Chapter 777: The Sword Dancer of Green Leaf Village
Silver Eagle City, the Wild Bee Valley on the south side of Green Leaf Village.
This low valley is spring-like and is named for the abundance of wild bees. Despite their notoriously fierce and aggressive nature, the nectar they painstakingly brew always attracts thieves. Especially in autumn like this, those black bears with rough skin and thick back hair would rather be stung by a swarm of bees than open the hives and feast on the delicious honey rich in nutrients to store a body of fat for the upcoming hibernation period.
Feeding bears are even more dangerous than wild bee colonies, and at least 200 black bears visit the Wild Bee Valley every autumn, which may be mixed with even more terrifying giant bears. It was a demented bear monster, they were so powerful and wild that they were the same as fierce beasts.
The elders of Green Leaf Village forbade the villagers to enter the Wild Bee Valley in the fall. Iluna Green Leaf was now hidden in the canopy of a large tree in the Wild Bee Valley, and she wore light leather armor with fine workmanship, and her slim design was suitable for battle, revealing the curves of her tall and toned body. Her limbs are long and powerful, but they are definitely slender and graceful, but she has the kind of muscular lines that are obviously muscular, and there is a wild beauty with her breasts and buttocks. Her pale green hair and eyes, delicate facial features, long ears, and toned and plump figure are enough to indicate that she is a female wild elf, and her unnatural grayish-white skin marks her career as a sword dancer.
Profession, the collective name of all the warriors of the Elven Empire. Every adult wild elf is a good hunter, but not every elf hunter can have a battle title.
Sword dancers belong to the elven clan and are proficient in a variety of melee weapons, especially dual-wielding weapons, and their fighting skills have been perfected through long-term systematic training. Because they can only be equipped with light armor, Sword Dancers must undergo secret potions to refine their bodies, greatly increasing their strength, agility, and sensitivity to the touch of their skin, allowing them to easily dodge enemy attacks and inflict terrible damage on their opponents in intense melee combat.
Elven light infantry to become Sword Dancer requires the use of Moondew, which is a big burden for villages with only one moonlight well. The moondew of Green Leaf Village is only enough to train six sword dancers per year, and most of them will travel to Silver Eagle City to try to join the city guard and serve as the captain of the light infantry. Not only will this pay handsomely, but you will also get the chance to continue to advance.
Because of the scarcity of places and fierce competition, the sword dancers trained in Green Leaf Village are the most talented wild elves. This year's 24-year-old wild elf Eluna Green Leaf has just reached adulthood, and she is already one of the few sword dancers in Green Leaf Village.
She turned her long ears to carefully distinguish the sounds in the valley, except for the sound of the wind, the sound of the water, and the hum of the wings of wild bees, the valley of wild bees was simply silent and terrible. In the past, not a single black bear that came to forage for food could be seen, but the smell of blood reached the nose of the sword dancer.
Iluna patiently stayed in the tree for a while, and seeing that there was nothing unusual around, she cautiously jumped off the tree, held two curved swords, and sneaked out of the valley silently.
In the grove not far from the exit of the valley, nine green-haired, green-eyed, longbowed and sword-wielding elf hunters and twelve dwarven warriors in scaly chain mail saw Iluna returning, and they all rose from the ground and greeted her.
"Eluna, are One-Eyed Greyskin and its gnoloid minions in the valley?" a red-bearded dwarf asked in a squeamish voice, pushing his companion away.
He was stout and stocky, only 1.5 meters tall, with a thick beard hanging from his chin to his chest, he looked not young, but he did not have the beard braids of an adult dwarven warrior, and his eyes were clear and agile, he was actually a young dwarf. But his muscular arm was covered by a bladed vertical shield, and in the other hand he held a long-handled mace about his height. He turned out to be a warrior as wellโa mountain guardian of the dwarven clan.
Iluna shook her head and said, "One-eyed Greyskin has been to the Wild Bee Valley, but I didn't find them, and may have escaped from the other side of the valley. โ
"How do you know that the One-Eyed Greyskin has come through the Wild Bee Valley and hasn't escaped from somewhere else?" the red-bearded dwarf stuck his heavy mace and shield into the ground, freeing his hands to light his pipe.
