Chapter 38: The Heart-Stirring Evil Breath
This werewolf was probably about two meters tall, with a wolf's head and a human body, his upper body was bare, his muscles were extremely developed, and there were red magic patterns engraved , which were emitting a faint blood-red glow, extending all the way to his entire body, where his hair was also dyed red.
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Li Qing always felt uncomfortable when he saw the bloody magic pattern.
Larson, the Gnoll Chieftain (Hero): Monster Lord, third-tier Berserker, rarity two stars.
Larson, the Gnoll Chieftain, is a Tier 3 Berserker who is both a hero and a monster lord, with a rarity of two stars.
The so-called Monster Lord is a title and also a status. It will also have a certain bonus on the hero's strength. The stronger the Monster Lord's power, the higher the bonus.
Not all monster leaders can be called lords. They must be the leaders of a monster tribe, and the tribe they lead must have a complete heroic heritage, such as Larson's Berserker professional heritage.
And the tribe can grow and develop. For example, a gnoll tribe can continuously produce new gnolls and grow stronger.
Of course, to grow stronger ahead of time requires more resources, at least there must be enough food sources to feed more gnolls.
The plane fragment in front of us is not big. Although the Gnolls' servants, the Kobolds, can farm, the output is limited. Most of the food can only be obtained by hunting. The food in the forest is also limited, which leads to the limited size of this Gnoll tribe and its inability to grow.
But no matter what, it is still a large tribe with nearly two hundred gnolls and five or six hundred kobold servants.
Larson was surprised that Li Qing could create two large arrow towers out of thin air, but he did not pause at all. He turned around, picked up the two two-handed swords carried by the tribesmen behind him, and swung them forward. The werewolves surrounding him rushed to the battlefield amid his roar.
The gnolls have no tactics to speak of; they have no concept of tactics or command.
More than three hundred kobolds and more than one hundred gnolls rushed forward, and the infantry in the front row were suddenly under great pressure.
Fortunately, all the archers retreated to the arrow towers, so the infantry had no worries and could fight with all their strength.
As the captain of the infantry battalion, An Yi Qiu naturally fought in the front. He used his heroic skill "Shocking Roar" and let out a roar. The surrounding gnolls were immediately thrown into chaos and rushed around in fear. However, they could not go anywhere in the crowded battlefield and instead affected the gnolls behind them.
An Yi Qiu takes the route of a functional hero. His two hero skills are not directly lethal, but they are very useful on the battlefield.
However, his roar immediately attracted the attention of the werewolf leader. Larson, who was about to rush towards one of the arrow towers, suddenly turned around and roared halfway. A large number of ogres quickly made way for him. He roared again, and the magic patterns on his body began to glow red, and his whole body seemed to be burning with blood flames.
He stomped his right foot hard, leaped five or six meters into the air and rushed towards the infantry phalanx.
The powerful threat made An Yi Qiu shudder. He looked up suddenly at the werewolf leader who was falling like a red meteor. He held the shield in his left hand across his body and bent his body slightly to prepare for the impact.
"boom!"
The blood-red meteor hit the steel shield in An Yi Qiu's hand hard. With a loud noise, a circle of thick blood light exploded, causing the surrounding ogres to fly backwards. The human infantry who were close to them retreated one after another and pressed on the infantry in the back row.
An Erqiu, who was directly hit, was knocked away by the huge force. He rolled on the ground several times and climbed up awkwardly with the long sword in his right hand supporting him.
He raised his trembling left hand, and the two-finger-thick steel shield was actually split in half by the sword.
“What a powerful force!”
An Erqiu knew in his heart that he was no match for this werewolf hero.
He turned the round shield with his right hand, moving the split part downwards, ready to meet the opponent's attack.
But Larson let out a roar when he landed, but did not attack. Instead, he turned around suddenly, spread his hands, and quickly turned his body to pounce on the infantry shield formation on the side.
Berserker's heroic skill - Whirlwind, swings a whirlwind of death on the battlefield.
It took less than two seconds from landing to the whirlwind slash. Even if An Erqiu reacted quickly and ordered the infantry to retreat, it was too late.
The whirlwind of death pounced into the infantry phalanx, and instantly a teeth-grinding tearing sound was heard. The powerful force combined with the sharp two-handed sword forcibly tore open the chain mail of the second-level veteran infantry and the scale armor of the third-level elite infantry.
"grass!"
Almost instantly, four infantrymen were torn apart and sent flying with blood gushing out of their bodies.
Li Qing immediately said to Long Shou beside him:
"Stop him and lead him out of the battlefield."
