Mercenaries and Adventurers

The water pool agreed with Knight Lanisa is not very far to the east of the Rock Mountain.

However, due to the obstruction of the forest, it is not easy for them to see the stone mountain in the distance just a little away from the rocky mountain. Although the mountain cannot be seen, the light from the burning wooden wall on the top of the mountain seems to be clearly visible no matter how far away it is.

After everyone entered the forest, they quietly touched the water pool that had been frozen by the severe cold without making any loud noises.

Because of the water pool, the terrain is a little more open. Before we officially walked out of the forest and approached the water pool, we carefully scouted around the water pool, and found no footprints of wild beasts passing by recently.

"Those beasts." The old hunter Tost checked an unclear footprint of a dog-like beast on the ground, stood up and continued: "It is estimated that the thick ice at the Water Pool Festival cannot be broken, so there are not many beasts approaching here." The same goes for the northern land wolf."

Hearing his words, everyone knows that this place is safe for the time being.

They didn't see the greeting from the war horse or the knight Lanisa when they came to meet up. They naturally knew that the female knight hadn't rushed over to meet them before them.

So everyone settled down.

After simply cleaning up the snow on a ground near the pool, everyone sat down on the ground.

Keir put down the corpse of his companion on his back, and tied a piece of rope to the corpse according to the instructions of the old hunters. Then a young hunter climbed up a large tree at the edge of the clearing, and Keel threw the rope up, and pulled the two bodies up.

The forest floor is not safe. If they encounter a large number of northern land wolves, they will definitely have to retreat while fighting. When the time comes, the corpses of their dead companions cannot be taken away during the battle. Therefore, it would be better to hide the bodies of the two of them high in the trunk to avoid the beasts.

After everything was done, everyone didn't start a fire, for fear that the fire would attract a large number of northern land wolves. So they sat on the ground next to each other, close to each other for warmth.

Although I can't speak loudly, it's okay to speak in a low voice, so everyone quietly discusses the future.

Keel couldn't get in on what they were talking about about the funeral ceremony for his dead companion, so he listened in silence.

The vast majority of Kendalshire people are immigrants from the Empire. The young people are the second generation born in the local area, but in the funeral ceremony to bid farewell to the deceased, they are quite different from those in the empire.

After listening to it for a while, Kiel realized that farewell ceremonies for the dead were quite different in different parts of the empire. After these migrants from all over the empire came to the New Kingdom, they had undergone a rapid mix of cultural habits, and they had formed a local culture in the New Kingdom. The farewell rituals of the dead were very different in the Empire.

Several old hunters said that their old buddy had arranged a funeral ceremony in the style of the Church of the God of Hunting in the empire's hometown. After all, he was not young. During the hunting mission, they may die from diseases or accidents brought about by the severe winter.

The young hunters insisted on giving the dead young man a local Kendal burial. Although the young man didn't explain anything related before his death, but they had known each other for so long, they naturally knew what the dead partner was thinking.

The old hunters repeatedly reminded that the young hunters who died had their own family members, and their own family members arranged to host the funeral ceremony, so they didn't need to intervene like this. But for some reason, Keir's young companions have always insisted on their opinions, and they will negotiate with the other party's family.

Keel couldn't figure out what they were arguing about, people were already dead, so what's the point of fighting for it.

He couldn't figure it out, so he just shut up and rested.

Of course, rest is rest, and the hand is always on the hilt of the waist.

He rubbed the round metal ball at the end of the sword hilt with his fingers wearing armor gloves, but he didn't have any extra thoughts in his mind.

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"Damn wolf! Die to me!!"

Knight Lanisa reached out and grabbed the head of a northern land wolf that was pounced on him, then turned around and threw the northern land wolf as a weapon.

This northern land wolf knocked over seven or eight desperate northern land wolves that were attacking desperately, and hindered them for a while, but new northern land wolves that kept going far away had already come running through the forest from all directions.

These northern land wolves were quite excited, especially accompanied by the weird mocking cry of the wolf king in the bear den.

"Woo, woo, woo."

The wolf king himself did not expect that the original embarrassing and desperate situation would be reversed a moment ago.

Although its subordinates suddenly appeared, and they couldn't do anything to that human being, but with the support of their subordinates, maybe it can fight back this wolf-blooded wolf like in previous years with the support of its subordinates. female human.

Thinking of this, it tore the tender little bear under the wolf's claws in one gulp, and swallowed it in its mouth after tearing it apart. It then sucked its **** mouth close to the fatal wound on the body of the larger black bear, which was only two rings smaller than itself.

The uncooled blood is rich in nutrition and strength, the bear blood in the corpse is sucked out of the bear corpse one by one, and then swallowed into the throat with the tongue.

Feeling the warmth and strength of its body, it picked up the human weapon it had brought along along the way, and staggered out of the not-so-deep bear den.

As soon as it came outside, it forced its actions to pretend to be normal, even though the fragments of human weapons embedded in its body at the front of its left rib were still hurting it.

But it can't show weakness and fatigue in front of the men who came to help.

When the wolves around saw their king walking out of the ground, they all panted heavily with excitement.

