Chapter 9: Sensation
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Before the sun set, everyone in the Autumn Hunting Camp received a surprising message!
Subsequently, whether it was nobles, knights, soldiers, servants, as long as there were still free people in the camp, most of them flocked to the gate of the camp, watching a wooden platoon full of things in the distance being dragged by a dozen war horses, and being escorted by a dozen cavalry to approach the gate of the autumn hunting camp.
"Look! It's really a snow bear!"
"Two adult snow bears?!! And three cubs?!!!"
"Today is the first day of autumn hunting! Someone actually hunted this kind of prey???"
"Look at the size of those two snow bears! It could be the prey captured by the little guy of the Ernst family."
When the huge wooden raft made of logs and the contents on it appeared in front of the camp gate, which had not even been peeled off the bark, the atmosphere of the scene was suddenly detonated. Almost everyone was talking, pointing to the two huge snow bears on the raft and the three snow bear cubs on top of it.
Among the topics discussed by everyone present, in addition to the surprise that someone had such a profit on the first day of the autumn hunt, the most common question was how these two snow bears were hunted by Rhodes? You must know that the first three days of this autumn hunt are all competitions for young noble children, not those nobles with the strength of official knights and official mages in the red bronze rank, and the enemies that official knights like Snow Bear need to spend some effort to deal with will be able to cope with those noble children with the peak strength of gray iron? And it looks like the snow bear doesn't even have much injuries on the outside
In the midst of all kinds of discussions, suspicions, and even a hint of malicious speculation, Rhodes and his party, who returned on horseback, enjoyed a lot of attention.
But soon, when Viscount Thor, the host of the autumn hunting camp, appeared a few minutes later, all the originally noisy sounds disappeared, and everyone present stopped talking and watched what Viscount Thor would do.
After all, for everyone present, the biggest reason for the heated discussion about whether Rhodes had hunted the two adult snow bears was the reward given by Viscount Thor and his vaguely revealed intention to woo him. Otherwise, in the previous autumn hunts, there is no shortage of nobles who have hunted Warcraft and have strong strength are the focus of their comments!
"There was actually a little guy who hunted a snow bear, let me see"
Hearing the news, Viscount Thor walked out of the camp gate with great interest as he spoke, and looked at the wooden raft outside the camp gate and the snow bear on it walking up and began to observe.
"Two adult snow bears and three cubs, huh? This is," Viscount Thor, who had been quite relaxed in tone, couldn't help but become a little stern after seeing the location of the fatal injuries on the heads of the two adult snow bears, which were basically the same. And when Viscount Thor confirmed that there were no other injuries on the corpses of the two adult snow bears except for the injury from the piercing of one eye, the expression on his face became quite serious.
"Ahem the little ones of the Ernst family! Well, I remember your name was Rod, right?"
After studying for several minutes, Viscount Thor even reached out and pinched the snow bear's corpse a few times, raised his head and looked at each other with two silver-rank powerhouses behind him before speaking to Rhodes, who had already dismounted.
"Yes, Lord Viscount!"
After listening to Viscount Saul's words, Rhodes, who had just arrived at the camp and dismounted, bent down and saluted, and said to Viscount Saul very respectfully.
For Rhodes himself, there is really no psychological obstacle to salute an elderly nobleman, especially when he is still planning to get a little benefit from the other party.
"Little Rod, are you sure that two snow bears are your prey? If the prey is not killed by his own hands, it will not be counted in the personal results of the autumn hunt" Looking at the appearance of Rhodes, who was taller than his peers, saluting and standing in front of him, Viscount Thor nodded slightly with some appreciation, and then said to Rhodes standing in front of him in a very gentle tone.
Obviously, Viscount Thor really didn't believe that the two adult snow bears on the wooden raft were killed by Rhodes!
If the two snow bear corpses were in tatters, Viscount Thor was a little convinced that they were killed by Rhodes. After all, if you have an enchanted longsword with a spell similar to Sharp Arts, even a young man with a high level of gray iron can use terrain or traps to kill two adult snow bears.
But Viscount Saul, who has just seen a lot, can confirm that there is only one fatal injury to the head of the two snow bears, and although Rod Ernst, a little guy with the name of a genius, is not bad, at least the rank of the gray iron upper rank, but no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the kind of master who can directly kill an adult snow bear with one blow, and there is no damage to the snow bear's fur, and at the same time, he is not injured!
