Extra Chapter 2: Quinn's Friends and Partners

Extra Chapter 2: Quinn, Friends and Partners

Quinn, who lives in Irvingdale, has longed to fly since he was a child.

For the Demacians who long to fly, the best way to realize their dreams is to join the Dragon Bird Knights.

Unfortunately, Irvingdale is not a direct territory of the royal family. It is not an easy thing to become a soldier here.

Theoretically, if you want to be eligible to sign up to become a Dragon Bird Knight, you need to accept the selection as an "Irvingdale Reserve".

The selection of Dragon Bird Knights is more stringent than that of the Fearless Vanguard, and it is not held every year, so it is very difficult to become a Dragon Bird Knight and enjoy the taste of flying on the back of a dragon bird.

In addition, because the lord of Irvingdale has no surplus food at home, if you want to become an Irvingdale reserve, you must prepare your own weapons and armor-the lord of Irvingdale will not provide any material support for the reserve who joins the army in Quxiongdu.

Quinn's family is not rich. Although her father is a blacksmith in the local village, just as a farmer may not be able to eat enough, the weapons and equipment made by the blacksmith may not be his own.

Or, it is precisely because he is a blacksmith that Quinn's father is particularly clear about what a full set of armor means to his family.

Therefore, compared to bringing weapons and dry food to sign up for the army, after hearing about his daughter's ambition, he proposed a more feasible method: participate in militia training, and then join the rangers as an excellent ranger.

In Demacia, the rangers are a relatively special team.

Although the Ranger Corps is also an absolute elite corps, due to the special nature of the Rangers' need for "all-terrain combat", compared to the selection and training of reserve rookies sent from all over the country to the capital, they prefer to absorb militia with combat experience - the local rangers in Irwindale are a militia organization recognized by the rangers.

Dragon Bird Knights have always been the best of the best. If Quinn can become the best among the Demacia Rangers, then he may have the opportunity to become a glorious Dragon Bird Knight.

Although this road seems a bit tortuous, it is actually very likely to succeed. After all, Quinn's mother was once a member of the Irwindale Rangers. With her training, Quinn can be said to have won at the starting line since childhood.

In this way, at the age of twelve, Quinn and his twin brother Caleb began training as rangers.

Caleb did not dream of becoming a dragon bird rider. Compared with flying, he preferred close combat. In theory, ranger training was meaningless for joining a team like the Fearless Vanguard, but for his mother, there was no difference between training a daughter alone and training a son and a daughter together.

The Ranger Organization is a militia organization composed of hunters.

Rangers who come from hunters are good at surviving and moving in mountain forests. They can skillfully use traps and easily distinguish the traces left by animals and the types and functions of plants.

Because of their different ambitions, Quinn and Caleb have different training focuses - Quinn's training focuses on scouting battlefields, distinguishing footprints, and long-range shooting; while Caleb learns to set traps, shuttle through dense forests, and use long-handled weapons.

Perhaps it was due to the delicate relationship between the twins. Although Quinn and Caleb were learning complementary things, they always had a competitive momentum. As the saying goes, "interest is the best teacher." After only five years of study, at the age of seventeen, Quinn and Caleb became famous hunters near Irwindale.

After all, rangers are hunters, and those who can become rangers are hunters with good skills without exception. Whether they can go further depends on whether they can use their ability to hunt wild beasts to hunt enemies.

Then, just when they were about to turn eighteen and were about to officially join the rangers as militia, a hunting competition completely changed their fate.

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The hunting competition is an important social activity for Demacia nobles.

Although Demacia is now a conservative aristocratic feudal kingdom, it is undeniable that this country has always maintained a martial tradition.

How to show your bravery without facing danger is a very worthwhile study for noble masters.

Hunting wild beasts is a panacea answer given by predecessors of all generations.

Killing powerful wild beasts is like killing enemies on the battlefield, which can also show the bravery and fearlessness of the nobles. Moreover, just like killing enemies can get rewards, powerful prey can also be treated with preservation and made into souvenirs to show the owner's great martial arts.

However, for the nobles who don't exercise much and prefer to enjoy themselves, hunting is actually a bit difficult.

