267. When the hunter meets the hunter
The barbarians who have been invading the northern frontier have always relied on their survival instincts to rob human slaves in the province of Sloit.
Barbarians will look for something to eat when they are hungry, they will find water to drink when they are thirsty, and they will fall asleep when they are sleepy, they never know how to think with their brains, for this group of barbarians, hunting is also an instinct, their ancestors have to go south every winter to capture human males, they learn hunting skills from their elders, and when they become adults, they will enter the north to hunt slaves after the Galloping Horse River freezes.
They never considered why their ancestors only captured human male ** subordinates, but never human female slaves.
The Celtic tribes inherited the wealth of their ancestors and occupied the richest part of the southern part of the ice tundra.
They were once the most powerful of the barbarians, but four years ago the elders made the wrong decision to form an alliance with a Terran careerist, Kai Ito, to plot the entire North, only to end up with 35,000 young Celtic warriors dying in the Prancing Horse.
Eventually, even the richest land in the ice tundra was overrun by the barbarians of the Stormbear Tribe, and the Celtic tribes were forced to migrate to the northern frigid lands.
The barbarians blamed this on Rokoff, the leader of the Celtic tribe's Young Zhuang faction, believing that his brain was too active to bring disaster to the Celtic tribe.
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I didn't expect to see a barbarian warrior who could think with his brain in the Fault Valley Road, and his first reaction when he saw our team was not to rush up to fight, but to turn around and run into the Valley Road.
Seeing the barbarian warriors fleeing into the valley, Noah screamed excitedly, rode down the dirt slope on his Gubolai horse, and chased him into the valley.
Standing at the front of the line on a black-scaled horse, Karantso turned her head to glance at Noah who rushed out from her side, and grabbed the reins of the Kubolai horse with a quick hand, and the Gubolai horse was pulled by a great force, and her two front legs were raised high.
With a terrible neigh, Noah, who was riding on the back of the Kubolai horse, fell off his horse on his back, and the slope was knee-deep with thick snow, and Noah fell on the snow, not injured, but he was so startled that his face was a little pale, and he lay in the snow.
"Noah, how are you?" said Shirley Newman, who quickly jumped down from Gubolai and shouted at Noah lying in the snow.
Noah said weakly on the snow, "I'm fine, it's just a little cold on the ground!"
I ran down from the sleigh and pulled Noah up in the snow, and Ying Li followed closely behind me, and a group of people surrounded Noah.
Shirley made sure that Noah was not injured before confronting Karantso, who was riding on a warhorse, "Don't you know that you can easily get injured when you fall off your horse?"
"If you don't hold him back, do you want to watch him ride his horse into the valley and die?" Karantso asked Shirley Newman.
Shirley Newman was choked by Karantso's aggressive tone.
"If you fall off your horse here, you're just injured, and if you rush into the valley, you might lose your life. Karantso sat peacefully on his horse and said to Shirley Newman with a calm face.
When Shirley heard Karantso say this, she didn't know how to refute it for a while, and she was stunned.
Noah stood beside me, saw me stretch out his hand to dust off the remnants of snow from him, and asked me with an innocent face, "Jijia, didn't you rush up on your skis and kill them all when you met the barbarians before?"
I reached out and took the reins of the Kubolai horse and said to Noah, "Do you think that the barbarian warriors are a bunch of soft persimmons?"
"I thought it was ...... Wasn't you a falcon when you were in the Elementary School of Magic?Didn't you also earn your baronial title for hunting barbarians?Now that we're on board, why be cautious of those lonely barbarians?" Noah said with an innocent expression.
I said to Noah, "Karantso and Ruka may be able to defeat these barbarian warriors alone now, but you can't yet!"
I helped Noah onto the sleigh and let him and Shirley calm down on the sleigh for a while, and then said to Noah, "Besides, when we encounter barbarians, we rarely go head-to-head with them, and usually we set some magic traps first......
While I was telling Noah about the barbarians in the ice and tundra, Karantso asked Deborah to fly into the air to reconnoiter the situation in the valley, and Deborah untied her cloak and spread her wings against the wind, the four-meter-wide wingspan made her look majestic when flying, and she flew into the sky with a reluctant face.
She had just sat on her sleigh and told me secretly that there was nothing more boring than scouting the savages.
Besides, the sky is so cold and the wind is so strong.
Karantso flew towards the valley of the fault mountain, only to circle a few times around the valley crossing before quickly flying back......
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The snow in the valley was so deep that the two horses dragged the sled forward with difficulty, sinking their legs deep into each step and then pulling it out with great difficulty, dripping knee-deep in the snow.
