Chapter 13: The Opera of Strength and Strategy
The Winter Wolf is a cunning magical beast. Known as the Lord of the Ice Field. Although it only looks like a large white wolf. But it's very different on the inside. Winter wolves possess human-level intelligence, and are even generally bilingual: lingua franca and giant.
But the winter wolf has a flaw. That is, it has no hands, only four legs. And there is no presence of a "thumb" on the toes. Nor has it evolved a pseudo-thumb like a panda. If you don't have a thumb, you don't have the ability to hold and you can't use a lot of things.
If there are tools like ordinary swords, the winter wolf probably doesn't need them. They have their own fangs and claws, as well as their well-known ability to breathe cold. However, because of magic, there are many strange objects with ingenious effects, as well as items with various mysterious abilities. If you can use them, it will definitely bring great convenience. Sometimes, it can even be said that life is related in this cold and wild land.
Therefore, the intelligent winter wolf will seek out human abandoned babies, steal human babies, and even take the initiative to loot human settlements and plunder their babies. After that, the winter wolf will gradually raise the human infants. When a human baby grows up, it can do a lot of things that the winter wolf can't. For example, using magic items that the Wolf Winterwolf obtains when hunting intelligent creatures. Even common tools such as axes, ice axes, and ropes are sometimes very useful. Hands are of great significance to humans, so the handsless winter wolves adopted this method.
When the winter wolves are raising human children, they will constantly instill in him the idea that it is in the interests of the winter wolves. The winter wolf will distort the image of humans, making the child dismissive of his kind. In this way, he can effectively avoid returning to human society. So the winter wolf can rest assured that he will hand him the gold coins, and he will go to the village or town to buy back the items that the winter wolf pack needs. This is much better than simply culling intelligent creatures and eating them, leaving the gold coins they carry to sleep in the winter wolf's den. And when it comes to fighting, the wolf child will choose to assist the Winter Wolves and fight for them.
This naturally made it more difficult for Martin and his party to complete the task. It's one thing to risk a kidnapper to rescue a hostage, but it's another thing to attack you with a kidnapper instead of cooperating with the hostage, and the hostage is still a relatively powerful one. And if you kill the hostages, it's easier. But it is also more difficult to do because of the strength of the other side -- that is, there is such an operation as killing the hostages first, so that it is not possible to shout: "Kidnappers, surrender quickly, you have no hostages in your hands!" Because in this era, in the eyes of many noble lords, their own rich civilian merchants are not as important as the enemy's nobles, and they have more value for preservation. Because the productive forces are not enough, the commodity economy is not mature, and the power of money is not so significant. A businessman, very rich. If he was a commoner, then a broken aristocrat asked him to give up his seat in a theater or something, and he had to give up his seat. So many wealthy businessmen considered marrying with down-and-out nobles - rich nobles looked down on them.
Considering the situation in that Northland village, killing that winter wolf wolf child was not a good choice. The Winter Wolf is a cunning creature, and if he lets a live mouth go, the Winter Wolf will run to the Northland stockade and tell the Chief that his son has been killed by Martin and his party. Martin didn't want to be hunted down by a horde of enraged Northland warriors.
Besides, Sophia is a holy warrior and definitely doesn't like the operation of "killing that winter wolf wolf child". From her point of view, of course, it is best to save the wolf child from the evil winter wolf pack and change the evil and return to the right.
So Martin had to seriously prepare for the battle against the Winter Wolves.
In fact, generally speaking, the strength of a magical beast like the Winter Wolf is just like that. If you change the occasion, for the ordinary winter wolf. Zari uses the Wanderer's ability to use magical devices to restrict the movement of the Winter Wolves by throwing webs with scrolls. Shirley smashes it with a powerful fireball technique that casts the Magic Technique, and the ignited webs add extra damage. Martin uses the druid's natural magic of fire, plus a wall of fire to separate. Natasha uses her bow to shoot flaming arrows created by magic. In the end, the winter wolves that survived these attacks. Because it's an evil creature. In the face of Sophia's evil slash, that thick fur didn't play a protective role at all. Restrained by the power of the paladin. In an instant, the hordes of winter wolves would be wiped out by Martin and them.
But this is all theoretically ideal. First of all, this is the very northern Northland. It's winter again. The climate is cold enough to affect magic. In this bitter cold environment. The magical powers are all distorted. Shirley's fireball technique is difficult to use. Martin's situation is similar.
