Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kil felt warm on one side of his body, as if he was a little hot.

The discomfort made him frown and suddenly opened his eyes.

Battle shouts and roars sounded in his ears as if they were coming from far away, and these sounds gradually grew louder as he concentrated his will.

Turning his body, Kil changed from lying flat on the ground to lying on his side with his back facing the direction of the heat.

"Why?"

He was surprised and suddenly remembered his previous battle.

Thinking of this, he suddenly turned over and sat up. While panting heavily, he turned his head left and right and found that he was lying in the rocky mountain stronghold that served as the fourth line of defense.

There was no one around, but there were faint sounds of fighting coming from the wooden wall of the third line of defense.

He searched for his weapons and equipment and found that the helmet was next to the bedclothes where he was lying, and the long hunting sword was in the scabbard. The armor was still on his body, and the shield made of elven metal was hung well behind his left shoulder. .

Grabbing the weapon, Kil put the helmet on his head.

There were blood stains and a strong smell of blood inside the helmet. Judging from the location, it looked like he had spit out his own blood.

Judging from the amount of blood, it doesn't seem to be a lot.

"Never mind." Kil didn't care about the smell of blood and put on his helmet directly. Through the obvious sensations on his body, Kil could feel that the red-eyed mushroom candy pills he swallowed at this moment were at their most effective.

With a simple calculation, Kil knew that he had been unconscious for about an hour after being rescued by Knight Lanissa.

After taking a look, there was no one in the stronghold. They should all be fighting. Kil also started running and hurried down the rock passage.

Feeling a little uncomfortable, but not in the way, Kil held the scabbard on his left waist with one hand and the hilt of the hunting sword with the other, hoping that their unique abilities could bring him some help.

The hazy cyan light slowly seeped out from both of them, penetrating through Kil's thick gloves and entering his body, making him feel much better.

-

Turning a downward curve, the third wooden wall is in front of you.

Two hunters were lying at the fire behind the wooden wall. Just by looking at their lying postures, Keir could tell that one of them was still alive and the other was dead.

The old hunter had a long mouth, wide eyes, and a look of horror on his face. It seems that he died directly in the Wolf King's previous raid.

There was blood around the mouth of another young hunter, and there were many traces of blood on the ground on the side of his head. He looked very serious, but he was still breathing.

The remaining six hunters on the wooden wall were fighting at the moment, but judging from their situation, it didn't seem like a fierce battle. The six men took turns firing arrows, while the neighing sound of Lanissa's knight's horse came from the other side of the wooden wall.

Kil ran over and didn't move lightly. His boots hit the rocky passage ground heavily, making a loud sound.

An alert young hunter heard the sound and turned his head to look: "Kiel! It's Kiel, you're awake."

Others also turned their heads and took a look. Seeing that Kil's movements were strong and he was probably in good condition, they asked, "How is your health? When the Lord Knight rescued you, there was a lot of blood under your helmet and visor."

Kil touched the outside of the visor with his left hand and felt a little sticky. He replied: "It's okay, just a minor injury."

"Then come and help! Come up quickly."

Kil nodded and strode up from the simple ladder behind the wooden wall.

His companion patted him on the shoulder, and Kil looked over the wooden wall. It turned out that in the passage opposite the wooden wall, there was a layer of northern wolf corpses on the ground, and among the corpses and arrows, the active one was Ra. Knight Nissa's mount.

That war horse covered in steel armor.

But Knight Lanissa was not there, only her mount was fighting.

Looking over, one can see northern wolves crowding into the narrow rock passage one after another. They hesitated, obviously afraid of the horse that was going on a killing spree.

Yes, that war horse was running back and forth, left and right, in the rocky passage that was too narrow for it, knocking down and trampling on the northern wolves that boldly rushed over.

It itself is very heavy, and coupled with the horse steel armor that protects the whole body, the whole thing is a tank that is reversing forward and backward.

The bites and scratches of ordinary northern wolves could not harm it at all, but several northern wolves pounced on it. This weight was also tickling for it, and it directly rubbed against the rock wall of the rock passage. It can knock down a northern wolf lying on its side.

