Meant to put this up early this week, but was sick.
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Chapter 6.5: The three headed Troll
After arriving back at Dragus, Alice went ahead and reported what had happened to her superiors. For the task of annihilating the large lizardman soldier gathering before they grew even bigger, Alice was given an additional 30 soldiers, bringing her total army count to 45, and was given a 1 month free period where no missions will be assign to her.
After everything was settled, all loot divided up, and payment for their services, both Eons and Lisa received 150 gold pieces, while Rory received 250 gold for the big role she played in killing the lizardman.
For that one month of free time, Alice decided to put her troops through a month of intensive (hellish) training. This mission had shown her just had badly the system screwed a female captain in the military. They give them the worst starting soldiers, and the worst missions available.
She decided to break up her troops into 4 groups. The soldiers were divided into groups based on the weapons they used. The 15 starting soldiers that she had, she put them all into the archer groups since they developed some experience fighting with the bow. The 30 new soldiers she received were divided in the following format: 10 were to be trained as spearman, 10 as swordsman, and 10 as tankers.
To better train the warriors, Alice decided to have Lisa supervise the tankers and archers, Eons the swordsman and spearman, and Rory was in charge of watching over the body conditions of the troops. Alice would be in charge of training the basic body of all the soldiers.
Like this, the worst month that that soldiers ever had begun, a month that made the soldiers wish that they were dead. After this month the developed a deep, deep fear of their captain.
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After two weeks of training the troops, Lisa asked Alice if she, Rory, and Eons could have a week off to take care of some business. With permission granted, the trio began preparing to head out.
Eons: “So where are we going?”
Lisa: “We’re going to the northwestern mountain range. I’ve read rumors online that in that mountain range there is some weird mini-boss that showed up a few months ago.”
Eons: “Hmm, think it’s related to that quest we have that involves finding weird monsters?”
Lisa: “Might be.”
Eons: “So what monsters inhabit that mountain range?’
Lisa: “Trolls.”
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The trip to the mountain range took 1 day of travel since the trio did not stop for anything and they were jogging towards them.
Upon reaching the mountains, they were able to make out a group of trolls in the distance.
The trolls that inhabited the northwestern mountain range near Dragus were about 2.5 meters tall, had hard green skin, a disgustingly ugly face, bulging muscles all over their bodies, carried clubs, and levels ranging from level 70-85.
To test out the characteristics of the trolls, the trio separated a troll from the group and faced it solo.
From the fight with that troll, the trio discovered 4 facts about the trolls. The first was that the trolls had high speed, they noticed this when the troll charged towards them when it spotted them.
The second thing they noticed was that trolls had really high strength. This became obvious when Lisa blocked a swing from the trolls club with her tower shield and was sent backwards about 5 meters.
The third thing discovered was that the hard skin of the trolls provided a high natural physical defense for the troll but it was weak towards water magic. The trolls body layout and blood also provided it a high regeneration ability and high health.
The last thing discovered was that although the troll had high speed, it had poor maneuverability. In other words, it was slow to attack, react and defend in close combat.
After discovering these things about the trolls, the trio did not have much difficulty in hunting them. The only thing that was a bit problematic was that the trolls often travelled in groups of 3-5, but even then that only provided a minor inconvenience.
Hunting the trolls became so easy that often time when they encountered groups consisting of the 3 trolls, the trio held a competition where they would each take a troll individually and see show could kill the trolls faster.
For these competitions the winner was typically either Eons or Rory. To handle the trolls, Rory developed a combination magic that she called a freezing water spear. It tooked Rory 3 well placed freezing water spears to kill a troll. Eons also quickly handled the trolls by infusing his swords with his Mana’s Light skill and a thin layer of water magic along the blade. Lisa’s build was leaning towards a tanker rather than a damage dealer and she had no magic so it came as no surprise when she didn’t win.
Like this, for the next 3 days, the trios hunted hundreds of trolls along the mountain range. On the fourth day they finally encountered what they were searching for.
In a large clearing surrounded by boulders there stood a 3.5 meter tall, three headed troll. The troll looked truly vicious. Although it was only a meter taller than the other trolls, its body muscle mass was about twice the size of others, and the mouth of the trolls were also a lot bigger and had huge teeth resembling tusks. The trio did not doubt for a moment that this troll was cable of eating the three of them with no problem.
Identifying the troll, Lisa found that it was a mini boss whose level was 95.
Lisa: “Bet taking on that troll will be fun”
Eons (with a happy expression): “Yea. How bout we start with you busting up one of his legs with your hammer?”
Lisa: “Aye, after that, you and Rory just kill it with your magic”
Rory: “Got it.”
With a plan decided, Lisa went ahead and started dashing towards the troll. Noticing Lisa, the troll issued a huge bellow with his three heads and started dashing towards Lisa.
Colliding with the troll, Lisa swung her war hammer activating her shock wave skill and hit the troll straight on its right sheen. With the momentum from her running, and the charge of the troll, Lisa instantly shattered the trolls’ leg and sent it back.
With the loss of its right leg, the troll started to fall towards its right side. Although it was falling it was not going to go down without putting up a fight. While falling, with its right most head, it opened its mouth and aimed to eat Lisa’s head.
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Although the collision with the troll, greatly worked in Lisa’s favor, she was in no position that would allow her to evade the trolls’ mouth.
