Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 152: Aki's Sudden Awakening, Report from the Old World

The following hunt went relatively smoothly. Even though they were not in the best condition, there were no major problems in hunting. They easily drove away the original predator. Luo Yun and Yaji tore open the back shell of the huge armored herbivorous dragon and swallowed it in big gulps.

This trip made them all starving. Even some parts of the herbivorous dinosaur that were not very meaty were not spared and were swallowed whole.

Soon, they had eaten two-thirds of an adult herbivorous dinosaur, and they only stopped when they felt their stomachs were full.

I found an area with a wide view to rest, recovering my strength while waiting for digestion. Eating so much in one breath would make it very uncomfortable when flying.

Luo Yun had never expected to run into Nergigante in the wasteland. Logically speaking, the Mist Barrier Corpse Dragon made such a big noise in the forest, and the Flame King Dragon also appeared in the forest area. According to the habits of Nergigante, shouldn't it go to the forest? Why did it appear in the wasteland?

"Could it be that there is an ancient dragon in this wasteland?"

This was the only possibility Luo Yun could think of. It must be that the Annihilator had discovered the trace of the ancient dragon, so it stayed in the wasteland to look for opportunities. Otherwise, as an ancient dragon killer, why would he run to the wasteland where resources are insufficient instead of chasing the Flame King Dragon or the Mist Corpse Dragon and staying in the Dragon Crystal Land to drool over those powerful neighbors?
But no matter what the reason was for him to stay in the wasteland, now that he has met Nergigante, he doesn't know if he will be targeted like this.

Although the probability is very small, Luo Yun disguised himself as an ordinary silver fire dragon before being discovered by the Annihilator, but he always felt uneasy if he didn't do something.

"After we return, we will tell the investigation team about the whereabouts of Nergigante through Cat-Cat!"

The Grand Commander has been chasing the trail of the Nergigante. Now that there is news of a sighting in the wasteland, he will surely not sit still. The investigation team will surely not miss the opportunity to observe an unknown ancient dragon.

With this thought in mind, Luo Yun and Yaji, after a good rest, identified the direction and returned to their residence.

The fire dragon Detel, who was guarding the nest, saw that Luo Yun took much longer than usual to go out hunting this time, and his body was in a mess, and Yaji even had obvious wounds.

While he was somewhat shocked that the world outside had become so difficult, he was also worried that Luo Yun might not be able to find suitable food. He planned to quietly call upon the Fire Dragon Detels to leave their share of food for today and offer it all to the Fire Dragon Boss.

When Luo Yun saw Tonkotsu and a few cats pushing a cart full of mushroom pigs over, the whole dragon was stunned.

When did cat breeding become possible so that after providing for themselves and their kittens, they would still have a truckload of excess meat?
But when he heard that the cats misunderstood that he failed to catch prey and spontaneously contributed their own food, Luo Yun sternly refused.

Just kidding, not to mention that he and Yaji had successfully completed the hunt, even if they really didn't get any food, they would not be so shameless as to let the cats starve and provide him with their own rations unless their injuries were so serious that they lost the ability to go out hunting.

They righteously stated that they had completed the hunt, but encountered some strong enemies, so they did not bring back any extra food, and very seriously rejected the cats.

The Detels then pushed the food back, but before leaving, they left behind two mushroom pigs, saying that they had not offered tribute for a long time and this was their token of their gratitude, and they hoped that the Fire Dragon Boss would not refuse.

Things have come to this point, Luo Yun can no longer refuse. Let it be a misunderstanding, time will prove everything.

The next day, it was just dawn.

Luo Yun had just finished eating the mushroom pork left over from yesterday, and then he was called by Yaji and rushed to the tributary of the earth vein.

Then, in the shocked gaze of Luo Yun, Yaji endured her injuries that had not yet fully recovered and flew to the passage of the earth vein tributary, and stopped there in the high temperature.

You know, before, Yaji always stopped at the entrance above this cave. She couldn't stand the high temperature in the cave, not to mention the passage of the earth vein tributary.

He was a little confused about what happened to Yaji, but after unsuccessful persuasion, Luo Yun put aside his doubts, flew to the place where he often stayed at the tributary of the earth vein, and began to absorb energy for today.

