ebookslot Chapter 100 Urgent Request for Rescue: Gnoll Cavalry!
Chapter 100 Urgent Request for Rescue: Gnoll Cavalry!
Chapter 100 Urgent Request for Rescue: Gnoll Cavalry!
After traveling for nearly two hours across the frozen wasteland, the howling wind finally stopped.
However, in the blink of an eye, another flash of lightning and thunder struck.
The network signal of the hunting recorder was also severely interfered with, intermittently.
Fang Zhou glanced at the recorder in his hand, which was about to lose network connection, and shook his head slightly.
It seems the instructors' teachings were indeed correct.
Once inside a magnetic field with disordered energy, this high-tech communication tool becomes useless.
This is also the most unfavorable aspect for humanity since the beginning of the mythological era.
Many traditional technological methods are no longer reliable.
Right now, Ark is still in a small beginner dungeon, and his most advanced hunting recorder is in this state.
One can imagine that in a mythical world battlefield where legendary powerhouses from both sides were unleashing their ultimate attacks, this kind of communication equipment would definitely become scrap metal.
Boom!
Thunderstorms raged incessantly, followed by torrential rain that transformed the entire wasteland into a vast swamp.
Ark had become accustomed to the unpredictable climate within the underground cave.
After changing into his down jacket, he braved the heavy rain and continued on his way.
After walking for about an hour, the hunting recorder completely lost signal during a thunderstorm.
It was already dusk, and the light of the magic moss grew even dimmer in the rain.
The field of vision was too narrow, and to avoid a direct encounter with monsters, the Ark's marching speed had to be slowed down considerably.
shhhhhh!
Suddenly, not far in front of the ark, a colorful signal flare rose into the air and hung in mid-air, shining brightly.
He was slightly taken aback, but immediately realized what was happening.
This is a distress flare!
Students nearby are calling for help!
Fang Zhou immediately became alert.
Although he was much stronger than the average student, the cave was teeming with monsters.
Who knows what kind of enemy the student who called for help was facing?
We must not be careless!
Of course, as fellow military academy students, if we can save them, we should.
In normal circumstances, with a hunting recorder for location tracking, the on-site rescue instructors could quickly locate the students in distress.
However, at this moment, due to the thunderstorm, the hunting recorder completely malfunctioned.
Therefore, trainees in distress could only use the most traditional signal flares to call for help.
However, the range of the signal flare is limited.
The nearby rescue instructors may not be able to locate the trainee quickly.
Ark looked up at the location of the signal flare and directed the skeleton army to probe in that direction.
Ahead lay a hill of strangely shaped rocks, and the road was very difficult to traverse.
After going around in circles, Ark finally found the student who had called for help.
This is a female combatant that Arknights is not very familiar with.
From a distance, she was covered in blood and was tightly surrounded by a group of gnoll cavalry at a narrow rocky pass. Fortunately, she had already torn open the scroll of the black iron-grade shield that she was using to save her life.
A thick shield protected the seriously injured female student from all angles.
The gnoll cavalrymen brandished their batons and maces, relentlessly attacking the shield, but to no avail.
Seeing their prey within reach yet unable to be eaten, the gnolls roared in fury.
Ark quickly scanned the battlefield.
Apart from the gnoll cavalry, no other monsters were found.
Upon closer inspection, among this group of gnolls, there was one gnoll warlock at the mid-level apprentice rank, wielding a staff, and two gnoll warriors at the mid-level apprentice rank.
The other 20 or so are ordinary gnolls who are at the lower level of apprentices.
This can be considered a small to medium-sized gnoll warband.
Since each of them possesses a dire wolf, their mobility and individual combat strength are among the strongest of the monsters in Cave 1.
The trapped female trainee was only at the lower-level apprenticeship.
One-on-one, he could probably easily take down a gnoll cavalryman.
But now, facing more than 20 gnoll cavalrymen, they can neither fight nor escape.
They were trapped in these hills with no chance of escape.
No wonder she had to pay the price of elimination, activate her life-saving shield, and send out a distress signal.
Once Ark was certain that it could handle the gnoll cavalry, it no longer hesitated.
He had just seen through night vision binoculars that the female student who was being attacked was covered in blood and seemed to be seriously injured.
Saving lives was the priority, so he didn't conserve his energy any more.
Quietly moving to a distance of several dozen meters from the gnolls, Ark gently waved his staff.
Aiming at the densest concentration of monsters, he decisively unleashed [Bone Arrow Rain].
Another troublesome aspect of the gnoll cavalry is their extremely keen sense of smell.
Even with the torrential rain pouring down, one of the gnoll warriors, a mid-level apprentice, seemed to detect a strange scent.
Boom!
A bolt of lightning streaked across the sky.
The gnoll warrior suddenly turned around and met the ark's cold smile.
In the blink of an eye, it only had time to let out a roar before it saw countless bone arrows shooting down from mid-air.
The middle gnoll among the three apprentices reacted quickly, urging his wolf to leap backward and avoid the barrage of bone arrows.
However, their ordinary gnolls were unable to dodge at all.
With the bonus from [Sighing Flower], the effects of all Necromancer skills in Arknights have been enhanced.
The same applies to the [Rain of Bones]!
Compared to before, its quantity and power have both increased significantly.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
At least six or seven gnoll cavalrymen, riddled with arrows, fell to the ground with a mournful cry.
Then another explosion rang out, sending the other gnolls who had managed to escape flying.
Roar!
The two gnoll warriors' already red eyes turned even blood redder.
They abandoned the student hiding behind the shield and spurred the dire wolves to charge toward the ark.
The reason Fangzhou stood so casually nearby was to lure the wolf out and relieve the pressure on the injured student.
Having achieved his goal, he didn't hesitate to take long strides and retreat into the darkness.
The remaining dozen or so gnolls, seeing the ark flee in panic, all revealed ferocious grins on their faces.
How can a two-legged creature outrun a four-legged one?
These wolf riders are best at tearing their prey to shreds during a chase.
But the smiles on their faces froze the next moment.
Click.
Click.
Forty powerful, writhing skeletons burst forth from beneath the giant rock behind the ark.
The two sides were not far apart to begin with.
The agility attribute of a mid-level skeleton apprentice is not much lower than that of a dire wolf under the wing of a gnoll cavalryman.
Therefore, these gnoll cavalrymen had no time to hesitate and directly engaged the skeleton army in battle.
With a shriek from the gnoll warriors, their halberds and maces traced deadly trajectories through the air.
The howls of dire wolves and the roars of gnolls intertwined to form a war song that shook the hills.