Chapter 339: Precursor
Northern Heath.
In a desolate barren gravel field, an adventurous party is moving slowly. This squad is a standard five-man squad, with an armoured warrior, a wanderer, a ranger archer, a dwarven defender, and an experienced captain.
In fact, the best adventuring group also needs a spellcaster, a wizard or a warlock, but the master rarely participates in this kind of team, unless the master himself forms a group to find something, of course, this situation usually means that things will be very troublesome.
"Boss!"
"We've come so far, don't we take a break?" said the armored warrior in the team, who was wearing a piece of chain mail and a piece of iron-studded armor, plus some other things and weapons, he could be said to be the heaviest loader, even if the warrior was physically fit, he still felt tired.
The middle-aged man led by him stopped and looked around and at the sky, looked at the other team members, and then said, "Okay, let's go to the front to repair for a while." ”
As a qualified adventure team leader, there are many things to pay attention to, although he is not the strongest in the team, but he is definitely the most experienced, when going on an adventure, you need to take everyone's physical exertion into account, and the best situation is that you have plenty of physical strength at any time you encounter an enemy.
"Bane, you go around and look around, and report back immediately if you find the situation, and the others hurry up and rest. After coming under a few large trees, Captain Karen commanded the wanderer.
"Understood!" the wanderer nodded, then leaped slightly, quickly scouting around. This group of adventurers set out from Zhenbei City, which has now become the main foothold for many adventure groups entering the Northern Wasteland.
Although the northern wilderness is desolate and cold, and the environment is harsh, there are still a lot of good things produced here, and there are often adventure teams returning here with a full load, but there are also many adventure teams that have not returned.
About a quarter of an hour later, a sharp whistle sounded, and several people who were resting under the tree immediately stood up, and the captain at the head said in a deep voice: "There is a situation! Everyone come with me!"
A small group of people rushed quickly in the direction where the voice came from, these people are very experienced, even if they are moving fast? The same body half-squat? At the same time, with the help of the cover of the surrounding wild grass. As an adventuring team, living a life of licking blood at the edge of a knife? Once the situation is discovered? There will be a signal immediately.
"Be hidden!" said a ranger next to him, as if he had noticed something.
The team that was moving forward immediately lay on the ground, completely hiding their bodies? Then he looked around cautiously.
"What did you find?" asked the captain in a low voice.
"Look at the sky!" the ranger pointed to the sky, and the sky was clear. Karen looked at it for a while and didn't find anything? Just as he was about to ask a question, his eyes suddenly swept to a black spot.
The black dot quickly grew larger, and a bipedal wyvern appeared in the sky, on the back of that bipedal wyvern? And a green-skinned figure? Exactly the orcs.
"It's the orc's air cavalry!" Seeing this scene, Karen's eyes shrank slightly, "Be careful to hide and not be discovered by them." After seeing the appearance of the black dot clearly, Captain Karen was shocked? Then he hurriedly let the others hide.
After everyone took refuge in the grass, the two-legged wyvern flew quickly over everyone? No people were found hiding here.
After seeing the two-legged wyvern leave, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief? Then cautiously move in the direction of the Wanderer's signal. Soon a few people spotted the figure of the wanderer not far ahead, and at this time he was wearing an earthy yellow cloak? With a straw hat? And a lot of straw stuck in your body? This dress is very professional at first glance.
After seeing everyone, he lay on the ground and signaled to everyone, while the others cautiously touched it.
"What did you find?" the scholars asked, in a simple disguise, and then cautiously asked.
"Look where!"
"Shhh
"This is..."
After seeing the situation in front of them clearly, everyone suddenly gasped, only to see that under the mound in the distance, with the ups and downs of the earth, an army was constantly marching, this army was a little strange, among them there were orcs, jackals and trolls, a huge army was slowly coming from afar, the army was winding, it was more than ten miles long, it looked like a dragon winding forward.
"Is this an army of orcs?" the dwarf next to him asked in a low voice.
At the front of the team, there are some wolf cavalry, as a mobile class of orcs, the number of wolf cavalry is still very large, followed by some tall gnolls, and ordinary gnolls, these gnolls belong to the high level of jackals, powerful, bloody and brutal, in the back of the team, the trolls wear armor and slowly advance.
"How do I look like a coalition of several races? Such a long line, at least tens of thousands. A man next to him whispered.
