He was thinking if he could sneak into the main hut undetected. After observing for so ti, he decided it was impossible. The encampnt was not very big, but the numbers of lizardn were quite dense, he would et with one no matter which path he took.
Even for rangers with their Silent Step skill, sneaking through the camp was a stretch. Furthermore, there was still a Boss guarding the treasure inside. It would be utterly foolish to successfully sneak into the main hut only to end up fighting the Boss and then got surrounded by the rest of its minions.
After studying the encampnt and understanding that there was nothing he could do here, Jack decided to leave. He kept staying low as he paid attention to his radar and moved away from the camp.
He could see so lizardn going on patrol. They always moved around in a team of two. Unlike the disorganized gnos and Goblins, these lizardn seed to move around in fixed paths around their encampnt.
As he had gone quite close to the encampnt, he also sotis saw patrols on the way where he was heading. Hence, he moved carefully. When he was hiding from one patrol, he saw a path where the ground descended into a slope.
Jack crawled to the slope to stay away from the patrol. He checked his radar and estimated that there were no monsters under the slope. He went down and ca to a ravine that stretched quite far. He followed the ravine as the path got narrower due to the cliffs on both sides co together close to one another. The narrow path continued for a while, it opened up at so parts and closing in again at other parts. Most of the parts where it closed in, could only be passed by one person.
Jack stopped walking after so ti and looked back at the terrain. He thought for a while before asking the Fairy, "Peniel, if I attacked the Lizardman in the encampnt, will they co out to chase ?"
"Of course," Peniel said. "Why did you ask that dumb question?"
Jack ignored her mocking. He asked another question, "How far away will they chase?"
"It varied from each settlent. It will depend on the size of the settlent and the type of monster in the settlent."
"Can you make an educated guess for that Lizardman encampnt?" Jack continued to ask.
"Don't tell
you are planning to do sothing with that encampnt," Peniel said with a surprised expression.
"Just answer my question first, will you?" Jack said.
Peniel stared at him with uncertainty. She was probably thinking if the guy had lost his mind. But after seeing his serious expression, she figured she should just entertain him. She floated up high and looked in the direction of the Lizardman encampnt.
After a while, she flew back down and said, "well, I cannot say for certain, but I would say that if they chase an intruder, it will be till the area around the part ten ters back there to this place here where you stand."
Jack observed the place so more and then looked to the other entrance of the ravine. It was still so distance away on the opposite end. He then gave her another question, "if I kill the lizardman from that encampnt far away from the encampnt, like, say here, for example. Will they respawn again?"
"If you kill a settlent monster inside its settlent or all the way out here, they will stay dead. Well, until they respawn again the day after, as long as their settlent has not successfully been raided yet."
Hearing the answer, Jack gave the matter so more thought. After a while, he finally decided.
"All right, let's give it a try then!" He said.
"Give what a try?" Peniel asked.
"You will see," he replied as he took out a whetstone and used it on his sword. He then cooked a chicken soup and consud it. Afterward, he walked back to where he had co from.
"You really are going to disturb that hornet's nest, aren't you?" Peniel asked him.
"Hehe," Jack replied with a grin.
Peniel gave him a helpless sigh. "Up to you, let's see how you fare then. Your speed should be fast enough to run away if sothing goes wrong anyway."
Jack ca out of the ravine and boldly strutted towards the encampnt. The sun was already set at the ti, but visibility was still enough due to the light from the full moon. A lizardman patrol was coming out of the encampnt as he ca near it. The lizardn stopped with a stunned expression as they saw a human had co into their territory.
They started to shout loudly in a strange language as a warning to their other brethren. Jack responded to their incomprehensible cries with a Mana Bullet. It hit one of the lizardn squarely on its face. Its mate gave an angry roar at Jack, and ca running soon after. Jack heard many footsteps and then saw many more lizardn appearing from the encampnt.
"Wow, so many... It's really like a hornet's nest," Jack comnted.
After enraging an entire camp, Jack turned tail and split. He ran at full speed towards the slope. He could see from his radar many red dots were coming after him. There really could be a hundred of them, Jack mused as he continued running. His Dexterity stats made him faster than the lizardman, but he kept a fixed distance with them so as to bait them to keep on chasing after him.
He went into the ravine until the part where it was a narrow part where only one person could pass. He went a bit more distance before turning back. The closest lizardman was struggling to run through the narrow pathway and make its way towards him, as its fra was bulkier.
Jack sent another Magic Bullet, it crashed on the Lizardman's chest. He then sent continuous range attacks from his staff. The lizardman could just take it bluntly as there was no space for it to do an evasive maneuver. When it was closed enough, it stabbed forward using its spear. Jack switched his staff from range attack to Magic Shield. As his shield blocked the stab, he landed Power Strike to the lizardman's head. It received critical damage.
He continued to block and attack the lizardman in that narrow pathway. The other lizardn arrived behind him but they cannot move forward as the path only allowed one lizardman at a ti. So they just queue up behind as the one at the front was combatting the intruder.
Jack was not afraid that there would be lizardn coming from behind him, as they would need to walk a long distance around the ravine to enter from the other side. Halfway through the travel, they would have reached the limit of their pursuing distance and turned back to return to their settlent.
He was at first afraid if there were indeed so lizardman chasing after from the top of the ravines, maybe they could not go to the other entrance of the ravine as it's too far, but what if they simply jumped down from up there? He would have to abandon this tactic if so. Fortunately, no lizardman rained down from above.
As the Lizardman continued to pile up at the choke point, Jack continued to hack through the one at the front. It took him roughly one to two minutes to slay one lizardman, he continued to kill one lizardman after another. Good thing he had prepared lots of basic healing potions and basic energy potions. Those potions were prepared for tomorrow's dungeon, but he could care less about it now, he just used one potion after another whenever his health and stamina or MP got low. He would just send a ssage later to ask Silverwing to bring more potions to replace the ones he had used.
He also activated Heightened State to increase his mana and stamina regeneration whenever the skill was off cooldown. Despite their comrades kept on dying at the frontline, the rest of the Lizardn continued to queue behind, obediently waiting for their turn. As Jack persevered for more than three hours, the number of lizardn started to thin out.
When the last lizardman fell, Jack looked at the pile of loots stacked along the narrow path. He was panting after a long non-stop fight. If this was in the real world, he would have long dropped to the ground due to exhaustion.
"This was surprisingly going according to plan, without a hitch," Jack exclaid.
"Well, they are basic low-level creeps, after all. So their levels of intelligence and attack patterns are rather low," Peniel comnted.
"That's a good thing for us. Never complain about a plan goes well." Jack said with satisfaction while sitting on the ground trying to catch his breath.
"You had better collect those loots, they will only be around for three hours after they dropped. The first lizardman you killed was more than two hours ago," Peniel said.
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