Mercenaries and Adventurers

At this moment, most of Knight Lanissa's body armor was stained by a stream of scorching hot blood. The blood exuded the same temperature as flames. Some things on the knight's armor that were not made of metal were ignited by this high temperature. .

"Huh." Kil endured the hot air coming from the pavement and kept dragging the heavy Knight Lanisa away from the Wolf King's belly.

In Knight Lanisa's right hand, she was still holding a thin sword that she had been using before. There was a lot of blood on the blade of this thin sword, and it was constantly emitting high temperatures.

But even so, Knight Lanisa never let go of her grip on the hilt of the sword. I don’t know if it’s because her armor itself has a heat-insulating effect, or because Knight Lanissa is not particularly afraid of getting burned.

As soon as he was far away from the Wolf King, Knight Lanessa groaned in pain. Kil immediately picked up some snow and ice cubes that had been cleared here from the corner of the rock wall, and sprinkled them on the knight's armor, trying to give it to the knight. She cools down.

Hiss hiss.

Handfuls of ice and snow were sprinkled on her body, and they were immediately turned into water vapor by the high temperature. Although it doesn't seem to have much effect, at least Lanissa Knight feels better.

Regardless of the pain, the female knight rolled from lying on the ground to lying on her back.

She wiped the metal helmet with her arm that had not been splashed with the Wolf King's blood, and opened the previously closed visor.

"Hey, this." Knight Lanisa didn't say anything, but Kil was shocked.

Because the skin on half of Lanissa Knight's face was so hot and curled at this moment, it was as if someone had covered her face with a red-hot iron.

Kil saw that the burnt area of ​​the female knight happened to be the part of the faceplate stained with the blood of the Wolf King.

He then looked at Knight Lanissa's armor, which was stained with the blood of the Wolf King, and he realized even more how bad Knight Lanissa's situation was at this moment.

Not to mention that the body skin under the armor was burned by the high temperature. Just seeing that some of the Wolf King's blood on the armor was still releasing high temperatures like fire, you knew how much pain she was feeling at this moment.

Wait, maybe part of Lanisha Knight's skin that senses pain has been burned away?

Thinking of this, Kil shuddered even more. It was the first time for him to be so close to someone who was so seriously injured. I couldn't help but feel at a loss.

Knight Lanisa's eyes were intact. She glanced at Kil, who was stunned on the spot: "Huhu, stop being stunned and continue to sprinkle some ice and snow."

"Oh, oh, yes, yes." Kil came to his senses and quickly threw handfuls of ice and snow from the corner of the rock wall onto Knight Lanisa.

Knight Lanissa, who was leaning against the wall of the rock passage, glanced at the Wolf King with regret and worry in her eyes.

"Lord Knight, do you want me to call everyone over? Let's quickly retreat behind the wooden wall." Kil asked while busy.

"Huhu, what's going on with the Wolf King?"

Kil glanced at the huge wolf king not far away: "The wolf king was hit on the head by a stone before. He seemed to be dizzy from the hit, but he could still stare at me when I passed by. When I got close to it, it tried to attack me with its claws."

"Hoo, ho. Damn it, what a shame. Stop calling the hunters, use this." She finished speaking with pain.

"Shhhhhhhh!" She whistled with half-burned lips to summon her beloved horse.

Immediately, behind the second wooden wall of the position not far away, Knight Lanissa's horse turned around and turned its ears towards the place where the sound came from.

"Shh shh shh." The voice came again.

It heard clearly this time, and ran around in a small circle, then jumped towards the wooden wall, jumping over the two-meter-high wooden wall in one breath.

Landing on the other side of the wooden wall, it also crushed a seriously injured northern wolf. But it didn't care. After snorting, it quickly ran forward.

On the wooden wall, the hunters looked at each other.

"The whistle just now, the knight is summoning the horse, right?" A hunter asked his companion.

The companion nodded: "Yes, it's Mistress Lanessa's whistle. She is calling the horse. Just be fine."

The hunters breathed a sigh of relief.

