Quinn, who lives in Irwindale, has wanted to fly since he was a child.
For Demacians who long to fly, the best way to realize their dream is to join the Dragon Bird Knights.
Unfortunately, Owendale is not a territory directly under the royal family. It is not an easy task to become a soldier here.
Theoretically, if you want to be eligible to sign up to become a dragon and bird knight, you need to be selected as an "Owendale reserve" and go to castrate.
The selection of dragon bird knights is more stringent than that of the fearless vanguard, and it does not happen every year. Therefore, it can be said that it is very difficult to become a dragon bird knight and enjoy flying on the back of a dragon bird.
In addition, because the Lord of Owendale has no food left at home, if you want to become a reserve of Owendale, you must prepare your own weapons and armor - the Lord of Owendale will not provide any material for the reserve forces who join the army in the capital.
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Quinn's family is not wealthy. Although her father is a blacksmith in a local village, just as farmers may not always have enough to eat, the weapons and equipment made by the blacksmith may not be their own.
In other words, it was precisely because he was a blacksmith that Quinn's father knew exactly what a full set of armor meant to his family.
Therefore, instead of bringing his own weapons and rations to sign up for the army, after hearing about his daughter's ambition, he came up with a solution that seemed more feasible: participate in militia training, and then join the rangers as an outstanding ranger.
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In Demacia, the Rangers are a relatively special team.
Although the Ranger Corps is also an absolute elite regiment, due to the special nature of the Rangers' need for "all-terrain combat", they prefer to recruit militiamen with combat experience compared to the selection and training of reserve rookies sent to the capital from various places.
——The local rangers of Owendale are a militia organization recognized by the rangers.
The Dragon Bird Knight has always been the best among the best. If he can become the best among the Demacia Rangers, then Quinn may have the opportunity to become a glorious Dragon Bird Knight.
Although this road seems a bit tortuous, it actually has a high probability of success. After all, Quinn's mother was once a member of the Owendale Rangers. With her training, Quinn can be regarded as winning since he was a child.
On the starting line.
In this way, at the age of twelve, Quinn and his twin brother Caleb began ranger training.
Caleb does not have the dream of becoming a dragon bird knight. He prefers close combat to flying. In theory, ranger training does not make sense to join a team such as the Dauntless Vanguard, but for his mother, training is
There is no difference between a daughter and a son and daughter training together.
The Rangers are a militia composed of hunters.
Rangers who are hunters are good at surviving and moving in dense mountain forests. They can skillfully use traps and easily distinguish the traces left by animals and the types and functions of plants.
Because of their different ambitions, Quinn and Kaleb have different training focuses - Quinn's training focuses on detecting battlefields, identifying footprints, and long-range shooting; while Kaleb's training focuses on setting traps and dense forests.
Traveling and using polearms.
Perhaps it is due to the subtle relationship between the twins. Quinn and Caleb obviously learn complementary contents, but they always have a competitive momentum - and as the saying goes, "Interest is the best teacher."
", after only five years of study, at the age of seventeen, Quinn and Caleb became well-known hunters near Irwindale.
After all, rangers are all hunters, and those who can become rangers are without exception very skilled hunters - and whether they can go further depends on whether they can use their ability to hunt beasts to hunt enemies.
On the body.
Then, just when they were about to turn eighteen and were about to officially join the rangers and become the militia, a hunting convention completely changed their fate.
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Hunting tournaments are an important social event for Demacian nobles.
Although Demacia is now an aristocratic feudal kingdom with a conservative ethos, it is undeniable that this country has maintained a martial tradition from beginning to end.
How to show one's bravery without facing danger is a knowledge worth studying for noble gentlemen.
And hunting wild beasts is a panacea answer given by predecessors in the past generations.
Killing powerful beasts, like killing enemies on the battlefield, can also show the bravery and fearlessness of nobles - and just like killing enemies can be rewarded, powerful prey can also be embalmed and made into souvenirs.
It shows the master's great martial arts.
However, for noble men who don't usually exercise much and prefer to enjoy themselves, hunting is actually a bit difficult.
Under such circumstances, in order to hunt "without any expense", the trend of hunting conventions gradually became popular among the nobles of Demacia.
