Chapter 232 The first swing battle
"Be careful!!!"
East shouted in horror at Madman Lugo and Hog Blackhand.
Immediately afterwards, a roar loud enough to cover all other sounds sounded in the formation of the soldiers.
The Skellige youths rescued by Madman Lugo and Hog Blackhand all covered their heads in pain, as if muffled thunder was repeatedly echoing in their ears.
They screamed, they rolled on the ground, they roared in the crowd.
In East's ears, their roars changed from human voices to animal roars within two breaths; in East's eyes, their figures began to expand rapidly in the blink of an eye, and finally became Taking on the form of a wild beast—
that’s the Skellig Bear!
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Facing wild beasts, humans rely on equipment, numbers, and wisdom. If they rely on tacit cooperation, the connection of a variety of long and near weapons, the design of numerous traps, and deliberate and unintentional strategies, an experienced hunter team can also try it. Hunt giant bears.
It's just an attempt, and the dangers involved are still unknown to outsiders - so once a hunter successfully hunts a giant bear, they will immediately become a famous hunting master, and even be summoned by the lord, receive rewards, and even a A decent job.
But if it is an encounter and humans run into a giant bear without much preparation, the situation is very different.
Even if a heavily armed team enters the mountain, they will be in a panic when suddenly faced with a rampaging giant bear, and even lose a few soldiers.
At this moment, more than a dozen giant bears appeared together and began to charge towards a group of soldiers who were not paying attention to them at all and whose backs were turned to them.
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The dense military formation at this moment became a cage restricting the soldiers themselves. The power of more than a dozen giant bears bursting out among the crowd overturned dozens of people in an instant, and their flesh and blood began to fly everywhere at the first time.
The soldiers who had never expected that there would be a sneak attack by the enemy did not even have the time to turn their weapons, and all they had time to do was scream.
It was as if a dozen chariots had rolled over the minced meat. Then, the giant bears stared at the madman Lugo and Hog Blackhand at the front of the team with their bloodthirsty and psychedelic eyes.
"Roar!"
The sky-shaking roar almost deafened the ears of the two lords. The smelly bloody wind blew from behind them. A second ago, they were facing East with pride, but now they couldn't react at all. What happened at the scene.
Fortunately, East immediately jumped out without hesitation, dragging the two lords with him and rolled to the ground.
But there were too many bears and the scene was too chaotic.
East vaguely heard only screams, followed by a panicked shout of "protect the patriarch", and then various roars that could not be suppressed.
Looking up, his eyes were immediately covered with blood. It was the Skellige warriors who were delaying these giant bears with their own lives.
The Dimen and Drummond families have been completely dispersed.
East shouted at the lord who was knocked down by him: "Are you okay? Are you two okay?"
Crazy Lugo was in shock. He reacted very quickly and glanced at East with an inexplicable expression, and then immediately He jumped up holding an axe, shouting loudly to attract the attention of his family's soldiers. But he was immediately knocked down by two guards, and then a giant bear ran over where he was just now.
The situation of Hogg Blackhand is much worse. His "black hand" has become a "bloody hand"... No, he no longer has a hand.
A giant bear was chewing something in its mouth, and Hog Blackhand was screaming. There was nothing under his right shoulder. Only the blood on the ground could prove that something had been there just now.
East saw the female guard behind Hog Blackhand rushing forward, as if she wanted to pull her lord into the protection of her Tursek soldiers, but the giant bear rushed up again and slapped the lord away. The female guard's shot flew away.
Then it opened its bloody mouth and grabbed Hog Blackhand's back again, and began to shake its head violently and tear at the prey.
East let out a roar, pulled out the long sword in his hand and struck the giant bear on the neck.
The long sword was embedded in the flesh and was cushioned by thick fur and fat. It was not able to kill with one blow, but the pain was enough to make the beast let go and turn to him.
East jumped back deftly to avoid the irrational slap of the giant bear, and shouted behind him:
"Gede! Gede! Help!"
East knew the strength of Gede, this demon hunter Able to fight a giant bear alone using only a dagger. If you join the battle at this moment, you will definitely be able to solve your urgent need.
But his call brought no help.
