Chapter 38 - The Plan Was Successful

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The second round of provocation was more successful than Gray had imagined.

Gray was surprised to find that the elephant’s speed was still accelerating. On the contrary, it was he himself who found it much more difficult to make a sudden turn due to the obstruction of the surrounding giant trees.

He just needed to hold on for a little longer!

Gray made up his mind.

At the same time, the dragon egg behind him was silently cheering him on. Although it could not see everything along the way, it was able to roughly understand him through his magical perception.

It knew that Gray’s current situation was very dangerous, but it was disheartened that it couldn’t do anything about it. The ancient elephant was too fast, and it had been moving all along, and it couldn’t guarantee that its Dragon’s Might would be able to concentrate on the opponent’s head, so it could only wait for Gray’s instructions.

At this moment, the dragon egg could only continuously convey its encouragement and worry to Gray, relieving Gray’s nervousness and anxiety.

Gray naturally felt the dragon egg’s care. To be honest, it was thanks to this kind of care that he was able to persevere through the entire journey.

…

Gray gritted his teeth and persevered, while the ancient elephant behind him pursued closely. The distance between Gray and the ancient elephant was getting closer and closer, and the ancient elephant felt as though it was about to hear the sound of Gray’s bones being crushed by itself.

However, at this moment, Gray suddenly made another sharp turn. The ancient elephant felt a burst of displeasure in its heart. Along the way, it had seen the other party use this move countless times. It was truly extremely annoying. It was just a small trick. It was merely delaying the time of his death!

Having already been injured twice by Gray, the ancient elephant clearly did not intend to let Gray off easily. This annoying little thing must die this time!

With the intention of killing Gray, the moment the ancient elephant saw Gray turn, it began to consciously change the direction of its charge.

During this chase, it had gradually become familiar with this mode of action.

However, its earlier change of direction had instead caused it to be trapped.

The ancient elephant, which was about to change direction, was just about to find a turning point to disperse its strength like before, but it discovered that there was actually nothing to borrow from its side!

“Awooooo!”

The elephant cried out in alarm. Only then did it realize that there was actually a huge pit on its side. A huge tree that it had never seen before had toppled over on the side of the huge pit. It was very clear that this huge pit had appeared because of this tree’s toppling.

Anger narrowed its field of vision, locking its attention onto the little guy in front of it. After a long period of running, it had lost its focus, causing it to lose its sensitivity and vigilance towards its surroundings.

Under the huge inertia, the ancient elephant’s body began to tumble uncontrollably into the huge pit.

It desperately tried to stabilize itself. Its four limbs frantically scratched the ground in an attempt to stabilize its body. However, the ground here was already extremely soft due to the continuous tumbling of the trees. Its scratching could only lift up some soil in the end, but it could not be used to stabilize itself.

It was already difficult for it to control its body when one of its legs could not bear the force, not to mention the situation it was facing right now was already beyond its control.

What made it even more difficult to accept was when it clearly saw the little guy that it had been chasing all this time, who after hearing the sound of itself slipping, stopped and slowly turned around. The ancient elephant did not know what a smile was, however, it could feel the expression on the little guy’s face making it extremely uncomfortable.

It was like an expression that only a successful hunter should show.

“Hahah~”

Following the sound of rolling rocks, the ancient elephant’s huge body slid down the giant pit. A large amount of soil was brought down into the hole because of it, forming a small landslide.

Seeing that the elephant was finally tricked into the pit of the giant tree, Gray couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief.

The first step of the plan was to anger the elephant. The second step was to lure the elephant into the hole in the giant tree. The third step was to kill the elephant.

Compared to the last step, the difficulty of the first two steps was obviously of different levels.

The most difficult parts had already passed, and only the final part was left.

The giant tree pit would restrict the ancient elephant’s ability to move. Even if it was able to escape, this was already the center of the giant tree forest, and there were countless giant trees everywhere, so it was basically impossible for it to force its way out.

Its exaggerated strength was no longer useful, and the ancient elephant was now only a strong man with his hands and feet tied up, and could only be manipulated by others.

After the sound of the soil and rocks had completely calmed down, Gray cautiously came to the edge of the giant tree pit and looked down.

At the bottom of the giant tree pit, the ancient elephant lay on the ground in a miserable state.

At this time, its tusks had been broken, and the wound had become larger because of the accident.

The blood had dyed the soil under its body red. Gray noticed that its left hind leg should be unable to move…

After this fall, a white bone stubble protruded from the wound on its left hind leg. It was obviously broken, causing the lower half of its left thigh to appear as a soft puddle.

The ancient elephant was clearly stunned by the fall. It raised its head and looked around blankly before violently shaking its head, as if it was still not clear-headed.

Gray guessed that it might have hit its head when it fell,

However, as time passed, it seemed to finally feel pain. It began to wail fiercely regardless of everything.

“Awoo! Awoo!”

Amidst the wailing, the elephant panicked and wanted to stand up to take a look at the situation. Unfortunately, as soon as it used its feet to support itself on the ground, a wave of pain seemed to immediately spread through its entire body. Its wailing immediately became louder.

This wailing was different from the angry cries of the elephant when Gray had ambushed it. The panic in it was very obvious. It was very clear that it was aware of its own injuries.

It repeatedly tried to prop its body up with great difficulty, but the pain caused it to fall heavily again and again.

This caused its injuries to gradually worsen.

After Gray confirmed the elephant’s condition, he did not let his guard down. He found a safe and gentle slope, clung to the tree roots, and slid down to the bottom of the slope.

His movements were heard by the ancient elephant. The ancient elephant raised its head and discovered that the little guy that it had been chasing had actually followed it down to the bottom of the pit.

Recalling that it was this little guy that had caused it to be in such a state, the ancient elephant roared angrily at Gray. It used its intact forelimbs to pound the ground crazily to vent its anger.

Then, it discovered that the little guy, who had been chased by it until he was in a sorry state and was frightened by its anger to the point of fleeing in all directions, actually did not have any extra movements in the face of its angry roar.

There was a fierce light in his eyes.

It was the same just now.

The ancient elephant recalled the uncomfortable expression on the little guy’s face when it fell to the bottom of the pit.

Recalling that expression, the elephant shivered.

Even its anger weakened a little.

It knew what the little guy’s eyes meant. He saw itself as prey..