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Bab 36: Chapter 36

'The spell did 15 damage as expected, but why did the spear only do 23?' Darius mused as the Troll lay on the grassy floor, twitching and foaming at the mouth.

'It seems like weapon damage and my Strength stat are calculated differently for the damage. To reach 23 damage, the system would need to take my 7 points of Strength as well as multiply by 10, then multiply by 3 for the critical damage.'

Darius checked the Iron Spear's details and saw that it had a damage range of 7-10, which explained where the 10 came from. Whether he got the 10 because of his Basic Lancer Arts increasing spear damage by 20%, or because of where he… penetrated… he wasn't too sure.

'So at 210 damage, how did it get reduced to a mere 23?' Darius pondered.

He then checked the Database to cross-check the details of the Troll he Analyzed. He saw that in its panel, its Endurance was listed at 9 points. The only way 210 could reach 23 is if it were divided by 9 points.

Darius then understood. 'All things being equal, the damage of the weapon, and the Strength stat of the attacker are multiplied. Then modifiers like critical hits or skill boosts are added. On the side of the defender, their Endurance and probably any defensive equipment are multiplied, then extra modifiers like skills are used to divide from the former numeral, totaling to the actual damage dealt!'

This was only speculation with about 50% of it factual, but Darius felt that it was the most logical. However, he would still prefer to validate it before considering it as objective in this case.

Darius lifted his spear and walked to the side of the twitching Troll. He raised his weapon and used it to whack the head of the Troll with maximum force while speaking casually.

"Hey there buddy, why such a reaction? You were having fun trying to get your ugly dong into the now-dead beast beneath you, but you don't like it when I treat you the same? How is that fair?" Darius commented playfully.

He found this quite fun actually. Not out of vengeance or anything, but because tormenting another species was actually quite pleasurable. However, Darius didn't want to get carried away by this new temptation.

As such, he cast another Sparks spell on the Troll to lengthen its stun even though it still looked out of commission from the earlier attack.

Was it that Blue Trolls were susceptible to lightning as a species, or that having raw electricity course through your body through a pole and turning you into shish kebab was enough to fry one's consciousness?

Darius assumed it to be the latter for now. The sheer pain must have knocked it out, thereby maximizing the stun. Well, since he had a defenseless target why should he waste the chance?

Darius bent his knees and pulled his right arm back while he angled his torso towards a slight incline. He maintained that position for 3 seconds until his body felt taut and ready to snap, then struck out with all his strength.

His iron spear pierced through the Troll's throat and came out the other side, likely dealing more critical damage that Darius had come to adore. However, contrary to his expectations, this attack shocked the Troll awake from its stupor.

Darius wickedly pulled out his spear in a way that dealt more damage and then leaped back. He was truly thankful for raising his Agility to 10 points, as he felt limber and agile like he was a low-level athlete.

The Troll roared and slammed the ground with its arms, raising its body up. Once it did rise to its feet, its height was revealed to be almost twice that of Darius' and it towered over him menacingly.

Darius, for that matter, entered the third ready position of the Basic Lancer Arts, a defensive style meant to counter foes larger than the wielder. Since he had Analyzed the Troll, he was informed about its skills and weapons, so he could predict its next actions accordingly.

It grabbed a large wooden club that rested on the side of a nearby tree. With a loud roar, it raised the club and jumped into the air, aiming to bring the force of its wrath down upon Darius.

Darius's eyes glinted as he dove forward and thrust his spear in an uppercut the moment he landed. The Troll that had activated its Powerful Swing only stuck a tree behind Darius, denting it greatly, before it felt a line of fire on its back.

It turned out that Darius's actions had allowed him to avoid the skill and slash at the Troll's back as it landed. The Troll responded by swinging its club backward without even turning, aiming to catch Darius off guard.

It did, but not 100% so. Darius and the Troll had almost the same amount of Agility, but he couldn't avoid its rapid response after making his own counterattack. All Darius could do was line the iron spear before him to receive the attack.

Once the collision occurred, Darius was knocked back a few feet and had to let go of the pole due to the pain in his arms. He raised them up to his face in shock, seeing how his palms were so red that it looked like they were bleeding… which they were!

Even though he had defended as the lancer skill had taught him to, he had forgotten to take into account the fact that the Troll had 10 points of Strength, which was 3 more than him, and its size meant that its attacks would have more force.

Darius' weakness presented itself here. While he had the help of skills to compensate, Ceasar had bluntly stated Darius' own strengths and weaknesses.

As a former merchant, he was a man of wits and deceptive truths, not a veteran of battle and survival. Darius had a long way to go if he wanted to be a truly competent fighter without the help of the Supreme System or favorable circumstances through the element of surprise.


Bab 37: Chapter 37

Darius raised his head and inspected the Troll's remaining health as well as his own.

