Chapter 256 The Hunt Is Over

Torches illuminated the dark underground cave.

In the cracks of the rocks that served as their hiding places, three Dinocampus cubs, who had grown to the size of ordinary people, huddled in a corner, constantly making frightened cries. Their sharp voices, which had not yet fully developed, echoed in the cave, calling for their mother who would never come back.

The bloodstains on the weapons had been wiped off, but the remaining smell of blood still made the cubs retreat in fear instinctively. However, there was a rock wall behind them, and there was nowhere to escape.

In the flickering dim light, everyone's footsteps slowed down in front of the bear's den.

Olivia silently looked at the cubs that frightened and screamed.

She was not a noble daughter who had never touched fish. She had helped the villagers to slaughter pigs and sheep when they had the chance since she was a child.

But killing for food and survival was completely different from the feeling of killing animal cubs just to eliminate the hidden dangers.

In a trance, the girl looked down at the sword at her waist, and was slightly confused.

Is there really a fundamental difference between herself and those thugs who slaughtered innocent people?

In the eyes of these young bears, is she no different from a vicious devil?

Greenthorne, who walked by the girl, saw Olivia's expression, and the old knight realized that the child was still a little girl after all.

Greenthorne explained and advised the girl: "Miss Olivia, these three young bears are about to be weaned. Although it is human nature to feel sorry for them, we can't spare them at the risk of more victims in the future. You might as well go back outside the cave and wait. Leave this to us."

The rangers certainly won't let the young bears fend for themselves here. The cubs of the Dread Mountain Bear are not a threat to the Knights of Arms, but they are still much stronger than ordinary small animals.

If left alone, even if only one of them was forced to go out to find food before starving to death, and survived by instinct and luck, then a few years later, there would be another dangerous man-eating giant bear on the land of Redingburg.

You know, even a young mountain bear is two or three times bigger than a tiger or lion.

In the struggle for survival, there is really no room for extravagant mercy.

The old knight's words brought Olivia back to her senses from her thoughts.

The girl looked at him, her hair shaking slightly.

"Thank you, Uncle Greenthorne, but I'm not that fragile."

Olivia raised her hand and drew her sword.

She didn't want to completely push this decision to others, but she covered her ears and eyes alone, pretending not to see it.

Whether it was the mother bear or the three cubs in front of her, they were indeed just trying to survive.

But the villagers struggling on this land and the poor people who were buried in the bear's belly miserably, were no different.

Recalling Leon's decisiveness in killing Baron Shatai, she strengthened her belief that she had to choose the lesser of two evils in order to protect the more important.

"My Lords, let me do it. My sword is fast enough to make them feel no pain." The girl walked towards the bear's den with a sharp blade in hand.

The rangers looked over and stopped.

They had experienced the girl's extraordinary sword speed and knew that what she said was true.

Giving these three young beasts that had not yet harmed people a painless and quick death might be the only mercy they could give.

But suddenly, Olivia, who was about to take action, was pressed down by Leon behind her.

The girl stopped and looked back in confusion.

Leon smiled at her and saw the girl's eyes flashing in the firelight. It seemed that he could see the kindness and reluctance buried in her heart in the dazzling gold.

"You don't want to kill them, right." Leon said gently.

Olivia stared at her lover's eyes, and was slightly startled by his words. Her right hand, which was tightly holding the hilt of the sword, couldn't help but loosen.

"They haven't harmed anyone yet, they are innocent, but we don't seem to have any other options."

The girl faced Leon with a helpless voice, but she had expectations for her lover in her heart.

Leon raised his eyes and swept across the cubs not far away, who seemed to sense death and tried to threaten the knights.

Perhaps because he was used to raising the fat cubs at home, he felt it was a pity to kill three cubs like this.

If the Dinosaurus can also become a war beast, he will no longer have to rely on the death claws to help him in the future.

Thinking of his own fat cubs curled up in the nest to recover from the sluggish appearance, Leon felt distressed.

"How can we know if we don't try? At least lock them up. These cubs are far from being able to go out and become a disaster."

"Sir, do you mean to try to tame these three Dinosaurus?" Derek heard what Leon meant.

Greenthorne frowned and tried to persuade the young lord: "Lord Leon, I have to remind you that it's not that no one has tried it in the past, but it has never succeeded. The habits of the dire bear are not like your griffins or Derek's dire wolves. These giant bears are too wild."

