Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 144 New Features

To the fire dragons of the ancient tree fire dragon clan, these hunters are actually just neutral units in their eyes.

In other words, what the investigation team considered to be "friendly" were actually just biological objects that could be ignored by the fire dragons in their eyes.

That friendly adaptive behavior was just to make the fire dragons familiar with their presence.

It's like meeting a golden retriever outside. Everyone knows that this thing is aggressive, so everyone will be wary at first, but when this golden retriever takes the initiative to show friendliness to people, and will retreat obediently when people obviously show annoyance.

After a long time, even those who are worried about danger will begin to let down their guard. At most, they will not allow the golden retriever to get too close because they don't know whether it is carrying something unclean.

The current attitude of the fire dragon towards the researchers and hunters of the investigation team is similar to this. As long as they do not get too close and do not show any misunderstanding behavior that may make the dragon feel dangerous, the fire dragon will not target them.

Those with identity scales can allow the other party to get a little closer, or even make some actions that the fire dragon cannot understand, and they can also be a little tolerant.

But if one wants to get really close to the fire dragon like Detel did, or even take advantage of the fire dragon's food, treat its wounds, or take care of its cubs, the fire dragons don't mind letting the other party know what the fire dragon's majesty is.

At this time, even if you have star jerky, it will be of no use.

Time passes in this wonderful way of getting along.

Because the transportation route was opened up with the investigation team, the breeding plan for the cats of the ancient tree fire dragon clan also began to be implemented. Every breeding site and breeding facility was carefully selected by the investigation team.

Some unsuitable terrains were even renovated and protective measures were established one by one. Soon, the first batch of experimental organisms were released. After some adjustments and risk assessments, as time passed, the first batch of farmed mushroom pigs and biting fish successfully survived.

The protective measures established under the guidance of the investigation team have also played their due role and successfully blocked some undesirable prying eyes.

Although these achievements are not many and are still in the initial stage, they still bring great confidence to cats.

After a while, when the first batch of farmed animals are sold, a large number of cats will be able to achieve self-sufficiency. If the herbivorous dragons are also successfully completed in the end, there will be extra food to store to deal with the situation of food shortage in the future.

On this day, Luo Yun was squatting on a platform in a tributary of the earth vein as usual.

Suddenly, the illusory panel appeared in front of him abruptly, and the progress bar of characteristic extraction increased significantly to 99%. The life energy above the earth vein tributaries suddenly became active.

More than a month ago, the reward for his conquest of the battle-scarred black wolf bird had long been used up. During this period of time, Luo Yun had been relying on his ability to actively absorb life energy to absorb energy.

In order to make up for the slightly reduced energy absorption rate, he would even stay here for a little longer every day.

Who would have thought that the familiar feeling would appear so abruptly, which made him a little confused.

It's obvious that he hasn't done anything during this period of time?

Meanwhile, the Ancient Tree Forest is near the Grand Canyon.

The scorching temperature made the air here a little distorted. A large number of loose corpses of small animals emitted a rotten smell under the high temperature, and there was no miasma in the air.

Even the creatures living in the Grand Canyon fled the area to avoid the two ancient dragons who were playing a game of chase.

The Mist Corpse Dragon is really depressed, very depressed.

Ever since being caught by the Yangyan Dragon that day, it has been chasing him relentlessly like a big cat that has found its prey.

Often times, the Mist Corpse Dragon had just taken a breath when it was caught up by the opponent, and had no choice but to gather the miasma again to fight.

But this big cat is completely different from the Yangyanlong couple back then. It is actually a wise big cat!
His fighting style is completely different from that of the young couple. Whether it is combat experience, energy control, or even the reserve of life energy, it far exceeds that of the male Yangyan Dragon back then.

And the most infuriating thing is that, after just one battle, He determined that the part of his "armor" that was destroyed by the strange fire dragon before was his weakness.

Every attack was directed towards that area, and they would hit every spot they could find.

This made the Mist Corpse Dragon very frustrated.

