Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard Chapter 4: Wolves in Anceno Village

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Anceno Village is a very small village in the western mountainous area of ​​the empire, with less than 200 people in the whole village. Although it is only one day from Takri Town to Anceno Village, when entering the mountain, the road becomes very difficult to walk, and there is even a section on the edge of the cliff, so even though this mission was released for a few days, Nobody cares. Hunting wolves, there are not enough people, too many people, too few bounty, and the road is difficult to follow. Many mercenaries just look at them 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. He has long been accustomed to such an environment. He was born as a hunter, and he has a variety of ways to deal with Warcraft. Therefore, after a good night's sleep, Ryan got up early and rushed to Anceno Village.

The weather in July is hot. Ryan follows the route marked on the map and walks in the dense forest. He can also feel the intense sunlight shining through the shade of the trees. Except for drinking all the clear water he brought, Ryan went very smoothly on the road. When the sun went down, Ryan came to Anceno Village.

There are almost no outsiders in the village of Anceno, so the appearance of Lane alarmed the villagers. Soon, Ryan met the village chief under a big tree in the village. The head of Ancheno Village is a 60-year-old old man. He sits in the middle of the village under a big tree surrounded by two people. He wears gray linen clothes and a black hat on his head. , His thin body seemed to be blown away by a gust of wind, and a worried look appeared on his face.

Although Ryan took out the magic crystal that symbolized his status 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 fierce wolves? It was not that the village had never organized young adults to hunt and kill wolves, but the result was 1 dead and 5 wounded. Until now, the most injured is still lying in bed.

Ryan saw his concerns from the village chief’s face, he didn’t speak much, he just cast a magic missile and knocked out a crow that stopped on the tree, which kept crying. This was a somewhat reckless move. The village chief's face changed immediately.

The village chief jumped up excitedly, ran to the clearing, looked up at the sky, and shouted loudly: "Magic! God, he is a magician. Anceno is saved. The great God of Light is here. On, you have not forgotten your people, he must have been sent by you to save us..."

Lane looked at the excited village chief and regretted his reckless behavior. Looking at the old village chief’s age, he jumped and jumped like a young man, and shouted hoarsely, very much for him. Worried, afraid that he will fall to the ground next moment and can't get up.

However, Ryan's imagination did not appear. The village chief’s shouts attracted the whole village. Seeing everyone around him, the village chief stopped the behaviors that did not fit his age and panted to tell everyone the good news. When they heard that a magician was coming to help them, all the villagers screamed in excitement, with hope in their eyes.

After getting rid of the excited villagers in Anceno, Ryan followed the village chief to his home. The village chief’s wife is no longer alive, and his son works as a dock worker in the distant Sea Breeze City. So the village chief tidied up the bed where his son slept, and let Ryan rest.

After a simple dinner, Ryan and the village chief stayed by the table and discussed the details of hunting the wolves. Knowing that Ryan would use magic, the village head changed his attitude and became very confident in Ryan, and he didn't have a clue to speak. He talked about wolves for a while, and then digressed to talk about the trivial matters of his life. Ryan asked for a long time before he could barely understand the situation in Acheno Village.

It turned out that Acheno Village is rich in wood, and the villagers make a living by cutting down trees and planting mushrooms. Every autumn, merchants from Sea Breeze City, the largest port in the eastern part of the empire, will come to Anceno to purchase wood. The wood with good quality will be transported to Sea Breeze City to make ships, or transferred to other places. The wood that is of poor quality and cannot be sold is used by the women and children of Anceno to grow mushrooms.

The life in Anceno Village has always been peaceful, and the villagers rarely see offensive monsters. However, not long ago, a group of winter wolves attacked the tree-cutting forest farm in Anceno Village. Several villagers who were cutting down the trees managed to escape. But these winter wolves seem to have settled near the lumber yard, and they also appear around the lumber yard from time to time. This makes the residents of Acheno panic and never dare to work in the lumber yard. This directly caused the security. The loss of the main source of income in Cheno Village has deprived the villagers of the means to survive.

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 down or drive away the wolves. But when I met the hunting team and the wolves, I realized that things were far worse than expected. There were a total of 27 Winter Wolves!

Needless to say, Acheno’s hunting team had 1 dead and 5 wounded, and fled back in embarrassment. The village chief had no choice but to send someone to the Mercenary Guild in Takri Town to issue a mission to hunt and kill the wolves.

Understanding the specific situation of Anceno, Ryan felt strange in his heart. He thought that there were only a few winter wolves here, and even quietly guessed that it was five winter wolves, because the reward for the mission was 5 gold coins. Unexpectedly, there are a total of 27! It’s no wonder that the description of the quest for hunting beasts is vague. No wonder this quest seems simple but no one took it. It turned out to be such a thing. It must be the village chief to save a little gold and also not to scare away. Mercenary, did this deliberately. If it were written truthfully, it would take a mercenary group with more than five people to take the 27 winter wolves. That cost at least 50 gold coins, and now only one-tenth of the original gold coins can be used to take oneself." "Cheat" here. It’s also the fault of Ryan that he has no experience in this area. In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will understand that a village is attacked by a group of three-level beasts. If there are only a few of these three-level beasts, why should a village with nearly 200 people get a servant? The Bing Guild releases missions!

