Mercenaries and Adventurers

"Come on! Defeat them!"

The captain of the armed squad who was directing the close combat roared, leading the charge with his shield and crashing into one of the charging enemies.

The two young men who cooperated with him also raised their shields and followed behind him. While the captain in front blocked the enemy from the front, the two of them surrounded the enemy with their shields, one on the left and the other on the right. At the same time, the sword in his hand also hit the enemy's head hard.

Because they saw that these monsters were just things wearing human skin, no one relaxed and used all their strength to hit the upper body of the enemy who seemed to have no protection.

One strike of the sword cuts off half of the enemy's head; one strike of the sword cuts off half of the enemy's face.

The captain of the armed team in front of the enemy cleverly raised his leg and kicked one of the enemy's knees directly. With a crunch, the enemy's body was shortened, but the leg supporting his body was dented by the kick.

However, during the fierce battle, the three of them forgot Kiel's instructions for a moment, and did not place the main attack target on the enemy's body and torso. Instead, they slashed wherever they went. The enemy's flesh and blood flew everywhere for a while, which was very lively.

But the enemy who was covered in tatters seemed to be completely unaffected by the beating. New plant roots squeezed out of the hole in his head. He twisted his neck and threw the plant roots protruding from the top of his head to surround it. of three armed people.

"Ah~~~"

The man on the left let out strange screams and wailed, shrank his head and neck to avoid the entangled roots, while the captain of the armed team lowered his head and used the leather helmet on his head to block the entangled plant roots.

These roots were like countless pairs of small hands. After touching the top of the leather helmet, they wrapped themselves around hard. The captain of the team was heartbroken and banged his head against the top edge of the shield in front of him.

After several crushing sounds, a lot of the roots of these scary-looking plants were crushed, and some purple fragrant juice splashed out and stained the squad leader's face.

But the armed man on the right had no time to dodge or resist. He bravely slashed the roots of the incoming plants with the long sword in his right hand, breaking many of them, but they could still protrude from the enemy's broken and twisted head. More plant roots attacked him.

The roots of these plants quickly wrapped around his right hand, and then his hand became numb and itchy. The muscles in his palm twitched and lost control. He could not hold the sword in his hand and let it fall to the ground.

"What's going on? My hand!!!"

Just as he was about to seek help from his companions, his wide-open mouth and face were entangled and covered by the surging plant roots. These tiny twisting plant roots were like countless greedy leeches. As soon as they touched the young man's face, they stretched out from his mouth and nostrils. There were even thinner roots that slapped the young man's cheeks and eyes, constantly Looking for a 'portal' into the human body.

The young man who was attacked only cried out for help, and then lost his voice. He couldn't hold the shield in his left hand and fell to the ground. He kept slapping more and more plant roots on his face with his palm.

At this time, the monster focused all its energy on the young man who had been successfully controlled by him, and paid less attention to the other two people. The two free men stared angrily at their attacked partner, but just as they were about to swing their swords to cut off the large number of plant roots that attacked their companion, the attacked partner unexpectedly swung his hands and fought back at the two men.

"Hey! What are you doing? We are saving you!"

The captain of the armed team was quite anxious and could not go on like this, because during the short delay he had, the monster's torso let out a weird laugh, and then the enemy's original neck swelled, and an unknown person Something was squeezed out of the opponent's mouth covered with plant roots, and then followed the large number of plant roots connecting the monster and the controlled people, and moved to the people's mouths that were squeezed open by the control.

There were thick plant roots that forcibly opened the mouths of the people who were attacked. Even the opening of the jaw exceeded the limit of the human body, tearing apart the restrictions of joints and muscles. Something giggled and squeezed into the mouths of the people who were attacked. inside.

At this time, the heads of the people attacked by the monster were wrapped and entangled by a large number of plant roots. They looked quite scary. No one knew that the enemy's seemingly thin body actually had so many plants entangled in it. Roots exist.

The young man who was attacked seemed to be still resisting with all his strength and did not want to die at all. It seemed that he had temporarily regained control of his hands, and with his left and right hands, he grabbed his neck tightly with the force of strangling him to death. Hold it, trying to prevent the thing in your mouth from passing through your neck and entering the inside of your body.

"Yes, that's right! Attack the monster's body and torso!"

