The thirty-odd gorillas saw another group of elves ahead, but since these elves made no noise, they paid them no heed and charged over in a mob behind the gorilla king.
The Rangers drew their bows, their arrows coated in poison, and aimed only at the gorillas' bodies. Once the gorillas had been hit, they first drove them toward the camp, then used the Net-Catching Technique to trap them. Their thorough preparations made the task easy, and they captured the entire troop without much trouble.
The Elf Rangers closing in around them beamed with delight and worked together to haul all the gorillas into the temporary camp. Some Rangers went back, because despite making as much noise as possible and shouting to frighten the gorillas, nearly twenty adult gorillas had suddenly attacked them.
Naturally, those more aggressive gorillas had all been brought down by poison. They had been tied up farther back and left under the watch of a handful of Elf Rangers. Now that the roundup was over, those few guards alone could hardly transport such hulking gorillas to camp.
It took another full day to gather all the captured gorillas inside the camp. This hunt had netted fifty-two gorillas, large and small. A few young gorillas had escaped the encirclement in the confusion, but the Rangers had not pursued them. Including those that had attacked the camp earlier, they now had sixty-eight gorillas.
After capturing so many gorillas in a single roundup, the Rangers all felt that getting one battle pet per person would be easy. Yu Lin Bloodhawk was not so optimistic, however. After several days of making noise, many of the Rangers had begun to feel an itch in their throats. That was not a good sign.
The gorillas that had attacked the crowd also caught