The village of Anceno is a very small village in the mountains of the western part of the empire, with less than 200 people in the whole village. Although it was only 1 day's journey from the town of Takri to the village of Anceno, when entering the mountains, the road became very difficult to walk, and there was even a section on the edge of the cliff, so although the mission was released for a few days, no one cared about it. Hunting wolves, there are not enough people, there are too few people, the bounty is too little and not enough, and the road is difficult to walk, many mercenaries just look at it, shake their heads to find other more "efficient" tasks.

But such a task is almost tailor-made for Ryan. Ryan's hometown is also in the Hengduan Mountains, and he has long been accustomed to such an environment, and he is a hunter and has various ways to deal with Warcraft. Therefore, after a good night's sleep, Ryan got up early and rushed to the village of Ancheno.

The weather in July was hot, and Ryan could feel the fierce sunlight shining through the shade of the trees as he walked through the dense forests along the route marked on the map. In addition to drinking all the water he had carried, Ryan had a very smooth journey, and by the time the sun went down, Ryan came to the village of Ancherno.

Almost no outsiders usually arrive in the village of Anchero, so the appearance of Ryan alarmed the villagers. Soon, Ryan met the village chief under a large tree in the village. The head of the village of Ancheno, an old man in his sixties, sat in the middle of the village, under a large tree surrounded by two people, wearing gray linen clothes and a black hat on his head, his thin body seemed to be blown away by a gust of wind, and his face showed a worried look.

Although Ryan took out the magic crystal that symbolized his identity as a mercenary, the village chief was still worried, in his opinion, Ryan was just a minor child, what could he do in the face of the fierce wolves? The village has not organized young adults to hunt wolves, but the result is 1 dead and 5 wounded, until now, the most seriously injured is still lying on the bed.

Ryan saw his concern in the village chief's face, and he didn't say much, but just cast a magic missile and knocked out a crow that was perched on a tree and kept chirping, a somewhat reckless move that made the village chief's face change immediately.

The village chief jumped up excitedly, ran to the clearing, looked up at the sky, and shouted: "Magician! God, he is a magician." Ancheno was saved. The great God of Light is above, you have not forgotten your people, he must be the ...... you sent to save us"

Ryan looked at the excited village chief, and regretted his reckless behavior, seeing that the old village chief was so old, but he jumped and jumped like a young man, and shouted hoarsely, and was very worried about him, afraid that he would fall to the ground and not get up in the next moment.

But the scenario that Ryan had imagined in his mind did not appear. The village chief's shouts attracted the whole village, and seeing everyone gathered around him, the village chief stopped those behaviors that were not appropriate for his age and gasped to tell everyone the good news. When he learned that a magician had come to his aid, all the villagers cried out with excitement and hope in their eyes.

Having managed to get rid of Ancherno's agitated villagers, Ryan followed the village chief to his house. The village chief's wife is long gone, and his son is working as a dock worker in the distant city of Seabreeze. So the village chief cleaned up the bed where his son slept and gave Ryan a rest.

After a brief dinner, Ryan and the village chief went to the table and discussed the details of the wolf hunt. Knowing that Ryan could perform magic, the village chief changed his attitude, and his confidence in Ryan was very high, and he had no clue how to speak, sometimes talking about the wolves, and sometimes going off topic about his own life. Ryan asked for a long time before he could barely understand the situation in the village of Ancherno.

It turned out that the village of Anceno was rich in timber and the villagers made a living by cutting down trees and growing mushrooms. Every autumn, the merchants of Seabreeze City, the largest port in the eastern part of the empire, would come to Ancheno to buy lumber, and the good wood would be shipped to Seabreeze City to make ships or be resold elsewhere. The wood that is not of good quality and cannot be sold is used by the women and children of Anceno to grow mushrooms.

