Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Chapter 343: Zero Dust! Opening the Forbidden Road! (4k, supplemented on April 4.29)
When a person's luck is so good that his words come true, it is no longer as simple as just good luck.

There must be some reasons that led to the current situation.

I looked at the abilities of Fire Bud in detail.

There is nothing in it that describes luck.

Bai Zhen had no idea whether it was a hidden passive skill like [Heat Resistance].

But Huoya had mentioned to him more than once that her luck in the past was just above average.

She herself didn't have such good luck before.

The "mutation" started when she came to the Pokémon world. It was only after she arrived that she started to have a similar phenomenon of good luck.

Although Huoya has always refused to admit that she is lucky, Bai Zhen can be 100% sure that Huoya's luck is now very strange. Not only is she lucky, but even the people around her have good luck inexplicably.

When Huoya came into this world, it was as if she was protected by the world.

Bai Zhen couldn't confirm the specific reason.

But no matter what, he was now blessed with Fire Bud's good luck and had obtained two moves of rarity 8, and they were the moves and skills of the most difficult monsters to obtain.

In terms of the power of the moves, the strength of the two moves is not superb.

The 200-power Zodiac Meteorite is as powerful as the self-destruct skill [Break Everything], and is lower than the 250-power self-destruct skill [Big Bang].

The level 1, 110-power Lotus Tribulation Bead Cannon is almost equivalent to the level 5 Jet Flame.

The real power of these two moves lies in the abilities that come with them.

Bai Zhen stretched out his hand towards the distance again. Within a second or two, a door to another dimension opened in the sky, and a meteorite with a diameter of 5 meters hit the beach directly.

A small explosion occurred on the beach.

Bai Zhen stepped forward, his right hand pressed against the meteorite whose temperature was over a thousand degrees. Bai Zhen took a deep breath and launched a small-scale [Lotus Tribulation Pearl Cannon].

With a bang, the meteorite turned into sand directly under the force of resonance!

After learning these two skills, Bai Zhen can now summon small meteorites and use the power of resonance to destroy the structure of matter.

The great existence of the New World - Tiandi Huangtilong is good at using the power of resonance to turn the land into sand and then move forward underground.

After learning the ultimate move of the Heaven and Earth Glory Dragon, he can also use resonance to turn the ground into sand.

But this move is not omnipotent. It is impossible for him to control the power of resonance as easily as Tiandi Huangtilong. He can only use low-power moves to do this.

If Bai Zhen wants to obtain similar resonance ability, he needs more moves from the Tiandi Huangti Dragon.

After experimenting with these two skills, Bai Zhen looked at the level of his own moves.

Most of his skills have already reached level eight or nine. This time, the level increase of 15 has allowed many of his skills to break through level ten.

Lv.13 [Attribute Spray], Lv.10 [Extreme Fighting Spirit], Lv.11 [Super Charged State (Golden Thunder)], Lv.10 [Lava Storm], Lv.10 [Steam Burst], Lv.11 [Water Shuriken], and Lv.12 [Lotus Tribulation Bead Cannon].

After the Lotus Tribulation Bead Cannon reaches level 10, the suffix that increases the special attack by 1 level is changed to an increase of 2 levels.

Under ideal conditions with full firepower, Bai Zhen can increase his special attack by 5 levels at once.

In addition, the [Zodiac Meteorite] that I just learned has reached level 4.

The power also increased from 200 to 215. In addition, the level increase reduced the physical energy consumption of using this move.

Originally, summoning a Zodiac Meteor of maximum power would consume half of his mental power, but now he can summon a Zodiac Meteor of maximum power by consuming one-third of his mental power.

After Bai Zhen finished testing his skills, he turned around. Behind him, there were a lot of Felynx and Pokémon gathered on the beach to join in the fun.

Bai Zhen quickly walked to Huo Ya, and Huo Ya congratulated Bai Zhen and said, "Congratulations on gaining such a powerful ability."

"This is all thanks to you."

After Bai Zhen thanked Huoya for her strange luck, he naturally lifted Huoya's hands, held them in his hands, looked at Huoya expectantly and said, "Master Huoya, this is a once-in-a-lifetime request of mine. Please bless the Red Lotus Armored Cavalry to learn ice-type moves!"

Now, in order to solve the problem of Red Lotus Armor Knight's overheated body temperature and let him truly transform towards the forbidden stage, the signature skill of Zhuo Linglong is the most suitable for Red Lotus Armor Knight.

Bai Zhen didn't want to think about the Blazing Frost Dragon. It was a forbidden ancient dragon, and its moves were all at rarity level 9 and were skills that could not be obtained.

