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In the distance, a camp of the most ordinary nomadic orcs appeared. Orcs believe in the god of war and are also quite warlike, often inducing a war between tribes because of a small thing, these wars are often not too radical to shake the foundation of a tribe, but there is one exception to this war, which is the war for pasture. If two tribes fight for the pasture on which the other side depends, it will often end in the complete annexation of one party, and most of the losers who do not want to belong to the winner will be transformed into nomadic tribes, and can only graze on inferior pastures, sometimes inadvertently infringing on the interests of other fixed tribes, and will be expelled or even attacked, the remnants of these orc tribes who have lost their territory often end up because their numbers are getting smaller and smaller, and they can only be integrated into a fixed tribe and become a part of the other party, and only a very small number of nomadic tribes with a large number of remnants have robbed the pastures of other small tribes, and they have been transformed into fixed tribes and developed again。

The nomadic tribe in front of us is a typical example, although their tent is called a large tent, but it is only relative to a single tent, a tent can accommodate at most one or two people to live and live, and the fixed tribe can accommodate more than ten or even dozens of people at the same time in the huge camp tent can not be compared with the huge camp tent that can accommodate more than ten or even dozens of people at the same time to live and work in it. Judging from the number of tents, all the men, women, and children in this group are counted, at most about twenty people, and there are not many livestock, basically no large livestock, all small grassland sheep, only more than sixty, this scale, even in the nomadic orc tribe, is the smallest.

The nomadic tribes also camped in a different way than the regular tribes, their tents were very closely spaced in a circle, and the sheep were raised on the inside of the tents, and the outside was fenced off with a very old-looking fence that had obviously been used many times to prevent wild beasts from attacking the sheep. This method of camping, on the basis of ensuring the safety of livestock to the greatest extent, is also convenient for the tribe to move the camp when migrating in the spring of the next year, which can be regarded as a typical method on the grassland.

But now, it's very chaotic on the camp side. A ring of flames had been lit around the fence wall, a defense that each tribe would have set up when they set up camp, designed to prevent the beasts from besieging them. By the time the group saw the camp, the wooden fence on the inside of the wall of fire had been broken in two places, revealing a gap in the defensive circle, which was blocked by the orcs with several wagons to prevent the beasts outside from rushing into the camp through the flames. Outside the flames, more than a thousand short, hideous dead-tailed dogs swirled around the camp with saliva in their mouths and irritating barks in their throats.

The Broken Tail Dog is a rather ugly beast that looks gray and covered in mud, with its lips turned outward, revealing two rows of sharp teeth that bulge outward, and its tail is only a small bare section, which looks like it has been cut off, which is where the name Broken Tail Dog comes from. This kind of monster doesn't have any special skills, but the speed and strength are strengthened by magic energy, so it is called a monster, but once they are assembled into a giant beast group, they will become extremely fierce and brave, and the more than a thousand broken tail dogs in front of them are afraid that even some hundreds of medium-sized wolves are unwilling to clash with them head-on.

"Wait, carriage?" The five adventurers had already gotten off the magic cart, and Catherine, who was observing from a distance of hundreds of meters, was suddenly stunned, and found a key point that she had overlooked: "Why don't I remember that nomadic orcs would use carriages to transport things?"

"Perhaps, it's an ox cart?" Freya couldn't figure out why, and began to speculate.

"They don't need ox carts either. Catherine gave her a blank look: "And they don't look like cattle at all." ”

"That'...... Is it a sheep cart?" Lina teased, "They don't have cows, they always have." ”

"Don't mess around. Catherine knocked on Lina's head, her face becoming serious: "It seems that there is no other danger, we can go up and help them." Although these dead-tailed dogs can't do any harm to us even if they try their best, it's different for the ordinary orcs inside, so let's end the battle as soon as possible. ”

"I'll do it. Vivien took the staff from behind her back, stood behind Pennis and Catherine on crutches and said, "This kind of large group of weak magical beasts, my magic is the most convenient to deal with. ”

"You ......" Catherine hesitated for a moment, shook her head, "Otherwise, you better rest for a while and let Freya do it." ”

"She? As soon as she made a move, the camp was going to be blown over. Vivien said: "Eldest sister, I'm not really going to die soon, don't think I'm so fragile, as long as I don't have a seizure, fighting with all my might won't have any effect." And you've given me enough rest along the way, and I don't have any problems at all. And if you think about it, we will not necessarily go well when we go to explore the research center this time, and the goblins also have a lot of strange things, don't forget what we encountered in the sewers of the City of Innocence before. Don't hesitate, I can face it calmly, and you don't take care of me like a patient. ”

