The thick mace hit the ground hard, sending snowflakes flying in all directions, and the surrounding bushes and low trees rattling as it hit.
This monster!
The corners of Nicholas Green's eyes twitched slightly, and his eyes fell on the owner of the mace.
It was a two-headed ogre.
He is more than three meters tall, with broad shoulders and a round waist. His blue-grey skin is exposed in the cold wind, like pieces of carved rock, giving off a cold and hard feeling.
This two-headed ogre is a yin-yang ogre. The two heads on its shoulders are like forked branches, one on the left and one on the right, of different sizes. The slightly larger head looks very young, with smooth skin and sharp mouth corners.
The drooping fangs are pale white, with a few traces of fresh flesh hanging on them; the smaller head is already old, with wrinkled skin piled together, making it almost impossible to see where its eyes are.
place.
But in Nicholas's eyes, that old head was more dangerous than the young one.
Because to deal with ordinary ogres who can only wield sticks, wizards have too many ways to deal with them, and with the accumulation of time in the brains of older ogres, even if they are not priests, they can master a few shamanic magics. This
Making them extra tricky.
Of course, these judgments are just feelings at the moment.
The Edge Hunting Team was hiding in the magic barrier they had built, trying their best to keep a low profile according to the school hunting team's advice, and did not intend to have anything to do with the sudden appearance of the ogre.
"hiss!"
The fishman Iseni sitting cross-legged on the ground shook the slender fins on the back of his neck, and suddenly muttered: "This... hiss... ogre... hiss... so ugly! It doesn't look good!"
To be fair, Nicholas felt that Iseni was not qualified to say such things.
But for the sake of the unity of the team, he must not speak out what is in his heart.
"Ugliness is a field without green grass, a farmland without green leaves, and a head without hair." The gypsy witch in the hunting team added smoothly.
"What?"
Lin Yan said this word for Nicholas.
Carmen lowered her eyelids, playing with the tarot cards in front of her, and replied without raising her head: "This is a sentence said by the Roman poet Ovid... It means that a head without hair is as ugly as a field without grass.
"
The captain of the edge hunting team looked at the two bare heads of the ogre opposite, and then he realized what the witch meant. He couldn't help but cough lightly: "Stop chatting... What's the result of the divination? In addition, other hunters
Has the team responded to your letter yet?”
The previous sentence is about asking the hunting team's fortune teller, the gypsy witch Carmen.
The latter sentence was about Liu Feifei, another auxiliary hunter in the hunting team.
"Except for the news about the school hunting team at the beginning, there is no other news." Liu Feifei changed her usual soft and weak look, tied her hair behind her head, and replied quickly: "Even the Exoneration Hunting Team can't be contacted.
Up... I suspect we encountered a magical shield."
"Just because of the ogre shaman opposite?" Lin Yan didn't believe it.
"What if there is more than one Ogre Shaman?" The diviner of the Edge Hunting Team glanced at the card he just drew and sighed slightly.
A reversed 'Wheel of Fortune'.
"The situation is developing in a bad direction without our knowledge, and there is nothing we can do about it."
After a brief summary, the Gypsy Witch drew the second card, which was a straight 'devil': "...and all these developments are based on some kind of malice...or, in other words, stem from some ulterior secrets.
… We are bound here by the chains of the devil, both their prisoners and their accomplices.”
Then, she threw out the third card, a reversed 'The Hanged Man': "Every card I got had the word 'bad luck' written all over it... But this card showed,
As long as we don't make unnecessary sacrifices, there will be no sacrifices."
Before he finished speaking, the card that had been thrown into the snow seemed to have tilted downwards due to the melting of the snow. The Gypsy Witch raised her eyebrows and added: "...There is a high probability that there will be no sacrifice.
"
The three cards lay crookedly in the snow, like three ugly scars.
The divination skills of gypsy witches are well-known even in First University. The only problem is that, like most ordinary wizards' divination magic, they always get vague and contradictory answers.
"What does it mean to be both a prisoner and an accomplice?" Liu Feifei frowned, her expression a little confused.
"How bad is the situation?" Lin Yan stood up and looked around, carefully looking at the shadowy shrubs outside through the translucent barrier of the magic barrier.
"There is a high probability that there will be no sacrifices... Is the situation so bad?" Although the captain of the Edge Hunting Team had no expression on his face, his heart suddenly sank.
Whether it was the strange noise coming from the depths of the Silent Forest or the golden curtain that fell on the school's protective circle not long ago, it originally just made this old student who had been at the school for four years a little nervous, and he didn't think too much - he
He simply thought that all this was just some kind of 'trick' played by the school to conduct practical exercises. He had seen this kind of thing more than once during the four years he had been studying at First University.
But from another perspective, this is also his first time to participate in the outermost winter hunting. He has no experience in what kind of tests the school will set for hunting teams like them. It is difficult to say whether the 'sacrifice' divined by the gypsy witch is the right one.
A real 'sacrifice'.
Perhaps he noticed Nicholas's hesitation.
Liu Feifei grabbed his hand and squeezed it, but said nothing. This was a kind of silent support.
boom!
Outside the magic barrier, the two-headed ogre running wild refused to leave, and became more and more anxious. He waved a thick mace and beat around randomly, and the splashing snow brushed against the knot several times.
The edge of the border was almost exposed, and the existence of the edge hunting team was almost exposed.
"There is indeed more than one!"
Lin Yan suddenly had a hint of panic in his voice. After all, he was still only a first-year student and had only been in school for less than half a year: "...Look over there!"
Everyone followed the sound and saw that bushes in the deep woods were overturned, dozens of large-boned ogres were dragging sticks, and they were gathering in this direction.
The good news is that they are all ordinary ogres with only one head; the bad news is that there are too many of them, and it will definitely be difficult for the Edge Hunting Team to deal with them.
The two-headed ogre must not be allowed to join its minions!
Nicholas hesitated no longer.
He took a breath, looked around, and finally made up his mind: "We must defeat the two-headed ogre leader immediately, otherwise we won't be able to hide for long even in the barrier."
"We are the Edge Hunters."
"We are from the margins of the Alliance, and we are marginalized people among wizards. We have no one to rely on. We should not count on others. We can only save ourselves."