Chapter 11: Ambush
It wasn't a good day, and early in the morning, Astelli Bloodaxe smashed the tables in the council hall, and an angry roar resounded through the camp.
"Who? who the hell is it?" Asteri Bloodaxe was a 2-meter-tall savage man, with a leather skirt made of animal skins wrapped around his waist, a leather robe half-draped and half-worn, revealing a strong chest, and his thick beard and body hair could not cover the scars on his body, crisscrossing and rolling, and as anger erupted, all the scars turned red, which was even more terrifying. "Who the hell attacked our 3 sentry posts?"
The thieves who had just run back to report the news were obviously frightened, kneeling there and shivering, unable to describe what had happened to the sentry? The angry Astelli Blood Axe screamed, pinched the little leader and threw it into the air, an axe flash flashed, the human body was split in half, and the blood sprayed on Astelli Bloodaxe's face, which stimulated his blood even more, and he wanted to rush out and fight with the people immediately.
The bandits in the entire hall were aroused, clamoring for the murderer, and only a thin thief with a gloomy face, Avor, was still frowning and thinking bitterly. Seeing that the hall was really noisy, Avr jumped in front of Astelli Bloodaxe, pressed his arm and persuaded him: "Chief, this is not good, this thing is very abnormal! The three sentry posts are not close to each other, and they are still very hidden, and they have all been attacked, and there is not even one who comes back to report the news." Is it because the attackers are too powerful or are there so many people that we can't escape after being surrounded? We must find out clearly, we can't go out blindly!"
Astelli Bloodaxe suppressed his anger, shook off the thief Avor and drank, "What do you say?"
"I'll take a few brothers out to look for clues, and if there are a lot of people on the other side, they will definitely find clues!"
"Okay! Let the bald head go with you!"
Hearing the leader's name, a bald man with an axe came out of the ranks, it was one of the two level 7 berserkers.
The thief Avr nodded, greeted, and led a dozen of his direct subordinates and bald heads out of the camp, heading straight for the hillside sentry that first discovered the accident.
Li Xun stood on a treetop 1 mile away from the old nest of the blood axe, just now he watched a group of small minions running back to the camp in a panic to report the news, and it didn't take long to watch a group of about thirteen or fourteen people swarm out of the camp and go straight to the direction of the small hillside sentry. In Li Xun's soul vision, the soul light of the two leaders is crimson, and it seems that they should be the leader-level figures in the camp. His current experience is (186\/500), and if you kill these people, you will not be far from leveling up. Hmph, time is always on its side!
But there are more than a dozen people, it's easy to defeat, and it's a little difficult to annihilate them all, especially if there is a berserker professional in it, it's really hard to say whether your skeleton warrior can withstand it. It seems that he has to find a place to ambush, and he must act as the main force, and he can't cause someone to escape because of his unfortunate mana.
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Avr is worthy of being a veteran thief, and within 3 minutes of arriving at the hillside sentry, he found that the mud behind the thatched house was not the right color, and at the sound of an order, more than a dozen people worked together, and soon 5 corpses were dug up. Avr quickly flipped through it, and the one with a broken head was obviously attacked by a spell, and the remaining 4 died from knife wounds, judging from the number of wounds, there were quite a few opponents. In addition, there are many strange footprints around the thatched hut and the earthen pit, which do not look like they are human, but look like the foot bones of skeletons...... When did the Whispering Forest have these filthy skeletons?
Judging from the scene, there should be a caster and a skeleton. Could it be that a mage summoned a skeleton to attack a few sentry posts? "Summoning skeletons" is not a high-level spell, many mages will master this spell for free labor, but after all, the summoning is only the lowest-grade gray bone skeleton, a farmer wielding a pitchfork can break two or three, and it is not enough to use it against the thieves of the bandits, unless it is a strengthened skeleton warrior. You can strengthen skeletons, that's a necromancer's specialty!