Knight Lanisa saw that the surrounding northern land wolves had stopped attacking, and immediately noticed the wolf king walking out of the bear den: "Hmph, bluff. Where is the arrogance of the previous two days now?"

She knew that the beast on the opposite side seemed to understand human speech, so she taunted her at this moment, just for the other side to hear.

Hearing the humans ridicule it like this, the wolf king who came out of the bear's den could hardly hold back the false airs he put up at this time. It immediately howled in a low voice, causing the surrounding northern land wolves to surround the humans on the opposite side.

It also assumed a seemingly calm pace, and walked slowly towards the opposite side.

At this time, the two wolves commanded by these wolves approached the wolf king, and hurriedly informed the wolf king of their situation before the next battle began.

After hearing a few words, the wolf king stopped.

Seeing that the wolf king stopped moving, the surrounding wolves temporarily suppressed the urge to kill and fight, and turned to look at the wolf king and the wolf leader beside him.

The wolf king lowered his head and asked the two wolves in a low voice, and immediately got an answer from the two wolves.

Immediately, the wolf king's eyes changed, and high-temperature magic flames released from the inside out floated on his body. The two wolves immediately ran away from the wolf king with a howl, but they didn't dare to do anything. They could only crawl down with their upper body, their heads and noses pressed against the snow on the ground, but their eyes were fixed on the wolf king. Understand what they said that angered the great wolf king of the northern land wolf.

Knight Lanisa also looked at the wolf king, and at the same time, both hands were holding the one-handed epee tightly, and the life energy of the whole body was secretly flowing, ready to fight or evacuate at any time.

But what happened next made her feel strange.

The wolf king didn't seem to be facing her in anger or anything else, only to see a burst of red light from the wolf king's eyes, which was as bright as a torch, and then he swung his body on the spot to look around.

All the northern land wolves that the wolf king looked over lay on the ground trembling, trembling and at a loss.

Fortunately, the wolf king didn't seem to be targeting them.

When the wolf king circled around and looked at Lanisa Knight, Lanisa Knight herself was very nervous, but she didn't feel any killing intent or hatred from the old opponent opposite. But she fully understood that those eyes that were brighter than torches or magic lamps, what shot out of them was obviously the hatred that did not know how long to keep.

The wolf king looked around, but he didn't seem to be able to do what he wanted. Immediately afterwards, it took a deep breath with its wide-open mouth, ignored the little high-temperature blood bursting from the wound on its front rib, raised its huge wolf head high, and howled towards the sky.

"Ah woo woo woo woo woo woo!!"

The voice was full of emotion, and even the dullest person could hear the anger and hatred contained in the other's voice from this beast.

It was the hatred that wanted to tear something into pieces, chew it up and swallow it.

This is quite suitable for a beast like the Jingbei wolf.

After the wolf king finished howling, he kept this posture, motionless, as if waiting for something.

Knight Lanisa also remained motionless, staring cautiously at the wolf king not far away, while putting her mind on her ears. She had a faint premonition in her heart about what was about to happen.

Her heart was pounding, but it wasn't the kind of high-speed pumping during a battle, but it was like pressing something, which was quite ominous.

She didn't know why she had this premonition, but her instinct seemed to be telling her something.

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After the wolf king howled for a while, an equally high-pitched and loud wolf howl came from nowhere in the silent forest with only the heavy panting of the northern wolves.

"Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

Different from the deep and powerful voice of the giant wolf king, this wolf howl was also clear and high-pitched. Knight Lanisa frowned when she heard it.

She has been dealing with northern land wolves on and off since shortly after her father's death. She recognized that it was howling wolves, but it was quite different from the howling of wolves in the north that she often heard.

It wasn't any wolf howl she'd heard before, she was sure. It's not that she can hear the content of the wolf's howl, it's just that the sound she heard is compared with all the northern land wolves she's 'traveled' with before, that is, it doesn't have the sense of colossal power of a wolf king. , It's not the beastly howl of ordinary northern land wolves.

It's somewhere in between, but there's something a little wrong somewhere.

At this moment, after the sound of howling wolves sounded, it was impossible for all the people and beasts who heard it to judge the direction, because the sound was hiding in the surrounding forest quickly and changing positions.

The wolf king twisted his neck so that his huge wolf head followed the direction of the sound.

The wolf king gasped and panted, he barked a few words in a low voice, explained to the two wolves beside him, and then silently lowered his head to pick up the human metal weapon on the ground.

The red magic power visible to the naked eye vibrates and gathers towards the left side of the body. With a muffled grunt, its teeth rubbed against the metal spear held in its mouth, and a blue object mixed with high-temperature wolf blood fell to the ground.

The blood full of magic burned the blue thing, but the blue weapon fragment was covered with a layer of mixed power, and it couldn't help shaking.

The heads of several weird-shaped things emerged from the blue things, biting the blood of the wolf king who burned them.

But the wolf king didn't even look at the tormenting thing again. After the foreign body on the left rib was forced out, it controlled its own magic power to burn its own wound in reverse.

The flesh and blood were quickly burned by the high temperature, but even so, it stopped bleeding.

