At the edge of a swamp as big as a lake and adorned with huge trees that rose to the sky on a warm night, the scent of blood and the roars of human and animal resonated through the forest, amid a circular formation of crocodiles wearing their gigantic mouths to grab horse-sized wolves by the head, crush their skulls and throw them into a gigantic mountain of other wolves' corpses that was infested with flies that fed on their dead flesh and used that rotten flesh as cocoons for worms, they were 2 young green haired girls now bruised by crimson blood, their faces were the same just differentiating the eyes and their height was also a very noticeable difference, they also wear the same clothes, a pocketless leather pants made of black cloth along with a red shirt and a light armor that covered her arms and her chest minus her belly and she's Silver and with lion's arms with demonic wings on her right chest, the royal coat of arms of the i Graham empire, that coat of arms caused fear to the other kingdoms and empires of the continent of Heru
These 2 guys are: Hunter Graham; 1st Prince of the Empire Graham and Nathan Graham; 2nd prince of the Graham empire, both are in skin refinement at the start of step 1 but with their equipment, skills, training and little experience in killing living beings, they had the strength to kill skin refiners in step 3 in a 1v1 duel
Hunter Graham has his Spear in his right hand tied in a black cloth and an intense killing intention is leaking out of his body and nathan is holding a crossbow and reloading it with 5 arrows the size of daggers and the arrowheads are made of iron that it glowed purple and smelled of decay, that was high-contamination paralyzing poison.
Both were breathing heavily as the crucial part of their plan would begin now and they couldn't go wrong as one mistake meant absolute death and there was no chance of escape, Hunter had his eyes closed and he was breathing deeply and heavily trying to get as much concentration as possible for the that was going to happen, nathan reloaded the crossbow every 5 arrows and his breathing that was irregular before became more regular and the nervousness and fear, the nervousness is caused by his being in this situation for the first time and the fear is from not wanting to make mistakes the arrows and spoiling Hunter's plan, since his reincarnation he felt that when hunter refined his lives would change forever and moments like this would become as normal as walking to a routine job or studying in the Imperial library, he was afraid of those days, but he knew he had to get used to it as it was better to fight defeatable enemies than to fight invincible forces that reside in the capital.
The hunter's plan was split into 2 parts with a 3rd part in case the consequence of completing the 2nd part turns out to be a bad conclusion.
The 1st part is to clear a path to the crocodile circular formation by killing as many crocodiles as they could on the way and using the wolf corpse dump to the corpse mountain as a boost as a part of the plan that only Hunter used because the crocodiles noticed Hunter and Nathan in the middle of the massacre too quickly as nathan made the faux pas of killing one of the crocodiles' prey when it wasn't even inside the animal's mouth, thus alerting him and then Hunter had to throw him through formation until crocodiles had all their mouths full, but they knew they couldn't wait and could fall victim to both sides as they waited and forced a crocodile to kill one of the wolves and then use its head as a springboard to get to Nathan
Now the 2nd part of the plan begins where it works like this: while hunter uses his spear to pierce the eyes, ears, nose and mouth of a wolf so that he would attack Hunter instead of the crocodile and the moment he made the attack, nathan would shoot a arrow in the wolf's head that doesn't matter if it pierced or not, the important thing was the touch of the tip where it was bathed in all kinds of paralyzing venom and at the slightest touch, the venom would enter the body, as soon as the wolf was contaminated with the venom, he would be paralyzed almost instantly and then become prey for the crocodiles, thus facilitating the number of wolf kills per crocodile.
Hunter then says:
"Nathan, get ready, I'll count to 3 and when I hit him and he comes you shoot, got it?"
"Yea!"
"1....2...3!!!!!"
