Hey, King!

2021-06-17

Chapter 13 Chapter 13 The Flying Dwarves

The shouts from the camp were clearly warning signs, so Dagon immediately shook off the peat under his arm and the pot in his hand, and rushed out of the shack with the head axe in his other hand. When he rushed out, he found Doma in the air, gliding across the river.

On closer inspection, a nearly invisible white silk thread was wrapped around Doma's waist. The splash of water in the air greatly increased the humidity, so some droplets hung on the silk thread, marking a faintly discernible trail. The other end of the silk thread leads to the ceiling of the opposite cave. A slightly larger-than-average monster in the form of a crab hangs upside down among the rocks, hiding in a place where the fluorescent moss cannot illuminate it. It shoots a sticky thread from a distance and hits Doma who is packing the Fire Pit, apparently trying to feed the Jiangu.

This is not a face-to-face enemy. The center of the cave is divided into two by the river, and the stone platforms on both sides have a span of about six or seven meters, and the opposite side is slightly higher. What can we do? Dagon was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to rescue his friend. At this moment, a Jiangu man took out the hand axe at his waist, held it with both hands and aimed, loudly shouted and threw the axe from the top of his head!

The axe spun all the way to make a whistling sound, accurately cut the silk thread, and then continued to fly forward, banging against the mountain wall. Doma fell out of the air, screaming and banging. He landed on the opposite bank, then couldn't stop his body and turned off the platform. Just under the exclamations and reminders of everyone, Doma grabbed the edge of the platform at the last moment and hung on it in a thrilling way.

This axe saved Doma, but it also exposed the weakness of everyone's lack of long-range means. The crab shrank first into the shadows, then turned its six black eye stems to look out tentatively. It looked at the axe that fell to the ground, divided light flashed, and understood the range of the enemies on the opposite side—no, it should be called food. So it stepped out of the shadow with confidence and climbed down the mountain wall.

Under the fluorescent light, it was a very ugly monster. It wields two crab-like pincers and threatens with a ka ka sound when opening and closing. Its body is deep purple, similar to a lichen commonly found underground, making it an excellent lurking hunter. Across the riverbank, it shrank its chest, and then shot silk thread again from its mouth, trying to catch its next prey.

It's not a straight thread, but a long-range attack that can be thrown like a whip after being shot out, driven by the rapid twisting of the monster's head. Once hit, it often causes the thread to wrap around the body, forming a tight wrap. The hunter trainees took up their weapons one after another. Two of them tried to throw but nothing came of it. The others helped each other, cut the silk thread at the fastest speed, and helped the entangled companion to escape.

The only good news for now is that the blade is very effective against silk thread. And the rest of the bad news includes, but is not limited to: that monstrous can almost spray a lot, and every spray will put at least one person in tangled trouble; there is no effective way to deal with it so far; there is no support under Doma's feet Point, it may fall at any time; as long as the monster finds an angle, he can at least drag Doma as food.

Dagon squinted his eyes to observe, silently recited "Oli, please look at me", then took a deep breath and started running towards the edge of the platform. His feet were so hard that old leather shoes with bare toes turned to shards under the tread. Dagon sprinted down a gentle slope relatively high on this side of the bank and took off as close as possible to the edge. Using himself as a catapult projectile, he wanted to cross a river six or seven meters wide in an arc.

"Don't! You can't jump over it!" The crowd exclaimed, they thought Dagon was frightened and foolish, so he made such an irrational and crazy move.

"gā gā gā gā." The monster on the other side was excited, it felt that the two Jiangu people had been able to support themselves, as long as they avoided the weak projectiles on the opposite side, the monsters hanging on the edge of the platform and the ones that were about to fall would be thrown away. Just pick it up in the river.

Dagon pushes forward, forward. He's more agile and faster than most Jiangu clansman, but that doesn't mean he can overcome the problems of Jiangu clansman's short stature, heavy body, and thick and short legs. He watched as the platform on the other side was approaching, and at the same time it was rising, which seemed to be rising faster than it was approaching. Just about half a meter away, he could lie on the edge of the opposite platform. But now his head is lower than the platform.

But will he just give up? no way!

I saw a deep purple arc pass, and the first hunting axe swung forward from the top of Dagon's head, and its upper part slammed into the edge of the platform. The teeth of the hammerhead fiercely chiseled into the rock like a hungry wolf, and then hung on it.

Dagon inevitably snapped flat on the stone wall below the platform, but he gripped the head axe tightly and didn't slide down. In the past, for the convenience of carrying, there was a hole near the end of the headhunting axe handle, which was used to fix the rope of the axe blade holster. Dagon grabbed the handle of the axe with one hand and digged into the hole with the other hand, greatly increasing the strength of his grip, so he didn't let go.

"Haha, why are you hanging here too?" Doma turned her head sideways, and when she saw Dagon, she could still laugh out loud.

"Everyone says you're ugly and scary, now it's your turn to act, why are you looking at me?" Dagon took the headhunter as a pickaxe, and used the pulling force of his hands to put his feet on the stone wall. , start to climb up. "Doma, come up and scare that monster to death!"

