Green Monster Epic

Chapter 226: Deadly Sprint (5th Update!)

About half a magic hour after Allen left the tunnel, the figure of the legendary Gnoll reappeared at the same spot. However, this time he held something familiar to Allen—one of the Void Spider's sacs that he and Salu had just acquired.

“I didn't expect to encounter two little mice and still have such a harvest.”

Legendary powerhouses naturally have their own dimensional pouches, but no one would mind having more wealth. The materials Salu had collected these days were quite a substantial income, even in the eyes of a legendary powerhouse.

“Eh?? Where's that green skin?? ”

Suddenly, the Gnoll Legend discovered that the location where Allen, whom he thought was sure to die, was now empty. Apart from a patch of blood, there was no trace of him.

“Heh heh heh, I'd like to see how far you can run!! ”

Chasing Salu, the Shadow Dancer, had already brought many surprises to the Gnoll Legend. Relying on Swift Shadow Step and Shadow Leap, the opponent managed to stall the Gnoll Legend for nearly twenty minutes. Of course, the final result was beyond doubt. Even if Salu tried his best, he was only prolonging his life by a little bit. In the end, he still fell under the Gnoll Legend's Echoing Spear.

Poor Salu, he originally thought that after this adventure, he would be able to return to his homeland in glory and live a stable life. He never expected that this last adventure, which he had made up his mind to take, would cost him his precious life.

The Gnoll Legend twitched his nose, sniffed the air, locked onto the aura of Allen, and without hesitation, glided through the tunnel without touching the ground, speeding towards the tunnel Allen had passed through.

After chasing like this for half a magic hour, the Gnoll felt something was wrong again. It seemed that the locked aura had turned into two, and at the same time, there was another different aura mixed in, as if there was an extra clone, each drilling into two tunnels at a fork in the road.

“……”

The Gnoll frowned, then chose the tunnel with the weaker aura and chased straight after it, because in his opinion, the weaker aura should be the result of the other party deliberately concealing it. An hour later, the Gnoll's figure re-emerged from the tunnel he had previously entered, his old face dark and ferocious as he plunged into the other tunnel.

The scene returns to half a magic hour ago. Allen, not caring about his stamina and not looking at the direction of any tunnel, randomly chose a path whenever he encountered a fork, not caring whether he would encounter a dead end. Fortunately, at this time, the Goddess of Luck stood on Allen's side, allowing Allen's arbitrarily chosen tunnels to have no dead ends and even no mechanisms to hinder him.

With great difficulty, under the combination of potions and scrolls, the surface wounds on his body began to heal, but the power contained within his body had bottomed out and become depleted. Allen didn't dare to stop. The instinctive warning had not subsided, and the bone-chilling feeling behind him had not dissipated. Allen could only try to squeeze out every bit of strength in his body to keep his heavy steps from stopping.

A gaunt, ape-like Earth Imp suddenly emerged in front, standing upright with red light in its eyes, staring at Allen, who was rushing towards it, and uttering threatening intimidation. Allen had no way to retreat, so he could only grit his teeth and grip the heavy sword dragging on the ground, preparing for battle. When Allen entered the Earth Imp's alert range, the Earth Imp's thick thighs kicked off the ground, and its entire robust figure flew up, rushing straight at Allen's path.

“Get out of my way!!!”

Allen also struck with all his might, trying to circulate the gradually depleted rage according to the Heavy Strike bloodline. The heavy sword, with a posture of no regrets, along with Allen's body, crashed into the Earth Imp's embrace.

“Aow!!!!”

One of the Earth Imp's left claws was separated from its body, and at the same time, Allen's leather armor, along with a piece of flesh from his right rib, hung on the Earth Imp's right claw.

Allen leaned on the sword on the ground, staring intently at the Earth Imp in front of him. He knew that the other party was full of energy. If he showed the slightest hint of timidity, the somewhat intelligent Earth Imp would probably launch an attack on him without hesitation. However, his own strength was about to run out. Just running all the way had exhausted all the power he could mobilize. Even this counterattack against the Earth Imp was Allen's last insistence. Where did he have any other strength to fight back!

The Earth Imp's shrill scream quickly stopped. The look in its eyes towards Allen, in addition to ferocity, had a bit more caution. Allen's gaze met the other party's without flinching. Even though he knew he had no power to fight back, the determination and killing intent revealed in his eyes were no less than those of his opponent.

“Roar! Roar roar!!”

The Earth Imp's intimidating voice sounded. The leather armor with a piece of Allen's flesh on its right claw was thrown high and sent directly into its mouth to chew. While chewing, it looked at Allen. Allen also did not show weakness, cautiously raising the heavy sword in his hand, which was still covered with the Earth Imp's stinky blood. Allen stretched out his long tongue and licked the heavy sword. The stinky blood flowed into Allen's body and was quickly broken down by the hungry organs into urgently needed nutrients and integrated into his body.

Allen's fierce and icy eyes finally scared away the seemingly powerful opponent in front of him. Perhaps when Allen was in good condition, this Earth Imp might not have been his opponent, but now, after Allen stared at the Earth Imp for twenty breaths, knowing that the Earth Imp was retreating while spitting out threatening roars, Allen collapsed and leaned on the heavy sword, struggling to maintain his standing posture.

After confirming that the Earth Imp had left, Allen stepped forward and picked up the left claw that the Earth Imp had left behind. Not caring about the sparse hairs on the claw, he opened his mouth and began to tear and chew. The raw meat, with tendons, bones, and fur, rubbed in Allen's mouth. The strong stench was even nauseating, but Allen had to endure the nausea and swallow them to replenish the nutrients his body needed.

At the same time, Allen started his heavy steps again, chose a different tunnel from the Earth Imp, and drilled into it.

Allen never expected that the Imp's claw, which he had picked up and chewed in order to replenish his strength, and the Earth Imp's seemingly clever but actually stupid intimidation, would unexpectedly buy Allen an hour to escape. This was also the reason why the Gnoll Legend suddenly discovered that there was an extra aura belonging to Allen.

The ability that a mere Earth Imp's claw with not much meat could provide to Allen was limited. After running for more than an hour, Allen's body sent out hungry signals again. Every step he took seemed to be a difficult collision between body and spirit.

The spirit was so sharp at this moment, so sharp that it could even feel the muscle cells, as small as dust, under the skin, exploding and decomposing in the body's endless demands, transforming into the energy source for Allen's actions.

This meant that if he didn't stop, Allen would lose his life due to his body collapsing.