In order to hide their footprints, these cunning northern wolves hid in the messy trails made by the wild boars along the way. The range of activities of wild boars is not fixed, so these seemingly few northern land wolves not only rely on these wild boars to hide after snowfall, but also can directly prey on this family of wild boars as food when needed.
Everyone was shocked by the cunning of this group of animals. Fortunately, the three old hunters had been hunting for many years and encountered smarter prey. And Knight Lanisa, who had killed the wolf king many times, knew a lot about these northern land wolves.
Only Keir and one or two young people who had little contact with wolves were surprised by this.
The female knight called everyone, and she drew two arrows in the snow with her saber: "Here, the direction to the north is the direction from which the wild boars came. Judging from the wolves' specially hidden footprints, they also came from The North came after the boar."
"And here, to the southeast, is the heading direction of the group of wild boars and the northern land wolf behind them. The traces are relatively fresh, at most two days ago, so if you continue to track them down, there will be It is very likely to catch them." The female knight said this.
And an old hunter rubbed his snow-stained beard: "I checked carefully just now, and found that the number of wild boars is about twenty, and the number of northern land wolves following them is not very certain. But not more than eight or so."
"So?" Keel asked confused.
"So the team split up! I rode my horse and went northward along the trails, trying to find the wolf den of this small group of northern land wolves. If it is not bad, there must be a large group of young wolves waiting to grow up in this year's wolf den. They must be eradicated!" Knight Lanisa spoke as she spoke, swiping the rapier twice in the air at high speed, making a frightening air hissing sound.
"I don't know how far those northern land wolves ran to follow the wild boars, so I rode over. You try to speed up and catch up with those northern land wolves who came out to hunt. If you have the ability, shoot a wild boar or two. , so that everyone's stomach will feel better."
Speaking of this, everyone laughed. Although wild boars are very difficult and ferocious animals in the forest, unusual and ferocious individuals often appear. But since those northern land wolves dared to follow behind, wouldn't they have lost their ability if they didn't hunt one or two.
As the leader of the hunter team, Knight Lanisa has made a decision, and it is impossible for anyone to object. Therefore, it was agreed that if nothing was found after two days, everyone would return to the rock mountain base.
As a result, the teams split.
Knight Lanisa rode on the horse, accelerated the speed of the horse, and followed the traces of wild boars rummaging all the way north. On the other hand, the hunters did not have the chic skills of a knight, so before starting to track them, they checked their respective weapon preparations and the supplies they were carrying at this time, and confirmed that the food was enough to last for at least five days.
Everyone started to follow the trail of the wild boar.
Because there is no need to worry about going in the wrong direction, and wild boars and northern wolfs have already waded through a lot of thick ground snow. So at this time the hunters are advancing very fast.
If it weren't for the heavy metal clips on their backs that slowed down their speed, they could still be faster at this time.
On the way, the experienced old hunters took the lead in rotation, and everyone continued to track for a whole day. Although some deer-like animals were encountered on the road, trying to rummage for food after the wild boar rummaged. But everyone was not in the mood to hunt, nor to chase small animals that would not run away after seeing humans, passing them by and disturbing each other.
During a break, the old hunters told the others: "Judging from the frozen wolf dung just discovered, we are very close to them."
"So everyone has to prepare for the battle, especially after the three of us found the northern land wolf, the team must gather together to fight from the moving front and rear columns."
"Especially this time with metal clips, so when the time comes, you must lean your back against rocks or the trunk of a big tree, and quickly arrange the metal clips in the area in front of you. Keel, you have to be careful, don't step on it yourself during the battle." Those metal clips, or you're bound to hurt your legs. You've got armor for your calves and ankles, but it's not going to taste good anyway."
Keir rubbed his hair and muttered: "I know, I will be careful about this."
"How about this, Keir. You mainly use your shield to fend off the pounced northern land wolf, and we will immediately shoot the blocked northern land wolf with arrows?" An old hunter came up with an idea.
Keel considered a shield and an axe, and finally settled on the axe. The wolves were not human, and their fangs and claws could not cause serious damage to the hard cowhide armor on his body. As long as he was not completely bitten by the wolf's mouth, he was safe. Therefore, compared with some additional defense brought by the shield, the two-handed ax that can still cause a fatal blow can play more roles in the following battles.
And I don't know if it was his illusion, since the last time he defeated the monster, this ax not only has a new appearance of a monster on the surface of the axe, but also the whole ax seems to be heavier.
For Keir's choice, the old hunters still respected it. Kiel was not an ordinary young man with no reputation. He could defeat many monsters and bandits by himself. In close combat, hunters like them who used bowstrings were not qualified to dictate and order anything.
So, they simply lit up a small fire and heated up a few pieces of frozen bread. After eating, everyone covered all the resting places with snow, and continued to follow the traces of the wild boar.
