BXBX NOVEL Chapter 125: Old Dog and New Tricks
After shallowly cutting the kneepit of the kobold general, its blood stuck to the blades of his sword.
As a blind creature, although it couldn\'t see, its other senses like hearing and smelling were enhanced, thus, the strong scent of blood in his sword allowed the kobold general to accurately pinpoint his location.
\'So it reacts when it hears a sound and when it smells blood huh?\' Shye pondered as he revised the plan in his head.
Meanwhile, the kobold general started crawling on all fours, looking alarmingly chilling as it sniffed around in hopes of locating the little loathsome bastard who dared to disturb its peaceful slumber.
Finally, after a minute of sniffing around, the kobold general smelled something. It suddenly pounced toward the scent, however, its attack struck nothing but the ground again.
Before the kobold general realized what was going on, it suddenly felt pain from its other kneepit.
Naturally, the cause of this pain was Shye, who took out and equipped his spare iron greatsword for the sake of the attribute bonus from his talent, [Greatsword Meister (Rare)].
He then swung his greatswords striking nothing but air, attempting to redirect the smell of blood towards the ground a few meters away from him before the massive kobold could retaliate.
Sure enough, it charged and slashed at the ground again, giving Shye another opportunity to hack and slash at the creature\'s joints and nerves in hopes of weakening it.
The same battle sequence happened around six more times before the kobold general stopped falling for Shye\'s trick.
\'Tch…It finally realized my tricks huh?\' Shye thought to himself while opening yet another small vial emitting a bloody scent, purchased for 50 points from the system\'s store, to confirm if the kobold general already knew his tricks.
The kobold general looked in the direction of the scent before turning its head away, once again sniffing around in hopes of locating Shye, basically confirming that it wasn\'t gonna respond to bloody scents on the ground anymore.
Still, this trick earned him eight free hits and although these eight full-powered hits weren\'t even close to grievously wounding the creature, it was at least enough to slightly impair some of its vital movements such as swinging its glaive and moving quickly, thus giving him a chance to defeat the massive kobold.
Unfortunately, things weren\'t bound to proceed smoothly as the kobold general suddenly turned its head in his direction, smiled creepily, and jumped towards him as it swung its glaive horizontally in an attempt to slice him into two parts.
\'How the hell are you able to detect me this time?!\' Shye inwardly complained as he was forced to use his life-saving skill, [Dash Lv.3] to dodge the sudden attack.
Due to this, [Dash Lv.3] went on cooldown and was unavailable for thirty seconds.
Then, right after missing, the massive kobold went back to crawling creepily on all fours, attempting to detect some sort of scent again.
This time, Shye made sure to keep his distance from the creature while waiting for his life-saving skill to go off cooldown, as he tried to determine how the blind creature managed to detect him.
\'Probably some sort of scent again huh?\' Shye inwardly thought as he tried hard to think of a solution.
Fortunately, his intelligence and wisdom attributes have grown tremendously as he traversed the labyrinth, thus, allowing him to finally think of a solution.
Shye opened the system and purchased a bunch of cheap but absurdly strong perfumes for a mere price of five points per bottle.
Then, once his [Dash Lv.3] skill was off cooldown, he boldly sprinted across the entire area, allowing the kobold general to hear his loud footsteps as he repeatedly pressed the sprayer of the perfume bottle like his life depended on it.
\'Crap! Crap! Crap!\'
*PSSSH* *PSSSH* *PSSSH* *PSSSH* *PSSSH*
The strong scent of the cheap perfume started to spread in the entire room as Shye tried his best to avoid every attack while continuing to spray perfume everywhere.
Finally, after using three large bottles of the cheap perfume, a shockingly accurate attack from the blind kobold almost severed his body in half, forcing him to use his [Dash Lv.3] again to escape.
However, that was it.
Upon looking at the blind kobold who was desperately trying to sniff around with a furious expression on its face, Shye smiled widely.
The kobold general\'s sense of smell…Was now impaired. Now, the only thing the kobold could rely on to locate him was sound.
Due to the strong smell of perfume, the kobold general gave up on trying to smell him and instead, perked up its ears as it desperately tried to locate him through the most subtle of sounds.
Shye calmly observed the kobold general as he carefully planned his next move, knowing that it could only detect him using its ears.
Its…ears…
Upon realizing something important, Shye almost impulsively facepalmed which would\'ve allowed the creature to detect him.
Fortunately, he managed to stop himself from doing so, and instead, he settled with inwardly scolding himself for being so stupid.
\'Its ears…Yes! It\'s freakin\' ears! Why didn\'t I think of destroying its goddamned ears first?! I had eight free hits! Eight!\' Shye inwardly raged as he vowed to improve his intelligence status in the future.
The battle could\'ve been so much easier, however, getting angry right now wouldn\'t do him any good so he took a silent deep breath before investing ten points to intelligence.
\'There…Now I should be able to make smarter decisions…Right?\' Shye thought to himself as he calmly analyzed the current advantageous situation, knowing that he could not afford to blow this chance.
One clean hit from the kobold would turn the fight around so he must plan his next moves carefully and end the life of the kobold general as efficiently and safely as possible.
Shye was struggling, the kobold knew most of his tricks now and he needed something new to trick the kobold at least one more time so that he could destroy both of its ears.