In this case, in order to be able to hunt "without spending", the trend of hunting competitions has gradually become popular among the nobles of Demacia.

The so-called hunting competition is that many nobles go to a relatively remote place to start a hunt together. Because the place is relatively remote and everyone is unfamiliar, almost every noble will hire a reliable guide for themselves.

Of course, although it is called a guide, it is actually a gunner.

The guide is not only responsible for finding the prey, but also needs to consume the prey and reduce the state of the prey as much as possible. When it gradually loses its resistance, it will be handed over to the nobles for a fatal blow.

After the completion, the noble lord will leave enough reward money, and then take his spoils away to the second half of the hunting meeting - socializing in business.

Compared with the common dance, this hunting meeting is undoubtedly more high-end.

After all, no matter how poor the nobles are, they will not be unable to take out a decent dress and accessories. As long as they are able to get away with it, they can also go to the dance.

But most of these poor nobles cannot afford to travel thousands of miles in a decent manner, prepare a set of gorgeous yet elegant armor and weapons, hire a guide, and then go hunting.

In addition to being able to boast about their bravery, the hunting meeting also invisibly screens out the poor people who have no spare money, and is a more advanced social venue for the nobles.

Just when they were about to sign up to become rangers, the news that the noble lords from Xiongdu were going to hold a hunting meeting in Irwindale began to spread.

Although they wanted to join the army directly, Quinn and Caleb decisively suspended their registration and instead waited wholeheartedly for the convening of the hunting meeting.

Their goal is to become a guide, and whether the guide is a militiaman will affect the level of remuneration.

A guide who is not a militiaman must not have outstanding personal abilities, so he must not have contributed to the hunting - although this idea is absolutely self-deception, in the underlying logic of the nobles, this also represents the financial strength of the employer, and is also considered a part of "face-raising".

Therefore, Quinn and Caleb both chose to be hunting guides as commoners, after all, making money is not a problem.

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Due to their training since childhood and their extraordinary skills, when the hunting meeting was held, Quinn and Caleb became the guides with the highest hiring price very smoothly.

Then, they were shocked to find that these nobles from the capital had caused troubles that they could not handle at all.

A bone beast.

Quinn and Caleb had only heard of this terrifying beast with agile movements and sharp claws in their mother's stories. According to the records passed down by word of mouth among the rangers, this dark beast would hide in the shadows for a short time, and then launch a surprise attack from the shadows, which was simply impossible to defend against.

In addition, their fur was smooth and strong, and ordinary arrows could hardly penetrate it. If they were slightly off target, they would be cut open, so the only way for the rangers to deal with the bone beasts was to "run for their lives, and then set a 20-mile radius as a restricted area."

According to their mother, there had been no traces of this evil beast near Irvingdale for a long time - but now, these unfortunate nobles and the bone beasts had a narrow encounter.

The nobles, who had no idea of ​​the horror of the bone beasts, chose to use bows and arrows and lassos to deal with this "obsidian-like big cat". The appearance that seemed extremely evil to the people of Irvingdale was indescribably elegant and beautiful to them.

The weak shooting and the lasso that was tilted to the sky were naturally ineffective. The nobles' actions completely angered the bone beast. It roared softly, and its body merged into the shadow of the jungle like a drop of ink.

When it reappeared, an unlucky baron had his throat bitten off by razor-like teeth.

The bloody smell spread, and the bone beast disappeared again.

In this case, as the guides of the team, Quinn and Caleb shouted "stay away from the shadows" while surrounding the bone beast with the fully armed guards of the nobles.

The bone beast attacked several times, but it was not very effective against the heavy rune steel armor of the noble guards-so it focused its attention on Quinn and Caleb who were only wearing simple leather armor.

Caleb, who guessed this, prepared a trap under his feet early. Although he was in a hurry, the piercing trap did not really kill him, but made Caleb the first target.

Even though Caleb was good at using a spear, he was still too immature to face this beast wandering in the shadows. After just one encounter, his left arm was almost broken by the claws.

In the critical moment, Quinn did not hesitate at all and pulled the trigger of the crossbow to the bottom, attracting Caleb's attention, and rushed to the wilderness away from the crowd.

