Alexander's Memoirs - The Trailblazers Chapter 20: The Night Battle
The village chief nodded in agreement and replied: "Fighting the tireless monsters consumes a lot of our physical strength. In this dangerous battle, only the wizard is distracted. At that time, the monster's attack directly hit Solas, although he
Solas blocked it but flew away and hit the wizard, and then they both fainted and fell to the ground."
"It's so evil..." After saying that, Noli came to the wizard who was being carried by the big man, and felt whether there were any magic fluctuations in his body, and whether his breath was stable. Unfortunately, she couldn't sense whether there was magic in the wizard's body.
, and the wizard's breathing was slightly rapid.
Could it be that she gave all her power to me in the end... Noli looked away and remained alert, and didn't think about it anymore.
"Speaking of which, do those red thorn bushes in the rainforest have something to do with these unclean creatures? Why didn't I see them in the temple?" Alexander looked at other teammates.
Freya did not answer the question but murmured: "Well... I am a little concerned about whether that person can control unclean creatures."
Sherlock, who is usually either silent or showing off, became more serious: "To be honest, if we can, I don't think we can beat him..."
Alexander thought for a while: "That person is obviously not the same group as the unclean creatures in the temple, but I don't know about the tomb of the giant beast. Regardless of this, let's go back to Ankaro Village to check the situation. Next step
At least we need to clean up the unclean creatures and dangerous beasts wandering in the rainforest, and then consider solving the threat of the giant beast tomb. The next step is to confirm whether the things in the temple are really dead. There are too many things.
.”
No wild beasts or wandering unclean creatures were encountered, but this time it took a lot longer than when we came here, and we finally arrived at the gate of Ankaro Village at dusk.
"Well... I hope nothing happened in the camp." Alexander looked in the direction of the camp, planning to say goodbye and then turn around and leave.
"I hope the wizard is fine... Then let's leave." Freya felt a little numb when she thought of so many troubles.
"Why don't you rest here for the night before leaving? The spellcaster you mentioned won't be back for a while, right?" The village chief began to persuade him to stay, having already regarded several adventurers as trustworthy partners.
"I'm also very tired, but we must go back to the camp now to confirm the safety of the camp..." Alexander looked hesitant, but in fact she didn't want to spend the night here at all.
Noli suggested splitting up operations. Alexander hesitated and nodded: "Freya, could you please go back to the camp to confirm? Even if we encounter the worst situation, we can still run. But that person is both arrogant and cowardly. I
I feel like he won’t come back at least until the injury is healed.”
"It's better for me to go back. The guy just before didn't seem to pay attention to me, and my current condition is not bad." Sherlock raised his hand. Although he offered to solve the problem by himself, in fact, he probably felt that no one cared about him.
Feeling more comfortable, you can even catch fish.
"Forget it, it's better not to act alone. I have to go back to replenish arrows... Do you still want to go back?" Even if the ammunition is recycled in every battle, there is not much in the quiver at this time. Alexander is considered
Find a valid reason to leave.
"I won't go back now. I just hope the wizard wakes up soon." Noli was not overly concerned about the camp, nor was she worried about the tribe's purpose.
"I plan to abandon this place and build a new village far away from the tombs of giant beasts and close to water sources. Do you want to come?" the village chief asked before Alexander and others left.
"Village chief, do you have a specific place to go?" Considering that the current atmosphere was somewhat awkward, Noli asked before a few people could speak.
"There is no clear goal, but we need to stay away from here. We have previously confirmed several new locations suitable for establishing a village. We can select them tonight and set off the day after tomorrow. Let this place be used as an outpost." The village chief looked at Alexander.
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"Understood, we originally planned to move the camp. This shouldn't be a big problem. But let's discuss it." Alexander is somewhat resistant to being merged into the tribe. In her opinion, being neighbors is good. Speaking of which, the village chief said
No more politeness, and went straight into the village.
After resting for a while, Sherlock stretched out and felt that the previous weak feeling was gone forever: "I'm ready, are you going?"
"Aww..." Susie followed Noli and listened quietly to everyone's conversation. Freya knelt down and touched the she-wolf's head: "I won't follow you. I won't go alone with Noli."
Not too reassured."
"Okay." Alexander looked at the setting sun and said, "I've wasted enough time, let's go." Then he walked towards the camp, and Sherlock followed.
After the meal, Noli helped the tribe warriors, women and children make rattan frames so that they could carry supplies on their backs when setting out. There was also a special version tied to the clouded leopard. Susie seemed to want to try carrying one on her back, but Noli
After looking at her back, she gave no permission. Freya rested on the spot, recovered her body, sorted out the complicated information in her mind, and adjusted her mental state.
On the other side, it was almost dark before Sherlock and Alexander stepped into the camp. They happened to see soldiers calming the frightened horses, and two technicians packing dried meat and loading it on a modified human cart.
Seeing Alexander and Sherlock returning, the captain stood up and walked over. Perhaps he became excited when he saw the tears and blood stains on their clothes. He coughed for a while and hurriedly said: "Where are the others? Are they all okay?"
