Chapter 15: The Bounty Bar (Part II)
Barrett didn't get involved in this conversation about gold coins and women. Although this kind of topic is of most interest to most adventurers, who can talk excitedly all day about a cup of inferior rye beer, and even continue in their dreams, he is not in the mood at this time.
The barbarian adventurer looked down along the tall walls of the Misty Castle, one bounty column after another, looking at the familiar names and portraits on it, behind each name, representing the lives of many adventurers:
"Ghost Howl", the werewolf spoken of in the half-elf's words, still seems to be hovering in the unique silver pine forest of the Misty Forest. As far as Barrett knew, there was only one silver pine forest in the entire Misty Forest, and among the tall firs that filled the forest, the silver pine trees were like gnomes in a giant colony.
In the portrait of the magic image, the werewolf is pitch black, the body is slightly crouched, the wolf's snout is closed, the claws of both hands are bent upward, and the blood-red eyes carry a terrifying calmness, but also a little vague madness. If you look closely, you will see that the madness does not resemble the beast's, but has something in common with the madness of the creatures of purgatory.
Barrett had heard from other adventurers that "Ghost Howl" never seemed to make it out of the silver pine forest. It resembles a ghost trapped in the woods, and does not actively go out to hunt humans, except for the sometimes painful, tearing howls. But for the sake of the valuable silver pine cones, which are bright brown throughout, there are always some adventurers who don't know whether to live or die will venture into it.
According to the statistics of the Misty Castle, there are nearly 100 adventurers who have been killed by the "Ghost Howl" for so many years, and the adventurers who have seen it shoot describe its attack as like a battle-hardened high-level warrior, simple and deadly, with no superfluous movements, and life will be taken away when the claws are slashed, like a gardener pruning branches and leaves, revealing a different kind of calmness.
But there were also many adventurers who managed to escape from the silver pine forest. Because when the "ghost howl" is in a good mood, it will actually have a brief chat with the adventurer and let the lucky one leave alive.
Those adventurers who had "had the privilege" of chatting with it described "Ghost Howl" as a very standard language, with a cultured and accent characteristic of the Holy Kingdom of Araso in the east of the continent.
Therefore, the origin of this werewolf seems to be quite mysterious in the eyes of adventurers. Some say that he comes from an ancient family in the Holy Kingdom of Aratho, haunted by the curse of werewolves, and he became "it" because of the curse, and then he was unlucky enough to be infected by the depraved aura of the abyss, so he is sometimes calm and sometimes crazy.
But some people scoffed at this, because the werewolf is itself crazy, irrational, and dominated by the primitive desire to kill, so it is not accurate to judge by its madness that it is contaminated with the abyssal aura.
Not only that, but if it really came from some ancient family of the Holy Arathor Kingdom, then why did it travel from the easternmost part of the continent to the westernmost Misty Forest? Why not go to the mages to solve these thorny problems? A cursed werewolf with the breath of the abyss, I believe the mages are still very interested in it.
Regardless, as a known destabilizing factor in the Misty Forest, Misty Castle would still pay a handsome amount of money if an adventurer could cut off its head.
Next to the werewolf bounty was a bloodtoothed crocodile with a blind left eye, whose name Barrett knew was "Sally", and he knew that the beast he had dealt with and knew that its remaining amber vertical pupils were full of hatred for humanoids.
"Sally" had been lurking in the rotten swamp near the only path that could pass through the swamp, and waited patiently. The ferocious rabbit cautiously jumped through the swamp, and "Sally" remained motionless, and the wounded bluehorn lay helplessly in the swamp waiting for death, and "Sally" was not in the slightest. And if a human tries to get through, "Sally" will find an opportunity to burst out of the dense reeds or wild mushrooms in the swamp, bite the unlucky man's legs and feet, and drag him into the depths of the rotting swamp.