In a place covered by trees and surrounded by shadows, the bone beast is simply invincible!

Quinn's shooting skills are first-class, but unfortunately the pre-strung crossbow is not powerful enough to penetrate the fur of the bone beast. Except for a short arrow that accurately hit the right eye of the bone beast, most of the arrows failed to succeed.

However, this arrow was enough for Quinn to completely attract the hatred of the bone beast-it left Caleb, who had almost lost his ability to resist, and escaped into the shadows again, using the jumps between the shadows to come straight to Quinn!

Quinn, who had lost her crossbow, immediately drew out the short knife from her waist. However, after seeing the speed of the bone beast, she had no intention of fighting it at close range. She just avoided the shadows that might allow the other party to shuttle through, and ran at full speed towards the open space in the sparse deciduous forest.

The bone beast jumped from the shadows several times, but failed to get close to Quinn. So she simply gave up the means of shuttling through the shadows, and spread her legs directly, starting to chase two legs with four legs.

And it was during the chase that Quinn found that the bone beast seemed to have suffered a lot of injuries.

When it ran wildly, once its body stretched, the fur on its back would be torn!

However, although this wound looks serious, it does not seem to affect the killing power of the bone beast. Even if the bone beast is injured, Quinn cannot go up and fight it in hand-to-hand combat with a short knife - or, even if you want to fight in hand-to-hand combat, you have to lead it to a place where it cannot pass through the shadows!

In the chase and escape, Quinn and the bone beast went in the direction away from the hunting ground, while the noble guards quickly divided into two teams, one part stayed in place, and the other part whistled to call the warhorse and chased in the direction Quinn left.

However, although the guards responded immediately and the bone beast was injured on the back, Quinn still could not make it to the "decisive battle place" she hoped for.

At the edge of this sparse woodland, she was stopped by the bone beast.

Then, just as she gritted her teeth, holding a short knife in one hand to be on guard, raising a crossbow to aim, intending to fight this beast to the death, an eagle cry sounded.

The next moment, a blue lightning bolt fell from the sky, and a pair of sharp claws fiercely pierced into the wound of the bone beast, tearing the wound that had already healed, and raising a string of blood drops.

It was a blue rock falcon.

Judging from its wingspan, it seemed not fully mature.

The attack was successful. At the moment when the bone beast escaped into the shadow, this smart bird flapped its wings and circled up, avoiding the shadow attack of the bone beast. Taking this opportunity, Quinn pulled the trigger of the crossbow again, and a string of crossbow arrows shot out. Although most of them were cut by the fur, three of them finally penetrated the defense of the bone beast and got stuck in the muscles of its chest.

The movement of the bone beast became visibly cramped, as if the arrow stuck in its chest greatly restricted its ability to move!

Seeing this, Quinn's eyes lit up.

While she continued to be cautious, she strung the crossbow with one hand. This modified crossbow could be strung with a disposable quiver. Quinn, who was very familiar with it, could operate it blindly without looking at the crossbow.

In the air, the Blue Rock Falcon was circling.

On the ground, the Bone Beast raised its head and roared hoarsely to the sky.

Then, just as Quinn's crossbow arrow was about to get stuck on the crossbow string, the Blue Rock Falcon once again took a diving attack posture, and the Bone Beast also swooped up and disappeared into the shadow of the trees.

Quinn subconsciously thought that the Bone Beast focused its attention on the Blue Rock Falcon, so she subconsciously raised her head.

But what she never expected was that the Blue Rock Falcon suddenly folded its wings and attacked Quinn directly!

Seeing this scene, Quinn's mind raced, and she realized the problem instantly - as expected, behind her head, in a shadow above the tree canopy, the cunning bone beast jumped down from a height, from Quinn's shadow, and ran straight towards Quinn!

For Quinn, it was too late to look back and find the trace of the bone beast, and then dodge and deal with it.

In this case, all she could do was swing the crossbow towards the blind spot behind her and pull the trigger to "suppress firepower". She rolled on the ground and lowered her center of gravity as much as possible, hoping that the attack of the bone beast would not directly take her life.

