Act 15: The Battle for the Lumberyard (2)

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The sound of bows and arrows came from the woods, and soon the mercenaries cheered and swarmed several corpses out of the grass, and the large, pale yellow creatures covered with tumors had their heads like a huge malignant tumor, and their nostrils and eyes could not be seen from the smooth surface, as if they lacked facial features. But beneath the folds of skin are thousands of olfactory and auditory organs, allowing them to be hundreds of times sharper than humans in the dim and even dark underground—once the mercenaries discover that the creatures are dead, the arrows only superficially wound them, but each of the cavemen has a fatal wound in the chest.

Some of the injuries were from back to front, some from front to back, and the wounds were charred and black, all of which were penetrating wounds. As if someone had stabbed a large hole in the chest with a thunderbolt, a handful of mercenaries recognized this peculiar wound made by the "dragoons", turned the disgusting creatures over, and then looked back in awe at the young man who was slowly walking on his horse.

Brando watched condescendingly as the cavemen opened their large mouths full of fine teeth like sharks, and the blood that spilled from the corners of their mouths was pale green, unlike the warm-blooded creatures on the surface - these creatures that lived in the lowest strata of the Jogan were actually lizards, and if he could, Brando would prefer to surround these bandits from the underworld in winter, as they would traditionally shrink during the cold season.

Unfortunately, the tight schedule didn't allow him to do so, and besides, the weather was already getting cooler, not for the best but at least not for the worst. At his signal, the mercenary fiddled with the cavemen, who had been dead for a long time, and let him see the monster clutching the stiffened claws of the spear.

"It's the lower strata of caveman society," the tiger sparrow replied, looking at the corpses, "It seems that they have left the elite in the inner circle of the defensive line, and the further we go in, the greater the resistance will be." ”

Brando nodded, but he didn't say it was actually good news. Creature levels increase from the outside in" In the past, Amber Sword was a relatively natural distribution of monsters, as is the case in most traditional games. This shows that these troglodytes did not yet constitute a complete military organization, "simply put, they were not an army, but a tribe, or some other way of forming a troglodyte settlement."

One of his biggest fears before attacking was that the cavemen entrenched in the Bearman Forest were a military organization of cavemen who had come to the surface from the Underworld, possibly as part of a plan to invade the surface of a large tribe or even an underground city, which was not uncommon in Vaynd. Sometimes the inhabitants of the underground will also spy on the resources of the above-earth world, although the resources underground are much richer, but the survival of the fittest is also more cruel. Another possibility is that the troglodyte army suffered defeat in the Underworld and fled to the Underworld to survive, but either one is much easier to deal with than the loose tribes.

A common monster special area.

Brando's mind set the caveman of the forest. The corpses they have found so far are the inferior troglodytes who served as scouts in the outermost part, and then possibly the troglodyte warriors and the "Kamuru", which means "warrior" in the language of the underground. Players used to call them elite cavemen, non-commissioned officers-like characters with the strength of the pinnacle of black iron. It can be said that in addition to sacrifices, it is the strongest combat power of cavemen.

But there is nothing to fear for him.

The mercenaries quickly sifted through the area like a net, finding a total of more than twenty corpses, consistent with Brando's experience. These corpses showed that most of the cavemen who were attacked had not had time to react, and under the attack of the Silver Tier power, their lives were burned out in a very short time. The Wind Spirit Spider Girl comes from the Wind Elemental Plane Storm Stop, although her own strength is not as good as that of Black Iron, but her ability to control the flow of air is unmatched, and she is undoubtedly a natural opponent for cavemen who rely on their sense of smell and hearing to distinguish danger.

The eyes that were scattered around the forest were plucked out one by one, and Brando's march through the jungle with hundreds of mercenaries led by his three Grand Masters, Juta, Fern and Clensia, went smoothly beyond imagination, and hundreds of warriors cautiously marched along the silent woods in the afternoon, rustling on the bright green plants of several kinds, and some even stepped on the dead branches without paying attention. Fortunately, when the warriors looked up nervously, they saw some unnamed birds fluttering their wings from the forest.

But compared to warriors and swordsmen, the mages who are protected from the crowd are even more incredible. As is customary, they must be the first target of those who have a cold gun and a secret arrow—anyone understands the importance of a mage on the battlefield. However, for these spellcasters, who are no more than full-fledged wizards, and most of them are apprentices, their ability to protect themselves is not proportional to the value they show on the battlefield, as if they themselves know that they are one of the Scouts' favorite targets.