"We are back, everyone is fine." Alexander nodded.
"What's the situation now?" The village chief looked in the direction of the stable.
"Something happened, maybe we have to prepare to move." Sherlock also looked at the irritable horses in the stable.
"We have determined that the people from the tribe should be from the advance team. We found very scary monsters among the gamblers in the ruins of the temple, as well as the source of unclean creatures. Finally, Freya activated a self-destruct switch.
, blew it up."
This thing will always surprise people, and the captain is no exception: "It's really a disturbing encounter, but at least we have allies now. Ahem, they are more familiar with this rainforest, which is a good thing."
Alexander swallowed a sip of saliva to moisten his throat and continued: "After the explosion, a man suspected to be the spell caster appeared to attack us. He used defensive spells. He also had very disgusting hallucinations. After being disabled by us,
A scroll of some kind was torn up and disappeared. It should be some kind of one-time magic item. Now the people of the tribe are preparing to migrate, and they plan to invite us to come with them."
"Is this the specific situation?" The captain's frown slowly relaxed, and he waved to call a technician. "Except for the horses, take away all the other useful things. Well...the two horses became a little restless not long after you left. We finally
So we can leave as soon as possible... According to the previous promise, the horses are yours now, so it is up to you to move these two horses."
"Well...Captain, I'm really sad that you still remember this kind of thing." Alexander really felt a bit sad.
"Such a wilderness is not a place where promising young people like you should stay." The captain said meaningfully, coughed a few more times, and then left the two thoughtful people to direct the transportation.
"Does this mean to tell us to leave the rainforest? But there are still many things that have not been dealt with here. Captain, does he feel bad?" Alexander looked at Sherlock, who rarely thought seriously before replying: "This means
We have to travel in the dark, and the route we know is difficult for horses to pass. As for leaving, it doesn't matter. If the village chief and the others are here, there should be no problem. That guy is stronger than me. Compared to
Here, I would rather like to see the outside world."
Alexander sighed, led the horse and walked over and asked: "Captain, the road from the horse to the tribe is difficult to walk. Is there a shortcut or something?" The captain handed over the map and said: "It is already very difficult for the soldiers to protect the technicians.
I really don’t have the energy to control these two frightened horses. Think of a way. You can’t stay here and be bitten to death by wild beasts.” Alexander compared it, and it was no more detailed than Freya’s map, at least.
The part close to the tribe was still Freya's map or the memories of several adventurers were more detailed, and the map was returned.
Alexander had no choice but to discuss with his teammates with a grimace: "Ah, then we have to carry this horse to the tribe?"
"I, I can't seem to carry this horse..." Sherlock said with an embarrassed look on his face.
"Well, Shylock, you hold the sword in front to clear the way, and I lead the horse behind and walk slowly, maybe that will work?" Alexander filled the quiver and then mounted one horse and pulled the reins of the other horse to try.
After trying it, he turned over again. "We will go directly from the rainforest passage to the lake, and then turn back to the tribe from the road there. Although it is a bit far, the horse can pass by."
"Well, that's the only way." Sherlock took out the rusty scimitar he seized from the skeleton. After all, there were many vines from the rainforest passage to the lake, and it was difficult for a soft sword to open the way.
Before nightfall, the two rode horses to the end of the rainforest passage, and then led the horses from the lake to the forest path leading to the lake. However, not long after Sherlock, who was walking in front, lit the torch, the three
The humanoid unclean creature with strong jumping ability that I had encountered appeared not far away.
"Damn it, Sherlock, you defend first, I'll tie up these two horses." Alexander quickly took action, this kind of monster is not slow.
"Okay." Sherlock threw away the knife, drew his sword and advanced fifteen feet towards the monster, assuming a defensive posture.
The first unclean creature was the fastest. It ran for a while and then jumped to Sherlock's side accurately. The horse that was not tied to the tree was frightened, neighed and ran in the opposite direction. Alexander
He pulled the reins tightly and took great effort to tie the horse up. He turned around and took off the bow on his back.
The second unclean creature jumped over Sherlock and landed next to one of the horses. The horse, which was tied to a tree, was restricted by the reins and could only stay as far away as possible. The third one was initially farther away and rushed not far from Sherlock.
"I'll find a way to hold these two back, and leave the remaining one to you." Sherlock raised his sword and slashed at the unclean creature in front of him at high speed. It looked like it had been severely injured by a whip, and the skin and flesh were bruised and bloody wherever it hit.
Flow is a soft sword that has been used in new ways.
Faced with the attack of the unclean creature, Sherlock was completely justified this time. He raised his sword and stopped the attack with his backhand.
"Let's focus on killing one first." Alexander stretched out his hand and drew an arrow and shot it at the enemy in front of Shylock. The arrow hit the unclean creature's forehead and died.
"Cook." Sherlock tilted his mouth and provoked the other horse. But at this time, one of the horses was unable to retreat and was caught hard by the unclean creature.
