"It will come again, don't be careless in shrinking the formation." The rain has stopped, but the wind has not yet stopped, and Henry said this. People around them quickly lit torches and lanterns to provide visibility in the darkness. Darkness has been the enemy of humans with underdeveloped senses of smell and hearing since ancient times, but for many other predators, night is no obstacle.
The seriously injured A Yong was sent to the carriage, and the non-combatants who woke up because of the fighting took care of him. The sage glanced at A Yong, who was also not wearing a helmet, and the dark blue hair soaked in blood of the warrior who fell to the ground dead.
Looking back, I looked at the other people who were relatively sober and knew that they had to put on their helmets before fighting.
"Do you still have the peppermint ointment?" He asked Jian Ye in the car, and the latter quickly took it out in the dark and handed it out through the gap in the barrier.
"Apply it behind the ears and on the neck. Do the same for Aya, Sakura and the two Qingtians in the car." The sage said this, while Narumi followed his instructions and asked in confusion: "This Why, sir?"
"Hide your aura of noble blood, and hide your hair." We still don't know if the hounds will return for a second wave of attacks, so now is not the best time to explain. Henry's words stopped there, and the warriors had trusted him to get through it so far, and they didn't hesitate much now.
The tips of wet tall grass hang low, and the water on the ground recedes at a speed visible to the naked eye. When the wind blows, the water vapor contaminated with grass juice evaporates, hitting people's faces head-on, causing an annoying numbness.
The body of the fallen warrior who ran too far alone was outside the formation. Old Qiao glanced at it several times. It was a shame for the martial arts family to let their companions expose their corpses in the wilderness like this, but in order to prevent more people from dying, they could only shrink their formation and use themselves as a shield to surround the carriage to prevent the small and fast hounds from using the carriage as a cover to sneak in again.
Everything about it was repulsive, the air, the sound, the humidity.
A feeling of irritability brews inside. Wanting to avenge its companions, the hound refused to fight head-on, dodging back and forth and using bunkers to bring hatred. A range of factors influenced the warriors' decisions - but Henry was there.
"Calm down, don't lose to the beast."
The words that came out of this man's mouth were as bland and unwavering as ever, but they made people understand wonderfully what to do.
"Abandon bows, arrows and spears, it is difficult to hit. Attack with swords." He is a foreigner, but no one has any objection to his command. They acted according to the sage's command, and the people holding swords stood side by side with the ghost warriors, alert to the darkness beyond the flickering firelight.
The wind blows.
The wet tall grass makes a heavy "sha la la" sound, which is slower and more steady than when it is dry.
The dark clouds in the sky gradually dispersed, and the first ray of blue light in the early morning was cast down, reflecting on the polished blade that was as bright as a mirror and pointed straight forward.
The thick poisonous water vapor condensed on the blade and turned into a drop of dew.
When it finally couldn't bear its own weight and fell, the grass on the left side was separated by something dark in the reflection of the blade.
"Coming!" The person who shouted was Joshua. In the dark environment, the blind swordsman's hearing was reliable, so the sage entrusted his full attention as a warning.
"Drink!!" The two-meter-tall ghost warriors, covered in armor, clicked and wielded thick blunt weapons. However, except for Teruyue, who successfully killed a hound, the others were all from huge bodies. They managed to avoid it.
"Fill the vacancy!" Narumi, who was in charge of protecting the left wing, led the samurai group, Luoan girl, and Galeva carrying a large shield under the command of Henry. The smaller humans filled in the ghost clan. Due to the flaw in the defense, the hound was successfully intercepted before it could get close to the carriage.
This was exactly the battle plan that Henry briefly summarized and asked them to change after the first battle - bunkers such as carriages can certainly give people a sense of security, and there are also important non-combatants in them. But now that the speed and agility of the elf hound far exceeds that of a group of people, this bunker will be used by the enemy to a greater extent than itself.
Therefore, they had to abandon the carriage and move forward, controlling the battle to the clearing area that had been cleared in advance.
"Haah!" the warriors shouted, raising their swords and slashing at the hounds, but what surprised them was that the other party sided away the moment they raised their swords.
"It's not over yet!" The attack that followed by turning the blade upward was completely in vain. After two misses, the hound kicked off its hind legs and launched an attack towards them, but at this time, the ghost clan, Rigar and his party were covering and following. Come up.
Even with the mint ointment applied, the hound is still clearly highly targeted towards Kazuto, especially Kazuto samurai.
The ghost clan's first attack will most likely miss, because the flexibility and intuition of these things are very powerful.
The first wave to take over the position was the Aoda family samurai group led by Narumi.
And although they can fight to their heart's content, it is not the only reason why Henry, who knew the situation after observing, arranged it this way.
"Everyone of the Qingtian family, pull back." The sage commanded. Although Kazuto's martial spirit resisted this, they still followed the order and retreated.
The hounds attacked the most targeted samurai. The ghosts had already attacked forward. While the samurai and hounds pulled back from the gap between them, Rigar and the others also moved forward from the side.
"The ghost tribe turns."
"Samurai stop."
In all critical situations, instructions should be as simple and clear as possible.
So he gave his instructions straightforwardly, and everyone followed them faithfully.
