The Pajisto Plateau after the rain is as clear as a wash.

Lu Qi, the headhunter leader of the Sixth Search Team, wiped the cold rain on his face, stared at the rising stream in front of him with a gloomy face, and asked a headhunter next to him, "Is there any new news from there?" ”

He looked up at the scattered clouds in the sky, and then at his men behind him who were wringing out their wet clothes.

A headhunter hurriedly walked up to Lu Qi and replied cautiously:

"Captain, the smoke column over there of the third squad hasn't appeared yet."

Luch is notoriously bad-tempered, as is well known throughout the search team.

Lu Qi squinted his eyes and stood up, took the reins of the argali, and said to the headhunters around him:

"No wait, let's go over and see what's going on."

"Yes."

The headhunters did not dare to have any doubts, and they all stood up and led the argali, following behind Lu Qi.

They had to walk up the stream for a while until they reached a shallow, slow-flowing section of the river before they could lead the argali.

Argali, which are far inferior to war horses, have the advantage of easily climbing cliffs and are particularly good at walking mountain roads.

Argali, which live deep in the mountains of the Pagisto Plateau, were originally left by the dwarves to domesticate argali, and now there are very few elves left who possess this skill......

Rounding the fast-flowing stream, the headhunters rode argali, on the muddy road.

After crossing two mountain ridges, the headhunters of the sixth team came to the foot of a mountain ridge, which had faulted cliffs on both sides, and it was quite troublesome to climb over the cliffs, so they could only look for mountain passes to bypass.

Luki came to the nearest mountain pass to the elven village and looked at the rubble on the hillside without saying a word.

……

The headhunter who was walking in the front suddenly grabbed the reins and stopped, he was the best ranger in the team.

Lu Qi asked in a loud voice to the headhunter who stopped in front of him:

"What's going on?"

The headhunter hurriedly pulled the reins, turned back to Lu Qi, and replied, "Captain, there is a smell of blood ahead!" ”

Luch hesitated, jumped off the argali, and crouched on the muddy grass to check the hoof prints washed by the rain, which were very blurry under the heavy rain, but Luch could tell that a search party had passed by not long ago.

He looked again at the pile of rocks on the hillside, and said to the headhunter beside him:

"There is a search team passing by here, it should have passed through the rain, it is estimated that it is in front, everyone cheers up."

After saying that, he turned over his horse and continued walking.

……

Less than two kilometers away from the headhunters of the Sixth Search Group, Kaka was calming the griffin.

In front of it lay a freshly killed argali, and Kaka even skinned the argali, removed the fine flesh from the thighs of the argali, and placed it in front of the griffin.

This is his mount and his combat partner.

This male adult griffin is a big guy, and it is larger than the golden-armored male lion in the Elven Continent.

In the last few days, Kaka has been in charge of the patrols and sentry duties of the Adventure Troupe. The griffin opened its mouth, licking the leg of lamb with its scarlet tongue, and occasionally let out a low growl.

Kaka was carefully wiping the griffin's wings with a dry towel.

Roy leaned in, and the griffon stopped eating and barked at Roy as if to warn him.

Kaka hurriedly leaned in, put his arms around the griffin's furry head, whispered a few words of reassurance, and let it continue eating.

Roy tried to move forward again, and the griffon ignored him......

"Does everyone in your village have a griffin?" Roy asked Kaka curiously.

Kaka shook his head and said, "Not really...... To be more rigorous, it should be that in our village, every animal trainer has a griffon, because they are easy to feed and can forage for food on their own. ”

Kaka beckoned to Roy, asking him to come closer.

Roy crouched down next to the griffin and reached out to touch its soft wings, which were not feathered wings, but more like bat-like fleshy wings. This is completely different from the Royal Gripen of the Grimm Empire, which is covered in feathers, with a bald eagle-like head, a sharp beak, and wings that are also bird feathers.

The griffon squinted her eyes and looked at Roy out of the corner of her eye as she licked the delicious leg of lamb.

……

Sabrina was behind a rock, drying Moira's wet hair.

