The Legend Of The Wizard's Apprentice (Book 1) Read Free Page B

is already dead either. They just really, really like to hear the screams from their food while they crunch bite-sized chunks off. Trolls are very evil creatures and they will kill anything just to hear it scream. But that’s not all; even when their victims are dead, they will break the bones just to hear the snap made by them. Trolls are generally solitary creatures, thank the gods, but during mating season a group of the biggest troll males will group together and take out entire villages. They do this so they can bring as many screaming victims back to the female trolls they are trying to impress. The more living victims a troll male can bring back to the female, the more the female trolls will favour them. It is a very well known fact that female trolls will only mate while listening to the music of crunching bones and the painful scream’s of their victims. This is one reason there are so many trolls in this world: there isn’t a shortage of victims, as they don’t care what type of creature is doing the screaming.
    Now while we’re talking about so many trolls, there are also many different species of trolls. There are Wood Trolls – dead brownish tree-like creatures that wonder through the dark forests or that will simply plant them selves and wait patiently until an unsuspecting victim walks beneath them. Swamp Trolls look like big mouldy mounds of dirt with moss and mould growing all over their backs. These trolls usually move very slowly and have huge mouths to swallow anything that walks across their path. Lake Trolls are big and have a bluish colour to their skin to blend in with the water, they will wander around the edges of lakes and rivers looking for unsuspecting prey that are trying to get a drink. Then there are the dumbest, biggest and most aggressive trolls of all. These are called the Mountain Trolls; they are huge grey creatures that are all rocky in appearance and have very tough skin that is hard to cut. They blend into the Mountain slopes and paths. They will amble along the mountain paths, and caves seeking out anything that they could kill and eat. Now all of them are deadly but the Mountain Trolls really enjoy the kill and they love to squish their prey using their big rocky clubs. Mountain Trolls have a really unique way of eating their prey once crushed. After a good crushing they enjoy slurping up the victim’s leaking juices and then chomp the mashed, fleshy bits down their throats.”
    Kerwyn’s face changed a few shades greener while he envisioned each of these creatures catching and killing helpless travelers.
    Thankfully Master Sernett saved Kerwyn’s belly from empting its contents by interrupting his thoughts and asked his next creature question.
    “Now Kerwyn, how much of what I taught you about Goblins do you remember?”Master Sernett reached out and touched his apprentice on the shoulder trying to get him to focus on his questions as he saw that Kerwyn was looking as if he had just eaten a bug.
    “Goblins are humanoid in shape with twisted limbs and they are generally easily spooked. But when they are in great numbers they tend to toughen up and become a lot braver. You also said they have very hard heads and never to get into hand to hand combat with them as they are a lot stronger then they look,” Kerwyn recited what he remembered from memory.
    “That’s right. They are very strong and they have enough strength to tear a full-grown man’s arms off. What else did I teach you about them?” Master Sernett asked.
    “You said that goblins are like ants; they will swarm an enemy and will even kill their own kind without a conscience. They are notorious for their cruelty and their sadistic ways of torturing their enemies and prey. The leader is usually the biggest and the most sadistic of goblins. He maintains his leadership by being the most feared in the goblin hoard. The leader will have the most kills and trophies around his neck. The trophies are usually the ears or