Sam didn't halt or reduce his speed. He went just as fast even though he sensed the incoming threat.
The only change he did was to extend his hand and turn the wind sharper.
*SLASH*
Sam cut through the incoming object and went past it. The object which turned out to be a living creature split into two. Brown colored sludge fell all over the place and wherever it fell, the vegetation in that place, hungrily absorbed it.
Sam came to a stop and looked at the creature.
It is an ape. But it didn't look like any other ape Sam has seen. There are several patches on the ape's body covered with rocks and stones. They seemed like they protruded out of the ape's body. Sam guessed what this is.
A lackey of land abomination.
And judging from the lack of presence of any other lackeys around, it is a free-lackey.
At least that is what it is based on the description given by Triala.