Blood of the Hunting God

"I took a break for 2 minutes more than expected, what's going on?"

A female forger in the first logistics team with Abigail, a gray-haired woman named Aike frowned at this moment, stood up from a short tree not far away, and walked over to face her. Several people opened their mouths to ask.Beside her, another young forging apprentice, Lodikon, who had a stutter, carefully followed behind with forging tools on his back.

"Not very clear. From the direction of the sound, it seems that something happened to the left middle rotation team."

Andre shook his head and answered. A few minutes ago, he did hear some fighting sounds from the left. Judging from the distance of the sound, it was probably a rotating team in the middle of the left.I heard that there was a female sorceress in that team who was a bit out of her mind, and wanted to touch strange things when she saw them.If it wasn't for the fact that she had mastered rare healing magic, and her own strength was not bad, this suffocating quirk alone would be enough for her teammates to kill her.

"In short, since we continue to move forward, it proves that the problem is not very big."

After Andre confirmed that there was no abnormal color on the magnetite, he walked in the front and continued to start the next journey.

The so-called optomagnet is essentially a man-made object that emits special magic power fluctuations.

In a corrupt place where filthy monsters are rampant, it is extremely dangerous and troublesome to communicate between different teams. Too many people gathering time and numbers will cause a huge number of monster riots. Using torches and other light signals that are too conspicuous will still cause monsters The riots and the distorted environment also make it impossible to use biological communication methods such as carrier pigeons. After all, if you really bring it, unless it is an animal with an anti-pollution physique that is bred for countless generations like Sheriff William's hound, it is basically released. In less than 2 minutes, they were transformed into filthy minions. Not only would they be cuckood if they wanted to continue contacting, but it might also cause a chain reaction of surrounding monsters and cause a group riot.

Finally, through the efforts of hunter heroes and a few mages, this thing called optomagnet was developed.

A special magnetic stone that is infused with magical power and emits waves that are imperceptible to humans and undisturbed by filthy forces, and equipped with some small magic magnets.By absorbing and changing the released magic wave, other optical magnets around can receive this wave and change the displayed color, and then express information through the pre-agreed color signal.Some more professional guys can use color changes to fabricate ciphertexts, but the hunters in Xingkong Town are generally not very educated, so they just agreed on a few color signals.

For example, white means [normal progress], [gray] means everything is safe, [blue] means a temporary rest, and [red] means that the enemy is fighting and so on.

The color of this wonderful stone shows that when it encounters different magic waves in multiple directions, its color will show a split form, and the colors in different directions and different distances can be changed freely. In this way, the basic situation of the 64 teams of the entire hunting god team can be is clearly displayed.In such a situation where each team must maintain a distance of at least hundreds of meters and it is difficult to communicate with each other, this wonderful magic creation can be said to be of extraordinary value.In fact, they are indeed of extraordinary value. Father Marman tried his best to get them out of the church's supplies. I gave it to everyone and taught them how to do it.

Some hunters who know the goods have a little change in their opinion of Marman because of this, but others ridicule and despise them and dare not step on it.

Into the wilderness of corruption, only the priest who dared to continue to hide in Xingkong Town.But these things are not important, no one will care about it.

"Well... it's fine to follow these traces."

Andre looked at the grass that had been clearly cleared on the way forward. The vanguard team would clear out safe passages for the rear team. Therefore, as long as they advance along these traces, the safety of the logistics team can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.In this long hunting journey, learning to recognize the marks left by these companions is a very important survival method.

"Well... this mark..."

Andre stopped because he saw the hidden mark left on the grass, with a little bit of blood.

The color of the side facing the front of the light magnet began to change, and a less obvious light pink appeared. This means that the vanguard team encountered monsters, and there may be a lot of them. Therefore, the team behind needs to temporarily slow down their actions and wait for confirmation from the front. The road to destroying monsters is safe, or the cost of destroying is too high and you need to make a detour before proceeding to the next step.

Up front, did you encounter anything?

Chapter 3: Hunting and Journey

[Goo... woo...]

