The Mage: Grinding Experience from the Knight's Breathing Technique
Chapter 24

Kill Breaking Wolf (Please Follow-up Reads)

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Kill Breaking Wolf (Please Follow-up Reads)

Knight Fred's expression was grave. He wore armor, gripped his sword in both hands, and assumed an attacking stance.

On the other side, the Mountain Sitting Wolf King leaped, crossing a distance of more than ten meters in an instant, its wolf claw as large as a tiger's paw swiping toward Knight Fred.

Knight Fred rolled on the spot, then thrust his longsword toward the Wolf King's belly. Unexpectedly, the Mountain Sitting Wolf King twisted its body in midair like an agile feline and dodged the strike.

"Damn it, is this still a Mountain Sitting Wolf?" Knight Fred was shocked.

He had grown this old and been to many places, but he had never seen a Mountain Sitting Wolf so strong and possessing such skillful combat techniques.

This was definitely knight-level combat power, and a Mountain Sitting Wolf should never have been able to give birth to knight-level combat power unless some extremely rare mutation had occurred.

Bang! The wolf claw collided with the Knight Longsword.

The Wolf King felt pain. From the Knight Longsword, it sensed an extremely powerful Vibration Power that left its paw numb. It knew the man before it was not simple, and no longer dared to meet him head-on with its claws.

Instead, it used its advantages in speed and movement to constantly dodge Knight Fred's attacks, wearing down Knight Fred's stamina.

Knight Fred saw through the Wolf King's scheme. After he steadied himself, he faced off against the Wolf King. He could see the utterly resolute killing intent in the Wolf King's eyes, as well as that flickering intelligence.

"Kill!" Knight Fred took the initiative to attack. He still refused to believe that he, a proper knight, could not defeat a beast.

On the other side, Levi knew that with his strength, it might be very difficult for him to get involved in the battle with the Wolf King. To reduce the territory's losses in population and property as much as possible, he began by clearing out the ordinary Mountain Sitting Wolves still wreaking havoc in the territory. Once he led the people on his side to finish clearing out the ordinary wolves, a crowd could surround and beat down that Wolf King—how could they possibly fail to defeat it? With Militia guarding him, Levi's advantage in Full Level Archery was brought into play. Although he very much wanted to use these wolves to practice his swordsmanship, in this situation, it was clearly not a good time to practice swordsmanship.

And so, Levi's arrows were like death warrants from the Grim Reaper, constantly taking the lives of one Mountain Sitting Wolf after another.

In the end, all the Iron Arrows Levi had brought were used up.

Aside from the arrow shot at the Wolf King, the remaining thirty-six Iron Arrows all hit their targets, killing twenty-five on the spot.

This battle record stunned the Militia.

With Levi, this human-shaped auto-aim cheat, helping them, the Militia who had originally been pressed so hard by the wolf pack that they could barely breathe finally had quite a bit of pressure taken off them.

With no arrows left, Levi could only be like the other Militia, gripping a longsword and fighting in close quarters. Wearing armor, as long as he was not surrounded by too many wolves, he generally would not suffer any fatal injuries.

But those ordinary Militia were not all right. Their rattan armor had no way of defending against the terrifying bite force of the Mountain Sitting Wolves.

Levi saw that many Militia had been wounded, and some had already been dismembered by the wolf pack. Some wolves were eating the corpses of his soldiers.

Levi's eyes were blood-red, his qi and blood surging!

He circulated the Breathing Technique at full force and charged toward these beasts.

[Golden Cross Slash Proficiency +3][Golden Cross Slash Proficiency +2][Golden Cross Slash Proficiency +4] Every perfect kill was accompanied by an increase in proficiency.

By the time Levi had killed to the end, he had already lost track of how many he had killed.

His entire suit of armor was already covered in wolf blood.

Although these soldiers were all Serfs under him, insignificant in this era and even goods that could be traded,

they were also sons and fathers of families, living, breathing people! Now, with so many lives lost in wolves' mouths, Levi, in all the years since he had transmigrated here, felt for the first time just how little a person's life was worth in this world.

War, Evil Spirits, even these beasts, could take it all away.

"I have to become stronger. It's still not enough!"

Levi roared in his heart as hunger came from his belly.

He knew that with his current realm, he still could not circulate the Breathing Technique at full force for too long. Such intense energy consumption had to be matched by corresponding replenishment.

"Do any of you have food on you?" As the terrifying hunger came over him, Levi asked in a low voice. At this moment, he was like a hungry wolf.

Those Militia were startled by him. They looked at Levi, whose eyes were blood-red and who had killed until his eyes had gone red, and said, trembling, "N-no, Lord. I'll go get you something to eat."

"No need." Levi directly tore off the hind leg of a Mountain Sitting Wolf beneath him. Not caring whether there were parasites, bacteria, or the like, he started gnawing on it right there. In any case, with the Breathing Technique, parasites and such should not be able to pose much of a threat.

Most importantly, if he did not eat something, Levi was worried he would suffer Cultivation Deviation.

Once or twice might be fine, but if it happened too many times, then one day, he would fall into the Abyss and never be able to turn back.

Therefore, Levi had to prevent such a thing from happening. This incident had happened too suddenly, and Levi had not had time to bring enough food. It could be considered a lesson learned from experience.

After eating half a wolf leg, Levi felt much better. He suddenly realized that the him from just now seemed no different from those starving wolves that would eat anything.

He could not help mocking himself. "In the martial arts novels of my previous life, I'd probably be the kind of terrifying devil who ate raw flesh and drank blood in order to become stronger."

In the end, under Levi's leadership, the Militia slaughtered madly, and most of the Mountain Sitting Wolves were killed. A rough estimate put the number at over sixty. Several dozen more no longer cared about the Wolf King and all slunk away into the deep mountains and old forests.

On Levi's side, they had lost seven Militia, twelve Serfs, as well as twenty cattle, thirty sheep...

Such losses were simply adding frost to snow for Blackwater Valley, which was not wealthy to begin with.

One had to know that in the entire Blackwater Valley Territory, there were only just over three hundred households, fewer than a thousand people.

"After I advance to knight, I must clear out the wild beasts around the territory. In this backward era, these wild beasts are all major potential dangers to the territory."

Unfortunately, there were no guns. Otherwise, Levi would have used the Proficiency Panel to train up Full Level marksmanship, and no matter how many Mountain Sitting Wolves came, he would kill them all. Even the Wolf King could be dropped with one shot.

On the other side, the Wolf King locked in fierce battle with Knight Fred saw that the tide had turned. It had not expected that the young man's archery would be so accurate, to the point that in such a short time, it had lost more than half of its subordinates.

Now, the remaining subordinates had even been scared out of their wits, no longer caring about it and all running off on their own. If it continued to stay here, there was only a dead end.

It did its best to dodge Knight Fred's attacks, but its hind leg was still cut by the longsword. Then the Wolf King limped away quickly, moving extremely fast, leaving Knight Fred unable to catch up.

"That beast got away." Knight Fred frowned.

This Wolf King was too clever. After suffering a loss this time, it would be difficult to completely deal with it.

"No matter. As long as we have the Wolf King's blood, if we hand it to Little Fatty and the others, this Wolf King won't be able to escape," Levi said coldly.

He was quite confident in the Northern Giant Bear's sense of smell.

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