Another target is the commander of the army, but is often no more comfortable than a low-tier spellcaster.

So these mercenary mages are used to being attacked; Surprise attacks, sneak attacks, cold arrows, especially in jungle battles are commonplace, almost everyone has the experience of being wounded" I have seen many companions die in front of them because of such attacks, and even I myself have had the personal experience of hovering on the edge of life and death. But this qiē is nothing compared to the strangeness of today's encounter," the rumored troglodyte scouts seemed to have disappeared, and watching the sunlight behind the bull spill through the gaps between the leaves and fall among the silent trees, the magicians even wondered if it was a public trip or some other activity?

But of course not, they had all seen the corpses of the cavemen before.

This qiē can only be attributed to the magic of the young lord, and it is even rumored that he is a high-level summoner, and may even exceed the boundary between gold and silver. However, for wizards, since this mysterious skill was taught to mortals by the people of silver, respecting the strong has become a deep-rooted habit, not to mention that he also has Charles under him, and the two gold-level wizards are privately called the Council of Two by the magicians among the mercenaries. Because in the custom of the artisan wizard Buga, the wizard council symbolizes authority and the power of the leader... Thus Brando's prestige was unwittingly established among these spellcasters.

But as Brando watched the mercenaries with carvings, halberds, or longbows, shields, and staffs habitually scattered in small formations across the meadows, he felt no sense of accomplishment in his heart. Although the results of the Wind Spirit Spider were amazing, this qiē was not without a price, he was silently calculating the consumption of the spell: almost an hour had passed since he entered the forest, and it had been consumed just to maintain the Holy Sword card and an attack charge, 3 Earth Elemental. He checked his elemental reserves, and at this moment, the earth elemental pool with a volume of the main grid had long been empty, and there were only grids left.

Brando frowned, and immediately sent for the guide to be called.

The ragged man came to him, raised his head and saw that the young man's face was not very good, and he thought that he had done something wrong to make the other party unhappy, and asked with some anxiety: "My lord, is there something wrong?" "How long is it ......," Brando asked a little agitated. With five minutes left, he had to forgo the next upkeep cost to return the Sacred Sword card to his library, as he had to set aside the cost to show the card again, and the real battle would be left until the night or even the early hours of the morning.

When the guide heard this, he first breathed a sigh of relief: "It's coming soon, my lord, you can see it by bypassing that forest." That sawmill is built in the middle of the river valley, I'll do it one by one", before he could finish his sentence, there was a cooing sound in front of him, which was a predetermined signal, and Brando looked up and immediately saw the mercenaries in front of him stop, crouching on the spot. And he saw the warriors at the edge of the forest turn their heads in this direction, and then gestured to him.

Brando recognized the gesture - spotted the enemy.

However, the Wind Spirit Spider has not reacted yet, nor has it produced an experience prompt, which indicates that there may be a lot of enemies, and the dragoon system is not able to kill in one hit, so it hibernates according to his second-order orders. Brando was slightly startled, and immediately turned over and dismounted and walked in that direction. Seeing his lord dismount, the three of Yuta, Fern and Clenthia also glanced at each of them and climbed off their horses and followed, followed by Tiger Sparrow, Akane and Roman, and in the end, the merchant's eyes were not a little cautious, but full of cautious curiosity.

The woods thinned out, and Brando soon came to the edge of the woodland.

"Your Excellency," the mercenary shouted respectfully as he noticed Brando'......s approach, and he glanced back just in time to see his former leader, Clensia, nodding to him.

Without saying a word, Brando formed a slope in front of him, and below the slope came the valley mentioned in the guideway, where the lumberyards of Cold Shirt City were built. Originally, there was only a clearing of land and a few wooden houses, and a large sawmill, but now it was clear that it had changed its appearance, and the cavemen had turned it into a fortress. They built stone and wood along the river beach, and they also built watchtowers, and behind the walls were faintly visible crypts made of earth and stones, and Brando counted the number and deduced that there were probably more than two hundred cavemen living in this place.

"So many, it's tricky......" The red-haired mercenary leader looked behind her and frowned. She looked at Brando, fearing that the latter would order them to force their attack.

But Brando looked at the troglodytes patrolling along the riverbank, each led by a caveman with crimson skin. Those are Muruk, if they rashly attack the other party, they will probably retreat into the fortress and waste the advantage of the surprise attack. He looked back at Antitina and the Tiger Sparrow, and replied, "What do you think......?"

"Use the old ways of our mercenaries......" replied the Sparrow.

"Old Force......

Brando looked up.