Demon Hunter: I have a red gourd

Chapter 54 Be careful behind you
And now, the four demon spirits in the Aden Seal did not form an effective coordinated attack at all. They were like four stiff puppets, fighting each on their own without any order.

Not only that, their strength was far from that of an adult man. When Ivan blocked their attacks, his arms felt no numbness at all.

Monsters like demon spirits belong to the category of evil spirits. They do not have any particularly prominent vital points on their bodies. As long as you use weapons coated with evil spirit oil or silver swords to attack any part of their bodies, you can cause effective damage.

Seeing that these demons did not pose any substantial threat, Ivan quickly swung the silver sword in his hand, and a cold light flashed. Every time the sword edge passed through the body of a demon, its body would become more transparent.

Not long after, the four demon spirits dissipated into the air, leaving only four balls of gray-white powder falling to the ground.

Died so easily? The appearance of the evil spirit dust meant that the demon spirit was completely dead. But Ivan looked at the white powder scattered on the ground, and he still couldn't believe this fact.

He uncorked the red gourd at his waist. After his previous battle with the resurrected griffin, he discovered a new function of the red gourd - it could determine whether the monster was completely dead.

[Ghoul Spirit*4, Demon Spirit*5 collected, Spiritual Essence +90]

There are soul essence and spiritual essence? Although it is the most guaranteed, one soul essence and ten spiritual essences per monster, but it is better than nothing, right?

It seems that they are completely dead. These demons are really that weak.

In that case, I don’t care about him, just kill him!
Ivan looked in the direction of the various Blue Guard teams. Unexpectedly, Weiss, the only woman in the group, was the first to achieve success. They had already dispatched a demon spirit before Ivan, and were now climbing the stairs to the top of the windmill.

Roche's team, located in the center of the square, was currently under siege by three demon spirits.

Although the spirits in this village seem very weak to demon hunters like Ivan, they can still pose a considerable threat to ordinary people.

However, under Roche's leadership, the two new recruits had gradually adapted to the rhythm of the battle and became more and more calm under the attacks of the three demon spirits. As time went on, the three of them cooperated more and more tacitly and gradually found opportunities to counterattack.

Since Luo Qi said he wanted to train his troops, he would not interfere. Anyway, the Red Gourd could absorb the essence and spiritual essence of the monsters as soon as they died, so there was no need for him to fight for their heads.

When Ivan was about to turn his gaze to the area where other demons were concentrated, he suddenly found that a demon appeared silently in the shadow behind Roche. It had the same invisibility ability as the demons that attacked Ivan. At this moment, it raised the rapier in its hand and stabbed Roche's neck.

"Roche, watch your back!" Ivan had no time to support and could only shout a warning.

After hearing Ivan's voice, Roche subconsciously turned sideways to avoid being stabbed in the throat, but the rapier in the demon's hand still cut his neck, and blood gushed out instantly, staining his shoulders red.

Luo Qi's eyes narrowed, he endured the pain, turned around quickly, and swung his sword at the sneak attacking demon.

The steel sword soaked in evil spirit oil pierced the demon's body, causing it to scream like a ghost and its body to dim.

But without Roche's support, the formation of the two recruits was immediately lost. One of the recruits lost his pace and was forced to retreat repeatedly by the attack of the demon spirit, almost falling down.

"Hold on! Don't panic!" Roche shouted loudly, trying to steady the recruits, while ignoring his wounds, he rushed towards the demon spirit in front again.

But with one more demon spirit and Roche injured, the situation quickly turned against them. Just as the demon spirit's rapier was about to pierce their bodies, Philip and his team, having just eliminated a demon spirit, rushed over to support them. "I'll help you!"

Philip sprinkled a large amount of silver powder from the leather bag on his waist. The moment the silver powder fell on the spirits, their movements suddenly stopped, as if they were frozen.

At the same time, two string sounds were heard from the top of the windmill, and two arrows accurately hit the two demons.

Ivan rushed into the battlefield like a flash of lightning, his silver sword flashing with a cold light as it quickly slashed through the demons' bodies. After a few swings, the demons turned into four piles of grayish-white evil spirit dust, falling to the ground.

Roche covered his neck with one hand and patted Ivan's shoulder with the other hand, "Thank you, Ivan."

He turned to look at Philip, his eyes full of approval, "Well done."

"These demons are very weak. I can handle them alone." Ivan gestured to Philip and his team to surround the injured Roche to prevent him from being attacked again.

"Tell all your soldiers to gather together and focus on defense. I'll handle the rest." Ivan pointed at the windmill. "That one on top won't be necessary. Its arrows can guide me to the demon's location."

"Okay." Roche nodded.

Following the arrow's lead, Ivan raised his silver sword and began harvesting in the village. As an archer, Weiss's eyesight was exceptionally sharp. With her height advantage, whenever a demonic spirit emerged from the shadows, she would immediately draw her bow and shoot, helping Ivan to pinpoint its location.

[Demon Spirits*25 collected, Spiritual Essence +250]

After plugging the red gourd, Ivan completely eliminated the evil spirits in the first village.

Weiss was bandaging the wound on Roche's neck with a bandage at this time, while Philip led the other soldiers to collect the dust dropped after the death of the demon spirit according to Ivan's request.

Ivan squatted down and carefully examined the wound on a dead villager.

Although most of the bodies had been eaten by the ghouls, a few still survived.

He gently parted the dead man's messy hair and saw a feather arrow stuck straight into his forehead. The arrowhead was deeply embedded, which seemed to be the cause of his death.

Ivan's fingertips hovered three inches above the arrow's feathers. The elm arrow was stuck diagonally between the dead man's eyebrows, the tail feathers stuck together by dried blood. Even though the wound had begun to rot, he still noticed that the skin around the arrowhead was torn and jagged, with a circle of blue-black bruises hidden underneath.

Ivan narrowed his eyes slightly, as if thinking about something. He lowered his gaze and found another subtle wound on the dead man's throat.

The wound was hidden between the flesh that was beginning to rot, and it would have been impossible to detect if it weren't for the witcher's sharp eyesight.

The wound was as thin as a hair, yet long and continuous, its upward arcs at both ends precise and clean, as if it had been cut by an exceptionally sharp sword. This clean and efficient method actually gave him a vague sense of familiarity.

Ivan frowned. After killing the villagers with their feather arrows, these Scoia'tael actually wanted to finish them off? But the arrows hitting their foreheads were clearly fatal enough. Were they whipping the corpses?
But when whipping the corpse, why did they only strike the vital parts with the sword?
(End of this chapter)