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The war horse's iron hooves clattered through the rock passage at high speed, and then with a small jump, it climbed over the large debris of the boulder that fell in the center of the passage.

Even though the Wolf King was still dazed at this moment, he still noticed the human knight's horse. It waved its front paws, trying to knock over the uncontrolled beast.

It's a pity that its hope was in vain. Even if no one was controlling the war horse, it still nimbly dodged the claws of the Wolf King, which had lost its speed.

The war horse carefully glanced at the Wolf King lying on the ground, and then cleverly followed the wall on the other side of the rock passage to the side of the knights Kil and Lanisa.

Because of Kiel's busy work, the armor on the female knight's body no longer contained the burning blood of the Wolf King. The high temperature around her body quickly cooled down as the ice and snow turned into water vapor. After all, even at this time, In the rocky passage, winter temperatures are still below freezing.

Without the high temperature released by the Wolf King's blood, the scorching heat on the armor quickly cooled down like rootless duckweed.

Lanissa Knight only made a slight groan of pain when speaking. At other times, even if she gritted her teeth, she did not make a sound.

Her character has been tempered many times over the years, and she is no longer the girl she used to be.

Her war horse arrived, but Knight Lanissa tried twice and couldn't stand up, let alone mount the war horse. She only had one arm that could be used easily at this time, and even if Keir helped, he would never be able to lift the female knight, who weighed more than 200 kilograms in total, onto the horse.

Firstly, the knight was wearing heavy armor, and secondly, this war horse was too tall.

It was much taller than the horse Kiel was riding.

Knight Lanisa had no choice but to hold the stirrup on one side of the horse with her hand. She fell to the ground and signaled the horse to return behind the safe wooden wall.

The war horse turned its head and looked at its owner in confusion, but did not move.

It wasn't until Knight Lanisa impatiently asked Kil to push the war horse's butt that the war horse, which finally understood what to do, began to walk around in small steps, walking back to the place where it came from step by step.

It moves very carefully, fearing that its heavy hooves will step on its owner who is dragging it on the ground.

Knight Lanissa's armor made an unpleasant squeaking sound when it rubbed against the ground. Although the voice was unpleasant, Lanissa Knight didn't care.

When she passed the wolf king's head, her eyes met the wolf king's.

The Wolf King excitedly tried to get up and attack, but as soon as he raised half of his body, he seemed to be drunk. He was worse than the drunkard who loved to drink in Kendall City. His head was shaking, and then He fell on the rock wall and hit his head.

Lanisha Knight, half of her face burned by the high temperature, let out a weird laugh.

Kiel, who was walking aside, stood upright with his sword and shield, nervously watching the Wolf King's movements. It was not until the Wolf King's head hit the rock wall that he breathed a sigh of relief.

He tried to get close to the Wolf King to take advantage, but as soon as he got close to the attack range of the Wolf King's claws, the Wolf King immediately waved his claws. Although he failed to hit Kil, who retreated in time, it also let Kil know that he still looked the same size. The huge wolf king had the upper hand in this battle.

At the same time, at the entrance of the rock passage, the northern wolves, who had been scared away by the falling boulders, were gradually approaching. If they hadn't been afraid to approach the Wolf King, Kil's rescue of Knight Lanisa wouldn't have been so smooth.

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The war horse quickly returned to the second wooden wall. The hunters above saw Knight Lanisa grabbing the horse's stirrup and dragging it back from a distance, so they immediately set up a simple wooden ladder to enter and exit the wooden wall. Run down and try to rescue Lanissa Knight.

When they saw Knight Lanissa's armor covered in blood, no one paid much attention to it, but they were still shocked when they saw Knight Lanissa's injuries that looked like half of her face had been burned by flames.

Seeing that Knight Lanisa seemed unable to move, everyone tried to help the knight up.

However, everyone found that one or two people could not lift the immobile Knight Lanisa at all. Fortunately, there were still quite a lot of them, and they were all in a hurry. They all lifted Knight Lanisa up, barely passed the simple wooden ladder, and returned to the back of the wooden wall.

