Chapter Seventy-Nine: Spending the Night
Wolves are efficient groups, they have adapted to the long natural elimination, they know how to snatch food from people, and they know how to destroy invaders in their territory, Tarrant raised his greatsword and moved to the campfire, "wake up", he kicked over the pile of rocks under his feet, and made a dull rolling sound.
Rex's eyes opened, his right hand expertly pulled out the shackle, and one rolled over to his feet, his eyes looking around, and the two pairs of glowing green eyes on the other side made him immediately understand what was happening.
Katrina hadn't woken up yet, she had been walking all afternoon, her body was extremely tired, and she slept very well, and Tarrant touched her shoulder with her toes, and the mage on the ground blinked twice, turned and changed his position and continued to sleep.
Greeneye slowly approached, and Rex bent down to pick up the torch and stretched it out, the beast fearing the fire.
Tarrant took the opportunity to lean over and hug Katrina and lift her up, "Katrina!"
The mage struggled to open his eyes, his mind drowsy, "What's the matter? are you leaving?" she rubbed her eyes, and saw a green glow in her hazy vision, "What's that?"
A sturdy wolf slowly stepped into the firelight, gasping for breath and barking its teeth in a "whining" sound, it lowered its head and licked its paws and looked up at Katrina, revealing its two sharp, white fangs.
"Wolf!" the mage snapped into consciousness and screamed, the natural creature was as rare to her as a plane demon, and she grabbed Tarrant's arm and hid behind the campfire.
Tarrant leaned over and pulled out a burning twig and leaned over to the wolf.
The wolf "whined" and looked at the wooden stick fiercely, and gave a fierce "whoop!"
Provocation! Tarrant took a step back, a wolf who was not afraid of fire! In his common sense, there was a bonfire in the wolf that would not enter the range of ten steps, but the wild wolf in front of him obviously broke his common sense, it was moving forward!
"Isn't the situation good, evolved wolf?" Tarrant crouched down, his right hand giant sword was sideways forward, and the torch was held high, "Katrina, prepare the fire spell!" He also has common sense, the wolf's fangs can't bite through the two-star armor, I don't know if it's wrong.
Another pair of green eyes followed in the field of vision, two sizes larger than the wild wolf in front of him, almost like a lion, his eyes showed an eerie calmness, it was looking at the three of them, and for a moment, Tarrant felt that it was a pair of conscious eyes, full of wisdom, like ...... Wolf King.
Rex chanted spells with his palms facing each other, casting spells to improve his team's abilities during a confrontation.
A black figure appeared behind the two wild wolves, "Wait!"
Rex stopped casting, the flail clenched in his hand, and the situation seemed to be a little complicated.
The stranger approached, revealing simple leather armor, with a slender body, a dark complexion, and a katana in his right hand, a long-time ranger in the wild, and he asked Tarrant, "What are you doing here?"
"Who are you!" Tarrant pointed at the wolf, the other party did not show any kindness, and he did not intend to treat the other party with a kind attitude, it was he who manipulated the wolf.
"We are the masters here!"
The master, the Redstone Balance Bringer, was too coincidental to meet here, and the tip of Tarrant's sword pointed down slightly, and said, "We are the Knights of the Sheltered Light and the Storm, and we have come here to find you." â
"What's the matter?" the stranger looked at the knight warily.
"We have a clue to the nest of the Psiclists", Tarrant found the letter from the Spirited Bag.
"Spirit suckers?" the stranger whistled vigorously from his right hand in his mouth, "Jerry, sit down." â
The relatively thin wolf squatted down obediently, snorting heavily.
Tarrant breathed a sigh of relief, no wonder the wolf was able to break common sense and move forward, it was trained, and the stranger in front of him could be a ranger.
Ranger is a ranger who likes to live in the woods, they have a special affection for the forest, take it as a lifelong home, in order to protect the woodland, they learn to pursue, hide, hunt in the forest, and at the same time they have mastered the skills of being friends with wild beasts, can communicate with the wild beasts in the forest, generally, there will be fixed "pets", lions, black panthers and other terrifying beasts.
The "Wolf King" continued to move forward, walking over to Tarrant, smelling of humanity.
Since it's a friend of the Ranger, it won't attack humans at will, Tarrant reached out and touched its head, "That one is called Jerry, this one must be called Tom?" He rubbed the fur on the wolf king's head, "Good boy, sit down." â
The wolf king raised his head, his eyes were resentful, he kicked his hind legs, and stood up whole, a head taller than Tarrant! Tarrant froze in surprise, the wolf king's limbs gradually straightened, black hair fell off one after another, and the pointed head was shortening.
After the hair faded, the "Wolf King" revealed yellow-brown skin, capable muscles, and a cold face, and it was a druid! Tarrant's hand was touching his face, and his index finger was in the druid's right eyelid......
"Sorry......" Tarrant hurriedly withdrew his hand and bowed his head to apologize for his stupidity, it is impossible for a wolf as big as ZĂ i in nature, stupid, he is ashamed of his intelligence.
The druid replied coldly, "The matter of the spirit sucking monsters has nothing to do with us, we are looking for a team." He wasn't going to pick up Tarrant's letter in his other hand.
Tarrant looked back and forth at the two Balance Messengers, "What squad?" It was the middle of the night, and they were running in the woods with wild wolves, which must be something important.
"A squad of four, a dwarven defender, a human thief, a human priest, and a human mage. â
Very common for adventuring squads, Tarrant said, "We didn't see it. â
"Okay", the Ranger whistled, and the Jerry turned to follow him as he quickly melted into the darkness.