At this time, the captain of the armed team remembered what Keir had shouted, moved away the shield that had been holding the monster's body, raised the knife in his hand, and slashed straight into the monster's torso.

With a pop, the squad leader used all his strength to slash the monster's sword directly from the shoulder to the chest. No matter where it was, it was a fatal attack. The other armed citizen was not behind. He also had a knife in his hand. Instead of slashing it from above like the team leader, he used the same ferocity as in the previous village fights. He thrust the knife straight into the monster's abdomen, and then pulled it with his backhand. The monster's abdomen was cut open directly.

But his fatal and insidious blow greatly disappointed the young man, because when he saw other villagers in the same village fighting for land and water, someone used a dagger to cut open other people's stomachs on the spot, revealing their intestines, spleen and stomach. Everyone will follow the wound outward. Not only is it visually impressive, it can scare away many timid people. Such injuries are not something that ordinary young priests in the village can cure.

Those young people, seeing such injuries - if the villagers whose stomachs were cut open during the fight had a chance to treat their injuries - would faint from fear.

But the monster is not a normal human being. Not only did no intestines slip out of the stomach that was cut open by a knife, but there were surprisingly few plant roots inside.

As soon as he missed the shot, he turned to the squad leader and shouted: "It's useless!"

"Ah, forget it, come again!!" The captain of the armed team did not believe in evil and kicked the monster's body. Not only did he try to kick the monster away, but he also took advantage of the opportunity to draw his own knife.

"Ha!" He yelled and slashed horizontally, trying not to use all his strength to avoid hurting the surrounding companions with the slash at close range.

The impact point of this knife was the monster's neck. It cut directly into most of the monster's neck. It seemed that even the spine was cut into about half.

Drawing the knife in the opposite direction, he cut off the monster's head, which was covered with strange plant roots.

But what surprised these two people was that after cutting off the monster's neck, the opponent's entire body fell directly to the ground, losing its threatening nature except for a slight twitch of the body.

But the opponent's head, which was full of plant roots, was pulled and hung on the head of their attacked companion by a large number of plant roots squeezed out from the head wound.

At this moment, he seemed to know that he was hopeless. His head was covered with plant roots that were looking for holes to penetrate into the human body. The young man's right hand twitched and released his hand from his neck, while his left hand was grabbing at the captain of the armed squad. Come.

Because of fear, the squad leader took half a step back, holding his knife diagonally in front of him.

The hand of the attacked companion, after grabbing it for a while, firmly grabbed the squad leader's blade and held it tightly. He didn't care that the blade cut open his fingers and palm, but just held it tightly.

Visible to the naked eye, the neck of the attacked man was bulged in a large circle due to the squeeze, and something unknown entered the man's body through the esophagus on his neck.

The large number of plant roots that originally covered the head and face penetrated into the bodies of the attacked people along with their ear holes, eye tear glands, nostrils, and mouths.

The heads of the people who were attacked were so stretched that their entire heads swelled twice, and their stomachs also bulged.

The monster's previous head was also abandoned by the plant roots, and the broken head fell to the ground. Some of the remaining plant roots inside controlled the opening and closing of its mouth, with the intention of biting, but nothing could be done.

The people who were attacked fell to their knees, then fell sideways, their whole bodies twitching and shaking.

The two people standing on this small battlefield didn't know what to do for a while and looked at each other. Neither of them were fools. They were in a hurry just now, so they were in a hurry. At this time, both of them realized that their partner was probably controlled by the monster and had taken over his body.

To put it simply, former companions have now become enemies.

Thinking of this, the squad leader withdrew the knife from his companion's hand, and raised the bloody knife stained with his companion's last will high above his head.

He took a few quick breaths, but couldn't bear to let go.

"How about we tie Karl up first? The knights and priests should have something to do, right?" He couldn't tell himself, but he had to say this.

The fighting partner nodded, took off a loop of rope from his waist, and tied him up reluctantly while trying not to touch the body of the attacked comrade.

Then they paid attention to other parts of the battlefield and found that the battle was generally over.

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In fact, the three captains of the armed squad were able to entangle an incoming monster enemy. They were already the best performing group on the battlefield.

Elsewhere, after monsters approached armed civilians, fights broke out in chaos.

