Chapter 247 Ice Demon and Big
Tursek The soldiers formed a formation in the middle of the wide cave hall as soon as they left the tunnel. The distant sounds that had just been heard in the tunnel and the strange sounds in the cave at the moment The smell made them immediately take a fighting stance.
The corners of East's eyes twitched, it was the uncontrollable anger.
The new king of Skellige roared: "Fire arrows!"
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To deal with monsters like trolls with solid carapace, the best way is to bluntly attack them and use a war hammer. It would be even better if the impact of galloping horses could be added.
If that doesn't work, you can just ask a few people to cover it with a thick net soaked in oil, and then let the soldiers surround it and dig it out.
You can even use a shield to shoot or create dizziness - at least it is better than the long swords and short axes held by the soldiers now. It is true that the
hundreds of people brought out by East are too hasty, and they accept daily His training is all about fighting with people, not special attacks against monsters. At this moment, testing with arrow rain has become the best choice.
The five trolls in the cave immediately rolled their bodies into balls like hedgehogs after hearing East's order, but what was attached to their bodies was not hedgehog-like biological horny, but solid solid matter. Ice and rocks.
The sound of "Ding Ding Dang" is endless. The arrows of fine forged and heavy ice rocks are constantly colliding, making a crispy ring like forging iron, Mars paid up, leaving scratches.
Milva struggled to draw her exaggerated longbow behind Lan, and shot arrows like meteors in a burst of tooth-aching tension.
"Ding - click!" The entire arrowhead was directly buried in the rock layer on the surface of the ice troll's skin. The arrow shaft could not withstand the huge reaction force and exploded directly from it, making the ice troll's body tremble slightly. But it didn't scream, and it obviously didn't touch flesh.
Milva curled her lips, made a "cut" sound, and drew her bow again in an attempt to find the gap between the ice and rocks on the ice troll's back, causing substantial damage.
Although these ice trolls have slow thinking, their reactions as predators are extremely fast. Without the existence of ice giants, they would have been at the top of the food chain, and the appearance of ice giants has revived their ability to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
Facing such a large number of human soldiers at this moment, the sense of crisis has long overshadowed the sense of hunger. So these ice trolls chose the most direct strategy - run!
They simply stayed in the state of a ball of stones and rolled up. This cave hall is connected to several different corridors, and they are also divided into separate routes, just for escape.
Their actions seem a little funny when described in words, but only when you actually face these ice trolls can you feel the terrifying evil momentum. A huge stone that was taller than a man rolled at the speed of a chariot, and the huge force contained therein was definitely not something that could be stopped by human strength.
——With human power.
The soldiers had dispersed long ago, the archers continued to shoot, and the shield guards were responsible for blocking the corridors to prevent the enemy from escaping. They faced the astonishingly powerful ice trolls, and it seemed that together they could even break open the city gate.
However, they faced the enemy without retreating. They just dug the tip of the long shield in their hands into the rock mud, trying to block the enemy's progress with a man-made wall.
Just as they were resolutely trying to face the impact, a huge purple halo magic circle suddenly spread out throughout the cave hall.
For human soldiers, this magic circle just adds a little more light to their field of vision; but for these ice trolls, it is a life-threatening talisman.
The sluggish magic clung to their bodies in an instant, and their astonishing rolling became sluggish the next second; then, blazing white lightning struck the side of the rolling ice rock ball, arrogantly rolling over it. Their forward route changed, and their bodies tilted and hit the rock wall on the side.
[Yaden Sigil·Magic Trap]!
"Ugh..." Two trolls opened the rock shell slightly in a daze. How could the archers and Milva who were watching the battlefield miss such a good opportunity? The bows and arrows cut through the darkness like a cluster, turning these ice trolls into real hedgehogs in an instant - except that their spines grew on the front.
Terrifying screams began to echo in the cave, causing the remaining trolls, who were already dizzy, to tighten their grip, trying to hide from harm by acting like a shrunken turtle.
This can indeed block the sharp teeth of the wild beasts they usually encounter, and it is also enough to block human swords.
However, the soldiers of the archipelago retreated, and the witchers surrounded them.
Three trolls and five witchers.
Geralt and Cohen surrounded one end, both of them holding a sword with their left hand and right hand; the gryphon school demon hunter used the [Igni Sign] and began to restrain and continue to spray a pillar of fire, burning the group into a mass. The ice troll formed a group; and the white wolf's left hand began to emit a faint white light as a preparation, just waiting for the ice troll to be unable to withstand the blazing heat and reveal its head.
Kolgrim and Gerd surrounded one end. The snake-sect demon hunter took out an alchemy bottle filled with poison and began to pour it into the cracks in the ice rock. Dangerous green smoke came out from time to time. The bear-sect demon hunter gave I applied a layer of [Quen's Seal] myself, and then firmly held down the ice troll who started to tremble, but I didn't want the other party to stretch out at this moment.
Lann stood next to the last troll, holding the Lake Lady's Sword high above his head. The golden light seemed to be holding a golden torch, and he began to accumulate power unscrupulously.
