booktalesy Chapter 123 Trolls
Chapter 123 Trolls
Li Moss asked curiously, "What makes you think I'm so noble?"
No matter how beautiful his clothes are, he's still dressed like a craftsman.
Not to mention that after so many days, it's already filthy.
The knight who was killed last time was dressed in a scarlet, exquisite fabric that the original owner had no recollection of, along with other colored fabrics decorated with gold and silver threads.
"Well……"
Ziwan looked completely bewildered.
"My lord, although you are wearing these craftsman's clothes, the way you walk and the confident manner you speak are things I have only seen before when I accompanied the baron to banquets hosted by higher-ranking nobles."
There were some things he was too embarrassed to say.
That means he not only saw it before, but he also saw it on the person sitting in the main seat!
Li Mosi was puzzled.
He suddenly felt the vine in his hand move.
Turning my head, I saw Haki Saint moving.
She took two steps back and looked Li Mosi up and down.
Li Moss then looked at Zwan and casually asked, "Do you want to go home?"
Ziwang looked troubled.
He closed his eyes and said, "I really want to."
His parents and sister are still waiting for him to bring back the rewards to get through the winter!
Li Moss reached out and patted his shoulder: "But if you go back now, you'll just be a defeated soldier. Do a good job, and I'll let you go back when the time is right."
This left Ziwang somewhat puzzled.
He felt that Li Mosi was right.
But he has to go back eventually, doesn't he?
In the end, he could only lower his head with a strange expression, not letting Li Mosi see his expression.
"Yes, sir."
Watching Ziwan continue to work, Li Moss turned to look at Haji Saint.
"What are you looking at?"
"Don't tell me, you really shouldn't tell me."
The saintess murmured and nodded vigorously.
Why are you standing here?
Li Mosi reached out and pulled her closer, pretending to shut her up: "Then you can't say anything."
"Eh? Eh? Eh!"
The saintess quickly leaned back and finished speaking.
"I mean, you really have that aristocratic air about you. You mean that nonchalant air."
She had already assumed that Li Mosi was an aristocrat.
At most, it has simply declined.
When Keziwang said that, she realized that she had subconsciously overlooked many things!
Zi'an couldn't understand.
She frowned and looked at Hagi Saint: "Wasn't my late master a nobleman? What are you saying?"
"Even among nobles, there are distinctions between high and low ranks!"
Facing Zian, the saintess straightened her back.
"Someone once killed a griffin to host a feast for me, but only ate its tongue! Do you even know what a griffin is?"
Zi'an looked at Li Mosi.
You could tell she'd never seen it before without her saying a word.
Li Mosi, too lazy to beat around the bush, asked, "What exactly are you trying to say?"
Hagi Saint shrank back slightly: "You have that air of indifference that high-ranking nobles have about many things."
This is definitely not something that a craftsman from a manor family could cultivate!
Even having a tradition isn't enough!
Li Mosi didn't quite understand.
He felt that he cared about quite a lot of things.
Forget it.
He turned his head and looked around, and saw a group of black iron pots approaching from a distance.
The goblins who used to wash pots and fetch water have returned.
"I should get busy too. Zi'an, you do your best."
After Li Mosi finished speaking, she walked back to her original spot.
"Ah, um."
Zi'an remained where she was, nodding blankly.
Returning to his original spot, Li Mosi watched as the goblins started a fire and set up the pot. He waved to the goblins.
"Go find Ziyi and get some work done."
Although these goblins couldn't speak human language, they knew that "Zi Yi" referred to their leader, and that waving meant for them to leave.
The goblins squealed and then walked away.
But a few goblins remained.
They pointed anxiously at the pot, then at the dried meat.
These are the people in charge of cooking.
Li Mosi nodded and pointed to the small pot and the bucket she usually used for cooking rice.
The goblins nodded.
The saintess was somewhat surprised: "These goblins are quite clever."
