As he went deeper, Griffith found a collapsed and ruined pit and two bodies. Deliberately collected tree trunks and branches were scattered around the pit, but the soil in the pit had completely collapsed.

The hired men appear to have planned well in advance. They first dug a huge trap to lure the mountain monsters over after covering them. After the mountain monsters fall into the trap, they attack from above, but this is when the unexpected happens. The mountain monster used great force to gouge through the dirt of the pit, causing it to collapse, successfully escaping and killing several hired men.

Griffith thought for a moment about the current situation. Since the mountain monster fell into the trap and took revenge on the shooter, it means that the hire-kage's attack was successful at first, and it is likely that it has blinded one of its eyeballs. The rest of the people were not killed immediately, but continued to fight the mountain monster as they moved.

These people are very brave! Griffith slightly admired, it is not easy for ordinary people to fight in the face of mountain monsters, not to mention fighting, and to be able to flee without panic. And they have lost at least a third of their manpower, and they can continue to fight!

Griffith was a little jealous for a moment. Both the mountain monsters and these hired workers are very vicious, and it is not safe to get involved rashly.

Thinking of this, Griffith prepared to run away. Before he could act, a loud popping sound erupted in the nearby woods, followed by a loud rumble in his direction.

Three hire-the-workers, covered in blood, panicked out of the woods and fled for their lives in the direction of Griffith. The leader was armed with a two-handed sword, and it was the leader of the group, Lut. The two men beside him were holding axes and hatchets, both of them looking dejected.

As soon as Rout saw Griffith's figure, he immediately shouted, "My lord, help!

As soon as they finished speaking, the trees behind them were torn apart, and a thick trunk slammed into the head and face of the hired man who had fallen behind.

"Whoa!"

The hired man turned into a cloud of blood and splattered it on the spot.

As the flesh splattered, a mountain monster rushed out of the dense forest with an earth-shattering momentum! It was nearly four meters tall, as strong as a city wall, and its gray-brown skin was tough and full of wrinkles. It has a broken arrow stuck in its right eye, and several blood-spurting wounds around its knee and neck.

Griffith flicked the spear in his hand and threw it at the knee of the mountain monster's right leg with all his might.

All I heard was a crack that tore through the air, and the spear pierced the mountain monster's knee like lightning. The beast let out a wail and rolled straight to the ground.

Griffith was surprised, he didn't expect to be able to shoot a mountain monster with one blow, but he quickly reacted. The mountain monster and the hired men had been fighting for a while, and there must have been many injuries on his body. The hired men were likely to target its knees, eyes and other key positions, and the accumulated injuries combined with Griffith's full force blow just now directly broke the mountain monster's right leg.

When Root and his companions saw the mountain monster being knocked down, their faces were ecstatic. But before they could catch their breath, the mountain monster was already roaring wildly.

It pounded the ground furiously, howling in pain and rage, and its hands lifted the stones under the dirt and threw them at the hired man.

Rout hurriedly dodged. But his companion did not have such skill and luck, and was hit in the forehead by the stone, and fell straight down.

The mountain monster with a broken leg pounced on the dirt, and actually grabbed the employee's thigh and gnawed it directly.

Hell, Griffith hurried into action, pistol in hand, lunging at the griffin's flank, and threw a shot at the exposed waist and abdomen.

"Bang!" the spear smashed deep into the monster's stomach, and it was stuck in the muscles.

"My lord, this monster is extremely strong," Rout shouted to Griffith, "and we have been attacking for a long time, and it is difficult to fatally wound it. ”

Griffith glanced at the bloodied Root and asked, "How many people are still alive?"

"Only down," Rult shook his head with difficulty, "we found the trail of this monster, and we tracked it down for fear that he would attack the Academy, but we didn't expect it to be so terrifying." ”

"You shot him blind?"

"Yes, Exu shot the mountain monster in the right eye, but was immediately retaliated. ”

In the middle of a few words, the mountain monster had already eaten most of the hired man's body, patted his belly and turned his head, and looked at the two people in front of him with small eyes.

It has half a crossbow bolt stuck in its right eye, and its left eye socket is also covered with wounds, and it can only barely open it. The joint of his right leg had been broken, and the blood was gushing, and he could only support himself on his knees with both hands.

But even so, the mountain monster is still very dangerous. Griffith measured his armor as big as a mountain monster's grinding disc, and was pretty sure he couldn't hold up a mountain monster's blow.

"We're retreating," Griffith said, after a moment's thought, "and its movement has been limited, and it won't be able to escape much in the short term." When I get back to the academy, I'll gather more men to take him down. ”

"Yes, sir. Root's face was covered in blood, and he couldn't see his expression clearly, but his answer was crisp.

The two immediately retreated in the direction they had come, preparing to evacuate over the thorns. The mountain monster followed, chasing after him with both hands and one remaining leg.