The old knight was worried that the baron underestimated the danger of the dire bear. Don't look at the fact that everyone rushed up and killed the mother bear quickly today, as if it was easy.

Not to mention the ambush, the dire bear was caught by surprise. If it were the past, the rangers from all over the world would hardly gather together.

Greenthorne knew that any one of them would have to consider running away if they faced the giant beast alone, and even if two or three people fought together, they would still be on the verge of death.

It's not dangerous to raise a cub now, but what about when the dire bear grows up? This kind of solitary giant beast only needs to go crazy and willful once to cause a very terrible tragedy.

After the ancient oaths have been concluded, the rangers like myself cannot continue to stay in the other party's territory and help the lord guard the giant beasts. What's more, there is not only one Mount Sinus bear here.

"Please rest assured, Your Excellency, I am not an ignorant person, and I do not necessarily want to tame them. I just feel that there is an alternative to killing them."

Leon waved his hand and said: "If I really can't teach them to learn to coexist with humans, it won't be too late to do it then, or... after my gryphon partners recover from their injuries, I can also take the cubs to a wilderness far away from the human kingdom. Among them, letting them return to the uninhabited mountains will only take more effort, and there is no need to execute them all now. "

Even ferocious and ferocious dragon beasts like flying dragons can be tamed into war beasts by the Drachmar royal family, just in case.

Besides, I still have Miss "Lola A Dream" for consultation.

Olivia felt a little more relaxed after hearing Leon's plan and looking at the cubs.

Seeing the hesitation on the faces of Greenthorne and others, she sheathed her sword and said for Leon: "I swear, I will take good care of these three cubs and never let them slip out and become a disaster."

Ork, the northern ranger who had been silent, looked at her and then looked at Leon: "Lord Baron, can you swear on your honor?"

Leon immediately nodded seriously to the rangers: "I swear an oath in the name of Pendragon. No matter what, I will not let these three mountain bears cause trouble to the world."

When the rangers heard this, they looked at each other, and then exchanged opinions with each other. In the end, they no longer insisted on killing the cub immediately.

As long as the baron can take good care of the cubs, whether he tries to tame them to no avail, dispose of them, or lets the griffins take the cubs and release them to remote uninhabited wilderness, he will do all the hard work on his own. .

If it had been any other noble, the rangers might have been afraid of the possibility that the other party was trying to feed the cubs to grow bigger, and then secretly throw them into the territory of the hostile forces and use them as "weapons".

But the reputation of this Baron of Leon for his integrity and kindness was widely spread, and the folk reputation of the territory and surrounding areas had always been very good.

Except for the rumors about her excellent beauty, which are slightly flawed, from what I have seen, her words and deeds are all very upright. Now that she has sworn an oath in front of all the knights, her credibility is still very guaranteed.

Deciding to leave the cubs alone for the time being, everyone divided into a group and returned to the village where they started, to contact Knight Heinkel and help prepare a strong iron cage.

The rest of the group lit a bonfire on the spot in the cave and camped around the cub to rest.

Soon, the three bear cubs saw that the strange intruder did not harm them, and they seemed to be tired of shouting in fear, so their voices gradually became quiet.

But the mother bear has not returned for a long time. Among the cubs, one bold one tried to escape from the "alien" surrounding him to find his mother.

The cub was the first to tentatively step out of the den, and suddenly started running, trying to escape through the people in front of him.

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The ranger sitting nearby reached out to fish it out, grabbed the bear cub's hind legs, and carried it back.

A few months old and about the size of a human, the "cub" of the Deinosan bear was chirping anxiously and struggling with great strength. If it were an ordinary person, it would be impossible to catch it without the combined efforts of four or five people.

However, in the hands of several Olander heroes in the cave, this bear cub is nothing more than a large life-size rag doll.

The strong middle-aged ranger stood up, picked up the rolling furry cub, and threw it back to the bear's den.

After clumsily rolling a few times and failing to escape once, the cub was not discouraged. He twisted up on all fours, changed directions angrily, and rushed away.

Olivia, who was sitting on the stone, saw it running past her, so she had to stand up. As soon as she moved, she blocked the cub's path.

There was a clang as it hit the girl's leg armor. The cub seemed to have fallen onto a motionless rock and rolled over in all directions.

