Mercenaries and Adventurers

Everyone waited by the pool for a long time, guessing that Knight Lanisa should have rushed back on horseback when she saw the second fire on the mountaintop after she left the camp.

But the other party did not appear.

"Is something wrong, Sir Knight?" A young hunter asked Kiel in a low voice.

Kiel didn't know either, and just as he didn't know how to answer him, the old hunter who heard the young hunter's question immediately refuted because of the quiet surroundings: "How is it possible? The knight is so powerful! And he is riding a war horse, it's impossible Can't deal with the injured wolf king."

Seeing that whispering was useless, the young hunter turned his voice back to normal: "Then what's the matter with the current situation? Your lord won't forget us, will you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped on the head by the old hunters one after another. The young hunter shrank his neck and endured it honestly. After all, one of the three old hunters was his elder.

He didn't dare to fight back when the elder hit him. If it weren't for this, if he was in Kendall's tavern at this time, he would have swung his fist back.

"What nonsense are you talking about! My lord must have her own reasons for not coming back. Well, the situation must be very complicated." The old hunter Tost said slowly, stroking the gray beard on his chin.

Keir shrugged: "Waiting is not an option, we have to do something."

All the hunters nodded when they heard this. "That's the reason. We have to do something. The situation is unclear now. Sir Knight can't tell what the situation is."

"The northern wolf is so cunning, not to mention the wolf king. In previous years, the adults were unable to defeat the combined attacks of the other party, so they retreated again and again."

Keir looked at everyone: "If this is the case, then we have to help Knight Lanisa, otherwise this year may be similar to what you said last year, the year before last, and the year before last. Heh, at least the ending is similar .We still killed a lot of northern land wolves anyway."

The young hunters next to them all laughed: "At least the trip was not in vain. With so many northern land wolves lost, they will definitely not attack villages and towns next year."

The old hunters were not as happy as the young ones. After all, killing many northern wolves was a good thing, but in the final analysis, the matter still lies with the wolf king of the northern wolves. The few of them participated in the formation of the Lanisa knight hunter team at the beginning, so they naturally knew the population situation of the northern wolf pack in the past few years.

The northern land wolf was originally just an ordinary beast in this big forest, but since the appearance of the more and more powerful wolf king, the population of the northern land wolf has expanded rapidly. Basically, in about two years, the number of the entire population will decrease. It has doubled, and in recent years, the number has increased every year compared to the previous year.

This led to the initial crusade against the northern land wolf wolf king, and gradually these hunters changed to deal with ordinary northern land wolves as the main target of battle.

Last year, everyone desperately entangled with the northern land wolves all the time throughout the winter, and finally defeated the main force of the northern land wolf adult wolves, but they themselves suffered heavy losses, and had to recruit new hunters to join after the spring began.

The three old hunters got together to discuss for a while, and analyzed the unknown situation based on past years of experience and judgment, and found that the current situation is more and more heading towards the path of previous crusade failures.

But this year there is something different.

These hunters are now free and hidden, with options and suddenness in their actions that they did not have in previous years.

They looked at each other, and there was no need to say much about the final judgment. The situation had already told them what to do. "Everyone," said the old hunter Tost who was in charge.

The young men looked at him, knowing that the old hunters had made up their minds.

"We should go to support Lord Lanisa at this time." He patted the bow in his hand: "Holding the cold bow arm, the feather bag is not enough." He pulled two words from the bard's mouth libretto.

"It's useless to wait. It's hard for knights to fight." He wanted to say a few more words, but the two old guys next to him poked him with their fingers. He had to cough and said solemnly: "As I said just now , the situation is unknown. At this time, we can’t just sit here and let Sir Knight fight alone on an unknown battlefield. Although the Lord will not criticize us in the end, if this continues this year, the result will definitely be the same as previous years.”

"We can only win if we throw ourselves into the crucial battle and give the Lord Knight a powerful boost. To be honest, the situation this year is really good. A large number of northern land wolves have been killed, and the wolf king has also been punished." Enough to affect the damage of the battle."

He wanted to say more, but the young hunters interrupted him: "Don't talk too much, everyone knows the situation, let's go!"

The old hunter Tost nodded: "Everyone understands, get ready to fight to the death, and set off now."

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Let's go, but it is most important to understand where Lanisa Knight and Wolf King are at the moment.

In the camp before, everyone saw the direction in which the wolf king fled, and the direction in which Knight Lanisa pursued. Although time passed for a long time, they chased and fled, not knowing the specific position at this moment. But there is still a general direction.

The old hunter drew on the snow the location of the camp in the rock passage and the north-south directions, and soon everyone figured out which direction the two were heading.

They looked up again to see the position of this place, and the distance from north to south and from the top of the rocky mountain that glowed with fire.

Draw a rough position diagram on the side.

That's how I know which direction to go now.

The first step is to keep up with the traces of the wolf king fleeing at that time, and the traces of chasing after knight Lanisa on horseback. This is really easy for hunters who have been hunting in the forest all year round, so after they placed the dead companion's body on a higher tree and tied it tightly, they immediately prepared and set off.

