After understanding the details of the mountain troll, Sheyan's heart had a plan. He started to prepare for his job, planning to lure this troll into the trap. Of course, he wouldn't be as foolish as those idiots from the Symbiosis sect. He wouldn't bring that bloody deer to the cave entrance and play with his life. Instead, he first concealed himself far away, using his nightmare imprint to slice the deer into 4 bloody pieces. Then he placed the first piece of meat 300 metres away from the mountain troll's lair.
Sheyan observed for a moment, confirming that the mountain troll hadn't discovered this piece of meat. He then continued advancing, placing the meat 150 metres away.
The mountain troll still didn't move.
Sheyan took a deep breath, gritting his teeth, advancing to 75 metres. After waiting for a while, he could faintly hear the mountain troll groaning from within the lair, but it went back to sleep. It seems like this should be a place close to the critical point. Sheyan then placed the previously sliced pieces of deer meat on the main road according to a 50 metre spacing. The furthest distance was 200 metres from the mountain troll lair, then 150 metres, 100 metres. Finally, Sheyan stood at the 75 metre critical point, tossing the last piece of deer meat into the mountain troll lair.
His current strength was at least 13 points, close to 3 times that of an average human. This huge chunk of mangled deer meat was flung nearly 30 metres away. The originally sleeping mountain troll's fleshy nose twitched a few times as it immediately jumped up. Releasing a deep and greedy roar from its throat, it then staggeringly stood up and walked out in large strides.
Naturally, the mountain troll discovered that delicious piece of meat. It greedily grabbed it, ignoring the muddy water as it chewed and swallowed. Blood and muddy water flowed out from the troll's mouth, looking exceptionally horrifying. The mountain troll's appetite was astonishing. This large piece of meat weighed at least 5 kilograms, but to it, it was merely enough to fill the gaps between its teeth. After finishing, this mountain troll was brimming with energy, its drowsiness completely gone. Its fleshy nostrils once again fanned greedily, finding another large piece of meat 50 metres away. Immediately, it rumbled over with large strides.
When the mountain troll found the 4th piece of deer meat, Sheyan had already obtained 200 metres of safety. Of course, it wasn't that Sheyan didn't consider the possibility of directly cutting the deer into smaller pieces to lure it back to the trap. But if he did that, the deer's carcass would be too small and the mountain troll wouldn't even spare it a glance, wasting this prey. Perhaps hunting more large prey to create more bait was a good idea. Regretfully, this area was also a centaur's habitat. These travelling like the wind and living in groups had the habit of hunting large animals. The large and medium sized animals around the forbidden forest had long been hunted down, even small animals like wild rabbits were extinct. Therefore, Sheyan and the rest of the contestants had no way of catching any prey. Even the deer as bait was obtained from afar by the Symbiosis sect's leader.
When the last piece of the pitiful deer disappeared into the mountain troll's mouth, Sheyan sighed. He slapped his shoe, the side of his shoe was pierced with 5 needles. This negligible damage had successfully activated the obsidian fossilised anchor's ability, allowing him to reach his strongest state! He walked out from his hiding spot behind a large tree. Finally, he was about to face this powerful and stinking giant monster. Once he faced the mountain troll, Sheyan immediately felt an intense sense of danger. Obviously, his high 14 points of perceptive sensing was warning him. But his eyes focused, his mind was undistracted, discarding all distracting thoughts!
Seeing fresh prey, the mountain troll let out an excited roar! Sheyan didn't hesitate to turn and flee. Even though danger was approaching, Sheyan's body felt an indescribable sensation, as though he was injected with stimulants. His thoughts were exceptionally clear. This made him feel a strong desire to conquer the danger that was about to come! This had nothing to do with one's personal strength, but was determined by one's innate character and trait. Even in the present world, there were people like this: The stronger the opponent, the bigger the situation, the heavier the pressure. This type of person's performance would be better, they were born for big situations!
The drizzle was still icy cold, but amidst the drizzle, Sheyan tossed out a black round object the size of an orange, trailing a long trail of smoke behind it. That was shockingly a hand grenade! It was an S-G3 ceramic fragmentation grenade known as the "nightmare of infantry"!
After this hand grenade flew 20 metres, it fell into the muddy water, coincidentally landing in between the mountain troll's thick legs.