Moira sat down on a stone and whispered in frustration, "Sister, am I useless?" ”

Sabrina leaned over and hugged Moira before saying to her, "Why, this is your first adventure, there is always a need for adaptation to this kind of thing, and you are already doing well." ”

Moira pursed her lips and said with some grievances, "I've taken six field practice classes in the Elf Academy, and each time I got excellent grades. ”

Sabrina patted Moira on the back with her hand and comforted her, "How can the outdoor practice class at the academy be compared to an adventure trip!" This is the real adventure. ”

Moira turned around, stared into Sabrina's eyes, and asked with some curiosity:

"Sister, you just killed five headhunters, do you have nightmares at night?"

Sabrina patted Moira's white and delicate face, and whispered, "No, after knowing the evil deeds they have committed, even the last bit of concern is gone......"

……

As a shapeshifting druid, Woods usually needs to recover his mana through meditation.

He sat in a low-lying part of a black rock, just in time to observe the outside through the cracks in the edge of the rock.

He woke up from his meditation and happened to see the headhunter team gathered below the hillside.

Woods hurriedly jumped down from the black rock, ran to Roy as fast as he could, and whispered to Roy:

"Roy, they're coming!"

Roy hurriedly stood up and said to the members of the adventuring group around him, "Everyone, prepare to fight." ”

Sabrie quickly pulled Moira up, tied her hair back up, hugged her, grabbed the long sword that was set aside, and walked briskly towards Woods.

Seeing a cut in Roy's thick-skinned shoulder armor, Sabrina took the opportunity to ask:

"Roy, how's your shoulder?"

"It's almost completely healed, it's no big deal!" Roy replied.

Miss Tiffany walked at the back with her staff, and at this time she couldn't help but say to Roy, "It's clear, my water magic may be greatly weakened, so you should be careful for a while." ”

"Got it!" Roy responded.

Woods had already found an ambush spot and hid on top of a rock.

Roy began to give 'Blessing of Strength' and 'Blessing of Wisdom' to all members of the party, and even Reisander was not left behind.

Feeling the 'power blessing' of the divine technique for the first time, Reshander stared at Roy with wide eyes and asked, "How can this be?" ”

Roy smiled, pointed to his chest, and whispered to Reshander:

"Because I'm a priest......"

……

Lu Qi led the headhunters into the rubble, and it seemed to be very messy.

He brace himself and carefully watch the movements around him.

The headhunters behind him also held their weapons in their hands, each responsible for a direction.

When I was down the hillside, the smell of blood was still very faint, and when I came to the front of the pile of rocks, the faint smell of blood became clear.

The lack of a half-blood corpse near the pile of rubbles made Captain Luch's heart grow heavier and heavier, and after thinking about it, he decided to lead the argali's legs out of the area.

Several headhunters behind him followed suit......

If it weren't for the signal from the Third Search Team, Luch wouldn't have wanted to go this way at all.

In fact, he also knew that the elves of the nearby villages formed a fighting team against the headhunters, and if he had his character, he would have led the search party to the mountain immediately, instead of doing a carpet search after attacking an elven village......

……

Woods hides behind a boulder, and the last time he raided a headhunter in the rain, he turned into a giant bear and knocked one of the headhunters unconscious.

This time, the rain has sunny, and the headhunters' reflexes have improved significantly......

This time Woods also jumped from the top of the boulder, but the headhunter captain with the reins in one hand raised his head unhurriedly and slashed a scimitar at Woods.

Woods transforms into a giant bear......

A sharp flash of knife flashed, and a wound was cut on the bear's chest.

The giant bear that encountered the blood suddenly became very violent, and it didn't care about the wounds on its body, and opened its bloody mouth to bite Luke's neck.

Behind Luke, a demon with a scythe appeared for the first time.

Then the demon's phantom merged into Luke's body, and the void scythe inexplicably appeared in Luke's hand......

Luke took a half-step back, squirting with a scythe in hand.

This time, Woods clearly felt the killing intent, and he quickly rolled his body and jumped to the side, narrowly avoiding Luke's scythe.

The ambush of the adventuring group was easily defused, and Sabrina saw the headhunter Luke chasing after Woods with his scythe, and hurriedly chased after him with the Seruki sword, which firmly held Luke's scimitar.