How strange.
They talk as if they've just met.
Li Mosi poured some water into the large pot and then put the bucket containing the animal oil in it.
"While there are differences between individuals, creatures capable of actively using language cannot be simply categorized as wild animals."
The saintess knew that Li Mosi was targeting her.
"Hey! You were before—oh, never mind."
She instinctively opened her mouth to refute.
But when he saw Li Mosi's outstretched hand, he quickly shut his mouth.
Li Mosi didn't have the time or inclination to interfere.
Under intense heat, the grease melts quickly where it comes into contact with the bucket.
He used a knife to cut a small piece of oil and poured it into another dry pot.
White smoke rose, and the aroma of oil wafted through the air.
"Cough cough."
Haki Saint felt unwell again.
Li Mosi then covered the fire with soil to reduce its size and poured dried beech leaves and various dry branches into the pot.
He started stirring.
Dead branches and leaves can only absorb a very limited amount of oil; a little oil can be stirred into a large amount.
He thought even more than Li Mo.
Previously, when using pine resin, due to its greater viscosity, the same amount of pine resin produced less igniter.
After stirring the ignition source in the pot until it was evenly mixed, he covered the pot to allow the oil to seep further in.
Time flies when you're busy.
By the time half the afternoon had passed, all the withered leaves and branches had been used up.
But there are still two large buckets of oil left on hand.
During this period, the goblins from Ziyi brought back pine resin twice.
Li Mosi heated them and poured them into a pot, mixing them with oil for processing.
This saved him a lot of animal oil.
Under his command, the goblins laid out tinder below the platform, beside the pine branch shelter, and on top of the wooden wall.
A single fire can set the entire battlefield ablaze!
Li Mosi no longer asks goblins to gather resources.
They all had to keep a close watch on the stronghold, and not a single spark could be allowed to fly!
"You stand here and keep a close eye on things. The rest of you come over here and watch this area!"
Zi Yi led the goblins to choose positions for guard duty.
Li Mosi opened the [Leshan Water] map again to take a look.
He also watched the process of making the ignition source several times.
After all, the experience of rendering oil last time was there.
The aroma of oil can travel very far, and wild animals have a much better nose than humans.
However, the recovery of the surrounding ecosystem took longer than he had anticipated.
After most of the day, nothing big came near.
Even if small or medium-sized animals are interested in the aroma of oil, they will be frightened away by the noise and dare not come closer.
But now he sees the big guy.
[Large animal footprints discovered (New)!]
[Large Wild Animal Path Discovered (New)!]
[Brown bear route confirmed!]
[Brown bear's condition confirmed!]
[Target state: Obese, adult, excited]
[Target distance: Approximately 14 kilometers]
[Target Behavior: Tracking]
Good guy!
A brown bear chased after us from over ten kilometers away!
Li Mosi looked at the glowing dots on the map.
The point of light was in the northwest direction.
Before Li Mosi had even gone northwest, he went hunting wolves to the west of the tribe, but he didn't stay there for long.
Therefore, the West was almost completely darkened.
"Master, many goblins are exhausted. Should we continue practicing?"
Li Mosi turned her head and saw Zi'an.
The goblins no longer cared about the stones they used, and they all used trees as targets, so they no longer needed to take turns training like before.
Once the frequency increases, it naturally loses its power.
"Then let them rest."
Li Mosi waved to her.
"Come here, have you ever fought a brown bear?"
"Brown bears... are tough to fight."
Zi'an hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.
"The brown bears were too fat at that time, and I could only chase them away at best. But now that I have spear throwers and iron spears, I feel like I can try hunting them."
"Then we..."
Just as Li Mosi was about to say he wanted to fight the brown bear, he saw that the brown bear's condition had changed.
[Target Status: Obese, Adult, Panicked]
[Target distance: Approximately 13 kilometers]
[Target behavior: Escape]
He immediately turned off the brown bear notification and refocused his attention on the forest.
