Knight with Wand

Chapter 253 Man and Nature

Seeing that the rangers had accepted the commission and outsourced the problem to professionals, Heinkel felt instantly relieved.

Especially looking at Leon, who severely defeated the Lang family's army and captured his young master, he couldn't help but feel a little pleased with him.

Leon and others accepted the commission and did not delay further in Leidingburg. They immediately asked the old knights of the Wolf family to take them to the location where the Mount Destrobos was last seen.

Everyone mounted their respective mounts and followed Heinkel's troops out of the city without stopping. In just a few hours, they arrived at a mountain village in the southeast.

According to Heinkel, someone fled to Leidingburg a few days ago to report the attack. The small village in front of him was the area where the furbolg was most recently seen.

This place has long been uninhabited. The villagers were either killed by the furbolg, or they fled far away and never dared to come back.

As soon as the rangers arrived, they jumped off their saddles and spread out, relying on their own experience and skills to search for the remaining whereabouts of the mountain bear.

Derek found some bear fur that was suspected to have been rubbed off from the ruins of the collapsed village house, and let the dire wolf sitting next to him smell it.

The wolf beast with an unusually developed sense of smell could not help but grin and groan when it smelled the pungent and dangerous smell. Then it began to sniff around, and began to track it skillfully.

This is not the first time it has hunted for unusually dangerous biological signals. Although the instinct in its genes is still somewhat fearful, this dire wolf has already become relatively desensitized because its owner once hunted the equally terrifying wasteland dragon beast. .

Larian, Greenthorne and others analyzed the footprints left by the giant bear, while Olivia listened with cute and curious eyes, learning the valuable experience of these monster hunters.

The rangers took a brief walk around the nearby woodland and quickly confirmed that the Mount Sinan Bear was leaving deep into the forest to the northeast.

"Do you need me to send some soldiers to help you?" Heinkel suggested.

Greenthorne looked at the Wolf soldiers with fearful eyes, and shook his head at Knight Heinkel: "No, Your Excellency, your soldiers have lost their will to fight. Let them follow, but I have to focus on protecting them. Besides, If there are too many people, it may be possible to alert the snake in advance.”

Leon looked at the direction identified by the rangers, and said to Heinkel: "You are here, just help keep an eye on our horses."

Although the forest in front of us is not dense, the terrain becomes more and more rugged as we go further in. War horses are of no use, and only Derek's dire wolf can move freely along with it.

After checking their weapons and tool bags, everyone immediately stepped into the forest without any nonsense.

The eleven people were divided into three groups. Leon, who was conscious of being an amateur, followed Larian along with Olivia and Morven Knight.

Of the remaining seven Orland Rangers, Greenthorn leads one group, and Wolf Hunter Derek leads one group.

The three groups, led by Derek, who had a dire wolf companion, followed the tracks left by the dire wolf while keeping a distance.

About an hour later, Leon saw Derek Knight and his dire wolf on the right stop.

Seeing that he seemed to have discovered something, everyone leaned over to take a closer look.

Derek held a small tuft of short hairs found on the trunk of the tree with his fingertips and showed it to everyone for inspection.

"This kind of length and texture would not be the hair of an adult Mount Sinan bear." Larian analyzed.

"Could it be left behind by other animals?" a ranger speculated.

Derek shook his head: "But Dak can smell our target's breath from above."

Dark is the name of his dire wolf companion.

"You mean, that mountainous bear still has cubs?" Leon was a little surprised.

"You can't tell yet, let's move on." Derek threw down the fur.

The knights are on the road again.

After walking for a few more hours, the sky gradually darkened, and Derek made new discoveries.

Dak, the dire wolf, sniffed fiercely in front of a ground whose color was slightly different from other lands.

Derek immediately took the shovel from the bag on the dire wolf's back and dug up the ground.

Under the earth, insects and ants rummaged away. When everyone went over, they saw that the excavated soil revealed a substance that was almost dry and looked like animal feces.

Several rangers randomly picked up branches and moved over with expressionless faces to start "stirring up shit".

Although Leon has the memory of the Son of Orion, his ability to recognize monster feces is still far inferior to these experienced rangers.

However, according to their analysis, judging from the color and texture, although this is the feces of a Deinoproteros bear, it obviously does not belong to an adult Deinoproteros bear.

Adult Hooshan giant bears do not hide their excrement. The adult giant beasts have almost no natural enemies. Instead, they like to leave obvious traces everywhere, both to mark their territory and to attract mates.

You must know that there are not many mountain bears in the world today, probably fewer than the flying dragons in the mountains of the northern wilderness. Without these pungent pheromones to contact the opposite sex, these ancient giant bears would have become extinct long ago.

But unlike mountain bear cubs, cubs that have no ability to protect themselves will still instinctively bury their own feces to avoid attracting other predators before they grow up.

"Why didn't we see the footprints of the cubs all the way?" Leon asked the rangers in confusion.

He was very interested in the magic book in the tower, which recorded chimera beasts, dragon beasts and other magical beasts, but he had not yet spent the energy to learn it. Chapters about tigers, leopards, wolves and bears that were similar to creatures from previous lives were indeed very interesting to the Mountain Bear. Not much to understand.

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"Because the cubs of the Dinocampus, except when they stay in the den, will spend most of their time lying on the back of the mother bear, especially when they are just born, because compared with the adult, the cubs are only half the size of an adult when they are born." Larian explained.

Leon nodded, feeling that he had learned something.

Seeing that the night was approaching, everyone found a suitable open space to camp and make a fire to rest.

After dinner, he couldn't help asking the rangers about the habits of the Dinocampus.

After a deeper understanding, Leon stared at the swaying campfire, recalled the discovery during the day, and Henkel's words. He couldn't help but think silently

Logically speaking, the Dinocampus has lived in the border mountains near the Nightmare Forest in the west of Mamor County for so long, and has lived in peace with the human villages outside. So what exactly caused the Dinocampus to suddenly break into the human territory and kill so many people?

Is it because the wandering corpse ghosts caused the wild beasts to flee and migrate?

But those corpse ghosts obviously can't threaten the powerful giant bear. The bear monster can flatten a bunch of zombies with one slap.

No!

Leon suddenly realized that the corpse ghosts can indeed threaten the giant bear.

Not to threaten the giant bear itself, but to threaten the food and territory ecology it needs.

The corpse ghosts attacked the animal communities that originally lived on the outskirts of the forest on a large scale, causing the number of prey that provided the bear with a living to suddenly drop rapidly.

This is probably the reason why it gave up its long-term territory and suddenly followed the prey to migrate.

This bear may have just given birth to a cub not long ago. It is in urgent need of food and has to feed the cub.

Calculating the time, when it encountered it, the bear even chased the three of them who escaped. I'm afraid it was so irritable during pregnancy.

Not only that.

Leon thought about it. It's mid-October now. It seems that it has just entered the time period when the bear is preparing to eat a lot and prepare for hibernation.

At this point, food is in short supply because of the changes in the Nightmare Forest.

No wonder the Fear Mountain Bears, who had not interfered with each other for so many years, suddenly left the forest and entered the human kingdom to look for food.

There is no such thing as evil beasts or not. In the final analysis, it is still a natural struggle for living space.

Leon patted his forehead. He didn't expect that what happened here was still closely related to the impact of the disappearance of the spirit field after he triggered the Neti card magic.

This unintentional mess should indeed be cleaned up by himself.

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