Chapter 50 Black-faced Monkey Attacks

"Rest is over, let's keep moving forward."

An hour passed quickly, and Craigie shouted loudly after looking at the alchemical pocket watch in his hand.

The hunting team, which was originally resting, immediately took action. Richard observed and found that the soldiers of the hunting team performed the best, followed by Richard and Dart's squire knights, and finally Bertha and Cronin's squire knights who were delayed because of Bertha's procrastination.

However, Craigie did not say much. The wizard's men were not Viscount Fast's private army, so he did not want to interfere.

After everyone had packed up, the hunting team set off again.

However, until the evening, the hunting team still did not find any trace of the black-faced monkey.

It was visibly that the members of the hunting team gradually relaxed.

Even among Fast's private army, voices of conversation could be heard from time to time, but only Craigie frowned.

In the past, black-faced monkeys had been encountered in this area a long time ago, and the hunting team could easily deal with the black-faced monkeys that came out to forage alone due to their large numbers.

Why did all the black-faced monkeys hide this time?

Just as Craigie was thinking, a rock suddenly rolled down from the mountain and hit a soldier.

"Rockfall, enemy attack, be careful." Craig shouted.

The soldier quickly raised the copper shield. The falling rocks hit the shield hard. The soldier's face changed drastically, and then both the shield and the soldier were knocked to the ground by the falling rocks.

"It's a black cotton monkey, damn beast."

Seeing that the soldier was not going to survive, Craigie cursed.

"Chiji..."

Suddenly, the cries of black-faced monkeys could be heard all around, and Craigie's face changed drastically. Just by listening to the sounds, he could tell that there were a lot of black-faced monkeys this time.

"Defensive formation, shields raised."

Craigie yelled.

Immediately, the hunting team soldiers who had been scattered gathered together, and the soldiers on the periphery raised their double-handed shields with solemn expressions.

Richard and others were also protected by the hunting team and had not participated in any training. If his knights rashly joined their formation, it would only cause trouble. Richard asked his escort knights to be more vigilant.

"Boom."

Fallen rocks gathered above, some were the size of watermelons, some were large, and some were four or five meters in radius. It was obvious that this group of black-faced monkeys were of different levels.

The falling rocks hit the hunting team's copper shields.

The hunting team could easily resist some small falling rocks, but the huge falling rocks would directly crush the shields and the people holding the shields behind them.

Just one round of rockfall from the black-faced monkey caused more than a dozen casualties among the hunting team.

Bertha screamed in fear, and the other three wizards also looked unhappy.

In order to accept the hunting team's invitation, Craigie had promised them, in addition to the requirements during recruitment, that he would protect their safety. But now it seems that the entire hunting team is in danger.

"Damn it."

Craigie cursed, then roared loudly: "Short spear volley."

The fifty soldiers in the hunting team who were not holding shields took out their spears, aimed at the black-faced monkeys in all directions, and threw the spears in their hands.

Richard did not act rashly. A volley of short spears was a powerful weapon for warriors against short-range targets. Even Richard now could not withstand a volley of short spears from so many soldiers.

The short spear filled with fighting spirit shot towards the black-faced monkey like a missile.

Although many black-faced monkeys hurriedly dodged, more than a dozen were shot.

"Jiji."

Several black-faced monkeys fell from the trees and were unable to get up.

There were also a few black-faced monkeys who, even with their bodies pierced by spears, still struggled to grab the branches and shouted angrily at the hunting team.

Although the round of short spear volleys achieved good results, Craigie still looked a little ugly.

There was no way. We couldn't ride mounts up the mountain, and there weren't many short spears in the team.

"Send a distress signal."

Craigie gave an order to a soldier next to him, and the soldier quickly took out a flare from his backpack and fired it into the sky.

"Boom."

The red magic flare flew high into the sky, leaving behind billowing red smoke.

Craigie breathed a sigh of relief. His hunting team's actions had been discussed with Viscount Fast. Viscount Fast should still be in the copper mine cave, keeping an eye on the direction here at all times.

For a warrior who can use his fighting spirit to soar into the air, this distance is nothing to Viscount Fast.

"Hold on, Viscount Fast will come to rescue us soon."

Craigie yelled, then glanced at the wizard team and whispered, "Four wizards, this is a special situation. Please help us get through this difficult time."

Richard and Dart naturally agreed. Bertha complained, but was soon persuaded by Cronin.

"Four wizards, just use your free will."

Craigie didn't count too much on the four wizards. There was no other way. Facing magical beasts with extremely high magic resistance, the wizards' killing power would be greatly reduced.

Since they were in the forest, Richard did not use his favorite fireball technique.

"Level 2 wind element magic, Wind Blade."

A dark green blade condensed in front of Richard. Although Richard's affinity for wind element was not high, his third-level spiritual power, coupled with a ring that could increase his affinity for wind element by 20%, made Richard's wind blade no less powerful than that of an ordinary second-level wizard who specialized in wind element.

Richard waved his hand and the wind blade shot towards a black-faced monkey that was casting a spell.

"Shh."

The wind blade easily cut the black-faced monkey's body into two pieces, and the two halves fell from the tree.

Richard observed carefully for a long time. This black-faced monkey was only a level one magical beast. In addition, its mind was focused on the soldiers around it and it didn't notice Richard taking action at all. This is how he was able to kill a level one magical beast in one fell swoop.

"it is good."

Craigie shouted, and then the other three wizards also took action.

Except for Cronin who was a first-level wizard and whose poor skills made him unable to break the black-faced monkey's defense, the other two second-level wizards also made some gains. Although they did not kill a monster directly like Richard, they also seriously injured two black-faced monkeys.

With the help of the four wizards, the morale of the hunting team soldiers was greatly boosted.

However, there was obviously a level three magical beast among the black-faced monkeys, which was cunningly hiding among the black-faced monkey group and constantly performing the rockfall technique, smashing towards the hunting team.

Faced with the third-level black-faced monkey's rockfall technique, the hunting team soldiers standing in front of them were often smashed into meat paste along with their two-handed shields.

If you want to get rid of the third-level black-faced monkey, the team must fire all their spears at it, but the third-level black-faced monkey does not give you this opportunity at all.

If they hadn't been surrounded by black-faced monkeys, some of the soldiers who couldn't bear it would have started to flee.

"A volley of short spears."

Craigie shouted an order, and then more than forty short spears flew out, and several more black-faced monkeys fell to the ground.

"Raise your shield."

The rockfall came crashing down with a crackling sound, and another dozen people fell to the ground.