The long bow was prepared, and the long sword with a wide blade and a hollow bloodletting arrow was placed on the main body of the bow, but it was not pulled away for the time being.
Benoit and Jeanne squatted on the tree trunk with a distance of about ten meters. The two skillfully tied themselves to the tree trunk with leather belts to stabilize their bodies while holding the longbow with both hands.
The hunting plan is very simple. The long-established mercenary guild has many free tips that can teach you such things, but even before that, people often used this method to hunt: First, as a magician, An Zai Prepare in advance to use the fireball technique to explode nearby in the distance to frighten the wild boars.
Then Henry, Mira and Alan, who were the vanguard, surrounded them and drove the wild boar towards the trap.
Finally, the archers delivered a fatal blow to the wild boar struggling in the trap.
The water vapor in the air was gradually pushed aside. An stood there with her eyes closed and her palms raised upwards. After a moment, she opened her eyes. The fireball popped up, but it was far larger than the one used to ignite it before. The bonfire is more powerful.
"Estan (launch)!" Ann shouted loudly. The wild boar that was attracted by the sound instantly raised its head and looked to this side, and then was frightened by the fireball exploding in mid-air and started running forward with a scream. stand up.
"Go!" Alan shouted loudly, and then Henry and Mira both drew their weapons and rushed out from behind the hiding woods.
The wild boars screamed and rushed in this direction. The already rugged ground in the forest was arched by them, making it even more difficult to walk. Mira staggered and almost fell. Henry grabbed her and helped the girl maintain stability.
Although the name and racial classification are pigs, wild boars are very lethal. As omnivorous animals, they naturally do not mind eating humans - even mountain lions and forest wolves have those huge fangs. Would use caution, falling down in this situation is really not a good idea.
"Dong dong dong dong!" The wild boar weighing hundreds of kilograms screamed and rushed towards this direction with a mighty force like a heavy cavalry, but Henry immediately noticed that they scattered due to fright. Two adult ones were heading towards the right. He and Mira, the young man, ran straight towards Alan - neither of them ran towards the trap in the center.
"Damn it!" Alan cursed loudly. He had never considered that the ferocious wild boar did not rush towards an uninhabited place but launched a direct attack after being frightened. Now the young one-handed swordsman It doesn't matter whether a soldier fights or not.
The reward required getting as complete a pigskin as possible, so the archer was used as the last means of attack. The penetrating bloodletting arrow could severely damage the wild boar with just one shot, which was absolutely impossible with melee weapons.
Being hesitant at this time obviously proved that Alan was still inexperienced. After avoiding the charge of the young wild boar in embarrassment, the young man ran back along the tree trunk, but at this moment, the left side was already empty. As long as the wild boar wanted, he could attack him at any time. Can escape.
"Hit the head!" Henry reminded loudly that there was no other way. Attacking the head was an effective way to reduce the loss of the entire skin. Alan reacted immediately and accurately hit the side of the young wild boar's face with a sword.
"Cry woo hoo——!" The young wild boar that was split on one cheek and blinded in one eye screamed, but because of the painful stimulation, it went crazy. Alan hurriedly retreated behind the tree, and straight The wild boar that rushed over shook the whole tree, and many dry leaves fell down.
"Help me!" The crazy wild boar made Alan confused. He shouted at Henry, but the sage glanced at the two wild boars in front of them and Mira behind him, but did not directly Come forward.
"Hey! Help me!" A look of hatred flashed across Alan's anxious face. He looked around behind him, and then when he saw no one came to help him immediately, he turned around and ran away.
"What happened!" The noise in front made the two archers in the tree behind confused, and the two more mature adult wild boars here decided that that direction was dangerous after watching for a while, so they headed towards Henry and Mira. Also rushed over.
The Luoan girl lowered her waist and stood there, swallowed and got ready, but before that, Henry rushed out in one stride.
"..." The sage silently threw away the big sword in his hand and accelerated further. Then when the acceleration reached the extreme, he stepped down hard and stood still. Then he raised his big foot and kicked a wild boar hard. past.
"Cry-" The behemoth, weighing three hundred kilograms, was stopped by Henry's kick before it could fully accelerate. It had nosebleeds and then fainted directly.
"..." Mira was sweating coldly. Henry turned back to look at her, but did not speak.
The wild boar charging straight towards the girl made the girl make an evasive choice at the last moment. She jumped out to the side and tried to swing a sword, but her lack of experience prevented her from hitting it, and she also fell to the ground. on the ground.
"Wow -" Mila, who was a little overwhelmed, tried to get up from the ground, but she sat on the cloak she had put on this morning to keep out the cold, and struggled several times but could not get up.
The wild boar shoveled a pile of dirt and stopped, then turned his head. Mira, who was close at hand, could already smell the fishy smell of the beast on this guy and could clearly see the pair of big teeth. Fear enveloped her body again, but Henry just stayed where he was and did not rush over. Mira calmed down and directly untied the straps holding the cloak on her chest, and then rolled back on the spot.
"Tilulu." The wild boar shook his head, and Mira, who was covered in a lot of mud and fallen leaves, stood up quickly and distanced herself.
"..." Henry showed a satisfied smile, and then picked up the sword from the side.
It was at this moment that his entire aura changed.
"Cry, lulu -" The suddenly frightened wild boar ignored Mira and turned to look at Henry who picked up the sword behind him. Then under the white-haired girl's incredible eyes, it passed directly over her and headed towards the archer. Fang Fang ran over.