The blue-purple sword light flashed away, and the dwarf's newly lit velvet broke in half, and Iluna danced the arc sword in her left hand with a gorgeous sword flower, and raised her slender eyebrows and scolded: "Inget, do you want to kill us? Don't you know how sensitive the gnoll's nose is? If the one-eyed gray skin finds out that we are following it, most of the people here will not survive, and you dare to order tobacco? Believe it or not, I will cut off your beard!"
"Captain, you can't do that, I don't smoke. In front of the tobacco and his beloved beard, the young Dwarven Ridge Defender decisively chose to protect his beard, muttering unwillingly: "No drinking, no tobacco...... I held it for more than ten days, my beard did not smell of alcohol or tobacco, I did not look like a dwarf at all, I felt that I was about to become a halfling, and the dwarven girls in the village would definitely not like me, just as they did not like halflings. โ
Tobacco and alcohol are the hobbies of dwarves, thinking that her dwarven companion has not touched wine and tobacco for more than ten days, Yiluna's expression softened, but she complained: "I just said that I don't want you to follow a few low wine barrels, you run slowly, your steps are heavy, you better go back to Luye Village." โ
Ingett huffed and said, "That's not going to work! One-eyed Grayskin killed a few of our dwarves this time, and Aunt Lisa, who can make black fruit bubble wine, has all had her neck bitten off...... Even if I'm not a one-eyed opponent, I won't let him go. I will break its leg with my iron rod, and you will skin it again, and avenge the murder of those who have been slain. โ
The rest of the dwarven guards and wild elf hunters were clamoring for revenge.
A few days ago, the gnoll leader of the goblin lord Green Pimlock, the one-eyed gray belt, raided the village of Green Leaf and killed more than a dozen wild elves and dwarves working outside the village. Several of the Elf Hunters and Dwarven Guards here are the relatives and nephews of the victims.
The elders of Green Leaf Village forbade the village guards to go out to seek revenge without permission, but they still sneaked out and begged the sword dancer Eluna and the mountain guard Ingett to take them to track down the one-eyed gray skin.
The one-eyed grayskin is a very powerful gnoll, it has ravaged the villages and towns in the south of Silver Eagle City for more than ten years, and no one can do anything about it. Unsure of defeating the infamous leader of the gnolls, Iluna cautiously commanded, "We can only follow the gnolls from a distance, try to find their temporary hideouts, and then notify the Silver Eagle Guards to annihilate them...... Don't even think about attacking. โ
An elven hunter with a young face said in a tone of adoration, "With Captain Eluna and Captain Ingett's Guard, we are not afraid of anything!"
The dwarf Ingett smiled, picked up his axe-bladed shield and mace, and walked out into the valley.
Actually, Iluna already regretted it a little, but at this point, she could only stubbornly cross the so-called dwarven guard captain and take the lead into the Wild Bee Valley.
The young guards of Green Leaf Village marched along one side of the valley, under the cover of trees and bushes, and came to the middle of the valley to see the remains of a large bear. Swarms of ants and carnivorous wasps were biting around the carcass, and Ingett stepped forward to inspect the bear's carcass and said, "Hell, this is a big demented bear monster, half gnawed by the jackals, no wonder there is not a single wild bear in the whole valley." โ
"Look like this, it died one day...... The one-eyed grayskin and its minions of the gnolls made their way through the Valley of the Wild Bees, and they shouldn't have gone far. โ
Iluna was a little puzzled, but she couldn't tell what was wrong, and just as she was pondering, a terrible howl came from the valley, long and thick and full of cruel and resolute will, covering up the wind and buzzing in the valley, leaving only the rumbling echo.
"It's one-eyed grayskin!"
"Oops, we're in ambush!"
The young elves and dwarves of the Greenleaf Village Guard turned pale and were in disarray, and they were so frightened by the one-eyed and gray-skinned screams of war that they were about to collapse.
The sword dancer Iluna was the first to recover from the threat of the gnoll leader, and shouted sharply: "Don't panic, lean against the rock wall and form a defensive formation!"
