Chapter 0171 Temporary Camp
As the human city closest to the Greenland Forest, a small team of demon hunters is stationed in Lanqiu City.
According to the feedback from Vulture, this demon hunter team had left the station 7 days ago, hired some local mercenaries, and plunged into the Greenland Forest, and has not returned yet.
This also means that before their wizard team entered this world, the demon hunter team had already been active in the Greenland Forest!
So Mary did not dare to delay, and quickly passed the news back to the wizard camp, and notified Grimm who was catching monsters in the depths of the forest.
When he received the notice, Grimm was leading his magic puppet team to encircle a group of ogre tribes.
This ogre tribe has a total of 27 members, including 22 adult ogres and 5 ogre cubs. With the ogre's 3-meter-tall, 500-pound strong body, plus a powerful strength of up to 14 points, all adult males have the strength of a quasi-witch level. Even a slightly weaker female ogre has a terrifying strength that is no less than that of a senior apprentice.
If such an ogre tribe is handed over to the indigenous aborigines to encircle and suppress, it may require a fully armed and well-trained warrior to do it. And even if the encirclement and suppression is successful, the team may have to pay a terrible price of nearly half of the casualties.
However, when this task falls into the hands of a wizard, it may become so simple!
If it is just a simple strangulation, then Grimm only needs to send out the Fire Lord to wipe them out. But in that case, the idea of obtaining a living sample will be lost!
So Grimm only used a bottle of weakening potion to pollute the water source of this group of ogres. Then, while their strength was greatly reduced, Grimm summoned 6 terrifying rock pythons in one breath and captured them.
An adult male ogre has 16 points of constitution and 14 points of strength, plus a super strong ability to regenerate flesh and blood. With such strength, it can actually compete with a worse body refining quasi-witch. Unfortunately, when they were infected with the weakening potions specially formulated for their race, their physical fitness and strength both dropped to less than 10 points, greatly reducing their strength.
However, the quasi-witch-level rock python puppets have 16 points of strength and 18 points of physical fitness. When the ogres were infected with the disease one after another, they came out in full force. They did not attack the enemy, but relied on their rock-like bodies to drive all the ogres together.
Grimm just appeared at this time and cast a sleeping spell with the voodoo scroll, so 27 ogres fell to the ground one after another, and the thick wooden sticks and boulder sticks in their hands smashed shallow pits on the ground.
Commanding the rock python to open its ring-shaped mouth and swallow these sleeping ogres one by one, Grimm had time to deal with the information stored in the communication crystal.
The demon hunting team... entered 7 days ago...
This information also attracted Grimm's attention.
According to the time calculation, the demon hunting team entered the Greenland Forest even earlier than the wizards arrived. So their purpose is most likely not to go to the wizard camp, but to have another mission.
It is impossible that some native spellcasters are hiding in the Greenland Forest and attract the demon hunting knights just now? Although this idea is a bit absurd, according to the professional characteristics of the demon hunting knights, it is really possible that Grimm guessed it!
So, while sending the rock python to send the captured ogre back to the camp, Grimm summoned 10 wind breath monsters to quickly disperse into the surrounding mountains and forests, looking for the traces of the demon hunting knight team.
The wind breath monster is a low-level magic puppet made by Grimm using the primary crystal core of the wind system. It is relatively weak and looks like a whirlwind more than 1 meter high. Their strength, physique, and spirit are all below 5 points, which can be said to be extremely weak in combat. But their only advantage is high agility and ability to fly.
In fact, this is nonsense. It would be really strange if a small whirlwind condensed from a ball of blue air could not fly!
Grimm attached a trace of mental power to each of the 10 wind-breathing monsters before releasing them. When they silently floated above the treetops, their blue bodies could almost blend into the blue sky background, and it was not easy to attract the enemy's attention.
So they were sentinels specially created by Grimm to serve as flying eyes!
10 wind-breathing monsters are 10 different mental perspectives, and the information sent back at the same time is also massive. If Grimm's mental power is used alone, it may only support a relatively vague visual tracking. But now with the assistance of the chip, Grimm simply stopped wasting his mental power on commanding the flight route of the wind-breathing monsters, and handed it all over to the chip.
The chip commanded the wind-breathing monsters to repeatedly search and interrogate in a net-like manner over the forest, searching the largest area with the most optimized flight route. And Grimm only needs to find a safe place to rest, silently waiting for the chip to bring him good news.
