Chapter 254: Hunting Festival (Ⅱ)

Every spring, the weather is getting warmer, and the wild boar family on the island across the strait also has a breeding season.
When the midsummer season comes, the wild boar population on the island has already flooded, and tens of thousands of hungry wild boars will almost explode this isolated island.
In order to fill the stomach, the ferocious and greedy wild boars are not afraid of attacking all the birds and beasts that live on the island, and even actively besieged the dinosaurs that are larger and stronger than them. As a result, the dinosaurs on the island are becoming scarcer.
Compared with the wildly expanding number of wild boars, the space on the island is too small to provide sufficient food for large groups of wild boars.
In order to survive, the wild boar on the island has evolved over a long period of time and has mastered the skills of long-distance crossing.
Every year in July and August, wild boars on the island will collectively go to the sea and migrate toward the mainland opposite the strait.
After a difficult week-long journey, most wild boars were either washed away by ocean currents and eventually drowned in the sea or were hunted by sharks.
Those wild boars that successfully passed the test of the angry sea and sharks will eventually board the coast and form a large army of thousands of wild boars, migrating downstream along the Efen River into the sea and sweeping the farmland along the way.
The places where pigs traveled, like locusts crossing, caused severe damage to agriculture and animal husbandry in the area around Leiden.
In order to prevent wild boars from crossing the sea and destroying crops, beginning 20 years ago, on the first day of July every year, Governor Alfheim will host a week-long "hunting competition", which rewards people with great rewards and encourages people to go hunting for wild boar on the island.
This is the predecessor of the "Hunting Festival".
Over time, the hunting activities every summer have developed into a local custom in Port Leiden, and are widely welcomed by the wealthy and leisurely upper class people.
Nobles, officers, manor owners and adventurers in the city actively participated in this activity for different purposes, and jointly made the "Hunting Festival" into a very popular entertainment celebration.
Today, every "hunting festival", celebrities and gentlemen in the city will be surrounded by a large group of domestic servants and hounds to take a boat to the sea, nominally to go to the wild boar island to participate in the hunting competition, in fact, the main purpose is to cool off the summer vacation.
In order to ensure that the lords, wives, sons, and young ladies are happy to play on the beach, and at the same time, to ensure that each plantation is protected from wild boars, after all, someone still needs to stick to the original intention of the "hunting festival" and really go deep into the jungle and devote themselves to thrills. Exciting hunting activities.
Of course, this includes celebrities and servants who seek excitement, and more are adventurers and professional soldiers hired by the rich and powerful.
For example, the apprentice knights like the Dindal brothers.
According to the rules of the hunting competition, all hunting teams are composed of four people. In addition, four hunting dogs can be carried. Usually, a noble is the captain. The team members include at least one spellcaster.
Every time a hunting team kills a wild boar on the island, it must first cut off its tail as a basis for counting the number of hunting.
Next, the casters in the team will also lay a unique "secret mark" on their prey as a sign.
After the six-day hunting contest ended, all teams returned to the pier to gather, count their loot, and report truthfully to the organizer of the hunting contest.
In the process of calculating the loot, "pig tail" and "secret mark" must be one-to-one correspondence, otherwise there is a suspicion of cheating.
In previous hunting competitions, someone privately bought wild boar tails and secretly brought them to the island, falsely claiming to be the loot they had hunted, causing a scandal.
The organizer of the competition calculates the corresponding hunting points based on the number and weight of wild boars hunted by each team.
All members of the top three teams in the final hunting points will be awarded a gold, silver and bronze medal.
In addition to honorary medals, the top three hunting teams will also be awarded real prizes.
The total prize money of the champion team is up to 3,000 gold Durga.
The prize for the runner-up team is 2000 gold Durga.
The third place team can also get 1,000 gold Duga.
Those hunting teams who were not in the top three could at least take away the wild boars they hunted.
The event organizer provides free freighters and is responsible for sending tens of thousands of wild boars back to the Leiden port terminal. The hunter keeps his own food or sells it to the butcher's shop.
The Dindal brothers did not have much interest in wild boar and there was no shortage of bonuses. What they really longed for was to win medals at the hunting conference, and use this honor to start their fame and get a "knock brick" to enter the upper class.
The brothers Dick and Roger, like Joan, came from a country town, and their family is of course much better than Joan, but in the final analysis, they were born from a squire family.
Their mayor dad, considered the number one in the country, but when he arrived in the city, compared with the nobles and nobles who had thousands of acres of land and enslaved servants, a village mayor in the countryside was not worth mentioning at all.
The Dingdall brothers are young people who are pursuing progress, eager to stand out in the city and enter the upper class.
However, the strict class barriers, like an invisible wall, block the brothers from the social field of the city's elite circle, and in a high position, with a sense of mockery, examine them these country gangsters.
The Dindal brothers came to the city these days and haven’t gotten a little angry. In order to get rid of the nasty label of
humpsters
, they decided to go to the wild boar island to participate in the annual hunting competition, hoping to make a big hit in the hunting competition and win themselves high. Social pass.
"If the goddess of luck is favored, bless our brothers in the limelight at the hunting festival and win medals, and the young masters of the Knights who bear the title of nobility will not dare to underestimate us again!" Dick's words with a trace of resentment.
"Every year, thousands of young people go to the Wild Boar Island to participate in the hunting competition. Most of them also dream of becoming famous overnight, but only three teams can win medals in the end. The others only get disappointed... …"
Joan looked at the two old friends, and his words were frank and almost cruel.
"Dick, Roger, you are very good, but among the thousands of hunters, you are not the best. Why do you believe you can win the medal? Is it luck? Unfortunately, luck is right Everyone is fair, and you may not be more fortunate than other contestants."
"It is precisely because we realize that our strength is insufficient, so we have to seize the time to improve ourselves before the opening of the hunting festival." Roger replied with a smile.
"Which way do you plan to improve your strength?" Qiao An asked curiously.
Dick and Roger are both level 5 fighters, which are pretty good by their age.
It is still ten days away from the Hunting Festival, and it is difficult to upgrade the professional level in just ten days.
Moreover, even a level increase will not significantly increase their chances of winning medals in hunting competitions.
"Joan, do you remember what the old dwarf Flint Anvil often said? If you want to carve beautiful and fine patterns on the armor, you must first forge a hard enough carving knife."
Roger smiled deeply.
"This principle also applies to hunters. To catch more wild boars in the game, the first thing we have to do is to build a powerful weapon!"
"Joan, you have to ask for help in this matter!"
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