Chapter 1369 Hoffman's persistence
Kalu, the king of the beasts of Mount Trubo, is a beast that even Hoffman felt difficult. He once saw with his own eyes how Kalu, who left the forest, slaughtered a hunting team of more than 200 people and took back his cubs from the hunting team. He still remembers the look when Kalu left with his cubs in his mouth. The cold look that was enough to freeze the soul made Kalu, the king of beasts, look more like a monster than a monster.
Although his strength is not a little stronger than that at that time, whenever he thinks of the original scene, he still has no confidence that he can survive the attack of the Karu.
When he learned that the companion beast of Bain Ruf, the head of the Ruf family, was actually two Kalu, he was also surprised, and subconsciously thought that this was just a lie, but as the news was confirmed, he began to think that Bain Ruf should be regarded as the strongest person in the lumberjack family.
But what happened later made him once again suspect that Bain Ruf's companion beast was Karu, because Bain, who owns two Karu, was actually undermined by the old man in his family and could only be a puppet patriarch, which was seriously inconsistent with Karu's power in his mind.
This time Bain Ruf's arrest made him even more sure of his guess. Bain Ruf's companion beast was not Kalu at all, but it was generally very similar to Kalu's wild beasts. With Kalu's power, those responsible for capturing Bain Ruf might have died in Kalu's attack.
It was not until later that Hoffman released Bain Ruf and asked him to summon his companion beast hidden in the fog to help him maintain order that he realized that he had been wrong before. The companion beast that Bain owns is indeed the king of beasts Kalu, but these two Kalus are different from the normal Kalus.
I don’t know if it was Bain Ruf who raising his companion beasts or if these two Kalus themselves had flaws. In short, Hoffman just felt that these two companion beasts had the appearance of Kalu, sharp claws, fangs, and even power, but it was too different from Kalu in his memory.
Hoffman didn't know what the difference was, but if he knew that the two had to be different, it was the difference between a wild forest leopard and a domestic pet cat. For example, Karu, the companion beast of Bain Ruf, wouldn't say one or two, even ten of them could handle it.
So when he speculated that Bain Ruf, who was framed, was very likely to hurt people because of anger, he rushed towards the square without any fear. When he arrived at the square, he saw a Karu biting at a senior executive of a lumberjack family, he was able to calmly draw his sword and repel the Karu.
Although the overall combat power of this Karu is not comparable to that of the real wild Karu, its body is still Karu. The skin, scales and hair on the surface of the body still have strong defense. Even if Hoffman slashed with all his strength, he can only leave a small scar on the Karu without causing too much damage to it.
After the attack was repelled, Karu also seemed to feel that Hoffman posed a threat to him, so he no longer attacked other targets, but quickly ran back to Bain Roof, and then grinned at Hoffman.
At this time, Bain Ruf also saw Hoffman. He knew very well how strong Hoffman was. He immediately called the other Karu back to his side, and then looked at Hoffman with a cold face and said, "Hoffman, are you going to interfere in this matter?"
"I released you, I can't let you hurt them." Hoffman said while signaling the others to leave, holding the knight's sword and walking to Bain.
Bain said in a deep voice: "Do you think it was the old Bjorn I killed?"
"No, I think you were framed." Hoffman said his heart directly.
Bain was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Hoffman to answer him like this. He could also hear that Hoffman was not just perfunctory to him, but really believed that he was not the murderer who killed Old Bjorn. So he was silent for a moment, and the anger on his face was slightly reduced due to being framed, misunderstanding and anger, and said to Hoffman: "What are you going to do now? Are you going to arrest me again and wait until everything is over before trial?"
Hoffman said seriously: "I don't want to do this. I hope you can wear shackles by yourself. I can guarantee that during this period, nothing will happen that is unfavorable to you."
"What about then? What about the family trial? Can you guarantee that I will get a fair and fair trial?" Bain asked again.
This time Hoffman did not answer him.
Although Hoffman didn't answer, Bain already knew the answer. He sneered disdainfully on his face and said, "You are no different from those guys."
As he said that, his body suddenly seemed to be congested and turned red. Even the pair of mutated horns on his head were blood-red. The two Karu's bodies beside him also had similar changes to him. The blood red covered the surface of Karu's body, and Karu's eyes also turned red, looking more ferocious than before.
If only the appearance had changed, Hoffman would not be too nervous. The problem is that he felt that at this moment, whether it was Bain Roof or the two Kalus, the overall momentum had changed, and he could feel the power surging from the bodies of the three.
If the three of them just made him feel a little troublesome to clean up, then now the three of them can pose a threat to his life and a great threat.
The change in the situation made Hoffman's expression particularly solemn. He no longer held the Knight's sword in one hand casually, but instead clasped his hands tightly. Instead, he did not attack first, but carefully set up the defensive horn stance in general knight's swordsmanship, intending to use defensive counterattack to deal with Bain and his companion beast.
However, what Bain Ruf thought of at this moment was not how to attack Hoffman in front of him, but was a little surprised by the increase in his strength. This method was his first time using it, so he never thought that his power would increase so much, which made him a little unaware of the measures for a while.
While staying in the basement of the manor, Bain Ruf and his two companion beasts were used as experimental subjects by Leo. Sometimes they took their blood, studied their blood, sometimes they tested some strange mysterious rituals, and sometimes they took some unknown potions from time to time.
