Chapter 14: GOING ON THE WAY TO THE HERBIVORE ISLAND P5
Fer kept a distance of the sarco at about 50 meters. While he was preparing, the sarco moved a little away from its previous location, hunting the dodos that could do nothing but flee from the giant hunter that wanted to eat them. Fer gradually approached the sarco, crouched down and hiding as much as possible among the bushes and rocks. He didn't want to miss the first strike; besides, he wanted to test a hypothesis he had since the moment he saw this sarco. That hypothesis was that if it existed, then hunting it to kill larger dinosaurs would be much easier and would save him a lot of work and effort. What he wanted to test was whether critical damage existed when hitting this sarco's weak point with a weapon. Fer assumed that the sarco's weak point was its eyes, which looked like lanterns. Aside from that, Fer did not find any other weak points since the sarcosuchus was completely covered in dense scales.
With a spear in hand, Fer was now about 5 meters from the sarco that was eating and making grunting sounds while swallowing a freshly hunted dodo with its monstrous jaw. From Fer's vantage point, just a few meters from this 20-meter-long creature, he witnessed the grotesque scene with his own eyes, his pupils constricted, but the determination in his gaze did not waver for a moment. This could be his first battle with a truly large dinosaur, and although the sarcosuchus was not a large dinosaur on this island, it could not be underestimated either. If he wanted to survive for a long time on this island, he would have to overcome the obstacle in front of him to be the one who dominated these dinosaurs.
…
Fer squinted his eyes, finding the opportunity he had been waiting for. He stretched his arm back, gathering all his strength, and with the sound of air breaking, the spear shot out at high speed toward the sarco, which was not expecting the stealth attack from a strange object.
I don't know if it was beginner's luck, but the spear went straight into the sarco's eye socket, which let out a roar that seemed to make the surroundings tremble from the sound coming from the giant crocodile's throat.
-510
The three-digit green number floated where the spear had impacted, but Fer had no time to rejoice that his hypothesis was correct since the sarco turned toward his location from where the spear had come. The sarcosuchus saw with its single eye this tiny being it had never seen before, but when it saw what this being had in its hands, its rage awakened to levels that seemed to almost spit fire from fury.
With its one eye turning red from the anger of being wounded, it roared with all its might, its body of more than 20 meters and 3 meters tall shook, and it twisted its head to try to remove the sharp object that was piercing its right eye. With the strength of many tons of weight, it had no trouble removing this sharp object, which was just a twig compared to its 20-meter-long body.
Fer saw the sarco remove the spear from its body with just its sheer strength while looking in his direction. Fer had already expected to be discovered after throwing the spear, so he didn't wait for the sarco to approach him, starting to keep his distance from this sarco to prevent it from attacking. He already knew the sarco's abilities, so he wouldn't give it the opportunity to use them at any moment during the fight.
The sarco's speed was not fast compared to Fer's speed, but the sarco could make small leaps to close the distance between them. However, with Fer's 300% speed, it was nothing at all. The only thing he had to pay attention to was his energy, which was rapidly depleting compared to the sarco, which had 2200 energy that could last for quite some time.
Fer did not stop throwing spears with the greatest aim he could muster while being pursued. The ground trembled from the movements of the sarco's four limbs as it moved quickly toward Fer to kill the one who had injured its eye.
ZAP! ZAP! ZAP!
ROAR!
The sound of breaking wind and the sarco's roars could be heard for hundreds of meters.
-46
-46
Each spear that impacted the large body full of dark green scales of the sarco dealt about 46 damage, which is even less than what the spear normally did to other dinosaurs. If it weren't for being cautious, then the current situation would be quite dangerous, but since he had made sufficient preparations, he didn't have to worry about running out of spears for a while.
Many spears missed the sarco and flew several meters from where they were supposed to hit, but that was not a problem. If he wanted to recover them, he just had to run toward them to recycle them again.
Time passed minute by minute, and in the blink of an eye, about 20 minutes went by while the battle unfolded. The sarcosuchus looked like a hedgehog with so many spears stuck in its over 20-meter-long body. At first, it shook them off by moving its body, but after forcibly learning that it shouldn't remove the spears to avoid giving Fer the opportunity to throw more spears while it was removing them, it didn't take them off and instead attacked this tiny being.
Fer always kept a safe distance, and while continuing to throw the spears, he did not forget to move the sarcosuchus away from the water. He was not sure if he could keep up with the sarcosuchus's speed in the water even with his current speed. After all, the sarcosuchus had the advantage of its giant body and the fin of its tail.
The blood of the sarcosuchus became more evident as time went by. The HUD indicated that the current life of the sarcosuchus was 600/3520. The spears he had on hand were 37; if he had hit all of them, then this sarcosuchus would have already died a long time ago.
But who said his aim was quite poor? Fortunately, as he threw more and more spears, his spear-throwing skill improved considerably as he aimed the spears toward the sarcosuchus.
Although his aim continued to improve over time, Fer didn't care and continued to impale the sarcosuchus until he could kill it, taking advantage of every opening or movement the sarcosuchus made to stab his spear into any part of its body.
When the sarcosuchus's health dropped to 400, the anger in its eyes was replaced with fear and reluctance. The blood throughout its 20-meter body flowed, staining its entire body and the ground it passed over.
Immediately, the sarcosuchus turned to flee into the water; however… how could he let the sarco escape after all this intensive battle and let all his efforts go to waste? Fer noticed that the sarcosuchus turned to flee, and at that moment, Fer's gaze sharpened like an eagle hunting its prey.
SSS!
The sound of breaking air rang out, and Fer ran at full speed toward the bloodied fleeing sarcosuchus, heading for the riverbank relatively close by, but suddenly, the sarcosuchus froze in place.
BANG!
With the momentum of his speed, Fer jumped onto the sarcosuchus, and while he was in the air, Fer held the spear with both hands aimed at the sarcosuchus's scaly body.
BANG!
CLICK!
-255
Two sounds were heard simultaneously, one from the impact and the other from the spear breaking on impact. Fer took advantage of the sarcosuchus's daze and stabbed another spear into the bleeding body of the sarcosuchus.
-255
The green damage indicator floated where the attack occurred, and when the tip of the spear pierced the scales that were like protective armor and the sarcosuchus's flesh, the sarcosuchus let out a much weaker roar than the previous ones and fell dead as it was drained of health.
Quickly, Fer jumped off the 20-meter body of the sarcosuchus before the body collapsed.
He sighed.
"Finally," said Fer, letting out a sigh of relief after killing the sarcosuchus after 20 minutes of intensive battle. Although he had kept his distance from the sarco at all times, it wasn't so easy to kill, as he often forgot about his energy expenditure. He was lucky to have kept enough distance to recover a bit and then completely recover.
When he regained his missing energy after waiting a few seconds, Fer quickly approached the body of the sarcosuchus and took out the stone axe. He didn't need raw meat at this moment; what was harder to obtain was the hide, and it was also the most important for him at this stage.
pa pa pa
The axe continuously struck the body of the dead sarcosuchus. Each hit collected a lot, enough to multiply what he had previously obtained from the dilophosaurs and dodos.
pa pa pa
+80 hide
+30 raw meat
+3 prime meat
…
+501 hide
+75 raw meat
+27 prime meat
Thanks to the 200% improvement in melee damage, it didn't take long to make the dead sarcosuchus disappear, filling his inventory with what he had collected with the stone axe.
When the body disappeared completely, Fer noticed that a brown backpack appeared just as the body vanished completely. This made Fer's eyes light up with surprise. He quickly approached the backpack to open it and see what it contained.