Amidst the murmur of flesh and blood wriggling, something with twisted limbs was moving in the grass.

The thing appeared to be a crow, covered in black feathers and with a bird's head.Although most of those feathers have been mutilated, revealing the festering, pus-filled flesh and blood underneath.The size of this thing is quite large, even when it is hunched over, it looks at least 1.9 meters to two meters in height.Although the wings have shrunk severely, their wingspan still exceeds four meters.

But if that's all it is, at best it's just an animal infected by filthy power. Compared with some deeply infected monsters, this shape can even be said to be quite cute.

【Woo... Goo...】

The wings spread out slightly, and a festering human head protruded from it.

On the second and third ones, a full thirty or forty human heads emerged from the inside of the wings and from under the feathers.The heads were bloated, and many had cracked skin, yellow fat mixed with finger-thin worms dripping from their eyes, noses, ears, and mouths, and then congealed.

The huge crow monster spread out its deformed wings, and densely packed human heads that were connected with the flesh and blood of the wings popped out like this, wriggling and moaning, as if sniffing and looking for something.The crow looked at its head idly for a few times, then lowered its head, bit a human head on its wings, and made a "poof", as if people popped a pimple on the skin. In that way, the boneless human head exploded directly, and the yellow fat and red blood mixed together, and the blood flowed to the ground, so now the ground is full of finger-thin worms wriggling crazily and spreading out.

【Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...】

In the panting sound, the crow monster ate a large piece of fat, and in the festered flesh and blood left by the bitten off human head, accompanied by the sound of blood and flesh surging, a baby's face without skin Holes grew out of it.

[Wow - wow -]

The sound of children crying, then resounded in this stinking and corrupt field.

"No matter how many times I look at it, I can't get used to these things. Why can these things come up with various shapes that challenge the lower limit every time?"

The woman with a hatchet on her back and a long-handled wand with a spike in her hand sighed while hiding in the grass.

While saying this, she turned her head away, her beautiful face was destroyed by a horrible scar, and one eye was also covered. She gestured a few gestures to her teammates behind her, and then three figures quickly appeared in front of her. around her.

"Skullfeeder, it's so big, it's a little rare. The beak of this thing is worth a lot of bounty."

Webster, a giant sword warrior with a height of two meters, nodded slightly and said.

"There is no movement around, only this one."

The hunter mercenary Jacob, who was fighting with two knives, spoke in a cold voice, and then continued to watch the surrounding situation vigilantly.

"From this position, it's hard to say. The vitality of the skullfeeder is quite tenacious, and it's not so easy to kill it with one blow. However, destroy the eyes of the bird's head immediately, or smash the wing joints or leg joints of the thing." , there should be no problem."

Unloading a rifle from the several firearms on her back, the woman named Audrey tried to aim at the crow-shaped monster not far away who was still enjoying herself. After observing for a while, she quickly realized Come to a conclusion.

"It can't be left to the rotation team, they can easily give themselves away in front of this thing."

Edra, who first discovered and observed the medium-sized monster, said affirmatively after a little thought, while the three teammates around nodded slightly, apparently reaching a consensus at this moment.

The four people who appeared here at this moment were members of the right-wing vanguard of the Hunting God Squad. They were in charge of the right forward area of ​​the entire team, and they were quite vulnerable to monster attacks.However, the few people here are well-trained and veterans with rich combat experience, so many times the monsters have not noticed their existence, they have already found them in advance and ambushed them, and then quickly attacked them. kill.

Unlike a four-member team fighting alone, as long as you can guarantee yourself

Safe, there is absolutely no need to entangle with every filthy monster you come across.In many cases, avoiding meaningless consumption and avoiding monster attacks as much as possible is the correct way.But in the current large-scale operations, the vanguard team is actually responsible for the safety of the entire team, so they have to deal with the monsters they can beat as much as possible, and if they can't beat them, they must notify other teams and then everyone Take a detour together, or conduct a war of attrition. While weakening it, notify other teams to come, use the numerical advantage to solve the difficult enemy, and then separate and return to the original formation.