The captain gave the order, and the elven hunters and dwarven guards of the six gods and no masters immediately took action, choosing an upright and steep cliff, with the elven hunters leaning on it, and the dwarven guards holding shields around the outside, forming a standard defensive formation.
The howls of the gnolls came from all directions, and it wasn't long before they saw hundreds of gnolls rushing towards their positions from both ends of the valley.
Seeing this, Ingert, the Guardian of the Ridge, couldn't help but shout: "Iluna, you manage to get out of the cliff, we will drag them down!"
It's useless!
Iluna saw the tall figure of the gnoll, 2.3 meters tall, with gray fur covered with hideous scars, a huge and ugly head like a coyote, a green glow in its right eye, and a black hole in its left eye.
One-eyed grayskin, the most cruel and cunning gnoll leader under the command of the goblin lord Mlock, its left eye was blinded by the elves of Greenleaf Village, so it has a deep hatred for Greenleaf Village, and since taking refuge in Greenpim Lock, he often leads his gnolls to attack Greenleaf Village.
"Don't talk nonsense, watch your breath and get ready to fight!"
Knowing that there was no chance of being spared today, Iluna drew two curved swords, one hidden behind her and the other horizontally in front of her, and launched an attack stance.
- Sword Dancer, Tibetan Sword Style.
"Breathe, breathe, breathe!"
Ingt no longer persuaded him, and while shouting loudly, he raised his axe and shield in his left hand, raised his mace with a long handle in his right hand, and his short and stocky body half-squatted like an indestructible rock, showing a defensive posture.
- Ridge Guard, Iron Foot.
"Luna Protection!"
"Hills, hills!"
The rest of the Wild Elf Hunters and Dwarven Guards raised their bows and shields, ready to fight the gnolls attackers to the death.
The young guards of Green Leaf Village were well-trained and well-equipped, while the gnolls raiders, who were numerous and experienced in combat, did not hesitate to frantically pounce on the defensive rings laid by the elves and dwarves.
The battle broke out in an instant.
A ferocious gnoll with black fur turned on his bloodlust and rushed in front of the sword dancer first, so fast that the elven hunter didn't have time to release his arrows. Eluna's eyes were as sharp as a moonblade leopard, and with a light turn, she dodged the ferocious gnoll's lunge, and the curved sword behind her cut a wound in its chest and abdomen. The black-haired gnoll tensed its muscles, its body was extremely tough, and it was not hit hard, but it was in front of its eyes, and its target became the Dwarven Ridge Guard, and it simply picked up the flail and smashed it down.
Ingt's axe shield flickered away from the whistling flail, and his mace swept across the vicious gnoll's leg with a click, breaking his opponent's leg bones.
Before the gnolls could utter a wail, the sword dancer Eluna slashed its backhand and slashed its head from behind.
It is in response to the saying: rush fast, die fast.
However, the bravery of the black-haired gnolls bought time for the other gnolls, and more than forty gnolls pressed forward first. The elven archers fired quickly, and the arrows were not missed, but the gnolls were too close for them to shoot, and the gnolls relied on their physical strength and tense muscles to resist the piercing damage of the arrows, and fiercely attacked the elven sword dancers at the front.
Eluna's footwork was light and agile, and her body was erratic, dodging and moving along the turbulent air current. In the eyes of the jackal, this wild elf appeared from time to time, and he was inexplicably hit by the sword. As a result, they guard the bodies of the dwarves who vent their anger from their wounds, and the dwarves simply block with shields and smash their legs with iron rods. Under the leadership of the Ridge Guards, they faced the frantic attack of the gnolls, and the line was as steady as a rock, and the wild elf hunters behind them took the time to shoot sharp arrows into the body of the broken leg gnolls.
Sword dancers are the best at scramble, mountain defenders are the best at defense, and dwarven guards and elven hunters are skilled at working together to keep the gnolls at bay.
It wasn't until the one-eyed gray skin joined the battlefield that the defense line of the Green Leaf Village guards suddenly became flawed.
The leader of the jackals, who was at the peak of his silver strength, picked up a well-armored dwarven guard with a single paw and threw him to the minions behind him. The gnolls swarmed up and nibbled the dwarven guards alive with their mouths that were like iron buckets.
