Chapter 477: The Black Forest (26)
The four of them soon returned to the group, and Melissa had an extra dimensional bag around her waist - of course, given to her by Leon, which contained several pieces of linen clothing that had been hoarded but had not been used, which was a temporary solution. And even such a simple method made the little girl look quite happy, and it is estimated that she had long forgotten the depression of being neglected.
Leon had already briefly recounted what had just happened, and then motioned for everyone to pay extra attention to the possible retaliation of the apes. But nothing happened for the next ten minutes, and it was quite quiet, even the occasional chirping of birds was silent.
"If something is abnormal, it is a demon", Leon remembered this saying, so he had a hunch that the apes were already here, and they should be lurking nearby, waiting for the best time.
And he is always paying attention to the feedback of the battlefield map, and at the same time, he is fully on guard, because the later the ape appears, the larger the scale of the revenge may be.
But what he didn't expect was that the attack of the apes did not wait, but waited for a group of wild boars.
The wild boar that appeared at this time was very different from the usual species encountered before, and Cheney had encountered it several times in previous hunts, and according to him, hunters generally called the wild boar "spiny skin".
Not only is the spiny boar two laps larger, but it is also quite fast, and it can also use a charge-like ability, which can be used to directly collide with it from a distance of tens of meters, causing a small shock wave after reaching the target. In addition to this, their hard outer skin with fine spines is resistant to general weapon damage. In particular, the two long fangs that come out of the mouth are extremely sharp, and if ordinary people are directly pushed, it is estimated that even the body will penetrate directly.
It's a pity, though. This time they weren't facing ordinary people.
When the first spiny boar appeared, its two stout hind legs were digging hard into the ground, and its mouth was wheezing heavily, and then it charged at the humans.
It was barely able to burst into the crowd, only before a young man appeared in front of it, stretched out two hands and grabbed two large, sharp fangs, and the shockwave rippled through the man's body. But it was as useless as a breeze. Then the young man let out a "drink" sound, and with a force of his arms, he lifted the prickly boar weighing eight or nine hundred catties.
Then he exerted his strength again and slammed it to the ground again.
More than ten seconds after that. The young man repeated this movement at least three or four times, and when he lifted it for the last time, the boar was visibly dazed, and then its body suddenly rose into the air. As it fell down again, there was a cold light. Cut off its huge head.
The spiny boar was killed by Leon in an instant, but when its huge body was split in two, the young man saw more wild boars of the same kind from the blood light, and they walked out of the dense forest not far away, spitting hot air from their mouths and noses, and looking at these humans with hideous eyes.
"Prepare to meet the enemy!"
With the young man's order, the more than twenty people behind immediately took action, and almost instantaneously lined up in accordance with Li Ang's orders.
The prickly boars charged one after another. At the same time, Leon also mobilized the dreadnought vanguard to meet the other party, and more than a dozen wild boars were knocked away along the way. And their bodies are covered in scars from hurricanes and shock waves.
Leon stopped more than twenty meters away, flicked his wrist, and threw out a thorny boar whose head had been pierced by a long sword, and then he retreated back a distance, blocking a dozen wild boars that had just stabilized their bodies and wanted to attack again.
In total, there were about thirty thorn-skinned boars in this battle, and as they staggered past Leon, the shock formation of these formidable creatures was cut into a straight and empty path by the dreadnought vanguard, dividing them into two waves, left and right, but their momentum was still quite fierce, and even the ground near them began to tremble slightly.
Boris stood on the left side, Cheney stepped out from behind him, raised his staff and cast the breath of frost, and suddenly a cloud of cold breath erupted, sweeping over the area of more than ten meters in front of him, and also involved the six or seven spiny boars that rushed over first.
The boars struggled forward in the cold breath, and layers of tiny white grains appeared on their bodies, and then the grains began to join together at a speed visible to the naked eye, clinging tightly to their hard skin.
The sheer size and incredible weight of the spiny boars means that they have a strong vitality and maintain their speed despite being damaged by Frost's Breath. However, when the crystal ice layer on their bodies gradually shattered in the violent movement, it can be seen that the skin has shown a large area of obvious blue-black, and a considerable part of it has been frozen and cracked, turning out the skin and flesh underneath.
Cheney immediately retreated after casting the secret spell, and Boris let out a loud shout and rushed forward, ignoring the few spiny boars that passed by, but towards the four or five thornskin boars that were not attacked by the secret method.
As soon as his figure left, a rain of arrows flew out of the crowd and accurately shot the nearest prickly boar. If this creature was not injured, some of the long arrows might not be able to penetrate the hard skin on their bodies, but after experiencing the invasion of Frost Breath, their thick skin not only showed a large number of injuries, but also the attached frostbite effect could offset the hard strength of the wild boar's skin, so except for a few that missed, most of the long arrows pierced deeply into the bodies of these strong creatures, aggravating their injuries.
