Half-elf Ranger

Dire Eagle (juvenile)

medium sized animal

Strength 11, Constitution 12, Dexterity 18, Intelligence 8, Wisdom 15, Charisma 10

Special Abilities: Alertness, low-light vision, keen senses

Attack method: multi-attack, beak, claws, dive

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The growth period of the dire eagle is generally about three years, and the lifespan is about 15 years.

A full-grown dire eagle is about 5 feet long and can reach 11 feet with its wings outstretched.

And the strength of the Dire Eagle is at least 16 points after adulthood, and it belongs to a kind of raptor that mainly preys on pigs, sheep and even small horses.

When Thorne was in the town of Falls, he also saw the pictures of Dire Eagles catching goblins and kobolds.

The most obvious difference between it and the common eagle is a bony bulge on the upper part of the pointed bill, and several textured feathers on the lower part of the body and tail.

This hard tail feather allows the Dire Eagle to fly and dive in the air without being affected by the air flow at all, and its huge body can maintain a perfect sense of balance.

At the same time, it is also the best material for making arrow feathers. The feather feathers of ordinary arrows are generally the more common carved feathers and goose feathers. This kind of arrow feathers is easy to slant in the wind and lacks a sense of balance.

The arrows made with the tail feathers of the Dire Eagle will greatly enhance the flight speed, distance and accuracy after being shot.

Even a rogue with intuitive evasion is attacked, and it is difficult to react without full preparation.

Thorne's animal companions are also considered to be relatively rare and ferocious animals.

The so-called ferocious animals are new species that appear after ordinary animals are affected by the violent elemental breath.

They were bigger, tougher, more ferocious, and basically had all the ferocious looks of prehistoric animals.

However, relatively speaking, the intelligence is relatively low, and almost all act with the fierce and wild instinct.

Therefore, there is almost no possibility of successful domestication of dire eagles over adulthood.

In the town of Waterfall where Thorne lives, due to its proximity to the Great Sword Mark Mountains, there are occasional encounters with various large and super-large ferocious animals such as dire eagles, dire wolves, and dire bears.

It wasn't too difficult for Thorne to get the eggs of a dire eagle on those cliff-filled peaks.

Even a wild dire eagle has only about 3 points of intelligence at most.

But Thorne's dire eagles were hatching and domesticated.

After a druid who is proficient in domesticating animals gave some pointers on how to cultivate animal companions.

So under Thorne's meticulous cultivation and growth, the fierce eagle cub's original ferocity has almost disappeared, but a lot of humanized agility has been added.

Its intelligence is close to that of humans, and it can understand many of Thorne's more complicated instructions, otherwise he would not be at ease to leave it alone outside the city.

Thorne looked at the ferocious eagle hovering above and walked towards the crowd.

"Everything is packed." He glanced at it and asked casually.

In fact, there is not much to pack, and the group only has Andrina's dimensional bag, and I don't know when they have prepared the necessary camping tents in the wilderness adventure.

Other players have nothing but a standing drinking utensil and a temporary weapon around their waists.

After all, a magic item like the Dimension Bag, which costs about 100 gold coins, is not something that ordinary people can afford.

But fortunately, from here to Yuanshan Town, it only takes two days to walk on foot, which means that they can only sleep in the wild for one night at most.

As for food, it is better to deal with it. In this emerald field, wild animals are not so difficult to find.

There are not many of them and it is easy to solve.

And Thorne also prepared dry food himself, so he didn't have to worry about it at all.

"Let's go!"

Andrina nodded and said, and then she chanted a spell in her mouth, gently waving a handful of horsehair in her hand, and a light blue summoning circle appeared in front of her.

When the light completely dissipated, a pure white light horse equipped with a saddle and reins appeared in front of everyone.

Andrina immediately rode up very proficiently, obviously she had good riding skills.

Thorne glanced at each other with some surprise.

Andrina, a sorceress, he always thought she was a house girl, spending time in the tavern all day reading various magic books.

Unexpectedly, the other party still has time to practice one-handed riding.

What she just used was: 1st Ring Conjuration Spell: Summon Mount.

With the opponent's occupation level, it can last for at least ten hours.

So Thorne waved his hand and led everyone to the direction of Yuanshan Town without a word.

Although the terrain of the Emerald Wilderness is very complex, with hills, swamps and wasteland crisscrossed, the road is not difficult to identify.

Just follow a road all the way west and you will soon find a wide river.

This meandering river is called: Emerald River!

Its birthplace is the northernmost peak of the Corina Peninsula, Mount Huaernas, which is more than 8,000 meters high.

The river flows from the northernmost peaks across the emerald fields and eventually flows into the Sea of ​​Radiance in the south.

Large and small human settlements and villages and towns in the wilderness are basically established near the Emerald River.

Also includes the town of Falls, where Thorne lives.

So just find the Emerald River, and keep walking along the river northward, and soon you will find a wide road formed naturally after walking by countless merchants.

If this kind of dirt road is not washed by the rain, it is still very convenient to walk.

Hiking in the wilderness was already accustomed to Thorne.

However, in order to take care of the physical strength of several warrior players and Pardo, he could only deliberately lower a certain walking speed.

And his animal companion Dire Eagle has been following him, hovering not far above, acting as a scout with keen vision.

In this way, everyone followed Thorne on foot in silence.

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At dusk, the twilight is heavy, the air is filled with white mist, and the distant scenery gradually becomes hazy.

After seeing the familiar jungle not far away, Thorne, who led a group of people walking in the front, frowned slightly, turned to the crowd and said:

"Let's go here today, have a good night's rest, leave in the morning tomorrow, and arrive at Yuanshan Town in the afternoon."

