Chapter 423: Long Spear Charge and the 'Bird Swarm

"I don't understand it either."

The old Dwarf also found a high vantage point and even took out a Telescope ground from crystal to place before his eyes.

But the direction of the Huitou Forest was pitch black; tonight the moonlight was insufficient, and the place emitting the loud noise gave off no light, so nothing could be seen at all.

"Who is on duty in the tunnels of the Huitou Forest today? Aoda or Ken?" After the old Dwarf finished speaking, he realized that with the negotiations, they no longer sent people to stand guard inside the Huitou Forest to ambush foreign Humans who wandered into the Forest.

"Forget it, find two people, get over there as fast as possible through the underground tunnels, and then use a Communication Bat to send the news back. Be careful of your own safety; if it's a Monster, come back and call for people, and we'll finish them off overnight. If it's a Magic Beast, then don't worry about it for now, just notify the Humans outside and let them be on guard."

The Dwarves received their instructions, quickly selected two unlucky fellows, armed them, and then trotted straight toward the tunnels in the Huitou Forest via the underground passages in the mine.

On the west side of the Huitou Forest, at the campsite where the caravan was staying.

Priest Bataer raised his Amber Metal Long Staff, standing in the center of the crowd; everyone was on high alert at this moment, guarding against the direction of the Huitou Forest.

"Priest, what exactly is going on? Such a huge bird call in the middle of the night, I have an uneasy premonition?" A driver holding a Short Sword also faced outward, but his head and face were turned toward Priest Bataer in the very center, asking him nervously.

"It should be fine, everyone just needs to stay alert."

Priest Bataer knew in his heart that Jier the warrior was not there, and Jier had always been involved with an ancient deity; he knew all these things. Therefore, simply deducing it, it was mostly likely that the two had run into trouble. And the trouble was, most likely, the Hunting God Church that Jier had told him about?

He still remembered that one day while traveling, near a refugee camp where they were staying for the night, a small to medium-sized forest suddenly ignited with huge and terrifying flames; the flames rose extremely high, and the fire was extremely fierce, a scene that could only appear in the most terrifying nightmares. But afterward, Jier had secretly told him that the forest suddenly catching fire was because they had encountered hunters from the Hunting God Church who had come to attack, and the other side had used some method to ignite the entire forest.

The situation that day was sudden, and the situation was strange.

Today's situation was still sudden, and the situation was still strange.

Most likely, it was still people from the Hunting God Church launching an attack on Jier the warrior who had gone out, and it was happening at night as well.

"You must win, Jier. May the great God of Agriculture protect you, grant you strength, grant you faith, grant you wisdom, grant you will, defeat the enemy, and return safely."

The Priest whispered a Prayer.

Suddenly, a rustling sound of flapping wings gradually rose from all around, and even above everyone's heads.

Everyone looked up in terror, only to discover that countless birds, all kinds of birds, whether they were active during the day or foraging at night, were flying over everyone's heads in an orderly fashion toward the direction of the Huitou Forest.

The Priest pursed his lips; he knew completely that the situation at this moment was not something he could intervene in, and then he continued to pray hard for Jier.

Countless birds flapped their wings and flew out from the mountain range, crossing the entire wide Babotali Valley, flying straight toward the direction of the Huitou Forest.

The bird calls and the sound of flapping wings resounded throughout the entire village. Where had the villagers of Torito Village ever seen such a scene? One by one, they were so scared that they hurriedly hid in their houses, locked their doors and windows tight, and propped them up with furniture, fearing that they would be targeted by the birds flying in the sky outside and bring bad disaster to the whole family.

In the refugee camp, the people here were much bolder; they were numerous, and everyone had weapons for self-defense, so facing the thousands of birds flying over their heads, they only looked up and exclaimed, and added firewood to the campfire, letting the light of the campfire illuminate everyone.

Many people guessed that these birds flying over might have something to do with the huge crow calls that had been continuing. But some people refuted this, believing that this was just the normal spring migration of birds; some people had seen similar scenes before, where large groups of birds would head to the Central Province twice a year.

Once leaving for the winter, once returning to breed.

Everyone's words made sense, and no one could out-argue the other; they actually ended up arguing about this for the whole night.

On the Dwarves' side, the old Dwarf saw the swarms of birds, and they were different kinds of birds mixed together flying toward the Huitou Forest; his face changed drastically, and he immediately ordered the Dwarves watching the excitement outside the mine, including the young Human who had just gained Faith in the God of Strength, to return inside the mine gate.

"Quickly close the gate, and at the same time, block up the observation holes and air vents connected to the outside here for me! Be careful not to let small birds get in!" The old Dwarf hurriedly issued orders.

"Don't worry, 'Iron Fist', the tunnel holes leading to the outside of our mine all have anti-snake and rat railings and spiked fences; those little birds can't get in." A Dwarf advised him nonchalantly.

"This is not a normal situation; normal animal incursions can of course be blocked by those means, but these are different, these are controlled by someone."