Taking advantage of the opportunity for the Dimen family soldiers to block the giant bear away, East looked in the direction of the demon hunter, and was shocked to see that Gede had actually clamped the neck of a giant bear, but it was In his own military formation!
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The thick bear paws made golden ripples on Gede's body from time to time.
And looking at the remaining pieces of cloth on the giant bear, it turned out to be the young Bill that Lan and the others brought back before.
"Boy, I'll give you one last chance to wake up!"
Gede slapped the giant bear's head with his left hand and hit [Alder's Seal] from zero range.
It was like an invisible heavy hammer hit, causing the giant bear to fall to the ground with a miserable howl.
But in just two breaths, this extremely strong giant bear shook its head and stood up again - the giant bear itself has an amazing physique, and Gede is not good at [Alder's Seal], and may even be suffering from it. A little more force.
Looking at the giant bear that was shaking its head towards him, shaking its ears, and making an attack gesture, Gede reached out and held the bear-headed steel sword behind his back:
"I feel sorry for you, Bill. And it seems that those two idiot lords were fooled. , and then we still need to rely on you to find the real hiding place of the Wilka people. But if you can’t seize this opportunity to wake up quickly...I will have no choice but to kill you." ...East withdrew his
gaze
, Knowing that Gede can't be counted on for the time being... No, Gede has given him the greatest help. It is precisely because of him that the Tursek family's military formation can be maintained and not be charged by the giant bear ambushing behind them. scattered.
After knowing that he could only rely on himself, East decisively began to encourage his soldiers: "Don't panic, it's just a dozen giant bears, it's just a sneak attack. We have thousands of soldiers!" "Qatar, blow the trumpet
. !" East ordered loudly to his adjutant, "Don't let our formation be scattered by the defeated soldiers, shrink our wings and let them go around from the edge." "Yes!" The adjutant loudly received the order
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East continued to shout, trying to boost some morale: "Warriors, we are just giant bears. Soon we will..."
A war cry interrupted East's words.
He saw his adjutant rushing in front of him, blocking the flying ax flying out from the jungle and hitting him.
Immediately afterwards, countless naked warriors with bloody war patterns on their faces rushed into their military formation.
Their upper bodies were not armored, and even a dagger would be enough to break through their flesh and penetrate their internal organs. But the blood and pain made them more fanatical, and the more serious the injury, the more intense their attacks became.
"Velka Berserker... No, just a warrior." Just a warrior.
Under a sneak attack, each of these warriors can kill at least two armored Skellige soldiers, even if they are reacted The soldier stabbed through the body, but he could also use his axe, fists, and teeth to take away another person to death in exchange for one life.
The crazy look is frightening, and even makes people think that they just want to die.
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I was attacked and surrounded in my own territory.
East took a deep breath. This battle situation and such tragic situation vaguely brought him back to that early morning battle in the Manada Valley.
At that time, they were ambushed and besieged like this. In that battle, he lost the lioness.
"But this time, I have nothing to lose...only the sword in my hand!"
East strode forward to meet a Wilka man who had just killed a Tursek soldier, and split the opponent's entire body with a sword. neck, and then raised his buckler to block an oncoming flying axe.
His armor was too conspicuous, and he was now surrounded by three Vilkans.
"Come on, Wilka... no, it's Nilfgaardian!!"
The experienced East used his long sword to split open a desperate Wilka warrior, and used his thick armor to block the second man's axe. .
As for the third man, he didn't have the extra strength to resist, but an unexpected person came to help him-
Madman Lugo pulled the ax out of the back of the third man's head, and then embedded it in the third man's head. Inside the backs of two people. Pull it out with force, bringing out a column of blood and a small piece of spine.
"Are you crazy?" Madman Lugo shouted at East, "If you don't run back to your own escort at this time, why are you rushing to kill them in front!" "Where are the
reinforcements? Where's Kratz? Where's the Lannister? They Why haven't I come to save you?"
East stared at Madman Lugo for two seconds and chuckled.
Just as he was about to say something, his whole body suddenly lit up with an emerald light.
The light was so dazzling that it instantly attracted the attention of everyone present.
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For important people, Lan will mark them on their bodies for easy teleportation at any time.
Whether protecting or being protected, this way you can maximize your ability and even play a role in determining the situation of the battle.
