442. Brave heart
The main ingredient for the preparation of the secondary invisibility potion is the colorless liquid extracted from the glandular sac of a large chameleon living in the wild swamp, and the ingredients are several very common magic herbs, because the secondary invisibility potion does not involve precious magic herbs, so it can still be found in the magic market.
For this reconnaissance mission in Umezu Town, the War Command provided a total of thirty secondary stealth potions, which seemed to be a lot at first glance, but they were distributed to the commanders of three guard battalions, and each guard battalion only had ten secondary stealth potions.
Viscount Emmett wanted to keep the number of scouting squads to five, so that each knight who entered the town to scout would each receive two secondary invisibility potions. But with the addition of Samira and Andrew, the knights of the reconnaissance team can only get one bottle of secondary invisibility potion each.
In addition to the secondary invisibility potion, the Scout Knight who infiltrated Umezu Town was coated with a slightly pungent smell of man-eating pollen.
This man-eating flower is said to be a variant of hell and can often be seen in the rainforests of some parts of the southern part of the Roland continent, and the adult man-eating flower can wrap the buds full of sharp teeth to wrap the hunters passing by, this man-eating flower has a very violent paralyzing toxin, once the hunter is wrapped in the flower, it is difficult to escape on its own. Applying this man-eating pollen to your body can fool the Hellhound's keen sense of smell.
When the magicians rode the magic handle to reconnoiter the town of Umezu in the past few days, they found that the town of Umezu not only gathered a large number of hellhounds, but also kept coming out of the center of the town Some hellhounds are essentially different from ordinary hellhounds, some of them can actually evolve into giant hellhounds, and the magicians even suspect that the three hellhounds that appear in the besieging hellhound group are also related to this, and it is likely that there is a demon gate in Umezu town that allows high-level hellhounds to pass through.
This alone was enough to attract the attention of the war command.
The low-level hellhounds are just some hell beasts that have no thinking ability, they rely on survival instincts to act, but the high-level hellhounds can be the entire hellhound group, once they figure out the way to survive and hide in the deep mountains of the maca plane with the hellhound group, that is the last thing the lords of Bena Province want to see.
Hundreds of Hellhounds ran wildly on the ground, chasing the magicians flying in the sky until they completely left the area around Umezu Town, and then returned the same way.
This led the Wizard Scout to conclude that there must be more problems in Umezu Town.
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The reconnaissance team took advantage of the night to cross the barren meadow, and some hellhounds wandered back and forth more than ten meters away.
Several knights passed by the Hellhounds, but they turned a blind eye.
In Surdak's field of vision, he could only faintly see the translucent silhouette of Viscount Emmett and Samira in front of him, a vague outline formed by the distortion of the air, and Surdak followed them both over a bridge with only a few wooden piers.
Hellhounds seem to hate the river, and there are only a handful of Cerberus patrolling the vicinity of the wooden bridge.
The reconnaissance team, led by Samira, easily navigates through the patrol net that Hellhound has set up outside the town.
Entering the town of Umezu, Samira, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, she made a gesture backwards to hide in place, and quickly squatted in the corner of a low wall, and the knight who followed her also quickly squatted down, and Andrew, who was at the back, just squatted down, a giant dog's head protruded from the wall with a foul smell, and the pair of purple dog eyes looked around in a circle.
The giant hellhound, which was larger than the one Surdak had killed in the woods, poked its head out of the wall, saliva dripping from the corners of its mouth almost falling on Surdak's head.
Andrew in the back has even touched his hands on the handle of the axe, once Surdak is discovered by the giant hellhound, it is estimated that Andrew will not hesitate to pick up the big axe and directly chop the giant hellhound to death first.
The giant hellhound probably smelled a foul odor and shook its massive head and let out a loud sneeze.
Surdak quietly raised his dwarven chain shield to block the spittle from the Hellhound, but the giant Cerberus didn't notice it, and then shook its fat ass and turned away.
Andrew stumbled and put the axe back on his back.
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The knights of the reconnaissance team were also scared into a cold sweat at this moment.
Turn into a narrow alley, walk a few dozen meters away, and enter a long street in the small town of Umezu.
