Chapter 95

These iron caltrops are made black to facilitate camouflage. Cook scattered a hundred of these iron caltrops, which are forged from fine iron by dwarves, each costing dozens of gold coins, but their sharpness is proportional to their price.

Tore watched the explosion of fire magic in the distance, the intense light of fire magic, and saw the two mages standing on a stone platform twenty meters high. Tore couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement, but then he was greatly alarmed because the stone projectile attacks of these magic boars had a range of over fifty meters. If the frail bodies of the mages were hit by these stone projectiles, they would be severely injured or even killed.

"Guys, follow me!" Tore didn't know that the direct attacks of the stone projectiles couldn't directly hit Lori and Mitch, and that Lori and Mitch were protected by vine armor. Although the vine armor couldn't directly withstand the stone projectiles, it was completely effective against free-falling stone projectiles.

The distance of five hundred meters was covered by the adult magic boars in just a few seconds, but these were only the adult magic boars. The younger ones were still some distance away. However, the adult magic boars were met with Lori's Bursting Fireballs and Mitch's Fireballs.

The adult magic boars were directly enraged by the magical attacks of Lori and Mitch, and they all launched stone projectiles at the stone platform where Lori and Mitch were standing. The stone projectiles, as large as soccer balls, hit the bottom of the stone platform where Lori and Mitch were standing. Lori and Mitch, remembering Cook's instructions, tried to stay as close to the back of the stone platform as possible. Since the distance between Lori and Mitch exceeded fifty meters, Lori didn't have to worry about being hit by the stone projectiles aimed at Mitch's platform.

"Bursting Fireball!" Lori felt extremely exhilarated. Mages are known as mobile artillery, and Lori finally found the feeling of being a cannon. From the start, Lori had already released five Bursting Fireballs, directly killing six adult magic boars and severely injuring two more. However, Lori's magic power was also greatly consumed, and she unhesitantly took out a magic power recovery potion.

Compared to Lori, Mitch was a bit frustrated. Mitch also released several Fireballs, but these Fireballs had no effect on the adult magic boars; they only enraged them. Out of necessity, Mitch treated it as training and kept attacking.

Tore and his team finally organized themselves and approached the magic boars in an attack formation. Tore was very experienced; he knew from the magic Lori released that it was a Bursting Fireball. The average Bursting Fireball was released every two seconds, leading Tore to guess that this mage was only a Mage level, and a Mage of this level could only release about four Bursting Fireballs. The Fireballs on the other side were directly ignored by Tore.

"Warriors! Move forward, archers at the back, mages and healers in the middle, attack!" Tore was very experienced in dealing with magical beasts. Since there were two sows on the other side, Tore only organized a team of twenty, while the rest had to defend against the two female magic boars. In the magic boar group, the most aggressive and temperamental were the female magic boars, and their bodies were more than twice the size of adult male magic boars.

All the unnamed shield warriors were arranged at the front, followed by warriors using two-handed great swords and heavy weapons. The dozen warriors rushed towards the magic boars like the wind, and the archers at the back were the first to attack.

"Ao!" The magic boars were killed by several of Lori's intense Bursting Fireballs, and more were lightly injured by Mitch. More unfortunately, four adult magic boars and seven young magic boars were hit by the iron caltrops between the toes of their hooves, and were directly paralyzed by the strong paralyzing poison.

"Raise shields! Charge!" The shield warriors were not just defensive warriors; the heavy iron shields, two meters high, hit with a force no less than that of a magical beast. Five large shields hit two adult magic boars, and the five shield warriors felt their arms go numb, and their feet retreated several steps. The two magic boars were dazed and confused, and before they could react, several great swords with intense aura lights chopped down, but the head defense of the magic boars was the strongest, and the great swords did not cause fatal injuries.

However, the highly agile thieves then used daggers coated with poison to stab the weak points of the magic boars. One of the magic boars' anuses were stabbed and bled profusely. At this moment, the five shield warriors met the magic boars again, but this time the archers played a role. A magic boar opened its mouth and roared, and was directly hit in the mouth by an arrow, which went in until the fletching, causing it to fall dead. Even so, the warriors behind still delivered a finishing blow.

The fluid combat style: the shield warriors first encountered the magic boars and used their shields to slow them down, while the warriors using two-handed great swords and heavy weapons took advantage of the magic boars' brief pause to severely injure them. The thieves then directly killed the magic boars that still had combat power, and the water mages healed the warriors, while the archers attacked freely. In less than half a minute, Tore's team had already killed six adult magic boars and eleven young magic boars.