Many armed people with shields maintained a fighting group of three or five people when the monsters attacked. But when the monster enemies rushed in front of them, everyone forgot how they had discussed before, and they all swarmed forward. Use shields to surround the smaller number of enemies inside, and then the people in the front crowded, and the people in the back shouted loudly to let the people in front get out of the way, while the archers in the back row had no shooting angle at all, and they cursed those in front. My companions are all idiots.

However, the battle did not end so easily. The monsters with an absolute disadvantage in numbers did not rush forward without any brains. Not only did they have extremely strong survivability, but because the fighting method did not rely on hands and feet as the main means of attack, their limbs were The damage will not affect their combat ability much.

And their power is not small, in fact it is greater than any of the people in the refugee team. This is also their main reliance on the pedestrians and merchants on the trade road before.

Therefore, when the four or five monsters who rushed up to fight were surrounded by shields, they roared one after another. The monsters whose limbs were still intact raised their hands and pushed, and the shields in front of them were pushed away together with the people. As soon as it hit, all the simple wooden shields of the armed people who crowded around were pushed away.

Someone was pushed backwards and fell directly to the ground. Someone was hit by the monster's two fists on the front of the shield. The whole person flew backwards with the shield, screaming.

Fortunately, the armed people in front of the monster were pushed down at this time, which provided an excellent attack window for the archers who had no chance to fight.

"What a great opportunity! Quick, quick, quick! Shoot an arrow! Shoot an arrow! Shoot it into a hedgehog for me!"

The captain of the armed squad who commanded the archers was quite excited. He drew out his long sword as a command flag and kept making false cuts to urge the archers to shoot.

Because they were worried about hitting their own people, only four young archers with self-restraint skills took action in this round of shooting. Swish, swish, swish, four arrows were shot out continuously. They first aimed at the powerful monster on the left side of the battlefield, and then dealt with it on the right side of the battlefield. A headless monster that knocks people down.

Knowing that they would be shot to death by human archers, the two monsters immediately ran away and pounced on the group of refugees behind the armed people. The armed people who got up also screamed and rushed forward to block the monster again with their shields.

Monsters whose arms had been broken by Kil before, or whose skulls had been chopped off with a sword, were even more difficult to fight.

Their arms are gone, and are replaced by several entangled thick plant roots emerging from the broken arms of their shoulders, and the surface of these roots is also covered with countless small swaying plant roots. Speaking of which, these things that replaced the parasitized human arms are actually stronger in strength, and I don't know if the arms are entangled with plant roots, so the attack range of the swing is much farther than everyone imagined. few.

"Stay away from their roots! Those things will be parasitic on humans!"

Kiel came over on a war horse, and the words he shouted made the armed people surrounding the two monsters be extra careful.

A monster that had lost its arms and had its head split open looked like a warrior with three plant arms. It jumped up slightly and swung three plant roots in the air to repel the people surrounding it. Immediately when everyone retreated and ran away, the guy suddenly shook his head forward, and the plant arm extending from the chopped head stretched forward violently, and opened the front end after throwing it out. The plant tentacles grabbed a brave young man who was retreating towards the monster enemy instead of turning his back to the monster.

The young man refused to let go of the shield in his left hand, but the monster was so powerful that even when his feet were on the ground, the force pulled him toward the monster.

He hurriedly threw aside the long sword in his right hand, and used his free hand to grasp the shield tightly, and even used his hands to break off the plant roots entangled in his shield. But as soon as he touched the roots of the plant, his fingers touched some of the smaller roots, and his hands immediately went numb and he couldn't use any strength.

"Come and help me!" He screamed strangely and immediately sought help from his companions.

A group of companions who heard the cry for help rushed back immediately. The steady man immediately grabbed the young man's belt, dragged him back together, and wrestled with the monster. The brave guy rushed out from one side and slashed at the thick plant roots thrown from the monster's head with his knife.

With a pop, I didn't expect that the thick plant roots extending from the monster's head were exceptionally tough. The man slashed with all his strength and was unable to cut off even one of the several twisted plant roots.

"Get out of the way! Release the shield!"

At this time, Keir's shout came, and the distance was rapidly approaching. After hearing the order, the young man who was reluctant to part with his shield finally let go, and the next moment he rolled upside down to the ground with his companions behind him.

