Exploring the Forest 3

Wolves were examples of fast animals that were enemies of hunters who used arrows, Jack and Ron who were more skilled with the sword and had no shields around because they were doing surveillance.

Jack and Ron went behind the shields of the other hunters and attacked the wolves with their swords, the wolves seemed to be even more irritated after Jack and the other hunters killed some wolves with the bow.

The hunters were scared holding the shields because they knew that if they dropped the shield they would all die, the hunters, fortunately, did not have to protect the 8 villagers who were inside the cart.

After the initial scare passed, the hunters made a circle using the shields and some hunters were able to take their swords to help Jack and Ron hunt the wolves, so the fight started to get more intense.

When only 13 wolves were left they realized they were at a disadvantage and went to flee through the forest taking advantage of the cover of the night's darkness to escape from the hunters.

Some hunters got angry and left the shield protection to attack the wolves, but Ron and Jack, who were calmer, held two hunters and only 2 went out into the forest in the darkness behind the wolves.

"Come back! It is not safe to go after the wolves in the darkness."

Jack tried to convince the hunters to come back, but they didn't hear him and went to the forest, after a while a scream was heard by all the hunters and then a wolf's groan and just silence.

"Help! Dylan is hurt."

The hunters heard one of the two hunters who went into the forest screaming and Jack took a torch that he had prepared before and put it on the fire and went into the forest with the other hunters.

After walking for a while they could see one of the hunters trying to stop the bleeding on the side of Dylan's belly, it looks like one of the wolves waited to attack the hunters who followed them and in the darkness, Dylan cannot protect himself and the wolf bit on the side of his belly.

Fortunately, his armor protected his body and the other hunter killed the wolf and went to help Dylan, the hunters helped to carry Dylan back to where they were camping.

It was an intense fight, but it ended quickly with the wolves realizing that they would die if they continued to attack the hunters, this was a different pack because it had more than 30 wolves and some wolves did not seem to obey the leader of the pack.

Jack's quick reaction calling all hunters prevented them from being taken by surprise while sleeping which would mean the death of all hunters and the 8 villagers, even Ron was surprised by Jack who realized the danger before him who was more experienced.

Jack and the other hunters killing 8 of the wolves using the bow was also decisive for them to be able to defend themselves, after Jack killed a few more wolves using his sword, so it was certain to say that he had been primarily responsible for their survival.

If Dylan and the other hunter had heard Jack's warning they would have come out of this attack of the wolves without any injuries, thanks to the other hunter being quick to help and also because of the protection of the armor Dylan had not lost much blood and had not been injured seriously.

But it was impossible for him to continue hunting with them for a long time, Dylan would have to stay in the wagon amid the armaments and animals that the hunters had killed so that he could recover more quickly.

Dylan and the other hunter realized that they were very stupid for going out in the woods after the wolves when they couldn't even see the wolves in the dark, but the truth was, they were really stressed out from the past few months and this time they knew they would die if it wasn't for Jake's warning.

The hunters were unable to sleep properly that night because of the stress caused by the wolves, the next day they faced several attacks by lions and bears that the hunters had no difficulty in killing the animals, but with the suffering so many attacks the hunters were getting tired.

During the night of the other day, the wolves did not attack again, but the hunters were unable to sleep because they were waiting for an attack by the wolves again, fortunately, in the following days, the animals seemed to have disappeared from the forest.

Ron said it should be because the soldiers of the kingdom must hunt regularly to keep the road between the kingdoms safe and free, so in the coming days, the hunters had the peace to get to the road.

But Ron and Mark, who were more experienced, were even more concerned when the animals stopped showing up because they should still be off the road and they had not yet discovered the cause of the change in the animals' behavior.

After a few days, they arrived on the road and the hunters and the 8 men in the village felt that they had survived, as soon as they arrived on the road some soldiers came to where they were.

"Stop there !!! Who are you and where did you come from that I didn't receive any notice from the other road checkpoints?"

"Good morning soldier, my name is Ron and we are hunters in the villages of the kingdom of Andaria, we were doing a big hunt in the forest and we ended up on this road."

"You are Ron, one of the soldiers talked about you, I am sorry, but you cannot walk armed on the road, so you will have to hand over your weapons or go back through the forest to your village."

"Yes, thanks for the warning, we'll be right back, but I wanted to ask you a question if you don't mind."

"What is?"

"We came through the forest because wild animals have been very agitated lately and many animals have started to attack our villages, so I wanted to ask if you knew anything that could cause the animals to change their behavior?"

"I don't know if it can change the behavior of animals, but for the past few months we have been preparing to build a large defense tower a few miles ahead on this road's path."

The soldier pointed to the left where the hunters were after leaving the forest, Ron and Mark were serious to hear that the king had a defense tower created on the way to the kingdom of Andaria and the neighboring kingdom.

Ron and Mark knew that a defense tower was normally built on the castle walls, the king certainly knew that, if he still wanted to build a defense tower in the middle of the road connecting the kingdoms it was because he feared that the neighboring kingdom would try to invade.