Long Shou nodded, threw down the bow and arrow in his hand, drew his sword, walked to the edge of the arrow tower and slid down.
At this time, Li Qing said to Xie Zhu beside him:
"Get ready and cooperate with Long Shou to snipe it to death."
Xie Zhu nodded, took out a fine steel arrow from behind and put it on the bow.
He carried two kinds of arrows, one was an ordinary wooden arrow, and the other was an armor-piercing arrow made entirely of fine steel, specially used to snipe powerful opponents.
When Long Shou came down from the arrow tower, Larson's whirlwind had already killed through the infantry phalanx, and more than eight infantrymen fell to the ground covered in blood, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.
Li Qing felt a little guilty about why he didn't let Long Shou stay down there, otherwise there wouldn't have been these losses. This also exposed his immaturity in commanding troops.
But it's just . As a newcomer, I always have to let reality teach me lessons so that I can have a deep memory.
After suffering a loss this time, the next time you face the same or a similar situation, you will know how to deal with it.
Generals die in hundreds of battles; there is no such thing as an unkillable number of casualties on the battlefield.
This is nothing at the moment. In the future, when we experience more tragic and cruel battles, more people will die.
While he was blaming himself, Long Shou had already jumped down from the arrow tower, and the werewolf Larson's whirlwind slash had ended. Feeling Long Shou's undisguised powerful aura, he immediately turned around and his expression quickly became solemn.
Long Shou rushed forward without any hesitation, sword in hand.
The gnoll leader Larson let out a loud roar and rushed forward without fear.
The two giants, one big and one small, quickly collided with each other, and with a crisp "clang" sound, the two swords collided. Larson's blade was directly pressed down by Long Shou, forcing him to quickly press the left hand sword that he was about to free up on the back of his right hand sword. Only with the combined force of both hands could he barely support the huge force of Long Shou.
Although it is not known how Larson has a two-meter tall body, no matter how strong he is, he cannot compare in strength with the Dragon Guardian who has the blood of a dragon. Even if the Dragon Guardian's rank is one level lower than Larson, he can still suppress Larson in strength.
Seeing this scene, Li Qing felt relieved.
As long as you can block it, the rest will be easy.
Relatively speaking, An Yi Qiu was more relieved. He breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ordered the infantry to reorganize the defense line. He could not take care of the eight subordinates whose lives or deaths were unknown for the time being. Whether they could survive depended on their own fate.
On the other side, Long Shou obeyed Li Qing's previous order. After fighting with the werewolf Larson, he began to consciously pull out of the battlefield and leave the main battlefield.
Both of them were powerful warriors, and their fighting style was a head-on collision. Every collision of their weapons made a harsh sound, and the sword wind swept across, and from time to time, the ogres who were close were swept by the aftermath.
If it touches you, you will get hurt; if it touches you, you will be disabled.
After both sides left the main battlefield, Li Qing looked at Xie Zhu beside him. He had already put the fine steel arrow on the bow and began to accumulate power.
However, just as he began to gather strength, the Werewolf Lord Larson, who was fighting fiercely with the Dragon Guard, instantly sensed the powerful threat. After a wrestling match with the Dragon Guard, he looked up at the arrow tower and roared to the sky.
Then he suddenly started mumbling something quickly that was hard to hear.
After a few seconds, the lines on his body quickly turned red, and his body expanded a little.
The next second, Li Qing, who was in doubt, suddenly looked up and looked towards the stone hall in the center of the werewolf tribe.
At this moment, he sensed a strange fluctuation coming from the direction of the central stone hall of the werewolf tribe.
At this moment, a palpitation suddenly rose from my heart.
"This is……"
This feeling is extremely annoying.
I could only vaguely feel it before, but now it is very obvious.
Li Qing thought for a moment and shouted loudly to the people below:
"Infantrymen shrink the defense line and move closer to the bottom of the arrow tower."
An Yi Qiu, who was fighting at the front, was a little confused, thinking that some sudden change had occurred. He immediately ordered the adjustment of the infantry positions and directed the infantry battalions to retreat in turns, with the injured infantry giving priority to retreating.
As for the dragon guard on the other side, he did not give any additional orders.
He just looked at Xie Zhu beside him. At this time, he had already pulled the bow to the maximum, and the five seconds of charging power had been completed, but he still hadn't shot the arrow.
Li Qing just watched him draw the bow and aim at the bottom, moving it left and right but never firing. Then he looked at the dragon guard and the jackal leader moving back and forth below and he knew what was going on.
"Dragon Guard, ray breath!"
Long Shou immediately took a step back and opened his mouth to let out a breath that made the werewolf leader Larson feel threatened. Larson immediately put away his sword and retreated in a defensive posture.
