Chapter 138: Driving, Skyrocketing Experience, Half a Month

Watching the ordinary trolls obey orders and leave.

Tang Zheng couldn't help but remark: "Dealing with this group of trolls, this method is indeed much simpler and more brutal."

These trolls knew their leader had been controlled by him, yet they still only listened to the commands of Troll Gu; this kind of "intelligence"...

It must be a racial trait.

"I will be staying here for a while."

Tang Zheng scanned the environment in this area and said to Troll Gu: "Help me clear out a clean area here."

"Understood."

Troll Gu spoke, its voice rough, and it nodded with a hint of daze in its terrifying, fierce eyes.

"Charm-type" mental control magic is different from hypnosis-type magic; in the subconscious of the controlled, the person who cast the magic is regarded as the most trusted and intimate person.

This kind of mental control does not cause the behavior or consciousness of the controlled to become stiff or chaotic.

As long as you don't make the controlled perform acts that completely violate common sense, such as suicide, you can basically make the charmed opponent do anything.

Troll Gu's massive physique is not only suitable for combat but also quite excellent for manual labor; it cleared out a clean area in just half an hour.

Tang Zheng also had Troll Gu cut down a few large trees, and in this clean area, he casually built a simple wooden shed.

The next period of time was for waiting.

He didn't know how many ogres were in the eastern region of the entire Tob Forest, but he knew that relying on those few trolls to summon all the ogres in the area would take some time.

Taking advantage of the waiting time.

Tang Zheng didn't stay idle and began to replenish resources like magic scrolls.

His current mana has reached 48 points, allowing him to create fourth-tier magic scrolls, but Tang Zheng planned to first replenish third-tier "Summon Angel" scrolls.

When mana was insufficient.

Tang Zheng would spar with Troll Gu; having such a strong, sturdy, and durable opponent, it would be a waste not to use it for practice.

During this process, he naturally did not use the power of the curse.

He was very clear about his own disadvantages.

Up until now, all his battles had basically relied on skills and magic buffs to win; to put it bluntly, it was through opportunistic means.

As for his true combat level.

Tang Zheng had self-awareness; compared to the experts in this world who had trained step by step, the gap was much larger.

A day passed in the blink of an eye.

It wasn't until the evening of the second day.

That the trolls who had left returned, bringing ogres with them from all parts of the surrounding forest.

Seeing these returning trolls.

Tang Zheng felt a slight relief in his heart; with no movement for a whole day, he had thought these trolls had all run away.

As the ogres gathered, the thick, foul stench filled the air once more, and the previously empty area began to become crowded.

Looking down from above.

This open area looked as if an ogre legion had gathered.

Facing the chaotic roars and shouts of this large group of ogres, Tang Zheng began to count them with an expressionless face.

With these ordinary trolls of higher status present, there was no need to worry about this group of ogres losing control; this demonstrated the suppression of lower-status races by higher-status ones.

Tang Zheng actually felt a bit of the benefit of the ogre population's low intelligence at this moment.

"271 ogres?"

After Tang Zheng finished counting the entire number of ogres, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

This number was likely not all of them.

He silently calculated in his heart that the average experience of one ogre was around 300; if all these ogres were killed, he could obtain about 80,000 experience points.

"Except for the outer area, have this group of ogres catch all the high-level... er, large beasts or monsters and bring them here."

"Don't kill them, I want them alive!"

A fiery look flashed in Tang Zheng's eyes as he spoke to Troll Gu.

After hearing Tang Zheng's instructions.

Troll Gu gathered the ordinary trolls to issue orders, and the ordinary trolls dispersed to issue orders to the two hundred-plus ogres.

The instructions were passed down layer by layer.

The two hundred-plus ogres quickly moved and dispersed into the forest.

"Now is the harvest season." Seeing that his plan was working, a flash of excitement appeared in Tang Zheng's eyes.

The large beasts or monsters he had the trolls capture were among the top of the food chain in the Tob Forest.

As for most ordinary beasts and monsters.

Tang Zheng would not hunt them, and he didn't even intend to intervene in the outer areas, all to avoid attracting outside attention.

Furthermore.

The deaths of these large beasts or monsters would better advance his subsequent plans.

Even if he killed Troll Gu, with no powerful beasts or monsters left in the core area, there would naturally be no need to worry about turmoil caused by the lack of Troll Gu's deterrence.

Days passed one by one.

Tang Zheng began to get busy. Every day, besides making magic scrolls and sparring with Troll Gu, the rest of his time was spent processing the various large beasts or monsters sent over by the ogres. The average level of these beasts and monsters was in the range of 12 to 17.

At the beginning.

It only took three days for Tang Zheng to gain 10,000 experience points, but in the following time, the speed of experience acquisition gradually began to decrease.

