Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 306 Monster Hunting and Treasure Hunting

The trolls swayed to the sound of Bing'er's flute, but no newcomer dared to attack these behemoths. In Don Quixote, the protagonist Don Quixote once charged at a windmill he mistook for a giant. This reckless challenge allowed a novel that satirized chivalry to depict a true knight.

The windmills of that era were about ten meters tall—just as tall as the trolls the newlyweds were facing now.

The windmills remained motionless, waiting for the overconfident knights to 'challenge' them, while the trolls bared their fangs and claws as they pounced on the camp.

The three enormous creatures, each fourteen or fifteen meters tall, stomped their feet on the ground with a loud thud, creating a sound like a small earthquake. The carefully cooked dragon meat fueled their frenzy.

The troll emanated an earthy yellow light.

Newcomers who have been training for over a month know that it's battle aura! These three big guys also possess this extraordinary energy with considerable destructive power.

Even as the wooden treant loudly warned them, the three monsters, each five stories tall, lunged at them, and the new recruits of the East Sea team remained extremely tense, their bodies stiff and motionless.

Not long ago, they had followed Xu Feng through the Ogre Forest and witnessed the captain turn several ogres into dust with a wave of his hand.

But the monsters that could be easily killed were now seen as formidable enemies that were absolutely invincible in their eyes!

On the contrary, the dwarves bravely charged forward.

Led by Thorin, the thirteen dwarves kept leaving wounds on the trolls' feet and calves... The height difference between the two races was too great. The dwarves were only 1.4 or 1.5 meters tall, while the trolls were 14 or 15 meters tall. Even if the dwarves jumped up, they could only attack the trolls' knees at most.

After the dwarves and trolls fought for a while, Sato, the newcomer, was the first to react.

He hurriedly raised his longbow, took a deep breath, and, with the aid of various instruments, aimed at the eye of a troll.

Becoming a qualified archer from scratch is very difficult.

Normally, it would take a month to learn even the basics of archery, but Xu Feng prepared auxiliary tools for these newcomers.

The helmets have aiming aids that project the trajectory of the arrows onto their retina.

The arm armor has a string stabilizing device. For an archer, drawing the bow is the basic skill, and after drawing the bow, he must maintain stability and aim. The arm armor can save beginners a lot of effort when the bow is stable.

……

These auxiliary tools are technological creations, but they are merely accessories, intended to ensure the arrows hit their mark, and have nothing to do with lethality. The main god has not restricted their use.

When the arrow in his pupils landed exactly where the troll's eyes were a hundred meters away, Sato released the bowstring.

The enchanted +4 arrow, crafted from a fantasy synthesis, shot like a streak of light, instantly piercing the troll's head from its eye and exploding inside its brain.

The troll's battle aura was like paper in front of these arrows, completely unable to stop them; its huge head, which was more than two meters in diameter, was instantly shattered by the arrows.

Most of the heads were obliterated by arrows, and a small amount of blown-out flesh created a rain of red and white brain matter around them.

The arrows synthesized from fantasy are incredibly powerful, even slightly stronger than the original enchanted +4 arrows... Original enchanted arrows don't break apart and inflict secondary damage upon hitting their target.

The newcomers are physically weak, but their equipment is sufficient for them to participate in high-intensity battles.

Even trolls could die from their attacks.

Newcomer Sato couldn't help but smile when he saw the results.

The dwarves fought for quite a while but didn't suffer such serious injuries; they were just giving the trolls a foot massage.

He killed it with a single arrow... Before Sato could even laugh out loud, he was horrified to discover that the troll, which had lost most of its head, was rapidly growing flesh from its wound, and its head was visibly recovering.

In just a few breaths, the troll had grown a new head.

Its two enormous eyes stared intently at Sato, and with a roar, its fighting spirit shone even brighter under the influence of extreme rage.

The troll slapped away the four dwarves who were constantly entangled with it, and even Thorin Oakenshield, the strongest of the dwarves, was sent flying dozens of meters away by that slap.

Enraged, the ogres took long strides, over seven meters long, and charged towards Sato, the human who posed a great threat and nearly killed it.

Its momentum was so fierce, it was as if a small mountain was pressing down on us.

