Chapter 1 The Mountain Troll

Having learned these detailed pieces of information about the mountain troll, Fang Senyan felt more confident. He started preparing to do his job, which was to lure the monster into the trap. Of course, he wouldn't be as stupid as the Symbiosis Society idiots, who would wave a bloody dead deer around the entrance, risking their lives. Instead, he lurked in the distance, using the Nightmare Imprint's space to cut the deer into four bloody pieces. Then, he placed the first chunk of meat on the road three hundred meters away from the mountain troll's lair.

Fang Senyan observed the surroundings for a while, making sure the mountain troll didn't notice the meat. Then, he moved forward and placed another chunk of meat on the road one hundred and fifty meters away.

The mountain troll remained still.

Fang Senyan took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and advanced to seventy-five meters away. He waited a little longer, vaguely hearing the mountain troll grunt a few times in its lair, but it fell back asleep. It seemed that this was the critical point. Fang Senyan placed the remaining pieces of deer meat at fifty-meter intervals along the road, with the farthest one two hundred meters away from the lair, then one at one hundred and fifty meters, one at one hundred meters, and finally, Fang Senyan, standing at the seventy-five-meter mark, threw the last piece of deer meat forcefully into the mountain troll's lair.

His strength was at least 13 points now, almost three times that of an ordinary person. This large, bloody piece of deer meat was thrown nearly thirty meters. The mountain troll, who was sound asleep, twitched its thick nostrils a few times and immediately jumped up. It let out a low, greedy roar from deep within its throat, then staggered to its feet and lumbered out.

As expected, the mountain troll immediately spotted the delicious meat, greedily grabbed it, and devoured it, not caring about the mud. Blood and mud splattered from the giant monster's mouth, making it look particularly terrifying. The mountain troll's appetite was astonishing. This large piece of meat, weighing at least ten kilograms, was barely enough to fill its teeth. After eating, the mountain troll was refreshed, completely awake. Its thick nostrils twitched greedily again, and it found another large chunk of meat fifty meters away on the road, and lumbered towards it.

By the time the mountain troll found the fourth piece of deer meat, Fang Senyan had bought himself two hundred meters of safety time. Of course, Fang Senyan had considered cutting the deer into even smaller pieces and luring it directly back to the trap, but if the deer's corpse was cut into too small pieces, the mountain troll would simply ignore it, wasting the prey. Perhaps killing more large prey to create more bait would also be a good idea, but unfortunately, this area was also the habitat of centaurs. These fast-moving, gregarious humanoids also had a habit of hunting large animals, and the large and medium-sized creatures around the Forbidden Forest had already been hunted to extinction. Even small animals like rabbits were almost extinct, so Fang Senyan's group of contractors simply couldn't catch prey nearby. Even the deer used as bait had been painstakingly obtained from afar by the leader of the Symbiosis Society.

When the last part of the poor deer disappeared into the mountain troll's mouth, Fang Senyan sighed and slapped his shoe. Five needles were stuck into the side of the shoe, and this insignificant damage successfully activated the Obsidian Fossil Anchor's attribute, bringing him to his strongest state! He walked out from behind the hidden tree, finally facing the powerful and foul-smelling giant monster. As soon as he faced the active mountain troll, Fang Senyan immediately felt an extremely strong sense of danger, obviously a warning from his perception of 14 points, but his eyes focused directly, abandoning all distracting thoughts!

The mountain troll let out an excited roar when it saw the fresh food! Fang Senyan turned and ran without hesitation. Despite the impending crisis, Fang Senyan felt an indescribable feeling all over his body, as if he had been injected with stimulants, and his thoughts were particularly clear. This gave him a strong desire to conquer the danger that was about to come! This had nothing to do with personal strength, but was determined by each person's innate character and traits. Even in the real world, there were often people like this: the stronger the opponent, the bigger the scene, the greater the pressure, the better this kind of person performed. They were born for big scenes!

The rain was still cold, but in the light rain, Fang Senyan threw something black and round, about the size of an orange, trailing a long plume of smoke. It was a grenade! An S-G3 fragmentation ceramic grenade known as the "infantry nightmare"!

The grenade flew twenty meters and fell into the mud, landing right between the mountain troll's thick legs.

The giant monster was stunned, curiously grabbed the thing, and held it up to its eyes.