We followed the trail of barbarian warrior footprints, the north wind blowing the remnants of snow that nearly wiped out the barbarian warrior's footprints.
Karantso sat in front of the sleigh, his whip falling from time to time on the strands of the long-haired peon, making the sleigh go as fast and steady as possible.
I sat behind Karantso and extended my magical senses, feeling the movement around me, and in the icy environment, my perception could stretch far and wide.
Caterina and five other orc warriors rode behind the sleigh, and each of us had a string in our hearts, not only because of the barbarian who had disappeared into the valley, but also because of the news that Deborah had just brought that 'more than forty barbarian warriors were actually lying in ambush on the top of Fault Mountain. ’
If it weren't for Deborah's flying into the air to reconnoitre, I'm afraid no one would have thought that there was a group of barbarians ambushing on the cliff above the fault.
There is a drop of about 50 meters between the summit of Fault Mountain and the valley road.
Fault Hill is on the right side of the toboggan and looks like a high wall, rising very abruptly.
The cliff wall of the fault mountain looks like a mille-feuille, and the rock layers of different colors are stacked on top of each other, like the annual rings of a big tree, and these faults are also the annual rings of the cliff rock.
In the eyes of the barbarians, every Northerner is their prey. And in the eyes of us, the falcons, every barbarian warrior is also our prey.
As long as it's hunting, there's a risk......
Every winter in the city of El some young falcons fall, and every year thousands of barbarians remain on the land of the province of Sloitte forever.
The barbarians on the cliff wall were probably waiting for us to enter the valley road, and when the time came, they would suddenly jump down from the top of the cliff and block our team in the valley road, and dozens of barbarians would rush up and grab a group of us.
And I, Karantso, and Katerina, with five orc warriors, went into the valley alone, and hoped that these barbarians would come out of the cliff as soon as possible, so that we could run back a little shorter, yes, a few of us were bait, just like the lone barbarian who led us here, we also wanted to lead them to the exit of the valley.
I didn't expect the snow in the valley to be much deeper than on the plains, and the long-haired peons had a hard time walking through the snow, and I thought that these two long-haired peons would probably be in trouble, they were so docile that without them I even felt that this sleigh could not move an inch in the snow.
We had been about three kilometers into the valley road, when the snowdrift behind us burst open, and the barbarian warrior who had fled at the sight of us burst out of the snowdrift, blocking our way back with a cruel smile on his face, like a hunter who saw a wild beast fall into a trap, and his eyes lit up with greed.
It has a totem tattoo on its face, and when it opens its big mouth, its smile is a little terrifying.
He carried a large and heavy gavel in his hand, and stopped on the valley road behind us, but he was wearing a wide leather trousers, and in this cold weather, he was still naked and strong, and the muscles of each grave were very smooth, and there was a texture of a polished marble block, and a gray brown bear was tattooed on his chest, and a bear's head was tattooed on his shoulder.
He stood on the valley road and let out a chilling 'shiver'.
He clenched one hand into a fist and slammed his chest hard, making a 'bang-thump' sound, and he was provoking me.
A similar howl was heard from the top of the fault hill, responding to the barbarian warriors.
Karantso hurriedly grabbed the reins of the long-haired horse and stopped the sleigh, and she looked back at me with a flat face.
Caterina looked a little nervous when she hunted the barbarian for the first time, and she stared at the barbarian warily, her hands resting on the scabbard on the outside of her big legs.
The five orc warriors also took out their axes on horseback, these orc warriors had not learned the skills of riding and knightly combat, so they were more suitable for fighting under the horse, and they rode their horses just for transportation.
I got up from the sled and looked up at the top of the fault hill to see a pile of gravel and remnants of snow with ice chips falling overhead.
Seeing a few ropes hanging down from the top of the mountain, and a few black dots sliding down the ropes from the top of the cliff, I said to Karantso, "Let's go back!"
Before I could finish speaking, Karantso drove the long-haired horse to turn around in the valley road, raised his whip, and whipped it the horse's stock.
The long-haired peony horse was in pain, and galloped desperately towards the exit of the valley road, and the barbarian warrior held the big mallet in both hands and stopped in front.
Reciting the tongue-twisting spell and quickly drawing a magic pattern circle in front of me, a three-meter-long ice spear quickly condensed above my head, and it was more than twice as fast to cast ice level 2 magic here as in the imperial capital, and a layer of light blue ice flames burned on the ice spear flickering in the north wind.