The so-called hunting conference is when many nobles go to a relatively remote place to start a hunt. Because the place is relatively remote and no one is familiar with it, almost every noble will hire a reliable guide for themselves.
Of course, even though it's called a guide, it's actually a gunman.
The guide is not only responsible for finding the prey, but also consuming the prey, reducing the prey's condition as much as possible, and waiting until it gradually loses its ability to resist, before handing it over to the nobles for a fatal blow.
After completion, the noble lord will leave enough reward money, and then leave with his trophies to carry out the second half of the hunting meeting - socializing in business exchanges.
Compared with common dance parties, this hunting convention is undoubtedly more high-end.
After all, no matter how down-and-out a nobleman is, he can't afford a decent set of dresses and accessories. As long as he's lucky, he can still attend the dance.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But most of these down-and-out nobles cannot afford to travel thousands of miles decently, prepare a set of gorgeous and elegant armor and weapons, hire a guide, and go on a hunt.
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In addition to being able to show off one's bravery, the hunting convention also invisibly screened out the low-income people who had no spare money. It was a more advanced social place for the nobles.
Just when he was about to sign up to become a ranger, news began to spread that a noble man from Xiongdu was coming to Owendale to hold a hunting conference.
Although they wanted to join the army directly, Quinn and Caleb decisively suspended their registration and instead waited wholeheartedly for the hunting conference.
Their goal is to become a guide, and whether the guide is a militia will affect the level of remuneration.
He is not a guide of the militia, and his personal abilities are definitely not outstanding, so he definitely did not contribute in the hunting. Although this idea is outright self-deception, in the underlying logic of the nobles, this also represents the employee's
Financial resources can also be regarded as part of "increasing face".
Therefore, both Quinn and Caleb chose to be hunting guides as Bai Ding. After all, it was good to make money.
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Due to their extraordinary skills trained since childhood, Quinn and Caleb successfully became the most expensive guides to hire when the hunting conference was held.
Then, they were shocked to find that these nobles from the capital had caused trouble that they couldn't handle.
A bone beast.
Quinn and Caleb had only heard of this terrifying beast that moved quickly and had sharp claws like knives from their mother's stories. According to oral records passed down by rangers, this dark beast would briefly escape.
Entering the shadows, and then launching a surprise attack from the shadows, it is simply impossible to guard against it.
In addition, their fur is smooth and strong, making it difficult for ordinary arrows to penetrate, and will slice open if they miss the target slightly. Therefore, the only way for the rangers to deal with the bone beasts is to "escape for their lives, and then draw a 20-mile radius"
"Restricted area".
According to my mother, there have been no traces of this evil beast near Owendale for a long time - but now, these unlucky nobles and the Bone Beast have come across each other.
The nobles, who had no idea about the horror of the Bone Beast, immediately chose to use bows, arrows and lassoes to deal with this "obsidian-like big cat". In their view, the extremely evil appearance of the Irwindale people
But it has an indescribable elegance and beauty.
The weak shots and the lasso tilted to the sky were naturally ineffective. The actions of the nobles completely angered the bone beast. It roared lowly, and its body blended into the shadow of the jungle like a drop of ink.
When he reappeared, an unlucky baron had his throat bitten by razor-like teeth.
The bloody smell filled the air, and the Bone Beast disappeared again
In this case, as the team's guides, Quinn and Caleb shouted "Stay away from the shadows" while they, together with the nobles' heavily armed guards, surrounded the Bone Beast.
The Bone Beast made several sneak attacks, but the effect was not very good against the thick rune steel armor of the noble guards - so it focused its attention on Quinn and Caleb, who were only wearing simple leather armor.
Caleb, who had guessed this, prepared a trap under his feet early. Although due to his haste, the piercing trap did not actually cause a kill, but instead made Caleb the first target.
Even though Caleb was good at using spears, he was still too immature when facing this kind of beast that lingered in the shadows. After just one encounter, his left arm was almost deboned by sharp claws on the spot.
At the critical moment, Quinn didn't hesitate at all, and directly pressed the trigger of the crossbow to the end, attracting Caleb's attention, and at the same time, he rushed towards the wilderness away from the crowd.
In a place covered by woods and surrounded by shadows, the Bone Beast is simply invincible!
