rune hunter

Chapter 53 Encounter

Two long black whips whipped down from the tree with lightning speed, flying sand and rocks wherever they went, causing the soldiers in formation to stagger from side to side.Captain Kesen slashed at the long whip with his sword, but did not cause any effective damage to it, but just missed its trajectory.

The long whip flipped deftly like a poisonous snake in mid-air, wrapped around the neck of a reckless soldier and pulled it into the air.The unlucky soldier only struggled a few times, a bone spur as white as snow burst out from his chest, and blood spattered everywhere.

Only then did everyone see the true face of the attacker. It was a humanoid creature with beetle-like cicada wings on its back, stretchable long whips growing on its hands, and a bone spur that slowly retracted. It is its forearm bone.Its head looks like a black-skinned human without hair, but there are no pupils in its eyes, and two white lightning-like patterns are tattooed on its face, which looks weird and terrifying.

"As for real landwalkers, you'll recognize them immediately when you see them."

El suddenly recalled what the Missy had said, and now it seemed to be true.In the eyes of ordinary people, there is no difference between the landwalkers and the monsters in the forest, but only after seeing their true colors will they be clear. They are advanced races that are no less than humans in every respect.

The monster stretched out its slender tongue, licked the blood left on the bone spur, and showed an evil smile on its face, making people shudder.

Compared to the fuss of the original security team soldiers, the mercenaries reacted more quickly. They immediately drew their bows and arrows to shoot at the monster, but those arrows were scattered and deflected by the monster.It gave a strange laugh, and the long whips growing on its two arms struck again with the sound of piercing through the air.

El held the longbow tightly and kept walking. The speed of the monster was too fast, and the ebony arrow with white feathers was heavy, so it was difficult to aim at such an agile target.Ordinary wooden arrows can't cause effective damage, and the monster's skin seems to be extraordinarily tough, barely restraining his movements.

"They're coming!" Romney's shout brought El back to his senses, and the monsters ambushing a hundred meters away took advantage of the opportunity of the human soldiers' formation being disrupted to charge.The number of opponents could not be seen in the darkness, just listening to the sound of tremors on the ground, it was like a whole group of heavily armored knights coming towards them, and the faces of the panicked soldiers suddenly lost their color.

"Don't be afraid! There are only 42 of them!" El used his bow and arrow to contain the whip-wielding monster on the tree, while distractedly observing the charge on the other side.He could see all the swift and fierce wolves on the opposite side, the kind of beast-shaped zerg that could be seen everywhere on the battlefield just now. In fact, there were not many of them, and they just deliberately created a terrifying atmosphere in the dark.

His words reassured the soldiers a little, but at the same time, it also aroused the hatred of the monster on the tree. The monster threw off Captain Kosen and rushed towards him.

"El, I'm handing over this damn thing to you!" Captain Corson shouted.

After a short fight, Captain Kesen realized that the monster in front of him was similar to the combat mode of a human assassin, and his two-handed sword could not effectively strike such an agile target.So when the monster left, he stopped pestering him and focused on the wolves that were about to charge.

In his opinion, only El in his team can keep up with the monster's speed, and the others are all delivering food, so it's better to concentrate on solving the troubles on the ground.

"Damn!" El cursed, and rolled to avoid the monster's long whip.He jumped aside, pointed at Corson and yelled, "Hey, man! He's in command!"

"Are you kidding...Damn it!" Cosen really wanted to laugh at El for speaking to the monster, but unexpectedly the monster hesitated for a moment, then turned around and whipped him, his face suddenly looked like he was constipated Just as ugly.

The blue light in El's eyes flickered, and he had a panoramic view of every move of both parties.Captain Corson's intention was to hold back the monster himself, and he and the other soldiers concentrated on dealing with the attacking wolves.The monster's plan is to rely on its ability to move forward and retreat freely to disrupt the formation of humans, because the number of swift wolves setting up an ambush is actually at a disadvantage.