Thinking of this, Ryan gave the village chief a fierce look. This miser, really killed himself. According to the provisions of the Mercenary Guild, if the mission is not completed next, he will be punished, and Ryan does not want his first mercenary mission to end in failure. There is no way, so he has to bite the bullet.

What method can be used to hunt down 27 winter wolves? And it must be hunted at once, otherwise the surviving winter wolves will run away, they will be deeply hidden, and they will come back to retaliate after recovering from their injuries. At that time, I had already left, and the villagers of Acheno would still suffer. Doesn't this mean that I didn't complete the task? Ryan felt his head start to grow bigger.

Lane carefully recalled what his father had told him about the habits of winter wolves:

Winter wolves are monsters that like to gather in groups, and the entire wolves migrate for food under the command of the wolves;

In normal life, there will be relatively scattered formations, and there will be special winter wolf guards;

Fight in groups when hunting prey, very brave;

Winter Wolf is very afraid of fire.

For a wolf pack of this size, if hunters from Dense Fog Town come to kill, there will also be seven or eight people, and you must prepare traps and dig traps in advance. Now the young and middle-aged here in Anceno have just suffered a loss, I'm afraid there is a shadow in my heart, it seems that I can't count on them to help me. Did he kill 27 winter wolves that are listed as the third-level in the Warcraft books? Pigeon Boar is only Level 3! This is really a headache.

Ryan thought about it and didn't have a clue. He had no experience as a mercenary, so naturally he didn't know how to deal with this situation. In his cranky thoughts, Ryan suddenly thought of his two teachers. If Teacher Galibu was there, he would have rushed directly, and the 7th-level Earth Bear could only get 3 punches, so this little Winter Wolf would naturally not be a problem. But obviously this idea is just thinking about it, and I don't have the perverted strength of Teacher Caleb.

Lane felt cold all over when he thought of rushing into the middle of the 27 winter wolves alone.

If it's Mr. Delaney, maybe he will use some magic...Huh? correct! Ryan remembered what Mr. Delaney once said: "A qualified magician does not depend on how much power he has, but whether he can use his power skillfully." The 27 winter wolves sounded a lot. In fact, as long as you choose a right opportunity, as long as a large-scale killing magic can be solved.

Thinking of this, Ryan slapped his thigh and involuntarily said: "Fireball!"

"Ouch!" the village chief sitting next to Ryan cried out in pain.

Ryan was still immersed in his own ideas, and said by the way: "I pat the thigh, what is your name."

The village chief frowned while rubbing his thighs and said, "But you are taking pictures of my thighs!"

"Haha~" Ryan also laughed when he heard the village chief's words. "The village chief, I have already thought of a way. Tomorrow I will check the nearby terrain and prepare to hunt down the winter wolves!"

The next day, under the guidance of the village chief, Ryan found the Anceno Lumberyard, and he observed the living habits of the wolves from a distance. It is their head wolf that is responsible for the vigilance of this pack of wolves. This wolf is the strongest of the entire winter wolf pack. It is very cunning. It is always engrossed in the environment around the pack, and becomes alert when there is a slight movement.

Once Ryan wanted to get closer and observe carefully. He didn't expect to step on a branch when he leaned in. This slight noise immediately aroused the idea of ​​the wolf. If Ryan carefully hides himself from time to time, he will almost be caught It was discovered.

After two days of observation, Ryan discovered that the Winter Wolves would go to a stream near the Anceno Lumberyard to drink water at noon every day. When drinking water, the head of the wolf pack will stand outside to watch. After the wolves drink the water, the wolves will leave the guard position and go to the creek to drink water. After the wolves drink the water, they will walk back to their lair along the way they came. This discovery gave Ryan a preliminary idea. After careful consideration of every detail, the entire plan was formed in Ryan's mind.

On the fourth day, Ryan came to the creek early.

The key to the smooth realization of this plan lies in whether Ryan can lurch very close to the wolves until the wolves are almost finished drinking water, the moment the wolf leaves the guard position to drink water by the creek. For this reason, Ryan deliberately chose a large tree with luxuriant branches to climb up at the downwind vent where the wolves often drink water, and made a camouflage with leaves.

Today's weather was extremely hot, and Ryan was covered by leaves. It was unspeakably sultry, but he had to endure it in order to implement the plan. Ryan slowly waited for the arrival of the Winter Wolf, and kept thinking about the refreshing glass of juice he had drunk in Takri Town.

Time seemed to pass very slowly. When the sun was hanging high in the air and looking down at the earth, and Ryan had already drunk 20 glasses of juice in his mind, the winter wolves appeared.