This giant beast also had arrows and short spears stuck in its body, and its eyes were seriously wounded, but the only remaining one eye had a fierce light, which made people look terrified. Although Griffith has never killed a mountain monster, he has also fought giant wild bears with his comrades. When the beasts are pierced in the stomach, they plug the intestines with grass and hunt down the hunters.

Griffith felt that he was also quite cruel, and he did no less bad things when he was in the East. But after being seriously injured, he didn't retreat, but continued to play with his life, which really made him have some scruples.

The two of them ran all the way to the thorn, and the tree trunk that had been put down as a bridge was already in front of them.

Griffith was about to step onto the tree trunk when he suddenly felt a pain in his leg, and he immediately lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground. I saw that Root sliced through his leg with a two-handed sword, split his shin armor and injured his calf. He had the idea of killing Griffith here, and then stabbed a sword into his waist.

Griffith let out a bad cry in his heart, and hurried to the side, narrowly avoiding the blow.

Rout swung his sword and chased after him, slashing at Griffith's head. The mountain monster also noticed that its prey had stalled, and with a hideous smile, it accelerated after it.

Griffith drew his saber and picked away Root's blow, adjusting his breathing as he asked, "It seems that you have a reason why you must kill this mountain monster, but why did you attack me?"

Root, without speaking, turned and rushed towards the trunk of the tree perched on the thorns.

"Whoa——!" At the same time, a terrifying roar came, and Griffith had fallen into the range of the mountain monster's ability. With this heart-rending roar, his brain was dizzy and his body stiffened.

As soon as the mountain monster succeeded, it raised the giant log in his hand and smashed it down at the apprentice knight.

"Goodbye, my friend," Rout waved at Griffith as he ran, "I'll avenge you soon!"

I was underestimated. Griffith opened his palms and pressed down.

"Freeze under my power, Frozen Nova!"

Between the lightning and flint, an extremely cold ice cube struck Root, and before he could see what was going on, his feet were already frostbitten and condensed.

"Boom!" the mountain monster's heavy blow landed on the ground, splashing up dirt several meters high, and also missed the target. Its huge hands and feet were covered with frozen ice, and it looked at it incredulously.

Without saying a word, Griffith endured his minor injuries and rushed to the trunk, grabbed Root's shoulders and threw him directly.

"No!"

Rout screamed, and before he could stand up, a huge palm was pressed. Rout was slapped into the dirt on the spot, spurting out a mouthful of black blood.

The mountain monster smiled and raised his fist, and struck it according to Lute, only one punch, and the edge of the eye cracked, and the black beads burst out, as if a dye shop had been opened, and the red, black, and purple ones were about to bloom. Then, it grabbed Root's legs and tore them to both sides like a man tearing a roast chicken.

Griffith is ready to go. The trunk of the tree beneath his feet was too heavy for him to destroy or lift on his own. Moreover, the mountain monster also saw this road, and it is difficult to say whether they will pull out a few big trees as a bridge to escape in the future. Once it is allowed to escape the forest, it is dangerous to enter Holmonworth in the middle of the night and run around.

Seeing that the mountain monster was about to tear Root's body apart, Griffith took two steps back, sprinted forward along the trunk of the tree, and leaped to his feet at the end.

The mountain monster, which was tearing at its prey, suddenly heard the sound of wind whirring in his ears, and was about to look up, but Griffith had already swept sideways, holding a throwing gun and piercing the mountain monster's right ear. In this position, the monster's right eye has been shot blind, and its right leg has been broken, making it difficult to detect and react in time.

"Bang!"

Griffith spun around in the air with the force of his jump, and stabbed his sharp spear into the mountain monster's unsuspecting right ear. The feeling of stabbing into the core of a tree, and the jerky sensation that penetrated the brain tissue also passed down the barrel of the gun.

The gigantic mountain monster suffocated, and its grip on Lut was released. Its only remaining ferocious left eye turned upwards to reveal the whites of its eyes, its large mouth still dripping with drool.

Griffith retracted his gun and landed on the ground, ready to deliver the final blow.

At this moment, a huge and strange bison phantus suddenly appeared behind the mountain monster. The cold aura of death enveloped its body, and it rushed towards the mountain monster with great vigour.

Griffith was taken aback, and hurriedly stepped back, only to see its soul-like phantom appear behind the mountain monster that had been struck by the bison phantom, and let out a scream under the fierce impact, and then shattered piece by piece.

The ferocious mountain monster froze there, as if it had lost its soul and turned into a rock. It was about a minute before it slowly fell to the side, splashing a cloud of dirt with a thud.

It should have been killed. Griffith drew his sword, carefully wound it from behind to the mollin's head, and slashed it at its neck. Instead of cutting off the monster's head, the sword nearly flew off the long sword in his hand. The back of the slashed neck was only slightly torn with thick skin, and it didn't hurt at all.

