Chapter 7: Clever Monster Killing

“Shockwave Trap”: A Hunter class Skill Book, learnable at Level 1. After learning, Hunter players could set up “Shockwave Traps”.

There were two items. The ordinary Hand Crossbow was a weapon with a basic physical attack of 3-4, slightly better than the one the System provided. As for the Skill Book, its description was too simple. Chen Mo couldn’t figure much out from it, so he simply learned the skill directly.

System Notification: You learned the skill “Shockwave Trap”!

Shockwave Trap (Novice Level): A trap constructed using a special method. When the trap exploded, it would damage the enemy and also generate a shockwave. The shockwave did not distinguish between friend or foe, and would push all players and monsters within range two meters away. Skill Cooldown Time was 30 seconds. The trap lasted for 60 seconds. A maximum of two traps could exist simultaneously.

“An auxiliary type trap.” After glancing at the Shockwave Trap’s properties, Chen Mo reached a conclusion.

Hunter traps were also divided into offensive and auxiliary types. The Shockwave Trap clearly belonged to the auxiliary defense type. The skill description didn’t mention the trap’s damage, so he estimated the actual damage wasn’t great. However, the Shockwave Trap was obviously a very useful trap for Hunters.

Hunters weren’t good at close combat. Once an enemy got close, most of their abilities became almost useless. But if they could manage to deploy a Shockwave Trap and place it well, they could instantly create a distance of nearly four meters between themselves and the enemy.

And this was just the Novice Level trap effect. If the Shockwave Trap’s level increased, the effect would likely be even better.

Setting up the Shockwave Trap was quite simple, only involving a few more simple actions compared to the Basic Trap Technique. The movements weren’t very different from the Basic Trap actions. Chen Mo was already quite familiar with the Basic Trap Technique. After a little practice, he could freely set up the Shockwave Trap without spending much time, and his skill completion rate was over 60%.

“The difficulty in leaving this valley really is the White Goblins at the start. With the Shockwave Trap, killing the surrounding Black Goblins shouldn’t be a big problem.”

Chen Mo thought to himself. He could set up two Shockwave Traps at the same time. If he chose the trap locations well, they could seriously interfere with the Black Goblins’ pursuit.

Even so, the Black Goblins’ speed was much faster than the White Goblins, and their attack power was also not comparable to White Goblins. Even though Chen Mo now had 120 Health Points, and the Basic Healing Technique could restore 50 points, he could only withstand two attacks from a Black Goblin. If he was slightly unlucky, or if the Black Goblins were a bit smarter, even if Chen Mo led the Black Goblins near the two rocks to kite them, there was still significant danger.

The Shockwave Trap only gave him the possibility to fight. To kill the Black Goblins, he still needed some luck.

Looking at the dozens of Black Goblins in the valley, Chen Mo couldn’t help but shake his head. To leave the valley, he would need to kill at least half of the Black Goblins. With so many Black Goblins, he would probably have to die a few times.

Hmm, wait!

Chen Mo suddenly slapped his forehead.

Why did he have to kite the Black Goblins? Since he had already learned to set traps freely, and could even set traps on rocks to use them as bombs, he didn’t need to fight the Black Goblins using his initial method at all!

There was a large rock nearly two meters tall in the distance. He could lure the Black Goblins under the rock, climb onto the rock himself, and then drop traps from above. He could kill the Black Goblins without any effort!

This method was good!

Chen Mo immediately ran to that large rock. He practiced climbing up and down several times. Otherwise, if he pulled the monsters over but failed to climb up, and got killed by the monsters, that would be a joke.

After he could go up and down skillfully, Chen Mo stood on the rock and practiced setting traps.

Just as he thought, he could set traps on top of the rock. But Chen Mo accidentally discovered that if he used the System command to use the skill while on the rock, his movements would constantly shake when setting the trap, with a high chance of failure. However, if he used the Free Skill System, setting traps became much simpler, almost unaffected by the terrain. It seemed that activating the Free Skill System before others gave him quite an advantage.

Probably many players could think of attacking monsters from a high place like him, but he guessed not many could comfortably stand up there and kill monsters.

Then Chen Mo carefully observed the distribution of the Black Goblin monsters around him for a while, calculated silently in his heart, and then began to set traps.

The nearest Black Goblin was less than forty meters away from Chen Mo. With the Hand Crossbow, he could lure monsters from eleven meters away. He just needed to set five traps along a straight line of thirty meters. And during the movement, he could also set two Basic Traps and one Shockwave Trap.