Originally, life in the village of Anceno had always been peaceful, and the villagers rarely saw aggressive magical beasts. However, not long ago, a pack of winter wolves attacked the tree farm in Anceno Village, and several villagers who were cutting down trees escaped. However, this group of winter wolves seems to have settled in the vicinity of the logging site, and from time to time they appear around the logging site, which makes the residents of Anceno panic and dare not go to work in the logging site again, which directly causes the loss of the main economic source of the village and makes the villagers lose the means of survival.

In order to drive away the winter wolves, the village chief also organized more than a dozen young adults in the village, hoping to hunt or expel the wolves. But when I met the hunting team and the wolves, I found that things were far worse than I imagined, and there were twenty-seven winter wolves!

Needless to say, Ancheno's hunting team escaped with 1 dead and 5 wounded. The village chief had no choice but to send someone to the mercenary guild in Takri Town to issue a mission to hunt wolves.

Knowing the specific situation of Ancheno, Ryan suddenly felt strange in his heart, he thought that there were only a few winter wolves here, and even quietly speculated that it was five winter wolves, because the reward of the task was 5 gold coins, but I didn't expect there to be 27! No wonder the task description of this hunting monster is vague, no wonder this task looks very simple but no one takes it, it turns out that this is the case, it must be the village chief in order to save a little gold coins, but also in order not to scare off the mercenaries, deliberately did this. If it is truthfully written to hunt 27 winter wolves, I am afraid that it will take more than five mercenary groups to dare to take it, and the cost will be at least 50 gold coins, and now I only need one-tenth of the original gold coins to "cheat" myself. It's also strange that Ryan has no experience in this area, in fact, as long as you think about it carefully, you will understand that a village is attacked by a group of third-level demonic beasts, if there are only a few of these third-level demonic beasts, why should this village of nearly 200 people go to the mercenary guild to issue a mission!

Thinking of this, Ryan glared at the village chief fiercely, this miser really killed himself. According to the rules of the Mercenary Guild, if the task is not completed next, he will be punished, and Ryan doesn't want his first mercenary mission to end in failure, so he has no choice but to bite the bullet.

How can we hunt 27 winter wolves? And they must be hunted all at once, otherwise if the surviving winter wolves run away, they will hide deeply and come back to take revenge after recovering from their injuries. At that time, he was already gone, and when the villagers of Anceno suffered, didn't that mean that he had not completed his mission? Ryan felt his head start to grow bigger.

Ryan carefully recalled what his father had told him about the habits of the winter wolf:

The winter wolf is a magical beast that likes to form groups, and the whole wolf pack migrates and forages for food under the command of the head wolf;

In ordinary life, there will be a relatively scattered formation, with a special winter wolf vigilance;

When hunting prey, they fight in groups and are very brave;

The winter wolf is afraid of fire.

For a wolf pack of this size, if the hunters from Dense Fog Town came to hunt and kill, there would be seven or eight people, and they would have to prepare traps and dig traps in advance. Now that the young adults here in Anceno have just suffered losses, I am afraid that there is already a shadow in my heart, and it seems that I can't count on them to help me. Could it be that he killed 27 winter wolves that were listed as level 3 in the Warcraft classics by himself? The Pige Boar was only level 3! This is really a headache.

Ryan thought about it and didn't have a clue at all, he had no experience as a mercenary at all, so naturally he didn't know how to deal with this situation. In the midst of his thoughts, Ryan suddenly remembered his two teachers. If Teacher Galib is there, it is estimated that he will rush up directly, and the earth bear of level 7 can only take 3 punches, and this little winter wolf is naturally not a problem. But it's clear that this idea is just a thought, and he doesn't have the strength of Mr. Galib's perverted face.

Ryan felt chills all over his body at the thought of rushing into the middle of the 27 winter wolves alone.

If it was Dranay-sensei, I guess I would have used some magic... Lane remembered what Mr. Draeney had said, "A good magician is not judged by how much strength he has, but by how skillfully he wields his powers." "Twenty-seven winter wolves sounds like a lot, but in fact, as long as you choose just the right opportunity, you only need a large area of killing magic to solve it.