After a few breaths.
With a "ouch" sound, the ice troll surrounded by snakes and bears was the first to be unable to hold on. The entire ice rock ball began to tremble violently amid a burst of "sizzling" corrosion sounds, but this huge stone was blocked. De was holding on tight and unable to relax. Only when Gede couldn't feel the opponent's struggle anymore did he let go, causing the whole troll to collapse like mud.
Then came the troll that was concocted by wolves and griffons. It roared and waved its fists and struggled under the flames that looked like barbecues, but was nimbly dodged by the two demon hunters. The [Axi Sigil] held by Geralt with his left hand invaded the ice troll's brain in the next second, and then the two silver swords penetrated its chest and neck respectively.
As for Lann, the Sword of the Lake Lady in his hand became brighter and brighter, making the entire cave seem like it was exposed to direct sunlight in the open air.
With a low cry, the runes on the long sword finally shone to the extreme. The archipelago soldiers who had been staring closely at this legendary weapon only felt that their vision briefly turned gray.
It felt like the wind was being torn apart in the air. When they opened their eyes again, the soldiers only saw the troll that was so hard that it might take a battering ram to break it open. The outer shell had been ripped apart like the dough of a sandwich pie. It was neatly divided into two halves, revealing the disgusting flesh and blood inside.
Following the direction in which Duke Lannister swung his sword, the ice mud under the ice troll's body and the rock wall five steps away from the ice troll also left deep sword marks, as if an invisible giant had just stood there. Behind the Duke, he swung the sword for him.
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Looking at the body of the ice troll, Lann sighed softly.
It can be seen from the actions of the trolls in dealing with the soldiers just now. In the absence of special countermeasures, this kind of monster can still come and go freely in the face of mortal soldiers even ten times their size. And without the help of the demon hunters, the crazy attack of these five trolls would definitely cause a lot of losses to this team, especially in the rugged terrain of the mine. In the end, the human side may not be able to completely annihilate each other. So much so that they can escape.
Even though Cintra already has a family of rock trolls called "Trolls", Lann's attitude towards such advanced combat units is "the more, the merrier".
It's a pity that these ice trolls have done something unforgivable, so we can only ask them to be turned into alchemical materials. It was just in time to use the alchemy potion on Lann's body to make up for his blindness. He had never had troll decoction before.
Speaking of which, although Lan is keen on collecting various magic potions and decoctions, he rarely needs to use them in actual battles. It seems to have only happened twice so far - once when I was fighting the gryphon as a mortal, and once when I was hunting the Cyclops "Old Spearhead" in Kaer Morhen.
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Clapping his hands to put the troll's body into the [Inventory], Lan turned his gaze and looked at the huge forge in the middle of the cave hall, which was turned into a boiler. It was still emitting a strange fragrance to the outside.
Some people wanted to get closer to the cauldron, but they hesitated.
"Is it possible..." Kolgrim hesitated as he looked at the cauldron.
Even though these ice trolls were eliminated without any damage, no one present showed even a little bit of joy.
Because the unspoken meaning of Kolgrim's words is also the conjecture in everyone's mind at this moment: Is there someone we want to save inside? The leader of the Todaloch family has turned into broth?
East had obviously thought of this, and his face couldn't look any more ugly. As one of the patriarchs of the seven families, Harold died in such a humiliating way, which was unacceptable to any islander.
And this also means that East's operation was a complete failure.
Even a well-informed demon hunter would hesitate when seeing such a scene and didn't want to get close. In the end, East, adhering to the mentality of "seeing people alive or dead," ordered people to go forward and sort out the mouth. Cauldron. Even if the leader Harold they are looking for is not inside, it would be better to collect the remains of the islanders and give them a decent burial.
Lann thought for a moment and walked to the side of the ice troll that was poisoned by the snake sect's demon hunter. The ice troll was dying due to the poison and still had one breath left.
Lann felt that this ice troll could play a role, because after repeated brain searches, he finally recalled some information about the Todaloch family in his previous life.
In the previous game, the Todaloch family had ceased to exist in name only because of the Ice Giant, and could basically be considered exterminated. Therefore, they did not appear much in the game, and Lan was not familiar with it, so he did not react for a while.
Now that I think about it carefully, Patriarch Harold is actually still alive in later generations. Lann remembered that he was captured by the Ice Giant when everyone thought he was dead, and was raised by the Ice Giant with all kinds of weird meat. By the time the player discovers Harold during the mission, the man has become so insane that he talks animatedly to dead people.
The Ice Giant kidnapped Harold for only one purpose - to build a ship.
Yes, ship building.
No one knew why the ice giant wanted to capture the patriarch of a family to build a ship for him, but this strange move of the monster at least allowed the patriarch of this big family to survive.
But now Lann knows that his arrival has produced a butterfly effect. The convergence of the celestial spheres caused by the ancient blood has awakened the ice giant in advance, causing the current situation to deviate. Although the ice giant still captured the leader Harold as it did in the future, no one knew whether it wanted Harold to build a ship or simply wanted to eat him.