Yaji opened her eyes and looked at Luo Yun who was sitting on the only platform in the center of the magma. She felt her scales getting hotter and hotter in this high temperature environment, and she felt a tingling pain all over her body.

The wounds that had not yet healed completely and had only formed scabs were causing waves of pain.

But when she thought of how powerless she had felt in yesterday's battle, and how since that encounter with the Tyrannosaurus Rex, not only was she no longer the person Luo Yun could rely on as he used to be, she could not even keep up with his pace of growth.

This feeling of loss made Yaji wake up.

How long has it been since she grew up in Luo Yun and hadn't made any progress?
She enjoyed Luo Yun's care and protection with peace of mind. She knew that staying closer to here would bring her great benefits, but because of her physical discomfort, she never thought of following him down.

Yesterday, she saw Luo Yun’s fighting posture for the first time.

Although I had heard that it was very strong, I didn't expect it to be that strong.

The three-headed battle-hardened Thousand-Blade Dragon was defeated in such a short time. It was a complete crushing defeat without any pressure at all.

And when facing Luo Yun's attitude, she always felt that she was not worthy of him, and that there was already a huge ecological generation gap between them.

This made Yaji very flustered.

The love between a fire dragon couple is very pure and precious. In the cruel natural world, fights are frequent, which often affect their appearance and cause a significant loss of beauty.

But even so, the Fire Dragon couple would not have any idea of ​​disliking each other.

But under Luo Yun's attitude, she felt guilty about hurting herself and even thought about leaving. This was very abnormal!
Yaji had never seen a silver fire dragon, but she had seen the solitary couple Cangyinghuo and their cubs in the tribe.

The Cangyinghuo couple laid eggs after they migrated here, and they hatched only a few months ago.

Three eggs hatched from a batch of eggs, but only one was a baby Sakura Fire Dragon, the other two were just ordinary Fire Dragons.

If the cats hadn't been kind-hearted and fed the two fire dragon cubs in time, the two cubs would probably have starved to death.

Yaji had felt this kind of generation gap in ecological species with the Blue Fire Dragon, but because of her strength, this feeling of generation gap was not strong.

Therefore, in Yaji's opinion, the reason why she wanted to avoid Luo Yun in that posture must be because she was too weak and lacked strength. As long as she could keep up in strength, she would not have such a feeling.

Therefore, Yaji, who was afraid of losing Luo Yun, dragged Luo Yun here early in the morning without her injuries healed, and entered the cave for the first time, even coming to the lava channel, and began to imitate Luo Yun, enduring the pain and bathing herself in the burning life energy.

To some extent, Yaji's idea was not wrong.

The only difference is that Yaji has the qualifications to transform into a Golden Fire Dragon, which is difficult for other dragons to do. Even in places with abundant life energy such as the earth vein tributaries, they can only become a little stronger and have a higher upper limit.

This is indeed the case. Yaji's talent is very high. In a place with abundant life energy, her growth rate is much faster. In addition, staying in the harsh environment of the earth vein tributary for a long time can also stimulate her potential.

Luo Yun didn't think too much about this. He just felt that since Yaji made such a choice, all he could do was respect and support her. After all, there would definitely be no harm in staying in a place with abundant life energy for a long time.

Moreover, he was very happy at this moment. He did not expect that the life energy he absorbed yesterday would not only increase the upper limit of the life energy he could absorb every day, but even allow his body, which was already in a period of rapid growth, to have a certain breakthrough.

This is a real surprise.

The monsters in this world can possess extremely powerful bodies even if they do nothing. And because of their magical life energy and the cruel survival mode in nature, exercise is not only a luxury for monsters, but also often results in half the effort and twice the result.

After the growth period, they basically rely on life energy and constant fighting to passively improve their physical fitness.

In this mode, ancient dragons, which are born with the ability to absorb life energy and store large amounts of life energy, can have physique and vitality far exceeding that of ordinary monsters.

Therefore, the special life energy could increase Luo Yun’s upper limit!
Suppressing the surprise in his heart, Luo Yun calmed down and absorbed the life energy.