When the formation was taking shape, they just realized that Henry had arranged new response measures based on the information on the scene in just a few minutes.
"Ha!" The warriors attacked again. Although the attack range of the sword was not as good as that of the spear, it was more flexible. They attracted the attention of the hounds, and Rigar and his party, as well as the ghosts, turned back from the side and the front without any intention of evading.
He hit the target with his best attack.
"Bang!!"
"Qiang————"
"Crack!"
The mighty ghost club and the swift Rigal sword are different from each other but surprisingly can be used universally.
The swift and ferocious elf hound has no advantage in defense. Its fragile skin and slender frame cannot withstand a heavy blow from an experienced warrior.
Blood overflowed, and the muscles on his smooth body that were not fat but powerful were still trembling under the obsession before death.
But the pure black eyes with indistinguishable pupils on the face like a raptor have gradually lost their luster.
"Qiang——" Yajiro lowered the knife in his hand and took off his helmet.
The blue glow of the early morning grew stronger.
The dew mixed with blood slid down the blade, and finally dripped into the water on the ground that was too shallow to be noticed unless you looked carefully.
Dissolve in the green grass.
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The bodies of the fallen warriors were eventually buried near this large rock.
Ah Yong is still in a coma and doesn't look good. Although Mr. Jian knew some medical skills, the poison in these hounds came from the tall grass grown by the elves, which was something he had never heard of before.
I don’t know what the poison is and how to detoxify it.
They could only do what they could at the moment and try to replenish him with water to see if they could expel it.
Narumi walked towards Henry, along with several other members of the Qingtian family.
"Yes sir."
"You know something."
His tone had never been so harsh, even though he was still using honorifics; even though he knew that getting angry at Henry was just venting his anger.
But he still found it difficult to swallow this breath.
"Do you really want to know?"
"That's another answer you're not ready for."
Even though the samurai leader became a little aggressive due to a series of factors, the sage still looked at him with a calm attitude.
Even if young people know the truth, sometimes they still cannot control their temper.
He is still young.
"Ha-" Narumi took a deep breath and let it out.
Make a fist, then unclench it.
After repeating it several times, he spoke in a calmer tone:
"Even so."
"This is it." Seeing that he had made up his mind, the sage pointed to the hound corpse on the ground.
The dawn has fallen, but the cold wind remains. The strong wind blew their hair and sleeves, and others gathered around to watch, especially the witches and Luoan girls.
"The legacy of your ancestors."
"Inheritance, this kind of thing?" Yajiro made a puzzled voice.
"In the long past, when there were still gods walking on this earth, there were more than just humans. No, there were more than just 'Japanese'."
"The elves, Kazuto once called them the people of the forest."
"The dwarves, Kazuto once called them the People of the Earth."
"And many other races."
"Then why now -" It was the Great God who spoke this time, but as soon as he said it, he recalled what he had seen and heard along the way, and he did not finish.
"How can this country, where Xinjing and the feudal lords are both in the same country and cannot tolerate each other, tolerate the existence of other races and nationalities?" He said in his usual steady voice. The warriors wanted to object loudly, but the words came to their lips. side, but finally couldn't say it out loud.
Because they are in the same situation now.
Xinjing doesn't know the loyalty of the Qingtian family. If they encounter a samurai from a state directly under the central government, war will be the only thing waiting for them.
And the feudal lord must kill them for his own benefit.
Although the Kingdom of the Moon is huge, the only place they can stay is next to each other.
"Kazuto slaughtered almost all the other residents of this continent, as well as all the creatures they thought were dangerous."
"Slaughter?" Mira noticed Henry's wording, but she just whispered it.
"This is the last resistance of the forest people, the last traces left four thousand years ago. And them." He pointed to the dead elf hound.
"I'm afraid it was born to hunt and kill people."
"Four thousand years, this is too unreasonable." Yajiro seemed a little excited.
"We don't know what happened in the past. Why? If there is a hostile object, if so. Why is this the reason?" Although the relationship was somewhat rigid before, the young master and A Yong still have a relationship equivalent to brothers. , it is understandable that he would become anxious now that he was seriously injured.
"We have never known what our predecessors did, because such a thing will result in one death and one injury."
"Because they haven't forgotten." Henry gave this answer straightforwardly.
"Short-lived humans are very good at forgetting. Maybe a little too good at it."
"Rewrite history, legitimize behavior, and educate future generations to forget some disgraceful things. Human beings are always good at doing such things."
"I have forgotten it, and I hope the victim will also forget it all."
"Then it's like it never happened."
"But they still remember." The strong wind blew, and Henry slowly narrowed his eyes as he watched the sun's rays finally rise on the distant horizon, swaying the tops of the tall grass in the dazzling light and gradually disappearing.
Yajiro clenched his fists and lowered his head without saying a word, and everyone in the group fell into silence.
And he whispered again.
"But they still remember."
The blood mixed in the water and soaked into the earth, and the remaining elven hounds were all destroyed in this battle.
But the boulder remains.
The poisonous tall grass that was originally cultivated to resist the attack of the Kazuto army will continue to grow now and in the future.
Even if the defense has failed, the residents are gone.
