's strong claws hit the metal gun head.

After the metal spear head penetrated into the flesh, it was firmly stuck in the claws, and then the entire force of the swing came to the barrel of the metal spear.

The gun barrel trembled for a very short time, and then bent, but it still vibrated with difficulty. The tail of its gun was pressed against the rock on the ground, and the force instantly caused it to explode and fly away from the surface of the rock and the fine gravel that was broken on the surface. Then the tail of the gun firmly pressed into the groove that was pressed out by it.

Knight Lanisa let the spear bear the force on its own, so she naturally had other plans. The moment the Wolf King's claws hit the spear, she lowered her body slightly and exploded with force from a half-crouched position. Her whole body crashed directly into the gap under the Wolf King's head.

The wolf king's head is two meters above the ground. After swiping with one claw, its other claw must support the ground to maintain its stability. Otherwise, without a stable stress point, its own swing will be useless. Powerful.

After an instant dash, Knight Lanissa clenched the handle of the one-handed epee with her right hand, and grasped the middle of the epee sword with her left hand. The entire sword was slightly raised, slightly higher than her body, and then she lowered her body. Rush forward.

Although the Wolf King is slapping the metal spear with one claw and stabilizing its body with the other claw, it still has a wolf mouth full of huge teeth for defense.

Seeing the human knight approaching it, it opened its big mouth, lowered its head and bit the human knight who rushed towards it without opening its eyes.

Faced with the Wolf King's response, Lanissa Knight could only lower her overall body height in an attempt to avoid the Wolf King's bite.

With a sudden movement, Knight Lanisa, who lowered her body, finally avoided the biting Wolf King's mouth by a hair's breadth, and suddenly reached the bottom of the Wolf King's neck.

She was so ecstatic that she directly sent the one-handed epee upwards. Then her legs and feet also rubbed against the rocky ground. With sparks flying everywhere, she jumped upwards.

The one-handed heavy sword made of unknown material shredded the Wolf King's wolf fur, broke through the tough Wolf King's wolf skin, and stabbed directly into the Wolf King's abdomen. He also tried to follow Knight Lanisa's movement to make the one-handed sword penetrate deeper and make the wound larger and longer.

But at this moment, two red lights flashed.

Two empty wolf skins emitting red light came directly to the side of the Wolf King. The empty wolf mouths bit the Wolf King's fur and flew upwards.

Just like that, the entire huge body of the Wolf King was lifted up almost thirty centimeters, and the sword that had penetrated the Wolf King's body was suddenly pulled out.

"Damn it!" the female knight cursed loudly. She did not expect that the attack she had prepared for a long time, using the terrain and calculating the Wolf King's series of reactions, would be broken by the Wolf King unexpectedly.

Although she was furious, Lanisa Knight still had a trick up her sleeve.

Fighting in rock passages allows hunters to take advantage of the location to fight against ordinary northern wolves with numerical superiority. On the other hand, she found an opportunity to inflict serious damage on the Wolf King.

And that opportunity is what is about to happen now.

"Tost!" She shouted as she slashed at the Wolf King's claws with her sword.

The old hunter who was called on the wooden wall did not respond as Knight Lanisa had told him before. He just silently raised his bow, caught the arrow and held it between his fingers, and took aim slightly. Knight Lanisa was fighting before forward standing position.

The light there was flickering, and a short and thick branch tied with a cloth strip was flying fiercely as the wind blew by.

Whoosh.

In the fierce battle, the sound of flying arrows was not noticeable at all. Except for the different landing point, it is no different from other arrows flying in the air at this moment.

The arrow drew a slightly higher arc and hit the branch directly.

After the arrow shattered the branch, the small stone supported by the branch rolled down directly, and the stone it was tied to flew away from the thick branch supported by another large stone behind it.

The larger stone also rolled down as the support disappeared.

Boom.

Huge rocks rolled down the rock wall, making a deafening sound.

The Wolf King at the bottom of the passage looked up, his eyes wide open and startled. It immediately wanted to dodge, but at this moment the human knight underneath it was making trouble, constantly attacking its claws with weapons, forcing it to use its claws with metal spears to hinder the human knight.

But as a result, its two front paws were extremely busy, and it was difficult for its two hind legs to dodge the falling boulders in time.

As a last resort, it had to let two empty red-lighting wolf skins push its body, giving itself the strength to dodge.

How could Knight Lanissa give the Wolf King this opportunity?

She immediately threw the one-handed heavy sword in her hand. The sword first hit the rock wall, and then bounced with the shattered gravel and hit the empty wolf skin beside the Wolf King.

Knight Lanisa didn't care that she was still under the Wolf King at this time. She risked herself being hit by the huge stone and tried to get the Wolf King to be hit by the huge stone of at least ten tons first.