The sky was just dawning.

A figure shuttled through the dense forest, the forest here was really primeval forest, there was no sign of the road at all, if it weren't for Sauron's clothes were strong enough, it was estimated that he would have been cut several times after walking for a while. The woods are full of small animals, with squirrels and hares being the most abundant, followed by a variety of birds. I have to say that places without human activity are indeed full of life, no wonder the druids are so reluctant to destroy the forest by others.

For this reason, he even went to war several times, and killed many people.

Following the direction of the militia leader, Sauron soon came to the edge of the woods.

It was about noon.

There are obvious signs of felling nearby, and the sapient creatures of the wilderness also set up colonies, and some large gnolls have set up their own camps. Sauron didn't dare to get too close, because his current stealth ability was not yet invisible, but it would become hazy in the shadows and could not be detected without looking closely. As for sneaking behind enemies, it's a matter of skill and circumstance, especially for hostile creatures.

Stealth is not really a disappearance, and enemies who feel sensitive can still tell that someone is approaching.

The biggest advantage of stealth is that you can escape into the shadows at any time, and in many cases, once out of the enemy's sight, it is not so easy for him to find you.

Although the thief's backstabbing ability is powerful, it requires too many conditions to activate.

Sauron walked around the shadows, and he spotted three gnolls guarding them, and the large number of gnolls also included old and weak women and children, and some of them stayed behind to guard when they went out hunting for food in their prime. The gnolls do not have houses, they are fenced off with a circle of wood, and they know how to make fires and equipment, but only to make leather armor. The female gnoll will peel off the skin of her prey and sew it into leather armor in a rudimentary way.

Some gnolls will use weapons in combat, and if they are not advanced, they will still use minions.

"There are three guards, and there should be quite a few of them."

Sauron took out the crossbow and filled it with a poisoned crossbow bolt, which was impossible to sneak into in broad daylight, because the view around him was too good, and the gnolls could spot him just by looking at it. 150 points of stealth to achieve the effect of stealth-like magic, and it must be in the shadows, and he is still dozens of points short of skills. Although the effect of the quasi-stealth technique is invisible to the eye, the slight noise made when moving, as well as the movement of air, are still preserved.

So to deal with enemies who have mastered blind combat expertise and high perception, the skill points of stealth must be very high!

Sauron's goal was to gain killing experience, not to clear out this group of gnolls, so naturally there was no need to storm the camp, he hid in the nearby grass in a circle, and then crawled on the ground, touching it little by little. Swaggering head-on is useless, even with stealth on it, footprints when walking and things you step on will reveal your location, especially if it's waterlogged ground. When wizards cast invisibility, they will cooperate with light body techniques and oil on the soles of their feet.

The Shadow Plane will have some permanently invisible creatures that Sauron has fought with in the past, making them difficult enemies to entangle.

The gnoll wears leather armor on its body.

Sauron frowned and moved closer, if he didn't hit the vital point, the crossbow's lethality through the leather armor would be weakened, and even if he didn't plan to kill the enemy with the crossbow, he needed to make sure that the poison could seep into the bloodstream.

Suck!

A gnoll suddenly let out a scream, and the nearby guards were alarmed when they left, and even a noise could be heard from inside the camp.

Sauron quickly reloaded his crossbow bolts and fired them at the other gnolls that approached.

The venom of the bipedal wyvern can take effect quickly, he pulled out his scimitar and rushed over, these gnolls are level 3, and often have level 1-3 warrior abilities, it is not so easy to deal with.

"Whew!"

In the face of Sauron's surprise attack, the gnoll's first reaction was not to surround him, but to let out a wolf howl to summon his companions.

Gnolls don't stay in the colony all the time.

They seek out prey during the day, try to kill them if they are wild beasts, stalk them quietly if they are humanoids, and then sneak up on them in the evening and night.

As carnivores, they have a large appetite and can eat up no matter how much prey they have.

When very hungry, they also eat grassy mushrooms, and the gnolls spend most of their time hunting and preparing for the hunt.

A gnoll can eat as much as an adult tiger can eat when it lets go of its belly.

They are the most voracious and hungry creatures in the wild.

Three adult gnolls, one wielding minions, one armed with a bone creater, and one wielding a rudimentary mace.

Sauron's advantage is not obvious.