"It has passed! Prepare to shoot!" the sage shouted loudly, and Benoit and Jeanne, who had been puzzled for a long time to wait for such a sentence, immediately drew their long bows.
"Crow!!" The wild boar hit the trap, and two broad-bladed arrows accurately hit its neck. The beast, which weighed several hundred kilograms, began to struggle. The trap was not tied to death for the same reason. They did not want to damage the pig's skin. of integrity.
"Bang!" After several struggles, the wild boar with two arrows broke through the blocking rope and ran straight away.
The noise gradually subsided, Jeanne and Benoit climbed down from the tree, Ann also came over, Henry shrugged: "Alan just ran away."
He said this, and the others looked at each other in silence, with helpless eyes - obviously this was not the first time such a thing had happened.
With the priority of completing the task, the group of people started to move forward following the blood stains on the ground. After a while, they found the wild boar that had lost too much blood and was dying in a pile of bushes in the distance.
Another wild boar that fainted on the ground with a nosebleed was also recovered ten minutes later. Benoit, Jeanne and An looked at the wild boar that fell inexplicably in the middle of the camp, and looked at Henry with complicated expressions.
"It hit the tree on its own." The sage shrugged again, while the other three looked like it was just what you said.
"Alan!" Mira picked up her cloak from the ground and shook it before putting it on again. Several people nearby began to shout loudly to the one-handed swordsman who turned around and ran away.
"You performed well just now." Henry stepped forward to help her sweep away the fallen leaves from her hair, and then praised her loudly, but the girl herself shook her head: "I was still panicking for a while, and it took me a long time to calm down."
She had a serious expression on her little face and furrowed her little eyebrows as she summarized her mistakes. This made Henry smile even more. He rubbed Mira's little head. The girl reached out and patted him as if Say don't bother me.
The two wild boars weighing hundreds of kilograms obviously had no choice but to be carried back to the camp. After calling Alan for a long time without success, everyone decided to leave here first, considering the possibility that the smell of blood might attract predators.
A carrier composed of branches and thick hemp ropes that had been used as traps was made by the agile archers. Taking into account the height, Benoit and Henry carried the heavier boar in a team of three. A female is responsible for the smaller sow.
As a magician, Ann had to do manual labor. The small tree trunks pressed against her shoulders by her soft and clean robe seemed incompatible with her temperament, but for the sake of life, she had to do this.
Mira put away her sword and helped stabilize the body of the wild boar that was hung upside down. If it swayed on the rugged forest road, it would be even more unbearable for the two of them, who were already physically weaker than men.
The people who took three times longer to return to the camp immediately saw Alan sitting next to the campfire in a mess, cleaning the dirt on his body. The panting people did not say hello to him, but with one hand The swordsman glanced at Henry coldly, as if he was still worried about the sage not going up to decisively support him at that time.
After a period of non-nutritious exchanges, everyone began to rest and have dinner.
The young wild boar that was chopped by Alan obviously ran away. As his acquaintances, Benoit and the others did not say anything. Henry and Mira, who were keenly aware of this, naturally did not mention it.
The young one-handed swordsman's whole body became cold due to his weakness. He looked completely different from when he invited Henry and the others before. While carefully tidying up his appearance, he just sat there without doing anything. Waiting for dinner.
Hitting her sore shoulders, An just sat down and took out the magic book and began to study seriously.
Mira looked at her in fascination, and the gentle-tempered female magician noticed her gaze, raised her head and smiled.
Henry looked at the appearance of the two people while adding firewood to the bonfire pile unhurriedly.
Many young magicians like An are actually in a difficult situation.
It is true that in the eyes of the world, magic is an incredible power. Those high-level magicians can use area magic to kill hundreds or even thousands of people with just a few gestures.
But the number of magicians who become high-level magicians is actually less than one in ten thousand.
The reason is simple, the cost of learning magic is too expensive.
Even though the Spell Association was jointly funded by thirteen high-level magicians more than two hundred years ago, now any ordinary person who has passed the junior magician certification can directly receive a set of robes woven from rare materials for free. and an expensive magic book. But this only improves the living environment of young people and does not completely solve all problems.
Magicians are also mortals who need food, clothing, housing, transportation, and expenses.
Resources are limited, and even if the relative proportion is lower than other professions, there are still a large number of civilians becoming mage apprentices every year. And if all these people want to be supported by the Mage Association for free, they are obviously powerless.
So young mages like An, whose families are not very wealthy, can only work hard to do some mercenary missions and the like, while seizing every spare moment to study seriously.
How efficient is this? The answer is obvious.
This is the reason why more than 90% of the high-level magicians who exist today are from nobles and aristocratic families. Because they have money, they have no worries about food and clothing, and expensive magic books and magic equipment are readily available. , spending all the rest of the day apart from eating and sleeping, studying magic, which is obviously much more comfortable than an ordinary mage like An who has to run around for a living.
Relying on family assets to develop into a powerful magician and then passing it on to the next generation, the aristocratic family of great magicians becomes stronger with each generation, while ordinary people without these innate conditions can only work hard step by step.
——It’s not that there are no successful examples, it’s just that this road is very difficult.
The aroma of the food gradually spread, and Henry looked at Mira and Ann, two people who were quite similar in a sense, thoughtfully.