Everyone heard the words, and their tired faces showed a truthful expression.

Even Andrina, who was riding a horse, showed a rare smile, which attracted everyone's attention.

The only ones in their group who didn't feel tired were Thorne and Trundle the troll.

Several warrior players threw away the wooden sticks in their hands to hurry, lying on the yellow grass, looking up at the sky that was about to usher in the dark night.

Under the leadership of Thorne, they hardly stopped along the way except for short breaks in order to find a place to stay before dark.

Although the emerald field is full of dangers.

But they have not actually stepped out of the sphere of influence of Winter City.

Apart from the occasional few eyeless beasts and wandering humanoids, I have never encountered a group of evil humanoids that numbered more than 10.

Within the sphere of influence of Winter City, their army will carry out several scavenging missions from time to time every year.

These subdued intelligent races have already deeply infiltrated their blood into their blood.

In the entire Emerald Wilderness, except for the gnolls in the Great Sword Mark Mountains, no force dared to take the initiative to invade, and even the sphere of influence of Winter City did not dare to approach.

This is the road paved with blood.

Either completely overwhelmed, or completely wiped out!

After Thorne finished speaking, he turned and walked into the depths of the jungle.

The reason why he chose to rest here is precisely because there is a recently abandoned village in the depths of the jungle, which is very convenient for camping and resting.

After the players saw the village in front of them under the leadership of Thorne, they walked in chatting and laughing.

When Thorne walked to the gate of the village, he suddenly stopped.

Looking at the overgrown village, the stone houses and many familiar buildings were still intact, he sighed softly, feeling a little gloomy.

Thorne's slightly trembling hands gently stroked the large black bloodstains on the gate, with a deep sadness in his eyes.

Then he sat directly on a long stone bench at the door, leaned his body against the wooden fence, and looked at the hazy sky a little absentmindedly.

A few intermittent memories of here come to mind.

A few months ago, when the gnoll tribe in the depths of the Great Sword Mark Mountains hadn't planned to attack Winter City, there were nearly 200 players living in this small village.

Because this place is within the sphere of influence of Winter City, no intelligent tribe dares to attack the village at the risk of genocide.

But when the gnolls launched a full-scale invasion of Winter City, almost all the villages and towns within the sphere of influence of Winter City suffered a devastating blow.

This small village called Talan Village was naturally not spared.

When Thorne inadvertently passed by here from the town of Falls, the players here had been killed or injured by the impact of the gnolls.

After a brief introduction by both parties, Thorne found that most of the players here were his real-world compatriots and some childhood friends.

So they immediately assisted them to repel the last attack of the gnolls with difficulty.

It was a tragic defensive battle, and almost all the combat professionals in Talan Village were killed.

All the rest are some seriously injured and incompetent living players.

At this critical moment, Thorne decided to go to Far Mountain Town, which is the nearest and unaffected town, for help.

Before the gnoll attacked, **** the more than 100 players to Yuanshan Town.

Originally everything went very smoothly, and the lord of Yuanshan Town readily agreed. After all, player resources are not too much for the lord of each territory.

In this way, Thorne took the reinforcements from Yuanshan Town to Talan Village overnight.

But an accident happened. All the players in Talan Village were killed by a group of bandit players.

Seeing the **** corpses all over the village, Thorne immediately launched a **** revenge.

He is a ranger who is proficient in tracking ability, and the movements of a large number of bandit players were easily traced by Thorne.

The Broken Tooth Bandit was secretly chased by Thorne all the way, and when they finally escaped into Winter City, there were only a dozen players left.

"Have you been here before?" At this time, Andrina came over, looked at Thorne with a lonely face, and sat next to him and asked curiously.

"That's right, it's a pity that all the players here are dead." Thorne looked up at the sky and said softly.

"The full-scale invasion of the gnolls, even the high-level officials of Winter City did not expect, let alone us players, it is a pity that players in this area really died."

Anderina was stunned when she heard the words, and said a little sadly.

The attack of the gnolls caused almost all the villages and towns within the sphere of influence of Winter City to be cleaned up.

Only a small number of players were rescued by the forces from Far Mountain Town and Twilight Town, and she was naturally very aware of these things.

"But the players here were killed by the bandit players who claimed to have broken teeth, but I have already avenged them."

Broken teeth? After listening to Andrina, she felt a little unbelievable.

She had heard of this player bandit group before, but she had never seen it before. She only knew that it was a mysterious group that made a living by robbing businessmen and villages passing by.

"So the players you killed in the bar were all robbers with broken teeth?" Andrina asked tentatively.

"That's right!" Thorne responded lightly.

"Then why didn't you make it clear at the time? Otherwise, you wouldn't be captured by the city guards." Andrina asked in confusion.

If she understood the whole story, even if she couldn't help, at least the city guards wouldn't inform her.

After all, more than a dozen players died in her bar at that time, and it was difficult to end it. In the past, it was easy to hide one or two as long as no one talked nonsense in Xiacheng District.

But with more than a dozen **** corpses, the city guards of Winter City could not remain indifferent.

Thorne smiled and shook his head slightly, but did not answer Andrina's question.

call out!

At this time, the Dire Eagle, who was in charge of the investigation in the sky, suddenly sent a signal, and then fell on Thorne's shoulder.

After a brief exchange between Thorne and Dire Eagle, he immediately sat up straight, turned to Andrina and said solemnly:

"A group of human beings are approaching here, all armed with at least a hundred people."