Chapter 53 - 53. Eradication Of The Trolls

The next day, as usual, I was busying myself in the kitchen preparing breakfast of simple oatmeal and had prepared the ingredients for lunch and dinner as well. As for the mid-morning and mid-afternoon break, I had prepared steamed sweet potatoes and steamed musa belle bananas.

I had also taken a porcelain bottle with me and the vial that was held by Prius. Whether I enter the Troll Cave it not depends on how tough they are going to be as I need to kite one to test it out.

With this kind of cooking arrangements, Patricia and I no longer spend so much time in the kitchen and when I bring those pork chips back, the children could help to slice them up into thin slices, smear them with salt and let it hang to dry and preserve. It had almost 2 weeks since i had brought back these pork chips after I had grind those wild boars from the Northern Forest.

The meals for lunch and dinner is the same, and it's garlic butter fried rice. This time I had gotten some whitebait fishes delivered from the market and I had deep-fried them to a crisp. 10 eggs were prepared to be fried and scrambled while half a cabbage head and a pack of bean sprouts had been ready for frying.

The rice had been steamed last night and was left to cool after steaming and it is perfect to make these garlic butter fried rice. A few birds eyes chilli was sliced thinly to give it a slightly spicy kick.

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The children had arrived and were helping Patricia as she stirred the mixture of the second batch of Green Apple 'Sparklie' Toothpaste inside the cauldron using the stirring paddle. I had slipped into my room and meditated to enter the Realm of Mind and checked the Essense Extraction of the tea leaves and found that it was ready.

I readied the Essense into a 60ml jug and then I went to check the Fusion Chamber and found that the two machines were still duplicating and only left in their hundreds before the duplication would be complete.

I logged off and before I left the room, I changed my normal everyday wear into my Battle gear and emerged from the room. I placed the jug of green tea extract and informed Patricia of the 5th flavour for the toothpaste.

"Alright children, Daddy is going to bring back some pork chips to be made into jerkies later ok. I would be back by lunchtime and I will show you how to prepare those jerkies once you had completed this batch of Toothpaste."

"Alright Daddy, take care... See you back at lunchtime" hooted Kayla while the rest choruses their 'Take Cares' to me. I went over to Patricia and gave her a lingering kiss on her lips and told her that I'd be careful as I made an exit and left Beauty World.

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Once I exited from Northern Gates, I checked my map and clicked NoOne's camp and immediately I was warped to his spot. "Hello, friend... How are things." I greeted NoOne and I've got the usual reply of "Be wary of the dangers that lurk in the forest... Bla Bla Bla"

"Good God... Doesn't he ever change his dialogue or something? He sure sounded like a broken MP3 player." I thought to myself and looked at the distance and saw some wild boars. I guessed asking these wild boars for direction would be much better.

Before I head out for my first kill, I decided to allocate 1400 points into my DAM to increase the damage rating to DAM: +6600 (+96.25). After doing so, I retrieved my crossbow from my quick slot and proceed to hunt and look for the entrance of the Troll Cave.

I picked out some wild boars from a distance and unleashed my bolt. It took them by surprise as I remained hidden among the boulders that blocked their line of sight but with their humongous bodies, it was a sire sight for me to hit their rumps. It took a single bolt from the crossbow to bring those beasts.

Soon I was exploring the place and was looking for the entrance of the Troll Cave when I chanced among a herd of those wild boars. "Ah... This must near the entrance already as told by Prius." I said to myself as I crept closer and shot the wild boars as one bu one fell with ease.

Up ahead there was an opening on the sides of the wall, and it would take a watchful eye to notice it since the entrance was nearly near invisible to the naked eye. A marge sheen of rock was blocking the entrance from the side so it was well hidden if one does not take a closer look.

"Hello Cave entrance, Knock knock... Here comes Your Truly..." I said in a rather loud voice as I peered into the Cave that was lighted with incandescent lights from the hanging stalactites above the interior of the Cave as well as from the ground up.

"Gotta be careful, my insurance doesn't cover Cave diving in this type of conditions. I wonder how those trolls would look like. There are so many monsters with so many names that I nearly find it hard to recall."

*Ding* Congratulation on discovering Troll Cave.

"Do I get to win a prize or something? I thought I had shut this thing off already." I mumbled to myself and hope the interface didn't reset itself to its default settings after being garbled with the interference that Joan had done to me some time back.

