Chapter 32: The Battle of Duoduogongti Village (Part 3)

However, taking advantage of this opportunity, Sipulu also slashed at the monster's neck from the other side with his blade.

The two weapons collided almost simultaneously on the monster's neck, and accordingly, the monster's head fell off in response.

With a thud, the monster's mouth hung wide open, and the plant tendrils protruding from its eye sockets also seemed to wither. Immediately following this, Sipulu slashed open the monster's chest, accurately located the parasitic human face that had retracted into the body within the opened wound, and precisely stabbed the tip of his Battle Knife into it, crushing the monster's Parasitic Core in one blow.

Bawei felt regretful that he had failed to slay the monster, but since he had provided an assist, it wasn't a total loss: "How about I take the lead in attacking next time, and you assist me? Sipulu?"

Sipulu wiped the surface of his Battle Knife and sheathed it: "We'll see how the situation is then."

Bawei raised his eyebrows: "But you owe me one just now, you owe me."

Pursing his lips, Sipulu then replied: "Then you take the lead, and I will assist you all."

Weier had already dealt with his opponent and waved his finger at this moment: "If it were just a single monster like this, I would be enough on my own. But actually, it's not that troublesome; there is still a tough guy in the battle later, regardless of strength or reward. Who among us can deal with such a monster alone?"

Sipulu had a mind to try, but Bawei shook his head frankly: "I'm not really up for it. No matter who deals with that monster with a head full of flowers, I will assist them."

Sipulu said nothing more; he had always been this way. Compared to saying things, he preferred to use actions to express his attitude and thoughts.

Seeing that the last parasitic monster on the field had been dealt with by the Warriors, Aoni immediately shouted to Jier: "Lord Jier, the monsters have all been dealt with."

Jier waved a hand: "What are you all standing there for? I have already heard the sounds of other monsters in the Cunzi rushing over; everyone evacuate immediately! Remember, after exiting the Village West Gate, immediately head south along the village wall to circle around to the south gate and come back in, to pursue the last wave of a dozen or so monsters from the rear."

"I understand! Everyone, follow me, quick, quick, quick! Move faster!"

Aoni kept urging them, and the Warriors didn't even have time to form up; they scrambled to follow Aoni, the Plate Armor on their bodies trembling and making loud noises. Naturally, these noises also attracted the large wave of monsters chasing from the center of the Cunzi.

Jier looked at his subordinate Warriors with some satisfaction; although they were still far inferior to those fully armed Dwarfs, their combat strength had greatly improved compared to before.

Likewise, even more powerful Parasitic Vine Monsters would have been difficult for them to handle in the past, but now they could rout the monsters in a single charge. The improvement in strength was visible to the naked eye.

Although Jier had invested too many resources into them, especially the Soldier Armor captured from the Defeated Soldiers, these armors had become the Plate Armor on everyone's bodies after being re-fitted with plates. Compared to those soldiers, each Warrior now had a greater number of metal plates on their body, a larger range of protection, and naturally, stronger defensive capabilities.

But this also placed demands on the Warriors' physical stamina. Fortunately, Jier never restricted everyone on food; there was enough food every day, and they could eat as much as they wanted in a meal.

At the rear of the hurriedly evacuating crowd was Jier, who was bringing up the rear; he also walked at the very back to guard against any Warrior falling behind for one reason or another and being killed by the monsters.

Don't think that there are no such muddle-headed people in battle; in fact, Jier had seen it more than once. Because many people look fine normally, but once their blood rushes to their heads during battle, their judgment becomes inversely proportional to the duration of the battle, and they often perform some bizarre operations that are hard to judge after intense fighting.

For example, losing their sense of direction and walking in the wrong direction. For example, having only the thought of fighting in their heads, attacking whoever they see without distinguishing between friend and foe. For example, their ears buzzing, unable to hear the commander's instructions, only subconsciously following others' actions, yet unable to distinguish whether the people around them are their own.

Therefore, it was very necessary for Jier to walk at the very back.

Just now, he pushed two new Warriors (Villagers who volunteered to join at Changmai Village) who were participating in battle for the first time, making them correct their direction after they had veered off from the team.

These two had blank expressions on their faces, seemingly not having reacted to the fact that the person who came up to correct their direction was Jier. It wasn't until they had walked out of the Village West Gate that the two of them came to their senses, feeling somewhat bewildered, not understanding why Knight Jier had pushed them just now.

Could he not push them? If he didn't push them, these two would probably still be wandering around in the Cunzi right now, and if they were discovered by the monsters, they would be dead for sure.

"Head south, walk fast!" Jier urged, then jumped onto the back of the Tianxuecao waiting outside the Village West Gate.

He gripped the Dwarf Soldier Spear in his left hand, while his right hand still held the Yueshui Skull Two-handed Axe, his eyes fixed on the interior of the Cunzi.

On the rooftops on both sides inside the West Gate, the lurking archers raised their arms to inform Jier of the monsters' arrival. Jier waved at them, signaling them to hide.

