Chapter 185 – Wolves 2

Chapter 185 – Wolf Pack 2
The leader of the pursuers choked one of the wolves, and the force he erupted with was so great that the wolf quickly rolled its eyes at the choke.

However it wasn’t the only wolf, another wolf that pounced on him quickly went down on him and bit him dead center in the throat.

Then several more wolves jumped out of the woods and pounced on the leader of the chasers, tearing into him with one bite and one bite at a time.

“Uh …… you …… all go to hell!”

Desperate, the chaser leader let out a dying curse, just not sure who the curse was directed at.

He relaxed his entire body and let the pack of wolves tear at his body, and soon his breath was all gone.

“Hokage, get in the wagon!”

Seeing this scene, Lardy immediately pulled up the Grand Duchess, who was already all limp and pale, and dragged her to the carriage.

Inside the carriage, a little girl who looked to be in her early teens seemed to be lying down on the seat and “sleeping”.

The little girl was very cute, and her eyebrows were very similar to Helen’s, so when she grows up, she will surely be one of the most beautiful people in the world.

This is the sister of the Grand Duchess of Eton – Duchess Fanny.

Laddie closed the door of the car tightly.

As if the attack on the mercenary leader was a signal, more and more wolves jumped out of the woods.

The beasts targeted the three horses first and attacked with thunderous speed.

The horses frantically threw their hooves in self-defense, yet in the end it was hard to resist the sharp teeth of the wolves, and eventually they too fell to the ground and were torn apart by the hungry wolves.

Lardy thought to herself, “I hope three horses can feed these hungry wolves!”

However, she was disappointed as more wolves ran out of the woods, and instead of fighting over the horse meat, they circled the wagon.

Apparently, these newcomers were targeting the women in the carriage.

One of the wolves, after circling a few times, finally got restless and leapt at the wagon.

The carriage was violently shaken by the wolf’s pounce, and the Grand Duchess cried out in fear.

La Di pulled out a short crossbow and handed it to Helen, “Sister School, if a wolf breaks the glass and burrows in, stab it hard with this. I hope this carriage of the church is sturdy.”

Helen nodded dolefully.

What was said came to pass, with a “bang”, the window glass shattered, and a large wolf’s head poked in.

Lardy took a look at the spot and stuck her crossbow into the wolf’s eye with pinpoint accuracy.

The wolf retreated with a howl and rolled on the ground next to the wagon in agonizing pain.

It seemed that the companion’s tragedy had shocked the wolves around the wagon, and they temporarily stopped their attack and continued to circle around the wagon.

While mumbling incantations, La Di carefully calculated the area occupied by the carriage and the distance between the wolves and the carriage.

Finally, her vermilion lips lightly opened, “Ring of Flames!”

Soon, with the carriage as the center, a strange light emanated from the surrounding ground, and the light formed a circle of light with a diameter of about three meters, just enough to surround the carriage.

With a “Hooten” sound, the aperture burst into flames.

Wild animals are all afraid of fire, and the wolves around the carriage jumped, scattering in all directions to run away from the burning circle.

Many of the wolves that happened to be located on the ring of fire were set on fire, calling out pitiful cries, rolling all over the ground, and escaping with their tails on the ground after they managed to extinguish the fire on their bodies.

However, from the howls that were still coming out from the surrounding area, it could be heard that more wolves still continued to lurk in the surrounding forest, and they didn’t go away, the number of them sounded as if there were as many as a few hundred of them.

This [Ring of Flames] was originally designed to cause major killings to the enemy when surrounded by them by suddenly erupting flames as high as one person, however this time in order to deter the wolves for a longer period of time, La Di controlled the intensity of the flames so that it would burn for a longer period of time.

With her life temporarily out of danger, the Grand Duchess calmed down.

She exclaimed, “Laadi, your mastery of magic is getting more and more refined. You are truly a latecomer, I can’t even catch up with you now.” Although she received praise from her senior sister, La Di was not in the mood to be modest, although she had done her best to control the burning speed of the [Ring of Flames], yet it would eventually be extinguished after some time.

“These wolves are barking so loudly, Fort Ness has heard them too, won’t the city guards send someone to take a look?”

“That would have to be tomorrow at dawn, right now they will just close the city gates tightly.”

“Senior sister, we can’t count on outsiders to help, we have to think of a strategy on our own, what I can think of right now is that we take turns to protect the carriage with the [Ring of Flames], and we’ll continue to suffer until dawn. Do you have any good ideas?”

Mage’s are unable to continuously cast the same kind of magic over and over again, a period of time must pass before they can continue to use a certain kind of magic that they used before.

If Paul Greiman knew this, he might have understood it in terms of “skill cooldown time” from video games in his previous life.

How long the interval is depends on the mage’s mastery of the magic, it may be as little as a few hours or even a few minutes, or as long as a few days.

As for how this ‘mastery’ should be interpreted, now the mages are still arguing in the small circle, just like the IQ of ordinary people, there is no uniform standard.

Anyway, it wasn’t that the more one used it, the higher the ‘mastery’, there were people who were able to cast a powerful Lightning Spell once every hour, but could only cast a Lightning Spell once a day.

Lightning spells were more complicated than Lightning spells, requiring more materials to be prepared and more complicated incantations to be recited.

In short, in this world, even the mages themselves have no idea about the nature of magic, and a lot of knowledge is hidden under a mysterious and hazy veil, which needs to be explored continuously.

Most mages become mages by experience alone, knowing what they know but not what they don’t know.

Moreover, they revel in this “mystery”, believing that this is the way magic should be, that it cannot be explained, that it is incomprehensible.

Only in this way can they be distinguished from the blacksmiths, carpenters, mechanics, and other mundane people who also possess certain skills, so that this special group of people, which is not tolerated by the world, can find a little solace.

Hearing Lardy ask this, Helen shook her head in shame.

“I’m sorry, I don’t have a good idea. And ……”

“And what?”

“I can’t control it as precisely as you can, and I’ll …… I’ll set the wagon on fire, say …… maybe even set the forest on fire.”

The normal version of [Ring of Flames] is to take the caster as the center point, suddenly generate a circle of flames, and then have a small to the earth to spread outward.

If it couldn’t be controlled as precisely as Lardy’s, forcing it to be cast inside the carriage, it might actually ……

“Alright, schoolteacher. We’ll summon the clay golem once more later after the flames are extinguished.”

“Yes, this I can do.”

Once the two had finished their discussion, they quietly watched the fire around them diminish little by little.

As the flames weakened, the wolves around them became restless again.

“Start preparing for the summoning …… Wait, schoolteacher, did you hear something?”

Lardy seemed to hear something stirring and listened with her ears sideways.

The Grand Duchess held her breath as well, trying to catch the sounds coming out of Lardy’s mouth.

“It’s all the howling of wolves ah …… ugh? Something does sound different!”

The sound came from far away and seemed to be “Touch! Touch!” It rang out.

But Lardy said suddenly, with an air of delight, “Muskets! It’s the sound of muskets! No wonder it feels so familiar.”

“Musket?” The Grand Duchess was unsure.

“Hm! Hokage, the crew of the Southern is coming to our rescue!”

(End of chapter)