When Geralt learned from Geralt that East and his party might be in trouble, Lan immediately activated the [Teleport] skill.
However, in his original understanding, East's "trouble" should be the conflict with the rival family rivals, not the level of melee in front of him.
The situation at the scene was beyond Lann's expectation, but he quickly reacted after having experienced many battles.
The light gradually faded on his body. Lann quickly looked around, avoiding the stunned East and Madman Lugo. He saw Hog Blackhand lying on the ground and several of his guards.
At this moment, five Wilka warriors were rushing toward him.
[Flash]!
Without a trace of hesitation, the emerald light enveloped his body again.
Then with a flash of golden light, Lan appeared in front of Hog Blackhand.
At this moment, a female shield guard raised her sword high and launched a suicidal charge towards Wilka. Lan reversed the scissor, used the back of the knife to hold the blade of the female shield guard, and then with a forceful move, she flew away.
There was no one in the way, and the communication between him and the Wilka warriors was completely unobstructed.
Because of his stiffness in swinging the sword before, he was now facing away from the five Wilka warriors.
However, before he noticed the people here screaming in surprise, Lann's body began to rotate in a way that was beyond ordinary people's understanding.
That's a sword-drawing speed that humans simply can't achieve -
[Spiral Sword Dance]!
In the blink of an eye, five heads soared directly into the sky!
Lann chose the most visually impactful fighting method, but according to his observation, the other enemies on the scene were not intimidated at all, but became even more excited.
There is something wrong with these people's fighting will, and they have fallen out of the ordinary "elite" level.
Lan took a deep breath, and the golden light flashed again.
This time he returned to East, ignoring Lugo, the madman with eyes wide open, and asked East:
"Are they from Wilka?"
East responded quickly and nodded directly. affim.
Lann gritted his teeth, the scene was a bit difficult to handle.
This kind of melee between hundreds of enemies and one's own soldiers is still relatively difficult for him to handle with his current abilities.
The number of people should not be a problem in the first place. Lann now has many options for clearing the battlefield. Whether it is [Igni Sign] or [Alder Sign: Bone-piercing], they are enough to deal with enemies of this order of magnitude. But if the current situation is a melee between the enemy and ourselves, we are quite constrained. In reality, there is no friendly protection mechanism, so we can't kill them all at once... And [Flash] is a surprise skill, not a clearing skill, and it
continuously A few hundred flashes were enough to drain Lan of all his magic.
He needed to call in some help.
His mind sank into the system and he activated his skill - [Teleport].
But this time, Lan En's body did not glow with emerald light, because he was not trying to teleport himself to other places, but to teleport others to his side.
Four light groups lit up from around Lan, surrounding him in the center.
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"Roar!"
A giant bear roared and rushed towards Lan. Four or five axes were embedded in its body, but none of them hurt its vital parts. On the contrary, it made it more and more mad. .
"Hiss!"
A neigh louder than the roar of the giant bear sounded, and a black horse like a chariot suddenly rushed out from the emerald light group, charging straight towards the giant bear.
Lower your head - hit!
The giant bear that made the Skellige people have to avoid the sharp edge flew away.
The eyes that were attracted by the movement of the giant bear all became rigid in an instant. The Black Wind Man stood up and used his front hooves to hit a combination of punches in mid-air, his amber vertical pupils flashing with excitement.
Since Skellige is too mountainous for riding horses, Lann has not taken Black Wind out for a long time and kept it in the stables on Little Skellige Island. Now it is a melee of this level when it comes out, and the horse is instantly defeated. The demon-hunting horses are in a frenzy.
The other three light groups gradually extinguished at this moment, revealing three figures with confused eyes: Geralt, Kolgrim, and Korn.
"Is this... a portal? No, I didn't pass through the portal. Is it some kind of magic?" Cohen looked at everything around him in disbelief, "But he's not dizzy at all?"
Kolgrim glanced around and reacted quickly. : "This is a melee..."
Without saying a word, Geralt directly pulled out the wolf-headed steel sword and joined the battle group.
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"Geralt, Lann, deal with the giant bears! They have suppressed too many of our warriors and created too much chaos!" East shouted, "As long as we can form a military formation, the Wilkas and us You can easily deal with it yourself!"
The three new demon hunters immediately shuttled into the crowd and headed towards the giant bear.