"Boom!" Since the warriors were fully armored, even their faces were only exposed at the mouth and eyes, so their vision was poor. However, the explosion of magic forced the warriors to stop and lift their visors, discovering that the magic boars in front could no longer stand.

"Sixteen Bursting Fireballs, and twenty-two Fireballs, what kind of mages are these!" Tore was well aware, and he couldn't help but suspect that these two mages might be High Mages.

On the other side, Cook had approached the two female magic boars to within less than two hundred meters. Using the magic torches from the load-bearing beasts, Cook carefully observed that there were about twenty young magic boars, and the two female magic boars were four meters tall and seven to eight meters long, with large yellow tusks and small eyes that constantly scanned the surroundings.

"Damn!" Cook used the Magic Eye and discovered that there were not just two female magic boars, but five, with three more at a distance in hidden places. Cook carefully observed and found that these three magic boars were pregnant.

Originally, Cook had some confidence in dealing with two female magic boars, but now with five, he was a bit worried. However, Cook used the Magic Eye to carefully observe and found that the magic fluctuations of the three pregnant magic boars were very weak, which left him puzzled. But Cook saw that Tore and his team had already left the defense circle of the load-bearing beasts and were organizing to advance towards the magic boar group, so he didn't have time to think more.

Using the Agility Potion, Cook reached fifty meters from the female magic boars in less than three seconds. The Agility Potion was a short-term speed enhancement potion. The five female magic boars, upon seeing Cook's approach, did not immediately attack but instead protected the young magic boars in front.

"Thorn Spell!" This time, Cook used an extremely resilient type of vine. The seeds of thorns were many, and the Thorn Spell could use any seeds. The magic shop had many types of thorn seeds, including those with poison spines and those that were resilient. Cook bought many of each type, and this time he used the extremely resilient thorn seeds, using them in large quantities.

Instantly, dozens of thick thorns sprouted and, under Cook's control, continuously entangled the five magic boars. However, the resilience was not very effective against the several-ton-heavy magic boars. But remember, as long as the roots of the plants were not destroyed, they would continue to grow. The magic boars tore and broke many thorns, but more thorns continued to entangle them. The Thorn Spell is a sustained type of magic, meaning that as long as magic power is maintained, the thorns will continue to grow.

"Thud!" Cook originally intended to use a bow to deal with the magic boars, but he found that he needed to control the thorns with his mental power, so he couldn't be distracted. Feeling the rapid consumption of magic power, Cook drank a Strength Potion and an Agility Potion, then kicked off and rushed forward.

"Ya!" In Cook's hand was the black dagger found in the dragon's lair. The dagger was sharp but very short, only about twenty centimeters long. Cook growled and slashed at the most struggling female magic boar.

"Pu!" Cook was not disappointed; the dagger directly cut into the head of the magic boar, creating a cut several centimeters deep that extended to the neck. With a "pu" sound, the artery was severed, and a jet of blood spurted out.

"Ha ha!" Cook had no intention of stopping because he didn't have full confidence. He planned to pass by the magic boars at high speed; otherwise, such a massive creature, even if it just grazed him, would likely cause severe injury or death.

"Boom!" Another female magic boar, seeing the situation, suddenly kicked with all four hooves to pounce on Cook, but it never expected that as soon as it kicked, its body suddenly lost balance and fell to the ground with a dull thud. The magic boar then felt something tightly binding its legs.

"Good! Kaka!" Cook, seeing the magic boar's triumphant look, knew that Kaka had succeeded. Kaka had used the Thorn Spell as cover to rush over, and the two female magic boars did not attack but protected the young magic boars. So, Kaka, following Cook's instructions, directly wrapped the four hooves of one magic boar with spider silk. If the magic boar didn't move, Kaka wouldn't have had the chance, and the spider silk, being wrapped, caused the magic boar to lose balance during intense movement.

Cook looked at the large magic boar with eyes full of anger and disdainfully threw a paralysis potion into the mouth of the magic boar that was trying to bite him. The magic boar became motionless after two seconds.

"You damn thing, you actually dare to run!" Cook then looked back at the three pregnant magic boars entangled by the Thorn Spell, only to find that they had broken free and had already run several dozen meters away. Cook couldn't tolerate the points he had earned just running away.

Cook watched as these creatures were about to disappear into the dark underground world. He gritted his teeth, took out his bow, and had Kaka attach to it. He then pulled the bow, and the arrow shot a hundred meters ahead of the three running magic boars. Cook put away his bow and chased after them.

