Chapter 2: Hellhounds
After dinner, Ryan and the others decided to camp on the spot and wait for dawn, the misty forest is not the territory of humans, it is full of dangers everywhere, and the monsters who live in the misty forest all year round can see without the interference of the dense fog, but humans can't, Ryan and the others don't dare to go too deep, not to mention that it's still in the night. Ryan called Feige to set up two tents, one for him and Feige, and one for Kara, and the girls always had to take advantage of them. After setting up the tent, Ryan took out a roll of thin rope from his bag, and a bag of bells wrapped in layers of cotton cloth, which Ryan connected with ropes every two meters, and then tied one end of the rope to the trees around the tent and formed a circle around the tent. After doing this, I went into the tent with peace of mind.
The night was calm.
In the early morning, the morning sun rose, and the sunlight shone in through the layers of mist at the edge of the misty forest, bringing some light to the forest, and the fog gradually dissipated a lot when the breeze blew, and the firewood on the fire had already burned out, leaving only some charred charcoal, and even white smoke was gone. Kara's ears, still asleep in the tent, moved slightly—there was a movement! The elves' long, pointed ears gave the elves a more subtle sense of hearing, and Kara opened her eyes sharply, grabbed the longbow placed next to the pillow, and turned over to look at it. In addition to hearing, elves also have a better sense of sight than humans, which is what makes elves great archers. Kara stared at the faint mist, a few looming black shadows were slowly approaching, and the shape of the black shadows did not look like humans, Kara held her breath to look at Ryan's tent, where suddenly a strange cry from Fitch was clear: "Oops, Ryan." Why are you hitting me? ”
Ryan said angrily: "Hurry up, there is a situation." "Apparently Ryan also found the outside unusual.
Kara saw Ryan walk out of the tent and grab the black iron greatsword inserted in the mouth of the tent, Kara jumped slightly, and her agile figure instantly stood on the ground outside the tent. Kara took her longbow and walked towards Ryan. When Feige came out of the tent, he was still tidying up his gray robe.
"What's the situation?" asked Feige.
"We're afraid we're already surrounded. Kara said, and then said to herself, "I wonder what those shadows are?"
"It's Hellhound. Ryan said.
"What?Hellhound?, how do you know?" said Feige, surprised.
"Smelling it, they have a smell of rotting blood, which is the smell of hellhounds. Ryan said.
Feige sniffed hard, "Why can't I smell it." "Is this your dog's nose?"
Ryan ignored Feiqi and just tightened his grip on the black greatsword in his hand.
"When do you still have the heart to laugh. Carla blames Feige. "Think about how to deal with the predicament at hand, Lord Alex. ”
In the fog ahead, a hound slowly emerged from the mist, the bloodied mouth of the hound slightly open full of sharp fangs saliva kept dripping, on the back of the hound, two barbs with the same curve as the hound back began from the back below the neck and extended back to the hips, the same barbs also appeared on the limbs of the hound, there is no doubt that these hard barbs were given by the creator to protect themselves.
One, two, three...... Seven, seven hellhounds surrounded the three of Ryan from different directions, these hounds were like hungry wolves suddenly saw fat sheep, Ryan could clearly see the greedy, bloodthirsty fierce light in the red eyes of the hounds.
Feige also realized the seriousness of the situation, he held the deadwood staff in his hand with his left hand, and felt the faint magic contained in the staff with his heart, and at the same time the palm of his right hand was facing up, concentrating his spiritual power to communicate with the magic elements in nature, using magic as the guide and spirit as the medium, condensing the magic elements in nature, so as to create magic.
Kara's left hand grabbed the blade of the elven longbow and shook it slightly, the bowstring pointing upwards, ready for battle. Remember, you must not run away when you are seen as prey by something else, or you will face a rush of pursuit.
The Hellhound was still slowly approaching.