It's so strong. With the vitality and extraordinary strength of the mountain monster, not a single Shultor team may dare to challenge head-on.

However, Root and a few hired men not only found the lair of the mountain monster hiding near the academy, but also managed to lead it into a trap and injure it. If it weren't for their previous battle, Griffith would have had to flee for his life in front of the mountain monster alone.

Root's body was thrown aside, almost torn in half, and he had already lost his life. But why did he insist on killing the mountain monster here, even at the cost of trying to murder Griffith?

It is known that the hired men are trying to please Kroger and become full-time employees of Holmonwards. But the selection criteria at Holmonworth are also quite strict, and the daily work on the farm alone is obviously not enough for them to pass the examination.

From Holmonwards' point of view, when a capable temporary employee kills a mountain monster, he is nothing more than a reward with money and regular employee qualifications. Griffith thinks that if it was purely for money, these hired workers would not have to fight the mountain monster for the rest of their lives, and could have reported that the school had received a large bonus. The reason why they tried to get extra points by killing the mountain monster was that Rout even chose to try to kill Griffith at the last minute to prevent him from escaping and ask the school for help, probably because he wanted to take the credit of killing the mountain monster.

After all, killing the monster with his own hands and discovering it are not at all the same level, and there is a high probability that the school will grant him the status of a regular employee.

But is it worth the risk to be a regular employee? What do they want to do when they enter Holmonwald?

Several broken threads are like puzzle pieces, missing key information and unable to connect together.

Griffith came to Root's side, ready to examine his body. The man, who had just been torn apart by the mountain monster, fell to the mud, his limbs twisted. A feeling of foreboding haunted Griffith's mind, as if urging him to flee.

Why...... Why would he try to kill me, the reinforcement? The first reason was because he didn't want me to escape and call for help, which prevented him from killing the mountain monster. But......

But with his strength, how could he kill this mountain monster? How dare he face a mountain monster alone?

Griffith held out his hand to Root's corpse, confused. A thought suddenly sprung up in my heart—

Could it be that this Root has some kind of hole card, some kind of hole card that cannot be known, and it must be used without witnesses?!

"Smack!"

Suddenly, Root's right hand flicked up. He was already face down to the ground, but his right hand swung back at an odd angle, as if the shoulder and elbow joints were not there, and he grabbed Griffith's outstretched right hand with his backhand.

"Ahh

Griffith was taken aback by the unexpected sight. Although he has also been tested by war for a long time, the scene in front of him is too shocking and completely beyond the scope of common sense.

Root, who had been torn apart, twisted his back and moved like a normal person's front, his hands and feet stretched and cocked very naturally. His legs hooked Griffith's knees, and his two arms grabbed his hands and armor with backhands.

At the same time, in the eyes of the terrified Griffith, an even more incredible horror appeared.

The turban wrapped around the back of Root's head suddenly squirmed, revealing the outline of a human face, and giggled at Griffith.

This crazy and horrific scene was unheard of, and Griffith had never seen it in even the most ridiculous nightmares. His mind was in turmoil, and fear overcame his will in an instant, and he was terrified.

Griffith began to struggle frantically. He had lost his mind, and all he wanted was to escape from the monster's grasp.

Root's body was tightly wrapped around Griffith, as if hanging from him, and it was impossible to get rid of it. As Griffith rolled and struggled, the headscarf on the back of Root's head also fell off.

On what should have been smooth baldness, there was a hideous, twisted human face sore. The grotesque and ferocious wounds resemble eyes, nose, and mouth, staring at Griffith with pus. Suddenly, what appeared to be a mouth cracked, revealing sharp fangs and biting down on the midshipman's neck.

Terrified, Griffith burst out with rare power, pushing and shoving the monster that was about to bite him, and at the same time pulled out his dagger and stabbed it all over the monster.

Finally, the monster was thrown out. But it had just landed, and it was crawling on all fours like an insect, and it was jumping towards Griffith again.

Griffith screamed, rolled towards the block, picked up the fallen saber and prepared to fight to the death. Suddenly, a hoarse and terrifying scream erupted around him, the sound did not look like a human, hissing and creepy.

The monster lunged at Griffith, and plunged headlong into the black thorns in front of it. Sharp thorns pierced its flesh at once, and the thorns all around it surrounded it as if it had been brought to life, entangling the monster to death.

Root's body splattered with blood like a crushed orange. The thorns gathered more and more, and finally wrapped Lut like a ball of thread.

The facial sore on the back of the head howled at Griffith, followed by blood foam and fragments of organs. Its body is also getting smaller and smaller. Eventually, the thorn sucked its flesh and turned from black to blood-red before slowly letting go. Root's body was also transformed into a tattered human skin with two faces, hanging from the thorns and fluttering in the wind.

Griffith looked at the mountain monster on the ground in horror, and then at the blood-colored thorns and the human skin hanging from the brambles nearby, and his teeth chattered involuntarily.