Chapter 12: The Gnoll Tribe
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"This guy is really lucky......"
The hunter put on another arrow and couldn't help but mutter. (If you like this book, please bookmark biquge.info)
In this kind of encirclement situation, if it were a normal situation, the gnolls would have turned the human bulb in front of them into a target for the first time...... Although the bows and arrows of these half-beasts are crude, their strength is not comparable to that of thin monsters like kobolds, not to mention the difference in size allows them to use heavy ranged weapons such as short spears and throwing axes.
However, these nocturnal animals are sensitive to light, and although they can move freely during the day, bright light can still make them a little overwhelmed for a while...... Just like now.
But it won't be long.
The crude arrows and throwing spears had already pulled out a hissing sound of breaking the wind in the next moment!
However, the next situation made Edward take a slight breath of cold air - the strength of the guy who only showed half of his little white face was obviously beyond his expectations.
With a loud sound, dozens of arrows were the first to point at their target. It's just that the crude steel doesn't produce any results—not even the delicate carvings on the armor. Around the paladin, whenever there is an arrow in contact, a hexagonal pale green light shield will constantly flash, and once the arrow touches the light surface, it will immediately bounce and fall to the ground with a 'thump'.
As for the spears and the rudimentary stones...... The paladins had already left the place with just one step, and they were left to crack and crack countless blades of grass and mud in their place!
"I'm going to go...... Majesty Temorrah, you take too good care of him, don't you?"
An arrow into the eye of a wolf that had burst out of the edge of the woods, causing the huge beast to roll out to one side, Edward couldn't help but sharpen his teeth—he knew that the luster was a protective arrow, a not-so-advanced spell that could usually only deal with three or five scattered arrows...... So it was able to deflect dozens of arrows in an instant without letting go of a single ...... It can only be said that it is enough to prove the attainment of the caster.
Especially when this effect is reflected in a piece of armor, the most obvious is ...... It must have been made by a high-level alchemist enchantment, a high-level magic armor.
High-level magic armor...... This kind of thing, which is only made by the legendary great alchemists, usually means a lot of meaning - a complex story, a noble identity, a great power, and ...... Tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.
That's a real gold coin. Enough for a certain grand duke, or even a small kingdom, to empty the treasury...... Edward couldn't help but start calculating in his heart if there was a way to beat this tin can stuffy stick.
But then he threw away the idea.
Paladins descend from the sky.
In the split second Edward's gaze, he was already jumping high...... It was just a dozen feet of running, and the human body had accelerated to an astonishing speed! With this momentum, he stepped head-on on the head of a jackal, and with a disgusting muffled pop, the unfortunate fellow's head was already at shoulder level!
And with the help of this pedal, the paladin has jumped up again, and has fallen straight towards the front of the battle array!
The brilliant luster of the ancient sword in his hand burst out so brightly that the seven or eight monsters who had just rushed out of the edge of the clearing let out a painful scream - the kind of pain like pins and needles burned that even a wild beast could hardly support...... Not to mention the monsters that survive in the gloomy jungle, they have an extreme aversion to bright lights.
As the sheer burst out like a tidal wave, a graceful arc was drawn in mid-air. At the end of the arc of light, a sturdy gnoll was raising a long sword in his hand in a panic, trying to stop the figure from falling from the sky from passing over his head......
It's a pity that every qiē is in vain.
Without any elaborate choice of entry points, the blade was pushed forward, breaking through the rusty sword, tearing through the blood-stained helmet, breaking through the knotted fur to separate the skull, and breaking through the hard, constricted muscles...... Continue down...... The luster was actually only a flash away, and then the paladin had already brushed smoothly with the third target—not with a sword, but with a blow from the shoulder, knocking the huge wolf out of the way more than a dozen feet away, and the sturdy wolf's head seemed to hit the iron plate, and it swerved to the side with a click!
And until this time...... A bloodstain spread from the top of the head of the jackal who had just been swept by the sword light, completely solidifying all his movements, and finally with a vague bang, the corpse that was divided into two pieces fell to the ground, and the wriggling and sticky flowers scattered, and all kinds of bodily fluids flowed in all directions. It creates a sick, nausea-like smell in the air.
Edward's fingers trembled slightly.
It's not a duel of similar strength, and it can't even be called a duel.
That blow just now was enough for the hunter to make a judgment that there was not much difference between himself and that paladin in terms of combat means - the so-called divine techniques could only be applied when the strength of the two was not far apart, and most of the battles were actually given priority in strength. Or the other party's roots are deeper, but after all, the combat experience is quite insufficient, and in this forest, the hunter has enough means to make him understand what comprehensive strength is......
On the other hand, however, the teenager was well aware of what to expect if there was a conflict...... He is bound to be the loser.