"Ding Ling Lingling. "It's the sound of bells. The suddenly frightened hellhound opened its bloody mouth as if it had been provoked by a human, and pounced on Ryan and the others, and its body, which was taller and stronger than a wolf, broke Ryan's rope with just one leap.
"It's coming!" Ryan took a step back, adjusted his posture, and held the black iron greatsword in front of his chest with both hands, solemnly waiting. And Kara and Feige, who have long-range attack capabilities, have already taken the lead when Ryan's word "come" has just come out.
"Arrows!"
"Fly, fireball!"
Arrows with cold light and blazing fireballs flew out at the same time, shooting at the two hounds in front of them. The Level 1 Magic Fireball Technique has always been the most useful offensive spell.
The hound had been hit by arrows and fireballs had already leapt high in the air, and it was impossible to completely change the trajectory of the forward pounce, Kara's arrow whistled and made a sound of friction with the air and shot straight into the mouth of one of the hounds, and then an arrow pierced out of the skull, and the body of the hound was hit by Kara's arrow, and fell to the ground at once, dying. On the other side, Feige's fireball also smashed on the head of a hound impartially, and the field was instantly filled with a smell of burnt feathers, and the fireball exploded, and the flames instantly invaded the predecessor of the hound that was hit, and the hound fell to the ground, and half of his body was immediately surrounded by flames. It's a pity that the cohesion of this fireball technique is not strong enough, otherwise, if it is a fireball technique released by a white-robed mage, it will definitely be able to incinerate an entire hound in just an instant. At the moment when the two hounds fell to the ground at the same time, Ryan moved. The reason why Ryan took a step back was to leave room for himself to wield his greatsword. I saw Ryan turn around at his feet, and the black iron giant sword in his hand turned around violently with both hands, and at the same time, the hands holding the giant sword swept out a thousand forces and smashed it on a hound that had jumped in front of him, and the hound instantly flew out upside down like a kite with a broken line, and hit another hound in the air, and both fell to the ground. Compared with the rapette, the big sword is less sharp but more powerful. There were also three hounds on either side, and since they had not received any attacks, they were already close. Kalati dodged with a bow, dodging one of the hounds with one jump, and the remaining two hounds pounced on Fitch. The magician was not as agile as the archers, and "Ryan ......," Fei Wei screamed, and saw two hounds pounce on him at the same time, and he was so frightened that he immediately turned around and ran away, and ran behind Ryan in a few arrows.
"Come close to me, don't leave the two-metre radius around me. Ryan shouted. At the same time, Ryan's entire body rotated along the sword momentum that swept just now, the black big sword opened and closed, and after a circle, it was already a momentum from top to bottom towards the hounds that pounced on Feige just now, one of the hounds was cut off by Ryan's big sword, and let out a scream accompanied by the sound of a skull shattering, like a cannonball smashed to the ground, but there was also a hound, which was unstoppable. Ryan saw out of the corner of his eye that the fangs of the last hound were already close at hand, Ryan instinctively wanted to roll away with the bow of the sword to avoid the bite of the hound, but he still stiffened his body, because Feiqi, the stupid man, was behind him, as a gray-robed mage, before learning the fourth-level magic [magic shield], if he was approached by a hellhound known for his speed, the consequences would be unimaginable. Unless one day Fei Qi can become a white-robed mage, relying on his own magic and spiritual power to instantly gather elements and instantaneously perform first- or second-level magic, then he will have the ability to fight back.
"Click......", because he couldn't dodge, Ryan twisted his body hard, trying to avoid the vital point, and the hound's sharp fangs bit down on Ryan's right shoulder.
"Ryan!" Kara exclaimed, anxious as she leapt to her feet, drawing her dagger at her waist and stabbing at the hound that had bitten Ryan. The hound struck a blow and leaped quickly and far away, tearing out a small piece of Lane's flesh from its sharp fangs.