However, out of aristocratic etiquette and the importance of the first heir to the title of barony with a genius title without a conflict of interest, Viscount Sol did not face Rod and say "Are you cheating" such a thing, but reminded Rod in a very tactful way that he was ready to turn Rode's "cheating" into a big thing.
"Well, Your Excellency the Viscount, I think no one will have any doubts if I prove in front of everyone that I am capable of killing the snow bear with my own hands, right?" After listening to Viscount Thor's more friendly question, Rhodes didn't say any more nonsense, but said something very simply that made the pupils of Viscount Thor and the people behind him dilate slightly.
"In that case, of course, there is no problem!" The old and refined Viscount Thor only paused for a moment and then immediately said to Rod dryly, and at the same time, Viscount Thor and several people behind him also looked at Rode's expression with interest.
Rod didn't play any word games, the meaning of the words was very clear, and it also provided quite surprising news - Rod seemed to show his ability to hunt snow bears without deteriorating!
Viscount Thor, who had just seen the corpses of two adult snow bears, and the two silver-rank masters behind him all understood how difficult it was to kill the snow bear's eyes with a single blow, it was no longer a matter of having fighting spirit, but a comprehensive problem that tested people's skills, timing judgment and courage!
"Then, please trouble Your Excellency."
After hearing Viscount Saul's words, Rhodes smiled a little and said what he requested.
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Fifteen minutes later, at the gate of the camp, which had been slightly cleared, a team of Viscount Thor, Baron Ernst, and other nobles began to whisper about the situation in front of them.
I saw that on the flat ground in front of the camp gate, Rod, who was only holding a one-handed long sword, was on the scene, directly facing a war horse that was led by a groom but was still quite irritable a hundred meters away from him.
"What is this going to do?"
"Your Excellency the Viscount would actually agree to the test that this little creature has requested?"
"Look! Baron Ernst's face was as if he didn't care at all"
"Could it be that the little guy of the Ernst family is really"
In a whispering voice, Viscount Thor, who had just looked at Rhodes with interest, nodded to an attendant beside him who was wearing formal magician robes.
“%¥#!!!”
With the Viscount's permission, the official magician raised his finger and uttered a brief incantation, and then a faint light fused directly into the rather tall and grumpy warhorse.
The war horse, which was originally irritable and trampling on its hooves, suddenly shuddered after being melted by the light, and then the originally somewhat irritable war horse suddenly froze in place, and then began to run slowly forward after a few seconds.
After an acceleration of dozens of meters, the war horse that began to run quickly increased to almost 90 kilometers per hour, which directly broke the record of 60 kilometers per hour for the average sprint speed of similar thoroughbred horses on the earth, and rushed directly towards Rhodes standing opposite him with an unusually ferocious momentum!
"Little guy, let me see your watch" Looking at the scene in front of him, Viscount Thor ignored the small exclamations of the noble girls behind him, but looked with great interest at how he would show his strength to kill the snow bear after this proof method proposed by Rod.
Of course, even if Rod bragged, the official magician of Viscount Rodesor who used magic to control the war horse could save the day at the most dangerous time, so His Excellency the Viscount simply watched the play on the side.
The other people present obviously did not have such a good attitude as His Excellency the Viscount, especially those noble family members who couldn't help but exclaim when they saw that the racing war horse had rushed to a position less than ten meters away from Rhodes and Rhodes himself still didn't move, and even a few noble girls were nervously covering their eyes and didn't dare to look at the field.
But at this time, Rod, who had just stood still, finally acted!
"Whew-"
With a slight sound of footsteps, Rod, who took a step forward to the left, raised his long sword with his hand, and then in the gaze of all the nobles and knights present, he easily stabbed the one-handed long sword into the eye part of the head of the oncoming war horse without bias and let go.
"Boom—"
This is a loud bang on the ground after the war horse that had just passed by Rhodes lost its brain command and suddenly fell to the ground.
There was silence at the scene, and everyone, including the two silver-ranked knights and warriors, looked at Rhodes, who was standing in place and turned back to draw his sword from his warhorse, and was silent with a smile on his face.
This time, everyone, including Viscount Saul, did not doubt that Rhodes would be able to hunt snow bears, and the word "genius" also appeared in everyone's minds.