Chapter 229

Everything happened too suddenly; neither the snow wolves nor the people of the tribe had reacted.

The only one on the scene who reacted was Laut, who had survived a narrow escape.

Seeing the ice snow wolf that had pounced on him blown away, under the instinct of survival, Laut immediately climbed up from the ground at the fastest speed.

He couldn't care about the severe pain coming from the wound on his shoulder and hurriedly ran toward the tribe.

"Kill!"

The chief finally reacted at this moment and shouted angrily.

Under his command, the hunters in the tribe reacted quickly, throwing the flying spears in their hands one after another.

The flying spears flew toward the wolf pack as densely as raindrops.

Facing this sudden violent counterattack, the wolf pack instantly fell into chaos.

The snow wolves let out angry howls, trying to launch an offensive.

But before that, the threat of the flying spears forced them to scatter and dodge first.

The snow wolves are brave and good at fighting, ferocious and ruthless; in just an instant, they had already moved far away.

But such a dense flying spear offensive would not be without any results.

About seven or eight snow wolves, unable to dodge in time, were pierced through the body by sharp flying spears and nailed to the snow, struggling painfully, blood instantly dyeing the snow red.

But at this time, the rest of the snow wolves had already adjusted their formation.

Previously they were in a gathered state, so they were difficult to handle facing the dense flying spears.

But now, they had scattered, stretching the battle line extremely long; with the agility and speed of snow wolves, it was impossible for flying spears to pose a threat to them in this situation.

Therefore, what would follow would be the most bloody and cruel melee.

And here, the chief himself also exploded at this instant.

Under an angry rebuke, his eyes turned into the ghostly blue of frost, and ice-blue light appeared in his hands.

After an instant, an arrow condensed from cold ice shot toward one of the 1st-circle ice snow wolves without a bow.

This was not a spell mastered by a conventional mage through constructing a spell model, but spell power awakened by itself from the bloodline.

The old chief was the only person in the entire tribe with awakened Ice-Born blood.

In other words, he was equivalent to the only mage in the entire tribe.

This was the biggest problem for this tribe when facing a snow wolf pack attack.

People in the northern realm make a living by hunting, and their combat literacy and physique are far superior to ordinary people; facing 0-circle earth-vein creatures, even without magic, they can fight.

But those three 1st-circle ice snow wolves were definitely not something ordinary people in the northern realm could handle.

Only the supernatural can deal with the supernatural.

In the northern realm, Ice-Born blood is the supernatural power that people in the northern realm rely on to survive.

The old chief was already very old and didn't have the confidence, and indeed didn't have the strength, to fight three with one.

But now, there was no choice.

More importantly, the old chief also discovered the freak who "flew" down from the hillside.

He could only choose to believe that this "freak" was powerful enough and willing to continue to take action.

Crackle!

That cold ice arrow accurately hit the ice snow wolf.

However, it didn't have the effective results like the flame beam just now.

Following a crisp sound of ice cracking, it just shattered like that.

The ice snow wolf that took this hit hard only felt a little pain, suffered some minor skin injuries, and bared its fangs and brandished its claws, letting out a howling sound.

Under its howling sound, the snow wolves kicked their hind legs, walking on the snow as if on flat ground, and flew toward the crowd in the tribe.

"Ah!!"

The teenager next to Qiao Yi was instantly pounced on the ground by a snow wolf that flew over.

Just one bite.

A huge blood hole appeared on the teenager's neck.

And before the long spears thrust by the hunters could land on it, the cunning snow wolf had already succeeded in one strike and retreated nimbly.

It just exposed its bloody fangs and big mouth, staring at Qiao Yi, who was almost bloodless, with cruel and ferocious green pupils.

It was as if it were issuing a threat: the next one to die is you.

The battle situation here had just begun, and another scream came from the other side.

An elderly person with slow movement had his stomach slashed open by another ferocious snow wolf, instantly flipping to the ground and wailing painfully.

Of course, the snow wolf side was not rampant and unimpeded.

The most experienced expert in the hunting team had already accurately and surprisingly forcefully thrust the long spear in his hand when a snow wolf flew over.

The long spear made an aerial interception directly, the sharp bone spearhead passing through the most fragile abdomen of the snow wolf, giving it a thorough cooling.

And the rest of the hunters, although not as skilled as him, were also constantly thrusting their long spears with all their might, driving away those snow wolves that flew over.

"Maintain physical strength and rhythm!" The captain of the hunting team shouted.