If the Fire Sprout could help him obtain the Zodiac Meteorite from the alien beast [Behemoth], then there is no reason why the Red Lotus Armored Rider could not obtain the moves and skills of the ancient border dragon, the Burning Zero Dragon.

Huoya is a little troubled.

Even if Bai Zhen told her this, she didn't know what to do.

All she could do was help pray, that was all.

Huoya nodded and said, "I will pray for Honglian Kaiqi."

"If it really succeeds, you can tell me any request you have, and I will definitely meet all your requirements!"

"Haha~ Then I have to think carefully about what I want to do for you."

After returning home, Bai Zhen waited for a while, and the Red Lotus Armored Rider finally came back after delivering the meal to Jigglypuff.

At Bai Zhen's request, the Red Lotus Armored Rider bowed to the Fire Bud very devoutly.

Then he ate the burrito made by Bai Zhen.

Bai Zhen fixed his gaze on the Red Lotus Armor Rider, looking at the Red Lotus Armor Rider's ability panel expectantly.

When the Red Lotus Armor Knight finished digesting the burrito and gained the ability, extremely cold ice suddenly emerged from his body, and ice-blue dust floated around his body.

Looking at the frost on the Red Lotus Armor Knight's body, Huoya's face lit up with joy.

I didn't expect that I would actually gain ice abilities.

Huoya looked at Bai Zhen expectantly, but the surprise and shock she had imagined did not appear. The expression on Bai Zhen's face was very calm.

Huoya felt puzzled.

"What does this mean? Haven't you learned the appropriate moves?"

Just when Huoya was confused.

The Red Lotus Knight, who was originally covered by ice, suddenly had some traces of flames on his body. Bai Zhen sensed that something was wrong, and he quickly shouted to Emrito and Shui Yun: "Emrito, teleport! Shui Yun, use the Dead Leaf Storm quickly, blow him away!"

Emrido also sensed the danger and quickly teleported the Crimson Lotus Armor out of the house.

Shui Yun didn't have time to think about it, and used her Dead Leaf Storm to push the Red Lotus Armored Cavalry away.

But it was totally too late.

The moment the Red Lotus Armor Knight flew backwards into the forest, a powerful explosion occurred, and the blast wave directly shattered the glass facing him in the house!
After the gust of wind passed, Huoya and Shuiyun looked towards the forest again, their pupils dilated.

The forest of Oliva was blown down by the gusts of wind generated by the powerful explosion. Ice and frost completely covered the area within a few hundred meters around it. A huge tornado ice sculpture tens of meters high also appeared in the forest.

There was even white fog around the villa, and snow was falling from the sky.

Looking at the Red Lotus Armor Knight again, he was now frozen in the huge tornado ice sculpture.

At this moment, both of them had only one question in their minds.

What kind of monster did Bai Zhen create?!

Huoya looked back at the villa that was almost covered in frost and asked, "What kind of moves did he learn? Why is it so powerful?"

Bai Zhen exhaled lightly and replied, "This is not the power of one move. It is the physical result of several moves released together."

"The physical results of several moves?"

Bai Zhen explained in detail: "When the surrounding frozen air is rapidly heated, the air expands and produces a huge explosion. As the temperature of the water in the island air gets higher and higher, the condensation rate of these water vapors becomes faster, so when encountering extremely low temperatures, the water vapor immediately turns into that huge ice sculpture."

"The higher the temperature of water, the faster it freezes?"

Huo Ya could still understand somewhat about the expansion of the air in front, but she was confused by what Bai Zhen said later: the higher the temperature, the faster it would freeze. This was a bit counterintuitive.

Bai Zhen did not explain in detail, but only said: "This is a phenomenon called the Mpemba effect. This is why water turns into ice when you pour it in winter. If you are interested, I will tell you in detail later."

The expansion of air from ice + fire, and the rapid freezing of high temperature water + ice.

The combination of ice and fire is more powerful than he imagined!
Moreover, the Crimson Armor Knight himself also masters the move [Water Oath] to generate water.

Huoya was somewhat curious about the physical phenomena that Bai Zhen mentioned, but now was obviously not the time to ask about those things. Seeing that Bai Zhen was not as surprised as she had imagined, Huoya asked, "Is the awakened ability of the Red Lotus Armor not as good as you imagined?"

Bai Zhen shook his head and said, "No, it's even more powerful than I thought!"

The Red Lotus Armored Cavalry did not learn the unique skills of the Burning Dragon as Bai Zhen wished.

