Ancheno Village is a very small village in the western mountains of the empire, with less than 200 people in the entire village. Although it is only one day's journey from the town of Takli to the village of Ancheno, when entering the mountains, the road becomes very difficult to walk, and there is even a section on the edge of the cliff. Therefore, although this task was released for a few days, it has not yet been completed. Nobody cares. When hunting wolves, there are not enough people, there are too many people, the bounty is too small, and the road is difficult to walk. Many mercenaries just look at it and shake their heads to find other more "efficient" tasks.
But for Ryan, such a task is almost tailor-made for him. Ryan's hometown is also in the Hengduan Mountains, and he has long been accustomed to such an environment. As a hunter, he has various ways to deal with Warcraft. Therefore, after having a good sleep, Ryan got up early and rushed to Ancheno Village.
The weather in July was hot. Ryan followed the route marked on the map and walked through the dense forest. He could also feel the strong sunlight penetrating through the shade of trees and shining on his body. Except for drinking all the water he carried, Ryan's journey was very smooth. When the sun went down, Ryan arrived at Ancheno Village.
Ancheno Village usually has few outsiders, so Ryan's appearance alarmed the villagers. Soon, Ryan met the village chief under a big tree in the village. The head of Ancheno Village is an old man in his sixties. He is sitting in the center of the village, under a big tree surrounded by two people. He is wearing gray linen clothes and a black hat on his head. , the thin body seemed to be blown away by a gust of wind, with a worried look on his face.
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 an underage child. What could he do in the face of the ferocious wolves? It's not like the village hasn't organized young men to hunt wolves, but the result was 1 dead and 5 injured. To this day, the most seriously injured one is still lying on his bed.
Ryan could see the village chief's concern from his face. He didn't say much. He just cast a magic missile and knocked down a crow that was sitting on a tree and was chirping. This somewhat reckless move made the village chief. His expression immediately changed.
The village chief jumped up excitedly, ran to the open space, looked up at the sky, and shouted loudly: "Magician! God, he is a magician. Ancheno can be saved. Great God of Light, you are above We have not forgotten your people, he must have been sent by you 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 was jumping and jumping like a young man and shouting at the top of his lungs. He was very worried about him and afraid. The next moment he would fall to the ground and not be able to get up.
However, the imagined scene in Ryan's mind did not appear. The village chief's shout attracted the whole village. Seeing everyone surrounding him, the village chief stopped his age-inappropriate behavior and breathlessly told everyone the good news. When they learned that a magician was coming to help them, all the villagers screamed with excitement, with hope in their eyes.
After finally getting rid of Ancheno's excited villagers, Ryan followed the village chief to his home. The village chief's wife is no longer alive, and his son is working as a dock worker in the distant Seawind City. Therefore, the village chief took out the bed where his son slept for Ryan to rest.
After a simple dinner, Ryan and the village chief went to the table to discuss the details of hunting the wolves. After learning that Ryan could cast magic, the village chief changed his attitude and had very high confidence in Ryan. He also had no clue when talking. He would talk about the wolves for a while, and then go off topic and talk about trivial matters in his own life. After asking for a long time, Ryan barely understood the situation in Ancheno Village.
It turns out that Ancheno Village is rich in timber, and the villagers make a living by cutting down trees and growing mushrooms. Every autumn, merchants from Seawind City, the largest port in the eastern part of the empire, come to Ancheno to purchase wood. The wood with good quality will be transported to Seawind City to make ships, or resold to other places. The poor quality and unsaleable wood was used by the women and children of Ancheno to grow mushrooms.
Originally, life in Ancheno Village had always been peaceful, and villagers rarely saw aggressive monsters. However, not long ago, a forest farm where trees were cut down in Ancheno Village was attacked by a pack of winter wolves. Several villagers who were cutting down trees narrowly escaped. However, this group of winter wolves seemed to have settled near the logging camp, and appeared around the logging camp from time to time. This made the residents of Ancheno panic and no longer dared to work in the logging camp. This directly caused Ancheno's The loss of the main source of income in Chenuo Village has deprived the villagers of their 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 drive away the wolves. But when the hunting team met the wolves, they discovered that things were far worse than imagined. There were twenty-seven winter wolves!
Needless to say, the result was that Ancheno's hunting team suffered one death and five injuries, and escaped in embarrassment. The village chief had no choice but to send people to the mercenary guild in Takli Town to issue a mission to hunt the wolves.
After understanding the specific situation of Ancheno, Ryan suddenly felt strange in his heart. He originally thought that there were only a few winter wolves here, and even quietly speculated that there were five winter wolves, because the reward for the mission was 5 gold coins. Unexpectedly, there were only a few winter wolves here. There are 27! No wonder the description of the mission to hunt World of Warcraft is vague. No wonder no one took the mission despite it seeming to be simple. It turns out that this is what happened. The village chief must be trying to save some gold coins and at the same time not to be scared off. Mercenaries do this on purpose. If he had truthfully written down that he had hunted 27 winter wolves, he would have needed a mercenary group of five or more people to do it. The cost would have been at least 50 gold coins, but now he only needs one-tenth of the original gold coins to kill himself. "Liar" came over. This is also due to Ryan's lack of experience in this area. In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will understand that a village is attacked by a group of third-level monsters. If there are only a few of these third-level monsters, why does this village of nearly 200 people need to go to the servants? The Soldiers Guild releases a mission!