Once someone is successfully dragged into the swamp by "Sally", few people will come to the rescue of the unlucky man. Because the rotting swamp is full of mud that can swallow a person whole except for the narrow path that is as narrow as a chicken's intestines.
Next to the "Sally" bounty is a rock golem "Crush", a powerful earth elemental imprisoned in the main material world. Barrett had been chased by it for a day and a night, and he had hit it in arms, torso, head, and neck with the Iron Bride, but it had no effect other than knocking out some rock shards.
Without magic, it's hard for adventurers to actually hurt these elemental creatures. And if you want to deal with this powerful rock puppet, the "Iron Bride" obviously doesn't have a mine hoe yet.
Barrett also found that the gnolls "Hogg" and his riverpaw tribe were also built here, and the Golden Alfalfa Knights of the Mist Castle had surrounded and suppressed this gnolling tribe several times, and a large number of gnolls were brought back each time, but because of the cover of the fog, it was obviously not easy to annihilate them all.
In the Misty Forest, due to the terrain and environment, the formed military force is actually not very useful.
Barrett passes by the dark web spider "Reis", the ooze monster "Festering Renia", and the troll brothers "Longtooth" and "Broken Tooth......
Beside the bounty order for "Poison Needle Bane", a mutated and venomous echo bat, he paused, his gaze fixed on a bounty fence that was much larger than the others.
The bounty has been completed, and all the bounty orders have been marked with a big red cross. Barrett saw the four-armed demon ape at a glance among the many bounty orders.
The four-armed demon ape 'Caesar', a nightmare in the Misty Forest. To this day, it still ranks first among all forest creatures in the number of adventurers it kills.
It is as strong as an ogre, as agile as a forest elf, and has a thick, tough fur that can effectively withstand the swing of various weapons. It walks silently like a ghost leopard, crafts traps and controls the battle like the cunning hunter, and its four strong arms are so powerful that they can easily shatter a human's head with a single punch. More importantly, its hatred for humans is several times greater than that of the Bloodtooth Alligator Sally.
Caesar, the four-armed demon ape, usually weaves through the tall fir trees, peeking through the dense foliage as its prey, the adventurer who has broken into the misty forest. It always plans before it moves, and the adventurers who are targeted have little to offer.
Barrett was an exception, as it struck him, inflicting a fatal wound on his throat, but the Nordlai half-breed brute survived stubbornly, and the healed scar still sits there like an ugly centipede.
Barrett fought Caesar four times, the first time he was defeated and escaped with mortal wounds, the second time his team lost six men, he broke four ribs and Caesar suffered only a few skin wounds, the third time Barrett cut off one of the arms of the four-armed ape with the help of a magic apprentice, and the fourth time, Barrett and his dwarven companions at the time tracked it for six days, hovering on the death line several times, but eventually brought back Caesar's head.
At that time, the head was embalmed and hung on the main entrance of the Misty Castle, where it was displayed for nearly a month. Many people, both good and bad with Barrett, congratulated him sincerely.
That hunt not only brought Barrett a great deal of honor, but also brought him a very good reward. In addition to the high bounties offered by the Misty Castle, many noble families also gave a lot of rewards.
Because Caesar also killed many knights of the Golden Alfalfa Knights, and many of the knights in the knights were the second sons of large and small noble families in the griffon kingdom.
Because the second son could not inherit the family property and title, most of them came out to work his own, but what flowed in his body was still the family blood, so Barriet could be regarded as indirectly avenging those noble families, and he was at ease with those rewards.
Whether it is in terms of strength or the rewards it brings, Caesar is one of Barrett's most important prey, even the pseudo-dragon can't compare.
To this day, Barrett can still vividly recall the head that hung above the main entrance of the Misty Castle, and the solidified, substantial hatred in the skull's eyes.
All adventurers in the Bay of Pigs know that Caesar is certainly a four-armed demon ape with a story, but no matter what its story is, no matter how deep its hatred is, it has disappeared with death.
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