Looking at the ugly faces of East and others, Lann only hoped that the event line of Chief Harold would be the same as in the future.
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Lann pointed to the poisoned ice troll that was still twitching on the ground, and asked Kolgrim: "Can you bring it back to consciousness?" Kolgrim
was stunned for a moment, seeming to be thinking about why Lann wanted to Awakening a doomed ice troll.
"I want to ask if it knows Harold's whereabouts and if it really threw Harold into the pot." Lann took the initiative to explain.
Kolgrim's eyes suddenly lit up: "Are you going to... show that? The one about hypnotizing monsters! I heard Gede say that you hypnotized a cursed werewolf before, letting the other party know everything and say everything. Do it!"
Kolgrim joined the team very early, but he had never seen Lann's skill of "hypnotizing" monsters. After all, he had rarely encountered occasions where he needed to show this skill before.
Lann looked at the snake sect demon hunter who suddenly burst out with enthusiasm, twitched the corners of his eyes and nodded.
Kolgrim immediately burst out with great enthusiasm. He took out an alchemy clay pot with a swipe from his alchemy backpack, and gently dropped a few drops on the poisoned ice troll's bloody mouth.
No response.
Kolgrim thought for a while, then simply pushed the bottle mouth in, and Gulu Gulu drank the entire bottle of potion. Soon the ice troll's body began to twitch violently.
The trolls all have strong self-healing abilities. Even if ordinary people go through great efforts to break through their hard shells and tough skin and cause injuries, as long as they are not fatal, they can recover quickly. As a price, the ice troll's extremely fast metabolism allows the poison to quickly spread throughout the body. It can be said that the snake sect's demon hunters can defeat the troll.
It is actually useless to use the antidote on the ice troll now. Just such a short period of time is enough for the snake sect's poison to cause irreversible injuries to it. But if the ice troll could briefly regain consciousness through a flashback, Kolgrim could still do it.
The ice troll's ugly face covered with hard ice twitched, and he opened his eyes vaguely. There was nothing in his sight except a left hand glowing with milky white light.
[Axi Sign·Charm]
Perhaps due to the newly added talent of the Night Demon, the ice troll in front of him, who was not very smart, soon became dazed, and Lann also felt himself consumed. The magic power was much less than usual, and it easily put the ice troll into a hypnotic state.
The demon hunters came together curiously. Except for Gerd, none of them had ever seen Lan's ability to hypnotize monsters.
Lann glanced left and right and ignored these guys. As usual, he took a deep breath and started with the simplest question: "Your name?"
Unexpectedly, the ice troll didn't respond at all, and just continued to look at Lan with that confused look.
The lion-eyed demon hunter couldn't help but frown - what's going on? Judging from past experience, hypnosis to this level should be enough for the other party to answer all questions, right?
The onlookers looked at each other, and Geralt suddenly said to Lan: "Maybe the way you asked the question is not right." "
The way you asked the question?"
White Wolf nodded: "Lan, you should say that. "What's your name, Ice Demon?"
Lann was stunned for a moment.
That makes sense.
Because Geralt was not the caster of the seal, the ice troll did not react to his words. And after Lann recited it once, the ice troll's dull eyes finally turned around, and the words began to scrabble out of his mouth.
"Yes, Ice Ice Demon, no, Ice Demon."
Very good, we can finally communicate. Although the content is a bit strange, it is not important.
Lan racked his brains to recall the grammatical structure of the troll: "Ice giant... No. Big guy, for the ice demon, little guy?"
The ice troll nodded dully: "In the morning, the big guy will come back and throw it to the little ice demon."
East also gathered around at this moment, looking at the ice troll nervously, hoping to hear something good from its mouth. information.
"Among the little people, are there any old ones with big beards and patterns on their bodies?" Lann tried his best to describe the characteristics of the Harold patriarch, a middle-aged man with a gray beard and tattoos.
"Everyone has a big beard and a pattern."
Lann made a "tsk" sound with a headache.
But the ice troll then added: "A bearded villain, a big man can't cook. If he doesn't behave, hit him with a stick and throw him behind!"
East's eyes lit up, and he quickly motioned to Lan to continue asking: "Where are the little people who don't want to cook?"
The ice troll pointed to a tunnel deep in the cave, which was pitch black.
East quickly asked the large army to rest on the spot, and rushed towards the dark corridor with Lan and others.
Their figures soon disappeared at the end of the road.
The hypnotized ice troll collapsed on the spot with a dazed look in its eyes, and the snake sect's poison continued to destroy its body.
"Big man, if you don't want to cook the little people, come back and find the little people. The other little people can only be cooked, not eaten, the ice demon..."
With a "puff", the long sword of the Tursek family soldier stabbed fiercely. Entering the ice troll's chest, they had just finished sorting the pieces of meat in the boiler, and their eyes were red.
As if feeling displeased, the soldier stepped hard on the hilt of the sword again until the tip of the long sword penetrated his back and was blocked by a solid stone, preventing him from making any further progress.
"Bah, monster!"
(End of chapter)