The war horse also jumped over in one breath.

-

Lying on the quilt next to the fire, Knight Lanisha, who had only one arm that could move smoothly, first put her armor-piercing rapier into the scabbard on her waist. Fortunately, the connecting parts of her armor are connected with metal buckles and straps made of metal wires, so when most of her body was covered and soaked with high-temperature blood, the armor parts on her body were not burned by the high-temperature blood.

If it were Kiel, not to mention whether he would be burned to death by the high temperature, but his armor would definitely be burned by the high temperature, and the connecting parts of the armor would be burned off. The hard cowhide armor protection pieces would also be burned to death. It might get burned.

Although Knight Lanisa was lying on the ground, her mind was clear and she kept issuing tasks to everyone.

The old hunter quickly returned to the original stronghold camp and took the treatment medicine from the bag she brought. In addition to medicine, a change of clothes must also be obtained.

Because under the armor, the clothes she wore before were now stuck to her burnt skin. Most of the body is like this.

Although it sounds cruel and serious, for Knight Lanisa, as a knight, the injury is far from fatal. It is just because the high temperature on the body surface has melted all the clothes and armor together, and it will be very painful to move even slightly. It's hard to get her to move. Her body is actually relatively healthy at the moment.

At least the key body trunk and head suffered no internal damage.

She figured it out at this time. It seemed that the Wolf King was not seriously injured. However, her armor-piercing rapier had penetrated deeply into the Wolf King's body before. It must have pierced some internal organ or large blood vessel, otherwise it would not have lost so much blood and burned her.

In addition, the Wolf King's head was also directly hit by a piece of flying gravel, hitting him in the forehead. Although it did not appear to be a trauma and there was no bleeding, Lanisa Knight guessed that the impact injury to the head might be more serious than it appeared to the naked eye.

She licked the burned half of her lips and forced a smile.

This made the hunters surrounding her look at each other, but they didn't dare to say anything.

After laughing enough, Knight Lanisa used her arms that could still move at the moment to untie the neck armor on her neck, and endured the severe pain to remove the helmet: "Hoo, ho. It hurts so much."

She touched half of her scalded face and half of the hair on the back of her head that was singed by the high temperature. She clenched her fist tightly and smashed it on the ground.

Boom.

Boom!

Boom——!

Each sound was louder than the other.

Even with such an injury, she still smashed the rocks on the ground three times with her fists, which relieved the anger in her heart.

Seeing the hunters looking at her, Knight Lanisa sighed: "It's not a serious injury. After returning to Kendall, let any church pastor or trainee pastor treat it, and it will be fine. It's just a skin injury, look. It’s nothing serious.”

No one dared to say anything. After all, it was you who smashed the ground with your fists, and you were the one who said it was not serious. After all, you are the boss, so whatever you say is what you say.

"Kiel!" Knight Lanissa called out Kil's name: "Do you dare to give you a dangerous mission to retrieve the weapon you left behind during the battle?"

Keir patted his chest and said it was okay.

"Pay attention to the Wolf King. Although it seems to me to have been more seriously injured, it is still not something you can deal with. Don't confront it head-on, just get the weapon back." Knight Lanisa told him to pay attention.

"Without further delay, let's go quickly while it's still unconscious."

Kil immediately turned around and started running. The other hunters were divided into two halves by Knight Lanissa. One half was on the wooden wall to guard against the northern wolves that might attack, while the other half went to the wooden wall to kill the dead northern wolves. Get the body back.

These corpses are not only for shooting when the battle may start again after the impact, but also to use their corpses to fill the space under the wooden wall. If the Wolf King is in better condition, the Northern Wolf ordered by him may be killed before dawn. Attack again.

Without giving it this chance, if the Northern Wolves organized an attack again, she planned to immediately set fire to the wooden walls and block both ends of the rock passage.

Although the wooden wall without enough wolf corpses would not burn for as long as before, it would at least give her a period of time to clean up her injuries.