But he learned another powerful skill, a rarity 8 move - Zero Dust.

In addition, he also learned a rarity 5 move - freeze drying.

Freeze Drying is a Pokémon skill.

Level 1 power: 70 points. The effect is to freeze the opponent rapidly, sometimes causing the opponent to be frozen. It is also very effective against water-attribute Pokémon.

Originally, the water, ice, fire, and psychic systems of the Red Lotus Armor Knights were unable to cause effective damage to water targets.

The freeze-drying skill makes up for this shortcoming, allowing the Red Lotus Armor Knight to cause heavy damage to water enemies when facing them.

The key point is the [Absolute Zero Dust] learned by the Red Lotus Armor Riders. This move comes from the ancient dragon species on the border - the Frozen King Dragon!

Frozen King Dragon is the origin of Flame King Dragon and Flame Queen Dragon.

The equivalent of today's Flame Dragon and Flame Queen Dragon actually evolved from the Frozen Dragon.

As the first species, the Frost King Dragon is more ferocious than the Fire King Dragon, and its strength reaches the level of unlocking the forbidden realm.

This [Absolute Zero Dust] is one of the signature skills of the Frozen King Dragon. The Frozen King Dragon relies on this dust to release and control the freezing air.

Zero Dust Lv.12 (Rarity 8): Frozen Dragon has the ability to control frost. It can control and use dust to release extremely cold air, which can freeze the moisture in the air. It can also release all the dust at once, making a Zero Dust Explosion! After the move is released, it will definitely put the opponent into a frozen state.

Note: Frozen state - the opponent's speed is reduced by 1 level and enters the frostbite state (the power of special moves is weakened and health will continue to be deducted).

Flame King can use its own explosive dust to attack with flame explosions, while Freeze King also relies on dust to cause a large amount of freezing damage.

This move is even more powerful than the [Lotus Tribulation Pearl Cannon] that Bai Zhen learned.

Although Bai Zhen can use this move to emit resonant shock waves, he cannot truly control the phenomenon of resonance. In other words, Bai Zhen cannot use the resonance ability of the Lotus Tribulation Pearl Cannon to create new moves.

However, the Red Lotus Armor Riders are completely different. The Zero Dust that the Red Lotus Armor Riders learned is clearly an ability to control cold air.

This move can be varied in many ways, such as using dust to freeze most of the water vapor, and it is completely possible to create icicles falling in the air.

There are many uses and applications for Zero Dust.

If you use Zero Dust to perform an ice explosion attack, at full power, Zero Dust at level 1 will have a power of 110, with an additional effect of reducing the enemy's speed by 1 level and causing it to enter a frostbite state.

Only Ice-type Pokémon are not affected by the Frostbite status.

If a fire-type Pokémon is frostbitten, Zero Dust will even prevent it from even using fire-type moves. The body is covered with extremely cold frost, which needs to absorb heat to melt. Even if a fire-type Pokémon uses fire-type moves, the heat will be absorbed by the frost, and even if it is released, the power will be greatly reduced.

The level increase of 15 has improved all the moves of the Crimson Lotus Armor Rider, and the Crimson Lotus Armor Rider also has 6 moves above level 10.

Lv.13 [Spark.Double], Lv.10 [Super Energy Burn], Lv.10 [Shadow Flame], Lv.13 [Heat Burst], Lv.12 [Zero Dust], Lv.10 [Fire Dance].

Many of the other moves of the Red Lotus Armor Riders have reached level nine. With a little hard training, they can be fully upgraded to level ten.

Bai Zhen explained in detail to Huoya and Shuiyun what abilities the Red Lotus Armor Rider had learned.

After listening, Huoya was happy that Honglian Kaiqi had become stronger, but when she saw Honglian Kaiqi was now frozen in the ice sculpture, she asked Bai Zhen worriedly: "What should we do now? Should we keep him in there?"

"He is adapting to his new moves. The compatibility between him and Zero Dust is too poor. He needs a little time to go through a process similar to evolution."

Just like the evolution towards the overlord some time ago, the current Crimson Lotus Armored Cavalry also needs some time.

The Crimson Lotus Armor has officially opened the forbidden road. If Bai Zhen has the opportunity to hunt the Flame Dragon and the Ice Curse Dragon in the future and obtain their powerful moves, the Crimson Lotus Armor will inevitably become a new taboo.

Bai Zhen silently congratulated the Red Lotus Armored Cavalry in his heart.

Looking back at his villa.

Bai Zhen scratched his head. A lot of glass in the villa was broken, and it would probably take a lot of time to clean up the mess.

(End of this chapter)