He suddenly leaned downward. With a “Woosh,” his right hand pulled out a thin silver wire!
This was a [Tough Silver Wire], a weapon bought from the ranger guild and also a very unusual killing weapon.
Even if it wasn’t an uncommon item, it was considered quite strong among the common weapons.
The mutated aardwolf frantically shook his body, trying to throw Marvin off its back.
But Marvin’s legs were tightly circled around the aardwolf’s lower back. He took advantage of the moment when the aardwolf roared and stood up to ruthlessly wrap the aardwolf’s neck with the wire in his hand.
“Shua!”
The thin silver wire constricted the aardwolf neck. It painfully roared but even its roar was suppressed by the pressure on its throat.
Marvin seemed to be flying as he jumped and grabbed a branch. He made a tight knot on a thick and solid branch with both ends of the silver wire.
He then just stably stood on the tree, looking down toward the aardwolf crazily thrashing on the ground.
The tough silver wire would just keep digging onto its neck as it kept struggling.
Soon, its fur began to be filled with blood, but its movement also became more and more fierce!
This was an empty-headed beast!
If it had wisdom, it would have known that it would be best to stop moving.
But its intelligence was truly underwhelming. It even began to frantically run away from this place, trying to run away far from Marvin, this frightening human.
Unfortunately…
It soon choked to death because of its stupid actions.
[Target has died… 98 battle exp received!]
Mutated aardwolves had no useful loot, so Marvin wasn’t interested in looking. He glanced at Gru, and found out that he had already used strength to suppress the mutated aardwolf.
‘This guy’s strength really can’t be underestimated, he actually had that much power. He might also be holding back.’
Marvin hurriedly put away the silver wire and went to the place they had agreed on beforehand.
But he didn’t realize that Gru was even more amazed when he saw Marvin easily killing a mutated aardwolf like that!
Something like Tough Silver Wire could be bought at some places, but very few people were able to use it.
Using this thing to kill someone was simply wishful thinking.
Not to mention when fighting those frightening beasts; where could they find this kind of opportunity!?
However, Marvin did it.
‘This guy’s dexterity, has he already reached the limit threshold? Being able to coordinate his body like that would be impossible without a lot of years of training.’
‘In the end, who is he? He suddenly appeared in the south. Could it be a ranger from the north?’
Bramble’s captain was puzzled, but his hands didn’t relax.
Ha!
After a furious shout, Gru, who had finished storing power, saw an opportunity and let out a powerful [Bloodthirsty Cleave] on that mutated aardwolf’s head!
“Wu….”
This one blow directly split the head in half!
Brain matter scattered everywhere!
…
On the other side, the four aardwolves chasing the sika deer also had a bad ending.
The sika deer rushed to the prepared location and slowed down, steadily moving past some level ground.
Even though she shape-shifted into a deer, her weight was still very light. She was at least lighter than the mutated aardwolves by two thirds!
As a result, when the four aardwolves, in a hurry to kill, came over, they fell in the trap that the group had dug beforehand.
It was a huge pit with some brittle tree planks and twigs, camouflaged quite roughly, but considering the intelligence of mutated aardwolves…
The hole wasn’t considered very deep. The aardwolves roared, trying to get out.
But they couldn’t do anything!
The pit was covered with pine resin and rapeseed oil!
Marvin let Anna prepare the things beforehand, and she had intentionally bought those two kinds.
Rotten low rank pine resin and cheap black oil (cooking oil used and discarded). These seemingly useless things had become the bane of those mutated aardwolves!
They kept pushing each other, continuously slipping and unable to crawl up!
“Burn them!”
A torch was thrown in by one of the garrison members.
“Crash!”
Flames immediately spread through the whole pit.
The mutated aardwolves kept howling endlessly.
‘Fear of fire! This is the mutated aardwolves biggest weakness!’ Marvin watched as the flames ruthlessly swallowed those aardwolves up, feeling satisfied.
He had noticed that those mutated aardwolves fur was already quite greasy, coupled with the burning pine resin.
“Tssk.” This roasted wolf meat was actually quite a sight.
In the forest, the sounds of anguished howls from the aardwolves could be heard.
The garrison still had their weapons in hand, not slacking off. The Bramble team members gathered, along with Gru who had just finished dealing with his aardwolf.
They were quite satisfied with this first battle’s results.
They didn’t have any casualties. This was an adventurer’s most important goal.
That was why their eyes were filled with a lot of respect and gratitude when looking at Anna.
Because this was Anna’s plan.
Only, they didn’t know that everything was planned by Marvin, controlling from behind the scenes!
“The Lynx should have gotten rid of the gnolls, right?”
That woman who shape-shifted into a sika changed back. It’s just that she wasn’t wearing much, only a plain overcoat.
Shape-shifting was rather annoying. Every transformation would burst one’s clothes.