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Keir strode to the place where the boulder fell. Turning around, I saw at the corner of the rock passage that the Northland Wolf King was crawling slowly towards the entrance of the rock passage. Around the Wolf King, there were some adult northern wolves surrounding him from a distance, wanting to get closer but not daring to get close.

When Kiel saw them, these northern wolves also saw Kiel. The northern wolves gave a short howl to alert the other northern wolves, and the wolf king, who was crawling slowly, responded to the northern wolves with a deep roar.

As if they had received instructions, several northern wolves separated and stared at Kiel cautiously, as if they would immediately attack as long as Kiel made any rash move.

Seeing that these northern wolves did not want to launch an attack, Kil had no intention of asking for trouble. He used some lighting on the second position to try to find the weapons still left at the scene.

Soon, he saw his metal spear left behind where the Wolf King had been lying.

There was a large mass of blood in the Wolf King's abdomen. The blood was glowing slightly red at this time, indicating that it still had a very high temperature.

The metal spear and the Wolf King's blood were mixed together, leaving Kil at a loss as to what to do.

It's definitely not possible to hold it directly with hands. After all, even though he has thick gloves, if he directly grabs the very hot metal gun shaft heated by high-temperature blood, he will still burn his gloves or burn the palm inside the gloves.

Kil thought for a while and felt that it was so cold around him that he could just pull out the metal spear like he had done when he rescued Knight Lanissa, and then let it cool down by the low-temperature air around it.

He did what he thought of. While keeping a cautious distance from the northern wolf that was watching eagerly not far away, Kil approached the blood left by the wolf king on the ground.

After observing closely this time, Keir made a small discovery. He discovered that the blood of the Wolf King was like a kind of fuel. When it left the Wolf King's body, it would emit high temperatures. When the burning blood released its own heat, they themselves would disappear.

It is as if it is consuming itself by emitting high-temperature energy.

Therefore, where the blood of the Wolf King was still there, in the end, only the burned white rocky ground was left, and nothing else was left.

Kil turned the sword upside down and hung part of the metal spear with the sword lattice in front of the hilt. He held the sword in his hand and pulled the metal spear. He quickly pulled his spear out of the burning blood of the Wolf King. .

There is no problem with this weapon. Kil thought for a moment. Counting the weapon lent to Knight Lanissa and the armor-piercing rapier that had been held by the knight before, it seems that there is another knight who rarely sees him. Commonly used important weapons have not been seen yet.

Kil looked around and didn't see the small one-handed heavy sword around.

Considering the weight of the weapon, it's not something a northern wolf can take away. The Wolf King didn't even care about the metal spear that was so close to it. He probably didn't have time to deal with the weapon used by Knight Lanissa even when he was injured.

Kil looked around again, and indeed he didn't see any weapons on the ground.

He suddenly turned his head and looked at the place behind him where the boulder had fallen.

"No way. Could it be that the weapon was pressed under the boulder?" He thought about it and thought it was unlikely. Because the place where the boulder fell was not the place where Lanissa Knight and the Wolf King had a close fight before.

The battle between the two was very brief. During the charge of a wave of northern wolves, Lanissa Knight and the Wolf King fought for a few times, and then the old hunter caused the boulder to fall.

Kiel looked at it again. He thought that the lighting conditions here might not be good, because the rock passage turned a corner, so the lighting fire in the position could not transmit the light.

The source of light here now is the faint light brought by the fire that is scattered on part of the rock wall, and the blood of the Wolf King burning on the ground.

Looking at the Northland wolves slowly retreating as the Wolf King moved, Kil touched the metal spear on the ground. "Hiss, it's so hot." Even through his gloves, he could still feel the heat coming from the metal spear.

Ignoring the metal spear on the ground, Kil strode towards the second position, ran over to get a torch for lighting, and then ran back quickly.

Then the blood of the Wolf King on the ground burned, and Kil lit the torch in his hand.

call.

The torch burned, scattering brighter light. The wolf fat on the torch also makes a small crackling sound when it burns.

Kil held the torch high and used the illumination to look around, hoping to find the one-handed heavy sword used by Knight Lanissa.