At the head of the team is a young hunter with good eyes and ears as the first leader, followed by Kiel, who is capable of close combat, as a security guarantee, and then the middle of the team consists of three old hunters, and the remaining two young hunters Walk at the back to ensure the safety of the tail of the team, and not be followed by the northern wolf.

Everyone didn't speak, and under the leadership of the first hunter, they quickly walked in a single file and walked through the snow-covered silent forest in the direction they had analyzed.

The empty wolf skin of the wolf king that he had been asking to carry was tied to Keir's back. This thing wobbled as he walked, but if you looked closely, you could find that the thing was still swinging in one direction as a whole.

Along the way, Keir wanted to say several times that they should follow the instructions of this thing to find the wolf king. After all, if they found the wolf king, they would definitely find the Lanisa knight who was chasing the wolf king.

But as soon as the team moved quickly in the quiet forest, no one spoke except for the panting sounds of people walking around. Secondly, he clearly knew that although the thing behind him clearly showed a significant connection with the wolf king when he was on the rocky mountain before, the hunters obviously believed in this weird thing from the wolf king more. They have more instinctive tracking skills under their own hands.

After all, the skills I have mastered will not deceive myself, and no one can tell the weird things about the monster.

Keir himself believed that the group of them would definitely be able to find the wolf king through this thing, because he actually had an intuition in his heart, feeling that the place that was in line with the direction indicated by the empty wolf skin behind him, he vaguely can sense something.

It was vague, but he seemed to have felt that feeling once or twice.

What is it?

He recalled it carefully, and found that it seemed that only the two-handed ax that he inexplicably inspired an unknown force twice was the most likely. He rubbed his hands, not knowing what was going on.

It's hard for him not to know when, he has already had a spiritual connection with this gifted weapon?

He often went to the public park in front of the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce to listen to amateur local theater performances by those wealthy and leisurely people who lived comfortably. The weapons used by some famous heroes often appear in the stories, and those weapons often show some strange abilities in the stories.

For example, there is definitely a spiritual connection between a weapon and its owner.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think of his subconscious call or search for the inner strength of the two-handed ax when he was in an emergency twice.

The first time was in the rocky passage of the rock mountain, facing the raging northern land wolf, after he threw it, the weapon magically spun in the air by itself, and crushed all the approaching northern land wolves Crushed to pieces, the power is astonishing.

The second time, when he was taken into the air by the wolf king of the Northland, he summoned this weapon subconsciously. As a result, the two-handed ax responded to his call, and quickly flew back to him from the ground, and finally severely injured the wolf king who was blocking the return path.

Since then, his ax has been stuck on the wolf king's body. At this moment, his vague feeling must have come from this weapon.

As he walked silently, Kiel opened his visor to look at the direction sensed by the empty wolf skin in the air and himself, and found that the two were roughly the same. But it is not the same as the direction they are heading at this time.

Frowning, Kiel said something to him, but thinking of the Wolf King and Lanisa Knight chasing and fleeing, he would definitely not stay in place. It is quite normal that the initial position is inconsistent with the position sensed in real time at this time.

It can't be said that the hunters' methods are wrong. If they find the traces left by the two and follow them all the way, they will definitely find the wolf king and the knight in the end.

But the question is, can it catch up?

Once Lanisa Knight was defeated and retreated, it would be useless for them to catch up again.

After all, Keir didn't think they could leave the knight alone and get rid of the wolf king by themselves.

From the previous battle in the camp, and the previous wolf king broke through the barrier of the wooden wall of the position, hit the wooden wall, and took the lives of the two companions. Ordinary fighters like them, enemies at the level of the wolf king, probably can take them all in less than a breath.

Kiel himself should still be able to last a round or two under the hands of the wolf king, but in front of the cautious wolf king, he probably only needs to use his metal spear in his mouth to kill him twice.

"Hiss." Thinking of this, Kiel felt goose bumps all over his body.

Just by imagining, one can feel the fate of being chopped into several pieces after the metal spear pierces through the armor on his body.

If only Gannar's metal armor could be finished, he believed that he should be better.

Shaking his head, Keir dismissed the idea. Even with a full body of metal armor, he is no match for the Wolf King.

He understood this point.

The main body of the battle is Knight Lanisa. They are warrior hunters who assist each other in the battle. Containing the wolf king, harassing the wolf king, interrupting an attack or defense of the wolf king at a critical moment is the best thing they can do.

It's a pity that if they can't make it to the battlefield, they won't even be able to play any role.

Keir hesitated, wondering if he should ask everyone to turn around, and follow his method to find the Wolf King and Lanisa Knight.

It's not easy. Even if all the young hunters support him, will those old hunters who have believed in and relied on hunting experience for a long time support him?

It goes without saying that it is impossible.

'Now is not the time. ’ Keel thought so, not at the right time.

He only hoped that the Cavaliers would not have any accidents too early at this moment. It would be best to defeat the wolf king directly, but a stalemate is also fine. If other accidents occur and they are defeated before they arrive, that is the worst situation.

