Chapter 365 Yeenoghu's Descendants (Ⅰ)

The well-preserved houses in the village are all closed, and occasionally a hyena jumps on the windowsill and tries to enter the house through the window.

Not long after, Joan heard a dog barking fiercely in the room, and then the door opened. The hyena that had just entered the room was kicked out of the door, and then a hunched humanoid creature walked out.

The monster was seven feet tall from head to toe, and its torso and limbs were indistinguishable from that of a human being. It was covered with short, dirty yellow hair, dotted with countless large and small brown dots.

The mane on the neck is particularly strong, and the head is like a hyena, with a mouthful of fangs and sharp teeth, and a roar like a dog barking, occasionally mixed with a few strange words of common language, as if cursing the hyena that broke into the room for disturbing his siesta.

The hyena was so frightened by the furious jackal that it slipped away with its tail between its legs. The jackal seemed to be still angry. Looking at the back of the hyena going away, he cursed a few more words, slammed the door hard, and there was no movement.

Qiao An watched this small conflict from a high altitude, and many thoughts came to mind one after another.

First of all, what is certain is that this small fishing village has been taken over by the Jackal gang, and the villagers who have not had time to escape are probably not survived, and all of them were brutally killed by the Wolf man and his hyena accomplices.

In addition, Joan also noticed a special symbiotic relationship between jackals and hyenas.

In the Alfheim area, it is rare to see this kind of hyena with brown spots all over its body. This group of beasts probably followed the wolf man from the Gobi area south of the Brass Pass.

Joan remembered the "Gnoll" entry in the "Wares Monster Illustrated Book", and specifically mentioned a myth about the origin of this evil creature, which may explain why a large group of hyenas always follow the gang of gnolls.

It is said that in ancient times, there was a demon lord named "Yenoghu" who tried to break into the world of Vales, and then started a crazy massacre, blood flowed everywhere, and corpses were everywhere.

All beings in the world are deeply afraid of this demon king from the abyss, and avoid him as much as possible. However, the strange thing is that only the hyena is not afraid of Yeenoghu, and actively follows him, vying to devour the victims killed by him the remains of.

Yeenoghu was very satisfied with this group of loyal little friends, and used his almost godlike magical power to transform these followers into the first batch of "wolf men" in the world, and Yeenoghu also obtained the "wolf man" God" title.

The gnolls followed Yeenoghu and wandered around, spreading terror and killing wherever they went.

The desperate screams of the victims are like supremely beautiful music in their ears, and when the other party can no longer scream, the "God of Gnolls" and its servants will greedily devour the flesh and blood of the dying until their belly is swollen .

This disaster lasted for an unknown period of time, and Yeenoghu's reckless behavior finally angered all the good gods, and sent the saint to come down to the world and banish the villain back to the bottomless abyss.

The group of gnolls created by Yeenogu himself were either killed by the envoys of the gods, or fled into the abyss following their evil gods. Only a very small number stayed in the world, and fortunately hid, scattered all over the world, and reproduced from generation to generation. The God of Gnolls has left a loathsome legacy in the world.

Myths and legends, of course, are mostly fabricated, but they are not entirely out of fantasy, and more or less contain reflections of reality.

Joan compared the origin legend of the jackal family and found that this creature not only has a head that resembles a hyena, but also has many similarities with hyenas in living habits and way of thinking. Coupled with the fact that they are used to living with hyenas, it is no wonder that scholars think that jackals Transformed from hyenas.

Joan put aside distracting thoughts, blessed himself with the "invisibility technique", and then retracted his wings and dived down, quickly lowering the flying altitude.

He didn't spread his wings again until he was less than a hundred feet away from the ground, maintaining a suspended posture.

At the current height, Joan can observe the Gnoll camp more clearly, and the "invisibility" makes him blend with the air, at least so far, he has not been exposed.

Qiao An flew around the fishing village and couldn't help frowning secretly.

Gnolls are standard nocturnal creatures and don't like to be active in daylight.

It was in the morning, and the summer sun was particularly fierce. Most of the jackals hid in houses with closed doors and windows to take a nap. Joan couldn't estimate how many jackals were entrenched here.

He thought of using the "phantom sound technique" to create some noise to lure the jackals to go out to investigate, and take the opportunity to count down the opponent's number, but he was worried that doing so would scare the enemy and prompt the jackals to increase their vigilance, which would not be conducive to the next surprise attack by his side.

Hovering in the air for a long time, Joan accidentally saw hyenas wandering in groups on the street, and suddenly remembered a passage in "Vares Monster Guide":

When Jackals go out to plunder, they always bring one or two hyenas as hunting dogs.

Based on the number of hyenas on the street, he could roughly estimate the number of gnolls.

Joan spread his wings across the street and counted it twice.

There are a total of more than 130 hyenas on the street, counting the ones hiding in the shade that cannot be counted, at most it will not exceed 150.

According to Joan's calculation, the size of the gang of gnolls occupying this place should be around 100 people.

After reaching this conclusion, Joan stopped staying and turned around to fly to the direction where his troops were stationed.

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About ten miles away from the fishing village where the Gnolls were stationed, on a river bank with low shrubs, the Knights and the Asa allied forces suspended their march, and all officers and soldiers were anxiously waiting for the scouting information from the scouts.

The sun gradually moved to the center of the sky. The weather was sunny and hot in summer. The hot air on the grass surrounded the heavily armed officers and soldiers, and fumigated every inch of skin through the gaps in the armor, making people unbearably hot.

The Asa hunters in light leather armor were in a good situation, but the young knights in steel breastplates suffered especially. The sweat soaked through the lining of the armor, and they were drenched as if they had just been fished out of the water, but it was inconvenient to remove. Taking off the heavy armor, he could only take off the helmet from time to time to wipe the sweat flowing down his forehead.

"This damned weather is going to turn people into jerky!"

Dick Tyndale rolled off his horse and walked toward the bank, panting and cursing.

Every time he took a step, the armor on his body made clanking, clanging and clanging sounds, and the cicadas scattered in the forest hissing and chirping.

Dick was like a bear that was about to be sunburnt, sticking out his tongue, panting heavily, and finally struggled to move to the river, bent down to drink the clear river water, splashed water on his face to cool down, and enjoyed a moment Cool.

The moment his eyes touched the river, Dick accidentally saw a black shadow flying by. He was slightly startled, and hurriedly looked up at the sky, and sure enough, he saw a blurry figure passing by at high speed above his head.

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