Except for the Bear sect, the demon hunters of other sects have no obvious physical enhancement, and even they cannot kill the giant bear with one blow.
But when it comes to beasts, witchers have a unique solution.
The hand glowing with white light was raised.
[Axi Sigil]
The misty chaotic energy invaded the brains of these giant bears, making them instantly sluggish.
And they are currently surrounded by Skellige soldiers. There was no resistance or dodge. In an instant, several weapons were embedded in their vital points at the same time, killing the giant bears.
The Skellige soldiers were suddenly surprised to find that the battle became easier with the addition of the witcher.
With one attack, the demon hunters immediately ran away without looking back after casting their seals, looking for the next raging giant bear.
They followed suit and quickly stabilized the situation.
Without the giant bear to disrupt the formation, the soldiers also reorganized their formations under the encouragement of the horn. Facing these Wilka warriors who were desperate but poorly equipped, they immediately suppressed them again.
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Koen and Kolgrim had returned to the castle with Lann to gather troops with Kratz; while Geralt went back to deliver intelligence, so he was still a long way away from the battlefield.
Fortunately, Lan had already marked them for activating the [Teleport] skill. This high-end elite combat power can play a considerable role in this kind of melee.
Lan didn't call Alice out. After all, Alice is a spirit. Appearing on such an occasion, even as a friendly force, would challenge the perception of the Skellige people.
It is enough for the witchers to join the warband.
However, with Kolgrim as an assassin and Korn as a magician, the fight was still a bit constrained and unable to release all the combat power.
The person who can really play a big role in this situation is - Gede.
Lann looked at the bear-sect demon hunter who was struggling with the giant bear.
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With a flash of golden light, Lan was instantly in front of Gerd and looked at the bear-sect demon hunter who was using a chokehold on the giant bear.
"What are you doing? This is...Bill?"
Seeing the irrational giant bear at this moment, and thinking about the young man who was clearly not injured before, but was dripping with blood and wearing ragged clothes, everything made sense. .
No, he can even think of more things, such as the sea monsters' fear of him and the mermaid that has not appeared yet... "
He is Bill. I don't know if it is because of Svablo's psychedelic potion or some other reason." , there is something wrong with his memory, so your seal hypnosis was not able to judge the current situation before." Gede shouted, "After all, he can't tell you things that he doesn't even know." "But we still
have We need him, Lann." Gede saw Lann's lion eyes flashing and hurriedly advised, "We have not found the real gathering place of the Wilka people, and we still need him to lead us." Gede's words were biased
. of.
In theory, Bill is no longer needed. After annihilating all the Wilkas here, the Svablo Sect should have no real strength, and the group no longer needs to sneakily explore their gathering place.
To take a step back, even if the Svablo Sect still retains a strong fighting capacity, it has already alerted the enemy and the battle has turned into a tough battle. After that, it will be fine even if the people are dispersed openly, and they can use small groups as before If you go to explore the opponent's gathering place, you may be countered by the opponent who is familiar with the terrain.
Gede's explanation at this time should be that he was moved by compassion; a demon hunter who came out of this most ruthless school of thought has an extraordinarily gentle heart.
But Lann didn't originally intend to kill Bill.
He looked at the last skill point left in his system and the follower panel waiting to be opened.
A young man who is born with extremely strong mental resistance may have some talent in him. In addition, at this moment, he has become a mutant berserker who can transform into a bear, which is also a good instant combat ability.
Moreover, Lan is quite interested in the berserker transformation of the Svablo sect: Is this a gift from the evil god, or is it a simple research result of alchemy and magic?
Or is it a mix of the two?
Is it possible to reproduce it?
Is it even possible to make improvements, in addition to bear warriors, to develop wolf warriors, tiger warriors, or even gryphon warriors, fork-tailed dragon warriors... It seems that keeping
an obedient experimental subject and throwing it to Mossack for research It's quite necessary.
By the way, Mossack has a backlog of several experimental projects now?
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Thinking like this, Lan put his hand on the forehead of the breathless giant bear who was being choked and choked by Gede.
The giant bear's consciousness has gradually become blurred, and this is when its sense of resistance is at its weakest.
[Follower]——Contract.
(End of chapter)