"Not more than 10,000, at least 30,000, what are these gnolls, orcs, and trolls forming a coalition for?" the wanderer said.
The middle-aged captain rubbed his chin and continued, "There is an enemy in the wasteland that deserves so much attention, so let them unite. ”
"Zhenbei City!" everyone looked at each other and replied in unison.
"Send this information back to Zhenbei City immediately, let's go, as long as it is successfully sent back, according to the generosity of His Excellency the Lord, we will make a fortune this time!" At this moment, everyone in the team immediately reached an agreement, because after the last evil thing, Su Lun issued a large number of wilderness intelligence collection tasks, wanting to use the strength of these adventurer teams to collect intelligence.
As soon as the words fell, the wanderer in front of him said in a condensed voice: "The situation is not good, those wolf cavalry are here, and their dog noses are very sensitive. ”
The sound of the ground shaking was heard, and a large number of wolf cavalry were seen to begin to disperse around the advancing team. These wolf cavalry moved quickly, the wolf had a keen sense of smell, wore this rudimentary leather armor, and wielded a cane scimitar in his hand, and his strength was not bad, and he was a qualified scout.
"Oh no! We're on the path of the wolf cavalry, and we'll be spotted if we don't leave. The wanderer said.
"Retreat all, retreat now!" The captain led by the captain did not hesitate at all, and immediately made a decision.
"Woooooo
A wolf howl rang out over the wasteland.
Everyone no longer hesitated, and immediately retreated, the wolf cavalry on the wasteland was moving very fast, if they didn't evacuate, there would be no chance, just the wolf cavalry could easily catch up with them.
The group quickly evacuated, and after retreating a little, they didn't care about continuing to hide their figures, and accelerated to flee in the direction they came. The speed of the wolf cavalry was very fast, and it didn't take long for these wolf cavalry to come to the position where everyone had taken refuge.
"Whew!"
A wolf sniffed nearby, then roared in the direction of the escape.
"It smells of a human!"
"Chase after them, we can't let them escape!"
"Kill them all!" several orcs reacted immediately, their faces revealing hideous expressions.
"Woooooo
With a hiss, the wolf cavalry no longer hesitated and began to quickly chase in the direction of the scent. One group of wolf cavalry pursued behind, and another pair of wolf cavalry outflanked from the flank.
The adventure team was running at full strength, and the man dressed as a ranger took out a spell scroll, and without the slightest hesitation, he directly ripped it open, and a stream of elemental energy was released from the spell scroll.
"Swarm Booster!"
A pale green aura shrouded in the wind element around everyone, and the people who were running only felt that their bodies were light, and their speed instantly doubled, and the group quickly ran in the direction of Zhenbei City. These magic scrolls are all sold at Hathaway's alchemy shop in the north of the town.
It sells rune scrolls, potions, magic weapons, and so on, and buys a large number of various magic items, and many adventurer teams will spend a sum of kinnar to buy some life-saving items or medicines here. Very currently, this adventurer team in front of me bought one.
The duration of the Swarm Acceleration is one hour, and it can increase a lot of speed after use, and with the effect of this scroll, the group of wolf cavalry will not even want to catch up with them in this hour.
The wolf cavalry behind saw that the humans suddenly accelerated, and immediately let the wolf speed up to catch up, but the wolf was much worse in endurance than the horses, and could not charge long-distance, although the wolf knight continued to chase, but the figure of the group of humans was still getting farther and farther away.
However, at this time, in the rear of the orc army, two bipedal wyvern knights suddenly rose, as the only flying combat unit of the orc tribe at present, the number of bipedal wyverns is scarce, and their domestication is also difficult, under normal circumstances, the orcs will not send this kind of army, obviously after seeing these humans about to escape, the orcs finally couldn't bear it.
The two empty knights flew quickly, and the sound of huge meat wings flapping kept sounding, although the speed of these humans was very fast after the acceleration technique, but under the pursuit of the air knights, the distance was rapidly shortening.
"Trouble, it's the Sky Knight, we can't escape at the current speed!" the captain said anxiously as he looked back at the figure in the sky that was getting closer and closer.
"Flee separately, there are only two of them, the five of us run separately, one can escape one is one, after escaping, go back to the city immediately, go to warn His Excellency the lord, if the others are dead, hurry to distribute the reward to the relatives and friends of the deceased, bye!"
"Got it!"
"Agreed!"
"Well, good luck to you, run for your lives!"