"I'll go up and show you!" Doma swayed and bent her arms upward. However, his position is not very good. He can bend his arms in a pull-up, but his head is blocked by a protruding rock, and people can't get up.

Dagon couldn't wait for him, and crawled up with his head-hunting axe, first looking around and seeing that the crab monster was being harassed by something thrown from the other side of the river. Whether it's a stick or a rock, it's buying time for Dagon. So he exerted force from his waist, first throwing one leg up, and then rolling forward. With the help of the rolling force, the headhunting axe was easily removed.

At this time, everyone's temporary weapons were basically thrown away, and they didn't dare to accidentally hurt their companions. The monster turned around and faced Dagon, making a strange gā gā gā gā sound. And Dagon was half-squatting, lowered his body, and pointed his head-hunting axe diagonally in front of him.

"The current distance is three and a half meters. The maximum attack range of the first hunting axe is two meters, and the monster's pincers can extend forward half a meter." Dagon shook his shoulders slightly from side to side in order to estimate up distance data ahead. "It is about the same size as a human, but its strength must not be underestimated. With its eight legs behind it, it can hang upside down on the rock wall and drag people over."

Dagon adjusted his breathing, completely There are no distracting thoughts such as nervousness, and all my thoughts are used to analyze battle skills. "When the monster was pulling people just now, the pliers didn't take part in it, it was all about the strength of the jaws. Look at this pair of pliers, they're not small, but they didn't stand out when they banged. Well... these pliers are more powerful. Like a pair of shields, the most dangerous thing is its jaws, which is the strength of its bite."

Eight legs on the left and right sides give the monster extra support, and it can grip tightly. Live on the rocks and move freely in the cave environment. Because it has this ability, facing the monster is not the worst situation, let it go away and climb to the top of the hole, it will make people desperate. Dagon knew he couldn't continue the stalemate, and he couldn't choose to push back the enemy. He had only one choice: kill the monster right here, right now.

Dagon raises the head-hunting axe, holds the center and head, and pushes the tail forward. When he moved forward, he did not directly take the shortest route, but turned left and right, even if the distance between him and the monster was only three and a half meters.

The idea of retreating to the top of the cave had just popped into the monster's head, but Dagon's approach made that choice moot. The monster's eight legs are better for traversing than forward and backward, so it arcs and swings its right pliers to attack Dagon.

"Weak spot!" Dagon blocked the tail to the left, feeling a force immediately. Sure enough, the strength of these pair of pliers is only comparable to Jiangu clansman's arm strength, and he can completely knock off the attack by leveraging the lever principle of the pole weapon. It's just that his opponent has more than one pliers, and there are more dangerous jaws hidden behind.

Dagon chose not to tap, but to slide. Using the long handle as a block, he slammed into Monster's arms as if he were going around a pillar. This was completely beyond the monster's expectations. It was launching a side attack with its left pliers. It was going to attack the other side without defense, but now it seems to open its arms and directly embrace the "food".

This is one disadvantage of monsters: the pliers are big and wide, and the weight is on the front, like a person holding a heavy shield in both hands, and they are less frequent when attacking. Dagon kneaded into his body, continued to hold the head and the middle of the first hunting axe, brought the long handle close to himself, and adjusted the spear tip to the front of him. With the force of the body's forward thrust, fiercely moved towards the monster's stab in the mouth that looked like a flower sawtooth. go in.

The sawed teeth on the lower jaw are so sharp and hard that they can even rub two sparks on the tip of the headshot axe - but that doesn't stop the spear from jabbing at all. Everyone heard a very clear "pu chi" sound, the tip of the spear pierced the monster's upper jaw directly, and penetrated into its head.

The monster wasn't killed, and Dagon didn't expect to be killed in a single blow. After stabbing, he turned the long handle of the headhunter, using the blade and hammer head as a hook, and half-fixed it in the monster's mouth. He grabbed the handle of the axe with one hand, and at the same time he used the other hand to draw out the secondary weapon from his waist, which was a short broadsword with a handle and a blade less than half a meter long. Go in and start fiddling around in there.

His actions are really fiddly, so he doesn't need a battle skill at this time, and he can't use a battle skill, as long as he maximizes the damage. Monster raised his pliers and smashed Dagon's back twice, with little success. By the time it wanted to lift its pliers and cut its opponent with the tip, Dagon was already deep enough to complete the total destruction of its brain. As a result, the raised pliers trembled helplessly, and the monster fell to the ground with a plop.

It didn't fall down completely, and the headhunter still supported its head.

Drilling out from under the triangle formed by the headhunting axe and monster's corpse, Dagon's face and body were dirty, mostly monster's saliva, blood, or brains. He wiped his face. He didn't have time to receive the cheers from the friends on the other side. He rushed to the bank of the river, lay on the ground and grabbed Doma's wrist.

The two cooperated with each other, and it didn't take much effort for Dagon to drag Doma up. The two of them sat on the bank and gave a thumbs up to the other bank together, and the happy laughter from both sides echoed in the cave.

(end of this chapter)