When Long Shou accumulated power for two seconds, a blazing white light shot out from his mouth. Larson immediately turned around and used his heroic fighting skill, Leap Slash, to leap sideways nearly ten meters.
At this moment, Li Qing felt a flash of white light beside him.
The next second, the werewolf leader Larson, who had jumped and landed, suddenly let out a shrill roar of pain, and rolled backwards as soon as he landed.
There will be a buffer force release at the moment he lands. Xie Zhu immediately seizes this opportunity, charges his strength and shoots an arrow accurately hitting Larson's waist. The thick steel arrow goes straight through his waist.
At the same time, the dragon guard who was spewing dragon breath quickly turned his head, and the flaming dragon breath swept across the ground, leaving a black scorch mark and quickly swept towards Larson.
Larson, who had no time to dodge, raised his sword without hesitation to block in front of him. The next moment, a ray of flame swept across the broad two-handed sword. A large flame exploded, and the sword quickly turned red and melted through. However, Larson had two two-handed swords, and the second one was quickly blocked behind him.
Long Shou's dragon breath can only last for a few seconds. When it penetrates the first sword, the remaining force is no longer able to penetrate the second sword.
But as soon as he finished breathing, Long Shou rushed forward with his sword and chopped it down.
The gnoll leader hastily blocked with both swords. With a crisp sound, the sword whose blade was melted through was directly broken, and the other one was quickly bent in the struggle between the two sides.
Metal becomes softer when heated, not to mention the great force exerted by both parties.
The bent two-handed sword was naturally unusable, and the werewolf leader roared, the magic patterns on his body suddenly lit up, and the surging bloody aura pushed Long Shou back. He threw away the bent sword in his hand and turned around to run.
As soon as the leader ran away, the morale of the fighting gnolls and dog-headed men naturally plummeted.
The stalemate collapsed in an instant, and a large number of jackals began to retreat.
However, Li Qing did not order a pursuit. Apart from continuing to shoot from a distance, he told An Yi Qiu not to pursue impulsively and to quickly reorganize the formation.
The inexplicable feeling in the Gnoll Tribe just now made him feel uneasy. Li Qing suspected that there might be other powerful heroes hidden in the Gnoll Tribe. If he rushed in without finding out, he would be doomed if he encountered another Gnoll hero who was not inferior to Larson.
There were not enough troops in the early stage and no capital to go wild.
After the gnolls and kobolds fled back, they quickly closed the city gates. The two sides continued to confront each other for the time being, but the archers on the arrow tower could use their height advantage to continuously shoot arrows at the gnolls and kobolds on the wooden wall.
There are many throwers among the kobolds, and there are also many long-range javelins among the gnolls.
But whether it is slingshot or javelin, the range is far inferior to that of the bow.
So they could only passively take the shots and were unable to fight back.
In just a short while, all the gnolls and kobolds on the nearby wooden walls were suppressed and hid behind the shields, not daring to show up.
On the other side, after the gnoll leader Larson fled back to the tribe, he ignored his men and immediately rushed to the tall stone hall in the center of the tribe. After entering, he disappeared.
After a while, a strange sound was heard from the stone hall, and then a faint gray mist ring exploded with the stone hall as the center, and then many figures slowly walked out of the tents inside and outside the tribe.
Li Qing saw in the dim firelight that those figures were some ordinary dog-headed men. They had their eyes closed as if they were sleepwalking, swaying their bodies as they gathered towards the center.
"What is this?"
The next second, Li Qing suddenly had an idea:
“Could this be the original ancestor totem?”
Li Qing seemed to have read in a book when he was hanging out in the library in his mentor's castle that some primitive tribes of intelligent species would give birth to primitive ancestral totems due to long-term ancestor worship. They might also be earth gods or earthbound spirits.
Or in popular terms, this is the primitive belief in gods.
It's just that some tribes are not strong enough.
Or the current plane is not sufficient to support the birth of divinity.
It is also possible that the way of belief is wrong, and other things are mixed in, resulting in the belief not being pure enough, or it is influenced by other factors and so on.
To be honest, there are many influencing factors, and Li Qing is not quite sure what is inside this werewolf tribe.
But that kind of evil fluctuation can confirm that the thing born in this werewolf tribe is definitely not a good thing.
This was mixed news for Li Qing.
The good news naturally means that if we can defeat this tribe, the benefits we get will be much better than previously imagined, and we may even get some extraordinary treasures.
The bad news, of course, is that this tribe is much more dangerous than previously expected, and he may not be able to defeat them.