In short, the thing we are encountering now cannot be left to other teams and must be resolved as soon as possible.

After making up their minds, the four of them started to act almost immediately.

boom!

The first blow was fired from Audrey's rifle, piercing the crow monster's head with one blow, and directly blasting its two eyes.

"Go!"

With big strides, Webster raised the heavy shield in his hand and charged fiercely, hitting the twisted and terrifying monster straight. Fell to the ground.

[Cuckoo! ! ! 】

The monster, which had been pierced through its head and should have died under normal circumstances, roared angrily at this moment.The huge body suddenly squirmed, one wing suddenly lifted, dozens of human heads suddenly appeared and opened their mouths, and yellow-black venom was suddenly sprayed out.

tear-

But before that, Jacob strode around to the side of the thing, his two knives ignited bright red flames, and slashed on the monster's torso.

[Goo! 】

The miserable roar sounded almost immediately, the ominous bright red flame had a strange power, which caused the twisted monster to become extremely painful, and even the human faces connected to the flesh and blood of the wings showed extreme pain one by one. Painful state comes.

Jacob didn't hesitate about this, he swung the two knives one after another, and a large number of wounds were created on the thing in the flames one after another.

boom!

With a gunshot, the head of a person who wanted to attack Jacob was pierced.

puff-

The venom sprayed out, and Jacob dodged it before hitting him.

The howling monster rushed forward, but bumped into the large shield that Webster raised. Webster let out a muffled groan amidst the loud explosion of the air, almost unable to grasp the two-meter-high heavy shield in his hand. .And the gunshot sounded again from the rear, causing another penetrating wound on the monster's body, and a human head was directly blown away.

The scorching flames passed by again, and the moment Webster successfully defended against the blow, Jacob, who had just taken a step back, rushed forward almost in the blink of an eye, sending his two knives forward, burning The sharp blade of the flame directly penetrated the flesh and penetrated deep into the internal organs.

The severe pain this time caused the monster to roll directly to the ground, and Webster immediately grabbed the huge door-like sword with one hand, and swung it down with all his strength.Accompanied by a heavy cracking sound in the muddy ground, the thing's head was completely smashed, and the rotten meat, brains, and mud were mixed with each other, and there was no way to separate each other.

"This red oil is really much easier to use than ordinary oil."

After moving the arm joints that were slightly bruised due to the frontal collision with the monster, Webster smiled and let Edra perform the healing spell for himself.

Jacob set the monster's corpse on fire, ensuring that the opponent would not be able to transform into other things in a short period of time due to the enrichment of filthy power, causing trouble to the teammates behind.Afterwards, several people notified the other teams that the threat was lifted by changing the color of the magneto, and then continued to move forward.

Such a scene, for the team of more than 60 hunters, can already be regarded as a daily routine.

Because there are more battles along the way, the team's movement speed will inevitably slow down.Now after a full nine days, a group of people crossed Fengrao Town where Hunter and Abigail used to live.

"The distance from the pilgrimage town should be within a day, and we can arrive tomorrow."

Next to the burning corpses of several monsters that had been cut to pieces, Disma took out the map and looked it over carefully, and quickly came to a conclusion.

"I hope there is a place where I can sleep well."

The expression on Tardiff's face was not very good. Yesterday when they were looking for an abandoned house to rest, they found that one of the quilts in the house had been pooped, so they had to draw lots to decide who would sleep on that quilt, and then he Unfortunately, he was shot.Although there is no way to clean it up, but I have to say that I still feel a little uncomfortable in my heart, so this bounty hunter very much hopes that there will be no such broken things in the town where he rests next.

"After passing Pilgrimage Town, this old road is not so easy to walk."

Putting away the map and continuing to move forward, Disma said calmly, and took out his pistol for vigilance.

The existence of the Pilgrim's Old Road prevents the most widely distributed swamp in the Corrupt Field from spreading here, so the teams along the way can basically walk on solid ground.But after continuing to move forward for a while, they will approach the Black Lake, an incomparably huge rotten lake that spreads out for an extremely long distance.More than half of the old pilgrim route has now been swallowed up by the lake, so hunters will have to go around by then.