The spell stopped, and the ice spear shot at the barbarian warrior like an arrow off the string.
The barbarian warrior stared at the ice spear that came at him, roared, raised the large mallet in his hand, and smashed it on the ice spear.
The ice spear shattered in response, and suddenly ice chips flew everywhere, and a faint ice mist filled the body of the barbarian warrior, and the barbarian shivered, and he looked at the ice hammer with some disbelief, which was actually stained with a touch of ice flame that kept jumping, and the ice flame flowed slowly, spreading to the entire ice hammer, and a thick layer of ice shell instantly condensed on the ice hammer.
He stretched out his hand to brush the ice flame away, but he didn't expect the ice flame to stick to his hand and continue to burn, and in an instant, a layer of cold ice appeared on the back of his hand.
The barbarian warrior looked at his arm in surprise, and did not have time to think about it, and the next moment he swung the big mallet, pressing down on the handle of the hammer with his right arm, and lifting the hammer head with his left hand, and with a 'bang', the barbarian's big mallet held up Karantso's 'Shun Chop'.
Karantso fell to the ground, and once again picked up his two-handed big sword and 'swept' towards the barbarian warrior, and a white sword flew out with the blade, and it was a white sword qi.
The barbarian warrior swept out the big gavel against Karantso, and the bulky big gavel had a great weight advantage, so in this encounter, Karantso was shocked back by the big gavel swung out by the barbarian warrior.
The barbarian warrior instantly seized a small advantage, and the large wooden mallet in his hand swung upwards three times, and his body also took three steps forward, forcing Karantso to retreat backwards for five or six steps in a row.
'Thunder Strike'
This is one of the few combat skills of the barbarians, this barbarian warrior is very skillful in using it, and the opportunity is also good, dancing the big wooden mallet in his hand, with his natural divine power, he actually forced Karantso to retreat one after another, and the barbarian warrior seized the opportunity, and the offensive was overwhelming.
It's just that he didn't realize that the ice flames on the back of his hands had quietly spread to his arms.
At this moment, Caterina held the stabbing saber in both hands, and 'flashed' to the back of his body, and a thrust stabbed through the back of his heart.
The barbarian warrior felt a chill in his back, and immediately threw an elbow back, and Caterina took advantage of the power of this elbow blow to take advantage of the light body to move away from the barbarian warrior, and the barbarian warrior's backward swing of the war hammer also pounced.
In order to deal with Katarina, who was sneaking up from behind, the barbarian warrior was slightly distracted, and Karantso took the opportunity to flip the double-edged broadsword in his hand, allowing the greatsword to slash at an extremely strange angle, and the blade crossed a half-moon-shaped arc in the air, and the barbarian warrior had no time to dodge, seeing that the double-edged greatsword was unavoidable, he inhaled sharply and tightened his abdomen and chest, and a series of movements were completed in one go.
Karantso's blade slashed across the barbarian warrior's belly, slicing a one-and-a-half-foot-long wound, and rainbow-colored blood splattered out instantly.
The barbarian warrior felt a chill in his belly, and reached out in surprise to touch it, and found that his hands were covered with blood, and he realized that he was actually injured. Barbarian warriors who see blood are prone to rage, and Karantso knows this very well, so after she smashes her hand, the double-edged greatsword in her hand bursts out with a sword shadow, and suddenly disappears in her hand.
Just as the barbarian warrior looked at Karantso in disbelief, Karantso jumped up suddenly, and the double-edged greatsword and Karantso became one.
"Jump Slash"
When the barbarian warrior saw Karantso falling like a meteor, he knew that his life was hanging by a thread, and he raised his gavel to meet Karantso in the air.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Caterina who had pushed away appeared under his left rib like a maggot on his tarsal bone, and the stabbing saber in his hand pierced through the gap in his left rib cage and stabbed into the heart at once.
The barbarian warrior was in pain and tried to swing the big gavel to smash Caterina flat, but Karantso had already fallen from the sky, and the double-edged sword slashed at the handle of the mallet, and the big gavel broke off in response.
At this moment, five orc warriors roared past the barbarian warrior on their horses, and they swung their moonblade axes and slashed at the necks of the barbarian warriors who were standing in place.
An axe......
Two axes......
Three axes......
Four axes......
The barbarian's massive head rolled down the snow like a ball, blood spurting from his chest, staining the snow red.
By this time, the barbarian warriors on the cliff had slipped down the rope.
The sleigh pulled by the long-haired peony passed by the barbarian warriors, and Carantso and Katerina jumped on the sleigh, and together we ran towards the valley crossing.