The wolf king walked slowly towards the place where the voice came from in the forest, then gradually accelerated and started to run.

The northern land wolves behind them also got up from the ground, stared fiercely at Knight Lanisa, and immediately followed their wolf king.

And Knight Lanisa followed the figure of the wolf king, watching him run into the forest with a large number of northern land wolves. She only knew from a hunch that these beasts were not pretending to escape, but something must have happened during the howling of the wolf king and the unknown just now.

She hesitated a little, not knowing whether to chase after him or not.

If it was before, she would have dealt with the wolf king who was also injured by herself. It can't be said that she is sure, at least the winning rate is about 70%. If the time and space of the battle are relaxed, her winning rate will be even higher.

But the unexpected run of the Northland wolves made her chances of winning instantly drop to less than 50%.

She clearly knew how fierce and desperate those northern wolves would fight for the wolf king. This is how they lost many previous battles in winter.

But things have changed.

She didn't quite understand what happened, but she knew that the thing that howled the wolf must have a deep conflict with the wolf king.

This may be the variable that changes the situation.

Of course, she can also turn around at this moment to join her horse or subordinates.

Thinking of this, she hesitated. But after thinking about it, she immediately made a decision.

It must be too late for Huihe's men, after all, they must still be fighting with most of the wolves on the rocky mountain. During the confrontation just now, she took a few glances at the northern land wolves surrounding her, and confirmed that these northern land wolves were only part of the wolf pack.

The large group of northern land wolves did not come over, and they must still be fighting with her men.

His subordinates are useless, so he can only rely on his own horses. Riding on a war horse, even if you can't defeat the wolf king and the northern land wolf, there is still that unknown thing, at least you can retreat safely.

Before leaving, she glanced at the blue weapon fragments that seemed to be burning on the ground not far away, and Knight Lanisa noticed an ax without the handle. Noticing the strange monster's head and the high-temperature blood of the wolf king fighting with it, she didn't care much, and immediately leaned her body, shot out in the direction she came from, and swept towards the place where she placed her horse at high speed.

With the movement of the female knight, the snow on the ground stirred up a wall of snow and mist that was scattered three to five meters above the ground. Every time she stepped on the ground, the snow that fell on the branches of the surrounding trees would be trampled by it. The vibrations caused fell to the ground one after another.

The color-changing squirrel on the tree pole looking at the changes in the forest retracted its head in fright, and then blocked the tree hole with a eaten tree husk, and no longer dared to curiously explore what happened outside.

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Everything that happened in the distance could not affect the people in Kiel who were honestly waiting for the knight to return.

They huddled together, and in order not to let the northern land wolf find out, they didn't even raise an open flame, fearing that the northern land wolf patrolling nearby would find them and evacuated from the top of the rocky mountain.

But it was too cold to just sit, so they had no choice but to stand up and walk around arm in arm. After getting active, the buttocks that had been sitting on the ground were finally no longer cold, and the hands and feet gradually warmed up.

"Exercise alone is not enough, everyone should eat more." The old hunter untied the luggage he was carrying, and took out a few strips of roasted wolf meat.

Under the helmet, Kiel looked disgusted, but the stomach in his stomach was telling him that it had to eat something. Even the most disgusting wolf meat these days.

And it's cold roasted wolf meat.

The salty roasted wolf meat was dry and hard. After Kiel thanked the old hunter against his will, he turned his back and lifted the helmet visor, biting the thing with difficulty.

But everyone is the same~www.readwn.com~ No matter old or young, they all gnaw on this thing hard.

Kiel watched the old hunters painstakingly and carefully biting the dry and hard roasted wolf meat, and suggested that they should light up a small fire instead of making it bigger to keep warm, and a smaller fire would be fine. The fire that heats this food in your hand.

Although the old hunters know from experience that they should not raise the fire at this time, exposing their hidden position at this time. But the teeth of the three old guys were begging for mercy, complaining that they couldn't handle the roast wolf meat in their mouths.

After weighing it again and again, they still allowed a small fire to be raised.

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A few dry and hard wood branches were ignited by a few lumps of dry grass.

"Hey, it's caught!" Keel excitedly blew the flame on the small fire.

On the other side, everyone waved their palms and arms to disperse the smoke from the insufficiently burned firewood.

The old hunter stood a little far away and looked at the top of the fire: "It's okay, there's no smoke. Phew, quickly take out the food and heat it up. Everyone, move faster, and eat it directly after heating it up. After everything is done, hurry up Put out the fire."

Everyone took out their share of roast wolf meat and gathered beside the small fire. Keel put his share on the flame head with the highest flame temperature, and he knew that the temperature here was the highest.

Sure enough, as the fat on the roasted wolf meat sizzled, Kiel ignored the heat and directly thrust the wolf meat into the snow, then quickly took it out and put it in his mouth. Hey, the temperature is just right.

The fat on the outside of the barbecue is immediately cooled by the ice and snow, while the meat inside is just heated and softened.

Bite down, Keel chewed his teeth, chewed off the salty meat, mixed it with saliva and swallowed it into his throat.