"Well, you're right, I'm thinking too much. Catherine nodded with a wry smile and said: "Then I'll leave these demonic beasts to you, just drive them away, don't kill too much, after all, we're just here to save people, not to slaughter, don't destroy the original environment on the grassland too much." ”

"Understood. Vivian sighed, and just took a few steps forward to cast a spell, the barking of the beasts in the distance suddenly increased, and you could see from a distance that several broken-tailed dogs that had successfully broken into the camp suddenly screamed and flew out from behind the carriage, seeing that although they did not have any wounds on their bodies, many bones were smashed and shattered, and they could no longer stand up after falling to the ground.

"Huh?" Pannis's expression moved, and he said strangely: "Although the strength of the Broken Tail Dog is not strong, it can easily beat five or six out of the camp at the same time, and it is so bad, this is not something that ordinary orcs of the nomadic tribe can do." It seems that this nomadic tribe really hides some secrets. ”

"Look, like I said. Lina immediately said, "Maybe it's some retired adventurer or mercenary, oh, no, Freya said that the signal army is for it, that is, retired soldiers or officers, who live here in seclusion when they get older." ”

Catherine sighed helplessly and did not make any comments, and by now, she could only admit that Lina's conjecture was probably close to the truth.

"I don't think so, if there were such a recluse, this tribe wouldn't be as miserable as it is now. Vivien retorted, shook her head, and said, "What the hell is going on, we'll find out when we disperse the beasts and ask them." ”

"Vivien mode, fire. Vivien held her staff aloft and silently prepared for a while, when suddenly the head of the staff pointed at the beasts and spat out a very simple chant. After the chanting, a complex circle appeared out of thin air in the air, although the circle was not obvious due to the setting sun in the evening, but it could still be seen that the outline of the circle covered a space of tens of meters. After the circle appeared, it began to flash, and with each flash, several blazing flames shot out of the circle, falling far into the range of the herd.

In the elemental spells of destruction, Vivien especially prefers fire attribute magic, but unfortunately the first task after being promoted to legend dived into the deep sea, and there is no condition to use it at all, but fortunately, this time she finally got rid of the trouble of the environment and can cast fire to her heart's content. The magic in front of him, although it seems to be very close to the meteor fire rain of high-level mages, but Pennis and Freya, who are more familiar with magic, can see that this is not a meteor fire rain at all, but it is modified and evolved from the most basic flame arrow, which is much smaller than the meteor fire rain in terms of consumption and casting time, and of course, the power is much smaller, after all, the falling flames are just simple burning, and there is no explosion effect of the meteor fire shower, nor is it as wide as the meteor fire shower.

However, this kind of simple flame with controllable direction can receive miraculous effects in the current situation, the monsters originally had a natural fear of flames, and the fur of these monsters was very easy to ignite, often a flame fell, there was a piece of flame-covered tail-breaking dogs screaming everywhere, and then ignited more of the same kind, just by one spell, it created considerable chaos in the monster group, and also caused hundreds of dead-tailed dogs to be injured to varying degrees.

The Deadtail Dog was very smart, and quickly spotted the attacker, and immediately split up and rushed towards the location of the adventure group, but as soon as he rushed a few steps, he was scattered and fled by the dense flames that fell from the sky, and none of them could get close to the adventure group for a hundred meters around. So, under the wanton flames of the magic circle in the sky, the beasts were like a group of targets exposed to the field of vision, and they could only continue to accept the baptism of flames, and after a few more minutes of hard work, the heavy casualties finally exceeded the limit of the beasts.

Vivien didn't pursue, dispersed the circle condensed in the air, and waved her staff again, and a mist of water fell from the sky, extinguishing the grass ignited by the flames. Fortunately, it was early autumn, the weeds were still green, and the inside was full of moisture, and the flames that came out of thin air did not cause much burning, if the time was changed to late autumn or winter, I am afraid that this magic would cause a small fire.

Extinguishing the remaining flames, Vivien clapped her hands and said lightly, "Look, eldest sister, this level of combat won't be a big burden on me at all, you really don't have to worry too much. ”

"Even so, it's good to be careful, and then you have to be careful and try not to fight with all your might. Catherine said, "Now that the matter is settled, shall we go over and spend the night?"

"Of course it is. Pannis looked at the camp in the distance with a smirk: "I think I already know what is hidden in this camp, but it's a pity that Lina guessed wrong." (To be continued.) )