The giant troll was stunned, curiously reaching out to grab the object and raising it in front of its eyes.
"Boom!" The mountain troll's mournful and painful roar shook the entire forest. That grenade exploded in front of its eyes. Millions of fragments flew out, carving out an incomparably tragic wound on its head. Light blue blood gushed out, causing the mountain troll to shake its head non-stop. After a while, it raised its head, a pair of bloodshot triangular eyes brimming with venomous hatred. Aiming at the fleeing Sheyan, it frantically chased after him.
Sheyan sprinted with all his might, but to his astonishment, the distance between him and the mountain troll was mercilessly shortening!
His current movement speed mainly came from 3 points. Firstly, his 10 points of agility, which was the main source of his speed. Secondly, the 28% bonus from the 'Endless Vodka', and lastly, the increase from his' Basic Footwork 'lvl 4. After conversion, Sheyan's current movement speed should be equivalent to 15 points of agility, almost twice the speed of the mountain troll with 8 points of agility! Why couldn't he outrun the mountain troll?
After careful observation, Sheyan finally understood. Because of the torrential rain, the path created by the mountain troll was already muddy and slippery. Sheyan's movement speed had dropped by at least 1/3. When the mountain troll stomped down with its bare feet, muddy water splashed everywhere as it sunk a foot deep into the ground. Its stance was extremely stable, and the distance between its steps was extremely large. Every step it took was equivalent to three of Sheyan's steps! This was the main reason why the mountain troll was able to surpass him in terms of speed.
Citing a simple example, if Sheyan ran 100 metres on this path, he would need to take 100 steps. Every step he took had a 1/10 chance of slipping and reducing his speed. Then in this 100 metres, Sheyan would have to slip 10 times to reduce his speed. But for this 100 metres, the mountain troll only needed to take 30 steps.
Furthermore, its wide feet gave it a strong balance, every step had a 1/20 chance of slipping. Calculating this, the mountain troll would only slip once in this 100 metres. Under such circumstances, naturally catching up was expected. Of course at this moment, when he obtained the lv4 basic footwork skill, the additional characteristic of reducing movement speed by 33% in vile terrains (deserts, swamps … …) was extremely important.
The thumping sounds from behind became louder, the ground started to tremble slightly. Although Sheyan didn't turn back, his nose could smell an intense stench. The mountain troll was just an inch away. Fortunately, Sheyan's little preparations were put to good use. He abruptly turned, deviating from the path and diving into a nearby thicket!
The thicket by the road wasn't a huge shrub with a strong paralysing poison, but it was still extremely dense and lush. If a person wanted to walk normally, he would have to use a chopper to open a path. But to the mountain troll with its terrifying strength and thick skin, it could rampage around without any restraint. The effect of these shrubs was negligible. Hence, Sheyan's action of deviating from the main path, under normal circumstances, was simply courting death.
But, Sheyan had already made preparations! After diving into the nearby thicket, he bent his legs slightly and kicked off with force! The mud with a radius of ten square meters under his feet suddenly splashed in all directions, shooting seven to eight meters away. He also used the force of this kick to jump high. With a flash of cold light in his hand, he used an ordinary dagger to cut the vines that were tied between the trees in advance. Like the ape Tarzan, he flew more than ten meters between the trees. After that, he continued to jump and swing for a few more times before returning to the previous path. But at this moment, Sheyan once again pulled apart the distance between him and the mountain troll, heaving a sigh of relief.
After repeating this action a few times, the mountain troll released an incomparably furious roar. It suddenly stopped in its tracks, spreading out its thick arms and grabbing onto a nearby tree! It bared its yellowed teeth, sticky saliva continuously flowing out from its teeth. The blood vessels on its thick arms protruded out one by one. Then, the ground started to tremble uneasily. That tree swayed and released a mournful wail from its roots. With a crash, a huge hole appeared on the ground, mud splashing everywhere! That tree had actually been uprooted!
The mountain troll gnawed and tore off the treetop, waving it around in its hands. It was obviously satisfied. It then looked towards the distant Sheyan and released a furious roar. Dragging its weapon, it once again chased after him. Wherever the mountain troll passed, its huge feet splashed mud everywhere. Even the trees on both sides of the road were splashed with mud. It was as though a gigantic water truck was speeding past, its might was boundless! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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