And its iron hooves are also very powerful. As long as it raises its hoof and steps on it, any northern wolf will be killed immediately. The place where it was stepped on collapsed directly, the flesh and blood exploded, the bones exploded, and there was no sign of survival.

Those northern wolves had absolutely no way to deal with it, so Kil saw that as the last few northern wolves were knocked over and driven away by the horse, they no longer dared to charge over.

"It's amazing!" Kil was surprised. He didn't expect that he would have to go to great lengths to understand the Northern Wolf. This war horse could be understood with just a few simple moves.

This made him feel a little hurt.

Kiel saw that the hunters had just shot arrows to help shoot down the northern wolf climbing on the back of the horse, and there was no need to do anything else.

"But, where did Knight Lanisa go?" Kil searched near the wooden wall and saw no sign of Knight Lanisa.

An old hunter explained: "After rescuing you from falling, my lord put you in the stronghold at the back. It was safer there. After all, we couldn't guarantee your safety when you were unconscious after the wooden wall was breached. However, After that, Knight Lanisa went after the injured Northland Wolf King alone."

Kil remembered that he seemed to have recalled the two-handed ax from the ground on the back of the Wolf King before, directly injuring the Wolf King who was blocking the return path of the ax.

Knight Lanisa would definitely not give up this opportunity, so she naturally followed the evacuating Wolf King.

"I hope the Lord Knight can kill the Wolf King directly. In this way, we will win! After all, these ordinary northern wolves are no match for Knight Lanissa."

The old hunter on the side shook his head: "You can't rely solely on adults. She suffered such severe burns. Although she always said she was fine, no one knows how serious the burns will be."

"So, we still have to deal with these northern wolves who want to fight us to death!"

"One of Bolu and Ike died, and the other was seriously injured. We must avenge them!"

"That's right, revenge."

No one said more, just say these words briefly. After all, everyone is a hard worker, and there is no one who doesn't have a dozen northern wolves killed at his command.

Kil knocked on the wooden wall with his sword: "Then what to do now? Give me a task."

The old hunter who had been directing everyone nodded and patted the quiver on his waist: "Kiel, you have to take some risks and go down and retrieve all the arrows from the Northland wolf."

Kil nodded and looked at the Boreal Wolf carcasses underneath, and found that there were a lot of Boreal Wolf bodies covered with arrows. It turns out that although the knight's war horse was unscathed from the northern wolf, it was just a riding beast after all. The most powerful thing in the battle was to trample with its hoof, but it didn't use this move much.

Therefore, many northern wolves that were only injured and knocked down by it were actually killed by bows and arrows in the hands of hunters.

After a brief look, Kil could see that before the war horses entered the battle, it was still very difficult for them to defend the wooden wall. Many Boreal Wolf corpses were close to the bottom of the wooden wall, and even a Boreal Wolf was hung directly on the wooden wall.

"I'm going down, everyone, keep an eye on me." Kil said, then he directly supported the edge of the wooden wall with one hand and jumped down.

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Underneath were the corpses of northern wolves that were losing body heat. Some of them were still alive. They screamed in pain when Kil stepped on them when he fell.

He raised his sword and brought it down to kill this northern wolf that was not yet dead. Kil quickly took back his sword and sheathed it. He pulled out the steel dagger from his waist and began to dig out the arrows that had hit the Northland Wolf one by one.

The northern wolves at the far end of the passage slowly retreated, and then hid behind the turn of the passage. They seemed to be communicating, whining, as if they were quarreling.

The knight's horse stood motionless in the middle of the passage, shaking its head and snorting from time to time, as if to mock the northern wolves.

Kil shook his head. He could see that if the Northern wolves attacked in a large scale, the war horse could not stop a few Northern wolves. The other Northern wolves could just use their dexterous bodies to get around it, and they could completely ignore it. Its obstruction comes specifically to attack humans.

I just don’t know when those beasts will understand this.

Before that, he had to quickly recover more arrows.

He inserted the dagger into the wound on the Northland Wolf along the shaft of the arrow, and then pulled the dagger to open and expand the wound until the arrow could be seen in the wound.

