Chapter 14: The Hunting Party
After encountering the Moon Bear, our journey began to go smoothly - the normal beast Viper could no longer pose a threat to us, and the Moon Bear was a rare creature on the outskirts of the forest. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
Devourer also began to quiet down after this, and was silent except for some absent-minded teaching me some techniques on how to use the Great Sword while Ciel meditated.
Ciel, on the other hand, was no different from before, speaking every time he made a move, but he was much more silent than before he met the Moon Bear - before meeting the Moon Bear, Hill would occasionally tell some stories about Alleyne's past, and I would only ignore the Moon Bear close at hand when I was fascinated by it...... Can it be said that eating a trench grows a wisdom?
This eerie silence continued in the procession until the fourth day after departure.
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"Xiaoye, wait a minute." As I was walking, Hill suddenly stopped me.
I stopped and looked back to see Hill crouched down, fingers twrying at the dirt on the ground.
"There are footprints." Hill explained, "Werewolves, bearmen, and humans should be ordinary hunting squads. β
It's already on the edge of the forest, and not far away is the Orc Domain: the Stonecone Heath, so it's not unusual to see a hunting party hunting beasts.
"Let's go, maybe we'll meet them again." With a wave of his hand, Hill motioned to move on.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for me to smell a faint smell of blood in the air. After asking Ciel's opinion, I began to walk in the direction where the smell of blood was coming from.
The smell of blood was getting stronger, but it was also masking other smells in the air, and I had to be more vigilant.
Thirty meters...... Twenty meters ...... Ten meters... Five meters! I leaned down, drew the dagger hanging from my waist, and half-crouched cautiously forward.
But as I removed the foliage in front of me, I felt a sense of disappointmentβit was just a small clearing, with a disemboweled, freshly disemboweled deer carcass in the center, presumably as bait for hunting.
Seeing this, Ciel, who came later, didn't say much, stretched out his hand to release a cloud of flames, and manipulated it to turn around the deer corpse a few times.
After a while, a sturdy human man with a short bow in his hand jumped from a leafy tree, and Hill led me out of the woods.
"May I ask what Your Excellency Magician is doing here?" The man's face was not very kind, his naked upper body was spread across his well-proportioned muscles, and his bronzed skin shone in the light of the little sun.
"I'm sorry to disturb your hunt, but I just want to ask for help as a traveler." Hill put his right hand on his left shoulder and bowed slightly, "My name is Hill Glos, and this is my partner, karma." β
"It's rare to see such a young traveler, especially a little girl." Hearing Ciel's reply, a slight smile appeared on the man's face, "My name is Sonam Dajie, and I'm sorry I implicated my dislike for court magicians in you. β
"I think we have the same attitude about those who are in the dead and on the high." Hill smiled, "Do you know the specific direction of the northern district of Grace?" β
"What? You're heading to the North End? Sonam Dajie was a little surprised, "It's not peaceful there now." β
"Not peaceful?" Hill frowned.
"Yes, the bastards of the snake people are making trouble there again, but it doesn't matter, they will settle down after a while." Sonam Dajie shrugged.
"Lao Suo, have you talked enough?" A tall man suddenly stood up in the bushes on the side, "I hide so much that my back hurts." β
"Haogang, my brother bearman." Sonam Dajie walked over and patted the man on the shoulder. It was an extremely burly man, with thick body hair and a pair of extremely thick palms, which reminded me of the moon bear three days ago.
"Xiao Wang, you can come out too." The bearman laughed and howled.
"Don't call me Xiao Wang, I'm a werewolf, not a dog!" A fair-faced boy who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old walked out from behind a tree.
The boy claimed to be fangless, with a pair of triangular ears on his head, long, sharp nails on his fingers, and a fluffy wolf tail hanging from his back.
"What a strange smell......" After introducing himself to Ciel, Wanton Fang turned to look at me and twitched his nose, "Are you really human?" ββ¦β¦ The nose is quite smart.
"Wanton, don't talk too much." Sonam Dajie pressed the head of the boy who was a little shorter than him and rubbed his short gray hair fiercely, "I'm sorry, this is my friend's child, please forgive me if I am offended." β
"It doesn't matter." Hill smiled, but immediately put concern on his face again, "Do you know when the North End will settle down?" β
"This ...... I can't say for sure. Sonam Dajie was a little embarrassed, "However, if you're in a hurry...... It's better to have a few more guards. β
"Actually, it's not that I'm in a hurry to go to the northern district of Gurres, but to rent a dragon to go to Swinter City, after all, there is a teleportation array there." Ciel smiled wryly.
"Earth Dragon? Say it earlier! Hao Gang on the side laughed, "Lao Suo is a good hand at riding the earth dragon, wouldn't it be good for him to take you to the royal city?" β
"What does my eldest brother have to do with them? We don't know them well. "And the eldest brother has promised to hunt a moon bear for me first, but I want to use the moon bear bile for a coming-of-age ceremony." β
"Men can't be so stingy!" Hao Gang slapped the back of the fang, causing the werewolf boy to stumble, "The moon bear won't run away, and it's okay to come back next time." β
ββ¦β¦ Let me ask, how many moon bears are there around here? "I suddenly had a bad premonition.
"There's only one within a radius of thirty miles, what's wrong?" Sonam Dajie's answer made me feel ...... The word is called ...... Egg pain?
ββ¦β¦ Then I guess you won't have a chance in the future. Ciel sighed, the storage ring on her hand flashed, and a lump of flesh dripping with blood was held in her hand, "Because the bear has already been killed by us." β
"It's ...... Moon bear bile? A gleam flashed in Sonam Dajie's eyes, "Such a fresh ...... Did you really kill it? β
"It's just a fluke." Hill said lightly.
"That's also very powerful, Hao Gang and I were promoted to the silver level before we dared to start hunting moon bears." Sonam Dajie laughed.
"That's not it, Moon Bear's strength is too big, I didn't suffer much at the beginning, and I can fight hard only when I am at the silver level." Hao Gang scratched the back of his head with a bold smile on his face.
Can you still confront Moon Bear head-on? What a powerful force is this? Recalling the tragic past when I was slapped away by the moon bear, I couldn't help but be a little stunned by this big man.
"Cut! The stupid big man with well-developed limbs ......" Yanya muttered quietly on the side, but was heard by Sonam Dajie, so he raised his hand and smacked: "What do you say about your brother Haogang?" β
"It's getting late." With his face straightened, Sonam Dajie looked up at the gradually darkening sky, "If you don't mind, how about you go to our camp together to rest for the night?" β
"Then we'll be disrespectful." Hill nodded in acknowledgment.
ββ¦β¦ Women are really born actors. The voice of devouring suddenly sounded.
β¦β¦ Did the previous performance be pretended? No wonder I always felt that something was wrong......
"It's not acting, it's upbringing." Hill's retort also came to my head - and then I saw Hill glaring at me fiercely, "Also, I'm a girl, not a woman!" β
"Why don't you hurry up?" Wanton Tooth, who was about to enter the jungle, stopped and looked back at us, "I really don't know why Big Brother is helping you. β
"So he's a man, and you're a boy." Hill replied with a smile.
ββ¦β¦ Cut! Tooth replied with a sneer.
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