With superhuman vigilance, Samira successfully led everyone to avoid the three patrolling hellhounds, and Samira breathed a sigh of relief as she watched the three hellhounds slowly leave.
Surdak stood in the line, looking around the lifeless town.
The town is covered with dried blood, and the streets and alleys can occasionally see torn strips of cloth and leather, broken wooden doors and collapsed courtyard walls, but there are no bones in sight, not even bone residue can be seen on the ground, and occasionally some gray-white feces are seen in the corners, it seems that those in the town who have not had time to escape are likely to be swallowed by the hellhounds and there are no bones left.
From time to time, the roar of the hellhound can be heard outside the town, and the battle between the large forces of the guard battalion and the hellhound has begun.
The town was much quieter, with the occasional faint cry of a strange beast.
The whole town is full of dead silence, and there aren't many hellhounds patrolling the town.
At this moment, the three patrolling hellhounds in the street seemed to smell something, and they let out an angry roar and sped into an alley.
There were three reconnaissance teams that infiltrated Umezu Town with the Hylanza Guard Battalion, but the three reconnaissance teams did not act together, and the three reconnaissance teams chose to infiltrate the town from three different directions in order to have a greater harvest.
Viscount Emmett suspected that the hellhounds must have spotted the traces of the other two reconnaissance teams, and the reaction was so violent.
He motioned for the reconnaissance team to follow secretly, this alley was very narrow, the three hellhounds surrounded the end of the alley, and kept grabbing a wooden door with their sharp claws, several sharp claws grabbed the wooden door at the same time, and immediately made the wood chips on the door fly, and the wooden door was quickly overwhelmed and fell into the house, making a bang.
The three hellhounds rushed in like crazy.
Viscount Emmett glanced back at the knights, those hellhounds did not seem to have encountered the reconnaissance teams of other guard battalions, at this time Samira had already taken the lead in catching up, Viscount Emmett beckoned to the knights behind him, signaling everyone to follow.
The reconnaissance team followed behind these hellhounds, burrowed into the dark room at the end of the alley, stepped on the fallen wooden door, and saw a dirty human child climbing on the chandelier hanging from the roof, he looked at the hellhound in the room with a frightened face, his body trembling on the rickety ceiling iron seat, and the hellhound kept jumping high towards the chandelier, and each time it was only a little bit close to biting the child.
It's actually a survivor in the small town of Umezu!
He was carrying a large package behind him, which looked a little funny.
Already a hellhound had climbed the stairs, and from there it was easy to jump on the rickety chandelier as soon as it reached the top of the stairs.
Combat will quickly invalidate the invisibility effect on everyone's body.
Viscount Emmett hesitated for a moment, but decided to save the child.
He still had three secondary invisibility potions in his hand, so he waved at Surdak behind him.
Surdak was about to rush to save the child, but was stopped by Andrew, who rushed up from behind, and he signaled everyone not to act rashly, and then the native warrior walked straight to the room with a large axe, and he raised the axe in his hand and slashed at the hellhound, which seemed to be aware of it, but when it tried to dodge, the blade of the axe had already touched its neck.
A puff of purple blood splattered onto the stone wall, and the head of the Hellhound was cut off by Andrew, and it was turned into the corner by the inertia of the falling.
In the dark room, Andrew gradually revealed his tall figure, he did not stop there, but took advantage of the reflexive bite of the hellhound on the side, and pulled out the big axe in his hand horizontally, before the hellhound could make a mournful roar, the sternum was smashed by Andrew, and his body fell heavily on the wall of the room, making a dull sound.
At this time, the hellhound who climbed the stairs did not understand the situation, and when he saw the battle breaking out in the house, he pounced on Andrew without fear.
A blood color appeared behind Andrew. The phantom of the wolf's eyes, his 'momentum' burst out at once, and the big axe that was split out brought up a white horse, and the body of the hellhound in the air twisted, and the huge mouth that exposed its fangs bit Andrew's wrist, but Andrew took a lunge, turned sideways, and raised the handle of the axe with his backhand in the head, and the wailing of the hellhound came from the room, and the vicious dog fell heavily to the ground.