The strength and speed of the other party are very comparable, and that is already a difference in quality - the absolute power of the other party is too strong...... The power of the sword that had cut off the leader of the gnolls just now was not just because of its condescension - the body of a creature could in fact be regarded as a composite material, and it would take more power to cut it off neatly than you could have imagined.
Even with a blade as sharp as clay in his hand, he didn't think he could do the same...... No, maybe not even half of it—at the extreme, even if there were five or six Edwards besieging it together, the paladin named Arin would be able to defeat them all.
Just stepping on a human body can crush the head, an impact can directly knock a person away, and a slash is a knife in two. It's not something that people can do, it's God-given power, the power to be exchanged for faith. They are so powerful that they are ......
It makes people envious, jealous and hateful......
A hoarse, high-pitched howl resounded across the battlefield, drawing the hunter's attention away from the bulb, and he collected his mind for a moment before swapping his weapon for a sword.
Because the battle has entered the next phase.
The paladin's invincible attacks didn't change the shape of the battlefield - just as he repelled the first wave of attacks, more tall shadows with wolf heads swooped out from the trees!
At least fifty!
They rushed into the hunters' camp from another angle, and the mercenaries who gathered together were their target!
The most popular food for gnolls is warm-blooded, sapient creatures, probably because they prefer to hear the screams of sapient creatures - but in any case, humans, naturally, are their preferred prey...... The more the better.
The sharpened stakes that were placed around the camp seemed to have no effect on the flying monsters, who simply trampled on them as they skimmed, causing the sloping trees to tumble over on the ground, and the gnolls and wolves behind them, like a black turbulence, rushed straight in the direction of the mercenaries against the shield wall that had been erected between the trunks of several large trees.
Originally, the more than a dozen long and short spear tips in the hands of the mercenaries formed a second line of defense outside the shield wall...... But that didn't work as well as it should.
At the forefront of the charge was a sturdy gnoll man who was one-third taller than his own kind, covered in long gray hair. That long, hoarse howl that resounded through the night sky was the beast's battle cry in the midst of the charge!
And with this sound...... A blood-like red, seeping out from under his fur, stretched its arms, its legs, and even the muscles of its whole body rose in the midst of this howl! The bones even made a crackling sound! Then, with a violent bend of the knee, it stretched, and the monster was already like a stone projectile thrown by a trebuchet, cutting a distance of nearly a hundred feet!
The force of this blow was so great that even the tough tower shield let out a terrible groan! A rusty greatsword in the monster's hand crushed a finger-thick iron sheet with momentum, and the heavy back of the knife was embedded in the curved plank!
Even so, this sword still had no choice but to have the tower shield designed after countless battles, and the flexibility of the combination of iron and wood removed all the power......
But the man who supported the tower shield did not have that flexibility, and in the sharp scream, his arm was already hanging limply! And the attacker lost no time in kicking the shield! So the shield array was pushed away by the stone-like creature...... Then, with a flick of the sharp left claw, the human who had bent down in pain was tightly grabbed by the palm full of blood.
A long scream rang out, and then it stopped abruptly, and the red, red, white, and white stickiness was already flowing down from between the fingers!
He threw down the cold corpse in his hands, gripped the hilt of the animal skin in both hands, and let out a roar like a rock, and broke into the adventurer.
The slender blade had been danced into a gray shadow, and it sprinted forward in the gloomy woodland, with the sound of tearing wind...... Touching a figure, and then separating, the qiē that blocked his path was knocked into the air, bounced off, and torn, and several sturdy men even flew up along with the tower shield in their hands...... With the tooth-aching grinding sound and cracking sound, the adventurer's defensive formation was torn out of a gap, and the jackals who followed naturally swarmed up to expand this advantage.
Suddenly there was a fierce sound of blades colliding, muffled roars, people on both sides fell from time to time, the tip of the sword stabbed into the chest and abdomen, the blade slit the throat, the war hammer crushed the flesh and bones, and the claw blood sprayed out from the men's bodies, drenching the already wet red fallen leaves.
"Hell......" Not far away, the hunter who took this qiē into his eyes couldn't help but curse secretly in his heart, and the knuckles holding the longbow turned a little white.
He hadn't expected these adventurers to make good tactical coordination, but it was still beyond his expectation that these guys would collapse so quickly.
Even if the mercenaries are too poor in terms of cooperation, but their equipment is on par with the city guards of those big cities, and even ordinary knights, the habit of fighting separately has long been deeply rooted in their bone marrow, but because of this, their fighting methods are also more focused on chaotic battles, but at this moment, the swordsmanship, speed, or other things they were originally proud of have no effect! The masters who used to deal with a few jackals without falling behind can now only barely deal with one or two
In comparison, the Jackals know the meaning of the word "coordination" better - wedges are best suited for charging, and although their strong hind limbs bring a speed advantage not as good as mounts, it is not difficult to break up a group of guys who are already fighting in isolation, and the arrows thrown by the kobolds from behind are enough to throw the human team into chaos!