Quinn's shooting skills are top-notch, but unfortunately the power of the pre-loaded crossbow is not enough to penetrate the fur of the beast. Except for a short arrow that accurately hit the right eye of the beast, most of the arrows failed to achieve success.
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However, this single arrow was enough for Quinn to completely attract the hatred of the Bone Beast - it abandoned Caleb, who had almost lost his ability to resist, and escaped into the shadows again, relying on the jump between shadows until he reached the target.
Come to Chukun!
Quinn, who had thrown away her crossbow, immediately pulled out the short knife from her waist, but after seeing the speed of the bone beast, she had no intention of fighting it at close range. She just avoided the shadows that might allow the opponent to shuttle.
In the sparse deciduous forest, running towards the open space at full speed.
The Bone Beast jumped from the shadows several times, but failed to get close to Quinn. It simply gave up the method of traveling through the shadows, spread its legs directly, and began to rely on four legs to chase two legs.
And during the chase, Quinn discovered that the bone beast seemed to have suffered quite a few injuries.
When it is running wildly, once its body relaxes, the fur on its back will tear open!
However, although this wound looks serious, it does not seem to affect the lethality of the Bone Beast. Even if the Bone Beast is injured, it is impossible for Quinn to go up and fight with it with a short knife - you may say, even if you want to
In a physical fight, you have to lead it to a place where it cannot travel through the shadows!
After chasing and escaping, Quinn and the Bone Beast headed away from the hunting ground, while the noble guards quickly divided into two teams. One part stayed in place, and the other part whistled to summon the war horses.
He chased in the direction Quinn left.
However, despite the immediate response of the guards and despite the injury to the Bone Beast's back, Quinn was still unable to reach the "final battle" she hoped for.
At the edge of this sparse forest, she was stopped in place by the Bone Beast.
Then, just when she was gritting her teeth, holding a short knife in one hand on guard, and raising a crossbow to aim, intending to fight this beast to the death, an eagle's cry rang out.
The next moment, a bolt of blue lightning fell from the sky, and a pair of sharp claws stabbed into the bone beast's wound, tearing open the wound that was already healing and causing a string of blood drops to rise.
That's a blue rock falcon.
Judging from its wingspan, it doesn't seem to be fully mature.
With one successful blow, the moment the Bone Beast escaped into the shadows, this smart bird flapped its wings and circled upwards, avoiding the Shadow Beast's attack. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Quinn pulled the cross again.
The trigger of the crossbow fired a string of crossbow arrows. Although most of them were cut open by the fur, three of them finally penetrated the bone beast's defense and got stuck in the muscles of its chest.
The movements of the Bone Beast were visibly cramped, as if the arrow stuck in its chest had greatly restricted its ability to move!
When Quinn saw this, his eyes lit up.
While she continued to be careful, she loaded the crossbow with one hand. This modified crossbow could be loaded with a disposable quiver. Quinn, who was extremely familiar with this, could operate it blindly without looking at the crossbow.
In mid-air, the blue rock falcon was circling.
On the ground, the Bone Beast raised its head and let out a hoarse roar toward the sky.
Then, just when Quinn's crossbow arrow was about to jam the crossbow string, the Blue Rock Falcon once again assumed a dive attack posture, and the Bone Beast also pounced upward, disappearing into the shadow of the trees.
Quinn subconsciously thought that the Bone Beast had focused its attention on the Blue Rock Falcon, so he subconsciously raised his head.
But what she never expected was that the blue rock falcon suddenly folded its wings and attacked Quinn directly!
Seeing this scene, Quinn's mind raced and she instantly realized the problem - and sure enough, behind her head, in a shadow above the tree canopy, a cunning bone beast jumped down from a high place and jumped from Kui's head.
In the shadow of Yin, go straight to Quinn!
For Quinn, it was too late to look back for traces of the Bone Beast and then dodge and deal with it.
In this case, all she could do was swing the crossbow toward the blind field of view behind her, pull the trigger to perform "fire suppression", and roll to the ground, lowering her center of gravity as much as possible, hoping that the bone beast would
One blow won't directly kill you.
At this critical moment, the Blue Rock Falcon swooped down and collided directly with the Bone Beast in mid-air. It flapped its wings against the Bone Beast's body and tried to further tear the wound on its back.