Then Yelena and Hillarily walked up and stopped in front of the battered prickly boars, and with the effect of frostbite, the two of them swung their weapons and harvested the lives of these boars as if they were chopping melons and vegetables.
On the right side of the crowd, although there is no archmage like Cheney, there is a sword and shield knight Katarina, and Melissa, who has super attack power, and Erin cooperates from the side, and the speed of killing the thorny boar is not inferior.
Twenty or thirty minutes later, seven or eight spiny boars had abandoned the carcasses of their kind. The wolf fled back into the depths of the forest, and the battle ended with zero casualties.
"It's still fun like this!" Boris shouted for the first time.
Although people didn't respond much, they should have agreed with the big man's words by looking at their expressions. Because when they fought in the swamp before, that kind of environment really made them very uncomfortable, and they couldn't let go.
"Leon, shall we evacuate immediately?" said Caterina as she walked over to the young man.
Leon looked around with his head raised, his gaze seeming to be able to penetrate the dense canopy of trees and the mist that had been lingering around him.
"Wait a minute," he shook his head.
Then the young man called Boris over. He handed him a dimensional bag and said, "Go and collect all the fangs of these wild boars, remember." The process is a little more cruel. ”
The big man was of course familiar with things like collecting fangs, but he didn't understand the "process should be cruel", but after Leon whispered a few words to him, his eyes lit up. Nodding his head again and again.
Boris then walked over to each of the prickly boar carcass. With his bare hands, he pulled two pairs of fangs out of their mouths, and in the process he deliberately rummaged through the corpses, tearing at the tattered wounds, removing their limbs, and even throwing their internal organs everywhere.
Everyone watched this scene in silence, and Cheney finally couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and walked over and asked, "My lord...... This is?"
Leon's gaze glanced over from a distance again, and then he smiled. "Something is watching us, so let's just show them the bloodier scenes." ”
He was referring to the apes, of course. After the battle with the Thorny Boar. The creatures appeared on Leon's battlefield map, climbing on extremely high branches and poking their heads out of the way, apparently observing something.
The saying "kill the chicken to show the monkey" suddenly popped up in Leon's mind, although he knew that it might not have much effect on the apes of this world, but it would not be much to follow it once, in case if they could be made to retreat, wouldn't the rest of the road be idle?
And now that those apes have disappeared, it remains to be seen whether it will have an effect, but look at Cheney's expression that wants to speak but endures it...... It shouldn't have much effect.
They were soon on their way again, but after nearly twenty minutes, the group was attacked again.
This time it was a dozen grizzly bears, and the difference between this creature and the brown bear was almost like the difference between a spiny boar and a normal boar, the only difference being that they could not charge, and they did not have sharp fangs, but they were much larger, and the nails on their claws were even sharper than ordinary swords.
But they still couldn't break through the human defenses, and they fell one by one in the counterattack, and only escaped one or two in the end.
After the battle, Leon saw another trace of an ape in his perception, and he frowned slightly, and a premonition suddenly rose in his heart.
"Maybe the spiny-barked boar and the grizzly bear were attracted to the ape?"
This premonition was not confirmed for the time being, so the young man did not say it, but set off again with the people.
Ten minutes later, nearly forty prickly boars reappeared in their field of vision.
"Your sister...... Could it be that the apes have such a high level of intelligence that they can drive other creatures to attack us?" said Leon secretly, feeling more and more calculated.
But the current situation did not allow him to continue thinking about it, and the battle had already begun.
Leon's dreadnought vanguard once an hour had just cooled down at this time, so the tactics adopted were extremely similar to those just now, and according to this trend, even if there were a dozen more thornskin boars this time, it would not help.
However, something unexpected happened, after the prickly boar attacked, the rear of the team was suddenly attacked by a sudden attack.
It was a solid stone the size of a normal person's head, shot out of the tall canopy and smashed into the back of the crowd with the sound of the wind.
Leon was taken aback.
He activated the Dreadnought Vanguard at the beginning and rushed out for nearly thirty meters, and the stones were thrown from the canopy in the distance, adding up to a distance completely beyond the range of the battlefield map, so this sudden situation really caught him a little off guard. The team's melee powerhouses are concentrated at the front, with mountain dwellers and elves at the back, as well as spellcasters like Erin and Luna, who are a bit difficult to deal with in the face of the heavy boulders thrown from a great height.
"!"
Leon was so angry that he knew it must be the apes, so he immediately summoned Sapa and put him in charge of destroying the nearby prickly boar, while he himself found the farthest boar and charged back. (To be continued......)