At this time, the strength of one person can no longer shake the situation, even Edward, who is known as the King of Hunters.
The power of his pulley bow was good, but it was at the expense of his firing speed, and after firing three arrows in quick succession to eliminate the three gnolls at the farthest end of his sight, he had to find a cover to avoid the arrows that had found his opponent. Although this remote location had been chosen from the beginning and left him with few enemies around him, his life would be just as dangerous if the entire team were wiped out.
But at such a time, is it difficult for one person's strength to shake the situation?
Not necessarily.
The chaos lasted for a moment...... A very brief moment. Until the figure wrapped in black robes emerged silently from the darkness.
A low murmur pierced the noisy battlefield, something invisible from where she stood...... Or rather, burst outward from her body.
Reaching out in this invisible area through a distance of tens of feet, a dozen gnolls who bore the brunt of the attack slowed down—they shook their bodies and swung their long heads, as if trying to break free from something, but in a matter of breath, they fell to the ground with their rudimentary weapons!
It's not death, but this defenselessness is no different from death.
Only one or two particularly strong guys were able to withstand the effect, but even then, they lost their speed. Then he had to scramble to deal with the arrows that came through the mercenaries.
And at this time, the second chanting sound formed a short rune...... So five blinding rays of light pierced the darkness!
The moment the light shot out from between the five fingers of the black-robed mage, it brought a palpitating crackling sound! This curvy lightning crossed the woodland, first hitting the first strong gnoll, making him jump violently in the crisp click, and even the skeleton of his whole body was faintly visible! Then he immediately jumped in the other direction, turning into a bright lightning chain that wrapped around the upper body of another gnoll, and then fell to the next ...... When the waist-thick lightning finally turned into an arc of electricity that burst out in all directions, five or six of the strongest gnolls had already turned into charred black cooked flesh in it!
Edward held his breath.
That's the power of the arcane...... It's just a short rune, a gesture that is lightly drawn, but the power produced is terrifying......
Then, another figure also wrapped in black robes appeared, and he had entered the edge of the clearing at some point, and the gnolls continued to rush in his path! In the face of a dozen regrouped enemies, he paced forward like that, as if the formation of the gnolls in front of him was nothing more than a paper clay puppet......
Until the first enemy approached him.
Out of the sword.
With just one sword, he pierced that enemy on the blade!
...... The three strong gnolls howled and tried to pounce on the prey that had escaped the defenses of the crowd, but they could not even stop him in the slightest way, and the long sword in the latter's hand circled, and the long sword in his hand drew a zigzag lightning, and in a single moment, they were struck by the sword!
The wolves finally felt the fear, and they howled and gathered around them from all sides. As if to lure the invincible foe backwards—the strange howls came and went, and for a moment it seemed as if the entire Whispering Forest had come to life, filled with that terrible howl!
This qiē fell into Edward's eyes.
And the young man's heart has been clouded with a layer of haze.
The number of gnolls around him had greatly exceeded his expectations...... That's not a lot to describe. Even if the noise of the battlefield made his hearing less acute, he could read that there were no less than two hundred gnolls approaching here in the forest so far!
Even though these four people seem to be very capable, the numerical disadvantage is no joke...... After all, one person's body is limited, and it is impossible to protect the safety of everyone, even if the four of them can get out safely, how many of their own mercenaries can survive in this chaotic battlefield?
The jungle is home to the gnolls and kobolds, and the dense trees always provide them with the most secure defense, even if the area of the open space is expanded, this advantage will not make any difference...... What's more, time is also on their side, and the gnolls also have the same habit of hunting in groups as their relatives, and they have human-like intelligence, so the thing of calling friends is often several times stronger than the original. The number, which already accounts for several times the advantage, is still being further expanded.
Besides, that's not just the one that's not normal.
And there was a dull smell in the air...... The ones that appeared around him were by no means normal gnolls, and Edward had dealt with this race countless times...... He knew that this settlement-inclined race still retained the remnants of animals, they could rely on the strong and bully, but they did not have any real courage, and when facing a strong enemy, they should never disregard their lives and forget their lives......
Edward wasn't a spellcaster, but that didn't mean he couldn't discern the meaning behind the visions that spells bring.
But in his memory, the gnolls still have some peculiar conditions,
It was a guy who had escaped his life in the depths of the jungle, and had said it intermittently after pouring a bottle of fire wine - a larger cluster of gnolls than the usual family squads, settlements, or tribes, and they usually had a guy known as a psychic witch doctor - not just a god pretending to be a ghost, but a real psychic - who could use the power of the gnoll god, the legendary demon lord who dwelt in the abyss, to cast a power similar to that of the gods.
And now the abnormal state of these gnolls seems to confirm this rumor.
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