Thinking of this, Ryan slapped his thigh and involuntarily said: "Fireball Technique!"

"Ouch!" the village chief, who was sitting next to Ryan, cried out in pain.

Ryan was still immersed in his own ideas, and said casually: "I slapped my thigh, what's your name." ”

The village chief frowned, rubbed his thighs and said, "But you slapped my thighs!"

"Haha~" Hearing the village chief's words, Ryan also laughed. "Village Chief, I've already thought of a way, tomorrow I'll go check the nearby terrain and prepare to hunt the Winter Wolf!"

The next day, Ryan was guided by the village chief to find the Anceno lumber yard, where he observed the habits of the wolves from afar. It was their head wolf who was in charge of keeping watch over the pack. This wolf is the strongest of the entire winter wolf pack, it is very cunning, it is always engrossed in the environment around the wolf pack, and it is alert at the slightest wind and grass.

Once Ryan wanted to get closer and take a closer look, but he didn't expect to step on a branch a little when he approached, and this slight sound immediately aroused the idea of the head wolf, and if Ryan carefully hid himself from time to time, he was almost discovered by it.

After two days of observation, Ryan discovered that the winter wolves would go to a creek near the Ancheno lumber yard every noon to drink water. When drinking water, the head wolf of the pack will stand outside on guard. After the wolves have drunk the water, the head wolf will leave the guard position and go to the stream to drink. After the whole pack has drunk the water, they will walk back to their lair along the path from which they came. This discovery gave Ryan a preliminary idea, and after carefully scrutinizing every detail, the whole plan was formed in Ryan's mind.

On the fourth day, Ryan arrived early at the creek.

The key to the success of this plan lies in whether Ryan can lurk very close to the wolves until the wolves are almost out of water and the wolf leaves the guard position to drink from the stream. For this reason, Ryan deliberately chose a large tree with lush foliage to climb up at the downwind of the place where the wolves often drank water, and used the leaves to make his own disguise.

Today's weather is particularly hot, and Ryan's whole body is covered in leaves, and it is indescribably stuffy, but he has to endure it for the sake of the plan. Ryan waited slowly for the arrival of the Winter Wolf, and kept thinking about the refreshing juice he had drunk in Takri Town.

Time seemed to pass slowly, and when the sun hung high in the sky and looked down on the earth, and Ryan had already drunk 20 glasses of juice in his mind, the Winter Wolves appeared.

The Winter Wolves continued to line up as usual and slowly walked to the stream. When they arrived at the edge of the stream, the leading winter wolves slowly drank water by the stream, and the winter wolves behind left the queue, quickly grabbed the stream, and began to drink water. A few baby winter wolves frolicked in the water, making a "whining" sound. Only the head wolf was still looking around vigilantly.

Ryan silently watched the wolves' movements, and he didn't even dare to breathe, lest the head wolf who made the noise of the winter guard would find out. Although Ryan's heart began to beat faster, he still patiently waited for his time to make a move.

Time passed slowly, and by the time the wolves had almost finished drinking, the wolves were at their most chaotic. At this time, the head wolf seemed to be unable to hold back his thirst, ran to the creek in a few steps, lowered his head and began to drink.

Here's your chance!

Ryan decisively recited the spell of "Fireball Technique" in his heart, and in less than 3 seconds, a fist-sized fireball flew out of Ryan's hand, drawing a red trajectory and heading straight for the wolves!

The fireball technique flies extremely fast in the air, and by the time the wolves spotted the danger, the fireball had already fallen in the middle of them!

With a sound of "boom~", the fireball exploded, and the scattered flames were mixed with the wail of the winter wolf and the broken limbs of the winter wolf flying in the sky.

Perfect shot!

Without waiting for the wolves to scatter and run away, Ryan released another fireball technique, which accurately landed among the surviving wolves, and the brilliant flames reappeared, as if it was the scythe of death, elegantly harvesting the life of the winter wolf.

