Chapter 112: Slaying the snake together (1/2)
Chapter 112: Slaying the snake together
When the Medusa slowly emerged from the swamp, Han Shuo discovered that it was even bigger than he’d imagined. Its hair full of small snakes was waving wildly as they extended in dance. Its serpentine lower body was as thick as a bucket, and its body was five or six meters long.
“Everyone be careful, I think the Medusa is ready to leave the swamp to hunt.” Han Shuo could clearly see the Medusa’s movements through the observations of his original demons and he immediately warned everyone.
“Bad guy, bad guy, big bad guy!” A scream rang out from his arms after Han Shuo’s alarmed words and the beautiful and pure elven maiden in his arms started erupting in violent action, railing her small fists into Han Shuo’s chest, accompanied by a look of panic.
Seeing that the female elf had regained her senses, Han Shuo immediately stopped holding her as the Demonslayer Edge abruptly appeared in his hand. His eyes calmly patrolled the four corners as he planned on finding an appropriate location to fight the Medusa.
“What, what do you want to do?” The elven maiden was greatly startled as she thought Han Shuo wanted to kill her. She took two steps back in a panic, a magic staff suddenly appearing in her hand and sent a sharp blade of wind hurtling towards Han Shuo’s head with a magical incantation.
“Damn it, what are you attacking me for?” Han Shuo immediately roared furiously at this elf after he dodged it.
However, it looked like the elven maiden was even more irate than Han Shuo. She was staring at Han Shuo with extreme enmity and also said huffily, “What did you do to me just now?”
The hungry Medusa had obviously lost its patience when it saw that no prey had entered the swamp. Its colossal body moved swiftly within the swamp and drew close to Han Shuo’s group.
Han Shuo didn’t have the time to waste with the female elf at this moment and beckoned quickly with his hand when he saw the female elven archer Nia walk over from the distance. He pointed at the clueless elven maiden and said, “Explain everything to her.”
Han Shuo immediately left quickly after saying these words and arrived where Trunks, Aphrodite, and the others were. He spoke urgently, “It looks like the Medusa couldn’t hold out against its anger and is attempting to leave the swamp to find prey. It’s heading in this direction, everyone be on guard.”
“The two mages hurry and leave, take up positions in the big tree behind the traps. The two swordsman should split up and don’t let the Medusa discover your tracks. Han, you and I leave temporarily. When the Medusa appears in a moment, we’ll block off its path of retreat. It’s extremely difficult to handle a Medusa creature within the swamp, but it may not even be up to the task of fighting my manticore when it leaves the swamps. Therefore, we have a high probability of killing it, but the only thing is to not let it discover our tracks. We’ll find it dreadfully hard to fight it if it returns to the swamp.” Trunks suddenly spoke up loudly at this time and quickly instructed everyone to return to their posts.
At such a pivotal moment, even the other adventurers, who previously bore enmity towards Trunks, didn’t say anything else. They all nodded and started moving according to their positions in accordance with Trunks’ instructions.
Han Shuo nodded at Trunks and suddenly left, avoiding the path that the Medusa would definitely take. Han Shuo’s grasp of the greater picture far exceeded everyone else’s, due to the information he received from the original demons. The Medusa looked quite cautious as it warily crawled onto the shore, and wasn’t in a hurry to immediately leave the marsh. It dithered by the side of the marsh, as if contemplating something.
The magical creatures that had appeared just now had been stripped of all their valuables and their corpses abandoned in the enormous trap that’d been previously prepared. The Medusa’s beautiful head turned around a few times, her watery eyes appearing a bit confused as to why not a single human or beast had approached after hearing her alluring voice.
After a while, the Medusa still hadn’t seemed to think it through and finally left the marsh, walking towards the place where Aphrodite and the others lay in wait. Through the observations of the original demon, Han Shuo discovered that the previously angry elf had finally calmed down after Nia’s persuading and was looking with interest in his direction. She finally backed up unwillingly towards the back under Nia’s repeated encouragement, but she wasn’t willing to move too far.
After leaving the marsh, the Medusa cautiously proceeded forward. Han Shuo and Trunks circled around and appeared from another direction the marsh, completely blocking off the Medusa’s path of retreat. Han Shuo and Trunks traded a meaningful glance and approached the Medusa from behind at the same time, soundlessly, prepared to make a move against it at any time.
Finally, when the Medusa was ten or so meters away from the marsh, its undulating body suddenly drew near to the trap. Its bizarre body was elongated, when its upper body perceived the existence of the trap, it leveraged the strength of its lower body and slowly eased its slanted body out of the trap and moved away with the undulations of its body.