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The judgment of the old hunters was very accurate, and they found the trace of the northern land wolf two hours later.
It was a northern land wolf that was biting the legs and feet of the immature deer. It was different from the northern land wolf they met before. It was larger than the previous wolves that ambush them.
With the dirty and fluffy wolf fur on its body, it looks even bigger. Standing up, it probably looks about the same height and shape as a normal man.
When the hunters discovered it, the northern land wolf, which was excitedly biting its prey, also heard the bottom cry and command sound not far behind. It let go of the wolf's mouth, and its paws no longer pressed down on the prey. It stood up and turned to face behind.
Immediately, it stared closely at those humans, and stared even harder at the old hunters in the middle. It recognized the human hunter who had killed its siblings earlier.
"Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww!" Not caring about disturbing the herd of wild boars, the northern land wolf raised its head and howled loudly.
The silent snow forest was broken by this sudden wolf howl.
Then, short howls of wolves sounded from all around in response.
As Keel broke open a metal clip he was carrying in the snow in front of him, he guessed that these short wolf howls sounded like a query response.
It's almost like asking, "What happened?"
As expected by Kiel, after short howls sounded around, the northern land wolf not far away continued to howl, which should be calling for companions and strong conditions.
And the prey under the wolf's mouth, a fawn, neighed in a low voice, regardless of being about to lose a leg, and struggled to escape from this place with three thin legs.
The northern land wolf, which was in a hurry to respond to its companions, didn't even notice that the prey in its mouth was escaping. It focused all its energy on the upcoming revenge.
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After it howled for the last time to summon its companions, it shook its body directly, shaking off the snow on its body, and shaking the thick hair on its body more loosely.
This is the skill mastered by the elders in fighting humans. Fluffier hair can better resist the cutting of human metal claws, and can prevent the flying metal teeth of humans from biting them.
As long as these two things don't work, the vast majority of human beings can only become a delicious meal after being knocked down by them.
After it was ready to fight, it didn't just stay where it was and was bitten by the human's metal flying teeth in vain. Finding the right location, it hid behind the trunk of a big tree.
After waiting for a while, following the wheezing sound of the beast, several other northern land wolf companions who were as tall and strong as it came over one by one.
Everyone recognized that among the human beings in front, it was some of those people who, together with a female human, killed many of their elders and companions.
Seeing all the wolves gathered, everyone could no longer hold back their desire for revenge. But with a short howl from a northern wolf who was a little smaller than them, the other northern wolves calmed down.
This northern land wolf, who is a circle smaller than them, is a recent addition to them. Although she was a female wild wolf from the southern wilderness, she was selected by the wolf king of the northern land wolf and joined them with the support of several companions who came with her and her calm and ferocious expression.
It mated with the wolf king and drank the king's blood rewarded by the wolf king, thus gaining the recognition of the wolves and stronger power.
The group of them coming out of the eastern wolf den to look for food was led by this female wolf who had recently become a northern land wolf. Hearing its scolding, everyone fell silent.
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"What are they doing? Why don't they attack when they get together?" Keel wondered, and then he said: "Is it because we are similar in number to them, so the wolves are hesitant?"
"It's possible, but I believe that those cunning guys are more communicating **** us." An old hunter said.
Another old hunter took the conversation and said: "Since killing a large number of northern land wolves in one fell swoop, all the northern land wolves I met here and there throughout the year found a few of us, so they all thought about it. They came straight up, desperately trying to leave some scratches on my body. These northern land wolves now know how to hide behind trees, it seems that they are not all wild beasts who only know how to do it."
"Guys who are favored by the **** of hunting and the **** of beasts. Heh." The last old hunter laughed in a low voice.
Keir knew that this old hunter was a believer of a god, and he seemed to be exactly the believer of the God of Hunting that he said. It seems that even if one party is favored by the gods and the other party yearns for the gods, there is still a deep contradiction between them.
Obviously I can hunt and kill you, but why are you more favored by the gods I believe in?
That's probably what it means.
Although not all hunters believe in this god, no matter they are old or young, they have known each other for a long time, and they have all been more or less affected by it.
Therefore, when dealing with the northern land wolf, not only the support of Knight Lanisa, but also everyone was ruthless.
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After a while, Keel saw that the northern land wolves hiding behind the trees did not rush directly to their position. Instead, they circled in a big circle, stuck in the forest, and the hunters were out of the shooting range of their bows and arrows, and ran around in circles behind them.
Keir was in a hurry: "They went around to the back, why don't you move your position quickly, they can't shoot behind you here."
"Hold on! Keel, hold on. If they come from behind, let them come, but our position must be steady. Don't be disturbed by the actions of the wolves." An old hunter said loudly.
These words stabilized the mind of the young man.
So the old hunters began to command: "Two people on each side of the trunk, stick to the trunk of the big tree, and don't step on the metal clips I arranged on the ground."