Thinking of this, Ryan glared at the village chief. This stingy man really got himself killed. According to the rules of the mercenary guild, if the mission is not completed, you 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 kill 27 winter wolves? And it must be hunted 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. He had already left at that time, and the villagers of Ancheno would still suffer. Doesn't this mean that he failed to complete his mission? Ryan felt his head starting to get bigger.
Ryan carefully recalled what his father once told him about the habits of winter wolves:
Winter wolves are monsters that like to travel in groups, and the entire pack moves and forages under the command of the alpha wolf;
In daily life, there will be relatively dispersed formations and special winter wolf warning;
When hunting prey, they fight in groups and are very brave;
Winter wolves are afraid of fire.
For a pack of this size to be hunted by hunters from Dense Fog Town, there would have to be seven or eight people, and traps and traps would have to be prepared and dug in advance. Now that the young adults here in Ancheno have just suffered a loss, I am afraid that there is already a shadow in their hearts. It seems that they can no longer be counted on to help him. Could he kill 27 winter wolves that were listed as level three in the World of Warcraft books by himself? The Pigeon Boar is only level three! This is really a headache.
Ryan thought about it, but he had no clue. He had no experience as a mercenary, so he naturally didn't know how to deal with this situation. In his wild thoughts, Ryan suddenly remembered his two teachers. If Teacher Jialib was here, he would probably have charged right up. A level 7 Earth Bear could only take 3 punches, so naturally this little winter wolf wouldn't be a problem. But it was obvious that this idea was just a thought, and he did not have the perverted strength of Teacher Jialib.
Ryan felt chills all over his body at the thought of rushing into the middle of 27 winter wolves alone.
If it were Teacher Delanai, he might be able to use some magic... huh? correct! Ryan remembered what Mr. Delanai once said: "A qualified magician is not judged by how powerful he is, but by whether he can use his power skillfully." 27 winter wolves sounded like a lot. In fact, as long as you choose the right opportunity and use a large-scale killing magic, you can solve it.
Thinking of this, Ryan slapped his thigh and said involuntarily: "Fireball!"
"Ouch!" The village chief sitting next to Ryan screamed in pain.
Ryan was still immersed in his own ideas and said casually: "I'll slap my thigh, what's your name?"
The village chief frowned, rubbed his thigh and said, "But it was my thigh you patted!"
"Haha~" After hearing the village chief's words, Ryan also laughed. "Village Chief, I have already thought of a way. I will check the nearby terrain tomorrow and prepare to hunt the winter wolf!"
The next day, under the guidance of the village chief, Ryan found the Ancheno logging camp. He observed the living habits of the wolves from a distance. The person responsible for the vigilance of this pack of wolves is their alpha wolf. This alpha wolf is the strongest one in the entire winter wolf pack. It is very cunning. It is always paying attention to the environment around the pack and becomes alert at the slightest sign of trouble.
One time, Ryan wanted to get closer and take a closer look. Unexpectedly, when he stepped closer, he stepped on a branch. This slight noise immediately aroused the idea of the wolf. If Ryan had not carefully hidden himself, he would have almost been discovered by it. .
After two days of observation, Lane discovered that the winter wolves would go to a creek near the Ancheno logging camp to drink water every noon. When drinking water, the leader of the pack will stand outside on guard. After the wolves have drunk water, the alpha wolf will leave the alert position and go to the stream to drink water. After the entire wolf pack drinks water, they will walk back to their den along the same path they came from. This discovery gave Ryan a preliminary idea. After carefully considering every detail, the entire plan was formed in Ryan's mind.
On the fourth day, Ryan arrived at the creek early.
The key to the successful realization of this plan lies in whether Ryan can lurk very close to the wolves until the wolves are about to finish drinking water and the leading wolf leaves the alert position to drink water by the creek. For this reason, Ryan deliberately chose a large tree with lush branches and climbed up downwind of the place where the wolves often drank water, and used the leaves to camouflage himself.
Today's weather was particularly hot. Ryan's whole body was covered by leaves and it was unspeakably sultry, but he had to endure it in order to implement the plan. While Ryan was slowly waiting for the arrival of the winter wolf, he kept thinking about the cup of refreshing juice he drank in Takli Town.
Time seemed to pass very slowly. When the sun hung high in the sky and looked down at the earth, and Ryan had already drank 20 glasses of juice in his mind, the winter wolves appeared.
The winter wolves still lined up and walked slowly to the creek as usual. When they arrived at the creek, the leading winter wolves slowly drank water by the creek. The winter wolves behind them left the queue, quickly rushed to the creek, and started drinking water in large gulps. Several little winter wolves were playing in the water, making "wow" sounds. Only the alpha wolf still looked around cautiously.