Every time a long spear is swung with all one's might, the consumption of physical strength is huge.

Especially in the situation of high-frequency spear swinging, it is even more so; perhaps after dozens of consecutive times, one will be exhausted.

And these cunning giant wolves obviously understood this truth.

That's why they constantly tentatively attacked the elderly, children, and women who didn't have much ability to resist, rather than entangling with the hunters.

The purpose was to force the hunters to keep attacking and consume their physical strength.

As predators on the snowfield, this is a common method they use when facing prey: through tentative attacks and feints, consume the prey's physical strength, and when they are exhausted, easily pounce on them.

But the captain's reminder didn't have much effect.

It wasn't just the hunting team captain who could see the snow wolves' plot; in fact, other hunters also understood their intentions, but the problem was that those snow wolves were pouncing on their own tribesmen.

The hunters didn't dare to gamble and could only try their best to block the snow wolves.

And on the other side, after the old chief's offensive, that 1st-circle ice snow wolf that had been blown away by the flame beam had already climbed up.

The snow-white wolf fur at the wound had now been dyed into a scorched, mottled black by the embers of the flame.

This made it especially angry.

The anger stemmed not only from physical pain but more from the trampling of dignity.

It locked its gaze tightly on the "culprit," that freak who was galloping down from the hillside at an incredible speed, bringing up clumps of accumulated snow.

Even the ice snow wolf that had taken a hard hit from the old chief's attack didn't care about looking at the old chief at this moment, but instead cast its ferocious gaze toward that freak together.

The intelligence of these 1st-circle earth-vein creatures is extremely high, obviously understanding that this is the most troublesome enemy and needs to be solved together first.

The three ice snow wolves slightly adjusted a direction, and at almost the same moment, their strong and powerful limbs kicked the ground, turning into three white ghosts, rushing toward that freak. "Be careful!" The old chief shouted again, while chasing after the three giant wolves, wanting to support.

In his view, facing the siege of three ice snow wolves, that freak would definitely be in danger this time.

However, the freak who was quickly "flying" down from the hillside didn't stop his movements at all.

While moving, he had already started casting spells.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Two intense, extremely dazzling energy beams had already shot out from the "freak's" hands.

From a high position, they shot toward two of the three ice snow wolves like two flashes of lightning piercing the sky.

Those two ice snow wolves locked by the energy beams used their hind limbs to exert force, and when the energy beams were about to hit them, they moved violently to the right.

Speed is the strength of ice snow wolves.

However, the energy beams that had clearly been dodged, at this moment, drew a semi-circular arc in an extremely "flamboyant" posture, hitting the two ice snow wolves that had already relaxed their vigilance straight on.

【Eldritch Blast+】 (Evocation, 0-circle):

Fire an intense energy beam at a creature within spell range (120 feet)... Extra: Within spell range, the energy beam will continue to pursue the target.

After leaving Mount Dandong, it took nearly another month to officially enter the northern realm through the North Mountaineering Line, Gao De, during this period, unlocked a little bit of new 0-circle origin.

This bit of origin, he decisively added to 【Eldritch Blast】.

With the hit of the energy beams, the bodies of the two ice snow wolves shook violently, the fast forward movement stopped abruptly, and they fell onto the snow surface extremely abruptly.

There were no obvious external injury marks on the surface of their bodies, but in reality, inside their bodies, they had suffered some kind of damage at this time.

【Eldritch Blast】 as the king of cantrip damage, besides the astonishing power of up to 10 degrees, there is one point that is crucial.

The damage it causes is "noble" force damage.

Force damage can penetrate material obstruction, which makes it a sharp weapon for breaking defense in most cases.

Especially when facing enemies with high defense or shields, the nobility of force damage is even more prominent.

And one of the big reliances for snow wolves to "run rampant" in the northern realm is that they possess fur with not-bad defensive power.

Ordinary physical attacks landing on them are often unloaded of most of their power by the smooth fur.

And this fur also possesses quite high ice-element resistance, which just happens to form a restraint against the ice-element spells that people in the northern realm are most proficient in and use most often.

The reason why the old chief's cold ice arrow appeared so unbearable to use was because of this reason.

But as an outsider, Gao De couldn't take this anger.

The penetrative force damage directly ignored the fur defense of the ice snow wolves, causing them severe damage.

【Eldritch Blast+】 under circle-advancement casting changed from one energy beam to two, but there were three ice snow wolves.