Giant animal footprints discovered (New)!
[Giant Beast Path Discovered (New)!]
[Troll path confirmed!]
[Troll status confirmed!]
[Target Status: Injured, Adult, Excited]
[Target distance: Approximately 12 kilometers]
[Target Behavior: Tracking]
"Hiss~ Have you ever fought a troll?"
"Troll?"
Zi'an looked completely bewildered.
"The trolls are back?"
Zi Yi's shout rang out from beside Li Mosi.
The three of them looked down, unaware of when he had arrived.
"Yes, the trolls are coming."
Li Mosi nodded.
"And this troll is injured."
I don't know if it's the same one that attacked the Ziyi tribe.
"Troll, troll..."
The saint muttered a few words to herself and then looked up.
"Are trolls ten times the height of a person, with only one eye, and look like enlarged versions of dwarves?"
Isn't this a Cyclops?
Li Mosi looked completely bewildered.
"Didn't Zi Yi say that trolls are three times my height, two times my width, and have two fangs that look like daggers?"
Zi Yi nodded: "Master is right. Where did it get so tall? And the troll has two eyes."
The saintess frowned.
It doesn't match the catalog.
Li Mosi waved her hand: "Never mind, let's get out of here first. It's following the smell of boiling oil."
"But my master, the troll, has a very keen sense of smell!"
Zi Yi finished speaking in one breath.
"Even if we hide, they can still smell us!"
Snapped!
"Right!" Zi'an clapped his hands. "There are still two barrels of beast oil here. The troll will definitely stop attacking us once it's full. We'll see how things go and figure out a way to hunt it down."
Zi Yi was stunned and blinked when she heard Zi An's words.
This seems like a good idea?
Li Mosi has made her decision.
"We'll leave the two barrels of oil here and go back to the tribe to observe. If we can fight them, we'll try to hunt them down; if not, we can escape by rope from the east."
It can be used for both offense and defense.
Ziyi accepted the proposal.
……
[Target Status: Injured, Adult, Satisfied]
[Target distance: Approximately 700 meters]
[Target behavior: Sleeping]
"The troll ate its fill and then went to sleep! It went into a cave at the foot of the mountain!"
Although Li Mosi could still see the status, the glowing spots were no longer visible on the map.
They must have entered a cave!
If it can go in, the size is definitely not what the saintess described!
Can fight!
Zi Yi jumped up: "Then let's go hunt it now!"
Li Mosi looked at the sky and reached out to pull him.
"Don't rush, it'll be dark by then. Let's see how things go tomorrow."
Zi Yi looked up at the sky, then sat back down.
"All right."
……
[Target Status: Injured, Adult, Dormant]
[Target distance: Approximately 700 meters]
[Target behavior: Sleeping]
"Goodness, still sleeping."
Li Mosi looked at the troll's condition from [Leshan Shui] and clicked his tongue in amazement.
Zi'an picked up the wolf cub: "Master, shall we go hunting it today?"
Hunting?
Li Mosi was unaware of the troll's specific combat abilities.
However, when dealing with brown bears, a pole vault would likely need to hit their head to actually kill them.
Eh?
It doesn't seem like we necessarily have to kill him now?
Li Moss got out of bed: "Let's check the trolls' condition first. Maybe we can leave them for the slave-hunting team to kill. We'll train here for today, and the goblins who are free can make stone spears. I'll also make some jib rods."
He was planning to feed it.
As it turned out, the trolls were even more outrageous than he had imagined.
This guy slept like he'd drunk some kind of soporific tea until late into the night.
The reason I only say it slept until late at night is not because the troll woke up, but because Li Mosi wanted to sleep.
The troll was sleeping soundly.
The goblin was also sleeping soundly.
Even the three masters and disciples, along with Hagi Saint, were asleep.
Who else is still awake?
That was a slave-catching team.
They are traveling through the night.