The Tusi Brothers and the archers all lay carefully on the roofs of the Farmer houses, covering themselves with bundles of Wheat Straw, and did not poke their heads out to stare at the monsters. After all, monsters are not Human; staring at them might lead to being discovered by the monsters' sensitive senses.

This point was taught to the others by the Tusi Brothers just now. The three brothers had accumulated rich experience while Hunting in the mountains and forests of Sasi County, whether it was powerful wild beasts, sporadic monsters, or even assisting local Knights in exterminating Magic Beasts. This experience seemed inconspicuous, but it could often be used in key moments.

Jier stood on his horse outside the village gate. As soon as he saw the monsters, he struck his two weapons together, making a loud and crisp sound, immediately attracting the 'gaze' of the monsters that had emerged—if those monsters, some of which didn't even have eyes, had such a thing as a gaze.

"Hey, you pathetic things, come and fight me, be killed by me obediently!" Jier provoked loudly. Perhaps feeling that saying it this way was too elegant and too much like a theatrical line, Jier then added.

"You %%￥! A bunch of %% guys who only know how to bully Human civilians, are you so scared that your pants fell off when you saw ￥# me? Oh, whose belt wasn't tied well, exposing you pathetic %￥ who are neither animal nor plant? Heh, is it your #@-like %￥ Evil God?"

These words immediately angered all the monsters, especially the leader monster with a head full of blooming flowers, which was so angry that it jumped on the spot, rushing straight toward Jier while running and jumping.

Jier snorted: "Did I hit a sore spot? Is %￥ hurting like hell? Oh, I understand, that Evil God of yours is your ￥￥#? Understood, understood."

Now the monsters were even more furious. Although they were all parasitic Human bodies, these Human faces, which originally had no expression, actually revealed expressions of hatred.

More than twenty monsters accelerated their feet and rushed straight at Jier.

Jier turned his warhorse around and then let the Tianxuecao run at a leisurely pace.

In order to keep the monsters at a distance that seemed catchable, he even let the Tianxuecao run a small circle first, and only when the monsters had rushed to his face did he let the warhorse run toward the fields outside the village.

He threw the Yueshui Skull in his right hand casually, and the axe spun and chopped off a leg of the rushing monster according to Jier's will.

The monster with a broken leg immediately flopped onto the ground, crawling toward Jier's warhorse using its hands and feet.

Jier chuckled, circled around, and even boldly rushed back, using the Long Spear in his right hand to accurately pin the monster's leg on the ground and then lift it up. He knew that if he left it alone, the severed limb would be picked up and reattached to the body, so it was better to keep the monster's severed limb himself, leaving the opponent permanently missing a leg and limiting its mobility.

"Come, come, come, all come find me, let your Brother Jier kick your butts one by one. Damn it, why do I sound like a dubbed translation?" Jier yelled strangely, reaching out to catch the spinning Yueshui Skull, and threw it at the twenty-plus monsters again.

And while fighting and moving, Jier gradually led them away from the Village West Gate, drawing them into the large area of abandoned fields outside the Cunzi.

On the roofs of the Farmer houses inside the Village West Gate, the archers listened to Knight Jier's provocative words and looked at each other. They didn't expect that Knight Jier, who usually looked friendly, kind, and amiable, would be so obscene and shameless, full of foul language, when provoking the opponent, even if the opponent was a monster.

However, these words actually made them feel a faint sense of relief, because although Jier was friendly to them and took good care of everyone in life and training, he gave everyone a faint sense of alienation. It felt like Knight Jier, whether speaking or doing things, was not like them, ordinary people, but rather had more of a Noble tone than those Noble lords.

Yes, although many of Jier's ways of doing things looked ordinary and approachable, in reality, he was more particular than many Nobles the Warriors had seen before. Of course, it wasn't petty particularity; Jier didn't care about many things, but when talking to them, his tone rarely changed in emotion, and he didn't have much nonsense; most of it was discovering problems and then solving them.

With an elite demeanor of "I can solve any problem," this was more powerful and arrogant than those pretentious Noble lords that many people had seen before. After all, those so-called Noble lords were actually just fake demeanor and fake arrogance in the eyes of the Warriors; asking those people to do something often resulted in them pushing back and forth, shouting loudly, but often taking a long time to solve the matter.

But Jier was different. In life and training, when he saw them encountering trouble, after finding the root of the problem, he often solved it directly on the spot. He was extremely efficient in dealing with people, and even the Dwarfs, whom the Warriors didn't dare to talk to much, Jier treated as if their non-Human status didn't exist, talking to the Dwarfs generously, and even occasionally reprimanding the Dwarfs for doing things wrong!

Surprisingly, the Dwarfs had an arrogant face when facing others, but they listened obediently to Knight Jier's instructions. Not only that, Jier would sometimes laugh and talk with some Dwarfs, discussing many contents such as wood carving, animal domestication, and culinary skills.

It seemed that this young Knight, who was younger than most people in the team, had far more knowledge, experience, and accumulated wisdom than everyone else.