Moreover, these winter wolves are not ordinary winter wolves. Otherwise, it wouldn't be as strong as the white dragon and have to ask Martin and his party for help. According to the description of the locals in the Northland village. Martin: They have to deal with the heroes of the Winter Wolves. Ordinary winter wolves will only belong to the lowest level of discrimination in these winter wolf packs. And the ordinary members of this group of winter wolves have the general strength of the leaders of other winter wolf packs. As for the leader of the winter wolf pack, it is even more unusual.
Otherwise, this group of winter wolves would have been killed by the Northland warriors in a few minutes, and the leader's children would have been taken back. Northland warriors are not easy to mess with. You must know that they have experienced a lot of battles and have seen a lot. Take that chieftain, for example, who ran to the bustling south to plunder when he was young. How many strange enemies have you fought along the way? If the Northland warriors weren't strong enough, it wouldn't have been possible for even the Norma Empire to have a special Varang Guard.
So, although Martin and his party, except for Shirley, because she is a mage, she is not good at melee combat. The others have decent melee abilities. However, it is still not a good idea to use "kitchen knives", that is, physical attacks, to exterminate the winter wolves.
In particular, according to reliably informed. When dealing with those winter wolves, you have to deal with more than just winter wolves. Also included are Frost Giants. In general, the Frost Giants are the traditional allies of the Winter Wolves. Because both of them have a hard time dealing with each other. And there are many advantages to coming together. Of course, the so-called "evil kills each other." "Their covenant won't be that strong. The Frost Giants are ready to steal a winter wolf cub and raise it like a human dog.
After all, a slave is much better than an ally, isn't it?
However, this does not mean that when someone comes to attack the Winter Wolf, the Frost Giant will stand by and watch. In fact, they also know the truth of common opposition and interdependence. The Frost Giant, who has the advantage of size, is very difficult to deal with. Not to mention, there are spellcasters among them. The scariest thing about spellcasters is that they are variables. The pattern of action of a fighter is easy to guess and confirm. But what kind of magic a spell caster has prepared is a mystery. Too much to change. And the different magic effects are too different. Therefore, it is easy to have surprises.
And accidents sometimes mean failure.
Martin picked up a ball of snow from the ground and rubbed it on his forehead.
Now, the more he arrived, the more the holy relic was in sight, beckoning to him. The more he had to force himself to calm down. Otherwise, it would be too unjust to plant this kind of darkness before the dawn.
"Whew......" he let out a long breath.
He's a little frowning.
Zari still looked at Martin suspiciously. She didn't want to get involved in any danger. She is an egoist. will not selflessly help Martin.
And the others, that is, Sofia, were able to support Martin unconditionally. Even if there was a cliff in front of her, she could follow Martin and jump off without frowning. And whether it's Natasha or Shirley, although not like Zarie. But their support for Martin is also limited.
"You can rest assured that we are in a good position right now. Martin pointed to the map of the living spots.
That was the temporary gift given to them by the White Dragon's Liquid Qi. A replica. After a certain amount of time, it will become invalid. It's very much in line with the stingy character of their clan. But at this point, it was enough for Martin to get a huge help in their mission.
Of course, this map of living points is not so detailed that Martin and the others can clearly see the location and movement trajectory of every creature here. In fact, it's blurry, and in some places it won't show up at all. In some places, there is a mistake, and if you use it to navigate, Martin and his party may be taken into the ditch. And some targets will not appear on it either. Even if the units appear, the location may not be accurate. Even if the location is accurate, it is possible that the content displayed on the map has been delayed a lot, and the units have moved to other places, and the refresh rate of the map display is really slow. To put it simply, if it is really so effective, exquisitely powerful, liquid gas may not be able to have such good things. And it may not have the ability to reproduce it temporarily.
But having it is still a huge help for Martin and his party. It greatly alleviates the problem of their unfamiliarity.
"One of my ideas is to take advantage of class contradictions. Martin said.
Class contradictions?
The others frowned. Let's be honest. They really don't know the word.
Yet Martin knew.
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— huhu, really, really embarrassed. Now it's finer. There were a lot of things going on in the past. I'm writing something else in codeword. And an important reason why it's only updated now is that the starting point doesn't know how to block my book.
Earlier, I once recommended the manga "From the Abyss". Now it's all been made into a cartoon. The same is true of "Stupid Girl" in the past. After watching these two, I really don't know what Japanese animation to watch for the time being. I'm making up for the old "Abandoned Princess". And the American animation "South Park" and "Bojack Horseman" are also new. I have to say that last season of "South Park" was very bad, and it seems that the closer you are to politics, the farther away you are from art, there is still some applicability.
I wonder how many readers will remain to support me?