The old Dwarf muttered to himself, his face not looking good.

Jier was increasingly unable to stand the huge, noisy sounds emitted by the Great Bird Spirit; he even thought that the hateful Great Bird Spirit was using this method to drive him away and force him to retreat.

But how could that be? Both sides had fought to this point; retreating was impossible, and there was only the result of one side dying or failing and admitting defeat.

Jier tugged at the broken Jiansheng, and at the same time kicked the horse's belly hard, making the warhorse run.

Running half a circle along the edge of the forest clearing, Jier rode past the steel Long Spear stuck in the ground, bent down and reached out to grab it, and took advantage of the momentum to pull the Long Spear out of the ground.

Holding the spear shaft with his right hand, he exerted force with his left hand to knock on the shaft; amidst the buzzing vibration, the mud stained on the tip of the steel Long Spear was all shaken off.

Holding the end of the Long Spear tightly with his right hand, he tucked the end of the spear under his right armpit, with the sharp and hard spear tip close to the ground. Jier pulled the Jiansheng with his left hand to adjust the warhorse's charge deflection.

Afterward, man and horse charged straight toward the Shadow Small House where the Great Bird Spirit was located on the ground.

Jier lowered his body, trying his best to aim the tip of the Long Spear in his right hand at the target, and then as the warhorse continued to accelerate, accelerate, accelerate, there was no need for Jier to exert a final thrust; the tip of the Long Spear collided directly with the Shadow Wall of the Great Bird Spirit's Shadow Small House, which was located on the ground and was no bigger than a human head.

That was an attack with astonishing impact; the weight of the Long Spear, the Sharpness, plus Jier's own weight, the weight of the Armor and weapons, the weight of the Tianxuecao, the weight of the Armor wrapping, and finally the speed of the charge.

When all these were combined and the impact force gathered at the point of the Long Spear tip, the power was even much greater than a full-force strike from a Yue Shui head.

Bang-crack!

There was a loud noise at the point of impact, and the steel Long Spear even bent for a moment due to the violent collision. The place that was hit erupted with scattered fragments of pitch-black shadow and metal sparks splashed from the friction of the Long Spear against the metal.

Jier felt a wave of impact come from the Long Spear on his arm; he barely managed to hold onto the Long Spear, but his palm still slid from the end of the Long Spear to the middle.

If it weren't for the fact that he was wearing Steel Armor Gloves, his palm would not have had any intact skin left from that friction and impact.

The warhorse rushed past in an instant; Jier turned his head to look at the Great Bird Spirit's small house and realized that the place he had just hit had not collapsed, which made him feel frustrated. But soon he discovered that it was not useless.

The Great Bird Spirit in the 'Shadow Small House', its huge screeching, stopped.

Jier's entire right arm was burning with pain, mixed with the injuries he had received before; the pain seemed to have no limit, constantly growing with the battle.

But pain was pain, Jier's movements were not affected at all, and his agility and strength were still outstanding.

"Come again, I don't believe your thin Shadow Wall can withstand a few of my attacks!"

After Jier finished shouting, he did it; he adjusted the horse's head, trying to go around half a circle and charge at the same position of the opponent from the same direction again.

He looked up at the tip of his steel Long Spear and found that the originally sharp and pointed steel spear tip had actually become much blunted in the collision just now.

It looked like it could still be used, so Jier didn't care; after going around half a circle, he adjusted his direction, then accelerated the warhorse, switched arms to hold the steel Long Spear, clamped the end of the Long Spear tightly with his left arm, and this time his palm was slightly relaxed, no longer gripping as tightly as the last time.

During Jier's charge, the Great Bird Spirit in the 'Shadow Small House' spoke: "Jier, Jier, although the quantity was not enough because you interrupted, your death date is today, ga-ga, it is today! Ga-ga-ga-ga, wait a moment, I will let my little birds peel off the armor on your body, eat every piece of your flesh, and suck dry all the vast and mixed power in your body."

"Ga-ga-ga-ga, although I can't use it, I thought of it; let those little birds that have absorbed the Divine Power of the alien god in your body completely charge over and self-destruct, using the alien god's power to deal with the alien god! I am truly too smart, ga-ga-ga-ga, this way I have eliminated a hateful mortal who has always been disrespectful to me, and I have a way to deal with those damn Hunters; tonight is truly a happy day!"

"Ah, ga-ga-ga, what a beautiful night."

Jier stopped his horse; he heard the Great Bird Spirit's mocking words and did not think it was the other party's posturing; they had fought to this point, and there was no need for pretense.

"Little birds? Will it be my death date? Hmph, I'd like to see how you make me die!" After speaking, Jier accelerated the warhorse again, rushed up, and gave the 'Shadow Small House' where the Great Bird Spirit was hiding a fierce blow.

"Ga? Ga-ga! Ga!" This time the Great Bird Spirit's cry was no longer triumphant and mocking, but terrified and afraid.