Although each injury was not serious and he could repair himself by plundering the vitality of those creatures eroded by the miasma, he could not withstand the pain of being beaten!

It wasn't a life-and-death battle, and the Mist Corpse Dragon was really suppressed and felt a little frustrated.

In this way, one kept running away and healing his wounds, while the other took the opportunity to hit the weakly defended part. In terms of the intensity of the battle, it was far less intense than when they first met.

Finally, as time went on, the Mist Hazard became tired of being chased and had no time to repair the spore sacs on its body, and the 'armor' it had stored for many years also became tattered.

The good mood of coming here to relax and get some fresh air was gone, as we were chased to the Grand Canyon.

The Misty Corpse Dragon was too lazy to play such games anymore, so it simply left the Ancient Tree Forest, crossed the Grand Canyon, and jumped directly from the Coral Plateau with a body full of miasma, returning to the Miasma Valley.

In the miasma-filled deathly aura of the Miasma Valley, the Flame King Dragon could not sense the location of the Mist Miasma Corpse Dragon at all, and the urging feeling that had been lingering in his heart also disappeared.

Mission accomplished. The Flame King Dragon, who did not like the humid climate of the Coral Plateau, yawned, gathered his might, and flew slowly toward the other side of the plateau, the Dragon Crystal Land at the highest point of the entire New Continent.

Since then, the existence that caused the miasma crisis in the ancient tree forest has left. Without its host, the activity of the miasma began to decline. Once the corpses of these current creatures are decomposed, it will disappear with time.

And those white spores that can reproduce and spew out miasma will begin to dissipate after losing the environment on which they depend for reproduction as the climate changes.

By then, with the terrifying self-purification ability of the ancient tree forest, everything in the forest will return to its original state.

In this catastrophe, except for a few areas where a large amount of vegetation was destroyed due to the fighting between ancient dragons, the vegetation in other areas will become more lush because of the large amount of fertilizer and sufficient nutrition.

Herbivorous creatures will be the first monsters to return, and carnivorous and omnivorous monsters will also begin to return after the number of creatures at the bottom of the ecological niche recovers to a certain level.

This process will take two or three years, and this period will also be a difficult time for the ancient tree fire dragons to endure.

No other creature knew what happened in the forest except the monsters in the Grand Canyon who witnessed the chase between the ancient dragons.

Many changes have also taken place in the settlements of the ancient tree fire dragons at the junction of the Great Anthill Wasteland and the forest.

The first is the problem of food. We had originally expected that food shortage would only occur a year later, but unexpectedly it started to appear after only seven months.

The fire dragons, including Luo Yun, spend significantly longer time hunting every day. This is not a problem of strength, but simply because there are not many extra prey to capture in the nearby hunting grounds.

Even if we occasionally encounter them, they are just a small group of crustacean herbivorous dinosaurs, most of which are young ones.

If this small group were to be preyed upon by a large herbivorous crustacean, the small cubs would simply not be able to survive.

It is not known whether it was due to the instinct of the creatures or the intelligence of the monsters themselves, but these small groups were not attacked by any large monsters, and no monster chose to drain the pond to catch all the fish.

Instead, turn your attention to hunting grounds farther and deeper.

Fortunately for the fire dragons, they have the advantage of sufficient flying endurance. When they are unable to obtain prey in the forest, they often choose to go deep into the wasteland of the big anthill and go to some special areas to hunt.

For example, the territory of the ceratosaurus!
That’s right, it’s the horned dragon that is as famous as the fire dragon and is known as the King of the Earth. Although it is a species of flying dragon, it is not good at flying at all. Instead, it has an unparalleled ability to burrow into the ground!
This creature has the largest body size among all flying dragons. The length of an adult ceratosaurus can often reach more than 24 meters. At the same time, it also possesses absolute strength that matches its body size.

Even the Triceratops, which is known for its strength, basically does not compete with the Ceratops in strength during battle.

