The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

Crisis

“Olaf, you also help put out the fire.” Lothar threw a shovel to Olaf.

Section 45

“It’s so troublesome.” Olaf spit impatiently, but still shoveled up the snow one after another.

The water, ice and snow kept gathering. Although it was limited and not enough to put out all the fires, it was enough.

Lothar carefully looked for the gaps in the wall of fire: “Less combustibles… no obstacles… a place you can pass… the thinnest place… I found it!”

Hard work paid off, and Lothar finally found the weakest part of the firewall.”Everyone! Come here! Throw water and snow here!”

Hundreds of furnace households immediately moved. They originally came from different tribes, but at this moment they showed a very good tacit understanding. No one panicked, no one lost their will, and everyone was inspired by Lothar to survive. effort.

Finally, a gap was torn open in the wall of fire, and a passage without fire was opened.

“Go in this direction! Get in behind a round snow curtain! Don’t be afraid if you see trolls! Shamans and warriors will protect you!” Lothar kept repeating this sentence, and the furnace owners seemed Like a fish breaking free from a fishing net, it quickly drilled out of the firewall.

“Huh…” Lothar let out a long sigh of relief, and sat down on the snow.

His voice was already hoarse, but his nerves still couldn’t relax.

The sound of fighting in the distance has not stopped, and the snowstorm, fire and beast roars over there have never stopped. Lothar knows that Ashe is still leading the warriors to fight hard.

“Damn it, how many trolls are here!” Lothar turned to Olaf and said, “Olaf, you can also go to the front to help! I don’t trust Ashe.”

“Hey!” Olaf looked reluctant, “Killing trolls is so boring.”

“It’s different this time.” Lothar said sternly, “There are so many Iceborn, Fireborn, and Shamans on Ashe’s side, it stands to reason that the battle should end soon, but it has been dragged on until now, the troll’s The number may be very large, even hundreds of them are not out of the question!”

“Hundreds of trolls!” Olaf’s eyes burst out with excitement, “That’s kind of interesting, okay! I’ll go and have a look! If there are really a lot of trolls, I’ll join in the fun too!”

“Please.” Seeing that Olaf agreed to go, Lothar heaved a sigh of relief. With Olaf’s help, it will be much easier than Ashe’s side.

Olaf took off the two battle axes from his waist, twisted his neck and stretched his muscles, and said to Lothar, “Won’t you help your mother-in-law?”

Lothar smiled wryly: “Forget it, I’m afraid it will slow you down…I’ll wait here for the good news of your victory.”

“Success!” Olaf patted Lothar on the head, “I’ll go!”

The berserker roared and charged towards the distant battlefield.

Lothar stayed where he was, and could only watch him leave.

He clenched his fist and smashed it hard on the snow.

“What are you doing?” A cold female voice sounded behind Lothar.

Lothar frowned, and looked back at the tall, black-haired girl: “Didn’t I tell you to take it with the shaman?”

“There are too many people, I don’t want to be crowded with barbarians…” Wei En exhaled white steam, looking at the distant fire, “Can you win?”

“It’s just a troll, what’s the problem?” Lothar didn’t have any confidence when he said this, “This sneak attack is too strange, I’ve never heard of a troll doing this, it’s like suddenly being a lot smarter Cut the same…”

“A troll…” Wei En recalled the experience of being injured by a troll. She will never forget that kind of unreasonable brute force that is far beyond human beings.

If that terrifying beast had intelligence comparable to that of humans…

Wei En shuddered, she didn’t even want to think about it.

“What are you doing sitting still, get up.” Wei En stretched out his hand to Lothar, trying to pull him up.

But Lothar didn’t hold Wei En’s hand. Instead, he quickly bent down and lay on the ground.

Wei En’s hands froze in the air, and said awkwardly: “What are you doing…”

“Hush!” Lothar signaled Wei En to be quiet.

Wei En was a little angry, but she quickly realized that Lothar seemed to have discovered something.

Lothar’s ears were pressed against the snow. In addition to the coldness that drenched half of his face, he also felt something strange.

Some steps, some giant steps.

Lothar stood up with an ugly expression on his face: “There are trolls near us.”

Wei En was startled, then quickly raised the hand crossbow, leaning back against Lothar, looking around vigilantly: “Where is it?”

“Your front left is probably on the other side of the ice curtain. It’s very close to us. There are two ends.”

Wei En’s heartbeat quickened unconsciously: “Can the magic shield made by that shaman stop the troll?”

“I don’t know.” Lothar lowered his voice. “There are only five or six warriors over there, and none of them are iceborn. It’s impossible to beat the two-headed troll. The shaman probably won’t be able to fight either. He must maintain his totem magic.”

“Then what should we do?”

“It’s up to us.” Lothar took out his knife from his hunting pocket. “If the shaman’s magic is broken, two trolls are enough to kill everyone over there.”

Wei En was silent for a while, then gritted her silver teeth: “Okay! Fight!”

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The furnace owners all got into the protective cover of the shaman’s ice curtain, surrounded by thick ice crystals, and their hearts were finally relieved.

“We are safe, Lord Shaman will protect us.”

“Thank you Lothar.”

“Yes, I really have to thank him, and may Avarosa bless him.”

“What nonsense are you talking about, Avarosa’s reincarnation, isn’t our war mother Ashe his blood ally? She will naturally bless him.”

The crowd began to discuss things about Lothar. This boy, who had never been too conspicuous in the tribe, seemed to have finally gained some prestige.

But soon, their discussion came to an abrupt end.

“Troll!”

I don’t know who yelled, and everyone looked at the place where the voice came from. Through the transparent ice curtain, people could clearly seeThey all saw two ferocious-looking trolls walking towards them.

Each head is two or three people tall, obviously an adult troll.

The crowd couldn’t help commotion, and the shaman maintaining the totem pole magic said loudly: “Everyone, don’t be afraid! These beasts can’t get in!”

The trolls had already walked outside the ice curtain, and they let out a few deep roars. Looking at the hundreds of delicious human flesh inside the ice curtain, their saliva kept drooling.

“Roar!” A troll couldn’t bear it any longer. It raised its fist high and slammed it hard on the ice screen.

Boom!

The ice curtain remained motionless.

Seeing that the ice curtain could indeed withstand the troll’s attack, the crowd couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The second troll also started to raise its fist, hitting the ice screen one after another.

But no matter how the trolls smashed it, the ice curtain was still very solid, only a little bit of ice slag was knocked off.

Not only the tribesmen in the ice curtain were relieved, but also Wei En of Lothar who was hiding some distance away.

“It seems that the shaman’s magic is quite powerful, we don’t need to go out for the time being.” Lothar lay on the snow and whispered in Wei En’s ear.

Wei En’s ears were itchy from Lothar’s breath, and she moved a little away from Lothar: “Is it necessary to say such a thing?”

Just as Wei En uttered her words, she saw a troll from the ice curtain looking in her direction.

Lothar hurriedly covered Wei En’s mouth.

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If I were asked to evaluate the troll’s combat power, I can only say – you’d better run as far as you can when you see this thing. The troll can squeeze flat steel objects with bare hands, and it is obviously extremely stupid to fight head-to-head with it .

But you may not be able to run it better, adult trolls can run at full speed as fast as a cheetah, and they have excellent stamina, they can usually run for hours without a break.

From this point of view, it seems that the only way to save his life is to play dead, but unfortunately, this is also useless. Trolls eat basically anything, living or dead, and they can even eat mud and rocks when they’re hungry.

——Excerpt from “Valoran Travels: The Freljord