At this critical moment, the Blue Rock Falcon swooped down and collided directly with the bone beast in mid-air. It flapped its wings on the body of the bone beast and tried to further tear the wound on its back.

The no longer disguised Bone Beast no longer looked like it had a "chest injury". It twisted its body abruptly, risking further tearing of the wound on its back. At the same time, its front paws opened outward, and its razor-like claws went straight to the Blue Rock Falcon, breaking its wings directly!

Looking at the Blue Rock Falcon and Bone Beast wrestling together, Quinn narrowed his eyes.

There was only one arrow in the crossbow's crossbow case.

The Blue Rock Falcon's wings were already seriously injured, and it looked difficult for it to fly.

The Bone Beast's front paws had opened again, and its sharp claws were erected again. If the Blue Rock Falcon was held by its claws, it would be dead.

However, judging from the previous shooting results, the power of the crossbow was insufficient and it was not enough to kill the Bone Beast with one shot.

What to do?

At the critical moment, Quinn felt that she was unusually calm. At the moment when the bone beast opened its mouth and roared, she aimed at the beast's open mouth and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The bone beast's front claws grabbed the blue rock falcon again.

But this time, just as it grabbed the proud eagle, a short arrow from a crossbow drilled into its trachea.

The roar stopped at this moment.

The bone beast and the blue rock falcon rolled on the ground together.

Quinn didn't care about breathing, holding a short knife and rushed straight to the blue rock falcon. While moving quickly, she searched for medicines that could be used for first aid in the package around her waist.

However, ordinary herbs could not stop the wings pierced by the claws of the bone beast. The gorgeous feathers of the blue rock falcon were dyed bright red. Although it held its head high, its eyes slowly lost their luster.

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves was heard, and a noble lady dressed in hunting clothes jumped off the horse and wrapped two handkerchiefs with wonderful patterns on the wings of the blue rock falcon.

The stubborn bird wanted to refuse, but after the hunting girl whistled a few times, it finally accepted the bandage obediently.

Soon, the bleeding stopped.

Quinn looked at the smiling noble lady in disbelief, and subconsciously wanted to thank her - but when he opened his mouth, his voice was so hoarse that he could hardly speak.

As if he understood what she meant, the other party waved his hand with a smile, then made a series of fluent gestures and handed the water bag on his saddle to Quinn.

When Quinn took the water bag in a daze, the guards behind him finally arrived at the scene - they didn't care about Quinn and the blue rock falcon, but surrounded the hunting lady in the center, and each of them looked extremely nervous.

"Miss Sona." The captain of the guards whispered, "Please be careful, the beasts here are too dangerous."

Sona smiled and shook her head, and made a series of fluent gestures again, and finally pointed to Quinn in front of her and the blue rock falcon in her arms.

The captain of the guard seemed to understand sign language, and after nodding, he came to Quinn.

"This warrior." His tone was a little respectful, "Miss Sona hopes to invite you to join this hunt as a participant."

The Blue Rock Falcon in his arms opened his eyes again and weakly nudged Quinn with his head. The next moment, an indescribable fatigue came. Quinn had just come to you, Sona, and before he could say thank you, his body suddenly softened and he almost fell down.

Seeing this, Sona quickly stretched out her arms and connected the Blue Rock Falcon to embrace the unconscious Quinn.

In Sona's arms, the Blue Rock Falcon, which was squeezed into the wound, made a not-so-sharp hum.

After hearing this, Sona helped Quinn sit down and couldn't help whistling again.

Since then, Quinn has successfully gained a good friend, a good partner, and the endless envy of his unlucky brother.

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Kalya's Little Class · Rune Bandage:

Sona's own research on the small application of the magic circuit

The magic thread dyed with forbidden magic stone dye is embroidered into a magic circuit. After being injected with magic, it becomes a rune bandage that can stop bleeding and speed up wound healing.

This bandage has good curative effect and is easy to use, but the cost is extremely high at present. It is more expensive than the rune steel cloak of the same area (which is also woven with silk thread doped with forbidden magic stone dye and used with rune steel armor to absorb magic to a certain extent), and it also needs to be charged.

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