Ninth Month, 23rd Day, Lower Fire Month.

Half a month passed.

Outside the wooden shed.

"Awoo." The little evil spirit dog lay on the ground with a round, bulging belly, appearing as if it were very difficult to even move.

During this time.

Tang Zheng had almost filled his daily schedule, except for making magic scrolls every day or replenishing the "Orb of Death" with his spare mana.

He was constantly mastering his own power through battles with Troll Gu.

The other one who was busiest was the little evil spirit dog; compared to the monotonous goblin food from before, the various corpses of powerful beasts or monsters were simply like heaven and earth.

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The little evil spirit dog could no longer be described as "little" now.

Sufficient nutritional intake.

Caused the little evil spirit dog's size to soar to about one meter in height within half a month.

Its fur was black and shiny, especially the two horns on its head, which had fully grown out; faintly, a dangerous aura was already present on the little evil spirit dog.

Although the large number of corpses was high, they were consumed quickly; the little evil spirit dog itself couldn't eat much, and the real bulk was consumed by that group of ogres. The appetite of over two hundred ogres easily consumed the large quantity of beast corpses captured.

During this process.

The number of ogres also decreased by more than 20.

Bang!

The corpse of a high-level fierce tiger, over three meters long and covered in mottled patterns, was thrown by Tang Zheng in front of the little evil spirit dog.

"Don't waste it."

Tang Zheng glanced at the little evil spirit dog, whose belly was so full it could barely walk, and spoke indifferently.

"Woo~" The little evil spirit dog swayed its body, didn't stand up, and let out a wronged whine.

Tang Zheng didn't care about the little evil spirit dog, which was acting spoiled after getting a good deal, and cast his gaze toward the attribute panel in front of him.

【Experience Slot: 74122/30000】

In half a month, his experience points had increased by more than 70,000, and the large monsters and beasts in the eastern region of the Tob Forest had been mostly cleared out.

"The 'Totem Possession' skill is indeed not that simple." During this time, with the help of a large number of monster corpses, Tang Zheng experimented with the skill slightly and gained a relatively new understanding.

As long as the totem is not fixed, this skill allows the "Totem Possession" process to be interrupted at any time; as for whether it can be canceled and replaced after the totem is fixed, that is another question.

Because he hadn't fixed the first totem yet, Tang Zheng wasn't sure.

The information obtained so far is.

Depending on the monster or beast, the base attributes added by the totem are not fixed, but it can only increase a certain base attribute by a maximum of 50 points.

The value is not much.

But it was within expectations; after all, it is only a mid-tier profession.

What Tang Zheng cared about was "Specialty Acquisition"; for example, he specifically experimented with that high-level fierce tiger just now.

This monster was born with two abilities: one was night vision, and the other was the ability to accelerate movement in the jungle.

If he used the high-level fierce tiger as a totem and chose "Specialty Acquisition" instead of "Totem Activation," Tang Zheng could choose to fix one of these two specialty abilities of the high-level fierce tiger.

Of course.

Neither of these two abilities was of any use to Tang Zheng, but what if he replaced them with higher-level monsters?

"War Demon" Jieluo could not hunt higher-level monsters due to his strength, but he could.

At the same time!

During the half-month that Tang Zheng spent in the Tob Forest focusing on leveling up, a major event occurred in both the Baharuth Empire and the Re-Estize Kingdom!

The strongest "Warrior King" Go-Jin of the Imperial Arena, a symbol of the Empire, suddenly resigned.

This matter caused a huge impact throughout the Imperial Capital and the Baharuth Empire, and even affected the battlefield between the two countries, causing the morale of the Imperial army to decline.

It is said.

The Bloody Emperor personally sent people to salvage the situation, and even a conflict arose where one of the Empire's "Four Knights" appeared; it was only through the mediation of the great merchant Osk that a larger conflict did not erupt.

As for "Wu Wang" Go-Jin, his whereabouts became unknown after leaving the Baharuth Empire, and immediately following this, the Empire issued a warrant for his arrest.

The person being hunted was not "Wu Wang" Go-Jin.

It was an alchemist from the Re-Estize Kingdom; the title "Black-Haired Genius Alchemist" also spread from the Empire and began to attract the attention of various parties in the Kingdom.

On the other side.

Renas, who had a heavy bounty placed on her by the Empire and was wanted for treason, engaged in a duel with Gazef in the Royal Capital.

The two sides ultimately ended in a draw.

King Ramposa III personally summoned the two, bestowed upon "Head Warrior" Gazef one of the five great national treasures—a magic item—and simultaneously granted Renas the noble title of "Knight."

This matter was naturally learned of by the Baharuth Empire, causing the situation on the border battlefield to become even more intense.

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