It was actually posturing.

Jier realized that the seemingly sturdy 'Shadow Wall' also had its limits. He had managed to terrify the Bird Deity with two full-force Long Spear thrusts, so if he did it once more, he reckoned this thing would be shattered.

Having figured this out, after charging past, Jier immediately turned his horse around, preparing to crush the opponent's defense in one go and hack the Wooden Carving, the deity's vital dependency, to pieces!

But before Jier could ride to a suitable position for the charge, a continuous series of bird screeches and wing-flapping sounds gradually came from all around; no animals lived in the Huitou Forest, so the sudden sound of birds was far too strange.

"Caw caw—"

"Yo—yo—"

"Cheep cheep cheep cheep—"

"Whew—whew—"

"Coo coo—coo coo—"

All sorts of different birds that would generally never live or gather together were now flapping their wings with all their might, converging from all directions toward the clearing where Jier was currently located.

Jier was stunned, because in just this short moment, countless birds had gathered in the sky above the forest clearing, forming a 'Bird Curtain' that could obscure the countless stars in the sky.

They flapped their wings, they screeched, and the whole world seemed to have suddenly turned into a world of birds.

"The sky, it's actually been covered?"

It wasn't just the countless bright stars; even the radiance of the two Moon Goddesses was obscured, not to mention the other divine emblems gliding across the firmament. At this moment in the sky, there remained only countless birds flapping their wings in flight, constantly opening and closing their beaks, emitting all kinds of complex cries.

Jier suddenly realized: "So? Your huge shouting earlier was to call them? Is this what you called 'the hour of death'?"

The Bird Deity grew smug again, and an annoying screech came clearly from inside the 'Shadow Small House': "Caw caw caw caw! This is what I called 'the hour of death'! Act! My new subjects, attack from the sky, dense as rain, permeating like fog, bringing withering like falling leaves, drown that mortal for me! Peck away every piece of his flesh, absorb all his power, and shatter his lowly Spirit!"

"Caw caw caw caw! Jier, annoying Jier, this is the last sentence I will say to you, run away! Run away in a sorry state! I want to witness with my own eyes you being pecked down to the last piece of flesh, and I will mock your bones wantonly."

As the Bird Deity's voice fell, like a waterfall crashing down, countless birds of all kinds seemed to have received an order, swooping down from above in a dark swarm, crashing into Jier regardless of their own lives!

Jier violently squeezed his horse's belly, letting the Tianxuecao run at full speed to avoid the initial impact.

At the same time, he quickly inserted the steel Long Spear in his hand back into the Weapon Rack behind him, picked up his bow and arrows, and shot back without even looking.

Whoosh—splat.

A massive bird was hit in the center of its body, shot straight through, and died; its body even knocked over a dozen other types of birds following closely behind. The birds were like they didn't care about their lives, charging recklessly; the moment they dove from the sky, many birds couldn't stop, crashing directly into the ground and being crushed into pulp by the birds that crashed into them afterward.

Jier breathed rapidly, his nerves taut, continuously drawing arrows and shooting, but he finished a whole quiver of Arrow, yet the countless birds behind him showed no sign of decreasing in number. He didn't know whether the Bird Deity had summoned thousands or tens of thousands of birds?

Or hundreds of thousands? Millions? Countless, too many, truly too many. There were countless birds chasing behind him, but the birds circling and screeching overhead showed no sign of decreasing at all.

The surroundings were sparsely populated mountains and forests; except for the Human and Dwarf in Babotali Valley, there were no intelligent beings gathered or controlling the area, so the animals in the natural environment were naturally numerous.

Jier panicked slightly; he should have been able to guess that in such a short time—from the moment the Bird Deity started screeching until it was interrupted by Jier's Long Spear charge—the Bird Deity could not have used some method to summon so many birds.

The current situation was not normal.

The facts were indeed so; the number of birds at this moment was complex, with both diurnal and nocturnal hunters, ranging from those smaller than a finger to raptors the size of a person, but the quantity was not as high as Jier had imagined. It was just that the various noisy bird calls in the surroundings disturbed the Human Mind, and the flapping of wings easily misled one's judgment of the numbers, making it seem like there were a great many birds.

The most important point was that the Huitou Forest where they were currently located had no animals living in it, so this local forest, which would normally have the most birds and be the first to arrive, did not provide any effective help to the Bird Deity.

The ones that truly arrived were the birds from the nearby forests, Shulin, and mountains; they actually totaled less than ten thousand, and the rest of the 'birds' that appeared to be numerous were actually just bird shadows falsely conjured by the Bird Deity using the little Divine Power it had just recovered.

These fake birds imitated the images, cries, and flapping motions of the real birds around them, so they looked realistic and had even fooled Jier.

Of course, the nighttime environment helped the Bird Deity a great deal; if it had used this move during the day, anyone could have seen that among these seemingly 'infinite' birds, the vast majority—over ninety percent—were just illusions temporarily conjured by the deity.

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