In the Great Anthill Wasteland, in the hunter camp of the investigation team.

Because of the increasingly close relationship with the Detels of the ancient tree fire dragon clan, the investigation team specially established a hunter camp not too far from the fire dragon's residence, and used it as a base, with a fire dragon investigation team stationed there.

In addition to investigating the fire dragon and communicating with the Detters in real time, he is also responsible for the storage of trading materials and timely information updates.

Therefore, during the period when the investigation team temporarily gave up exploring the forest, the investigation team with more sufficient manpower has been rotating a senior member of the first phase group to be stationed here.

And today, it happened that the Grand Commander came to take over.

"What!? There are traces of the Nergigante?"

After the information of the unknown ancient dragon was sent back to the Old Continent, it was confirmed to be an ancient dragon that had never been recorded in the past. After a new record file was established, it was named Nergigante. Due to its dangerousness, the investigation mission regarding Nergigante is currently only open to the Grand Commander.

"Yes, meow, that's what the Fire Dragon Deterrs said. They saw the figure of the Nergigante in the wasteland, meow."

An Elu cat who stayed in the camp as an interpreter answered with certainty.

With the confirmation from Felynx, the Grand Commander immediately picked up the written eyewitness report, determined the direction, put on the weapon he had just taken off, and left.

I originally wanted to go and chat with Tonkotsu, whom I hadn't seen for a long time, and see if I could run into that cool fire dragon friend to see if I could get any information from him.

Unexpectedly, he had just come for rotation when he received such unexpected news.

After that battle, the Nergigante became the goal that the Grand Captain was determined to pursue throughout his life. In addition, according to the judgment of the investigation team and the Old Continent Guild, the opponent's behavior of the Flame King Dragon that attacked the Ancient Dragon Ferry was likely to reveal some information about the Ancient Dragon Ferry.

Therefore, the Grand Commander didn't even take a rest. He summoned a pterosaur, set up a rope, and took off directly, flying towards the area mentioned in the sighting report.

That's right, even with a catapult and a grappling hook, the Grand Commander still used a rope. The reason seemed to be that those things were not as convenient as throwing a rope.

In fact, he and the swordsmanship master were the only ones in the investigation team who had this illusion.

Luo Yun didn't know that the information he asked the cats to reveal was actually known to the Grand Commander, but even if he knew it, he would only be relieved.

Sometimes, he really didn't want to deal with a passionate guy like the Grand Commander, as for whether it would be dangerous to track down Nergigante.

This is definitely true, but after the experience of fighting once, the information is no longer completely unknown, and as a veteran top hunter, the leader will not rush forward rashly.

What's more, as an ancient dragon of melee combat, Nergigante has no obvious signs of natural disasters. It is impossible for the Grand Commander alone to find the opponent in this vast wasteland.

Therefore, when the commander arrived there, the most he saw were the corpses of the three Thousand Blade Dragons and the thorns left behind after the brief collision between the Annihilator and Luo Yun.

In the old continent, East Doruma, the Scribe Corps Archives Area.

"According to the report provided by the New World Ancient Dragon Investigation Team, they saw traces of multiple Thousand Blade Dragons in the New World. After comparing some of the relevant materials, we found that they are very consistent with the previous guild's records of sightings of Thousand Blade Dragons.

According to the speculation of scholars, the Thousand Blade Dragon may be a native monster of the New World. It is just that for unknown reasons, a small number of them migrated here and there were related sightings. This is why there have been no more sightings of the Thousand Blade Dragon since that record. "

The dragon scholar put down the notebook in his hand, and the scholar in charge of recording and archiving beside him wrote down every word and carefully put it into a new bookshelf, which was specially used to store all the ecological information of the New World.

"What is the accuracy of this conclusion?"

"Around 70, or even higher. There are different opinions because our sighting reports of the Thousand Blade Dragon were much earlier than the reports from the New World, plus issues such as the degree of exploration, so it's only around percent."

The short dragon scholar with a gray beard nodded. Seventy percent was already very high. If the New World could send back the corpse specimen of the Thousand Blade Dragon, I'm afraid this conclusion could even be final.

(End of this chapter)