Chapter 376: Bluff
Joan quickly performed the "magic trick", checked the current time, and found that he had slept for a full two hours.
There was a buzzing sound in his ears again, and there was something trembling in his pocket. Joan was stunned for a few seconds before realizing that the "magic siren" made by the tentacles of the digger was calling the police, so he quickly took it out to check.
The slender tentacles trembled violently and deflected towards the hole.
Joan's nerves tensed immediately, and he held his breath, and carefully peeked out of the bushes that blocked the entrance of the cave.
The abnormal movement of the siren indicated that dangerous creatures were approaching the cave.
Joan hoped that the alarm would be triggered by wild beasts in the forest, or the black bear that he had occupied the cave. However, the sound of footsteps and barking dogs in the distance made him hopeless, and his heart suddenly became cold.
The branches and leaves in the forest rustled, and two fully armed jackals appeared in Joan's vision.
Surrounding the Gnoll man were four hyenas, sniffing around in the grass, clearly following his footprints and breath.
Joan quickly figured out how to save himself.
I have not healed from serious injuries, and I am definitely no match for Queen Alpha's elite guards in a frontal fight. If I cast a spell...
Joan observed the gnolls and hyenas close to the entrance of the cave, and found that they were too scattered. Regardless of offensive spells or control spells such as "spider web", they couldn't deal with two gnolls and four hyenas at the same time, and he only had one chance to cast the spell.
The enemy was getting closer and closer, and Joan naturally thought of the "Branch of Irmin Sur" that had saved him many times in the past when he was in desperate situations. This is his last "hole card". Is it going to be played now?
Joan hesitated for a moment, and decided not to use the "Branch of Irminsur" for the time being, but to try other methods first.
Thinking of this, he took out a dry eye stalk from the spell-casting material bag, held it in his hand, and whispered the spell-casting incantation of "Transformation".
At the same time, a hyena seemed to smell something not far away, and rushed straight to the big tree, roaring at the cave covered by the grass.
The two jackal warriors heard the dog bark, exchanged glances, drew out their sabers at the same time, and stepped lightly from the left and right to outflank them.
One of the jackals chopped off the weeds with a knife, and the sharp air flow whizzed by along with the sharp blade, blowing away the cut weeds, revealing a dark cave.
"There is a burrow here, there seems to be a shadow shaking in it, it is alive!"
"Bah! Could it be a bear?"
"It's better to be the Yingman who was shot down by Mr. Alpha. There will be a big reward for catching him back!"
"The entrance of the cave is too narrow, and the Yingman's size may not be able to get in."
"Don't worry about it so much, just drag him out!"
After discussing, the two Gnoll warriors blew their whistles one after another, urging the hyena to go into the cave, bite the creature hidden inside, and drag it out forcefully.
The hyenas bared their teeth and moved closer to the entrance of the cave. The moment they poked their heads in, four soft purple whips flew out of the cave, hitting the faces of the four dogs respectively.
All four hyenas shrieked and shrank back, whining and whining with blood flowing from their noses. No matter how much the owner urged them, they did not dare to approach the cave again.
"Damn it! What kind of monster is that!" The wolf man gripped the handle of his knife and cursed in a low voice.
"Looks like... some kind of tentacles."
The Gnoll warrior who was closer to the entrance of the cave had a trembling voice, staring at the four purple tentacles wriggling in the air, covered with suction cups and tumor-like protrusions, and couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.
The dense branches and leaves above the head blocked the sunlight, and in the dark cave, four weird tentacles stretched out slowly and calmly.
The Gnoll, whose back was drenched in cold sweat, noticed a protruding eyeball inlaid at the end of each of the four tentacles. He screamed out of fright, and staggered back, almost unable to hold the knife in his hand steadily.
"What a ghost! It's just a nest of snakes. There's nothing to be afraid of!"
Another jackal warrior shouted boldly.
"Snake? No, no... I dare to bet my head, that monster is definitely not a snake!"
The frightened Gnoll staggered back, his eyes fixed on the hole as if attracted by a magnet.
The ominous premonition was soon confirmed.
A strange big ball of meat squeezed out from the hole, shaking four slender tentacles suspended in mid-air.
The round body surface is covered with a layer of hard and uneven purple-red chitin carapace.
In the center of the meat ball, there is a wide mouth covered with two rows of fangs and sharp teeth, above the mouth is inlaid with an eyeball as big as a washbasin.
With huge eyeballs, he stared coldly at the two stunned Gnoll weapons opposite him.
The pupils are like an abyss, and scarlet bloodshots spread outward in circles. Anyone who looks at them will experience a nightmare-like sense of fear.
"This... this is..."
The less courageous wolf man was so frightened that he couldn't even speak smoothly, and backed away with a pale face.
The more courageous wolf man, who still didn't believe in evil, raised his saber with trembling hands, and mustered up his courage to charge towards the beholder.
The giant-eyed monster randomly raised a tentacle, and the eyeball embedded in the end of the tentacle suddenly widened, and a red light beam shot out from the depth of the pupil, hitting the wolf man's chest.
The raging flames ignited all the hair on his body, and in a blink of an eye he turned into a mass of burning men. He wailed and took two steps back before falling on his back on the grass, writhing and struggling in pain.
"Wow! Beholder...it's a beholder!"
Witnessing his companion being burned to death by the sight shot by the giant-eyed monster, another gnoll warrior was completely terrified and convinced that the eyeball monster floating in front of him was one of the most terrifying monsters in the world, the "Giant-eyed Tyrant".
Even Queen Alpha might not dare to mess with a powerhouse at the level of "Giant-Eyed Tyrant", let alone a young man like him.
With such a great sense of fear, there was only one thought in the wolf warrior's mind - to run for his life, the farther the better!
The four hyenas were also frightened out of their wits by the ferocious beholder, sobbing and following the gnoll warrior, they turned around and ran wildly, stumbling into the dense forest.
Qiao An secretly breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the panicked figures of the jackal warrior and the hyena disappear into the depths of the dense forest.
He stretched out an eye stalk, and approached the Gnoll warrior lying on the ground, his body burned to pieces.
Finding that he was still alive, he used the stalk of his eyes as a noose, wrapped his neck around his neck and tightened it, and with a click, he twisted his neck.
After eliminating the last witness, Joan was able to restart the "Transformation" with peace of mind, changing from the "Eye of Insight" form just used to bluff people into the form of the Jotunheim Hawkman. Wings soar into the air.
It was near dusk, and Joan was soaring in the sky under the bloody setting sun. From a distance, he saw smoke and dust billowing in the open area near the river beach, and the sound of shouting and killing came with the wind.
The scene in front of him made his heart sink, and he realized that when he was hiding in the tree hole and fell asleep, the Yalfheim Bandit Suppression Corps had already encountered the main battle group led by "Gnoll Queen Alpha". Fierce battle.