"Wait, stop! Girl

She smells something. "

William made a loud noise, signaling the three teammates beside him to be alert, and the hound beside him was already grinning forward.

There was a creeping sound, and the four of them retreated to hide at this moment. Soon, among the weeds, they saw a huge deformed crocodile crawling out.

Chapter 4: Monster BBQ

Under the starry sky, the moonlight softly shines on the vast wilderness, bringing some brightness to this cold and dark world.

But even this insignificant light has gradually sunk, and soon only the pitch black color remains to cover the whole world.In other words, at this moment, it is almost the dusk when the moon sets, so the team must start looking for a place to rest temporarily. In the corrupt field under the night, the perception and power of monsters will be improved to a certain extent, and those that are too dark The environment can be extremely costly to hunters.

In fact, considering the strong corrosive effect of filth on the hunters' mental strength, the psychological pressure brought by the dark environment will make the hunters more likely to fall into a state of torment of mental breakdown.Because of this, "Don't step into a filthy place in a dark environment" has always been an important rule of action throughout the ages, and only hunters, such inhuman powers, dare to single-handedly fight against monsters in a pure black environment.

pop-

There was a broken sound in the flames.

Tardiff and William were facing an enemy, and Disma sighed, and it seemed that he was no longer surprised.

There is a scent gradually wafting away, it is the smell of fat flowing from the meat that has been roasted by the flames, which is enough to whet the appetite. "

The expressions on the faces of Tardiff and William became more and more rigid. Figs stretched his head and sniffed, wanting to go forward a little bit, but was held down by its owner, William.

"I say……"

Finally, some bounty hunters who couldn't bear it spoke up.

pat!

Before Tardiff could speak, the hunter stretched out his hand and took the sliced ​​meat from the fire.

Fragrant, very tender, meat slices that make people feel appetizing at first glance.

The expressions on the faces of Tardiff, William, and Disma beside him became even more ugly. Figs swallowed, wagging his tail and tried to get closer, but William slapped him on the head. He lay on the ground with two helpless "woo hoo".

"Hunter, do you really want to eat... this stuff?"

Although during the period when he was a policeman in Star Capital and was assigned to Star Town as the sheriff, William thought he was well-informed, and he had heard all kinds of strange things.But now he has to admit that he really has never experienced the development at this moment.

"You... want too?"

The hunter who pulled down his mask was about to open his mouth to eat a piece of meat, when he heard William's voice, he turned his head and asked him.

"No, I won't, it's just that this thing..."

I don't know how to describe the feeling at this moment.

William subconsciously turned his head and looked outside the dilapidated house, the huge crocodile-shaped monster that was wiped out by their group 10 minutes ago.

And the pile of meat slices that were cut from the giant by the hunter and skewered with branches.

Although it smells really good, it is really appetizing to look at.But I don't know if it's an illusion, William always feels that the piece of meat has been wriggling slightly, obviously already cooked, but still struggling to escape.

No, no, this is definitely not an illusion, that thing is moving!

"Although I heard that Desma said that you, the hunter, have an unbelievably high resistance to filth, but it's true—wait, don't eat it!"

William, who hesitated and wanted to persuade the hunter not to eat it, had the expression on his face the next moment like the world-famous painting "The Scream".

Paji - Paji -

The hunter looked at the violently reacting William with some doubts, chewed the crocodile meat in his mouth, and then swallowed it.

The taste is not bad.

Feeling very happy, the hunter smiled.

"Regardless of whether he is the savior in the so-called lost legend, at least I can be sure that he is definitely not human."

Tardiff sighed, shrugged helplessly and said.

In the corrupt field, food supply is very important, because there is no way to obtain food locally, so this supply must rely on prior preparations.So once you need to travel long distances and fight for a long time, you must have a dedicated logistics team, and even if you have a logistics team, there will often be insufficient food.