After 2 fireballs, the originally clear stream was filled with the stumps and blood of the winter wolves, and 2 deep pits were blown out of the ground, and there was still pungent black smoke, and most of the winter wolves had died in the huge power of the fireball technique. A badly injured winter wolf struggled to his feet and tried to run back to his lair, but was knocked to the ground by one of Ryan's magic missiles, following in the footsteps of his companions.

Ryan waited for a while, and saw that there was no winter wolf standing up, and it was estimated that the wolves had been wiped out, so he walked to the "battlefield" with confidence.

The reward for this mission is only 5 gold coins, which is obviously less, and Ryan is thinking about whether to peel off the fur of the winter wolf and take it to Takri Town for a few silver coins.

Ryan slowly walked to the edge of the pit with black smoke, and bent down to look through the corpses of the winter wolves, hoping to find a few winter wolves whose fur was not very badly damaged, but the winter wolves in front of him were all scorched with their fur by the fireball technique, and it seemed that they could not be sold for money.

Just as Ryan was hesitating to look at the winter wolf on the other side, under the corpse of the winter wolf on his left, a strong winter wolf suddenly pounced and pounced on Ryan's shoulder.

The winter wolf opened its jaw, revealing two rows of sharp teeth that were about to be on Ryan's neck.

It was too late, it was too late, Ryan followed the martial arts that Galib had trained for many years to play a role, he fell to the right with the momentum, and took the shadow in his left hand to strike a backhand! The sneak attack of the winter wolf was lightly slashed by the shadow of the shadow, and without any suspense, it was divided into two parts, flew out, and fell to the ground respectively.

Ryan was half-kneeling on the ground, and although his face and body were stained with the blood of the winter wolf, he didn't wipe it in the slightest, still holding the shadow and observing the surroundings vigilantly.

At the moment when the fire and light stone just now, Ryan clearly saw that the winter wolf that attacked him was the head wolf of this group of winter wolves. At this moment, the head wolf's body has been divided into two by the sharp shadow, and he has already died.

Although there was no danger, a cold sweat broke out on Ryan's head as he found that one of the wolf's hind legs had been blown off.

If it weren't for the fact that the wolf only had 3 legs left, which affected the explosive power of the flutter, the sneak attack just now, Ryan would probably not be able to dodge, and he would definitely be injured in that case. Although in the end, he will definitely win with his skills and sharp shadow that he has cultivated for many years, but it is clear that a perfect battle still leaves such a hidden danger that endangers his safety.

"It seems that my on-the-spot experience is still very poor!" Ryan sighed in his heart, "Teacher Delane said to himself that you must not let your guard down when the matter is not over. The more you succeed, the easier it is to have problems, and Mr. Galib also said that even if you kill an Edelweiss rabbit, you have to show the strength to fight the poisonous scorpion lion. But I only thought about what would happen when the matter was over, and I forgot this most crucial piece of advice. I must learn this lesson myself. In fact, I should have made up another fireball technique just now, and at that time, even ten head wolves who pretended to be dead really became dead wolves. ”

Having learned his lesson, Ryan decided to give up the unrealistic idea of skinning the wolf and selling it for money, and he stood up and unleashed two more fireball spells that blew up the winter wolf corpses scattered on the ground.

After confirming that the winter wolves were dead and could no longer die, Ryan was relieved.

For the sake of safety, Ryan carefully checked the nest of the winter wolf, and found no surviving winter wolf, it seems that his first mercenary mission has been completed. Ryan nodded, and returned to Ancheno's village satisfied.

After learning that all the winter wolves that threatened him had been killed, the villagers of Anceno Village screamed with joy, and their happy smiles infected Ryan. On behalf of all the villagers, the enthusiastic village chief Anceno invited Ryan to the evening celebration and organized people to follow Ryan to the lumber yard stream to clean up the "battlefield".