The Erqina River, the most beautiful and wide river flowing in the northern Xinjiang grassland, is like a white and flawless jade belt, crossing the entire grassland, winding all the way south, and finally flowing into the large lake Mingjing Lake, which is located in the southern part of the grassland.

In the grasslands near the Ircina River Valley, a herd of hyena-shaped monsters with brown fur and black stripes roamed around, searching for prey.

They are the Demon-spotted hyena, a very fierce magical beast in the northern steppes that is proficient in earth-based magic.

The Demon Hyena is said to be a descendant of the Demon Realm Hellhound left on the continent when the demons invaded the continent in ancient times. They are cruel, treacherous, and live in groups in grass or caves, and like to eat the corpses of large animals or monsters, but unlike other types of hyenas that live on the grasslands, the spotted hyena is not a weak person who feeds on the remains of other powerful monsters. The objects of their prey are often large animals such as sharp-horned gazelles, flame monitor lizards, hurricane wildebeests, and blade-hoofed buffaloes, as well as low- and middle-level magical beasts, and when their numbers are large enough, they even dare to collectively hunt large high-level magical beasts such as steppe saber-toothed lions and tyrannosaurus velociraptors.

The sharp teeth of the Devil-spotted hyena have a strong bite and can easily crush the bones of their prey, so when eating, they often eat their prey cleanly, leaving not even a single bone residue left. As a result, the Devil-spotted hyena is known as the most ferocious scavenger in the northern steppes.

At sunset, after a whole day of wandering in the grassland, the long-hungry Devil-spotted hyena finally found the whereabouts of today's food, and they secretly tiptoed on a group of wolf cavalry running on the grassland.

The wolf cavalry, which numbered more than a dozen men, stopped its advance when it reached the banks of the Ercina River, and it seemed that they intended to camp by the river. The hungry demon hyena herd could no longer suppress their desire to eat at this time, and took the opportunity to attack the wolf cavalry.

Under the sudden attack, the wolf cavalry quickly took off the huge iron shield hanging on the wolf saddle, and raised the shield to form a small circular shield array, judging from their calm performance, they were obviously well-trained elite warriors.

The big wolf under the wolf cavalry suffered first. Although the wolf is also a very ferocious beast, the number of a dozen is too different in strength in the face of the crazy attack of more than seventy demon-spotted hyenas. More than a dozen wolves were soon killed under the claws and steel teeth of the spotted hyena, and the corpses were devoured.

Immediately afterward, the demon-spotted hyenas howled and rushed towards the wolf cavalry who had formed a shield formation to protect themselves.

Several feathered arrows shot out of the shield array, and the first few demon-spotted hyenas were shot by the feathered arrows and fell to the ground screaming.

In addition, more than a dozen demon-spotted hyenas rushed to the front and back of the shield array, suddenly jumped with all their strength, and pounced viciously on the shield array.

Several spears pierced through the gaps between the shields and burst out of the shield array.

Listening only to a few muffled sounds of 'poof, poof, poof', each spear pierced through a pounced demon-spotted hyena. And those demon-spotted hyenas who were not attacked by the bayonet spears, their proud claws and steel fangs were useless in front of the iron shield in the hands of the wolf cavalry, so they had to slam their bodies into the iron shield, hoping to break this seemingly impregnable small shield array.

The wolf cavalry with shields in both hands gritted their teeth, gathered strength, lowered their body center of gravity, and stood still with their legs like a tree taking root, resisting the fierce impact of the demon-spotted hyena with all their might, trying to stabilize the shield array. They knew that if the shield array was crushed, they would face an extremely miserable fate

。 The wolf cavalry with guns in the center of the battle array kept changing positions, piercing the bayonets in their hands through the gaps between the shields, and stabbing the demon-spotted hyenas who frantically hit the shields outside the shield array one by one.

Soon, around the shield array formed by the wolf cavalry, more than a dozen corpses of demon-spotted hyenas fell.

The Spotted Hyena is a magical beast with intelligence, and is very cunning by nature. Seeing that they would suffer heavy casualties and suffer a great loss by attacking their prey in this way, they immediately changed their attack strategy. The demon-spotted hyenas that rushed up from behind no longer tried to break the shield array, they stopped the impact on the shield array, and slowly retreated, widening the distance between them and the shield array.

A spotted hyena suddenly craned its neck and let out a long bark into the sky. As if to respond to the spotted hyena, the rest of the spotted hyenas barked as well.

The earth trembled inexplicably, and the mud and debris on the ground seemed to be lifted by an invisible hand, and they floated into the air on their own, and gathered themselves in mid-air. Soon, dozens of flying swords that had been transformed from dirt and had begun to take shape appeared in mid-air.

This is exactly the first-order earth magic that the demon-spotted hyenas are good at, the 'Earth Spirit Sword'. This magic is to condense the earth element of the earth and transform it into a flying sword, which can be used to kill enemies.

Seeing this, a wolf cavalry in the shield array changed his face suddenly, and shouted: "It's not good, these beasts can even do magic!"

When the other wolf cavalry saw it, his face was also pale, he gritted his teeth, and cheered up his companions: "Hold on a little longer, the large army is behind us, calculate the time, the large army is about to arrive here." ”

Just when the demon hyenas were activating their magic and the wolf cavalry were in danger, in the direction where the wolf cavalry came from, there was a sudden sound of wind and thunder.

The wind and thunder soon came from far and near. I saw countless ironclad cavalry appear on the prairie, they rode on the back of a wolf the size of a calf, and pulled the mane on the wolf's neck with their hands, like the wind thundering to steer the wolf to speed.

This is an army of wolf riders running in the gale.

"Here, here, our big army is here, it's safe now!" After seeing the wolf cavalry army that suddenly appeared, one of the wolf cavalry in the shield array couldn't help but cheer loudly.

The rain of arrows suddenly roared across the steppe sky and fell on the group of demon-spotted hyenas on the banks of the Erzina River in front of them. The demon-spotted hyenas, who were trying to launch a magical attack, were instantly shot into hedgehogs by the unexpected rain of arrows, and fell to their deaths on the grassland with a wail, and none of them were spared. Those 'Earth Spirit Swords' suspended in mid-air and about to fully take shape also shattered with a 'snap', turning into bits of mud and dissipating in the wind. The wolf cavalry besieged by the Demon-spotted hyena was unscathed in this dense rain of arrows. The accuracy of the archery of this wolf cavalry army is staggering.

The wolf cavalry withdrew their shield array and met the rushing army of wolf cavalry.

After the wolf cavalry army rushed to the bank of the Erchina River, the wolf cavalry on the back of the wolf jumped off the wolf's back with cheers, came to the corpse of the demon spotted hyena that was wiped out by the whole army, drew their swords, and chopped at the corpse of the demon spotted hyena on the ground.

The sunset reflected the grassland red, and also reflected the bloody swords in the hands of the wolf cavalry.