An old hunter and a young hunter leaned on both sides of the tree trunk, stretched out half of their bodies, and then raised their bows to aim at the rear and shoot.
After three rounds of shooting, there was a howl of a northern wolf.
"Those guys came closer by the tree trunk." A young hunter said quickly.
The old hunter in command asked, "Is there a lot?"
"There are only a few of them, how could they all be caught." An old hunter who looked behind responded.
The old hunter in command patted Kiel: "Exactly, Kiel, you can handle one wolf at a time, no problem?"
Kiel turned the wooden handle of the ax in his hand, and the blue ax head swayed in the air, leaving a blue cylindrical shape: "No problem." After finishing speaking, Kiel, who was instructed, arranged around the side of the trunk With the metal clip, he quietly followed the hunter's instructions and rushed behind a nearby tree trunk.
Behind the tree trunk, as the hunter had said, a northern land wolf was hiding.
It crawled carefully in the snow on the ground. When Kiel rushed over, it was startled, but he reacted as quickly as possible, and grabbed Kiel's abdomen with his paw.
Keir ignored its attack, and directly hit its back with an axe.
With a bang, the ax slashed the back of the northern wolf, and at the same time smashed two pieces of its spine. At the same time, the long claws protruding from the wolf's claws also scratched Kiel's abdomen.
Keel felt a heavy blow to his stomach, and suddenly he couldn't breathe, but he punched his chest hard, and his breath came back. He glanced at his abdomen. On the hard cowhide abdomen armor, there were three and a half centimeter deep scratches, which did not penetrate.
The frontal protection of his armor is the best, the armor on the abdomen is not too thick, the thickest part is on the shoulders of his arms, where the thickness is twice that of other places, because outside the armor that wraps the arms, There is also a layer of shoulder armor to strengthen the defense.
The northern wolf's waist was broken, it couldn't get up immediately, and scratched its claws, but Kiel only took two steps back, and let its attack be empty.
While fighting on Kiel's side, the northern land wolf saw its companion being attacked boldly by humans, and immediately wanted to rush forward, but just as it leaned out from behind the tree trunk, it was attacked by four bows one after another. Continuous shooting.
Hunters are experienced shooting fast moving targets. They didn't shoot a volley directly like when they shot the escaped bandits before, sealing off the escape routes of the people, and then they were shot dead all over the body.
Relying on the tacit understanding of the team, they released the arrows in sequence. The young hunter reacted quickly and drew the bow first to shoot. But at this time, the prey's movements were stable, and it was easy to dodge the arrows while running.
But the real killer move is behind.
Veteran hunters who have hunted all their lives have rich experience. The two of them specially took into account the deformation of the movement and the difficulty of grasping the ground after the two dodges of the northern land wolf, and calculated the next movement of the northern land wolf.
Immediately, whoosh.
Two arrows flew out one after another, swinging the flexible body of the arrow and piercing through the air. The first arrow hit the body of the Northern Land Wolf, causing the prey to lose the ability to move and turn in severe pain.
Then, the second arrow hit the Northland Wolf's neck.
The broad wolf neck and fur concealed the lethal power of the arrow, but as the northern wolf fell to the ground, people couldn't help but see the tricky and superb skills of the old guys.
The northern wolf who came to support was shot in the middle of the run, UU reading www. uukanshu.com could only fall to the ground panting, and tried to get up twice, but its body seemed to have lost all its strength, and its neck was pierced by human flying metal teeth, making it howl in panic.
But that's all there is to it.
The four arrows from the hunters flew over, and all of them hit its head. The hard head of the northern wolf couldn't bear the penetrating force of the arrows. The hard arrows smashed through the skull, completely killing the wolf. A northern land wolf.
Keir didn't pay attention to the battle situation beside him, he only heard the sound of bows and arrows flying past, and then the footsteps running towards him stopped. Keel spotted the northern land wolf, and he broke the spine on his back, and lost control of half of his body.
Then he chopped off the wolf's claws that were scratching him twice, and then gave the northern wolf who had lost control of his body a solid blow with the axe, splitting the wolf's head in half from the front.
Ended this guy's life.
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After two companions were killed in a row, the northern land wolf in command immediately howled, telling the companions who ran behind the hunters to retreat. And it rushed from the front of the hunters with three northern land wolves.
However, while it was attacking, a magical glow flashed in its eyes, and the gray wolf fur trembled for a while, and then suddenly became straight, hard, and suddenly shone with a metallic luster.
Every wolf fur made a tinkling sound as it ran, and a layer of hard bark was rubbed off by it on the tree trunks that passed by. Even its three-headed companion is careful not to run with it, for fear of being hit and injured.
The commanding old hunter was taken aback: "What is that?!"
All the hunters turned around when they heard the sound, and they all saw the northern land wolf with straight hairs, more hedgehogs than wolves, charging straight at it.