And this made many Warriors who realized this feel the identity difference between them and Jier, as well as a great sense of distance in status.

But those things were instantly dispelled by Jier's stream of obscene provocative words. It turned out that Knight Jier was not only polite, friendly, and refined in speech, but could also say these things just like them, or even dirtier than them.

This changed some of the archers' views on Jier as they lay on the roof.

Perhaps unlike them, ordinary people, Knight Jier himself was more complex and could not be simply judged or evaluated.

Outside the west side of the Cunzi, there were faint shouts and fighting sounds, as well as the whistling wind sound made by heavy weapons spinning, which seemed extremely lively. The archers slowly climbed up from the roof, each checking the weapons and Arrow at their side.

"They're coming." Xiao Tusi shouted, waking everyone on both sides of the road.

Everyone climbed up further and saw on the roof ridge the last wave of parasitic monster groups that were originally located on the east side of the Cunzi, about a dozen or so, rushing over from the courtyard of a Farmer house.

Some of them even broke through the thorns in the Farmer's courtyard directly, not caring that their clothes and Human skin were torn, just walking in a straight line.

"Stop them! Must stop them before the Warriors rush over!" Zhongtusi shouted, standing on the roof, holding his Large Bow upright, with a thick and slender Large Arrow nocked on the Bowstring.

As Hunters using Large Bows, the Tusi Brothers both had a sturdy Glove on their right hands, featuring a structure specifically made of ox horn to catch the Bowstring of the Large Bow. For a Large Bow like the one in his hand, relying solely on fingers to hook the Bowstring and draw the bow would be too hard on the hands.

Often, one wouldn't be able to draw it many times before the fingers would be pulled until they bled, and the skin would be torn apart to reveal the flesh underneath. Not to mention shooting arrows continuously.

Therefore, when drawing the bow, they do not use their fingers to hook the Bowstring, but rather the ox horn hook on the specialized Glove. Their fingers only need to slightly pinch the tail of the Large Arrow.

Once aimed, the palm is turned outward at a certain angle, and the ox horn hook on the palm of the Glove will no longer be able to hold the Bowstring of the Large Bow, directly releasing the Bowstring, which is being pulled with great force by the limbs of the Large Bow, thereby accelerating the heavy and long Large Arrow to a quite powerful speed.

Whoosh—whoosh, whoosh—

The Large Arrows from the Large Bows and the Arrows from the Soldier Bows fell together toward the Monsters on the road.

Immediately, a common parasitic Monster had a large hole torn in its chest, and the one-meter-long Large Arrow pinned this Monster directly to the farmhouse wall.

The continuous Arrows shot by the three Soldier Bows also greatly hindered those Monsters on the road.

As for the Monster leading this group of Monsters, the one with a blooming head, it was shot in the chest by an arrow from Zhongtusi, which carried it flying, causing it to fall to the ground and roll.

The lighter weight of these Monsters meant that after being hit by arrows, they often could not stand still in place, let alone when hit by the Large Arrows, which already had immense force.

However, there were still many of these Monsters, and even though five archers kept shooting to block them, several of them still rushed into the house where the archers were located, attempting to go up and kill these Humans.

"Watch out! They've entered the house; guard the attic window that leads to the roof! We only have this one entrance and exit here! It will be fine once the Warriors arrive." Zhongtusi shouted again, reminding everyone to be careful of the Monsters entering the house.

He and Xiao Tusi both aimed their Large Bows at that formidable Monster with the blooming plant head, not giving the opponent a chance to get up; often, after Zhongtusi shot it down with an arrow, Xiao Tusi would shoot another, completely interrupting the opponent's attempt to rise.

And when, after pulling out the Large Arrow stuck in its body with one hand, the Monster had not yet risen, it was hit by another arrow from Zhongtusi, pinning it to the ground once again.

However, it was still a bit of a struggle with only the two of them; if the three Tusi Brothers were all here today, they could rely on the three of them shooting in turns to keep a formidable opponent pinned firmly in place.

But fortunately, at the critical moment when a Monster rushed onto the roof but was shot off by the turning Zhongtusi, Aoni finally arrived from the other side of the Cunzi with more than twenty Warriors.

"We aren't late, are we?" Aoni was charging at the very front, knocking a Monster to the ground with his Shield, and then the other Warriors following him rushed forward to hack and slash, hacking the Monster to pieces.

"You've come just in time! Haha." Zhongtusi shouted, then he reminded: "Deal with the most formidable one first!"

Upon hearing this, Aoni shouted: "Weier! Bawei! Sipulu! That most formidable Monster is left to you! I don't want to see it interfering in anyone else's fight!"

"Got it!" Weier responded and charged forward.

"Leave it to us!" Bawei carried his Two-handed Axe, knocked a passing parasitic Monster to the ground with one axe blow, and without paying it any further mind, charged straight at the blooming Monster that was about to pull out the Large Arrow from its body and get up.

Sipulu did not speak; he charged the fastest, heading straight for the Monster.

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