Seeing the trolls mouth reaching towards her, rather than hopelessly try to evade the attack, Lisa decided to take this opportunity to inflict heavy damage towards the troll.
Although the hammer (?) part of her war hammer was pointing downwards, the other end of her hammer was pointing directly towards the trolls’ mouth. Grabbing her war hammer further down, with all of her strength, Lisa thrusted the hammer shaft into the trolls mouth, activing her shock wave skill in the process.
The tip of the hammer shaft hit the trolls’ throat and with her shock wave skill activated directly inside of the troll, the right most head of the troll instantly suffered massive damaged. (I’d imagine having a shock wave go off in your mouth really messes up your head).
While Lisa was busy with the right most head of the troll, Eons started to get to work on the left most head.
Going behind the troll, Eons started to slash away at the backside of the trolls left most head. Eons landed blow after blow on the same spot of the trolls’ neck with his Water Mana’s Light skill activated. After the 74th consecutive slash, Eons finally was able to severe the left most head. Since beginning to end, it took Eons only 20 seconds to lend all 74 slashes.
While Eons and Lisa took the trolls attention, Rory started to mass produce her Freezing Water Spear. With 15 spears produced, Rory finally attacked the troll.
5 spears were launched at the right most head, 3 at the severed left most head, and 12 at the center head. This final attacked by Rory was enough to kill off the miserable troll with one shattered leg, a severed head, and a broken head.
With the death of the three headed troll, the trio were finally able to level up to level 100. And the death of the troll was able to confirm that it was a monster needed for their quest.
The meat of the troll was one that gave an increase to health and mana regen by 15/s and increased health by 5000. Unlike the other monsters that dropped hide that could be used to make armor, the troll dropped bones that could be used to make top tier weapons.
Although the drops from the troll were great, the thing that truly got the trio excited was increasing their level to 100. Seeing as it required so much experience to even grow 1 level after level 100, what was there to motivate a player to keep on leveling and not focus more on other parts of the game?
What motivated them was the bonus that they could get every 50 level started at level 100. Once a person reached level 100, and every 50 levels thereafter, the player was granted the ability to spin a giant wheel, and you received whatever the wheel landed on.
Typically the wheel gave about pretty nice things. It gave out rare/mythological equipment; maybe a rare race; an extra skill; maybe even a mythological pet; or a stat increase as well. However, although all of these things are good, if the wheel lands on a stat increase then you will be in for a huge gamble. You can receive a great stat increase or you can receive a crappy stat increase that made that wheel turn worthless.
Taken a break, the trio spinned the wheel in excitement.
Eons: “What did you guys get?”
Rory (With a very happy voice): “I got a rare weapon meant for an alchemic witch that grows in level with me.”
Eons: “Wow that was a really lucky spin then. It sound like you hit the jackpot.”
Rory: “Yes, I’m so happy. What did you get.”
Eons: “My spin landed on a mystery egg that requires exp in order to hatch.”
Rory: “Ohhh, I hope something cute comes out. I want a furry little pet.”
Eons: “Hahaha, yea, hope it’s a good pet that comes out of it. You’ve been really quite, what did you get Lisa?”
Lisa: “+50 health.”
Eons + Rory: “What was that? We couldn’t hear you.”
Lisa: “+50 health.”
Eons + Rory: “We still can’t hear you.”
Lisa (in an angry and loud voice): “I said +50 health!!!”
Hearing what Lisa said, both Eons and Rory started laughing. They were laughing so hard at her that after a while they were having trouble breathing. Seeing Eons and Rory laughing, Lisa’s face was red with embarrassment.
After Eons and Rory stopped laughing, the trio decided to head back to Dragus, their objective was done and they needed to help Alice train the troops.
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It was night time at a place far from Dragus.
There was a mansion resembling a castle on a cliff overlooking a large town.
At the innermost chamber of this mansion, there was a young men sitting on a chair resembling a throne seat.
The young man had blonde hair, appeared to be in his late teens, was a bit short, and was a bit over weight.
Surrounding him were 4 incredible beauties that resembled one another. They were fairly tall, had long black hair, lascivious bodies, they were scantly dress with cloth that left nothing to the imagination, and had soulless eyes; eyes that showed despair and a loss of hope.
For the past hour the young man had been impatiently watching the door to the chamber, waiting for someone to enter. Finally, after waiting for what felt like an eternity, someone entered.
Walking into the chamber, a messenger came into. Waling forward, about 10 meters form the young man; the messenger kneeled down and paid his salutes to the young man.
??? (In an irritated and tense voice): “Is it done?”
Messenger: “Yes sir. Although it tooked a bit of money we were able to bribe that captain into faking an emergency. Using this emergency as cover he will enter the ancient forest, and in there he will ‘accidently’ separate from that little wrench and leave her there.”
Hearing this, the young man couldn’t help but smile. Alone, that little wrench that would be a thorn at his side in the future would not be able to survive at the ancient forest. Furthermore, like this, it would look like an accident and no one would be able to pin her death on him, they may suspect him, but there won’t be any evidence. That is so long as he gets rid of the captain he had to bribe, something that he considered a simple matter compared to killing her.
???: “Excellent, excellent. As a reward for your service, why don’t you join me?”
Saying this, the young man wrapped his hands around the four beautiful women, touching them all over, and beginning a night full of depravity.