The winter wolf pack is still as usual, lining up and walking slowly to the creek. When they reached the edge of the creek, the leading winter wolves slowly drank water by the creek. The winter wolves behind left the queue and quickly grabbed the creek and started drinking. A few little winter wolves were playing in the water, making a "woooo" sound. Only the wolf is still watching the surroundings vigilantly.

Ryan watched the wolves' behavior silently, he didn't even dare to breathe, lest the wolf who made the noise of the winter alert noticed. Although Ryan's heartbeat started to speed up, he still patiently waited for the opportunity to act.

Time passed slowly, until the wolves had almost drunk the water, and the wolves were in their most chaotic time. At this time, the wolf seemed to be too thirsty, so he ran to the creek a few steps, lowered his head and started drinking.

The opportunity is here!

Ryan decisively recited the spell of "Fireball" in his heart. In less than 3 seconds, a fist-sized fireball flew out of Ryan’s hand, drawing a red trajectory, and went straight to the wolves. go!

Fireball is flying very fast in the air. When the wolves found danger, the fireball had fallen in the middle of them!

With a "bang~", 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 all over the sky.

A perfect blow!

Without waiting for the wolves to run away, Ryan released another fireball technique. This fireball accurately fell into the surviving wolves, and the splendid flame appeared again, like a sickle of death, gracefully harvesting winter The life of a wolf.

After the two fireballs, the original clear stream was filled with the stumps and blood of the winter wolf. Two deep pits were blown out on the ground, and there was still acrid black smoke. Most of the winter wolves have already Lost in the tremendous power of fireball. A badly injured winter wolf struggled to get up and tried to run back to the lair, but was knocked to the ground by a magic missile by Ryan and stepped into the footsteps of his companion.

Ryan waited a while away, and saw that no winter wolves stood up. It was estimated that the wolves had been wiped out, and he walked to the "battlefield" with confidence.

The bonus for this mission was only 5 gold coins, which was obviously less. Ryan wondered if he would peel off the fur of the Winter Wolf as he walked. It would be good to get a few silver coins in Takri Town.

Ryan walked slowly to the side of the dark smokey pit, bent over and looked through the winter wolf carcass, hoping to find a few winter wolves whose fur was not badly damaged, but these winter wolves in front of him The fur was scorched by the fireball technique, and it seemed that he couldn't sell it.

Just when Ryan was hesitating to look at the Winter Wolf on the other side, under the corpse of the Winter Wolf on his left, a strong Winter Wolf suddenly jumped out and lunged on Ryan's shoulder.

The winter wolf opened its mouth wide, and the two rows of sharp teeth that were exposed were about to be on Ryan's neck.

It's too late. It's fast. Ryan followed the martial arts that Caleb has trained for many years. He took advantage of the trend and fell to the right, holding Shadowsor in his left hand with a backhand! The sneak attacked Winter Wolf was lightly slashed by Shadow Sorrow, and was divided into two sections without any suspense, flew out, and fell to the ground respectively.

Ryan half-kneeled on the ground, although his face and body were covered with the blood of the Winter Wolf, he did not wipe it at all, still holding Shadowshang and watching the surroundings vigilantly.

At the moment when the flashlight was flashing, Ryan clearly saw that the winter wolves that attacked him were the head wolves of this group of winter wolves. At this moment, the body of the wolf had been divided into two parts by the sharp shadow, and it was already dead.

Although there is no danger, Ryan still has cold sweat on his head, because he found that one of the hind legs of the wolf had been blown off.

If it weren't for the wolf that only had 3 legs left, it would affect the explosive power of the swoop. In the sneak attack just now, Ryan would probably be unable to avoid it, and he would definitely be injured. Although he will definitely win the victory with his years of training and sharp shadows, it is clear that a perfect battle still leaves such a hidden danger that endangers his safety.

"It seems that my on-site experience is still very poor!" Ryan sighed inwardly: "Ms. Delaney said to himself that when things are not over, you should never relax your vigilance. The sooner you are successful. The more likely it is to go wrong; Teacher Caleb also said that even if you kill an edelweiss, you have to use your strength to fight the poisonous manticore. But I just think about what happens after the matter is over. This is the most important thing. I forgot the advice. I must learn this lesson myself. In fact, I should have done another fireball technique just now. At that time, the ten pretending wolves really turned into dead wolves."

Ryan, who was taught the lesson, decided to give up his unrealistic idea of ​​skinning the wolf and selling it for money. He stood up and released two fireball spells to explode the scattered corpses of the winter wolf on the ground.

After confirming that these winter wolves were dead and could not die, Ryan was relieved.

For safety's sake, 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 Anceno Village with satisfaction.

After learning that all the winter wolves that threatened him had been killed, the villagers in Acheno Village shouted happily, and their happy smiles also infected Ryan. On behalf of all the villagers, the enthusiastic village chief of Anceno invited Ryan to participate in the celebration held in the evening, and organized manpower to follow Ryan to clean the "battlefield" by the stream in the logging farm.