Gaiden Chapter 5: Secrets in the Jungle (5)
"Roar!"
Only on all fours, the thorn valley female tiger with a shoulder height close to her chest bit into the air, and without hesitation, she raised a front paw and swept out, but in front of him was no longer the guy who almost cut her throat before, but a figure with a pale white body and a little blurry.
The whistling front paws slapped against the body of the past with the wind, and it had little effect. The physical damage reduction provided by the Ghost Template caused the Past to lose less than 200 health and immunity to the knockout effects of this attack.
The tigress wanted to turn around and continue attacking Alan, who had already circled behind her, but the dagger from the past with the wind once again threatened her neck, where Alan's bloody wound had been left, and the flesh under her fur was even rolled out.
So the mighty-looking Tiger of Thorn Valley had to turn her attention to the wind, because now, this enemy was threatening her life. However, when she managed to defuse the crisis and was about to pounce the damned foe to the ground, Alan struck from a dead corner in the back of the flank, still targeting the wound in her neck.
Two minutes later, the tigress who had suffocated due to her severed trachea turned into a corpse, with barely visible wounds visible on the two undead.
Although he has seen the same scene many times in the past few days, Charlie still looked at all this happening in front of him with a shocked face, it was a female tiger in the Valley of Thorns, a powerful monster with a strength of more than 80 levels of 4th order, even those hunting teams organized by the big guilds could only rely on tacit cooperation and gather the strength of a whole squad to ensure the victory of such an enemy, and the losses paid and the props used in the battle would not be less.
And the two undead in front of them easily killed the female tiger just by relying on the simple cooperation of constantly changing positions between each other. How could such a reality convince Charlie!
Charlie's shock as a guide wasn't something they needed to think about, in fact, it wasn't the first time they had used a combat style like this. Except for those enemies with a high IQ level,Ordinary monsters' judgment of hatred is actually not complicated,Many people think that the hatred of these monsters will be fixed on the target that causes the most damage,But in fact,Monsters will subconsciously judge whose attack will cause fatal damage to him,So as to focus their attention on that targetγ
Both Alan and Past Wind have the ability to kill the Tiger Tiger in Thorn Valley with one blow, and they will not attack easily, but every time they launch, they will definitely pose a fatal threat to this monster, which causes the Tiger to switch her attention back and forth between the two, which not only distracts her ability to fight back, but also ensures the safety of the two.
Compared with the normal combat mode in which ordinary players rely on a few high-defense and high-HP tank top monsters and others output with all their might, Alan's fighting style naturally makes Charlie feel incredible.
After a brief handling of the corpse, the past asked casually, "Where are we now?" β
Alan spread out the map in his hand and roughly determined the direction on it: "It's almost the middle area of the Valley of Thorns." The valley we passed through yesterday should be the Misty Valley, and the closest thing to us now should be a place called the ruins of Jubvar. β
In fact, they're now at a distance far beyond the reach ever detected by the Grand Guilds, and no player has ever reached the area since the Misty Hollow. Charlie could hardly believe that he would one day be able to reach such a deep place safely.
"The ruins of the Gulabash Empire?"
"That's right!" Alan made a simple mark on the map, "Based on the information provided by the goblin boss before leaving, we should have entered the troll's territory." From here until the ruins of Zumawi, it is the territory of the skull-splitting trolls. β
"Wow! Sounds like a pretty majestic name! Charlie, do you know this so-called skull-splitting troll? β
Charlie nodded, the big package he was carrying when he set off had shrunk by more than half, and now it looked like a small hiking bag that he was strapped to his back, which contained food, water, and replacement equipment and other materials he had prepared, because this time he was not following the movement of a large army, so these supplies necessary for survival could only be carried by himself: "I have heard. The Skull-splitting Trolls and Blood-Topped Trolls are the two most numerous troll clans in Thorn Valley, and they are hostile to each other. However, we players don't have any willingness to communicate, and after meeting, we are basically in a relationship where you die or I live. β
After a pause, Charlie continued in an uncertain tone: "I've only followed the hunting teams of those big guilds twice, you know, ordinary players like me have neither skill nor status, they can only pick up the scraps of those big guilds, most of the time it's a few friends of the same level walking along the coastline together, it's safer, and if you're lucky, you can even run into one or two lonely monsters." However, I've heard the elite players of the Grand Guild say that the Bloodtop Trolls have a handful of hairs on the top of their heads that look like they have blood, which is easy to recognize, and the Skull-Splitting Trolls have longer and smoother fangs, unlike the Bloodtop Trolls who like to wear ornaments on their fangs. β
"Well, it looks like you haven't died so many times in vain!" Although the information is very simple, Alan is already very satisfied with it, the information Charlie said, plus the information he heard from the goblin boss, combined with some of the content provided by Yu Bin at the beginning, Alan can already roughly outline the situation in Thorn Valley.
After the destruction of the Gulabash Empire, the trolls in the Valley of Thorns were obviously divided into two major factions, and after a whole era of changes, countless small tribes were destroyed, annexed, and perished, and finally formed two major troll tribes, the Bloodtop and the Skull, the former mainly operated in the area near the coast and mountains in the Valley of Thorns, with the ruins of Barar and Zukunda as settlements, while the latter controlled the central and southern parts of the Valley of Thorns, and the range of activities was roughly distributed in the primeval jungle between the ruins of Jubwal and the ruins of Zumawi.
Nearly everyone, including goblins, believe that the Bloodtop Trolls and the Skull-splitting Trolls have been fighting for control of the Valley of Thorns for countless years, and that both troll tribes consider themselves the heirs of the Gulabash Empire to wipe each other out once and for all. But now I'm afraid only Yu Bin knows that there is a very terrifying force hidden in the Valley of Thorns.