I crept inside and saw a looming figure up ahead. All I can see it as a dark figure, and with long arms and was hunching over like a big gorilla. "Is that how a Troll would look like?" I thought to myself as I raised my crossbow and crept closer until I got the Troll in my sight.

I unleashed a bolt, half expecting it to fall on its side but NO...!!! It sensed me and barged forward even though the bolt had penetrated its shoulder. I unleashed another bolt and it was being knocked back about feet or two and i unleashed another one as it snarled and roared while showing its massive jagged teeth at me. "DAMN... HOW MANY SHOTS TO BRING IT DOWN?" I shouted as I unleashed another 2 more bolts and suddenly it stopped its advances and topple to its side and disintegrated into the ground.

*Ding* Congratulations on defeating Troll. Experience Points +25%

"FUCK... IT NEEDS 5 BOLTS TO BRING ONE DOWN." I thought aloud as I decided to put all the unallocated points into DAM and raising it further to DAM: +9350 (+96.25). "I hope this would be better and I can't wait to get those points from the duplication of the 20,000 amulets back in the Fusion Chamber"

I went forward and saw two of them now. One was out of range and the other is just a short distance from the other. "JUST MY ROTTEN LUCK..." I thought as I aimed the nearest one and unleashed my bolt and I scurried away backwards to gain a distance and hoped to kite it.

It was a success as the bolt penetrated the shoulder and it howled in pain. It ambled slowly leaving the other one unawares and when I saw it getting closer, I shot another boot and it entered its throat. It reached for the bolt and howled as it lunges at me and I unleashed another one as I madly backpaddled.

It let out a long moan and fell to its sides. "Thank God... All I need is 3 bolts to bring these trolls down." as I continued to hunt down the other partner.

Soon I had cleared a total of 10 trolls and had gained 250% in experience Points and I searched forward and found human remains on the floor, their bones picked clean of its flesh and meat.

I guess these poor adventurers were killed at the first sight by the first Troll and their remains were brought here as a feast for them. Looking up ahead I saw an opening, just large enough for a Troll to pass through and there are no such treasure chests as mentioned by Prius.

Maybe this is a made-up story by the Ruler of Armagh to entice the adventurers to venture deep and getting killed themselves. I guess the fittest of them all would emerge victoriously.

"I wonder if the trolls would end up drinking from that Fountain of Youth and they became babies and easier to kill. Hah hah hah..." I laughed out loud as I heard 2 announcements ringing in my head just as I stepped into the crevice.

*Ding* Duplication success. 10,000 nos of Amulet of Strength attained. Progress +1000%. Level up 795/100,000. Level up Intermediate Crafter 61/100. Allocation points +1000

*Ding* Duplication success. 10,000 nos of Amulet of Strength attained. Progress +1000%. Level up 805/100,000. Level up Intermediate Crafter 71/100. Allocation points +1000. Total unallocated points +2000

"Thank you, sweet Jesus... I'm going to dump another 1600 for DAM and bring the damage rating to DAM: +13,750 (+96.25)." I said after I quickly made the allocations and stepped inside the crevice and ended up with a fork on both left and right.

"DAMN...THIS PLACE IS SWARMING WITH THEM..." as I took Aim with my crossbow and let one go. The bolt streaked in the air and it struck the side of the troll's head and it slumped to its sides.

I was elated that the points I had dumped to the damage to improve its ratings had to bear its results. I hollered at them and this brought the attention of the trolls as they heard the voice and lumbered from both directions of the fork. I made not so perfect headshots to all the incoming trolls as images of experience Points emerge before me.

One by one fell to their sides as my bolt entered through their brains and splattered brain matter all over the walls and ceilings of the Cave. Actually, I had turned the gore off since it would stain my recently laundered armoured tunic and Studded Leather vest. I would do without the gore.

As soon as I had shot the last one that lumbered along towards my direction, I toyed with it for a while before I locked my sights between its eyes and fired my bolt. The bolt made a crack sound as it pierced the centre of its forehead in between the eyes as it fell to its back and disintegrated into the ground.

*Ding* Congratulation. Trolls had been totally eradicated. Progress +1250%. Level up to 807/100,000. Allocated points +125 for a total of 525 points.

"Yeah, Baby yeah..." As I made thrusting motions with my groin as I heard the wonderful announcement of finally eradicating the Trolls.