Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 579 Showdown
An endless frost blizzard spread rapidly outward with Noshir as the center, and in just a few seconds, this valley corridor filled with the stench of decaying corpses was completely transformed into an ice and snow corridor.

Those zombies and ghouls that were originally hiding in the pile of corpses were instantly frozen into ice sculptures. The drastic change in weather also made some gnolls active farther away discover the abnormality. They began to rush here spontaneously, but were directly wiped out by the rapidly spreading frost when they approached. The gnolls farther away began to fear this natural disaster-like scene.

Although these guys were extremely ferocious by nature, and became even more fearless under the influence of Yenogu, the scene before them was obviously not something that ordinary soldiers like them could contend with. The fear of natural disasters and power, as well as the sudden cold climate, cooled their crazy brains and made them instinctively flee backwards.

The smarter ones among these beasts, such as the Flinder Gnoll Warlords who were specially transformed by Yeenoghu, immediately sent their pet hyenas to the deepest part of the Death Canyon to wake up their masters as soon as they discovered this abnormal situation.

Noshir clenched the [Mata Lotok] tightly, urging the power of this artifact hammer to condense a platform made of ice under his feet. He then let the platform move along the suddenly rising glacier, and finally brought himself to the highest peak of the glacier. From afar, he could see the hyenas fleeing into the depths, and then deliberately slowed down the spread of the glacier to allow the little guys who brought the news to escape smoothly.

'Very good, now all we have to do is wait.'

Noshir sat upright on a throne made of glaciers, holding the Frostfather beside him, one hand leaning on the end of [Mata Lotok], quietly waiting for the [bloodthirsty beast] to appear, while recalling the information about Yeenoghu provided by Gargauth and others.

Yeenoghu, this demon lord is always called the [bloodthirsty beast] or the [Gnoll Lord]. Its overall strength is actually one of the weaker ones among the many demon lords, but it still possesses power that ordinary people can hardly imagine. Its physical fitness is amazing, and it fights extremely violently, like a runaway, and its hideous demon fangs are filled with unimaginable poison.

He uses a three-headed flail named "Butcher". According to rumors, this is a quasi-artifact forged by Yeenoghu himself. However, due to the poor craftsmanship of the demon, the appearance of this weapon looks very ordinary, and the enchantment effect is also extremely simple. However, it still has enough lethality when wielded by Yeenoghu.

At the same time, if Yeenoghu is within its own territory, this [bloodthirsty beast] can exert strength and ability beyond its own limits. It always craves senseless killing and destruction, and drives the gnolls who are its physical tools to commit more brutal acts in its name. The gnoll lord takes pleasure in the sadness and despair of others. It longs to turn the world into a wasteland and let the last surviving gnolls fight each other to the end for the remaining corpse feast.

In short, this thing is a complete monster, both in terms of ability and psychology. Noshier can say with certainty that once the two of them meet, Yenogu will attack without mercy and unleash its tyrannical nature.

"…Here it comes."

Standing up from the Frost Throne, Noshir held [Mata Lotok] tightly in one hand and walked straight to the edge of the glacier platform. He looked at the rioting beasts rushing out of the valley not far away, and the tall figures running wildly behind those beasts!
'The King of the Gnolls.' Noshir was standing on the glacier, quietly watching the 14-foot (4.5-meter) tall figure running wildly surrounded by the beasts.

Yeenoghu looks like a giant, scarred gnoll, but it does not have as much hair as an ordinary gnoll. Instead, it has demonic hard skin all over its body, with only black hard hair growing on its arm joints, tail, and back.

Its back is covered with black spikes, its eyes burn with emerald flames, and it wears some armor woven with chains. The armor is made of shields and breastplates from defeated enemies. The skin of the losers is also one of the decorations on this evil beast. Corrosive saliva is constantly flowing from its bloody mouth.

Yenogu had already seen him. After all, the glacier was so conspicuous. After seeing his territory being invaded, Yenogu, just as Noshir had expected, fell into a frenzy in an instant!
It howled angrily, wielding its three-headed flail wildly and wantonly. A large number of metal spikes instantly rushed out from the ground of the valley, destroying the glacier forged by Noshir in an instant! And these spikes continued to grow, stabbing straight at Noshir in the sky!
These spikes spread very quickly, and at least for ordinary people, this kind of attack is almost impossible to dodge. But for Noshil, whose agility has reached 30 points, perception has reached 30 points, and who possesses several beast souls that increase agility and sensing abilities, such attacks are so slow that he can completely ignore them.

He just casually flapped his wings and dodged the siege of metal spikes. Then he lightly swung his hammer and the metal spikes that gathered together were easily broken. However, Noshil did not take this opportunity to start fighting immediately. He was still observing Yenogu and the environment around it.

Noshir did not forget the purpose of his coming here. His goal was not to defeat Yeenoghu. What he really needed was to find the Sword of Zariel and take the sword back from here.

However, Noshir did not sense any sacred aura on Yenogu's body, which means that the Sword of Zariel was not on Yenogu's body. It was more likely that the sword was still in the belly of Yenogu's pet, the deformed monster named Kalokotok.

'But why isn't that monster here?'

Noshil was a little confused. He did not sense the figure of Kalokotok on the battlefield. Even if that large monster was hiding underground, as long as it was moving, the noise it made would not be able to hide from Noshil's perception ability. But the problem now was that it was not here.

"——Thinking about it carefully, the positioning of that thing seems to be closer to a troop carrier, a living locker or something like that. That kind of thing is useless to me, so it is understandable that it does not appear on this battlefield... Forget it, let's clear this place first, and then slowly look for it later."

(End of this chapter)