The monster, too, didn't expect that in the middle of the struggle, it was about to swing its arm roots into the ground to fix itself, but the human in front gave up.

So it also flipped backwards and fell to the ground.

At this time, the rumble of horse hooves was approaching quickly. Kil leaned on the horse and lowered the spear he was holding. He shouted to everyone in front to get out of the way carefully, but his eyes were fixed on the monster that fell to the ground.

good chance!

Taking advantage of the monster's fall and being unable to dodge, Kil thrust the spear into the monster's human torso, then used his arms to exert force, and with the speed of his forward horse, he directly picked the monster on the ground at the head of the spear.

The monster whose torso was penetrated by the spear head sideways did not hit its vitals. It swung the three plant roots it controlled extremely actively, and even held the metal shaft of the spear, trying to crawl towards Kiel.

Seeing the monster crawling along the spear, Kil let out an excited shout. He held the gun under his arm with his left hand, swept the hilt of the sword on his left waist with his right hand, quickly drew the sword, and lifted it up to strike.

The thick plant roots that the armed people had been unable to stop with all their strength were cut into two pieces by the long sword. The three attacking plant roots immediately lost one and a half limbs. Keir His left hand even used the spear shaft to pull the monster towards him. Then he swung his right hand again, directly targeting the bulging part of the opponent's abdomen, and slashed the monster's entire part in two with his sword.

And at the fracture of the half human corpse that fell to the ground, it was chopped in half, and there was half a human face on half of the belly. Purple juice splashed everywhere, exuding a strong fragrance.

With a swing of the spear, he threw away the half-body body that could only twitch in disorder on the barrel of the gun. Kil turned his horse's head and rushed towards the only remaining troublesome monster among the incoming monsters.

That monster was fighting with another monster. It had lost its arms and kept swinging the two plant roots that replaced its arms. It did not hit the armed people surrounding them, but tried to pull the armed people over. As their fighting force.

In the previous fight, there was a young man who did not retreat in time and was caught by the plant root tentacles. The shield was not yet firm, and he was pulled over. The next moment, the thick plant roots covered the young man. s face.

The young man lost most of his body control, and his hands and feet twitched and allowed the monster to manipulate him.

This monster also knows how to hand over the humans it captures to its fighting partners, allowing it to hold the humans it controls in its hands. On the one hand, it can resist the intermittently shot bows and arrows from a distance, and on the other hand, it can resist the swords of the humans who come to kill them.

Its companion still mostly looks like a human at this time, although one of the two legs was shot through the knee by an unknown bow and arrow, and the other leg was kicked into a reverse U by a knight on horseback. type, almost losing the ability to move quickly, basically unable to hit anyone, and unable to run away.

However, this belated monster companion is actually the only parasitic monster still fighting on the battlefield at this time.

"Fight! Fight! Hang up! Hang up all humans! Join us, join us!"

Perhaps it knew that their numbers were insufficient, and did not expect that the human team's defense force was so strong. This monster knew that they were still reckless this time, thinking that these newly appeared humans were still weak and allowed them to hunt and capture them alive in the villages, trade roads, and Yemei Town before. Humanity. Now they can neither complete the tasks assigned to them by the prophet, nor can they capture new humans and send them to the prophet.

This monster knows that it can only fight to the end at this time.

But this is not a bad thing. After all, as combat parasitic species, their natural mission is to persist in the battle until the last moment, and then either parasitize and control the enemy, or be hacked to death by the enemy.

"Woah woah woah——"

"Hang to death, hang to death!"

The two monsters roared together, preparing for the final battle.

But what greeted them was a young voice.

"Get out of the way and watch me crush these monsters!"

Following Kiel's order, the armed people surrounding the monsters made way for the front and back, and then the rumble of horse hooves brought up pieces of soil and weeds. The armored war horses rushing towards the monsters with their knights on them, attacked the monsters. Come.

Kil's gun pointed at the monster with a broken arm, while the war horse let the blood-licking grass go straight to the monster with its legs bent.

"Lord Knight! Tis is still in the hands of the monsters!"

Someone shouted loudly, hoping that Keir would not kill both humans and monsters.

But the knight's only reply was a short reply: "He is hopeless."

The next moment, the monster with a broken arm was picked up, and the monster with a broken leg, together with the human being held in its hand to block the arrow, were trampled by the blood-licking grass.