Although these experiments did not cause any substantial harm to Bain, they made him always worried, fearing that when he would lose his life because of Leo's mistake, he would not dare to move any similar thoughts as to escape.
Those days were the days he was the days he was most reluctant to recall, but he was not of no benefit at all. For example, the blood-burning ability he used now was stimulated by him and Kalu after taking a bottle of Leo's potion, or more correctly, Kalu. He only had this ability because of the special nature of the companion beast.
At this time, he couldn't help but think that if he had known that this ability was so useful, when he was caught at the agreed location that day, he could use this ability to remove the poison from his body, and then fight back and solve the person who caught him, so there would be no trouble now.
Thinking of this, Bain's thoughts returned to the current battle. After seeing the defensive posture made by Hoffman, he immediately directed Karu to attack Hoffman without hesitation. He casually removed a street lamp made of a stone pillar in the square, held the stone pillar, and smashed it towards Hoffman.
Although the attacks of the two Karu are very fierce, these are just wild beasts after all. The attacks follow instincts, and each action is full of flaws.
Hoffman was able to deal with it with ease, and even found Karu's attack flaws and counterattacked against weaknesses such as eyes and mouth, making it impossible for both Karu to play a cooperative role.
But Bain's joining the battlefield made Hoffman a little difficult, because Bain's attack was unreasonable. He simply used his strength to smash it randomly, easily disrupting Hoffman's fighting rhythm. He was not even worried about Hoffman's counterattack, because with his attack speed, he could damage Hoffman while being hurt by Hoffman, which was simply a desperate fight style that exchanged life for life.
Although Hoffman has rich combat experience, this is the first time he has encountered this rogue style of fighting. If Bain is just alone, he still has a way to deal with it. But the problem is that there are two Kalu who are eyeing him next to Bain, which makes him unable to find a solution for a while. He can only fight and retreat while using procrastination methods to consume the opponent's strength. He also hopes that Bain and Kalu's special methods of stimulating combat power will not last too long.
Although Bain was a little confused by the power he suddenly stimulated, he was not completely unreasonable. He knew very well what the shortcomings of his current way of stimulating power were, so when he found that he could not win Hoffman in a short period of time, he began to consider a way out.
When he waved the stone pillar in his hand and forced Hoffman backwards again, he suddenly threw the stone pillar at Hoffman.
Because of the inertial thinking caused by the previous attack, Hoffman did not expect Bain to do such a move, and was unable to effectively dodge for a while, and was hit by the stone pillar.
However, when Hoffman was hit by a stone pillar, he quickly adjusted his body with his own experience, allowing his body to fly outward along the power of the stone pillar, and when he landed, he also rolled a few times. While removing the extra power on his body, he was also guarding against the possible subsequent attacks that Bain could make.
However, when he stood firm and began to look for Bain's figure, he found that Bain, who had always had the upper hand since the beginning, was sitting on the bumpy back of a Karu and galloping towards the thick fog not far away with another Karu. It seemed that he was about to escape.
Seeing this situation, Hoffman knew that Bain's method to stimulate power might have problems, and his chance to counterattack came, so he did not hesitate and chased after him with the long sword of the knight, and loudly blocked Bain in the direction of Bain's escape.
Although the people from the lumberjack family could see Bain running away and heard Hoffman's shouts, they had no idea to stop Bain. When Bain rushed over, they all hid far away, and none of them dared to come forward.
Seeing Bain easily escape from the square, Hoffman couldn't help but curse in his heart, but did not stop and question those who were making way out, but instead accelerated and caught up.
Although Hoffman felt that he might not be able to catch up with Bain sitting on Karu's back, his duties prevented him from stopping, at least until Bain entered the thick fog and was determined to escape. This was not only responsible for his own duties, but also to block the mouths of some people who were interested and let them not make excuses to cause trouble for themselves.
However, unexpected things happened. Just when he saw that Bain was only ten meters away from the thick fog wall in front, he was able to rush into the thick fog and get rid of his pursuit, Bain stopped and stood in place with his companion beast, as if he was given by some invisible force, which looked very strange.
This abnormal phenomenon also made Hoffman slow down his pursuit. After reaching only about ten meters away from Bain, he changed from running to walking, and he held the long sword of the knight in his hand tightly and approached Bain carefully.
He didn't know why Bain suddenly stopped and stood there, but he was sure that something should have made Bain do such an abnormal move. He didn't want his battle with Bain to be taken away by a third party.
Soon Hoffman bypassed Bain and Karu's huge bodies and came to the side, and saw the scene where Bain was watching at the moment.
I saw that five people were walking out of the thick fog in front of Bain, three of whom Hoffman knew. They were from the Powell family and also the Rangers appointed by Shancheng. The appointment ceremony of the three was hosted by Hoffman, so although Hoffman was not familiar with these three people, he also knew them.
After the thick fog appeared, Hoffman and the people from the Powell family also discussed that if the three men were in the thick fog, it would be very bad. Unexpectedly, the three men who were thought to have died appeared in front of Hoffman in this situation.
However, judging from the overall condition of the three, the three seemed to be very bad and felt that they suffered a lot.
In Hoffman's opinion, these three people were obviously definitely not the reason why Bain Roof stopped, so he quickly turned his attention to the two strangers.
His gaze was first attracted by the woman because he had never seen such a beautiful and noble woman. Although she was wearing only an ordinary noble hunting suit, she still gave people an extremely noble feeling, and it made people feel ashamed of herself and couldn't help but lower her head.
Chapter completed!