As soon as Kaka landed, it spat out a large amount of spider silk, which was placed on the path. Kaka cleverly used two strands of spider silk, and the underground world was not short of various types of stones. Kaka fixed the two ends of the spider silk to the stones on both sides. The speed of a spider is well-known.

"Pu!" The leading pregnant magic boar was directly tripped by the spider silk, and the two behind couldn't stop in time, becoming rolling gourds.

"Thorn Spell!" Cook was now within the range of the Thorn Spell. In his anger, he didn't look at the seeds and directly took out a handful, infused them with magic power, and threw them.

However, what puzzled Cook was that these pregnant magic boars did not move at all and were directly wrapped in countless thorns like mummies. When Tore and his team arrived, they saw four female magic boars tightly bound and one with its head split open. Tore was speechless because Cook, clearly a leather-clad profession, had achieved results that matched his entire team.

When Cook used the Thorn Spell to bring Lori and Mitch down from the stone platform, the people's eyes almost fell out. They had never heard of the Thorn Spell being used this way, and even Tore was impressed. Tore admired Cook's mental power control because only with sufficient mental flexibility could one finely control the Thorn Spell. Unbeknownst to them, Cook's mental power, stimulated by the earth element, had become extremely resilient, as it often had to withstand the oscillation of magic power.

The rest was setting up camp. After the battle, they had to organize the spoils and prepare for the next battle, as no one could guarantee when the next battle would be in the wild. Archers needed to recover the arrows that could be reused, warriors needed to clean the blood of magical beasts from their shields and weapons, as the blood of magical beasts was corrosive. Thieves needed to recover the thrown daggers, mages needed to meditate, and Cook retrieved the iron caltrops, which made the thieves in Tore's team sweat profusely.

Since there were load-bearing beasts, there was no need to arrange for vigilance. The load-bearing beasts were extremely sensitive, and any movement would immediately trigger a response. The last step was the distribution of spoils. Tore originally intended to give all the spoils to Cook's team of three because he knew that even without his team, Cook's team could easily deal with a medium-level beginner magical beast group.

When Lori and Mitch were organizing the battle items, Cook was busy with the spoils. The skin of the magic boars needed to be peeled off. Despite being hit by Bursting Fireballs, the magic boars used Stone Skin before death, so the damage to the skin was not severe. The tusks, meat, and magic cores of the magic boars were collected. Cook found three magic cores, which he gave to Little Gray. The internal organs, which should have been discarded, were not thrown away. Cook, seeing the large pig hearts, thick pig stomachs, fatty pig intestines, large pig hooves, pig tails, pig ears, pig tongues, and pig brains, couldn't stop smiling. Due to the large amount of spoils, and since Tore's supply team had the task of purchasing magical materials, Cook sold the magic boar skins and long tusks. The remaining sharp teeth of the magic boars were collected by Cook to be used for making arrows, and the tusks, being too long, could only be used for making daggers.

Then, under the surprised gazes of the others, Cook washed the pig ears, tongues, hearts, tails, and other parts in the dark river, packed them, and these items filled three leather bags, each one and a half meters high and half a meter wide.

The remaining three pregnant magic boars, another female magic boar, and a dozen young magic boars were also sold to Tore. These living creatures were more valuable than dead ones, and Tore was so happy that his mouth split open. These were good things, and Cook's team earned over five hundred points, which was the currency of the underground world, and at the supply points, only points could be used to purchase supplies.

However, the people looked at Cook with curiosity, and at Lori and Mitch with obvious envy. The people in the group saw Lori and Mitch counting the battle items, agility potions, strength potions, healing potions, and magic power recovery potions, as well as the mental clarity potions that sped up meditation, the magic-imbued robes, several scrolls, the ornate wands, and the magical accessories.

"Tsk tsk! No wonder a Mage can release over a dozen Bursting Fireballs." Tore couldn't help but admire when he saw the battle equipment that Lori and Mitch took out.

What Tore didn't notice was that the mage in the adventure team looked at Lori and Mitch with envy. This mage was the only combat mage in the supply team, who had calmly and continuously released magic earlier.

"My name is Dissan, and I am a student in the intermediate fire class. What task are you going to do? Maybe I have done a similar one." Dissan, seeing the magic necklaces, magic earrings, and magic bracelets on Lori and Mitch's necks, which were worth hundreds of points, and the magic accessories worth thousands of points, and the large magic cores on the wands that made Dissan's eyes hurt, and even more so the ring on Mitch's hand with no light column, which Dissan had seen before, his face changed, and he gritted his teeth and walked towards Lori and Mitch, smiling and asking.

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