The two major troll empires, the Amani Empire, have indeed been destroyed, and the Tanaris region, which was originally full of forests and has a pleasant climate, is now a desert that is not suitable for survival at all. But the Gulabash Empire was not completely destroyed, and the powerful Troll Empire made a decision that surprised everyone after learning that the Amani Empire had been destroyed by the elves.
The Gulabash tribe, who ruled the Gulabash Empire, recalled their own people from the various cities scattered throughout the Valley of Thorns and gathered them to the birthplace of the Gulabash trolls, located in Zurghrab, east of Lake Neferiti, and sealed the city with voodoo magic.
Without the suppression of the Gulabash tribe, the troll tribes that were originally under the management of the empire became independent and fought against each other for a long time, while the Gulabash trolls hiding in Zurghrab waited for the right time while expanding the population of the tribe.
In the previous life, it was not until the fourth year after the world of Entagri was fully opened that the Gulabash trolls lifted the spell and conquered the entire Valley of Thorns in one fell swoop with the power of thunder, and even destroyed most of the Treasure Bay.
Even so, after conquering the Valley of Thorns, the Gulabash trolls, with Zur Grab as their capital, immediately announced the resurrection of the Gulabash Empire, and tried to break out of this primeval forest, rule the entire continent like the original elves, and restore the glory of the trolls.
The problem is that the situation on the continent today is very different from that time. During the First Age, the withdrawal of the ancient creatures caused a huge power vacuum on the entire continent, and there were almost no super-sized powerhouses in various races, so the elves were able to quickly occupy the legacy left by the original owner, and finally established a great elven empire that suppressed an entire era.
Today, the two camps are constantly evolving in countless wars, with powerful players emerging one after another, and technological development is changing with each passing day. The Gulabash trolls thought that they would be able to accumulate enough power by hiding in Zulghrab for tens of thousands of years to recuperate, but they didn't know that this was completely behind closed doors, so they were self-contained.
The Goblins, enraged by the tragedy of Treasure Bay, gathered a large number of mercenaries and helpers at any cost, and with the covert support of the elves, it took less than two months to defeat the army of the Gulabash trolls, and even stormed into Zulghrab to carry out a massacre. Since then, the ancient troll tribe has been in decline, numbering less than a thousand, and the ancient troll city of Zulghrab has been sacked several times by goblins and mercenaries.
When Yu Bin recalled all this, he had to admit that the troll's head was indeed not good. It wasn't for nothing that I was pressed to the ground by those long-eared people in the first place.
But there are two sides to the story. The Gulabash trolls hiding in Zur Grab do have bad intentions, and at this time of day, it is the eve of their grand appearance with a loud bang, and the ambitious Gulabash trolls are preparing to make a blockbuster. But tens of thousands of years of self-isolation have not only protected the lives of these trolls and allowed their numbers to grow rapidly, but they have also blocked their access to information, and they have no eyes to the outside world.
Earlier, Alan had said to the past that he could deal with the trolls if necessary, but in reality, the trolls he was referring to were neither blood-topped trolls nor skull-splitting trolls, but the Gulabash trolls hiding in Zurghrab. According to Yu Bin, the Gulabash trolls used to be the ruling class of the Gulabash Empire, and compared to other low-status troll tribes, the Gulabash trolls are more civilized, and they are more likely to be willing to communicate with Ailan and them, and even make some intelligence and material transactions.
Of course, the Gulabash trolls are very limited, no matter how civilized they are. The nature of trolls means that these guys can't do what they do.
If possible, Alan is actually reluctant to deal with those trolls, as a member of the chaos camp, Alan is no stranger to trolls. But whether it's the Dark Pine Trolls who live in the Hillsbrad Hills or the Dark Spear Trolls who live in the Barrens, there is only one impression left on Alan, and that is savagery.
Even the Darkspear Trolls, considered the most civilized, still maintain a cannibalistic tradition, but they don't eat so often, only three times a month, and each time they eat they are carefully cooked. According to the goblin boss, the skull-splitting trolls still eat raw, and even eat their own people when they are too hungry.
Alan couldn't guarantee how civilized those Gulabash trolls were, maybe they would pray before they ate people? Fortunately, he and the past are undead and not in the troll's recipe, so don't worry about that.
But the two of them have not found any trace of the ghost leopard since they entered the jungle, so you can imagine how rare this creature is, and time is not very abundant for them.
"What's next?" Alan didn't hide his plans and yearning for it, so the German guy took advantage of Charlie's break and asked Alan in a low voice, "It's been three days, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to drag it out any longer, right?" Why don't we try our luck with the trolls? β
Alan glanced at Charlie and nodded helplessly: "That's it!" In another two hours, it would be time for him to go offline and regain his soul energy. Taking advantage of this opportunity, take him along the riverbank, which is not far from Lake Neferiti. After crossing the lake, he couldn't help it. β
"Good! I'll be in charge of opening the way, you take him with you, and throw away all the useless things, or the load will be too heavy! β
The past is naturally referring to Charlie's equipment and his package.
"At least for us, there's good news." Alan said with a smile, "When Ice Whisper was offline yesterday, I was told that the players of Booty Cove seem to believe that there is a big treasure deep in the jungle, and now there are at least a thousand people looking for traces of the treasure everywhere behind our butts. Those skull-splitting trolls won't miss this good opportunity to stock up on food, and we may be able to take the rest of the road a little easier. β
"No wonder I haven't seen any trolls until now, so I have all gone to the banquet! That's a good thank you to those guys for their selfless dedication. β