Trees were felled, a road just large enough for an ox cart to turn around was created, the excavated land was paved with soil, and finally compacted with felled tree trunks.
After leveling a small piece of land, they saw that it was getting late, so they stopped and lit a bonfire to prepare for the night.
Night is when zombie beasts are most active. During the night, they were attacked more than a dozen times. There were many zombie beasts in the mountains and they attacked them many times at night.
When they woke up the next day, the area was filled with the smell of blood, but Markey and Byrne were used to it and started working as if nothing had happened.
Dig and cut down trees, level the road, and build a road to the salt mine.
Heading towards the right side of the mountain range, the work of paving the road is really difficult. It takes several hours to lay a 20-30 meter road that can allow the ox cart to move normally.
The salt mine is about two hundred meters away from them, not far nor close, and they can cover half of the distance in one day.
Another day later, two hundred meters of flat road finally reached the edge of the salt mine. The trolls took their tools and leaned against the tree trunks or sat on the ground, preparing to take a short rest before digging the salt mine.
At this time, Darusa's ears moved and he heard the sound of zombie beasts coming from the invisible jungle. They were not very close, but he still planned to kill them to satisfy his desire to fight.
"You guys wait here, I'll be right back."
After turning his head and speaking to the resting troll, Darusa grabbed the iron machete he had exchanged for tons of grain and went into the forest.
The trolls who stayed behind did not follow. Their leader was getting stronger and stronger, and they no longer needed to worry about them. Following them would only disturb the leader's interest.
Walking through the dense woods, Darusa had no intention of hiding his voice and walked boldly through the woods.
When he reached a slightly more open terrain, he stopped and turned to look at the grass not far away.
The next moment, a whistling sound broke through the air, and an ax flew towards Darusa's neck from the side.
After tilting his head slightly to avoid the flying axe, Darusa saw seven humans wearing armor jumping out of the bushes.
They held a variety of weapons in their hands and rushed towards Darusa with solemn expressions. They moved almost silently, and the sharp edges of their swords were pointed at Darusa's vital points as he stood there.
Darusa showed an expression of surprise unique to trolls, and then reacted, using the blade of a machete as large as a door panel to cut a semicircle, forcing back these suddenly appearing humans.
He was about to say something in that poor human language, but a strange aura appeared behind him, forcing him to disconnect from his thoughts and interrupt his words.
If you are not proficient in the language, it is very difficult to speak it immediately without thinking.
"Ha!" Darusa let out a sharp roar, and a circle of sound waves spread from the center of his body, causing the attacker from behind to pause.
Taking advantage of this brief pause, Darusa immediately turned around and struck the sneak attacker with his blade.
Just when the back of the knife was about to hit the human who appeared behind him, another human carrying a large shield rushed out from the side. He knocked the sneak attacker away with no leverage and used his shield to block the blow.
Bang!
Metal clanged, making an eardrum-piercing sound.
The man holding the shield was knocked away and broke a tree.
When the people around him saw how fierce Darusa was, they immediately swarmed him and dealt with him, not caring whether Darusa wanted to fight or not.
Trolls are naturally hostile to humans. When ordinary trolls see humans, they will only be captured to squeeze out the remaining value. When ordinary humans see trolls, their first thought is to destroy them or run away.
"ah!"
After fighting for a while, Darusa yelled and jumped back to avoid the unreasonable troubles of these people. He did not want to kill these humans, fearing that it would affect his work in the manor.
After he jumped twice and stepped on the ground to prepare for the third jump, a large number of green vines appeared on the ground, quickly binding his lower body.
A man who couldn't hide his strength even in armor immediately took out the short ax from his waist and threw it out with all his strength.
The flying ax whirled and hit Darusa's chest with a harsh sound of breaking through the air.
Darusa was shocked and angry. These humans really wanted to kill him!
The violent natural magic surged and spread, and a coat appeared on the huge machete. He swung it casually and knocked away the flying ax thrown by a human with all his strength.
With a stamp of his feet, the ground cracked, and a violent magic power rose from the cracks, knocking seven humans who were unwilling to approach directly into the air two meters high.
At this time, an obscure spell came from the trees in the distance, and large ice cones formed in the air, like a barrage, shooting towards Darusa.
"Human! Why!" Darusa was annoyed enough. He waved his machete to smash the flying ice picks, and then continued to retreat, with a lot of anger already accumulated in his heart.
He didn't know many human languages, so he couldn't rely on simple words to express that he didn't want to be an enemy. He could only say these strange words and continue to retreat.
After the people who attacked Darusa landed firmly, they seemed to realize that Darusa did not want to fight them. In addition, the words were not pleasant to the ear, but they could hear the words in human language, so they hesitated for a moment.
At this time, the human holding a large square shield jumped out from the bushes again and stood in front of the other seven humans. His body wrapped in heavy armor did not seem to be injured.
They were confronting each other like this, but Darusa didn't want to confront them and slowly began to retreat.
The human soldier holding a large shield said something, but Darusa couldn't understand and ignored it.
Those few people didn't follow, and the matter seemed to be over here.
But the next moment, there was a rustling sound in the woods.
The trolls who were resting by the salt mine heard what was going on here and felt something was wrong, so they came to support their leader.
The nine trolls stared eagerly at the eight humans who maintained their fighting formation, and suddenly a strange scene of a confrontation between the two armies appeared.
The humans who were just about to relax clenched their weapons nervously when they saw so many trolls, as if a fierce battle would break out in the next second.
"Don't attack them, let the humans come and solve it on their own." Darusa waved his hand and used the troll language to stop the trolls who wanted to fight without thinking.
The strength of these humans is not weak. If it were before, Darusa himself might have stumbled. Unfortunately, after eating a few full meals, his strength improved.
These humans couldn't hurt him, but they could easily kill other trolls, and they would lose nothing.
"What...what happened? How did you make such a big noise?"
Ma Ji arrived late. The battle should have been solved as easily as chopping melons and vegetables. The trolls also knew not to make the sound too loud.
But the knocking was so loud and the noise was so loud that he had to come and take a look.
If you are delayed for some reason and fail to complete Boss Xiang En's mission, you will have nothing to eat when you go back!
After passing between several trolls, Marky looked at the open space ahead. The zombie corpses he imagined did not appear. Instead, several humans wearing helmets and armor appeared, which scared him so much that he jumped up.
"Oh my god! He's actually alive! What a hell!"
(End of chapter)