C9 Chapter 9 Warcraft Forest
The next day, in the hazy early morning, a horse pulled a cart on the road outside the city. The wheels rolled through the lightly covered white snow on the road, leaving a clearly visible trace. The stones that appeared from time to time made the car tremble and rise and fall from time to time. Not a good experience for the rider.
However, even so, Ina above was in a particularly happy mood.
The majestic black city wall gradually recedes and shrinks behind it. A scene completely different from the slums and different from the buildings in the city appeared in front of her. Even though the villages and towns outside the city became bleak due to the severe winter season, the white-haired girl still felt more and more excited.
This was the first time she had left the city, the first time she could remember, and everything she saw around her felt novel.
"Perhaps... I should have taken her out of the city to take a look." Reike, who was sitting in the driver's seat of the truck and wearing a brown and white bear fur coat, took a look and looked around. Anna, who was very interested, couldn't help but have this thought in her heart. Sigh.
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The hunting location is far from the city. The environment that human civilization can affect is not vast. When the time comes, outside the villages and towns, there will be boundless wilderness and dense jungles.
Some wild beasts are also active around the village.
However, in order to get more prey, hunters still need to go to more primitive and inaccessible mountains and mountains.
And at the borders of those civilizations, even the nearest villages are still far apart.
This is destined that hunters, adventurers, and now Lake and Ina must go to the uninhabited mountains and forests on foot.
Riding a horse in the primitive jungle is not a wise choice without an attendant to lead the horse, let alone a horse pulling a cart.
Ina carried a leather bag containing various camping tools that Lake had requested to prepare in advance.
Because they were walking, even though both of them were extraordinary adventurers, this still greatly increased the time required. No one could guarantee whether they would hunt enough prey first, or whether the blazing sun would set on the horizon first.
For Lake, it was okay to survive a night of more than ten degrees below zero with just the thick clothes on his body, but that was not necessarily the case for Ina.
"Is this the place for hunting?" Ina still looked excited, but also a little nervous.
"No, it's on the other side of several mountains." Lake pointed to the mountains covered with white snow not far away: "Although it's still early, the sunshine time in late winter is also not long. In order to prevent the sun from falling after sunset, Low temperature and unnecessary accidents, Ina, we will head to the target mountain area as soon as possible."
Lake turned to point at his body, and his tone suddenly became serious: "Manage the magic power in the body, just like you practice every day, so that it can strengthen your body's abilities smoothly and evenly, and at the same time stabilize your breathing. Little guy, this can help you better, Easy to call them."
"This is the first lesson of hunting. Keep yourself in a low-level enhanced state of your body, including your vision and hearing, as long as possible and efficiently."
Ina nodded, it was not difficult to do, after all, this was the basis of what Lake taught her.
Then he followed Reike into the forest covered with silver frost, submerged among the white snow and many slightly bleak trees, and headed towards the mountains.
The edge of the restricted area of the Warcraft Forest in Earl of Destroy Ridge is the hunting location that Lake is considering this time.
The restricted area is only a relative term, and it naturally cannot correspond to professionals and magicians such as Lake and Ina.
This is a forbidden place for mortals!
Unlike the captive hunting grounds attached to the nobles' manners and the forests where ordinary hunters relied on, this was the territory of the King of Warcraft.
As for World of Warcraft, apart from orcs, they are currently the biggest trouble and threat to mankind. Like ordinary animals, or they used to be ordinary animals, they are extremely widespread.
At the same time, as the darlings of nature, just like the dragons, angels, and Titans in ancient legends, they can use magic and have bodies bred by magic.
Level 2 and 3 monsters can easily tear into pieces the plate armor of a fully armed orthodox knight. Even a petite hare, as long as the hail condensed by a monster, the stones rolled up are enough to pierce the human skull.
As for high-level monsters, they can no longer be described as "terrible" or "dangerous" - they are disasters.
As their ranks rise, their spirituality approaches that of orcs, and they can control a group of monsters. To them, the walls of small cities are like weeds bending in the wind on the roadside, and the magic they stir up is enough to burn down the city.
In order to avoid causing massive casualties and losses, the kingdom even dispatched troops and set up special disaster financial expenditures to hire a team of adventurers to clean up.
Naturally, this financial expenditure is not only targeted at high-level Warcraft.
Some of the monsters that reproduce quickly, in large numbers, and frequently harass villages and towns are the most troublesome political affairs for local nobles and regional governors.
In many cases, this kingdom's special expenditure will be used to alleviate the settlement expenses in these areas, which is part of the work that Lake takes over, and the source of income - guild bounties.
The height difference in the terrain becomes more and more obvious. The woods are completely different from the plains and grasslands, and the branches of the tangled shrubs are covered with snow-white.
Even in March, the ice and snow in the Earl of Destroy Ridge were still not melting, and pure white covered a large area of the world in front of Ina's eyes.
If it weren't for the white clouds still flowing, the "plop" sound of the two stepping on the light snow, and the sound of the cold wind whistling in the ears, Ina would have thought that the world had stopped in an instant that she didn't notice.
On the snowy mountain road where white and brown colors intertwined, two small black dots gradually slowed down their progress.
The two of them marched in a team, with Lake in front and Ina behind.
Ina always pulled the bow halfway, and the fingers that tightened the bowstring showed the girl's nervousness and caution. In contrast, Lake looked as calm as if he were sightseeing in the mountains. The white snow half as high as a shoe under his feet was steep and steep. The mountain road is like walking on flat ground.
The two of them seemed particularly incompatible in the same place.
"Is this really an area where monsters are infested?" Ina, who raised her hand to pin another snow rabbit jumping from the snowdrift to the ground, couldn't help asking Lake a similar question.
Enhanced by magic power, her vision, hearing, and perception are far beyond those of ordinary hunters. Ina skillfully broke the rabbit's neck, pulled out the arrow, and hung the harvest to the backpack behind her.
This is already the fourth rabbit that has been hunted. There is nothing else, making it difficult for the girl to remain as nervous and alert as she should be.
"Hunting is always a monotonous and boring job. It is common to get nothing. Now it is good. With enough patience, you are an excellent hunter..." Before he finished his words of admonishment, Lake's eyes turned cold. A whirlwind of fighting breath was already wrapped around his hands.
The moment the girl picked up the prey, the silence all around caused the girl to let go of her last tense nerve!
It's like everything has been decided, and it's like the notes written by many experienced adventurers.
The moment she lowered her guard, the tree crown above her head shook violently, and the thing inside seemed to be ambushing its prey. The long-awaited hunter suddenly fell from Ina's head.