The hounds on the field were killed and wounded, and one stood in the distance unscathed, ready to launch the next round of attacks. On Ryan's right shoulder, blood trickled down his arm and down to the black greatsword. Kara anxiously stood in front of Ryan, worried about Ryan's injuries and wary of the remaining hounds that could attack again at any time. Feige held Ryan's right hand, full of remorse in his heart, Feige knew that with Ryan's skills, he would definitely be able to dodge that moment just now, but Ryan didn't dodge, it was all because of him.
"You should get out of the way!" said Feige, as if he were a child who had done something wrong.
"It's a swordsman's duty to protect a mage in battle, and you don't have to be sad. Ryan still held the sword in his right hand, and he took two slow steps forward, swinging his sword twice in the air as he went, showing no signs of injury. Ryan glanced at the remaining four hounds on the field and said, "It's time for a quick fight." "Hellhounds are gregarious monsters with a keen sense of smell and never appear alone, so no one knows if they have other companions, so they must all be killed here, and if one of them runs away, Ryan and the others will probably be hunted endlessly, which will be the worst case.
"But your injuries. Kara said worriedly, "Can I fight?"
"It can be done in five minutes without any impact. Ryan said with a calm expression.
"Okay, let's do it quickly. I tackle the left two ends. Kara took the lead, drew two arrows at the same time, drew her bow, and shot the arrows, and the two arrows instantly came out of the string and shot at the two hounds on the left with a cold light.
"Fly, fireball!" Fireballs the size of a skull shot out of Feige's hand again. With Ryan guarding him, Feige boldly cut off the perception of the surrounding situation, and the condensation speed of the fireball suddenly became much faster. Ryan held the sword and did not move, maintaining a range of two meters from Feiqi, it is the swordsman's duty to protect the mage, and Ryan cannot stay away from Feiqi unless there is only one enemy.
In the case of the hounds' solemn waiting, Kara's arrows and Feige's fireballs had no effect at all, at first the hounds did not know the strength of Ryan and the others, and they swarmed up and became a live target, but now the hounds keep a certain distance, which can dodge and wait for the opportunity. However, Kara's arrow dodged the hound's barbs and pierced the lower abdomen of a hound, which could not run. The advantage of a mage is that he can use his psychic power to pull spells to a certain extent, so that spells have a certain tracking ability. Feige's fireball technique quickly changed direction as the hound moved, and it slammed into the butt of a hound, which immediately filled the butt with scorched smoke and jumped up and down in the distance. At this moment, I saw Feiqi shouting, a complicated magic spell came out, the light flashed on the deadwood staff in Feiqi's left hand, and his right hand also flashed, Feiqi's right hand stretched forward into a claw, and the light in his palm condensed.
"Arcan, second-level magic, Olympiad missile!"
In an instant, all five magic missiles containing magical energy flew out, and all of them smashed on the hound's body that was burned by the fire, and the hound's "boom ......" The hound whimpered, and was blown into a tattered corpse and fell to the ground, and even the barbs on his body were broken. The moment the spell ended, Feige gasped for breath, obviously the magic was taking a lot of time on him.
Not far away, Kara was still fighting her other hound with the agility of the archer, and on Ryan's side, only the undamaged hound was left on the scene. The hound was eager to try at first, until he saw Feige's [Olympiad Missile] flying out, but he became timid, roared and raised his steps and slowly stepped back.
"I want to run!" Ryan rushed out with an arrow, regardless of the blood still flowing on his right shoulder, when he didn't need to protect Feige, Ryan showed the speed of a swordsman no less than an archer, Ryan threw out the sword with his right hand, and stuck it on the ground where the hound turned and fled, a jump, turned over, and the body still in mid-air stood upside down holding the sword, his arm was forced, Ryan quickly landed on the ground with both feet, drew his sword, and followed the sword momentum with a bottom-up pick, cutting from the front chest of the hound, and the hound was suddenly thrown high into the air like a ball, and the sternum was broken. When the hound fell, Ryan swung his sword with his right hand and mended a slash on the hound's head, which was so clean that the hound flew out upside down like a puddle of rotten meat and fell to the ground.