The newlyweds, who had just mustered their courage, collapsed to their seats amidst the roars.

at this time.

The wooden beast and treant walked silently to the front.

It radiated golden light, with the phantom of Buddha enveloping it. The pure metal staff in its hand crackled with thunderous sound, and a faint dragon-shaped phantom coiled around the staff. With a sudden lash, the staff struck the menacing ogre.

There is a huge difference between a human elder who is over two meters tall and a troll who is nearly fifteen meters tall.

But after the staff fell, the wooden beast and tree man remained motionless, while the troll was sent flying dozens of meters away!
Half of his body was blasted into pieces by that immense force.

"Everyone, there's no need to worry about your safety. With the ogres hiding behind me, they can't hurt you. Keep attacking. Although the ogres have a strong regenerative ability, they also need to consume energy to heal their injuries. If you keep attacking, you will surely kill them," the wooden treant said again.

Although the newcomer's strength was far inferior to that of the troll, Bing'er's flute control and the wooden beast's front-line tanking were almost equivalent to feeding the troll to the newcomer.

A sufficiently talented newcomer has every chance to kill one or two.

The newlywed, Nan Yelin, felt at ease as she looked at the gaunt old man standing in front of everyone.

'Experienced people' are indeed reliable!
The old man, who looked very thin and weak, had an absurdly great strength.

This troll is about ten times the height of an ordinary person. In addition, it has high bone and muscle density, and its weight is at least two to three thousand times that of an ordinary person. It is a behemoth weighing one to two hundred tons.

But the old man easily sent it flying with one move.

Once the new female recruits realized that the experienced ones were capable of protecting them, they calmed down completely and, like Sato, drew their longbows.

After she launched her attack, the others also stood up one after another.

Thirteen dwarves engaged the three trolls at close range, while five newcomers launched ranged attacks. For a time, they suppressed the three trolls to an extremely miserable state, their bodies exploding from time to time, and their heads often being shot off again before they could regenerate.

Before long, the three trolls tried to escape.

But just as they had this idea, Sato and Minamino realized it and stopped attacking the trolls' heads, instead shooting off their legs.

Do not give the trolls a chance to escape.

A dozen minutes later, the troll's regeneration ability finally slowed down, and the faint glow of its battle aura dimmed.

After losing their hands and feet, they can only passively take hits.

Upon seeing this, the newcomer Sato leaped onto his dragon-blooded horse and charged at high speed. As he passed the behemoth, he threw a jug of oil into the ogre's wound.

Suddenly, a blazing flame rose up.

The troll, covered in wounds, cried out pitifully. After the flames rose, even the speed at which its wounds healed was suppressed to an extremely slow level.

Upon seeing this, the dwarf immediately followed suit.

After the ogres transformed into torches, they attempted to run to a nearby river to extinguish the flames on their bodies. However, they were completely unable to break through the defenses of the wooden treants.

Under the lash of the staff, the three ogre torches eventually came together.

After the flesh and blood were burned away, the divine message appeared in the minds of the newcomers.

More or less, they all received reward points.

Just then, the new female recruit, Minamino Rin, noticed that one of her companions was missing... the light novel author. As she wondered where he had gone, a cold and ruthless voice appeared in her mind.

"One member of our team has died, East China Sea team has lost one point..."

The other newcomers naturally heard the message from the main deity, and those who hadn't even had a chance to be happy immediately panicked.

"what happened?"

They gathered around the strongest wooden treant and asked worriedly.

The wooden treant lowered its eyes and said in a low voice, "If I'm not mistaken, he probably went to the troll's lair... He probably thought that since all the trolls were here, there would be no danger, so he simply went to loot the spoils while we were fighting the trolls."

"Spoils of war?" The newlyweds were taken aback.

Bing'er explained, "The three ogres here are much larger than the three ogres that appeared in the original story. Theoretically, their caves should also be large enough, otherwise they wouldn't be able to accommodate bodies of that size. Caves of that size are easy to find; you can probably find one by taking a walk around the area."

"And their caves may contain even more treasures."

The newlyweds finally remembered the original plot: after Gandalf killed the trolls, he found a chest of gold coins and several weapons in the troll's cave.

Among them is Gandalf's future primary weapon, Gramdrin.