The druid looked at the mages and priests around the campfire, "If you see those four, be careful, they are in the vicinity, and they are dangerous." He turned around and threw himself forward, his limbs quickly bent and grew thick black hair, and his body skyrocketed, turning into a wolf king.
The Balance Messenger quickly departed. "A false alarm," Tarrant put down his greatsword in a dejected manner, "I hope it didn't disturb the rest of the two." â
Katrina sat down on the ground, "Exciting episode, I really hope you didn't wake me up", she came to the spirit at the moment, "I'll stand guard in the second half of the night!" "I have to contribute to the team."
Rex put away the shackles, "I'll come in the middle of the night, you rest." â
"I can!" said Katrina clasped her arms to her chest.
"Whatever you want", Tarrant yawned deeply, very sleepy, he lay down on the ground, covered with a blanket, and looked at the starry sky overhead, this weather is comfortable for adventurers, good night, Mara.
When the mist was dispersed in the forest, Tarrant woke up with a shiver, very strange, it was not the first time to camp in the forest, how could he wake up from freezing, he reached out to pull the blanket, and found that his body was not covered at all, he sat up and looked around, the blanket was on Katrina's body, she clutched it tightly into a ball, and it was covered with Rex's blanket.
The campfire was still burning, only a small mass remained, panting and struggling, Rex threw the last of the dry wood into it, the damp material, the flame was smaller, Tarrant crawled to the campfire, and brought his unconscious hands closer to the flames.
Rex had white dew on his eyebrows, he could indeed stay in one position all night, and Tarrant almost adored him, "Storm priest, do you want to take a break." â
Rex staggered to his feet and patted the dew off his body, "Let her sleep a little longer and we'll go." â
Tarrant's fingers stretched and contracted, the heat provided by the flames was so little that he couldn't feel the temperature, and at this rate he would have been crouching here all morning.
"You shouldn't have brought her out," Rex whispered.
The two of them looked at the mage on the ground together, their faces were frozen white, the tips of their hair were damp with mist, and their bodies were huddled.
Maybe he shouldn't have brought her out, but without this time, she wouldn't have understood the dangers of the adventure, and Tarrant continued to dry his hands.
The faint flame finally took its last breath with difficulty and went out.
"Wake her up," Rex moved his limbs and pulled out breakfast, coarse bread.
Tarrant let out a "yes" and turned and crawled to the mage's side, "Katrina, get up." â
The mage tightened and slowly opened his eyes, "It's morning?"
It's morning, and you can see your teammates, but the trees outside are surrounded by a thick white mist, and only the protruding dark green leaves can be seen faintly, the mage rubbed his eyes and hugged the blanket tightly, "It's so cold." â
"Everyone in the blanket feels cold, and the others are even worse," Tarrant laughed as he pulled the mage up.
"What?" Katrina looked down at the blanket, "What's the two?"
"How many are they?" said Tarrant, pulling out the coarse bread and handing it to her.
"It should be ......" the mage looked at the campfire, the corners of his mouth curled up to reveal two small dimples, "Hey, wait, I'm standing guard!"
Rex was looking up to drink water, he choked suddenly, he couldn't help but look at the mage, didn't speak, and continued to drink.
"It's good that I was the first to stand guard last night, otherwise we wouldn't have seen the sun today," Tarrant laughed as he chewed his bread.
"We didn't see the sun today!" said Katrina, pointing to the sky, a white patch.
"Don't talk about it, we need to get going," Rex said, passing the breakfast, leaning over and kicking the pebbles into the campfire to bury the ashes.
Tarrant put the blanket into the Spirit Pattern Bag, "Walking along the river today, you will definitely find them." â
"Why do you find them by walking along the river?" asked Katrina.
Tarrant looked at her seriously, "Excuse me, where would the origin of a social civilization be?"
"What do you mean, is there a commonality?" the mage blinked.
"From a geographical point of view, the origin of civilization must have arisen from the shores of rivers and seas", Tarrant raised his index finger and looked like a lecture, "The survival of living things is inseparable from water, and civilization must be close to the water source to grow, just like the Serenzo Empire, starting from the small fishing village of Siant." The Redstone Balance Messenger has been living in the forest for a long time, and of course it won't be very far from the current, understand?"
"Oh......" the mage nodded in understanding, "then look for the river." â
Rex finished cleaning up the camp and tightened his chains, "Are you ready to go?"
"Go", Tarrant shoved Katrina's leftover bread into her mouth.
The three of them walked into the white mist woods, the vision was very bad, only a little better than last night's torch guidance, about ten meters can be seen, the ground is slippery, this forest is not as dense as yesterday's forest, the distance between the trees is larger, and the terrain is relatively flat.
It was only after the procession had been marching for an hour or so that the sun's rays pierced through the white mist and reached the floor of the woods, and on a clear day, birds chirped from the treetops overhead, hares rushed through the grass, and the ancient mountains woke up.
Rex, who was walking in front, stopped and motioned for his teammates to stop, and he tilted his ear to the right.
Tarrant didn't hear anything other than the sounds of nature, and he carefully raised his legs and walked over to Rex, "What's the matter?"
"Human voices. â
"Balancebringer?"
"It's not. Rex grabbed the handle of the flail with his right hand.
Tarrant held his breath and discerned it carefully, he heard conversations, human speech, approaching them.
Katrina walked to their side and pointed ahead, "They?"
In the distance, a dwarf wearing full-body armor appeared, and behind him there were three humans, leather armor, full-body armor, and magic robes.
"A four-man adventure team pursued by the Balance Emissary," Tarrant whispered, drawing his greatsword from his back.