“Humph! Nine people for four gnolls… If they can’t manage to deal with it, they don’t need to stay in the field,” another team member said.
Everyone was quite relaxed.
Only Marvin stayed vigilant.
It was because he knew that often, when victory was in the palm of your hand, it could still be snatched away.
“Roar!” With a bellow, a huge figure jumped out from the pit!
Everyone was startled!
This mutated aardwolf actually stepped on his comrades’ bodies to force himself to jump out of the hole.
This jumping ability was far beyond his own abilities. It must have been due to the crisis arousing potential.
He charged into the group while still on fire all over.
Gru was alarmed. Without saying anything else, he grasped his heavy sword with both hands.
But someone was faster than him!
Marvin spun his twin daggers, crazily rushing forwards. In the blink of an eye he was in front of the flaming aardwolf.
Chapter 40: Overwhelming Assault
Chapter 40: Overwhelming Assault
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“Careful!” Gru yelled.
He also noticed the frightening flames on the aardwolf!
Even if Masked Twin Blades was powerful, if he wasn’t careful, he might lose his life!
Because of their many years of adventuring experience, Gru let his team have freedom to choose appropriate actions on their own.
Clearly, this mutated flaming wolf would quickly burn to death. They only needed to drag it out for a bit and not get taken down by it.
‘Why is Masked Twin Blades so reckless?’ Gru thought.
He waved his heavy sword with a speed no less than Marvin’s.
In that split second, Marvin had already rushed in front of the flaming wolf.
He seemed incomparably calm, and suddenly kicked the ground and leapt high!
He did an incredible somersault, high up in the air, and gracefully dodged the maw
of the flaming wolf. He ruthlessly stabbed his two curved daggers into the weakest part of the wolf’s neck.
This wasn’t enough!
After the tumble, his feet landed on the handles of both daggers!
The left and right feet! Marvin put force in his legs and both daggers immediately cut through!
“Plop!”
Blood flew everywhere!
Its head had dropped from the rest of the body!
Yet Marvin just calmly jumped down. The mutated aardwolf that had jumped up from the fire pit was already an arrow at the end of its flight. After Marvin’s powerful attacks, it immediately reached 0 HP!
[You did a normal attack on the target…]
[Your hit crippled the target, normal attack turned into crippling attack]
[Target died… You gained 120 battle exp]
Marvin happily looked at the battle log. This mutated aardwolf should considered quite outstanding compared to the others.
Or else it wouldn’t have given more experience than the previous one.
Sadly, those mutated aardwolves that died in the fire pit didn’t give him any experience. Or else he could have quickly earned a lot.
…
Close by, everyone was stunned after seeing the performance.
Someone in the Bramble team remarked, “I finally understand how he was able to kill Diapheis…”
The others were speechless; Gru who started rushing forwards was standing foolishly halfway there.
This kind of skill was simply unheard of!
This was far beyond a matter of physical ability; rather, it was achieved through fighting experience, reaction time, a tenacious mind, as well as perfect control of his body.
‘How much training did this kind of person do in order to reach this level…’ They couldn’t help but think of this.
But in fact, Marvin only liked to play games, nothing more. “Feinan Continent” was a very appealing game. Every detail felt very lifelike, the same as real life. He was like a fish in water inside the game when it came to leveling, but also at PK. He frequently battled strong experts.
He fought a duel with almost every class’ legendaries, and also had an understanding of all classes.
His mind was controlling his body. He trained himself in the game through constant PK and death.
Being the strongest assassin among the players wasn’t at all easy.
Because of these experiences as well as his control over his body, Marvin would certainly become a very frightening existence here in the true Feinan Continent.
But to get there, time was needed. He still needed time to grow.
Unfortunately right now, time was the thing he lacked the most. The Great Calamity was approaching!
…
After killing six mutated aardwolves without even losing a hair, the Bramble team had a lot of respect while looking at Marvin.
Adventurers were like that.
Display strong abilities and it will make others convinced and view you in a new light!
Even though Anna was the one with the most contribution because of her plan, if not for Marvin making the split second decision to kill a mutated aardwolf and also bravely rushing to kill that flaming wolf at the most dangerous moment, the others might have been wounded… Or killed!
Battles were just that merciless, anyone could die!
On the other side, the group of nine naturally had no problems eliminating those four pathetic gnolls.
Even if Cat was still thinking of making some trouble, nine expert not being able to kill four gnolls… If this kind of thing was spread, the Lynx team would never be able to get any business again.
After Marvin’s threat yesterday, how could he dare think of doing anything wrong?
Especially after they joined up with the other group, he clearly noticed that the Bramble team seemed to have a subtle change in the way they were looking at Marvin.
It was a kind of respect that was difficult to explain.
It was as if Marvin had convinced them through power.