At this moment, he pinched the arrow shaft and pulled, pulling out the metal arrow.

He held the arrows in his left hand until he had collected a few, then stood up and threw the arrows over the wooden wall.

The hunters would go behind the wooden wall to pick up the arrows, and wipe the blood on the arrows with a pitch-black coarse cloth. If the dry and cold blood could not be wiped off, they would wipe it with a coarse cloth. The arrows are polished and there are no blood stains from excess weight on the arrow shaft. This can ensure the balance and sharpness of the arrow in flight.

While handling the arrows, Kil also directly picked up the Boreal Wolf carcass near the wooden wall, lifted it up and handed it to the hunters on the wooden wall.

They understood what Kiel meant as soon as they saw his actions.

There must not be too many Boreal Wolf corpses near the wooden wall, because their wooden wall is not high to begin with. If there are more corpses cushioning it, the strong Boreal Wolf can rush up at once. This is very dangerous.

So the old hunter immediately arranged for two young hunters to grab the northern wolf carcass that Kil had lifted, then turned around and threw it under the wooden wall behind him.

With the lighting of the fire, the wooden wall can be seen relatively clearly here. But after Kiel disposed of the Boreal Wolf carcass beside the wooden wall, and moved a few meters away from the wooden wall, the lighting suddenly stopped working.

"Hey! I can't see here." Kil shook his arms and pointed to the firewood piled up in several depressions they left on the rock wall: "Light those fires for night lighting!"

After hearing what Kil said, the old hunter lit a special arrow on the torch inserted on the side of the wooden wall, then took aim briefly and shot out.

There is a thin rope tied behind the arrow. After the arrow flies into the firewood in the depression of the rock wall, when the firewood lights up, the old hunter who shoots the arrow quickly pulls back the rope behind the arrow.

This arrowhead has no metal, and the front part of its arrow shaft is like a torch, with a circle of oil-soaked cloth tied around it.

After shooting again and lighting the two prepared lighting fires, Keir shook his arms to indicate that it was okay.

Then he began to deal with the body of the northern wolf beside the knight's horse.

After seeing Kiel approaching, the war horse stared at him curiously. The clever riding beast recognized Kil as its master's kind. It lowered its horse's head, which was covered with steel armor, and nudged Kil gently.

"Don't make trouble." Kil pushed the war horse's head away and moved the exposed ears on its head.

The war horse took two steps to the side, as if it didn't like Keir touching its ears.

"Hey, you're still shy." He smiled and dragged a northern wolf corpse away from here. After approaching the wooden wall, he used a dagger to dig out the arrows. The cold Boreal Wolf carcass was lifted up.

Soon, the weight of the corpse lifted in his hands became lighter. He quickly let go of his hand and let his two companions take the corpse away.

"By the way, have you seen my weapon?" Kil raised his head and asked.

Several hunters looked at each other: "Which one? If it was the double-edged metal spear, Knight Lanisa threw it when she rescued you, but failed to hit the Wolf King. She picked it up and chased the Wolf King out. here."

"Oh, that's right. I'm talking about my axe. Did you see it then?" Kil gestured with the axe.

Shaking his head, several people on the wooden wall said they didn't see it. They didn't even notice that after the Wolf King jumped into the air, Kil summoned the ax and gave the Wolf King a heavy blow.

Knocking on his helmet, Kil guessed whether the Wolf King had directly injured the ax and taken it away.

It's very possible.

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After a while, the northern wolf in the distance seemed to have come to its senses. They can't deal with the armored war horses blocking the road, so they can just go around it!

After thinking about this, those northern wolves howled loudly.

They were mad.

"Kiel! Come back quickly. We can't stay here any longer. Listening to the noise, they are probably all going to charge forward. Bring back the knight's horse, quickly!" the old hunter reminded Kil.

Kil also realized that the Northern Wolf's attack was about to begin, so he ran directly to the knight's horse and pulled its reins.

But this stubborn head didn't let Kiel touch the reins at all. As soon as he put his hand on it, he was lightly knocked away by the horse. Even though it was just a slight bump, the opponent's weight was placed here. Its slight bump directly knocked Kil's butt to the ground.