"Don't worry about the one on your face for now. Get rid of the one next to the horse first." Alexander did not expect that the unclean creature did not attack him.
"Okay." Sherlock dodged the bite of the unclean creature that rushed in front of him, and turned around to defend himself.
Alexander consciously made a mistake and quickly shot an arrow through the neck of the unclean creature. However, even with this kind of injury, the unclean creature was able to knock Alexander away, and then stretched the pierced neck forward and took a bite.
It bit the horse. A big hole opened in the poor horse's neck. It was bleeding and fell to the ground.
"Sherlock, please kill this one with the hole in its neck first, and I'll give the horse first aid." Alexander hurriedly went to get his own medicine.
Dodging the attack of the chasing monster again, Sherlock responded: "Oh, okay." Then he sprinted quickly and stabbed the unclean creature in front of the horse with a sword on the neck, cutting off the head and dying.
die.
Alexander covered the wound on the horse's neck with a bandage and successfully stopped the bleeding. At the same time, he used his body to block the last unclean creature and the other horse. Fortunately, the last one recognized Sherlock, and after a silly exchange of attacks, he was killed.
Sherlock simply dealt with it.
After the battle, Alexander checked and found that although the horse was not dead, it was unable to move unless it could be carried. "This is too unlucky." Alexander stretched out his hand to see if he could carry it, but she
It wasn't Nolly, Sherlock was watching from the side.
"Well...wait a minute, I have another idea." Alexander tried to put the fainted horse on the back of the awake horse to see if it could be supported. But considering that this position must be supported by someone, and if
If the horse in front runs again, this horse will definitely be thrown to the ground.
After a moment of silence, Sherlock said: "I still have a bottle of medicine, so there should be no more fighting after that. Feed it and it should wake up. It's not an option if it continues like this."
Alexander put the horse down and watched Shylock take out the medicine bottle that he had treasured for a long time, squat down and feed the horse. The horse woke up, stood up and wanted to run away, but the reins were still there and Alexander pulled him back.
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"Oh, what a disaster." Alexander stood aside and waited for the beast to calm down.
Sherlock yawned and lit a new torch: "I'm a little sleepy. Let's keep walking. I hope I can start early and rest."
The horse ran a few steps and then lay down farthest from the body to rest. "Okay, okay." Alexander waited until the horse didn't seem to want to run anymore, then took off the reins and prepared to continue on the road. Sherlock also picked it up and threw it on the ground.
knife.
But even after drinking the medicine, the injury on the horse's neck was still very serious. Alexander became anxious when he saw the horse getting up: "We can't wait here for you to recover from your injury. Get up quickly." Anyway, the injured horse is there.
Lying beside the tree, another group of horses went over and licked the horse's eyes with their tongues.
"Damn it, it's better not to feed this beast the medicine. Now it's hard to take it away on horseback when it wakes up. What should I do?" Alexander looked at Sherlock, hoping he could give him a good suggestion.
Sherlock put the torch in the distance and looked at the moonlight: "How about we stay here and wait for them to come to us at dawn?"
"That's all we have for now... let's move these corpses away first." Alexander put his bow on his back, picked up a thick branch, and began to push the corpses into the bushes farther away, while remaining vigilant to prevent these things from pretending to be corpses.
Of course... there is no fake corpse, after all, they were all damaged and their heads were lost.
"Looks like I won't be able to sleep tonight..." Sherlock looked around to see if there was a suitable tree, picked one, climbed up and sat on the branch, watching his surroundings.
Alexander put out the torch. She hadn't told anyone else that she could see a gray-white-black scene about fifty feet away in complete darkness, but Sherlock could barely see anything based on the cold moonlight in the forest. For a moment,
Only the wind rustled the leaves and the dew fell and insects chirped.
Perhaps the sound of the previous battle was heard, and soon another unclean creature wandered over. Alexander knocked it down with one arrow, and the single enemy was easily dealt with.
Not long after No. 4 was brought down, unclean creatures No. 5, No. 6, and No. 7 appeared, the same type they had seen underground in the temple. These monsters seemed to be approaching directly not by sight but by other senses. Alexander exploded
A swear word: "How many more things like this are there in tmd?"
Alexander shot an arrow but was blocked by the exposed injured bones. Seeing the monster that had obviously become thicker, she felt very irritated. As Unclean Creature No. 5 approached, Alexander drew out an arrow again and shot out.
Then he moved a few steps between Unclean Creature No. 5 and the uninjured horse: "Is there something wrong with these things? Why do you always want to kill horses?"
Sherlock also dodged and rushed in front of Unclean Creature No. 5. He flicked his wrist and the soft sword disappeared from the target's sight. Only the sound of crackling wind sounded like dozens of feather arrows shot from the string at the same time. Then he yawned and replied.
: "Perhaps that bastard spellcaster's conspiracy hasn't ended yet... Sure enough, I still can't stay up late, I'm so sleepy." Sherlock yawned again, but his hand shook and the sword slid past the unclean creature.
, fortunately, this one finally came to fruition. This chapter has been completed!