Cat didn’t know what took place in the woods, but this Masked Twin Blades must have displayed some frightening strength. Or else these usually domineering Bramble members’ eyes wouldn’t display that kind of expression.
Verne speculated that his team’s strength was not as good as that of the Bramble team. Seeing this made him completely give up on causing trouble.
It was better to just finish this mission. As for that important client, that reward was bound to not be his.
His thoughts changed and he returned to being proactive. “What’s next? Sneak attack the castle?
“Sneak attack?” Anna shook her head, “No. We’re taking it by storm.”
“But not the castle, the northern mine!”
…
At the Northern Mine, two mutated aardwolves were restlessly patrolling the surroundings.
As for those two gnolls, they were unaware of the storm that was coming.
“Only take half of our forces,” Anna said according to Marvin’s plan. “We need to let one run, but wipe out the rest.”
“Let one run?” They were all somewhat surprised.
‘To let a gnoll go free, could it be to let him report the situation?’
‘Is it better than mounting a sneak attack?’
“I understand.” Lynx’s captain was worthy of being known for having a swift mind. He was the first to react. “We use half of our force to make them misjudge our strength. As a caster, he would certainly be arrogant. Letting one loose might infuriate him.”
“If that’s the case, we wouldn’t need to attack the castle, they would come themselves to the northern mine to look for us!”
Anna nodded. “You are right, this is the plan.”
“Hold on! What if that gnoll Sorcerer isn’t arrogant? Wouldn’t we waste a sneak attack plan?” Verne hurriedly asked.
“If they don’t fall into the trap, Lord Marvin already gave me a follow-up plan.” Anna calmly added, “Let’s execute the first part of the plan for now.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, you do not need to take care of it this time. Let our garrison deal with it.”
Hearing this, the White River Valley’s young men were already unable to hold back!
They already wanted to kill a few gnolls to vent their hatred.
They were forced to run away from their territory because of those gnolls, taking refuge in the villages inside the mountain. That shameful feeling, the adventurers couldn’t understand.
The adventurers only came for the money.
As for Andre and them.
They were here for their lord, and their own honor!
“Brothers!”
Andre lifted his heavy sword with both hands. He was also a fighter like Gru, but his level was a bit lower, only level 4.
The other garrison members were more or less the same, level 3 to level 4 class holders. However, their advantage lay in their training. They were able to coordinate with each other, and they also had pretty good equipment.
Second hand equipment from River Shore City’s defense army. Even if it was a bit old, it wouldn’t be too different.
Andre only said one word, and nothing more:
“KILL!”
The young men behind him were immediately fired up!
They had waited for this word, waited for who knows how long!
They had almost choked to death!
Damn it! Those fucking gnolls actually invaded their hometown!
If not for lord’s order, they would have already fought to the death with those gnolls.
Now that the captain already gave the order, what else could they be waiting for?
It was one word!
Kill!
…
When the enraged garrison members rushed out of the forest under Andre’s orders, most of the gnoll fighters weren’t ready to fight.
“Roar!” Andre was roaring while swinging away with his heavy sword and cut two g
nolls as easily as if he was chopping vegetables.
The others were also not lacking, rushing one after the other and bravely attacking the enemies.
This was bound to be a bloodbath!
It only lasted three minutes!
The fight already concluded.
Both mutated aardwolves were cut to death by Anna and Andre. As for the gnolls, their corpses were spread on the ground.
Only one gnoll that was a quicker runner than the others was stealthily escaping, although everyone let him run on purpose.
The gnolls stationed outside the northern mine were annihilated in one breath!
Next was cleaning up the battlefield. Even if gnolls were poor, there might be some valuable spoils of war.
Chapter 41: Frightening Mine
Chapter 41: Frightening Mine
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The adventurers had nothing to do for now.
There was one rule for the loot distribution for fights in the wilderness.
It was pretty simple: those who contributed would get benefits.
In the previous fight, the adventurers didn’t contribute, so they didn’t get to take the loot.
But under Anna’s directions, they began to tear apart the gnoll camp, using the logs to surround some mine tunnels with simple fortifications.
“Why didn’t those gnolls make a camp on the edge of the mine? It would have been easier to defend.”
Cat raised a question somewhat doubtfully.
No one was able to answer him, and the gnolls were already dead. No one knew how those packs of animals thought.
After the bloodbath, the rage of the White River Valley garrison was vented to some degree.
They meticulously piled up the gnoll corpses and burnt them, and started taking care of the loot afterwards.
In fact, these gnolls were very poor. They had nothing worthwhile on them. The camp only had simple and crude items too.
Most of it was food.
But that food… Only gnolls, kobolds, goblins and such races would eat that kind of food.
During the second era, mankind was the same as them. In order to adapt to the poor conditions, they would eat any kind of food they could get.
But after the rise of mankind, and them becoming used to fine food, they couldn’t eat tree roots and those kinds of things any more.
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