Chapter 106: A Gift for the "Contenders"
Lance understood the priest's meaning.
"I've already set things up," he said, pointing near the castle entrance. "If you want to add more, I can show you around."
But William shook his head.
"Not add, but remove."
Lance was stunned.
"Clear all the traps at the castle entrance. Ensure the path here is unobstructed."
Now, not only Lance, but even Sadie and Raph looked confused.
"In that case, won't other demon hunter teams be able to enter the castle unimpeded?" Sadie asked.
"Precisely because there are no obstacles, that is the biggest obstacle." William smiled slightly.
"Father William, I understand less and less." Lance frowned, thinking.
As a trap enthusiast, he had set up all kinds of traps, but he had never heard of this approach.
William smiled slightly without explaining too much.
How could a country with only a few hundred years of history understand the wisdom of military strategists from thousands of years ago?
"You'll understand in a while."
William walked towards a low pit.
Sadie and Raph naturally wouldn't question him and followed behind William.
"Hey, be careful, you don't know the location of the traps, you might get hurt..."
Lance stopped halfway through his sentence.
He originally wanted to remind the priest, after all, the locations of some traps were very "hidden."
But then he saw the priest find them easily.
A flash of surprise crossed Lance's eyes: "How did he know the traps were here?"
It wasn't that William had x-ray vision, but he put himself in the perspective of a "victim"—if I put some 'strong stuff' here, stepping on it would definitely be miserable.
Spending some time, the castle entrance was cleaned up.
Lance's mouth was already wide open.
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
"Fortunately, I chose to cooperate with them. If we really fought, these traps would be useless at all, hey!"
William naturally didn't know the other party's thoughts.
He placed a wooden sign on the ground, which he found while cleaning up just now.
Under the surprised gazes of the three demon hunters, William wrote a few words on it—The "Trait" is inside.
Then he stuck it in a conspicuous position at the entrance.
"So that's it!"
Lance understood instantly.
"Telling the truth to other teams will make them suspicious instead."
This is a psychological game; the more you think about its authenticity, the harder it is to believe.
"But what if some reckless fool barges in..."
Lance just had this question.
But in the next moment, he suddenly remembered the traps he encountered when he just entered the Plague Zone.
"So he had already started setting things up back then."
Lance looked surprised, admiring this priest very much in his heart.
William naturally didn't know the other party's thoughts.
"You should have a map of the vicinity of the castle, right?" He looked at Lance.
Before setting traps, one must fully understand the surrounding terrain; this is the most basic rule.
This was also the reason why William walked around the house every time before an exorcism.
Lance nodded upon hearing this and took out a hand-drawn map.
William unfolded it.
The map showed that there was a swamp behind the castle, filled with rotten matter, making it difficult to pass under normal circumstances.
There were some scattered monster groups on both sides. Approaching the castle from these roads would inevitably mean encountering them.
Looking at it this way, only the road at the main entrance was the smoothest.
William pondered ways to deal with various demon hunter teams.
Cooper hounds were very strong in group combat. Relying on their keen sense of smell, prey could hardly escape.
This was the Cooper family's advantage, but over-reliance on this would also affect their judgment.
Other demon hunter families mainly used firearms and cold weapons; ordinary traps would hardly be effective against these people...
Soon, William had an idea.
To deal with that group of Cooper guys, he had to use hounds to lure them into the bait.
William took the three demon hunters to the side of the castle.
He set up a three-layer trap.
The first layer was just ordinary means, easily seen through.
When this trap is dismantled, the second layer of trap will be revealed. For example, some clues with the scent of a lair.
But this is also a diversion, aiming to hide the explosives in the third layer.
These equipments all came from the Allard family.
Their lethality is small, but they are easy to deploy and can incapacitate the victim for a short time.
Like breaking a leg, injuring a nose or something... William prepared dozens of such traps for the Cooper family, believing the other party would be satisfied.
As for other demon hunter teams.
"After all, you are all neighbors in Saint Frian; we can't make the relationship too stiff."
As William spoke, he stuffed a sonic bomb into a pile of monster intestines.
Then he tied rare monster materials to the other end of the fuse, with only a part exposed to the air.
"So just contaminating their weapons will do."
At the same time, William also laid down holy artifacts near the castle.
He remembered the evil aura that suddenly emerged when he met the Hive Queen earlier.
There might be other hidden stories behind this; it was better to be prepared.
Because preparations were sufficient this time, holy artifacts of different years were buried all around the perimeter of the castle.
Watching William's busy figure.
The throats of the three demon hunters rolled.
"Th... this guy is too insidious." The corner of Lance's mouth twitched.
He looked at a mound of earth where a wooden board was placed, with words written in monster filth—Trap Here.
But there was nothing under the mound; the real trap was in a position further forward.
When someone sees these words, the other party is actually already within the range of the trap.
If someone successfully passes, they will then encounter the same mound with the same wooden sign.
But this time, the trap is neither under the mound nor further forward.
Instead, it is on the small path aside, which happens to bypass the mound.
When the other party successfully passes again, they will encounter the third mound...
Raph also sweated for them in his heart.
"Does this guy really come from the Church? Why is what he does completely unrelated to the content promoted in the Bible?"
Sadie also looked at William with admiring eyes.
"I thought I knew him well enough; it seems I was too naive."
On this day, the three demon hunters learned a valuable lesson in the Plague Zone.
This also had an important impact on their future "career."
After completing the arrangement, the four returned to the castle entrance again.
Here, Lance told the three about the collected intelligence on the elite monster.
Then the group entered the castle and began the acquisition of the "Trait."
After another period of time, a huge noise rang out from inside.
The sound quickly spread along the castle, echoing everywhere in the Plague Zone.
A leather boot stepped heavily into the mud.
With a squelch, a leech that just popped its head out was squeezed out of its body fluids.
A demon hunter team approached the perimeter of the castle.
They heard the gunshots and knew someone had found the monster lair.
"Listening to this commotion, it shouldn't be over inside yet."
The leading demon hunter said holding a telescope.
At this time, there was movement nearby again.
The demon hunter immediately took out his gun, only to see another adventure team coming out of the dense forest.
"Calm down, Haywood family, now is not the time for 'infighting'." Theo Nias smiled sinisterly.
"So it's the villains of the Nias family." Cole Haywood snorted coldly.
"Speaking of 'villains,' we are far inferior to the Cooper family."
Theo Nias pointed to his clothes.
"My nose has suffered a lot along the way."
Cole Haywood didn't respond, but judging from his expression, he obviously had the same experience.
After that, several more demon hunter teams arrived nearby.
"Walker family, Weber family, Kaufman family..."
Theo Nias counted the origins of these people.
"It seems that everyone competing for the 'Trait' is here."
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