[Blue Troll - Level 8 Monster

HP: 22/89 MP: 10/12]

[Darius Stone - Level 3 Itemancer

HP: 65/70 MP: 73/75]

So he had only suffered slight damage from that rebound. The Troll was far worse off than him, but when it turned to face him with its club in hand while Darius was still cringing over his bleeding and trembling hands, their circumstances seemed to be the reverse.

Darius sighed and suppressed the pain. His first mistake had been being arrogant enough to believe himself to be a master of close combat after learning one skill with the term 'Basic' in it.

What were his classes? Itemancer and Magus. As a Magus, what was he doing swinging a spear in close combat against a Troll which was a monster that excelled in close combat?

Darius removed a Common Health Potion and drank it. Its effect of recovering 25 HP was definitely overkill, but he no longer had anything weaker than that at the moment.

His hands were immediately healed by a small reddish light and he felt all his pain bleed away. The Troll, noticing Darius' actions, roared in anger and activated another one of its skills, which was Mad Charge.

As if it had used a drug to enhance its velocity, it moved from where it stood to where Darius did at a speed a normal person would not be able to follow. Luckily, Darius' heightened Intellect allowed his mind to react faster than his body.

The moment the Troll had braced its legs, he had foreseen what it was trying to do. As such, he quickly stabbed the butt of his spear into the ground at an inclined angle to create a makeshift trap and rolled out of the way.

The Troll noticed the spear too late and could not dodge even if it wanted to at this current speed. Its torso collided with the spear where it was easily pierced through from one end to the other.

The monster groaned in agony and crashed against a tree heavily, further exacerbating its critical state. It tried many times to rise but could not muster the strength to do so as it bled profusely over the earth.

Darius panted slightly and observed the battlefield quietly. Many trees were ruined and the area looked like… well, it looked like a Troll had gone on a rampage.

Minus the corpse of the unfortunate lioness, the area was seemingly clear. Darius understood that the battle with this Troll had been noisy and was bound to attract attention.

There might be predators or third parties waiting in the shadows to profit off their conflict. Of course Darius would account for such a thing as he had usually been the very same third party back on Earth.

However, Darius had overlooked the fact that beasts and monsters were less sapient than humans. They took territory and trespassing very seriously, and no monster or beast would dare intrude upon the known territory of a Blue Troll for fear of ending up just as the lioness had.

As such, Darius focused on the struggling monster whose HP was down to the single digits now. He wished to extract more data to fill his Bestiary so he placed his spear into his Inventory and cast Ember.

The fiery expulsion lanced the torso of the weakened Blue Troll, making it scream in agony as it reacted quite strongly. The fear in its eyes shifted from one of death to one of fire.

Darius touched his chin lightly. 'So from this, it's clear that such monsters are weak to fire and fear it greatly. But is it spells in general or fire in particular?'

Darius cast Sparks on the monster and watched it become electrocuted. After shuddering greatly, it lay there, unmoving and on the brink of death. Darius was sure it had about 1 HP at this point.

However, its eyes showed the fear of death and not of electricity, despite the trauma it had been put through earlier. This pleased Darius as he had found a possible racial weakness of the Blue Trolls.

He then withdrew his iron dagger and slid it lightly across the Blue Troll's hide. He noticed that unlike his iron spear, his dagger was unable to cut too deeply into its skin when slashed.

Darius then tried to pierce it but was only able to get a surface wound despite his Strength. It was not because the iron dagger was of poor quality, but because the Troll itself seemed resistant to slashing and piercing from small weapons.

That was another important fact to learn. Had Darius chosen the path of a rogue of sorts, he would have been put six feet under for sure. Quite the chilling thought.

With a sigh, the fellow struck the Blue Troll dead by ramming his dagger into its eye, and it twitched its last before becoming limp. Darius then stood over it and pondered how to deal with this carcass.

It was as obvious as day that the carcass of a monster was much more valuable than that of a beast. A hunter could kill a beast, but a monster could only be killed by an adventurer.

Even most soldiers of Andrato Kingdom likely could not face monsters. Even he himself had been sorely unequipped to deal with a monster head-on. Darius had no illusions about how he had won this fight, it was all through his initial surprise attack.

He had maximized his early battle damage as much as he could and that ended up saving his life. Had he encountered this beast while it was strutting about leisurely, he would have been forced to run or turned into meat paste.

With a sigh, he passed a hand through his hair and just kept the entire carcass into his Inventory. When he reached a town, he could find a way to deal with its existence.

Darius ignored the body of the lioness as it was not valuable to him in any realistic way and left the forest. He maintained his trajectory towards the river he had crossed yesternight, but took time to check his spoils of war after his adrenaline cooled off from the intense battle.


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