The no longer disguised Bone Beast no longer looked like it had a "chest injury". It fought to further tear the wound on its back and twisted its body abruptly. At the same time, a pair of front paws spread outward, razor-like claws.
He hugged the Blue Rock Falcon directly and broke its wings!
Quinn narrowed his eyes as he looked at the Blue Rock Falcon and the Bone Beast fighting together.
There is only one arrow left in the crossbow case.
The blue rock falcon's wings have been seriously injured and it seems that it will be difficult to fly.
The front claws of the Bone Beast have been opened again, and the sharp claws have been raised again. If the Blue Rock Falcon is hugged by its claws, it will be dead.
However, judging from the previous shooting effects, the crossbow is not powerful enough to kill the Bone Beast with one blow.
what to do?
At the critical moment, Quinn felt that she was unusually calm. The moment the Bone Beast opened its mouth to roar, she took aim at the beast's open mouth with a happy heart and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
The front claws of the Bone Beast grabbed the Blue Rock Falcon again.
But this time, as soon as it caught the proud eagle, a crossbow arrow penetrated its trachea.
The roaring stopped abruptly at this moment.
The Bone Beast and the Blue Rock Falcon rolled to the ground together.
Quinn ignored his breath and rushed straight towards the blue rock falcon with a short knife in hand. As he moved forward quickly, he searched for first-aid medicines in the package around his waist.
However, the ordinary herbs could not stop the wings that were pierced by the claws of the bone beast. The magnificent feathers of the blue rock falcon were dyed bright red. Although it held its head high, its eyes slowly lost sight.
brilliance.
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves was heard, and an aristocratic lady dressed in hunting attire flew off her horse and wrapped two handkerchiefs with wonderful patterns on the wings of the Blue Rock Falcon.
The stubborn bird still wanted to refuse, but after the girl in hunting clothes whistled a few times, it finally accepted the bandage honestly.
Soon, the bleeding stopped.
Quinn looked at the smiling aristocratic lady in disbelief, and subconsciously wanted to express her gratitude - but when she opened her mouth, her voice was hoarse and she could hardly speak.
As if he understood what she meant, the other party waved his hand with a smile, then made a series of gestures very fluently, and handed Quinn the water bladder on his saddle.
When Quinn took the water bag in a daze, the guards behind him finally arrived at the scene - they ignored Quinn and the Blue Rock Falcon, but surrounded the lady in hunting attire in the center.
Everyone looked extremely nervous.
"Miss Sona," the team leader of the escort said in a low voice, "Please be careful, the beasts here are too dangerous."
Sona smiled and shook her head, made a series of gestures fluently again, and finally pointed at Quinn in front of her, and then at the Blue Rock Falcon in her arms.
The guard captain seemed to be able to understand sign language. After nodding, he came to Quinn.
"This warrior." There was a hint of respect in his tone, "Miss Sona hopes to invite you to join this hunt as a participant."
The blue rock falcon in his arms opened his eyes again and weakly supported Quinn with his head. The next moment, an indescribable feeling of exhaustion came over him. Quinn had just come to you, Sona, and had not even had time to say thank you.
, his body suddenly became weak and he almost fell down.
Seeing this, Sona quickly stretched out her arms, connected with the Blue Rock Falcon, and hugged the unconscious Quinn.
In Sona's arms, the Blue Rock Falcon, which was squeezed into the wound, let out a not-sharp groan.
After Sona heard this, she helped Quinn sit down and couldn't help but whistle again.
Since then, Quinn has successfully gained a good friend, a good partner, and the endless envy of his unlucky brother.
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Kalya’s Little Class·Rune Bandage:
A small application of the magic circuit developed by Sona herself.
The magic silk thread dyed with the Forbidden Magic Stone dye is drawn into a magic circuit through embroidery. After being injected with magic power, it becomes a rune bandage that can stop bleeding and speed up wound healing.
This kind of bandage is very effective and easy to use, but the cost is currently extremely high. Compared with the rune steel cloak of the same area (which is also woven with silk thread mixed with forbidden magic stone dye, and used with rune steel armor, it can be used to a certain extent.
Absorb magic) is more expensive and requires recharging.