The Troll didn't react at first, but when it saw its weapon gone, it vigilantly shouted, "Who? Who's there?"
However, Luke was still invisible due to the Disillusionment Charm, so no matter how the Troll searched, it couldn't find any trace of him.
"Petrificus Totalus!" A white light suddenly struck the Troll.
The Troll's body instantly paused and stiffened for a moment, but it immediately broke free from the magic Petrificus Totalus's restraint, becoming even more alert and wary.
"Who? You damned bug, I smell you, come out!"
"What the heck, is its magic resistance that strong?" Luke was a bit surprised; he had easily dealt with five Trolls before using Shrinking Potion, which made him feel that Trolls were nothing special.
He hadn't expected to be caught off guard now.
Immediately, Luke cast several more magic spells, but they only lasted for a few seconds.
Seeing that magic spells weren't working, Luke quietly approached and used magic power to control the dagger at his waist, shooting it towards the Troll.
The dagger was sharp and managed to pierce through the Troll's thick scales, but besides the scales, the Troll also had muscles and bones as hard as stone, which directly embedded the dagger into its flesh, making it impossible to pull out.
"Ah, that hurts! You damned despicable bug, I'm going to eat you!" The injured Troll roared furiously, grabbing surrounding boulders and throwing them everywhere, attempting to force the invisible Luke out.
This move by the Troll was quite effective; the flying boulders smashing against the invisible barrier formed by the Shield Charm instantly revealed Luke's whereabouts to the Troll.
The Troll revealed a ferocious, hateful smile, widened its eyes, and swung its fist towards Luke's direction, as if it could see him being smashed into a meat paste the next second.
The Troll possessed immense strength, and its full-force strike directly shattered the defensive barrier formed by the Shield Charm.
But to the Troll's astonishment, there was no one behind the Shield Charm, causing its punch to strike empty air.
Before the Troll could react, two daggers shot towards it with lightning speed, directly piercing into its most vulnerable eyes, instantly splattering black blood and a deafening scream of agony echoing throughout the entire cave.
The eyeless Troll stumbled around like a headless fly, and Luke used a Leg-Locking Curse to make its feet trip over each other, causing it to fall heavily to the ground.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" Luke re-enacted Ron Weasley's act of knocking out the Troll, levitating the Troll's thick wooden club and smashing it heavily onto the back of the Troll's head.
Once wasn't enough, so he did it twice. Under continuous smashing, the Troll could no longer stand up and directly passed out.
Evidently, when dealing with creatures with high magic resistance like Trolls, physical attacks are most effective.
Just as Luke finished dealing with the Troll, Gandalf was not to be outdone.
Gandalf used his Flame Sword to directly sever the Troll's two Achilles tendons. After the Troll could no longer stand and fell to the ground, he directly jumped onto the Troll's chest and plunged the Flame Sword deep into the Troll's heart, directly burning the heart to ashes.
Having dealt with his Troll, Gandalf threw the Flame Sword over: "Luke, catch the sword!"
Luke reacted quickly, caught the Flame Sword, jumped onto the unconscious Troll, gripped the sharp sword with both hands, and forcefully plunged it into its chest over its heart, releasing blazing flames.
The unconscious Troll instinctively struggled for a moment in its final throes before directly perishing.
After dealing with the two Trolls, Luke and Gandalf briefly inspected the cave, finding that apart from a pile of various bones, there were very few valuable items in the cave.
One could only say there were differences even among Trolls.
Luke silently grumbled about the poor creatures in his mind before continuing with Gandalf to the next Troll cave.
However, before leaving, Gandalf used magic to collapse the Troll cave, burying a pile of white bones and the Trolls inside.
Subsequently, the two found two more Troll caves.
The first cave contained only one Troll, which was even poorer than the previous two Trolls, lacking even an iron pot for cooking.
Gandalf and Luke easily dealt with it together and immediately moved on to the next location.
But the next cave was the one with the most Trolls Luke and Gandalf had ever seen, housing a total of twelve Trolls!
This group of Trolls had clear divisions of labor and even a distinct hierarchy, surprisingly even having a Troll leader.
The Troll leader was even taller than the other Trolls, standing seven or eight meters tall. He sat on a tall stone platform, holding a ten-meter-long iron great hammer, and wore a tattered, rusty armor, served by the other Trolls.
And on the cave walls, there were carved-out cages, enclosed by wooden bars, holding over a hundred humans.
The humans in the cages were emaciated, their eyes numb and lifeless, like a group of living dead.
When a Troll carried a bucket of sticky, unknown substance and poured it into the wooden trough in front of them, the group of humans scrambled for the food like irrational livestock.
The Troll leader here was clearly smarter; they captured humans from outside the forest, but didn't immediately eat them. Instead, they caged them like pigs, then regularly slaughtered them.
To ensure a continuous supply of food, they even kept human men and women together, forcing them to bear new human infants.
Seeing this, Gandalf and Luke's expressions became very solemn.
They had never seen such intelligent Trolls before. If given a chance, it might truly unify the entire Troll Forest in the future and become the King of Trolls.
This time, Luke and Gandalf were very cautious and did not choose a frontal assault.
After some discussion, Luke decided to use his old trick, using Potions to deal with them.
However, he had run out of the Shrinking Potion he carried, so Luke chose the Hypnotic Potion he had previously refined.
But when Luke finally managed to stealthily sneak to the large cauldron and pour an entire bottle of Hypnotic Potion into it, this large pot of medicated food was surprisingly eaten entirely by the Troll leader, not leaving a single drop for the other Trolls.
"Tsk," Luke cursed inwardly.
"Eating alone, aren't you afraid of retribution?!"
"Didn't it just come true?"
The Troll leader, who had eaten an entire pot of medicated food, quickly felt the effects of the Potion and lay on its seat, snoring loudly and deafeningly.
The other Trolls, seeing this, were not surprised. Instead, they began to set up a large pot, pouring a pile of green worms into the pot to cook with other seasonings.
This was their food.
As for the caged humans, they all belonged to the Troll leader. No matter how much they drooled, they dared not touch them. After all, the Troll leader was not only the strongest and smartest among them, but also the most brutal.
Those who had tried to challenge the Troll leader's authority had long become souls under its great hammer, their bodies even being completely devoured by them.
Watching the eleven Trolls scrambling for the pot of sticky substance made from worms, Gandalf quietly asked Luke, "Do you still have that Potion from before?"
Luke smiled wryly and shook his head.
He had originally refined five types of Potions: Scabies Potion, Shrinking Potion, Oblivion Potion, Soothing Potion, and Hypnotic Potion. The Shrinking Potion and Hypnotic Potion were both used up, and the remaining Potions were not of much use at this moment.
Could it be to use Scabies Potion to help the Trolls get rid of scabies? Or use Oblivion Potion to make them forget their memories? Or use Soothing Potion to treat the Trolls' illnesses?
"Oh, right, I almost forgot there was one more Potion!"
Luke quickly pulled out a bottle of green Potion from his pocket.