The Yuanrang Monster Hunter
3. Giant Centipede
Three of our teenage warriors ran away. Behind them, death was so threatening. The giant centipede was moving so fast. But more than that. The creature was able to fire a suspicious clear liquid. The smell is quite strange and difficult to describe with words. The point is enough to make their stomachs nauseous and do not let this strange liquid hit the skin. It also disturbs concentration. Even so, they continued to run non-stop. They all just found out there is a centipede capable of firing a mysterious liquid.
“How far are we, Miaocai?” said Mengde, “Uh, I can't stand the smell.”
“Still halfway again,” says Miaocai.
The three warriors ran while covering their noses. Breathing through the mouth. Occasionally open the nose also to take air because they want to run anyway. Then close your nose again. To make it easier to imagine, just imagine the smell of cockroaches. But now it's worse than the cockroach smell.
Sometimes Miaocai looked back. He observed some of the arrows he had fired earlier into the head of the centipede. The arrow is not too deep. Means you could say the skin of the centipede looks difficult to penetrate. As hard as the specifics are, it might be possible to try it later with Yuanrang sword if it has already come out of the forest.
Ghost mouth is visible. The warriors are exhausted. They do not speed up the pace because they have to save energy. Another way is to slow the centipede. By means of a small ice wall made by Miaocai and the blasts of fire made Mengde. This effort turned out to be quite influential. The distance between the swordsman with the giant centipede turned out to be widening. Finally, they came out of the mouth of the forest.
“Come, set up,” says Yuanrang.
As per the strategy they designed earlier, they positioned themselves. Yuanrang and Mengde were at the very front. While Miaocai was at the very back with his arrow.
“Mengde, arrow stock is safe right?” Miaocai.
“Aman, cousin,” says Mengde, “Quiet only.”
Just because Yuanrang managed to dodge, the giant centipede did not stop attacking. He's after Mengde. Mengde who from earlier was standing in front of a large and thick stone, directly rolling to the right. The head of the centipede hit the rock hard. Imagine, the centipede attacked at high speed. Must be dizzy head.
Yuanrang who was closest to the back of the centipede, directly pierced his tail. Unfortunately, Yuanrang's attack did not cause any deep injuries.
"Lumayan loudly," said Yuanrang, "Miaocai!"
Making use of the moment when the centipede was still dizzy, Miaocai took out two arrows. Then coat the tip with ice seeds. Then the two arrows rippled through the air and froze the right side of his head. The centipede squirmed in pain.
Mengde used this opportunity to slash the centipede's body. However, despite using the strongest possible strength, the wound made by Mengde was not too deep. He finally felt the superiority of centipedes as well.
"yes too! The skin is too hard!" Said Mengde.
If the skin cannot, Yuanrang tries to slash the centipede's leg. Apparently succeeded. It stays hard. But not as hard as his skin.
"His feet!" Shouted Yuanrang, "We take him down!"
Mengde nodded and shouted, "Gather together!"
The three warriors gathered again. In other words, a regroup. He devised a strategy again. The smart brain has indeed produced a strategy. However, he did not have time to speak to his two cousins because the centipede was not dizzy and began to attack again.
The three of them turned away in all directions. When the centipede passed by him, Yuanrang used the opportunity to slash some of his legs. Get two. Because of losing balance and walking at high speed, centipedes were slightly smeared.
"How many legs does he have?" Yuanrang said as he observed the centipede that was turning around.
Mengde sighed because the number of legs was so many, "Should we count? As long as you see your feet, just slash them."
"Thank God," said Miaocai while setting a trap of ice flowers on the ground, "We don't face a millipede."
Mengde clasped tightly onto the sword and said, "Prepare! He's coming!"
The giant centipede moved quickly. It even looks like running. In the meadow near the mouth of this forest, everything was seen so clearly. The warriors immediately ran backwards. The rapidly moving centipede finally came to a halt for a moment and roared. The traps of spiky spiked ice flowers tore apart the lower part of the body. Still not too severe, the centipede continued to lunge again. The warriors rolled again. At that moment, Yuanrang and Mengde slashed at his legs.
"It turns out the bottom is not as hard as the top," Miaocai said.
"Yes. We can exploit the lower weak points of the body" said Mengde, "Make another trap."
"This time ..." Miaocai said as she rolled again avoiding the lunge of the giant centipede "... Difficult. He's turning around faster."
"The distance is too close so you don't have time to make ice flowers huh?" The word Mengde that understands the constraints of Miaocai
"Trap the ice again!" Mengde said, "He's spinning longer."
The centipede continued to walk until it finally turned around. The warriors were also panting. This way is effective. However, it is quite risky if it fails to take a moment to dodge when the centipede hits. Parts of the body can be chewed by the mouth of a centipede.
Such was the analysis of the profit and yeast that was now processing in Yuanrang's brain. He admitted that his brain is not as smart as Mengde. But Yuanrang is strong-willed to think about what the best solution is.
The centipede continues to attack in the same way. Invaded and crashing. In the same way, the coach handles it. Roll away and slash the leg. It can only be one or two feet. Not too influential also to the ability to move centipedes if only a small amount can be like this. If this continues, these three warriors will be exhausted before the legs of the centipede are exhausted. It will potentially be a problem later.
"Trap the ice again!" Mengde said, "I'll try to burn his head!"
"Hhhh ... Like a wild bull, huh?" Miaocai said, “Only longer.”
