Chapter 21: Wolves
The dagger whizzed like an arrow into the woods at the edge of the camp, and a beastly wail came from that direction.
The adventurers of the vigil were immediately as attracted by the sound as Finn, and the people in the camp invariably turned their heads in the direction of Camusha's dagger thrown, and a gray-sidedness wolf with a dagger in his body slowly stepped out from behind a dark bush at the edge of the woods and stepped into the field of vision.
"It's a gray-sidedness wolf." An adventurer with his sword drawn from its leather sheath rushed over.
"It's strange that we didn't even find it?" Another adventurer was also surprised with an axe.
The wild wolf with dark gray sideburns crawled forward to meet everyone's gaze, one of its forelimbs crushed a wooden branch that fell on the edge of the grass, making a soft "snap" sound, and the wolf pupils on both sides of its head reflected the campfire in the camp, and a pair of strange crimson eyes lit up in the faint moonlight.
After the other adventurers who entered the tent to rest noticed the movement in the camp, they quickly picked up the weapons that were placed on the pillow and rushed out of the tent, and more than a dozen people quickly gathered in the camp where the young paladin group was, although the combat quality of these adventurers of the sideburns adventure group was still some gap from the professional mercenaries and soldiers, but they could quickly wake up from their sleep in a short time to prepare for battle, and the young paladin was quite satisfied with their reaction, The adventure party that Randolph had trained didn't disappoint him too much at this point.
As the adventurers hunched out of their tents, the trees around the camp immediately lit up with more red eyes from behind the hidden grass.
Young men, dark elf maidens, and adventurers stood together, and the red-eyed people who surrounded the camp then came out of the edge of the woods one after another, approaching the dozen humans in the camp.
Camussa dual-wielded a pair of short swords commonly used in the thief profession and entered a state of readiness, although Fain did not hesitate to pull out the iron long sword in the scabbard at his waist and hold it in his hand, but he was really a little surprised by the farce in front of him at this time, after all, the gray sideburns wolf was just an ordinary beast of level 4, and the number of such monsters he had killed in his previous life was not thousands but hundreds. He believed that he could never be mistaken.
The Grey-sidedled Wolf is just a normal level 4 creature, unable to hide its whereabouts under the noses of a Rogue's or Ranger class, let alone using magic to block out its own voices.
In contrast, although the members of the Sideburns Adventure Group are almost all scumbags to Finn, their average level is about 7.
So, how did this group of brutes hide from the adventurers who were keeping vigil and surround them without them knowing?
Could it be that the beast of this year has also obtained the plug-in of the golden finger?
This can't be fed, right?
The wolves with red eyes gradually compressed their encirclement little by little, bringing the distance between humans and them closer and closer.
Suddenly, at the moment when everyone blinked. Several gray-sidedness wolves from a high position kicked at Finn and several adventurers in the group.
Clenching the sword in his hand, staring at the two gray sideburns wolves that pounced on him, Finn took a deep breath through his nose, and then focused his strength into the right arm holding the sword.
He was about to directly use his supernatural strength to kill these two beasts at once with a horizontal slash, but before the sword in the young man's hand could be swung, a magic arrow with a cold light and an arcane missile flew out from behind him with a "whoosh" sound, and the cold arrow "snapped" and hit the head of one of the gray wolves, causing it to cry, and another arcane missile full of magical energy also pierced the internal organs of the other gray sideburns wolf at the same time, shooting it down directly from mid-air.
"Arya? Lilith? The young man turned his head and saw the blonde elf lady holding a knife in one hand and a crossbow in the other. A sorcerer girl with black hair and waist-length was quickly approaching her.
At the same time, Randolph, the leader of the sideburns adventure group, and Guy, the dark-haired mountain man, appeared on the other side of the camp just in time. In the round of attack launched by the wolves just now, the bald head of the adventure group split a gray sideburn wolf in mid-air with an axe, and the adventurer youth who used a spear as a weapon immediately stabbed a beast that rushed towards him with a single shot.
Sheehan, a young brown-haired doctor, joined the fray with the single-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. The brave doctor had just held an iron sword in front of a wizard adventurer, but his half-tone swordsmanship was really clumsy, and the doctor aimed at the wild wolf that pounced on him, and the small arm of the hand holding the sword was bitten by the wolf's mouth and was hung on the spot.
Fortunately, Leah, a young paladin who slept in a tent with him, rushed to his side right after. Help him drive back the gray sideburns wolf with blood in its mouth.
"Are you stupid, Sheehan?" After wielding the paladin's silver sword to force the red-eyed wolf back, Leah looked worriedly at the injured young doctor. "You can't even cut that kind of distance, why are you still running out?"
"I... I'm not as useless as you think. Sheehan covered his bleeding forearm with his other hand and argued a little embarrassed through gritted teeth.
He knew that Leah was really worried about him at this moment, but the words of the young paladin sounded harsh, and it seemed that the courage he had just shown seemed to have an element of stupidity.
"But then again, this pack of wolves feels very wrong." After inadvertently taunting Sheehan, Leah turned her gaze back to the wolves in front of her, and clenched the short handle under the silver sword guard with her somewhat nervous hands, "But what's wrong......
Leah looked at the wolves who had launched a night raid on the camp, and seemed to realize something, but the conjecture flashed through his mind, and he couldn't catch it.
When the beautiful paladin boy realized that something was wrong, Fynn glanced at the two wolf corpses that had fallen to his feet from mid-air, and saw that the skin of the one shot by Arya with an ice arrow had formed a layer of stiff frost, and the other body that Lilith had shot down with an arcane missile seemed to have a faint light.
He immediately became vigilant, his eyes wide open to take a closer look at the dead gray-sidedness wolf, and it didn't take long to notice that the latter's flesh was blurred by an arcane missile, and there seemed to be a crystal embedded in the fur.
Isn't this crystallization? - He blinked his eyes in surprise, and immediately thought of a game term he had known in his previous life.
But...... Wait a minute.
The internal organs of the beast show symptoms of crystallization?
So-
"Crystal Beast?!" A flash of surprise flashed across the young man's face, and his mind instantly remembered the evil alchemists of the Fourth Age. (To be continued.) )