Summoning Total War

Chapter 47 Harpy (Part 2)

The road connecting the southern plains to the Karazhan Mountains was opened by the wood elves.

Before these mixed-blood elves migrated, they had a lot of trade relations with human city-states. As the wood elves migrated away, the road gradually became deserted and overgrown with weeds. Fortunately, this opened road still exists and has not been submerged by weeds. Over the years, some down-and-out mercenary teams would go to the ruins of the wood elves' gathering place, trying to find something valuable inside.

The time was around three o'clock in the afternoon.

Murphy and his group rode horses on the road at a slower speed. They were not far from the outskirts of the Karazhan Mountains, about less than fifteen kilometers away.

Anyone who is familiar with the cold weapon era should know that the foot power of horses is limited.

In order to preserve the horse's leg strength, many heavy cavalrymen led their horses before joining the battle. Don't look at the stories about people who often travel three to five hundred miles a day. In fact, they are all hidden. Those who travel three hundred or five hundred miles a day are all on the official road. The road is flat and does not hurt your leg strength. There are stations along the way, and you change horses along the way. No substitutions. Most of the distances between ancient Chinese post stations were about fifty miles. If you really want a horse, it can run hard. It doesn't have to go too far. If you gallop for about a hundred or two hundred miles, you can basically kill a horse!

Unless they are light cavalry, horses will not gallop before joining the battle.

A qualified rider should know how to use the horse's foot power, because that means you can escape and save your life if you need to.

The so-called speeding up the horse is actually not very reliable, just like Murphy now, if he doesn't cherish the horse's foot power. When he encountered a large number of gnolls in the wild, he couldn't even run away.

There were thirty-three riders in the group, all moving at a cantering pace.

The general's guards are basically light cavalry, equipped only with long swords, javelins and leather armor, and the weight of one person is still within the endurance of the horse. If it is carrying heavy cavalry or the like, horses will basically not be able to withstand long rides.

About half an hour later, the group arrived in front of the dense forest outside the Karazhan Mountains.

Going deep into this dense forest, it was within the scope of activities of a wood elf clan. However, the inside of the dense forest is different from the outside. Due to the migration of the wood elves in this dense forest, the new vegetation has long since covered all the roads in the past. It is impossible to ride a horse in it. Therefore, the group of people had to leave their horses outside and walk into the dense forest.

The horses were left on an open meadow outside the dense forest, and three knights stayed to guard them. This is so that in case of any danger, everyone can mount their horses as quickly as possible and gallop away. Open grass allows horses to speed up and create distance.

Excluding the knights who stayed behind to take care of the horses, Murphy and the general's guards, a total of thirty people, headed into the dense forest.

The group used long swords to clear the way and cut down the lush vegetation on the road that blocked the view!

The soldiers of the General Guard consciously formed a circle around Murphy and guarded him in the middle, so that if they were in danger, others could buy time for Murphy.

The vegetation in the dense forest is quite lush, and towering trees with several people hugging each other can be seen everywhere.

The branches of the trees blocked the sunlight, and the dappled light in the dense forest was illuminated. Although it does not affect the field of vision, it is slightly dim. There were sounds of insects and birds chirping all around, and the sounds of some wild beasts being frightened and running away could be heard in the distance.

Although this place is close to the Karazhan Mountains, most of the real active creatures are ordinary beasts.

Other terrifying creatures, such as the Karazhan Hurricane Pterosaur, mostly live in the hinterland of the mountains and rarely step out of their territory.

This is not surprising!

In fact, most of the ancient monsters within the scope of human activities in the southern plains were wiped out by the famous human heroes at the beginning of the Second Era! In order to open up space for human survival, these ancient human heroes with surnames even exterminated those powerful monster races!

It must be mentioned here that in ancient times, human beings with names were heroes first and then nobles.

Almost all the pure and ancient nobles in this world are descendants of famous heroes from ancient times. The first batch of human nobles refer to those humans with surnames at the beginning of the Second Era. In fact, even now there are many poor humans who have first names but no surnames. In human city-states, a recognized surname is a symbol of status.

In the original human world.

Having a name and a surname is a symbol of dignity!

The group of people walked in the dense forest for about half an hour, and then their vision suddenly broadened.

They came to a valley.

"The smell of blood!" Murphy shrugged his nose and motioned for everyone to stop.