Gandalf used that sword when he fought the Balrog, so judging from that feat, the weapons in the cave of these three trolls were of a high quality.

Compared to those weapons, a few reward points are not so important.

These people were the main force in killing the trolls, and even if Gandalf, Thorin, and the others knew that they had taken all the treasures from the troll cave, they had no right to say anything.

It's despicable for a light novel author to secretly loot loot while others are fighting.

This approach can be considered flexible, since even if he steals the treasure, he will eventually have to share some with his teammates, otherwise he can forget about staying in the team.

The ones who truly suffered losses were Gandalf, Thorin, and Bilbo.

These three characters will likely be unable to obtain their three magical weapons.

The problem is... how did my teammate just die out of nowhere?

Aren't the three trolls from the original story already here?
"The plot needs to change!"

Bing'er sighed, "A month ago, the captain seemed to have killed a group of ogres here. What would you do if a group of your kind died unexpectedly?"

"Hold together?"

Newcomer Nan Yelin pondered for a moment and said, "Are there even more ogres in the ogre cave?"

If there are indeed more cannibals, then it's not surprising that a light novel author who placed too much faith in the plot would die in an ambush by cannibals.

Bing'er nodded: "Hmm... Let's take care of the rest of the ogres too."

The wooden treant and the dwarf exchanged a few words, explaining their movements.

The dwarves also noticed that the mercenary group was missing one person.

They had offered to help the reincarnators find their lost teammate, but the wooden tree people refused, telling the dwarves that they had the best hunting dogs in the world and that finding their teammate would be easy.

Having just experienced a great battle, most of the dwarves were exhausted, their fighting spirit almost completely depleted. After the wooden beast treant refused, they did not go along with him.

Soon, the reincarnators followed the country dog ​​to the ogre's cave.

The light novel author's armor and equipment were scattered around the cave, and an ogre was carrying a sturdy horse as it galloped into the distance.

Upon hearing the screams of its three brethren, the troll realized that a formidable enemy was nearby, and it once again chose to make a strategic retreat, just like the three trolls who had sought refuge in the area not long ago.

"There are indeed more trolls..."

Bing'er frowned: "This ogre is weaker than the previous three, so the reward points shouldn't be too many."

"Little Crow, just burn it to death."

Upon hearing the command, the crow that had been perched on the wooden beast-man's shoulder immediately flapped its wings and flew away. It was so fast that the newcomer couldn't even see its shadow.

next second.

A ball of fire rose hundreds of meters away, and the screams of the ogres echoed through the area once more.

Unlike the trolls that were slowly burned to death by the newcomers, this troll faced a much higher temperature flame, which could even turn stones into lava. Before long, the fleeing troll was reduced to ashes.

The newcomer stared blankly at the crow, who had been behaving indifferently all along.

They noticed that the crow had only shot down a few fiery feathers from high above, and the battle was over in seconds; the entire fight was practically a swift victory.

Even pets have this kind of power...

Host Sato and college student Minamino Rin reaffirmed that the veteran is extremely dangerous!

They are a group of monsters whose strength is beyond comprehension!

The three thugs, however, muttered under their breath that the veteran's decision to have them kill the monster was flawed. They argued that if the veteran had acted sooner, the teammate who died wouldn't have died, and the entire team wouldn't have lost a full 2000 reward points.

Bing'er and the wooden beast tree man remained silent.

This decision was certainly not the right one, but it was the best choice for the newcomers.

They did everything they could to protect them, and they fulfilled all their obligations. The death of the first newcomer... they can't say they felt no guilt, but at least the responsibility didn't lie with them.

Led by the wooden tree spirit, the group soon arrived deep into the ogre's cave.

This cave is much larger than the one in the original story, and it contains much more resources than the one in the original story.

Two swords stood out among the weapons; they were Gramdrin and Ocrist from the original storyline. Alongside the swords were two or three other weapons, including a large leaf hammer.

Bing'er contacted Xu Feng for a moment and learned that Xu Feng, who had already acquired a great deal of forging knowledge, didn't think much of these weapons.

So he addressed the newcomers:

"These weapons are from the First Era Elven Kingdom of Gondolin. They are of excellent quality and there are enough for us to share. Let each of us choose one."

(End of this chapter)