A sharp curved sword struck from behind, and the one-eyed grayskin didn't care about the sword dancer's weak attack, and went to grab another dwarf guard.
The blade shield slashed horizontally, fierce and fast, and the one-eyed grayskin finally took a step back, it didn't want to be hit by the shield of the Dwarven Ridge Defender, and the sword dancer Iluna took the opportunity to entangle the gnoll leader, trying to create an opportunity for the dwarf Ingett to attack.
The two major professionals of Green Leaf Village besieged the one-eyed gray skin, and the other gnolls rushed to the defensive line laid by the green leaf guards, and two more dwarf guards and a wild elf hunter were dragged out and killed on the spot.
The front collapsed, and the doom of the elves and dwarves was at hand.
A gust of wind blew across the battlefield, as smooth and warm as the natural flow of air in a valley, but the frantic and bloodthirsty gnolls seemed to have fallen into an ice storm, and one by one their bodies stiffened and fell to the battlefield without warning.
The Greenleaf Guards were at a loss and didn't understand what was happening, but the surviving gnolls felt the touch of death, and the fear of death awakened their selfish nature, and they left their leaders behind and fled in all directions with a strange scream.
However, the gentle wind whimpered and gathered a stream of blue and black air, like a flying black snake hitting the back of each jackal, making a poof, poof, poof, poof, like being hit by a heavy punch, those extraordinarily strong gnolls screamed and staggered forward, their bodies twisted and deformed as if they had been ravaged by an ogre, and they spat blood and died on the way to escape.
When the first gust of wind blew, the one-eyed gray skin had already felt the cold frozen into the bone marrow, and after a shiver, he decisively entered a bloodthirsty state. It was also hit by Eluna's sword in the back and thigh, but it didn't care about killing the wild elves and dwarves, and it jumped back more than ten meters away, turned around and ran.
It ran on its knees at an astonishing speed, but it was a pity that it couldn't run faster than the wind. Three streams of blue-black air stabbed like spears, striking the gnoll leader's back.
Powerful as the fists of a raging ogre, the gnoll leader was weak in his knees, but his instincts told him that if he knelt down or screamed, he would die. Stimulated by life or death, the one-eyed gray-skinned strong heart pulsated violently, and the whole body was surrounded by a faint red light, which actually turned on a deep bloodlust and stepped into the gold realm in one fell swoop.
But it had no intention of fighting, nor did it have the slightest joy, and its mind only had the thought of fleeing the valley. A slender and graceful figure suddenly blocked its way.
"Give me death!"
The gnoll leader roared like thunder and unleashed the most powerful attack of his life at the foes who stood in his way, its red-dripping claws tearing through the air, bringing out razor-sharp blades of wind and grabbing at the figures in front of them.
"Humble bugs...... Die quietly. โ
The man stretched out a pair of slender and graceful hands, and caught the gnoll's mouth like lightning, tearing its head in half from the mouth.
The gnoll and the opponent fought so fast that Iluna didn't see the process clearly, only to see a female elf kill the powerful one-eyed grayskin with her bare hands, and she shouted to the figure in surprise and uncertainty, "Sister Iluth Yuege, it's you....... Is it?!"
The sword dancer was stunned, only to see the slender and graceful figure casually discarding the corpse of the leader of the gnolls, and his figure appeared. She wears a bizarre horned helmet, and the grid armor covers most of her face, and the sharp chin and delicate red lips on the outside of the armor are dazzlingly beautiful. She wore a simple half-body leather armor, a battle skirt, and long combat boots, which only covered her breasts and hips, and her skin exposed to the air was white and shiny, like a layer of bright silver moonlight.
This is by no means an elf!
Faced with a beautiful and unknown powerhouse, Iluna and Ingette are choked by the heart by a hand called fear, and they watch her walk in step by step, but they can't move.
The elf-like female wearing a horned helmet walked up to the wild elf, shook off her hands, and the blood stuck to them hit the ground, and her slender palms returned to white and flawless. She lifted Eluna's chin and said in a language that elves and dwarves could not understand:
"The elves are so ugly, can they be considered my king's treasure?"
She tilted her head suddenly, as if listening to something, and left the elves and dwarves who did not dare to move, turned and climbed up the cliff beside her, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.