His sense of smell is a little more sensitive than ordinary people, and after experiencing the war personally, Murphy became extremely sensitive to the smell of blood! Before everyone got close to the valley, Murphy asked about the smell of blood that had not yet dissipated in the air.

The others stayed where they were, and an agile soldier of the general's guard carefully approached the valley and dived in.

About three minutes later, the general guard soldier came out with a pale face and gave everyone a safety gesture!

The remaining general guards escorted Murphy into the valley.

As soon as they entered the valley, even with Murphy's current courage, he couldn't help but feel a tightness in his chest and some inexplicable discomfort!

The scene in the valley is not that bloody.

Inside there were only the remains of about a dozen gnolls and a burned-out bonfire.

There was a wooden stick sitting near the bonfire. There were scorch marks on the wooden stick. Below it was a pile of jackal bones. The meat was eaten cleanly, the hard skull was smashed, and the brains were devoured!

Yes.

The remains of more than a dozen jackals in the valley were eaten until only their bones were left!

Fighting back his nausea, Murphy pieced together the bones of a jackal near the fire. The skeleton of this jackal is about 2.2 meters long. According to Murphy's inference, it should be an adult male jackal. The fatal wound should be the neck bone, because the bones there have been crushed vigorously!

This discovery made Murphy a little uneasy, and he ordered his general guards to collect and piece together the remaining remains of the gnolls.

After some inspection, Murphy found uneasily that all the eaten Jackals were adult male Jackals, and the strongest one was even nearly 2.6 meters tall!

What makes Murphy even more horrified is that the reason for the death of these jackals is all due to broken bones!

In other words, these adult male jackals, all of whom were over 2.2 meters tall, had their bones shattered by some creature within a few moves and died! Judging from the broken bones, nearly half of the adult male jackals died from having their neck bones broken by brute force!

What kind of creature is this?

What could possess such terrifying power?

Is it a crushing force even against a strong adult male Jackal?

Murphy explored around the valley, because it had been some time since that time. Murphy only vaguely found a few fairly clear footprints.

The footprints were large, without shoes, and were left by bare feet. The shape of the feet was somewhat similar to that of humans, but they only had three toes.

Murphy roughly restored the size of this creature in his mind.

In the end, he judged that this terrifying creature was more than three meters tall, huge, and could weigh 400 pounds, or more than 150 kilograms! This creature is so powerful that it barely suffered any casualties when faced with more than a dozen adult male jackals!

It can be said that this creature used its crushing power to hold a jackal picnic in this valley a few days ago...

The footprints were heading east, and there was no trace of coming back. It seemed like these terrifying creatures were really just passing by.

"Phew! Let's go!" Although he couldn't tell what creature did it, Murphy had roughly estimated the terrifying combat power of this creature!

For now, almost no one in the territory can challenge these creatures head-on.

This kind of strength to crush the elite Jackals is completely beyond the range that ordinary humans can fight against!

Not far from the valley is a small stream.

Next to the creek, Murphy unexpectedly saw the bodies of other creatures.

At first glance, Murphy thought he saw an angel because he saw the snow-white feathers and the beautiful female face. When he got closer, he discovered that these motionless creatures lying on the ground also had many physiological characteristics that were not human!

Such as the eagle's talons and the feathers on its head.

But soon, he discovered that one of these creatures' chest was still rising and falling slightly, and it was obvious that he was still breathing.

The living creature has obvious elf characteristics, with a gorgeous face, long and narrow ears, and a slender figure. It wears a snow-white dress inlaid with silver thread for long-distance running, and has two simple-looking rings on its slender fingers. Different from other corpses, this living creature has a pair of slender legs instead of a pair of eagle claws. Her arms are slender, and a pair of pure white wings spread out behind her. If the ears with obvious elf characteristics are excluded, she looks like Like an angel!

What race is this?

Although the living creatures were similar to the dead harpies, Murphy felt that they were not of the same race.

The dead creature had talons, its arms were a pair of wings, it had no hair, and its head was covered with bunches of feathers. But the creature that was still alive had legs, arms, and long hair. If it weren't for the pair of pure white wings on her back, Murphy would have almost thought she was an elf! After a slight hesitation, Murphy immediately picked up the elf-like creature whose chest was rising slightly but had not yet lost its breath of life. He took the holy water from his arms and poured it gently into her mouth. Then, Murphy pulled out a dagger and prepared to pull out a long arrow that penetrated her chest!

The life breath of this elf-like creature is already very weak.

Wake her up first!