The visibility of the plain under the moonlight was not low, and the buildings nearly a thousand meters away cast an irregular shadow on the silver ground, and when Sodrol sensed that something was wrong, Roddy had already discovered what those wriggling black shadows were with his "environmental acumen" combat stance...

Snow monsters.

Pouring out of the abandoned houses were tall and stout adult snow monsters covered in long hair. Alarmed by Akasha's "Holy Light Technique", they saw Roddy's team after a few howls, and rushed towards it without saying a word.

"Damn, how can there be a snow monster tribe here?"

Roddy gripped the hilt of his sword and frowned - it was not unusual for scattered snow monsters to appear, but it was definitely not normal for a complete group of snow monsters with close to a hundred numbers to survive next to the barbarians.

Everything is different from what I remember, what the hell is going on?

"We seem to have been calculated by those barbarians. ”

In the sound of the soldiers' preparations, Sodrore's words came, and Roddy frowned when he heard it: "Impossible..."

"Some villagers in the Karen Kingdom have done a lot of murder and stealing goods. Sodrol drew his sword with a solemn expression and pointed behind him: "As natives, don't they know the situation here?"

This should be the most logical inference, but Roddy never considered this possibility - but when it all happened, he realized that he had fallen into a mistake: until now, his judgment of the "barbarians" had always been based on the memories of these guys and Cullen, and he didn't really know what they thought before that!

Were the barbarians still so friendly before they "established diplomatic relations" with Karen?

This discovery caused a cold sweat to break out on Roddy's back for no reason, and he suddenly looked back at the path he had come, only to catch a glimpse of a squirming figure under the continuous "Holy Light Technique" lighting.

Although he couldn't see clearly, Roddy was able to confirm that it wasn't a snow monster with his superior eyesight.

In this icy and snowy land, you can quietly hide at the other end of the snow slope... Who else but the barbarians?

Roddy's eyes narrowed, and he deeply remembered this lesson: the "olive branch" thrown to a stranger, in exchange... Not always in good faith.

After all, I still think these guys are too civilized.

"Reach out and don't hit the smiling person... Really. ”

Roddy rubbed his eyebrows, was silent for a few seconds amid the slightly chaotic collision of equipment, then exhaled and said to Sodlore: "In this case, we have the following options..."

The snow monsters didn't seem to be moving slowly, but they were still at least five minutes away from getting to Roddy. In the face of such a threat, neither Sodlore nor Roddy looked nervous - it only took about ten seconds for Roddy to end the conversation, and after handing over the command of the battle to Sodlore, he decided to give up participating in the battle and instead accept Sodlore's training results as a "bystander".

Roddy has always been a model of "leading by example", but he has also gradually realized... If you really want to have a say in the kingdom of Karen, personal prowess is completely insufficient. And a "strong army" is the most important foundation for all this.

If raising soldiers is "forging knives", then it is time to "sharpen the blade".

Sodrore, who took over the command, did not shout at the team, and after making a few gestures to the adjutant and giving a brief order, the team of nearly 100 people immediately began to change silently - the sapper team quickly abandoned the baggage and retreated, and then assisted the fifteen veterans in the team to put on heavy armor, and when the snow monster approached a distance of three hundred meters, the twenty heavy infantry were already armed, and stood at the forefront with their shields and hammers raised.

However, they did not form a "one" formation as before, but stood in a staggered manner with other light infantry, and the formation of more than forty veterans looked a little messy at first glance, but Roddy, who was silently observing, secretly sighed at Sodrore's sense of smell for the "battlefield".

At the same time, Akasha and Nata had already tacitly agreed that they were in their respective positions: the little priest in the cold wind was reciting prayers with a serious face, and under the golden light, blessing spells fell on the soldiers in the front row one after another. On the "watchtower" built by the baggage, Nata holds a longbow and keeps her eyes firmly on the enemies in front of her.

The snow monsters are tall, crunching and occasionally roaring wistfully - for the "no predators" of the snow monsters, this group of humans who suddenly appear near their territory only means the word "food".

The barbarians' concession to the snow monsters had already made the group lose the last trace of fear, and the "Holy Light Technique" that kept flashing in the sky made this group of guys with low IQ even more excited: the brighter the light, the more clearly they could see the appearance of those humans, and the resulting desire to kill became more and more unstoppable...

