Chapter 254 Hunting Festival (Ⅱ)

Every spring, when the weather gets warmer, the wild boars on the island across the strait also usher in the breeding season.

When midsummer comes, the wild boar population on the island is already overrun. Tens of thousands of hungry wild boars will almost explode this isolated island.

In order to fill their stomachs, the ferocious and greedy wild boars are not afraid to attack all the birds and beasts that live on the island, and even take the initiative to besiege the dinosaurs that are bigger and stronger than them. As a result, the dinosaurs on the island are becoming rarer and rarer, and now they are almost extinct by wild boars.

Compared with the wildly expanding number of wild boars, the space on the island is too small to provide sufficient food for large groups of wild boars.

In order to survive, the wild boars on the island have mastered the skill of long-distance swimming after long-term evolution.

Every year in July and August, the wild boars on the island will collectively go into the sea and migrate to the mainland across the strait.

After a week of difficult swimming, most of the wild boars were either washed away by ocean currents and eventually drowned in the sea, or were hunted by sharks.

Those wild boars that successfully pass the test of the raging sea and sharks will eventually land on the coast, forming a mighty army of thousands of wild boars, migrating downstream along the mouth of the Iffin River, sweeping the farmland along the way.

Where the pigs passed, it was like a locust crossing, causing serious damage to agriculture and livestock in the area around Port Leiden.

In order to prevent wild boars from crossing the sea and destroying crops, since 20 years ago, the governor of Yalfheim will hold a week-long "hunting competition" on the first day of July every year, offering huge rewards to encourage people to hunt wild boars on the island.

This is the predecessor of the "Hunting Festival".

Over time, the annual summer hunting event has developed into a local custom in Leiden Port, which is widely welcomed by wealthy and leisurely upper-class people.

The nobles, military officers, manor owners and adventurers in the city actively participated in this activity for different purposes, and jointly made the "Hunting Festival" a very popular entertainment celebration.

Today, every "hunting festival", celebrities and gentry in the city will take a boat to the sea surrounded by a large group of servants and hounds. In name, they go to Wild Boar Island to participate in the hunting competition, but in fact the main purpose is to spend summer vacation.

In order to ensure that the masters, wives, sons, and ladies can play comfortably on the beach, and also to ensure that the plantations of each family are not destroyed by wild boars, after all, someone must stick to the original intention of the "Hunting Festival", go deep into the jungle, and devote yourself to the adventure Exciting hunting activities.

Of course, this includes thrill-seeking celebrities and their servants, and more are adventurers and even professional soldiers hired by the rich and powerful.

For example, trainee knights like the Tyndale brothers.

According to the rules of the hunting competition, all hunting teams are in groups of four, and can also carry 4 hounds. Usually, a nobleman is the captain, and the team members include at least one spellcaster.

Every time a hunting team kills a wild boar on the island, the tail must be cut off as a basis for counting the number of wild boars killed.

Next, the spellcasters in the team will also imprint a unique "secret imprint" on the prey as a sign.

After the six-day hunting contest ended, all the teams returned to the pier to gather, count their trophies, and report truthfully to the organizer of the hunting contest.

In the process of counting the loot, the "pig tail" and the "secret imprint" must correspond one by one to count, otherwise there will be suspicion of cheating.

In previous hunting competitions, someone had bought wild boar tails in private, brought them to the island secretly, and lied that it was the spoils he had hunted, causing a scandal.

The organizer of the competition calculates the corresponding hunting points based on the number and weight of wild boars hunted by each team.

All members of the top three teams in the final hunting points will be awarded a gold, silver and bronze medal.

In addition to honorary medals, the top three hunting teams will also be awarded real bonuses.

The total prize money of the champion team is as high as 3000 Gold Duga.

The bonus for the runner-up team is 2000 Gold Duga.

The third-place team can also get 1,000 Gold Duga.

Those hunting teams who missed the top three could at least take away the wild boars they hunted.

The organizers of the event provided freighters for free, and were responsible for sending tens of thousands of hunted wild boars back to the wharf of Leiden Port. The hunters kept them for their own consumption or sold them to the butcher shop.

The Tyndale brothers had little interest in wild boar meat, and they were not short of bonuses. What they really longed for was to win a medal at a hunting convention. With this honor, they could build their reputation and gain a "stepping stone" into the upper class.

Brothers Dick and Roger, like Joan, came from a small country town. Although their family background was much better than Joan's, in the final analysis, they came from a country gentry family.

Their mayor's father was considered a number one figure in the countryside, but in the city, compared with those rich and nobles with tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and hordes of servants, a mere rural mayor was not worth mentioning at all.

The Tyndale brothers were young men seeking to make a name for themselves in the city and high society.

However, the strict class barriers, like an invisible wall, kept the brothers out of the social field of the elite circle in the city, and looked at them country bumpkins with a high attitude and a sense of mockery.

The Tyndall brothers have been angry in the city these days. In order to get rid of the hated label of "hillies", they decided to go to Wild Boar Island to participate in the annual hunting competition, hoping to make a big splash in the hunting competition and win the upper class for themselves Passport to society.

"If Goddess of Luck favors us, bless our brothers to show off at the hunting festival and win medals. From now on, the young masters of the Knights with noble titles will not dare to underestimate us!" Dick said with a trace of resentment.

"Thousands of young people go to Wild Boar Island to participate in the hunting competition every year. Most of them dream of becoming famous overnight just like you. However, only three teams can win the medal in the end, and the rest are only disappointed... ..."

Joan looked at the two old friends, and what he said was frank and almost cruel.

"Dick, Roger, you are indeed excellent, but among the thousands of hunters participating, you are not the best. Why do you believe that you can win the medal? Is it by luck? Unfortunately, luck is not the best. All being fair, you are not necessarily luckier than the other contestants."

"It is precisely because we realize that our own strength is insufficient, so we must hurry up and improve ourselves before the opening of the hunting festival." Roger replied with a smile.

"Where do you plan to improve your strength?" Joan asked curiously.

Dick and Roger are both level 5 fighters, which is pretty good for their age.

There are still ten days before the hunting festival, and it is difficult to increase the professional level in this short period of ten days.

What's more, even if they go up one level, they won't be able to significantly increase their chances of winning a medal in the hunting competition.

"Joan, do you still remember the words that the old dwarf Flint Anvil often said? If you want to carve beautiful and delicate patterns on the iron armor, you must first forge a hard enough carving knife."

Roger smiled deeply.

"This principle also applies to hunters. If we want to hunt more wild boars in the competition, the first thing we need to do is to create a powerful weapon!"

"Joan, I must ask for your help in this matter!"

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