Two ice bombs passed through the rocky area and exploded above the heads of these headhunters, turning into a cloud of ice powder and flying around.

This faint layer of ice mist almost engulfed the entire battlefield.

At the same time, Kaka in the sky once again rushed out of the clouds and rushed down towards the area covered by Miss Tiffany's ice fog.

The griffon turns on Iron Will to protect Kaka.

The griffon, which had been smashed down like a cannonball, smashed a stone pit in the ice mist.

This also killed two headhunters in the ice fog and injured one, and the other four headhunters narrowly escaped Kaka's surprise attack.

Roy followed Sabrina, and the trio worked together to kill the headhunter Captain Luki.

Claire, Moira, Reisander, and Miss Tiffany followed, and everyone planned to work together to kill their headhunters before they could rush up.

This battle was much more dangerous than the one that had just been fought in the rain.

The nine men worked together to kill the headhunter, and under Luch's near-death counterattack, he used the scythe in his hand to cut a hole in Woods' chest, and rolled out from under the two claws of the giant bear.

A meter-long wound appeared on the chest of the giant bear that Woods had transformed, and blood gushed out of the wound.

Roy was so frightened by this scene that he only had time to throw the hammer of judgment before he ran to check on Woods' injuries.

The scythe in the hand of the headhunter leader Lu Qi almost sliced his chest open, but fortunately, the skin of the Earth Storm Bear that Woods incarnated was thick and thick, and the scythe did not fatally injure Woods...... Roy breathed a sigh of relief, poured him a vial of life potion, turned and went into battle again.

The experienced Raysander hid behind a rock and took the opportunity to shoot an arrow at the headhunter, which hit the headhunter's left eye socket.

Miss Tiffany's ice gun exploded on the head hunter Captain Lucie, nearly freezing him into a lump of ice.

But even so, Lu Qi seemed to be possessed by a demon, and he didn't care about the injuries on his body at all, and fled in the direction of the headhunter team with a scythe.

His body was as fast as a ghost, only a few flashes and jumps, and with a feathered arrow on his eye socket, he returned to the middle of the headhunter team.

But before he could fully stand still, a shadow like green smoke emerged from the crack in the stone beside him, and after a pause behind him, a short sword was inserted into the vertebrae at the back of his waist.

The headhunters saw an elf girl suddenly appear behind the captain and stab the captain.

The headhunters were in a hurry to perform, and stabbed the scimitars in their hands at Moira, and Moira's body flashed in the gap between the blades, narrowly avoiding the headhunters' siege......

Roy and Sabrina rushed towards Moira at the same time, blocking the headhunters who were chasing after him......

……

The elves located in the elven village naturally did not know that just a few kilometers away, an adventuring group helped them block two headhunters.

The battle on the rubbish side was over, and after a short rest, Roy got up and bandaged the wounds of the wounded members.

All the members of the party sat down to rest against the boulders, exhausted, and the bodies of the headhunters lay in the muddy water between the rocks.

Roy's adventure group and the plateau headhunters have experienced three battles, and in the end, everyone has cooperated quite tacitly this time, and they rushed up to take the lead in killing the headhunter captain, even if everyone was fully prepared, they were also injured in the battle.

Woods was the most seriously injured, he drank the life potion, and under the treatment of the 'Holy Light Technique', his injuries recovered very quickly.

As the sky gradually darkened, Lessander and his party withdrew from the rubble, and instead of going to the elven village immediately, they camped beside a cliff and stone wall, and after the night, everyone was almost repaired, and they arrived at the elven village.

At this moment, the elven village has long been empty, leaving four abandoned stone houses, and a pile of haystacks has completely turned to ashes.

In the small courtyard in front of one of the stone houses, there was a row of brand-new graves, which had neither headstones nor trees, but some broken scimitars, which were the weapons used by the headhunters.

Reisander didn't believe that the elven headhunters were lying in the grave, and dug a grave with a broken scimitar, and saw that the corpses of the headhunters were buried in the dirt, so he breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the mound next to him.

(End of chapter)