At nightfall, the chip really brought him good news.
The demon hunting knight team was found!
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In a valley 80 miles away from the wizard camp, three or four bonfires were lit.
Although there were too many dangerous monsters in the forest that were not afraid of fire and were even attracted by light, the knights who had fought hard and trekked for dozens of miles on the mountain road needed these.
The mercenaries quickly set up the tent, then sat around the bonfire and began to prepare a sumptuous dinner for themselves.
A wild boar captured on the road was skinned, its internal organs were taken out, and it was washed clean in the stream, then put on a wooden stick and grilled on a slow campfire. Experienced mercenaries turned the wooden stick while brushing the prepared sauce and spices evenly on it.
The wild boar meat roasted to golden yellow continued to overflow with amber-like fat, dripping on the charcoal fire below, making a sizzling sound, and overflowing with a rich aroma that filled the whole place.
The whole camp was filled with joy after a great victory!
The hired mercenaries were busy in the camp, while the 13 knights of the demon hunting team helped each other to remove their heavy armor and simply treated their injuries.
Today, they successfully found the evil lair hidden deep in the Greenland forest and blocked 7 evil spellcasters inside. After a fierce battle, they successfully killed 6 evil spellcasters and captured one alive. Although everyone in the knight team was injured, there was no heartbreaking death, which undoubtedly made the knight leader who led the team breathe a sigh of relief.
As for the four auxiliary mercenaries who died in the battle, they were never included in the casualties list by the knight leader. These profit-seeking people who are greedy for money, as long as they go back and give them the remaining gold coins, these mercenaries will only be grateful and will never be dissatisfied.
Mercenaries have been doing this kind of most dangerous work since ancient times!
So since they were hired in Lanqiu City, they have long been aware that they cannot turn around smoothly. Now that the task has been successfully completed, the knights have also promised generous rewards, so the pain of losing four teammates was quickly replaced by the desire for a better life in the future.
The camp was full of laughter and joy, and the atmosphere was full of jubilation.
In sharp contrast to the knights and mercenaries, there was a thin figure with his hands and feet tightly tied. Seriously speaking, he was just a teenager who was not yet an adult! Long-term malnutrition made him look extremely thin. His abdomen was shriveled under the torn gray robe, revealing his ribs.
His exposed skin was covered with dark bruises and countless tiny scars. A rope was tied around his mouth, and a rough gravel was stuffed inside. This was to prevent him from secretly casting spells!
He was unable to chant spells or use hand gestures, which made him, who had just awakened that strange power, completely lose the ability to resist. He could only lean against the roots of a tree with his body tilted, and scanned every smiling face in the camp with hatred.
These were his enemies!
It was this group of people who drove him homeless and made it difficult for him to return home. He could only wander in the remote mountains and forests like a lonely ghost all day long. If it weren't for a kind "companion" who led him to the forest hut, I'm afraid his final fate would be to become a delicious meal for a beast in the Greenland forest!
Unfortunately, the peaceful and beautiful days did not last long. The forest camp built by the wandering spellcasters was destroyed by the demon hunters who came to track them. And his companions, who had been together for half a year, fell under the swords of the knights.
The knights were murderers, and these mercenaries were accomplices!
Looking at their smiling faces, his heart seemed to be on fire. Anger, sadness, hatred... these extreme emotions slowly flowed through his heart, making him grit his teeth to prevent tears from flowing out.
As long as I have a chance to escape, I will definitely use the most cruel and crazy means to kill them one by one!
He roared wildly in his heart, but he knew that this was just his delusion.
Immediately, the thought of despair devoured his soul again!
At this extremely tormenting moment, he suddenly opened his eyes, raised his head in surprise, and stared at a place above the camp without moving.
There is something abnormal there!
This... This is the elemental fluctuation unique to the wind element!
Above the noisy camp, in the dark night sky, there was nothing there. But the boy, relying on his awakened elemental talent, sensed a special gathering of wind elements there.
Natural gathering of elements? Absolutely impossible!
Because there was nothing abnormal there half a quarter of an hour ago. Wind elements can't gather there for no reason!
However, the next second, the boy clenched his teeth to prevent himself from screaming.
Because three special wind element gathering points appeared in the sky and slowly swam there.
It seems... it seems to be investigating something!
There are changes! This camp is about to change!
Hope ignited in the boy's eyes, and he began to observe the surroundings of the camp quietly.
Soon, he made a bigger discovery.
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