Andrew didn't give the hellhound any chance to escape, and then chopped off its head with an axe.
The 'Berserker Soul' in his body slowly awakened, which significantly improved the strength of the indigenous warrior Andrew.
Killing three hellhounds in a row, Andrew looked up at the boy hiding on the top of the chandelier, the boy had already shown a look of adoration, he jumped down from the chandelier like a monkey, and said a word to Andrew.
Andrew casually said a word in the local language, and the boy immediately looked happy.
Confirming that Andrew was a Nanai warrior, the boy behaved more cordially to Andrew, and asked Andrew with a happy face, "Are you here to rescue us when you come to Umezu Town?" ”
He glanced behind Andrew and found that Andrew had no companions behind him, and his eyes were full of worry.
"We didn't know there were any survivors here!" Andrew said: "We are a reconnaissance team that has come here to spy on intelligence. ”
Then he patted the boy on the shoulder and asked him, "How many people are still alive here?" ”
The boy's brows were almost twisted into hemp rope, and he said with a sad face: "There is not much, everyone has been eaten by those vicious dogs, there are not many survivors, everyone is hiding in the basement and dare not come out, I am relatively small, I can climb out of the vent, and take advantage of the night to find some food for everyone, can you save us out?" ”
Andrew turned his head to look at the empty room, and when he revealed his figure, he couldn't see his invisible companions, but he knew that everyone was in this room.
Andrew was a little embarrassed about the boy's problem, but thinking that the Nanai people were trapped here, the brave Nanai warrior decided to come down, this may be his duty as a warrior, but he didn't want to involve others, so he said to the boy:
"If you want to get out of here immediately, I can try to take you out, but I can't defeat so many hellhounds alone, so the chances of success won't be great, and there is a good chance that we will all be eaten by hellhounds, and I think you probably can't make decisions for the others in this matter, so you can go back and discuss with them."
Don't look at him as a big man, but his mind is more delicate, and he said to the boy, "Or I can help you get some food, and you can hide in the basement for a while, and then come out after the army of the city of Vozhmara has captured this place, anyway, you are safe for the time being." ”
When the boy heard that he was likely to die if he left the town of Umezu now, and that the second option given by Andrew was safer, he said excitedly: "You said to get us some food, let us hide here, and continue to wait for reinforcements to capture the town of Umezu?" ”
Andrew crouched in front of the boy and nodded, asking:
"That's right, now the reinforcements from Bena Province are gathered in the city of Warzhmara, and they are about to launch a major counterattack, and our reconnaissance team has infiltrated here to investigate whether there is a demon gate here, by the way, these days you come out at night to look for food, have you ever seen some kind of wall of flesh and blood in some places, that is, there are walls of hellhounds crawling out of some flesh and blood, or that kind of mysterious huge demon head appears in a certain magic array, and sometimes these hellhounds will crawl out of the mouths of those demons."
The boy thought seriously for a long time, and said with some uncertainty: "I don't understand what you said, but there shouldn't be any flesh and blood walls or demon gates here, and the hellhounds here are all from outside." They are here because there are some Cerberus females who are going to give birth to puppies. ”
Andrew continued, "You say these hellhounds are breeding in the town?" ”
The boy shook his head and replied honestly, "I don't know what the situation is, but they are gathered in Baron Cameron's house, and there are so many hellhounds in that area that I don't dare to go there when I go out at night to look for food." ”
"Can you give me general directions?" Andrew asked again.
"I can take you there, I didn't dare get too close the first few times, I can only see it from a distance." The boy said bravely.
Then he said to Andrew with some twist: "Before this, I hope you can help me get some food, everyone has been hiding in the basement and starving for days, I haven't found much food these days, those vicious dogs have too sensitive ears, they can always find me, and many places know that there is food in storage, but I don't dare to go over." ”
He was a little ashamed when he said this, but he said to Andrew very seriously: "I can't die now, only I am small and brave enough to get food out of the ventilation duct, and I must get food for everyone, so that my sister and everyone will not starve to death in the basement." ”
"How do you usually get rid of the hellhounds?" Andrew asked him.
The boy pointed to a dark vent in the ceiling and said with a slight smugness, "There are many places where they can't get in......