But what doesn't match its extremely ferocious appearance, like a demon on earth, its irritable temper, and its extreme territorial awareness that will even hunt down stray creatures to death is that it is actually a vegetarian! !
Moreover, because the ceratosaurus stayed in the underground caves in the wasteland all year round, its hearing was greatly enhanced, but its vision was slightly affected.

Because of the habits of ceratopsians, some crustacean herbivorous dinosaurs choose to live and reproduce on the edge of the ceratopsians' territory.

Monsters on land would choose to give up hunting these crustacean herbivorous dragons for fear of making too much noise and attracting the attention of the ceratosaurus, but they would not be so afraid of the flying male fire dragons.

Even if you fail occasionally, you will only lose the prey, and you yourself will not suffer too much harm.

At dusk, Luo Yun stood on the edge of the cliff, observing the fire dragons returning from afar. Even if they hunted in groups, not many of them could bring back prey.

Moreover, most of them are prey such as Corythosaurus and Pterosaur, which do not produce much meat.

Fortunately, after training by the investigation team’s wilderness survival experts, some cats mastered the techniques of fishing and trapping small environmental creatures. Combined with the first batch of farmed creatures that had just been released, they finally managed to become self-sufficient before the food supply ran out.

This brought relief to those fire dragon families with cubs, as they could provide all the prey they hunted to their cubs.

On the Mao Mao side, the breeding of herbivorous dragons finally got on track after being several months behind other breeding projects.

The reason for such a long delay is that the biggest problem in breeding herbivorous dragons is not the other monsters in the area, but the ancient tree fire dragons, which makes site selection extremely difficult.

Unlike those thief dragons that have the identity scales of fire dragons, even if the herbivorous dragons are given several identity scales, the fire dragons still won't recognize them. In the minds of fire dragons, there is no such thing as breeding.

The thief dragon is not in the main diet of the fire dragon, and it is also the mount of cats, so it can be recognized by the fire dragon after attaching the identity scale.

The herbivorous dragon is simply food, but after being equipped with identity scales, it becomes food that cats pay tribute to.

Originally, I thought that since there were only a few herbivorous dragons, maybe I wouldn't have to kill them all. But after they had their identity scales attached, their nature changed and the fire dragons would not be polite.

This caused a lot of headaches for the investigation team and the cats. Finally, during an outdoor investigation, they discovered a cave hidden under the waterfall. After some modifications, it could finally be used to raise a small number of herbivorous dragons.

Although the number is somewhat lower than expected, for today's cats, having one is good enough and they have no choice.

The illusory panel slowly emerged before my eyes, and when the progress bar reached the final 100%, new features appeared again.

But when he saw this characteristic, Luo Yun was a little confused, because in his opinion, this characteristic seemed to deviate from the rules of the appearance of characteristics he had understood in the past, and did not bring much improvement to his strength.

[Symbiosis: When weak creatures stay in the same environment with strong creatures for a long time, they often undergo unexpected changes, and everything about them will become closer to the strong creatures.]

[Column slot one; Column slot two; Column slot three]

Unlike the straightforward descriptions of the previous traits, this time the description of the symbiotic trait is not detailed, with only three more empty slots under the trait.

Out of curiosity, Luo Yun opened an empty slot and found that there was only one option in it.

[Option 1: Fire Dragon Deter]

Yes, the option is the Fire Dragon Detel, not the Ancient Tree Fire Dragon Clan, and there is no Yaji or any individual in the option.

Luo Yun speculated that this symbiosis might be based on ethnic groups and was related to intimacy and the relationship between the two parties.

Otherwise, if we only consider the tribe as a unit, then the ancient tree fire dragon group should also be included.

Since there was only one option, Luo Yun didn't think much about it and directly filled in the Fire Dragon Detel. But then, the column just turned gray and there was no other movement.

This made Luo Yun a little confused.

That's it?

Out of curiosity, Luo Yun called a fire dragon, Detel, and asked it if it had noticed anything different.

But after searching for a long time, it couldn't find anything wrong with itself. Finally, it looked at Luo Yun with a pair of big eyes full of confusion and felt aggrieved.

(End of this chapter)