Kil got up and tried again, but this time he seemed to have angered the war horse. It turned around, and with a flick of the horse's head, Kil was knocked to the ground.

"I'll go, this is so powerful." Kil didn't expect this guy to be serious.

Kil was knocked to the ground, and the hunters on the wooden wall saw it, and they were also surprised. The situation was urgent and the knight's horse could not be cared about. Anyway, those northern wolves had nothing to do with it.

"Come back quickly!"

"Never mind it, Kil. Come back soon."

After hearing the words of his companions, Kil also knew that this was not the time to care about this stubborn horse. He climbed up and rushed directly to the wooden wall, stepped on the gap between the wooden wall with one foot, and held the upper edge of the wooden wall with both hands.

The young hunter grabbed his shoulder and pulled him, and he stepped on the wooden wall with his feet and climbed up.

As soon as he came up, the hunter who helped him up started shooting arrows. Others had already started shooting arrows when the Northern Wolf attacked.

But this time the Northern Wolves launched a massive attack. They bypassed the knights' horses standing in the middle of the rock passage from the edges of the left and right passages.

Whenever the horses came to the left, they stopped and ran over from the other side. And a particularly clever northern wolf kept baring its teeth and claws in front of the war horse, attracting its attention.

The war horse rushed towards the northern wolf, but the northern wolf immediately ran backwards a few times, and then continued to provoke the war horse.

The war horse wanted to attack other northern wolves, but it was annoyed by this guy, so it rushed towards the northern wolf that had been provoking it, but it was lured further and further away.

There was no time to unfold the metal clamps in the passage when Keir went down just now, so this time the Northern Wolf quickly approached the edge of the wooden wall.

Kil pulled out his long sword and kept pushing down the northern wolves that wanted to come up with his shield, or giving them a blow with his long sword, either stabbing them or lifting the sword, but he rarely used heavy straight up and down blows.

Because he knew that the skulls of these northern wolves were very strong. Although a sword strike could kill the northern wolf, there was a high possibility that it would be stuck by the skull.

There are more and more wolves in the Northland, and Kiel is a little too busy alone. Often when a northern wolf is shot down on the left side of the wooden wall, another one rushes over to the right side of the wooden wall.

Soon, during this busy battle, a northern wolf rushed up the wooden wall and bit an old hunter's arm and refused to let go.

Amid the hunter's screams, Kil immediately pounced on him, not daring to use his long sword to greet him for fear of hitting his companions in such close combat. In response, Kil had no choice but to stab the northern wolf in the eye with a dagger. The sharp blade penetrated into the brain, and after stirring for a while, he killed the small northern wolf.

"Kiel, use that move, we can't stop it, retreat, retreat." The old hunter in command yelled.

Keir immediately knew what the other party meant.

The long sword was passed from his left hand to his right hand, diagonally facing directly down the wooden wall.

Needless to say, the white light emitted from the sword immediately surged, and Kil yelled: "Close your eyes as much as possible!!!"

Without his words, everyone turned their heads and closed their eyes tightly.

-

After releasing all the divine energy on the long sword, everyone jumped down from the wooden wall. The northern wolves on the opposite side of the wooden wall were all wailing and rolling on the ground, not because they were seriously injured, but because they were blinded by the strong light for a short time.

If it were normal, Kiel would definitely jump down and kill him.

But there were too many northern wolves. Since the war horses were somehow lured away by the northern wolves a moment ago, these northern wolves all swarmed up and completely occupied the entire rock passage.

After everyone jumped off the wooden wall, Kil and a young hunter carried the seriously injured companion to the fourth position. The body of the dead old hunter was also carried away by two other young men. The old hunter lit the torch on the fire and then threw it into the wooden wall.

Seeing that the flames did not light up fast enough, they lit a few more firewood and threw them under the wooden wall.

The fireworks finally set off on a large scale. Seeing this, the old hunters slowly retreated and asked the old hunter who had been bitten on the hand to retreat first to heal his injuries.