Another Hunt in the Forest 10

It was time-consuming and complicated to set up the traps and they had to make the bear fall into at least one of the traps, so he hadn't even thought about using these traps in the fight against the bear last night.

After all, he knew he would have to save Pietro and his group and it was impossible for him to have time to prepare the traps, but now that the bear had not yet found their group, Jack had the perfect opportunity to prepare himself to face the bear.

Jack asked the soldiers to bend down and retreat, luckily Jack noticed the bear far away from them and the soldiers could hide among the trees that were close to them, Jack prepared the first trap that when activated could even pull the bear's paws off he stepped into that trap.

Another trap Jack set up close to where the first trap was, which was a net made with ropes to catch large animals, the net was covered with oil which made it more difficult for the bear or other animal to escape if caught.

The third trap was an extremely resistant wire that when this trap was activated, the wire was caught in the animal that was injured trying to cut the threads using force, Jack bought several threads like this because it was a single-use trap.

The soldiers did not recognize these traps, but they could imagine how the bear would be hurt if he fell into any of the three traps, Jack set the traps in three different places so that the bear was more likely to fall into the traps.

Jack warned the soldiers to be ready, they were far from where Jack had set the traps, but if the bear did not fall into the traps they would have to fight a difficult fight, after getting ready Jack took his bow.

Jack took an arrow with poison and shot the bear hitting near the bear's neck, the distracted bear finally realized where Jack was after being attacked, so the bear went in the direction that Jack was speeding.

"Archers, prepare to attack when the bear approaches, use the poison on the arrows you use to paralyze the bear."

Jack had given the poison to the archer soldiers who could only use it against bears, that poison was difficult to make and was a waste to be used on lions and lionesses and other animals smaller than bears.

The bear ran quickly in the direction where Jack was, the archers also managed to hit some arrows on the bear that continued to advance in the direction that Jack was in, the bear accelerated, even more, when he saw that he was getting closer to Jack.

Just as Jack had prepared the bear he did not see the trap that was covered with leaves on the ground, the bear soon let out a roar of suffering having one of his hind legs trapped in the trap, the trap did not cut the bear's paw, but made a wound deep.

Jack had placed paralyzing poison on the sharp ends of the trap and with it entering the bear's blood he felt bruised and weaker, the bear fell to the bruised floor and Jack and the other archers shot more arrows aiming at the bear's neck.

After a while Jack thought the bear could no longer fight and sent the soldiers to kill the bear with their swords to end the bear's suffering, Jack would not kill the bear if he didn't have to, but his mission in the forest was to kill all the wild animals that they could.

Robert had said that there were bears among the animals that killed soldiers in the last year, so, unfortunately, Jack had to attack, the soldiers were more relaxed with the ease of this fight and they trusted Jack's leadership more.

So in the next few days, the soldiers advanced further into the forest and killed lions, lionesses, hyenas, bears, and two tigers that they encountered, with the soldiers gaining more experience in the fights Jack was less concerned that they might get hurt.

So Jack decided to return to the Royal Road by a different path, on that path they found fewer animals just as Jack expected, but they had already killed most animals near the river and if they came back that way they would hardly find any animals.

So the soldiers who criticized Jack before understood that he really made the best decision by going near the river, they didn't even realize they had so many dangerous wild animals that they killed walking only 6 days away from the Royal road.

Jack even said that he thought they hadn't killed even a part of the animals that were close to the Royal Road, the wolves that were the most worrying animals they had avoided, even now he couldn't risk attacking the wolves even with the most soldiers. experienced.

The soldiers returned to the Royal road quietly with carts full of animal skins and most of the food they had brought for this hunt, with them eating fish every night and meat in the afternoon they didn't need to use much of the food they brought.

The soldiers enjoyed this experience of walking through the forest, but they were very happy when they finally returned to the army building near the defense tower, Pietro and the other envious soldiers calmed down for the rest of the mission and helped a lot in the fighting.

Jack would still have to tell Captain Max what happened, but he would ask Captain Max not to punish them too severely because they helped so much in the rest of the mission, Jack went directly to talk to Robert after the mission was over.

"Welcome back, Jack, good job on those days that you were in the forest, I confess I didn't think all 60 soldiers would come back and without any injuries, I imagine it must have been difficult."

"It wasn't that hard, the biggest difficulty was teaching the soldiers how they should fight the wild animals after they learned that they fight well and helped me a lot in the fighting."

"So, tell me what you found in the forest and how that mission went."

Jack told Robert about all the wild animals they had found and killed, Jack also told about his decision to go down the river to find more animals and he gave a very complete report on what happened in their 10 days in the forest.

Robert did not expect Jack's group to find so many wild animals without having a map to look for, he did not know if it was because Jack was very competent or because the situation was more difficult than they expected and there were many wild animals in the forest.