Olivia looked at the cub holding its head and felt so naive.

She stretched out her hand to support her armpits and picked up the young mountain bear, which was as big as her.

The girl raised her head and dodged the scratch from the bear's paw, which was not threatening to her.

Although she was separated by iron gloves, the texture of the unfaded down still made Olivia have the urge to touch the bear cub like she did with the "little Goethe" at home.

However, remembering that she had just killed the other person's "mother", Olivia couldn't help but dim her eyes and sighed.

She turned the cub around, hugged the struggling "little guy" from behind, and gently placed it back in the den.

Back and forth, even the other two cubs followed suit several times, until the three exhausted cubs lay in the bear's nest panting, unable to break through the siege of the knights.

The knights rested for a night in this spacious underground cave. The next morning, Heinkel led the Wolf family soldiers and arrived at the cave in the mountain stream under the guidance of Knight Derek.

The crowd that poured into the cave was so frightening that the three cubs hid in the corner and howled.

Leon watched the soldiers put down the iron cages they had carried, and saw the rangers carrying the cubs and stuffing them into the cages. He thought for a while, took out the pad from his bag, and covered the cage.

In this strange world, even the grass and trees might have spirituality. Leon thought that when passing outside, he should block it to prevent them from seeing the body of the female bear.

After arriving outside the cave, Leon said to old Henkel of the Wolf Family: "Please send someone to send these three bear cubs to Avalon Castle and hand them over to my Knights General. I will bear the expenses on the way."

The old knight of the Wolf Family bowed and said: "No need for that, Lord Leon, you have helped Reding Castle solve a big problem. Why do you have to pay for some insignificant expenses? On the contrary, I have to reward you with a large sum of money."

He heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. These rangers who accidentally passed by, as well as the Baron of Avalon, really helped a lot. If he failed to handle the important tasks entrusted by the lord again and again and lost trust, then for him, the loss would not be bought back by the golden crown.

Seeing that everyone was ready to leave, Henkel quickly pointed to the huge bear corpse in the trap and asked: "How to deal with the body of this bear monster? Do I need someone to peel off the fur and send it to Avalon together?"

The value of the bear skin is not small, not to mention the fur of a giant bear monster.

Although there were many wounds on it, such a large bear skin, even if it was intact, had to be cut into small pieces to make cloaks, blankets, clothes and other fur products for ordinary people, unless it was used to make clothes for giants.

Leon looked at it and saw that this was not his trophy, so he turned around and asked the rangers what they thought.

After discussing with Greenthorne and others for a few words, he said to Henkel: "It is enough for us to have your bounty. Convert the value of this bear corpse into money and give it to the survivors whose relatives were buried in the mouth of the fear mountain bear."

Henkel was moved by the decision of the rangers. These chivalrous knights were indeed as respectable as the rumors said.

After leaving the forest, Leon and others took back their horses and did not return to Ledingburg with Henkel.

After politely declining the invitation of the Wolf Knights, the group replenished their supplies in a nearby town and continued their journey, heading towards Deyatuk County along the northeast road.

After wasting two days to get rid of the Dread Mountain Bear for Ledinburg, the group sped up their travel and spent a day passing through the territory of a certain Orland noble and arrived at the edge of the Northern Kingdom's occupied area in Mamor County.

After asking the local guide, Leon changed to a small road and stepped into the territory still controlled by the Northern Count of Kantardar along the natural border "Garak Mountains" in the north.

The group put on cloaks and quietly bypassed the Kantardar village on the way, traveling at full speed in the mountains.

Before dark, everyone finally arrived at the junction of Orland and Kantardar.

In the gorge, Leon looked up at the "Dragon Claw Fortress" that blocked the mountain pass.

Even as a modern earthling, he still took a breath of cold air at the sight he saw.

Even in his previous life, except for large dams, he had never seen such a magnificent and exaggerated overall building.

Although he had heard that the border fortress of the king's territory was very majestic, he still underestimated the degree of "majesty".

This towering fortress wall was comparable to the "Great Wall of Despair". He knew at a glance that it was definitely not something that could be built by human power in the current era.

It was probably the same as the "small fortress" where his lady Aphrodite lived in seclusion, a product of the past era and the civilization of the Lorelit wizards.