While most players were excitedly learning to use weapons in the training field, Zhang Xing Yu and Odilia had once again come face-to-face with the elite-level Great Jaggi that had previously made them fall flat on their faces.
The two of them secretly peeked out from behind a bush.
They weren’t as lucky as the first time. This Great Jaggi wasn’t sleeping; it was eating.
“It’s this one, its head still has the wound from my charged slash!” Odilia stared at it for a while, then whispered.
Monsters could still have wounds from previous battles?
Zhang Xing Yu wanted to create a monster hunter world that was as close to reality as possible, so not only would the monsters’ actions be more complex, but they would also bear irreparable wounds from fierce attacks!
For example, this elite Great Jaggi in front of them had a deep wound on its head, now a scar. There were no scales covering it, showing how much damage Odilia’s “Sleep Charged Slash” had inflicted on it!
“We must kill it!” Odilia looked at the Great Jaggi, her eyes burning with fierce fire: “And today’s the first kill leaderboard update... I don’t really care about that ranking, but maybe there’ll be good rewards... Xing Ying, let’s go!” As she spoke, Odilia wanted to call for Zhang Xing Yu to attack, but she saw him crouching to the side, fiddling with something.
“What are you doing?” Odilia asked, seeing Zhang Xing Yu crafting something with hunter tools.
“I’m making a trap,” Zhang Xing Yu said.
“A trap?”
“Yes.”
“What’s that?” Odilia said, somewhat confused.
“I saw a trap tool for sale in the shop earlier, so I bought it... But you can’t use it directly, but looking at its structure, it seems like you can make a pitfall trap. It seems to lack some materials, so I collected some stuff while I was gathering recovery potions on the way, and I made a net. Now I’m making a trap... Done, pitfall trap!” After finishing it, Zhang Xing Yu handed the pitfall trap to Odilia to examine.
【Pitfall Trap: A trap that makes monsters fall. It activates when the weight exceeds the load. Made by player “Xing Ying”. Although the skill level is not high, the craftsmanship is exquisite. Trap duration +1 second.】
“This thing looks good!” Seeing the trap’s description, Odilia’s eyes lit up, and she said: “I didn’t know you had this skill, did you work as a craftsman in the real world?”
“Who knows.”
“I saw a trap tool before, but it was quite expensive, and it seemed like you couldn’t use it directly. I didn’t know how to use it, so I didn’t buy it. I didn’t expect... Well, with this, our chances of hunting are even greater. Good job!” Odilia praised.
Current players are generally strapped for cash. Buying weapons, crafting equipment, and buying recovery potions all cost money. They’re so poor they can’t afford a single copper coin. They don’t have extra money to buy trap tools, and the price of these things is pretty high!
For various reasons, players haven’t yet discovered the brilliance of traps, or rather, the previous games they played limited their thinking. When facing large monsters, there’s basically one way of thinking: brute force!
What if you can’t beat it and die?
Upgrade your equipment and keep going!
What if you still can’t beat it?
Learn some awesome skills, strengthen your equipment, and charge at it again... you’ll eventually break through!
“How do we use this trap later?” Because of the trap, the battle plan needed to be changed. Since Zhang Xing Yu made the trap, Odilia asked.
“Later, we’ll bury the trap in an open area. Don’t let the monster trigger it. Wait for the monster to become enraged and its attacks to become ferocious. Then we run to the trap area, make the monster fall in, and then keep hitting it!”
“Okay!”
The two of them discussed the actual battle plan further, and then they started fighting.
The first to charge out was Odilia. She felt that as the captain, she had to be the first to enter combat. Besides, her weapon could also be used for defense, making her safer than Zhang Xing Yu.
Zhang Xing Yu would look for opportunities to sneak attacks on the monster.
Zhang Xing Yu naturally didn’t object. Although he had cheated to learn the advanced skills of the Long Sword, and also the divine skill—“Iai Slash,” becoming a member of the “Brainless Brute Force” players...
The battle was very successful, or rather, this elite Great Jaggi still remembered the grudge. When it saw Odilia, its eyes turned red and it pounced directly at her. Odilia was startled and immediately raised her sword to block.
Zhang Xing Yu sneaked behind the Great Jaggi and went on a rampage against its tail.
The Great Jaggi’s meat was good, and every part could be cut, with decent results. Its weak points were its head and chest, but Odilia was hitting those areas with her Great Sword, which had a large attack range. Zhang Xing Yu didn’t want to get hit by her.
The Great Jaggi was caught in the attack from both ends, unsure where to attack, and after being beaten up, it became enraged.
In this real world, a monster becoming enraged was far more terrifying than in the original world. Not only did its attack power increase, but its attack speed also increased. Even more terrifying was that when enraged, the monster would change its attack rhythm and patterns. This was the most terrifying aspect!
In the original world, the monster’s attack patterns were fixed. Even in the enraged state, the great players only needed to see the monster making a preparatory move, and they would know if it was about to fart or pee. But here, the monster might not fart or pee, but choose to poop instead!
An enraged monster was frenzied, its reason diminished, so it was normal for it to do some “unfathomable actions.”
Not to mention, this was an elite monster that had also learned skills from other monsters!
It’s even more unpredictable!
“The monster’s gone crazy, let’s go to the trap!”
They had been taught a lesson by this enraged elite monster before, so Zhang Xing Yu didn’t think that just fighting it once would be enough to familiarize them with its attacks—even with Iai Slash, it wasn’t safe.
At this point, the trap was the most useful!
“I know!” Odilia put away her weapon, and the two of them ran towards the trap.
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