"Hey, why didn't you put us on the team?"

Zhang Ze was a little puzzled by the situation, grabbed the pattern cloth armor of the elf druid, and asked very unceremoniously.

"What, do you want to enter a regiment at random and be under the command of the wild regiment commander?"

The elven druid replied unhurriedly, with his trademark warm smile. After he saw Zhang Ze shaking his head, he said leisurely: "Your team has another task. ”

"My animal companions have already scouted, and there is a path that goes around the pass and leads to the gnolls' lair."

"So your task is to attack directly from the path, and the monsters on this side of the pass will definitely rush back to rescue when they see the cave on fire. Wasn't that pass a natural part of our way down? ”

Zhang Ze was stunned, his brain reacted quickly, and he shouted loudly: "You are pushing us into the fire pit." The lair of the gnolls, do you dare to say that there are no lord monsters? ”

"A level 5 lord monster, a team of 30 people besieged it, can it be taken down?"

"It's a fire pit, but it's not as bad as you think. Because ninety percent of the forces of the Gnoll tribe are basically defending us at the pass. ”

Elven druids gleamed with wisdom in their eyes.

"It's just your speculation, anyway, I'm against it! Pure life sent to death, whoever loves to go will go! Zhang Ze said indignantly.

"Oh, is that so?"

The corners of the elf druid's mouth were full of ridicule, and he spread his hands and motioned for Zhang Ze to look not far away. Long Yan was standing on the edge of the cliff with Charles, talking in a low voice, and finally Charles nodded and walked over with a solemn face.

Seeing this, Zhang Ze felt a sigh in his heart and realized that something was wrong.

"Yalvis, I'll use your prey buddies to guide my team." Charles greeted the elven druids before looking at the team members.

"Needless to say. Even if there is a fire pit ahead, we have to jump over it. 'Gnoll Pass' is a pre-quest for a level 5 dungeon, and the rest of the plot line can only be carried out if the mountain path is cleared. ”

Charles's voice melted into the whirring mountain wind, not exhausted, but with an inexplicable force, "This is related to the development of the Susar region, and our own interests are at stake, and no one is an outsider." ”

"Everyone doesn't want to break out in the camp war, the power war, the national war, and the god war in the future, only to find out that Susar's side has the lowest average level and is the most pitiful, right?"

As the words fell, a high-pitched eagle's roar came from the sky.

"Let's go."

Charles glanced up at the falcon hovering in the sky and beckoned to a few of his teammates. 'Fingertip Quicksand', 'Haunting Dreams', 'Aftersound' and 'God of War Kuiye' all followed.

"Dead pseudo-mother, wait for me to come back and plant a flag with you to settle accounts!"

Zhang Ze made an angry grimace at the elven druid, and hurriedly carried the wooden staff and hurried to catch up with the team.

The team first returned to Eagle Peak.

The falcons of Winged Wind led the team through the bushes and black thorns to find a deep trail hidden in the slopes of the sloping forest on the mountainside.

"You've discovered the 'Path of Thorns.'"

A small piece of the map is shown in the system prompt. It seems that this trail is not unknown, it has its own name, and perhaps it has left a strong record in the history of Cormier.

The trail is flanked by a vine-like ground shrub that clings to other shrubs and roots. Palm-sized, pure black leaves dot the path, making it look like a netherworld path.

The sweeping of the thorn bushes was all left to the barbarians.

The toughness of the thorn bush can be compared to its sharp, easily scratched steel shield. The barbarian swung his two-handed axe with all his strength to sweep away the thorn bushes that stood in his way.

"Drink a tube of rejuvenation potion."

After walking for about ten minutes, the 'God of War Kuiye' was so tired that his chest rose and fell violently. Charles applied for a deal with him, and at once sent 3 bottles of 'Primary Vitality Restoration Elixir'.

This flask also has a regenerative effect on the caster class. After all, after casting spells continuously, priests and masters will also be physically and mentally exhausted. At this time, if you bring a bottle of vitality recovery potion, it feels like drinking a cold drink on dog days, and Brother Chun's possession is full in an instant.

'God of War Kui Ye' poured a bottle of green elixir into his mouth, and his whole person instantly radiated.

"So that's what the primary vitality potion tastes like, tsk."

The barbarian wiped his mouth, and the sense of power that welled up in his body made his eyes flash with a hint of intoxication.

The 'Primary Vitality Restoration Elixir' is a cut more expensive than the 'Primary Life Restoration Elixir'. At this stage, most players can only keep two or three life potions in their backpacks.

As for the vitality potion, the magic potion, that's the rich man's thing. The class divide among players is equally pronounced. A lot of people blow up their livers for a week, just for a certain piece of green gear in the NPC store.

"Let's speed up, Longyan will wait for us for an hour at most, don't be delusional about how much patience the temporarily organized savage team can have."

Charles took the letter from the carrier pigeon on his shoulder, glanced down, and alerted the barbarians who were opening the way ahead.

"Great!"

