Of the four warriors who followed Augusto out, only two were left when they returned. In fact, the wolves and wild boars were not stronger than them, but their sudden attack caught them off guard and they suffered a great loss due to negligence.
As they came down the hill, they saw more animals rushing towards their team's camp from another direction.
This team not only had seven or eight wild wolves, but also two giant bears and a tiger. These animals, which usually did not get along with each other, now gathered together and pounced on the people of the Shadow Group.
In Augusto's absence, Gerardo led everyone to prepare for the battle. They had discovered the strangeness of this animal team, but still believed that these beasts were nothing to be afraid of.
"Gerardo! They are not animals, they are undead!" The two warriors here rushed over and shouted a warning.
But Gerardo had no time to figure out what they were saying, for as they shouted, the beasts pounced on them.
"Mage!" Gerardo roared.
Behind the dozen warriors and assassins, two wizards cast spider web magic to cover the beasts. However, the beasts' response was completely different from what they imagined. The two giant bears in the lead stood up, their claws emitting a faint purple light, and they slashed the spider web in the air, breaking it into pieces. Led by the tiger, the wild wolves easily passed through the gaps in the spider web and jumped out of the magic-covered area.
"Attack with elemental magic." Gerardo shouted again.
But at this moment, a scream came from behind. A black figure suddenly appeared behind a mage. Mages had no defense against wild beasts, so the black figure opened its mouth and bit off the mage's neck.
"Enemy attack!" another wizard screamed loudly, and quickly gave up the attack magic. He fled while putting on layers of defense.
Gerardo looked back and saw a sturdy figure stepping on the dead wizard's body, baring its teeth at him. It was a pure black wolf, slapping the blood in its mouth and looking at Gerardo provocatively.
"This is... Shadow Wolf!" a senior assassin beside Gerardo whispered.
The shadow wolf is not an ordinary beast, but a real high-level monster. Not only is it more powerful than an ordinary wolf, but it also has a series of special abilities. Its fur can absorb light, so it is difficult to be discovered when it moves. It also has the ability to teleport over short distances, so it is a very difficult monster to deal with. This shadow wolf should be the overlord of the nearby forest, and for some reason it also participated in this attack.
The mage just now must have died from its teleportation attack.
"Ramsey, Gretel, Malos, the three of you deal with this shadow wolf!" Gerardo named three masters, "The rest of you and I will deal with these beasts first!"
After fighting with these wild beasts, Gerardo finally understood what the three guys running behind him were roaring about. No matter they were tigers, bears or wolves, they all went against the nature of animals and fought very cunningly. The hunting methods adopted by the Shadow Group warriors were completely ineffective.
The wild beasts even formed a battle formation, with the giant bears with thick skin and tough flesh standing in the front, the nimble tigers looking for opportunities on the side, and the wolves split into two halves, with six roaming around the periphery to attack when there were gaps, and four casting magic in the back.
The wolf wizards here were stronger and more numerous than the one Augusto had encountered before. Before the two sides engaged in battle, the other side cast two grease spells and two fireball spells. The black grease burst and spread all over the ground, and also stained several people who did not use fighting spirit to separate the grease in time. The fireballs that followed ignited the grease, and the surging flames bloomed like a red flower with the landing point of the fireball as the center. The ground turned into a sea of fire, and the grease attached to people's bodies was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, which was difficult to get rid of, and soon burned those people to a crisp.
Most of the Shadow Group's warriors were agile, and most of them scattered when the flames started. But after avoiding the flames, they were greeted by bear paws and wolf claws. These animals were not afraid of flames at all, and they didn't care even if the flames burned their bodies. Instead, they tried their best to attack the Shadow Group members who were running out, trying to force them back into the flames.
"What's going on! What kind of monster is this?" Gerardo was confused by the scene in front of him. He flew up and pulled back a burning low-level assassin from the flames. He tried to suppress the flames on his body with his fighting spirit, but the flames on the grease were very stubborn. He took a lot of effort to put out the flames, but the assassin had been burned beyond recognition and passed out. "Losada, take three people to kill the magic wolf first. Luco, stop brushing the shield and quickly kill those two stupid bears..."
Although the Shadow Group was caught off guard, they were experienced warriors after all. As they came to their senses and figured out the tricks of the animals, they slowly began to stabilize the situation. Although the bears and tigers were dozens of times stronger than ordinary humans under the blessing of magic, they were not well adapted to their own bodies and had limited agility. Although the Shadow Group warriors could not compete with the opponent in terms of strength, they used their flexible bodies to avoid the opponent's attacks and constantly inflicted wounds on them. During the confrontation, some Shadow Group members died from the bear's claws, and some giant bears were hit in the neck continuously and their heads were chopped off.
The battle with the wild wolves was of another style. Several assassins and the wild wolves moved very quickly. They kept exchanging positions, probing attacks, and trying to leave a wound on the opponent when their bodies intertwined.
However, several other agile assassins pounced on the wolf mages. They successfully forced them away and interrupted their next wave of group magic. Under their pursuit, the wolves could only flee while harassing them with small instantaneous magic.
The battlefield here was in chaos and the scene was fierce, while the fight between the other three and the Shadow Wolf seemed to be dragging on. The Shadow Wolf's attack power was not particularly strong, but its ability to dodge and roam was a bit better than that of the Shadow Group's assassins. Often, when an assassin was about to give it a fatal wound, it would activate its innate ability and teleport away.
The three assassins fought with the Shadow Wolf for a long time, leaving only two scars on its back, but they themselves had more large and small claw marks. All they could do was to hold back the cunning beast, so that it could not sneak attack the mage again or disrupt the battlefield on the other side.