When the count is over, Hunter makes a powerful thrust with his spear that hits one of the wolves in front of the crocodile but does not make an attack to kill but to annoy, the wolf clearly angry with the human that attacked him throws himself at Hunter when his vision catches a small arrow coming towards his eyes, he closes his eyes quickly but time was not in his favor, the arrow enters but is stopped by the wolf's eyelids before reaching the brain but it is useless as the poison acts quickly and spreads fiercely through the wolf's brain that paralyzes all its movements, it stands motionless in front of the crocodile and then the crocodile opens its gigantic mouth and bites fiercely on the wolf's head, but it doesn't break because it smells strongly of poison in the wolf corpse ahead and just throws it to the corpse mountain
And then other wolves realize what happened to their mate and try to find out where the arrow came from and try their best to escape the human's attacks with a burning spear, but they neither found nor smelled the smell of poison in the middle of the mountain of rotten meat
As the wolves in the front noticed the poisoned wolf and took utmost caution, the wolves behind them saw nothing and charged towards the crocodiles who were then met with attacks from a flaming spear that burned them literally boiling the blood, they got angry and attacked but they were received with arrows to the head and throat, where they felt the whole body paralyze and became another corpse from the pile of corpses behind the crocodiles
And so it went on for hours and hours, with Hunter and Nathan killing more than 100 wolves and injuring dozens more, the wolves now no longer wanted to get close to the crocodiles because in addition to the fear they felt of the arrows, the rotten smell destroyed their nose and they had severe headaches and together with a paralyzing smell of poison that affected not only wolves but crocodiles as well, but they had a certain immunity since to reach this level of Refining they had to feed on many karmic herbs and even herbs poisonous karmics they had to feed to have brute strength and powerful to withstand such a huge horde of wolves that was triple them, in the siege where the wolves were trapped there were 150 wolves and all were killed by alligators and after the wolves ambush they there were 200 wolves, there were 350 wolves in total, all above the middle stage in the 1st Fur Refining step and above against 50 crocodiles in the 3rd Fur Refining step and above, even though they were 2 steps above May laugh at the wolves, the crocodiles would not win this battle because they could kill 1 wolf at a time and while killing this 1 wolf, they would receive attacks from another 5-6 wolves without stopping, it would be a battle won by fatigue and endurance but wolves wouldn't they had the brothers nathan and Hunter, who with their weapons would turn the battle in favor of the crocodiles and reduce their power from 200 wolves to 100 weakened, tired and slow moving wolves
The remaining 100 wolves had no choice but to flee and recover and the crocodiles were also not at their 100% stamina as the venom also started to affect their bodies, the only ones that were okay were the brothers nathan and Hunter, both were not affected by the poison as it has its antidote and this antidote was also not a lifetime guarantee as it had a duration of at least 3 hours of immunity and they spent 2 hours killing the wolves
Now begins the final part of the hunter's plan which is to kill as many wolves as possible.
When the wolves showed signs of surrender and would retreat, an arrow hits the back of a random wolf's head while a wolf is impaled by a flaming spear and instantly killed with molten organs.
The final part of the plan is to slaughter as many weak wolves as possible and pray the crocodiles don't do something or the 3rd plan would trigger and an even tougher fight would begin.
Hunter after impaling the weak Wolf and nathan who killed one of the wolves with a straight arrow in the back of the head begin to slaughter the weaker wolves and all 100 wolves begin to huddle around Hunter who killed and hurt the greatest number of wolves that could and nathan protected his rear against any attack that could fatally injure him or hinder them on Titania
Hunter not only used attacks with the spear point that caught fire constantly, he also used the iron shaft of the spear using stick attacks that broke the bones of the wolves and ended them with a Strong lunge and that was it for a few minutes while he killed and hurt many wolves and nathan who killed and weakened them for Hunter to finish
When the wolf count from 100 units dropped to 20 units in a stage of near extreme fatigue left, those 20 units fled but not before receiving a barrage of arrows with poison nathan as they fled
It was dawn and that was when the night was darkest
The smell of poison and decay infested the air with insects due to a huge 15-story mountain that was infested with wolves as big as a dinner table for 10 and the Extremely wounded crocodiles rested and ate the remains of wolves' corpses not infected with poison to replenish some vitality
Hunter was in a pool of wolves' blood and he was breathing hard and watching covered in blood as the crocodiles were eating, the noise of meat and bones being chewed filled his ears and he waved his hand lifting it up and down quickly warning for nathan to come down from the mountain of corpses and stay close to him because it's not known if these crocodiles will want to kill them too
Nathan pulls a huge cloth made of leather from his backpack and uses it to jump off the huge mountain and glide over the ground a little farther from the crocodiles and run to his brother with all his strength and then pull out his Purified Silver sword and stand at the rear of Hunter while waiting for a reaction from the gigantic crocodiles
They waited there watching them feed as they knew that feeding was just to catch their breath as it was evident in them their huge open wounds and the crocodile blood that bathed the edges of the mountain with corpses and both Hunter and Nathan and the crocodiles knew that the victory would be on the side of humans who, in addition to being less wounded and tired, also have better weapons and were not poisoned and had certain parts of their bodies paralyzed and unusable for combat.
Hunter and Nathan wanted to go back to the forest and go on their way but they had to be patient and wait because whoever orchestrated this murder would surely check if they were really dead or not and this person was extremely strong to be able to lead such a huge horde of wolves to the same camp as them
The crocodiles finish feeding and look at the pair of Humans alike, they huff and prepare to leave back to the swamp and when everyone has gone into the water and the Hunter and Nathan brothers can finally rest, the purple hunter energy starts to make sounds, they are scary sounds and they gave off an uncomfortable feeling, he wanted to run to the forest
When the ground starts to shake and strange sounds are heard
BOOM!!
BOOM!!
SCRIEEECHHHH!
KRIIIIIIIIIEEESSCHH!!!
It was the Titan insects, they were attracted by the strong smell of death that came from the entrance to the swamp and there weren't 5 or 10, there were almost 100 insects as big as a normal tree and their sounds made any human's spine shiver
They left a hell to enter an even worse hell