The barbarian is now full of energy, wielding his two-handed axe to continue to cut through the thorns.

In the mountain forest, I took a few dozen steps forward. The team finally met the first ambush soldiers.

It was five or six skinny kobolds, with lizard-like heads and tails, rust-colored scales on their skin, and uniform leather armor.

The kobolds rushed out of the bushes, the first two kobolds with improvised spears, the kobold shield guards in the center, armed with iron shields and short swords, and finally a group of kobold slingers with clay pots full of stones diagonally on their chests and three javelins hanging from their backs.

Cannon fodder in the front row, shield fighters, ranged, very well matched, completely a team of well-trained kobolds.

"Up—"

"Beware of kobold slingers' special ammunition. They may have flame bombs, acid bombs. ”

Charles hurriedly threw out a command, and swung his sword at a kobold minion.

The average kobold is about 2 feet tall, about the same as a human child. This race is timid by nature, and with the exception of the agility quality, several other stats are below 10 points.

So even a level 1 player can win against two or three kobolds at the same time. Charles swung his sword and slashed, and the kobold felt a flash of silver light, and then the lizard's head was sliced off.

The 'God of War Kuiye' sneered, and smashed 1 kobold minions and 1 kobold shield guard into pulp with a single axe.

Not far away, in the shade of a tree, the kobold slinger who shook the slinging saw that the situation was not good, and barked to escape, but the female wanderer suddenly appeared behind them, and the short dagger in her left and right hands was sent into the back of the kobold's heart respectively.

As for the last kobold shield guard, he was shot through the throat with a longbow by 'Aftersound' and fell into the bushes.

Even in a surprise ambush, the kobolds with poor combat effectiveness can hardly pose a threat to the team.

Next, the team encountered three more groups of kobolds one after another, and all of them ended the battle with perfect results without casualties. While climbing over the foot of a mountain, the party ran into a gnolloll scout.

Compared to kobolds, jackals can be called giants. Each gnoll was seven and a half feet tall, or more than two meters, and weighed 300 pounds.

"[Gnoll Axe Warrior], Level 4, Health: 45/45, Medium Humanoid, Dark Vision, Strong Body, Specialty 'Fierce Attack'."

"[Gnoll Archer], Level 4, HP 45/45......"

2 gnolls with tomahawks and steel shields.

1 Gnoll Short Archer.

The battle is on the verge of breaking out.

The Charr and the Barbarian each stopped a Gnoll warrior. 'Aftersound' and 'Fingertip Quicksand' didn't need to be commanded, and they also had a tacit understanding to gather fire on the gnoll archers.

As for Zhang Ze and the sorcerer, because of the strict orders of the Charliu spell, they could only stand a little farther away.

"Bang"

The Gnoll warrior slashed at the spiked shield of his left arm with an axe, an attack that came with the 'Onslaught' specialty, and Charles couldn't hold back the terrifying force, his left leg shuddered, and he fell to one knee.

A sinister grin appeared on the face of the gnoll warrior. The humanoid creature swung another battle axe, and Charles knew that this time he couldn't make a hard connection, so he hurriedly rolled sideways, and the long sword in his right hand cut a bloody scar on the thigh of the gnoll warrior.

This time it was the gnoll's turn to stagger and stagger along.

A cold light flashed in Charles' eyes, and the round shield was horizontal in front of him, and he lowered his head and swooped down quickly, and the spikes on the surface of the round shield pierced the gnoll's thigh.

The gnoll fell to his knees, and Charles held the sword in his backhand instead, and with the strength of his right arm, he sent a large section of the sword into the back of the gnoll's neck.

"Successfully unleash [Shield Slam], dealing 8 puncture damage to 'Gnoll Axe Warrior'."

"Successfully unleash [Sword Piercing Attack], dealing 37 puncture damage to 'Gnoll Axe Warrior'."

Drawing his blood-dripping sword, Charles looked up at the other two. The Barbarian is a one-on-one Gnoll Axe warrior who has an axe cut off from his shoulder and sustains a minor injury before taking on his target.

The combination of the female ranger and the female wanderer was perfect, and the gnoll archman failed to fire any arrows, and the heart was already pierced by the dagger.

Charles pulls out the priest's medical kit and bandages the barbarian's wounds. After applying a roll of bandages, a green +1 color floats above the barbarian's head.

"Something is not good." Charles sighed and stood up.

"We've only walked a small half of this thorn path, right?" Quicksand at the fingertips rarely speaks. The cold voice flowed like a spring water.

"Almost." Charles nodded.

"If you run into a squad of more than 5 gnolls, the spellcasting class must join the battle, otherwise the team is prone to casualties." The half-elf female ranger 'Aftermath' also points out the dilemma.

"I think...... You don't need to leave spells, do you? ”

Zhang Ze said hesitantly: "Leave the spell hard, we will probably not be able to walk this path." As for attacking the gnoll's lair, we will set a fire outside the lair to scare those gnolls in the pass to come back for help, and we can be considered to have completed the task, right? ”