Hearing the word bull, Yuanrang immediately remembered the experience of the three of them when having to fight a wild bull in the forest near Master Yudhistira. Trying to repeat his success against the bull, Yuanrang climbed a nearby rock. Mengde and Miaocai had to avoid it again.
"What are you doing, cousin?" Said Miaocai who saw Yuanrang standing on a stone peak.
"Bettle lure here!" Yuanrang shouted, "Slow down is also his pace with ice and fire!"
Miaocai was astonished for a moment then said, “Ba .. alright.”
Not understanding what was in the mind of the metal controller, Miaocai and Mengde also according to. Now the two of them are downstairs preparing ice and firebending. The centipede now leads directly to two warriors. His speed was reduced slightly due to the fire attack and the ice trap. At that moment, Yuanrang plunged down from the rock and thrust a sword into the head of the centipede.
The movement of the centipedes became chaotic. He screamed and continued forward. The attack just messed with the brain. If the brain is chaotic, it means that the nerves are also chaotic. Even at the end of his face he hit the bottom of the rock. Because the collision just now the movement rate stopped for a moment. It was at this moment that Mengde and Miaocai slashed the legs of the centipede at will. Fifteen seconds later, the centipede began to wriggle again. Miaocai and Mengde started to move away. Mengde who does not want to lose, spitting fire into the stomach of centipedes.
“What are you doing up there, Yuanrang?” Miaocai.
“Preparate the next plan,” Yuanrang said.
“Quick down!!” said Mengde, “I will ..”
Not yet had time to finish the sentence, Mengde was even thrown to the east because of the lipstick tail. Lucky reflex Mengde to last fast enough. Although still thrown, at least the front body is not too badly injured. Good thing Mengde landed on the meadow.
“Sial! I'm off guard!” said Mengde.
Due to Yuanrang's tactics, the direction of the centipede became increasingly uncontrollable. That big thing is moving somewhere. In this kind of chaos, Yuanrang continued to tightly grip the sword hilt to maintain position. All of them strengthen the puncture so that the wound caused deeper. Not only that, Yuanrang continued to pierce his eyes.
Let alone Miaocai and Yuanrang, Mengde whose brain was the smartest was unable to predict the direction of his movement where. Several times the giant centipede hit the big tree and then moved again in all directions. Miaocai strikes when a giant centipede hits a hard object. He just shot a centipede. Only then could Miaocai take the chance. Because I don't want to throw arrows.
"Good job, cousin," Mengde said, "Let's help sterilize the ends of the arrows."
"If sterile is certain" said Miaocai, "We don't know what kind of toxic liquid is flowing in his body."
Along with the deeper the Yuanrang puncture, the more it changes also the pattern of centipede movement. The centipede now rolls on the grass, then turns normal again and rolls again. As strong as Yuanrang's grip to the sword hilt, it finally broke off as well. The swordsman was rolling in the grass.
Their efforts began to show results. The pace of the giant centipede is now slowing down. Perhaps he was also already weak after being pounded by dozens of weapons from the villagers. Now the centipede started moving to Mengde and Miaocai.
"Awass!!" Yuanrang Shouted
Miaocai and Mengde had already rolled over. However, these giant centipedes move differently. He suddenly braked and shook his tail. Luckily two attacks just failed to hit the two warriors.
"Why???" Miaocai.
"I understand ... Because ...," Mengde's sentence was truncated because the giant centipede swung its tail again.
"For what, cousin?" Miaocai was also busy dodging.
Indeed, in general to respond to attacks there are four choices. Dodge, deflect, repel and counterattack with equal or greater pressure. It applies to facing ordinary humans. However, for large animals like this, which have different attack pressure, three other options such as fending, brushing and counterattacking are free. Just avoiding makes sense. Want to deflect also crashed. They had no choice but to avoid.
"Because ..." Said Mengde who dodged while slashing one of the centipede legs.
"Okay, I understand how you are" said Miaocai.
From behind the centipede, Yuanrang had already dashed forward. He controlled the metal and took Miaocai's spear. The melee combat expert had already understood that the giant centipede was nearing death. The conclusion was taken after looking at the mucus or body fluids of centipedes that had soaked the grass. The liquid comes out of the legs, head and lower part of the body. Yuanrang did not understand the anatomy of centipedes. Easy, If you borrow human language, giant centipedes have experienced severe bleeding.
"Stay totally defensive," Yuanrang said, "The movement of centipedes is different because he has slowed down. So he's easier to control the body to wag his tail to you."
A quarter of the centipede's body stood up. Like a cobra. Then try pouncing on Mengde like the way a cobra pecks.
"Because ...," said Mengde who dodged and tried to continue his sentence earlier, "Because it was already explained by Yuanrang."
Fortunately Mengde was able to escape. Plus burn the face of the centipede with fire control. It's not really luck. But pure calculation Mengde untum strikes back.
Burning with fire, centipedes wriggled and rolled. It was there that Yuanrang saw a gaping wide wound. The lower part of the body adjacent to the mouth. This wide wound is the weak point of the centipede that will be exploited.
"I'll keep burning" Mengde said as he let out a fire from his palm.
"I'll shower his head with arrows and ice shots" said Miaocai.
The warriors are already in the wind. When the soft spot of the centipede was seen, Yuanrang directly thrust Miaocai's spear into that weak spot. The result was quite successful. Yuanrang's puncture ripped through the inner organs and penetrated all the way to the back.