The creature can reach a height of about two meters and two, weighs about 300 pounds, has a head about the size of a coyote, and its skin is mostly gray, and its mane is a messy color, but the overall color is dark. Their strength and agility are higher than those of humans, and they can reach more than 15 points, but they have low intelligence, and there is a possibility of priests worshipping the god of the gnolls, but there are basically few wizards and warlocks.

A wolf howl in response could be heard in the distance.

Sauron raised his scimitar and slashed down, slashing at the gnoll's arm, cutting off half of his claws. There was a dull sound of breaking wind behind him, and he didn't have time to dodge, so he could only roll forward, and at the same time slashed the ankle of the gnoll with his sword, and only a third of the venom of the two-legged wyvern remained, which he had already smeared on the scimitar in advance.

Touch!

The mace smashed into the ground, smashing out a pit, and if it landed on the head, it would be a splatter. Many of them prefer to use heavy weapons because they are easy to smash bones, and bone marrow is a supreme delicacy for gnolls. A distinctly smaller gnoll rushed out, along with two small coyotes.

- Shadow Attack.

Sauron, anticipating the number of enemies, swung around and stabbed the gnolls who had been poisoned at first.

A row of numbers jù emerges:

"Kill the Gnoll Warriors! ……”

"Death to the target! …… Earn 270 Kill XP! ……”

Call!

The sound of the weapon breaking in the air sounded, Sauron swung his knife to block, the figure took a step back, he kicked his legs forward in an instant, and directly crashed into the arms of the jackal from the front, a disgusting smell and fishy smell hit his nose, he did not hesitate to stab the scimitar into the opponent's abdomen, and then twisted his waist and moved horizontally to directly cut a twenty centimeter long hole, and a large area of blood and intestines overflowed. The gnoll, who had been injured so badly, was not yet killed, and it shoved its intestines back with its claws, and smashed it again with a bone crusher hammer.

A throwing knife was flung out.

Instantly hit the opponent in the throat, which finally became the last straw that crushed the enemy, and the jackal let out a low roar, fell to his knees weakly, and then fell down with a thud.

Blood spilled in large flakes, and intestines spilled onto the ground.

The coyote howl swooped down on Sauron's leg, and he twisted and kicked it out, kicking it away, and then the scimitar blocked the attack from the side, the force of which forced him to unload on one knee, and then the horizontal knife deflected the opponent's weapon, and as he twisted and stride, the scimitar cut a cut in the opponent's leg.

Another coyote pounced, biting down on his throat with a bloody mouth.

Sauron slammed the hilt of his knife in an instant, hitting the coyote in the nose on the spot, a splash of blood, and although the injury was not fatal, the pain made the coyote howl and retreat.

In the distance, wolf howls could be heard one after another, and it looked like the hunting gnolls were coming back.

Sauron pounced on the last of the gnoll warriors, and the venom of the wyvern had already begun to take effect, and the opponent's reaction speed slowed down significantly.

"Die!"

In a split second between the two figures, Sauron fell to his knees and slid forward to avoid the mace, then grabbed the scimitar with both hands and slashed back at one of the opponent's legs.

The gnoll who rushed forward lost his balance in an instant, and one of his legs had been severed in a large amount of blood gushing out.

Clang!

The smaller she-wolf pounced on Sauron, knocking him to the ground, her sharp fangs biting down on his throat, but Sauron turned his head in an instant, and the other party bit on the leather armor on his shoulder. The sharp fangs pierced the leather armor, but not the shoulder, but the skin.

Poof!

A splash of blood splattered, and Sauron streaked out with all his might, and while staring the she-wolf away, he slashed off a wolf's head with a knife in his backhand.

Suck!

He calmly reloaded his crossbow bolts and shot the last of the gnoll guards who crawled to death, and the coyote ran away with a wail, being shot in the waist by an arrow from him. The gnolls in the distance had returned, and the sound was about five hundred meters away from Sauron. He clenched his scimitar and entered the camp, a circle of wolf cubs staring at him with fierce eyes, occasionally letting out a menacing growl.

Blood splattered.

Sauron struck five wolf cubs less than a year or two old with a swing of his sword, and then quickly escaped into the forest, blending into the shadows.

The battle has just begun.

He had to make the gnolls completely lose their minds so that he could kill more targets.

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