Counterattack Strategies

“Ambushing werewolves is very dangerous, and we may not even be able to take care of ourselves, moreover taking care of you.”

“I don’t mean to ambush the werewolves with you guys during the night.” Lu Jingqian put down his knife and fork, looked seriously at Antwin, and said, “I want to go with you during the daytime to the place where you found the werewolf.
Werewolves do not dare to transform during the day.
Even if they forcefully transform during the day, their power will be very weak, which can be easily defeated by your Black Knights.
So if we go during the day, it will not be very dangerous, right?”

Antwine said, “If I take you there, I must increase the number of people to protect you.
And going with such a great fanfare will be easier to alarm the snake.”

“No need to go with a big fanfare.
You just bring two or three people.
We can go secretly.” Lu Jingqian said.

“Why do you want to go?” Antwin said suspiciously, “Werewolves are very dangerous to humans.
It’s not something interesting.
Nothing to see.”

“……” Lu Jingqian was silent for a while but decided to wait until he had been there before telling him the reason, “Just take me once.
You’ll know why I’m going after we’re there, and I promise I won’t cause you any trouble.”

Antwin looked at Lu Jingqian without a word.
He still couldn’t agree to this request of his.

Lu Jingqian clasped his hands and looked at Antwon with a pleading look, and said, “Please.”

Antwin looked at Lu Jingqian’s eyes and thought of the first fawn he hunted as a child, which also ed at him with a pair of twinkling starry round eyes, looking at him with a pleading gaze, and then he went soft and let that fawn go.
When his father found out, he punished him very severely and told him that if he wanted to be a competent knight, he could not be soft-hearted, or he would probably cause a big mistake.

Antwin has been educated in iron fist since childhood and has long forgotten what it feels like to be soft-hearted after all these years of killing werewolves.
But at this moment, he clearly wanted to refuse inside, but because of Lu Jingqian’s eyes, he could not say the words of refusal.

Although Antwin didn’t agree right away, he kept mentioning this matter to him for the next few days, and Lu Jingqian finally got what he wanted.
After a few days, Antwin took him to the village, where they found the werewolf.

Although Lu Jingqian felt that, by following the head of the Black Knights, Antwin, there was very little danger in traveling during the day, and taking two or three people out was enough.
But Antwin felt that if he didn’t take Lu Jingqian, it didn’t matter even if he went alone, but with Lu Jingqian, an ordinary person, he would have to take a few more people.

A group of people pretended to pass by through this village for a short rest and entered the village.

Lu Jingqian was wearing a white cloak with its wide hood covering his eyebrows, and he put a white leather mask on so no one could tell what he looked like.
No one could even tell whether he was a man or a woman.
He also coughed lightly every now and then, pretending to be dressed this way because he was sick.

Antwin helped Lu Jingqian dismount, and the intimate demeanor of the two made people feel they didn’t need to guess much to know that their relationship was unusual.
Several other knights, pretending to be servants, follow after them.

This village is not large, but because it is on the road to many places and is far from other villages and cities, people passing by usually stop to rest.
So after they entered the village, they did not attract too much attention.
The villagers, at most, looked at them twice and then continued to do their own things.

Lu Jingqian and Antwin sat in a small restaurant for a while.
A few knights pretending to be servants ordered a few dishes and ate them with a very hungry look.

Antwin pretended to accompany Lu Jingqian for a walk, and after strolling through the not-so-big village, the knights had almost done eating.

Antwin help Lu Jingqian get on the horse.
He also got on the horse to sit behind Lu Jingqian, and a group of people again quickly left the village as if in a rush.

This trip took most of the day.
They left early in the morning and returned home close to the afternoon.
Lu Jingqian sat on the horse all day, feeling back pain, and just wanted to lie still.

Although he was very tired and did not want to move, Lu Jingqian still insisted that the servant bring him a pen and paper to write down what he wanted to write and then handed it to Antwin.

“What is this?” Antwin looked at the paper with the characteristics and dress of several people and thought about how he seemed to have seen these people.

“These are the werewolves that are hiding in that village.” Lu Jingqian leaned back on the sofa and said with his hand pressed against his waist.

“How are you sure they are werewolves?” Antwin looked at Lu Jingqian in disbelief.

“…… Remember when I told you that Bonia wasn’t really a prophet?” Lu Jingqian said.

“So, you’re saying…….” Antwin had already guessed the meaning of Lu Jingqian’s words.
If Bonia is not the real prophet and Lu Jingqian can distinguish werewolves, that means that he is the real prophet.
But Antwin still found it a bit hard to believe.
After all, everyone now believes that Bonia is the real prophet, and he did identify many werewolves.

“I know, no matter how I explain it, it’s a hard thing to believe.” Lu Jingqian looked at him seriously and said, “Why don’t you take this as a test for me and do it once, according to my words? If you don’t succeed, you can stop believing any word I say in the future.”

“How?” Antwin asked.

Although the Black Knights had a hard time finding where the werewolves might be each time, there was no way to tell them apart when they were still in human form, and they could only find ways to force them to transform during the night.
But in this way, they had to try to ensure ordinary humans were not hurt and deal with the transformed werewolves at the same time.
The difficulty was too great, and it was also easy to be injured because of the werewolves’ counterattack.

But Lu Jingqian, as a prophet, is able to identify werewolves when they are still in human form, and they are much easier to deal with when they are in their human form.

Lu Jingqian took out a bottle of medicine and handed it to Antwin, “In order not to disturb the rest of the village after every household began to close their doors in the dusk, use this medicine to stun the people I wrote on the paper, and bring them together in an open area.
Then surround them with a ring of fire.
This ecstasy will stimulate their brains, and they will surely transform when they wake up.
The transformed wolves were somewhat afraid of fire, and it was easiest to kill them when they rushed out of the circle of fire.
But there will be some more powerful ones who are not afraid of fire.
It was fine if you were careful when dealing with them.”