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After resting for a while, they spent more than two hours arriving at the direction where the wolf king and the knight had left the rocky mountain.

Looking at the footprints of a large group of northern land wolves running past on the ground, the hunters felt that the situation was not good.

"Oops! Some northern land wolves have left here. Looking at the direction, you don't need to guess to know that they are chasing the wolf king and the knight, right?" A young man opened his mouth and expressed everyone's guess.

The old hunters checked the traces on the ground, and found the footprints of the wolf king, which were bigger than the washbasin, and the heavy horseshoe prints. None of these traces were covered by the footprints of ordinary northern land wolves tracked by Mercedes-Benz, so it was easy to see them under inspection.

"Look at the direction. The direction of the wolf king and the knight is this way. They are away from the rocky mountain." An old hunter squatted on the ground and said.

Another old hunter checked the footprints of many northern land wolves: "And the northern land wolves are all in the same direction. They chased the traces and followed them."

The old hunter Tost fiddled with the beard on his chin with one hand, and supported the elbow of the other hand: "I saw the number of footprints of the wolves, and they were not as many as I expected."

"About how much?" Keel asked.

After gesticulating, the old hunter Tost said: "It only accounts for about 20% of the wolves, or even less than 20%."

His face was solemn: "Although there are not many northern land wolves chasing the direction of the wolf king and knights, this number, how should I put it, is already a number that can exert influence in the battle. I hope my lord will not dismount to fight, as long as she is on the horse, It is very difficult for ordinary northern land wolves to participate in that level of battle."

But there are forests all around. If you are fighting on the flat ground around the rocky mountain, that's okay, there is enough space for the horses to gallop up. But in the forest, the denser the forest, the harder it is for the horse to run. But once the speed doesn't increase, not to mention the advantages for the wolf king, even ordinary northern land wolves can catch up and affect the battle between the knight and the wolf king.

And the old hunter Tost was also worried that when he was on the mountain before, although it was difficult to distinguish, the number of northern land wolves who came to attack was obviously not very large, which was about a part more than the number of northern land wolves who went to support the wolf king. . On the other hand, more than half of the northern land wolves had disappeared.

He did not participate in the battle on the top of the rock, nor did he go to support the wounded and fleeing wolf king.

Where did they go?

When he uttered this question, the hunters became anxious. A pure wolf king or a large group of northern land wolves are no match for Lanisa Knight riding a war horse, but the combination of the two, judging from the results of previous years, Lanisa Knight was defeated and retreated.

So, no need to say anything, everyone took action immediately, chasing the trail of the wolf king, the knight, and the northern land wolf.

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At this moment, Keel blinked, thinking that the timing might be enough.

The situation was unclear before, and at least two of the three possibilities were in favor of their human side. But since it was discovered that groups of northern land wolves may have participated in the knight's battle.

The originally unknown but generally favorable situation no longer exists, but has become urgent and unfavorable.

Speaking at this moment, he felt that it should make the old hunters put down their original hunting and tracking skills and experience, and switch to using his method.

So, Kiel took two quick steps, grabbed the leading companion in front, and then stopped.

Seeing Kiel stop, all the teams walking in a row behind stopped.

"Kill? What's the matter? What happened?" the old hunter Tost said directly. At the same time, everyone set their arrows on the string, separated slightly from left to right, and paid attention to the situation in all directions.

But there was no attack or danger as expected.

Looking at everyone, Keir said, "It's not that I was attacked. It's like this."

He paused for a moment, then pointed to the floating and empty wolf king skin hanging behind him: "The direction is wrong!"

Keir's words and actions made everyone puzzled: "What direction is wrong?"

"We are going in the wrong direction~www.readwn.com~Impossible." The young hunter who walked in the front retorted directly: "The footprints are so obvious, it is impossible to go wrong."

The hunters are very experienced hunters, and they all agree with the leader hunter's words. We are indeed making progress along the trail.

But Keir shook his head: "The traces are not wrong, but it doesn't mean they are correct." Seeing everyone's doubts, Kiel continued: "The reason is very simple. The footprints were left by the wolf king and the knight Lanisa before. Yes. Looking at other messy northern land wolf footprints, these fresh footprints were also left some time ago, after the knight and the wolf king."

"This shows that we are following the traces, and we are only looking for the knights and wolf kings who are no longer there."

What Keir said was convoluted, but the hunters were completely transparent about related matters.

"You mean, at this moment, the wolf king and the knight are no longer in the direction we are going?" the old hunter Tost said on behalf of other hunters.

Kiel nodded, indicating that was what he meant.

Everyone frowned when they saw Kiel nodding his head in acknowledgment.

"What can you do? Know the current position of Lord Knight?" As soon as he finished speaking, the old hunter Tost shook his head, and then nodded again: "It must be, you have a way."

He pointed to the empty wolf pelt hanging behind Keel, and said directly, "Rely on this?"

"That's right." Keir nodded: "But it's more than that."

He knew that the hunters couldn't fully believe in this weird thing from the wolf king, but he knew that as a common fighting partner, they must believe in Kiel himself.