In the howling north wind, the snow monster gradually approached a hundred meters in front of Roddy.

"These will be torn to shreds by snow monsters!"

At the same moment, the barbarian beside Avala couldn't help but shout.

There were forty-seven barbarians who came here, and Avala, led by Avala, squatted at the front of the team with a stone axe, her eyes fixed on the holy light flickering in the distance, and responded: "These snow monsters are enough to destroy a tribe, even if they are numerous..."

"When the snow monsters are done with all this, all the remaining weapons will be ours. ”

Avala was extremely satisfied with her plan to "kill with a knife". But he didn't realize the effect of his unintentional words on his subordinates - the concept of "the snow monster is invincible" had unwittingly been taken as common sense and truth by these old hunters, so much so that almost no one had any doubts about it at this time.

"Chief Avala, what if they still have anyone alive?"

A young barbarian asked the question, but his question caused a burst of laughter in the group—

"How is that possible?"

"How can you be as stupid as Erwin's boy? That's more than twenty snow monsters!"

Even without the exit of Avala, the only voice of doubt disappeared. Avala, on the other hand, waved her hand and made a gesture: "We only need weapons, nothing else." ”

As he spoke, the snow monster in the distance had already made contact with Roddy's team.

"Are they crazy? It's too late to run away now. ”

"It's really a group of outsiders who are not afraid of death, and they don't know how terrible the snow monster is..."

Looking at the battlefield under the "Holy Light Technique", these barbarians did not forget to mock a few words at first, but after more than ten seconds passed, all the voices collectively faded down.

Then came the unstoppable sound of gasping.

"Hum—"

The continuous "Holy Light Technique" suddenly stopped, and just as everything was about to return to darkness, a ring of light curtain bloomed, casting the "Divine Grace Technique" that increased the shield's defense throughout the team.

Accompanied by the "divine grace", there is a rain of arrows of the rear engineers, although they have received a short period of military training and are not accurate in archery, but they do not need to aim against such a large unarmored target, just a volley on a range of forty meters, and a snow monster fell to the ground directly because its head was shot through!

The rest of the thick-skinned snow monsters were hardly injured by the arrows after all, and they ran the last leg of the road with a roar, and threw their fists at their targets as they had done before—

"Boom!"

The enemy was not smashed, on the contrary, the "Holy Shield" easily resisted the attack of the snow monster, and the heavy infantry holding the battle shield did not take a step back at all, and even launched a forward attack, smashing the shield into the opponent's abdomen!

"Phew!"

The snow monster leaned back, as if enraged by its diminutive foe, and roared and reached out to grab its head, but as soon as its arm was raised, a long sword pierced its thigh...

At the same moment, a short spear from the other side pierced its ribcage directly from the side, stuck between its ribs...

The snow monster broke the short spear with a "snap", and was about to continue attacking in pain, but saw a black shadow attacking in front of him-

"Smack!"

The heavy hammer slashed in an arc, and with the astonishing force of the hoplite, it smashed into its pocket, shattering its unprotected skull like a smashed watermelon—the snow monster's wildly waving arms drooped, and its massive body shook for two seconds before falling to the ground.

The snow monster only had time to make two attack moves, and in less than three seconds, this guy was directly knocked down by a group of four attack teams.

At the same moment, a similar scene happened one after another on the battle line: the snow monsters rushed into the formation with a brute force, but found that no matter how much they attacked, they could not kill the heavy infantry standing in the front, and just as they were preparing for a second attack, these tacit squads easily inflicted heavy damage or even killed them directly!

It's not that they don't have enough strength, it's just that the bare-handed attacks are not effective against the soldiers protected by the "Holy Shield" at all, even if they rely on the impact of their body weight, the average level 15 snow monsters are also helpless against the elite soldiers who are close to level 20 - the countless anti-stress training, battle formation drills and self-confidence that are constantly tempered in their hearts have made these former scouts extremely calm.

At this moment, the "Chain Hammer" replaced the long sword as the biggest killer weapon of this battle. Tall and arm-long snow monsters are hard to approach, but once they seize the opportunity, they can always deal great damage to these enemies without armor...

From broken bones to headshots, the impact of the snow monsters was as if they had hit a wall, and they were completely submerged before they even crossed the first line of defense!

The snow monsters' original momentum of crushing everything, after a round of charge... Completely eliminated.