So the last ice snow wolf was already approaching its attack range, pouncing toward Gao De.

Gao De's expression didn't change.

When he started sliding down from the slope, he had already added 【Shield】 to himself.

However, he didn't say he would rely on 【Shield】 to hard-resist this pounce.

Gao De tilted his body slightly, using his exquisite skiing skills to press his body down, making a sliding shovel posture, dodging the snow wolf's pounce by coincidence.

Gao De, who was sliding down all the way with the height of the hillside, had his accumulated gravitational potential energy constantly converted into speed, making his speed at this time reach an extremely exaggerated level, so he could deal with the pounce of a 1st-circle ice snow wolf with ease.

This sliding shovel raised sky-filling snow dust, making the field of vision blurry and invisible.

But this was actually Gao De's purpose.

【Eldritch Blast+】 has an automatic target-locking function.

He only needed to see a blurry shadow, lock the target, and the rest could be left to the spell itself.

Therefore, this kind of environment was instead Gao De's home field for battle.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Another 【Eldritch Blast+】 was cast, rushing out of the sky-filling snow dust, galloping toward the two ice snow wolves that had been hit hard earlier.

Strike while the iron is hot.

At any time, concentrating fire to let the enemy reduce personnel is a combat method that will not go wrong.

The exaggeratedly fast movement speed allowed Gao De to temporarily not worry about the ice snow wolves' attacks.

And the target-locking effect that comes with 【Eldritch Blast+】 allowed Gao De not to worry about the hit rate problem under high-speed movement—moving casting is a difficult problem for most mages.

Just like shooting an arrow, the faster one's own speed, the more difficult it is to control the aim.

Therefore, high hit-rate "moving casting" has always been one of the important indicators for measuring whether a battle mage is powerful or not.

Under "every arrow hits the target," those two ice snow wolves that had been hit hard didn't have a moment to escape, and each ate two more Eldritch Blasts.

This accuracy made the wolves feel cold.

Some kind of structure inside their bodies had been completely destroyed under the force damage; although they still had a breath left, they had completely lost their combat capability.

It was also at this time that the snow dust had dissipated.

That last ice snow wolf, seeing its two companions who had already been pounced on the street, immediately let out a whimper.

A few seconds ago, the ice snow wolf that was still eyeing Gao De covetously, at this moment, after the whimper, actually turned and fled decisively.

Seeing this scene, Gao De subconsciously frowned.

That ice snow wolf was running up the snow slope, and he was sliding down from the hillside.

At this speed, moving relatively like this, so in the blink of an eye, the other party had already left his spell range.

"Fine." Gao De felt helpless in his heart; although it was a pity, there was no way.

He turned and waved his hand again, two energy beams shot out decisively from his hand, completely ending the two ice snow wolves that had lost their ability to struggle and were lying on the snow slope.

In just a few encounters, he had made two dead and one escaped among the 1st-circle ice snow wolves.

Although he borrowed the advantage of the terrain, as a mage who had just advanced to the first circle not long ago, being able to have this kind of combat power was still very exaggerated.

Having solved these three lead wolves, Gao De cast his gaze toward the people of the northern realm who were still entangling with those 0-circle snow wolves, his face changed suddenly, and he opened his mouth to shout... However, in a situation where the nerves were highly tense and there was still a certain distance from the snow slope, no one heard what Gao De said.

Only the old chief, who had chased over following the snow wolves and wanted to support Gao De, heard the voice with obvious anxious emotion immediately under the enhanced hearing from the awakening of bloodline power:

"Wow, leave a few for me!"

The urgency conveyed in this voice made the old chief's brain not turn around for the first time.

"Leave a few for me"... Is he talking about snow wolves?

Leave a few snow wolves for him? What does he want to do, could it be that he wants to capture snow wolves alive and then tame them?

How could one tame snow wolves? That is a secret transmission mastered only by the Frost Wolf Clan.

Except for the Frost Wolf Clan, no one else has any way to deal with these unruly and inherently ferocious snow wolves.

Just when the old chief's thoughts were turning in his mind, Gao De had already used the huge inertia of sliding down from the slope to "fly" past his side, rushing straight toward the center of the battlefield.

At the same time, a scorching flame beam had already shot out a step ahead of his figure, accurately hitting a 0-circle snow wolf that had just flown out.

That snow wolf didn't even scream, and was drowned in the fire group, losing its voice.

(End of chapter)