One, two, three...
The wolf man who went out to find prey returned to the camp. The strong leader with a scar on his face found the corpse outside, and he couldn't help but roared angrily. It once fought with adventurers, and the intelligence of humanoid creatures made it realize that there were adventurers attacking their camps, and these adventurers ruthlessly slaughtered the offspring of the group, just as they ruthlessly ate those poor humans. The enemies were few in number and fled as soon as they were spotted coming back.
The twelve gnolls gradually gathered.
This is a medium-sized wolf man group, more than half of them are adult wolf men, one third are warriors, and a small number of newborns. With their own talent, they domesticated three coyotes, which can be used as their hunting assistants or as food reserves when food is scarce. For Gnolls, hunger can overwhelm everything, and the weakest of the same kind in the group can also be turned into food when needed.
They are natural fighters, scouts, and can track the smell of blood.
The leader of the wolf man came to the corpse of the female wolf. There was not much difference between males and females in the group, except for the difference in size. Male wolf men tended to be stronger, and female wolf men would only have some strength during lactation. obvious features. It leaned over and sniffed the she-wolf's fangs, which were stained with Sauron's blood, and then it lifted the two- to three-hundred-pound she-wolf with one hand, and let all the gnolls smell it.
The memory of blood can last for half a day, and they can track the smell of blood within a kilometer.
revenge!
This is the instinct of humanoids.
Just as humans would avenge their eaten companions, they would also avenge the dead wolf cubs.
The howling of wolves sounded one after another.
The gnolls began to follow the scent of blood. They were not the most powerful creatures in the wilderness, but they were definitely the most vicious and annoying. The instinctive talent of wolves allows them to form groups and obey the arrangements of powerful ones, and their innate animal instincts allow them to hunt and kill prey by nature. Adult Gnolls have a creature level of 3. As long as they are successfully advanced, they will be fighters close to the second level. They move in groups and even hunt and kill more dangerous creatures when they are hungry.
The thing that determines the size of the wolf man group is food. As long as there is enough food, a female wolf can give birth to more than ten wolf cubs within a year.
If food is scarce, only the leader has the right to mate.
This ensures that the strongest offspring will be born, and other members of the Wolf Man cannot give birth to offspring, and they need to raise them together.
This is very similar to many wolf packs!
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Inside the dense forest.
Sauron's figure was moving rapidly. In the wilderness, only rangers could easily get rid of the gnolls. With the ability to track the smell of blood, they could find Sauron's trace sooner or later. This is just the gnolls of the material plane, there is even a kind of gnolls called 'bloodthirsty' in the outer plane, they can track the smell of blood within ten kilometers. These creatures are dangerous predators and assassins whose diet includes lesser dragons.
A group of jackals rushed into the dense forest, and chased after them according to the smell of blood left behind.
Sauron needs more favorable terrain.
He could face more than ten kobolds at the same time, but he couldn't face more than ten jackals at the same time.
Physical energy is gradually consumed during running.
Sauron's 20-point extraordinary physique guaranteed his endurance. On the contrary, after chasing him for a kilometer or two, the Gnoll began to slow down. The dense forest greatly affects the speed. Even the Jackal cannot sprint at high speed. Sauron is also affected, but he has excellent jumping ability and conditioned reflex brought by extraordinary agility. The sense of balance beyond the limit of ordinary people allows him to avoid most obstacles. When there are bushes in front of him, he can even jump up on the tree pole and use his strength to leap.
It's like one is blessed with a light body technique, and the other has to run on the ground.
The terrain in front of him gradually opened up, and a mountain peak appeared in front of him, with a vertical 90-degree cliff and some three-foot-wide faults. Sauron jumped up suddenly, and then grabbed the rock with both hands and climbed up. Just like the climbing madman who challenged the limits of human beings in his previous life, Sauron climbed up the cliff at an extremely sensitive speed, and then stood at a height of about 20 meters from the ground. The activity area here is very small, and you can climb all the way to the top of the mountain from the side. The peak is not very high, and there are bare rocks on it.
Sauron applied a little ointment to the wound on his shoulder, and then began to refill the crossbow bolts, putting each of the crossbow bolts into the small pocket on his waist, where there were throwing knives originally.
To deal with Gnolls, avoid open terrain and be surrounded by them to sneak attack.
A group of jackals surrounded him, and high-level fighters would have to suffer a few times, let alone a second-level thief.
Making traps is only useful in specific areas. Wilderness adventures rarely take too much time to set traps. Rogues fighting in the wild are more like fighters relying on agility advantages.
That's why there is an advanced branch of Wandering Swordsman, a very powerful group combat profession.
The bushes in the distance trembled, and then a group of strong wolf men came out. The leader was a wolf man with scars on his face, from the frontal bone of the wolf's head to the side of the face. up.
"finally come."
Sauron hung the crossbow on his waist, and then took out a bloody wolf head from the dimension bag. It was the head of a wolf cub. He put one in his pocket before leaving.
"Aw! Aw! Aw!"
The howls of wolves sounded one after another, and the eyes of the wolf man who was following him were bloodshot in an instant, howling and rushing over, trying to climb up the wall and tear him to pieces. (taunt succeeded!)
Wordy!
A bolt of crossbow flew, and the wolf man who rushed to the front staggered, rolled and hit the cliff.
Sauron reloaded the crossbow calmly, then hid his body behind the rock, then aimed again at the gnoll he had shot, and shot an arrow towards its head.
In the middle of the skull, the crossbow bolt was directly nailed in.
A row of data emerges:
"Kill the Gnoll Warrior!..."
"Cause 36 points of fatal damage!... The target dies... Gain 320 points of killing experience."
A range of twenty meters.
The basic attack strength of the crossbow can reach more than 20 points, and it can be killed instantly when it hits a vital point.
The jackal climbed very fast, but the 90-degree vertical cliff was not so easy to climb up. Before the few rushing over climbed over, Sauron had already filled the crossbow and shot an arrow condescendingly. The gnolls in the climbing state had no room to dodge at all. One of the shot in the neck fell down and was dying instantly. The other was shot in the forehead and shot through the skull to death on the spot.
"Aww!"
The leader howled, and the other gnolls finally realized that the terrain was unfavorable to them. Some began to hide in the blind spot of Sauron's range, while the other surrounded from both sides, climbed along the side mountain wall, and prepared to Surround Sauron with a surprise attack from both sides and above.
"Damn, the reaction is really fast." Sauron put away the crossbow.
He threw the heads of the jackal cubs down, and then climbed up the cliff. Although the jackals were not very intelligent, they wouldn't just wait for him to shoot them one by one. If the opponent attacked by force, he could still kill five or six of them first, but Sauron had to shift his position when he surrounded them from the side.
The ability to jump directly to the second floor is stronger than that of elves. Sauron suddenly jumped up and grabbed a stone, then turned 360 degrees and landed on the top. He quickly picked up the crossbow and reloaded it, and shot at the jackal who was climbing to the side. The opponent avoided it vigilantly, and the crossbow hit the rock.
clang!
Sauron was not surprised. He pulled out the scimitar with his backhand, looked at the surrounding gnolls, and rushed towards the closest one.
The terrain here is fine.
If the gnolls are gathered together, he can shoot them slowly. If they are scattered, he can defeat them alone. At least he doesn't have to face three or five enemies at the same time. It's a pity that I didn't master the specialty of 'walking through the forest', otherwise I could kill them in the woods. The elf ranger's favorite thing to do is to leap from tree to pole and shoot enemies with a longbow.
A killing experience of nearly 300 points, killing half of it is enough for him to start a part-time job!
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