Captain Corson's judgment was not wrong, but he subconsciously underestimated the IQ of the monster itself. Even if El didn't reveal his identity, the monster who found something wrong would immediately retreat.During the short probing process of fighting just now, El was sure that if he and the monster fought close to each other, they could not help each other. His hole card was still archery, but he couldn't use it in close combat, at least he needed to keep a suitable distance.

Captain Kesen didn't bother to yell at El, turned around and took a step forward, a gust of wind whipped up the monster's long whip and flew aside with the big sword in both hands.As a veteran, his strength may not be outstanding, but his experience is extremely rich.The moment the monster turned its head, El's hand was already touching his arms. Cosen noticed this movement, but he remained calm, and secretly increased his strength by a few percent.

The monster rushed up close to the ground, and when it was three meters away from Captain Kesen, the bone spurs in both hands and arms exploded at the same time, and at the same time, it grinned and let out a silent roar.

The surrounding human soldiers felt dizzy at the same time, followed by internal twitching.Captain Kesen, who bears the brunt, snorted, leaving two bloodstains on his nostrils.He gritted his teeth, and slashed down heavily with the big sword that was raised high, splashing countless sand and stones, making the monster's figure as fast as a galloping horse pause.

A pause of less than half a second was enough, and El silently followed behind the monster. Taking advantage of the moment of his pause, the demon-destroying arrow in his hand flew out.

It's a long story, but in fact everything happened in a flash, he didn't have time to change the arrow, he could only throw the arrow as a dart, but at the moment of the shot, a blue light flashed in El's hand As he passed away, he unleashed the explosive power of the waltz rune.

Two screams sounded back and forth. Captain Kesen couldn't dodge in time, and was pierced through the ribs by the monster's bone spur, and the monster was also attacked from behind.The demon-breaking arrows with various vicious effects pierced through the monster's tough skin like butter without hindrance, and popped out from its chest, bringing out fountain-like green blood.

El didn't have time to pay attention to Captain Kesen's injury. He retracted his hunting bow and swung his ax to strike at the monster's head.The monster struggled forward, and the ax struck the carapace and cicada wings on his back, the feeling was as obscure and difficult as cutting into an old tree root.El resisted the soreness in his palm, and released the power of the waltz rune again. This time, the hidden power of his entire right arm burst out. The blue brilliance flashed away, and the monster's carapace and cicada wings were He chopped off half of it alive.

"asshole!"

The monster screamed again, and brought a lingua franca with it. The hoarse curses tormented everyone's nerves from their ears and minds at the same time.A soldier couldn't help shivering, and the strength of holding the long sword subconsciously weakened by half.At this moment, the first wave of impact from the swift and fierce wolves had come in front of him. He felt his eyes go dark, and his body was involuntarily thrown to the ground.

"Formation of three and three, support each other!" Deputy captain Romney issued the last order in time, and a second later, the human and landwalker armies collided with each other, and the steel and sharp claws cut into each other's flesh at the same time, bringing out Fragments of flesh and blood, the battle entered the most tragic stage immediately.

Captain Corson covered his wound, gritted his teeth and stood up, took out a rocket from his pocket and threw it into the air.The rocket was obviously an alchemy product, and it started to ignite spontaneously in mid-air, rushing into the sky with a flame tail and exploding into a ball of orange fireworks.In such a short time, three or four identical fireworks rose on the left and right wings, which also meant that the reconnaissance troops in this direction were blocked by the landwalkers.

The seriously injured monster was fierce, and El was accidentally whipped in the head. It felt like he had been hit by a sap head-on, and a large piece of flesh seemed to be taken away from his chest.Finding that it still has the power to fight again, El immediately put away his contempt and distanced himself.

A swift wolf rushed over from behind, opened its mouth wide and bit the back of the neck.Al had noticed it a long time ago, turned his head down and stuffed the ax into the mouth of the swift wolf.In El's opinion, this wolf-like zerg has no merits other than sharp claws. He grabbed a claw on his shoulder, threw the whole wolf up and smashed it to the ground.

The initial line of defense had long since disappeared, and more swift wolves rushed like El from all directions, entangled him tightly and made him unable to move.On the other side, the monster with the long whip sneaked up the tree through the chaos.

(End of this chapter)