Sou!!

The feather arrow whistled through the head of a demon wolf, and the ranger walked to the corpse of the demon wolf with a longbow on his back, grabbed its neck flesh, stabbed it a few times in the neck, and waited by the side for another five minutes before coming to the corpse to take a closer look.

Asa. Carl is an experienced ranger who is only equal to a mid-level professional in his own right, but his archery skills are well-known in the local mercenary guild, and his arrows can accurately fix the head of a poisonous snake two hundred meters away, and his slightly legendary mercenary career has even been adapted into music by the bard.

Now that he is in the middle of the year, he no longer has the energy of his youth, and his physical strength has begun to decline, he was ready to retire this year, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen, the mercenary guild is very generous, plus he is also a local, so he will naturally not let go of this mission, so he also specially recruited a few good hands to act together.

A makeshift squad consisting of mid-level warriors Rakki and Kira, junior mage Kelly, and his own four, except for the rarer magician Kelly, who is a junior professional, everyone else is an intermediate professional.

Due to the resources and training, there are few high-level professionals among the mercenaries, and the vast majority of them are junior professionals.

Asa and his gang were more cautious than the other mercenaries, they did not choose to go deep into the mountains, but chose to wander around the periphery, and when the internal mutation was not clear, it was a little dangerous to enter rashly.

"Asa, that's ...... A distress signal. ”

Rakki stared and pointed to the air, where a cloud of colorful smoke flew into the air.

"It's really ......"

Asa just hesitated for a moment before deciding to go to support, he knew that there were very few mid-level professionals in the mercenary group that entered the mountain range, they may have encountered a powerful demonic beast, since there was still time to send a distress signal, then it means that the strength of the demonic beast will not be too strong, and the four of them should be able to take it.

They ran wildly through layers of dense vegetation, but it took some time for even intermediate professionals to travel the distance.

The forest was eerily quiet, there was no sound of fighting, no animals chewing flesh, but the smell of blood was quite strong.

Asa stretched out his hand to signal the others to slow down, he hesitated, years of experience told him that there must be something strange here, it only took about three minutes for the four of them to arrive, theoretically the mercenary who could send out a distress call should not die so quickly......

"It smells of blood."

Kira picked up the steel shield on her back and held it in front of her, "Asa, you climb up the tree and take a look, I feel a little uneasy. ”

Middle-aged aunt Kelly also took out a magic scroll from her body, and the scroll was engraved with an intermediate ice magic, which was a life-saving means that she spent a lot of money to get.

"Okay, stay still."

Asa whispered, and he jumped up to the towering trees around him, climbed to the top in three or two clicks, and walked carefully along the thick poles, and soon he came to the place of the incident, but because the leaves were too thick, he had to find a way to move down, until the branches and leaves of the trees were thinner thirty meters from the ground.

There were more than a dozen corpses on the ground, some of them were wearing armor and some were wearing leather armor, some were men and women, apparently mercenaries asking for help, although there was no blood on the corpses, but a lot of dripping on the ground.

A little further on, a strange twig rested on top of one of the mercenaries, who was holding the same cigarette barrel that was emitting the signal, and had a few dark brown spots on his face.

This...... Sure enough, there was a fraud.

Asa's heart sank, and he stepped back gently, he didn't see the hunter, but this didn't mean that the other party was not here, seeing the death of the mercenary, he was a little afraid, because these people were obviously not people who had just died, but had been dead for at least two hours.

This unknown hunter is using a distress signal to lure others over!

Dangerous!

Asa suddenly had an alarm bell in his heart, and he suddenly tumbled down from the tree, jumped more than ten meters away, and jumped directly onto another big tree.

He quickly looked back, but found that there was nothing abnormal.

"What's going on...... Is it my delusion? ”

Asa deliberately amplified his voice, and his face showed a relieved expression, and sure enough, after saying this, the killing intent like a pinprick decreased a little, but only a little.

Tsk, it seems that you have to fight......

Asa pretended to jump from the tree unconsciously, but the moment he fell, he changed direction and ran directly towards the place where the other three were.

"Kelly prepares for magic!!"

Asa's idea was simple, it was best to make the other side retreat, so that they could avoid unnecessary casualties, after all, their mission was to probe rather than solve the root cause of the incident, and there was no need to fight here.

"There are enemies!!"

Hearing Asa's shout, Kira immediately rushed forward with her shield on her shoulder, and Rakki followed with a long sword, and the two had been partners for more than ten years.

"What happened? Asa! What about the enemy?! ”

Kira was the first to run over, and saw only a somewhat embarrassed Asa, but no enemy.

"Be careful! It's nearby! ”

Asa rolled and hid behind the tree, drew his longbow and mounted his arrow, and aimed it at the deserted woods.

In the silence of the forest, only the leaves rustled, and the three of them were on guard for a while, but no enemy appeared, and then Kelly ran slowly, panting and looking at the three people who were moving.

"Where is the enemy?"

Kelly has a wand in her left hand and a scroll in her right hand, ready to zoom in at any moment.

"I don't know, but it's definitely around."

Asa said in a deep voice, and suddenly he was stunned for a moment, "What's coming......"

The earth pulsated slightly, the leaves trembled abnormally, and the uneasiness in Asa's heart became more and more huge, his ancestors had a trace of elven blood, which continued to his generation, although it was not much, but it still benefited him a lot, whether it was the perception of animals and plants, or the premonition of danger, it was much stronger than ordinary people.

The danger is in ......

He slowly looked up and noticed that the branches around him had changed a lot of time at some point.

"The top! Defend quickly! ”

Asa only had time to shout before he threw himself backwards, and at the same time the branches above the heads of the people pierced like sharp swords, and thanks to Asa's reminder, Kira raised the shield and covered Laki.

"Ah!!h

Kelly wasn't so lucky, she didn't even have time to activate the scroll before she was stabbed into a hornet's nest.