Avr was shocked, could it be that the bone shelves who were making trouble in the south had sneaked into this place? If those skeletal shelves wanted to come to the Duchy of Novis to do something, there really was no better place than the Whispering Forest. Although the Aveli Mountains to the south are also very hidden, the Principality's army is stationed in various dangerous fortresses, and the Aveli Mountains are very closely watched, and in this regard, the Whispering Forest is far more suitable than the Avili Mountains. Once the bones are allowed to take root in the Whispering Forest, and the war in the south will be together in the future, attracting all the Duchy's troops to it, this place will immediately poke the Duchy's ass!
The more Avr thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, the bone frame in the south was a big force, which could be contended by a small group of thieves. Regardless of the facts, we must quickly find the leader and discuss the future development, it seems that the Whispering Forest is no longer a place to stay for long!
Avr never thought to the principality mages that that it wouldn't happen! Those mages didn't even want to get them out of the mage tower with the most gorgeous carriages, let alone whisper to the forest, drill ravines, and climb mud floors!
Avr suppressed his rapid and restless emotions, and quickly commanded in a low voice: "Take the corpse and go back to the mountain!"
The henchmen beside him were stunned and asked, "There are still two sentry posts not to watch?"
Avr drank impatiently: "Don't ask so much, take the corpse and go!"
Bringing some linen cloth from the thatched hut, several of Avor's men tied the corpse behind their backs with bitter faces, quickly cleared the sentry posts, and quietly set out on their way home.
The bald head asked in a rough voice impatiently, "This is going back?" The leader asked us to come out and arrest the bastards who killed us!
Avr was helpless against this reckless man who only listened to the leader's orders, so he could only whisper: "Bald, don't rub it off, it's not safe here." There are a lot of things to see from the corpse, and you need to find the leader and report it quickly. ”
The bald head shrugged his shoulders indifferently and strode after Avor.
Turning left and right in the dense forest, although there is a familiar path under his feet, and although there is a familiar jungle around him, Avr is still a little frightened, and he always feels that there is a strangeness hidden in this familiarity, and there is a hint of hostility hidden in it. Avr scanned the surroundings vigilantly, and a voice in his heart kept urging him to get out of here quickly, but he couldn't find the source of the danger. Leave these people behind and flee back to the cottage as fast as you can, how do you explain it to the leader when you go back?
Avr was mad with the silence of the jungle. Where is the enemy? Could it be that his group has been targeted by the enemy?
There was nothing to do all the way, and most of the way back was already gone, and there were 3 miles to return to the cottage, Avr took the lead in the front of the team, and suddenly raised his hand, and the whole team stopped.
It was a familiar path, they had just passed it an hour ago, but now it was very different!
The wet mud floor was littered with strange messy footprints, the marks of the skeleton's five-fingered foot bones, and the footprints of people!
Avr climbed up the big tree beside him three times and looked around, everything was so quiet and peaceful, and there was no one around. The mountains and forests are full of foliage, and the distance that can be seen is very limited, but at least there is no movement within 100 meters.
Jumping off the tree, Avor picked out three of his subordinates who were good at finding objects, and cautiously stepped forward to check.
After a while, 3 of his subordinates reported that from the signs, someone came from the direction of the camp, and was attacked by two skeletons here, and then the body or body was dragged to the west, and no blood was found at the scene, and the time was about half an hour.
Avr gritted his teeth and commanded in a low voice: "You three lead the way, follow up and have a look, move smaller." ”
As soon as the team turned, they sneaked west along the trail left behind by the three thieves.
After walking about two hundred meters and turning over a small hill, a thief reported finding a tumbling mound.
It seems that someone in the cottage has been killed again. From the point of view of time, not long after his team set off, the cottage sent people out, and the route was the same as that of his own group, could it be that the leader sent people to chase him, and someone attacked him on the way?
Avr thought about it, but still thought it would be better to figure out who had been killed, and waved his hand to ask his men to dig up the body. Five of his men with corpses on their backs were immobile and panting and stood guard nearby, while Avre and his bald head stood by the mound and watched the seven men dig.
The mound was not deep, and after a few gouging with his sidearms, he came across a hard object, and just as a few thieves leaned down and picked up the dirt with their hands, the attack came.