Ryan silently watched the actions of the wolves. He didn't even dare to breathe, lest he make a noise and be discovered by the alert wolf. Although Ryan's heartbeat began to accelerate, he still waited patiently for the time to take action.
Time passed slowly, and by the time the wolves had almost drunk water, the wolves were at their most chaotic. At this time, the alpha wolf seemed unable to bear his thirst. He ran to the stream in a few steps, lowered his head and started drinking water.
The opportunity has come!
Ryan decisively recited the "Fireball Technique" spell in his mind. In less than 3 seconds, a fireball the size of a fist flew out of Ryan's hand, drawing a red trajectory and heading straight for the wolves!
The fireball technique flew extremely fast in the air. When the wolves discovered the danger, the fireball had already fallen among them!
With a "Boom~" sound, the fireball exploded, and the scattered flames were mixed with the cry of the winter wolf and the broken limbs of the winter wolf flying in the sky.
A perfect shot!
Before the wolves could run away, Ryan released another fireball. This fireball accurately landed on the surviving wolves. The gorgeous flames appeared again, like the scythe of death, elegantly harvesting the lives of the winter wolves. .
After the two fireballs, the originally clear stream was filled with the remains of winter wolves and their blood. Two deep pits were blown out on the ground, with pungent black smoke rising. Most of the winter wolves had died in the fireballs. In the huge power of the technique. A seriously injured winter wolf struggled to get up and tried to run back to the lair. He was knocked to the ground by Ryan's magic missile and followed in the footsteps of his companions.
Ryan waited for a moment from a distance and saw that no winter wolves stood up anymore. It was estimated that the wolves had been wiped out, so he walked to the "battlefield" with confidence.
The reward for this mission was only 5 gold coins, which was obviously less. As he walked, Ryan was thinking about peeling off all the fur of the winter wolf and taking it to Takli Town to exchange for a few silver coins.
Ryan slowly walked to the edge of the deep pit with black smoke, bent down and looked through the winter wolf corpses, hoping to find a few winter wolves whose fur was not seriously damaged, but the few winter wolves in front of him were all destroyed by fireballs. The fur was burnt by the technique, and it seemed that it couldn't be sold for any money.
Just when Ryan was hesitantly preparing to look at the winter wolf on the other side, a strong winter wolf suddenly jumped out from under the body of the winter wolf on his left and pounced on Ryan's shoulder.
The winter wolf opened its mouth wide, revealing two rows of sharp teeth that were about to hit Ryan's neck.
It was too late, but it was too late. Ryan's martial arts training with Ghalib for many years came into play. He fell to the right and hit backhand with Shadow Shang in his left hand! The sneak attack of the winter wolf was lightly scratched by Shadow Shang, and without any suspense, it was divided into two pieces, flew out, and fell to the ground separately.
Ryan was half-kneeling on the ground. Although his face and body were covered with the blood of the winter wolf, he did not wipe it away at all. He still held the Shadow Shang and watched the surroundings vigilantly.
At the moment when the lightning flashed, Ryan clearly saw that the winter wolf that attacked him was the leader of the group of winter wolves. At this moment, the body of the alpha wolf has been divided into two parts by the sharp shadow, and he is already dead.
Although there was no danger, Ryan still broke out in cold sweat because he found that one of the alpha wolf's hind legs had been blown off.
If it weren't for the fact that the alpha wolf only had three legs left, which affected the explosive power of the flying attack, Ryan might not have been able to dodge the sneak attack just now, and he would definitely be injured in that case. Although he will definitely win in the end with his skills and sharp shadows that he has cultivated for many years, a perfect battle still leaves behind such a hidden danger that endangers his own safety.
"It seems that my on-the-spot experience is still very poor!" Ryan sighed secretly: "Teacher Delanai told himself that before the matter is over, never let down your guard. The closer you are to success, the easier it is to make mistakes. Question: Teacher Ghalib also said that even if you kill a velvet rabbit, you must use the same strength to kill the manticore. But I only think about what will happen after the matter is over, and forget this most important advice. You must learn this lesson yourself. In fact, I should have added another fireball just now. At that time, even the ten alpha wolves who pretended to be dead really turned into dead wolves."
After being taught a lesson, Ryan decided to give up his unrealistic idea of skinning wolf skins and selling them for money. He stood up and released two more fireballs, exploding the scattered winter wolf corpses on the ground.
After confirming that these winter wolves were dead, Ryan felt relieved.
For safety reasons, Ryan carefully checked the winter wolf's lair and found no surviving winter wolf. It seemed that his first mercenary mission was completed. Ryan nodded and returned to Ancheno Village with satisfaction.
After learning that all the winter wolves that threatened them had been killed, the villagers of Ancheno Village screamed with joy, and their happy smiles also infected Ryan. The enthusiastic village chief Ancheno invited Lane to attend the celebration held in the evening on behalf of all the villagers, and organized people to follow Lane to clean up the "battlefield" by the creek in the lumber camp.