Chapter 39: Traps (1/2)

Chapter 39: Traps

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”Not good!”

”It actually attracted all six aardwolves at the same time!”

The group hidden in the forest couldn’t help but be somewhat gloomy.

The original plan was to only attract a portion of those mutated aardwolves at a time and eliminate them in small groups.

The pressure was quite high now that they were facing six mutated aardwolves.

But thinking of Masked Twin Blades, that guy with frightening strength standing behind them, both the White River Valley’s garrison and the Bramble team felt very calm.

The sika deer nimbly jumped through the forest, following the already fixed plan.

Everyone got into position.

Marvin was calmly standing on a big tree’s branch, focused on the operation.

Those mutated aardwolves were really ignoring the orders of the ordinary gnolls.

They only listened to that gnoll Sorcerer’s most basic commands.

But they still couldn’t fight their instinct.

This was good news.

The sika deer’s speed was quite fast. In fact, she would be able to leave those aardwolves behind if she used some strength. But for the sake of the plan, she had to slow down.

Actually, these mutated aardwolves were quite strong, but they seemed to be lacking in explosive power. This might be the price of taming them.

The sika deer soon arrived to the scheduled place.

The six chasing aardwolves arrived almost at the same time.

”Six aardwolves, the traps aren’t enough…”

Marvin looked towards Gru hiding behind a big tree. The latter nodded slightly.

The two men instantly reached a tacit understanding. The cooperation between experienced adventurers was very comfortable. Often, one meaningful glance was enough to communicate their intentions.

One each.

Gru’s burst power might not be as strong as Marvin’s, but his strength was good enough to block a mutated aardwolf.

The other four would just be taken care of by the garrison and the others. Marvin had already established their tactics. There shouldn’t be any problem as long as they followed the plan.

Marvin jumped down and rushed toward one mutated aardwolf, catching it off guard with a stomp to its head and then flipping over.

It was as if he was doing acrobatics on the large back of the aardwolf to keep his balance.

And on the other side, Gru aimed at another mutated aardwolf’s head with his heavy sword.

”Clang!”

The mutated aardwolf’s instinct wasn’t bad. It actually used its hard claws to endure the sharp heavy sword

The two of them started having a contest of strength.

...

Things seemed quite showy on Marvin’s side.

He had experienced quite a lot of things, so killing a mutated aardwolf wasn’t much of an issue.

20 dexterity was enough to let him know when the running wolf would make a sudden move.

He suddenly leaned downward. With a ”Woosh,” his right hand pulled out a thin silver wire!

This was a [Tough Silver Wire], a weapon bought from the ranger guild and also a very unusual killing weapon.

Even if it wasn’t an uncommon item, it was considered quite strong among the common weapons.

The mutated aardwolf frantically shook his body, trying to throw Marvin off its back.

But Marvin’s legs were tightly circled around the aardwolf’s lower back. He took advantage of the moment when the aardwolf roared and stood up to ruthlessly wrap the aardwolf’s neck with the wire in his hand.

”Shua!”

The thin silver wire constricted the aardwolf neck. It painfully roared but even its roar was suppressed by the pressure on its throat.

Marvin seemed to be flying as he jumped and grabbed a branch. He made a tight knot on a thick and solid branch with both ends of the silver wire.

He then just stably stood on the tree, looking down toward the aardwolf crazily thrashing on the ground.

The tough silver wire would just keep digging onto its neck as it kept struggling.

Soon, its fur began to be filled with blood, but its movement also became more and more fierce!

This was an empty-headed beast!

If it had wisdom, it would have known that it would be best to stop moving.

But its intelligence was truly underwhelming. It even began to frantically run away from this place, trying to run away far from Marvin, this frightening human.

Unfortunately...

It soon choked to death because of its stupid actions.

[Target has died… 98 battle exp received!]

Mutated aardwolves had no useful loot, so Marvin wasn’t interested in looking. He glanced at Gru, and found out that he had already used strength to suppress the mutated aardwolf.

‘This guy’s strength really can’t be underestimated, he actually had that much power. He might also be holding back.’

Marvin hurriedly put away the silver wire and went to the place they had agreed on beforehand.