With a loud bang, the mountain troll's shrill and painful roar shook the leaves of the entire forest, and the grenade exploded in front of its eyes, with thousands of fragments flying, cutting terrible wounds on its head. Pale blue blood gushed out, causing the mountain troll to hold its head and shake it non-stop. After a while, it raised its head, its bloodshot triangular eyes filled with vicious hatred, and started running madly after Fang Senyan, who was already fleeing for his life.

Fang Senyan ran as hard as he could, but he was soon surprised to find that the distance between him and the mountain troll was still shrinking relentlessly!

His movement speed at this time mainly came from three points: first, his own 10 points of agility, which was the main source of his speed, second, the 28% speed bonus from Endless Vodka, and third, the increase from Basic Footwork Lv4. Converted, Fang Senyan's movement speed should be equivalent to 15 points of agility, almost twice that of the mountain troll with 8 points of agility! Why couldn't he outrun the mountain troll?

After careful observation, Fang Senyan realized that because of the heavy rain, the road trampled out by the mountain troll was already muddy and slippery. When Fang Senyan ran on it, he slipped and stumbled every step, and his movement speed was indirectly reduced by at least 1/3. The mountain troll's bare, wide feet sank deeply into the ground below, at least a foot deep, providing stable footing. In addition, its stride was very long, and each step was almost equivalent to three steps of Fang Senyan! This was the main reason why the mountain troll could surpass him in speed.

To put it simply, if Fang Senyan ran 100 meters on this road, he would have to take 100 steps, and each step had a 1/10 chance of slipping and slowing down. Then, Fang Senyan would slip 10 times and slow down in these 100 meters. If the mountain troll ran these 100 meters, it would only need to take 30 steps.

Moreover, its wide feet resulted in strong balance, and each step only had a 1/20 chance of slipping. Calculated, the mountain troll would only slip once in these 100 meters. With all these factors combined, it was natural for it to catch up—of course, this showed the importance of the extra characteristic when drawing Lv4 Basic Footwork at that time: the slowing effect in harsh terrain (deserts, swamps...) is reduced by 33%.

The "thump thump" sound behind him grew louder and louder, and the ground began to vibrate slightly. Although Fang Senyan didn't look back, the strong stench in his nose indicated that the mountain troll chasing behind him was close at hand. Fortunately, some small arrangements Fang Senyan had made when he came had now come into play. He suddenly turned and plunged into the bushes beside the road!

The bushes by the roadside were not the kind of large shrubs with strong paralytic toxins, but they were also very dense and lush. If a person wanted to walk through them normally, they would have to bring a machete to clear the way. But for a monster like the mountain troll, which had terrifying power and thick skin, it could rampage through them without restraint, and the effect of these shrubs was negligible. Therefore, Fang Senyan's action of leaving the road directly was simply courting death under normal circumstances.

However, Fang Senyan had made preparations! After he plunged into the bushes, he slightly bent his legs and then pushed hard! Mud splashed everywhere within a ten-square-meter radius under his feet, shooting seven or eight meters away. He also used this push to jump high, and with a flash of cold light in his hand, he used an ordinary dagger to cut the vines that had been tied between the trees in advance, swinging between the trees like Tarzan for more than ten meters, and then jumped and swung several times to return to the road he had been on. However, in this instant, Fang Senyan widened the distance between himself and the mountain troll, which was a relief.

When Fang Senyan repeated this behavior several times, the mountain troll let out an extremely angry roar, suddenly stopped chasing, and instead opened its thick arms and grabbed a large tree next to it! It bared its yellow teeth, and viscous saliva flowed from the gaps in its teeth. The blood vessels on its thick arms bulged one by one, and then he felt the ground begin to tremble uneasily. The tree swayed and let out a wail from its roots, and then with a crash, a huge pit appeared on the ground, with soil splashing everywhere! The tree was uprooted!

The mountain troll broke off the crown of the tree by biting and gnawing, waved it a few times in its hand, obviously very satisfied, and then roared at Fang Senyan in the distance, and dragged its weapon and rushed to chase again. Wherever this mountain troll passed, its big feet splashed mud everywhere on the ground, and even the trees on both sides of the road were covered with mud, almost like a giant sprinkler truck speeding by, which was really powerful!