With a total of eight traps, even though the Black Goblins were faster than the White Goblins, they still couldn’t catch up to Chen Mo. The three Shockwave Traps alone made it difficult for the Black Goblins to get close. As long as one of the five Basic Traps triggered the Crippling Effect, Chen Mo would be one hundred percent safe.

Shoom!

After setting the traps, he approached the two Black Goblins. When the two Black Goblins were positioned equally, Chen Mo seized the moment to attack with his crossbow.

The two Black Goblins became angry and chased him together. They hadn’t chased for long before they first stepped on a Basic Trap. The Basic Trap exploded, but no Crippling Effect appeared. However, after chasing two more steps, the two Black Goblins’ bodies suddenly moved back two meters. They had stepped on a Shockwave Trap.

The Shockwave Trap worked even better than Chen Mo expected. Although it only pushed the monsters back two meters, it actually also reduced the monsters’ speed to zero, while the player could continue running. This delay meant the monsters lost more than just two meters of pursuit distance.

With the help of the Shockwave Trap, Chen Mo easily lured the two Black Goblins to the large rock. By the time the two Black Goblins chased over, Chen Mo was already sitting on the large rock, calmly setting traps on small rocks and then throwing the rocks down among the Goblins milling about below.

Chen Mo didn’t use the crossbow to attack. Using the crossbow required crossbow bolts. He only had the one hundred bolts the System provided. Once they were used up, they were gone. Also, without any crossbow skills, the crossbow couldn’t deal high damage.

Boom! Boom! Boom! …

The traps exploded one after another. Even though each trap dealt less than forty Damage to a Black Goblin, and each Black Goblin had as much as 500 Health Points, Chen Mo’s timing for dropping the traps was very precise. Every time a trap landed, it would inevitably fall between the two Goblins, allowing the trap to damage both Goblins at the same time.

Trap after trap, he could set one every nine seconds. After just a minute and a half, the two Black Goblins’ Health Points were almost depleted.

The Black Goblins with low health stared angrily at Chen Mo on the rock. Their movements seemed to become increasingly frantic. Chen Mo vaguely felt that the Black Goblins’ Defense seemed to have increased a little.

But before Chen Mo could draw any useful conclusions, the two Black Goblins’ Health Points bottomed out, and they fell to the ground dead one after the other.

Each Black Goblin dropped three or four copper coins for Chen Mo. Chen Mo unceremoniously picked them all up.

“It takes over two minutes to kill one pair. To kill a path out, it will probably take over half an hour.”

Chen Mo calculated slightly and felt his spirits lift. Half an hour wasn’t a very long time.

However, this depended on the Black Goblins in the valley not respawning. Otherwise, leaving the valley would be difficult.

Half an hour passed quickly. Just as Chen Mo predicted, the Black Goblins did not respawn. However, Chen Mo still couldn’t leave the valley immediately, because the remaining living Black Goblins in the valley kept moving around, making it impossible for Chen Mo to sneak away.

During this half hour, Chen Mo’s Level increased to 3. The ten fixed Attributes were added by the System. He then added his own five free Attributes to his character as before. His Strength immediately reached 18 points. Combined with the attack power of the ordinary crossbow weapon, Chen Mo’s attack power reached 21-22 points. A single Basic Trap could now deal nearly seventy points of damage to a Black Goblin.

The time needed to kill Black Goblins decreased by a small half. Chen Mo thought about it and decided to simply spend a bit more time and kill them all in one go. After all, the Black Goblins gave decent Experience, and with that big rock there, killing them was easy.

His Health Points also increased by 40 points. Chen Mo’s Health reached 160 points. Even if the Black Goblins were a bit far, Chen Mo didn’t worry about being killed by them.

So the remaining Black Goblins quickly died and disappeared in pairs. Chen Mo’s Experience also continuously rose.

Soon, only the last pair of Black Goblins remained in the valley.

Chen Mo glanced at the experience bar and found that the Experience needed to level up was more than he expected. Even after killing these two Black Goblins, the experience bar would at most reach 70%. He wouldn’t reach Level 4 as initially expected.

With his damage significantly increased, sitting on the rock, Chen Mo only needed to drop one more trap and the two Black Goblins below would die.

But at this moment, Chen Mo remembered the information he obtained through his hacker methods.

He remembered it mentioned that when facing monsters that do not respawn, when only one monster remains, there might be a way to make the monster enter a mutated state!