Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 333: The Future is Promising (Update)
"Qilin~" the old man said faintly.

"The most mysterious mythical beast, and also the smallest of all known ancient dragon species. I never thought that after fully unleashing its power, it would possess destructive power no less than any other ancient dragon."

"Yes, a fortress was covered by thunderstorms for two whole days. If the Qilin's route had not been determined in advance, enough food had not been stored in time, and corresponding defense facilities had not been prepared, this fortress would probably have ended up like the village burned by the Flame Queen Dragon and ended up in destruction."

"This is Gulongdu~"

There was a lot of discussion at the long table, with everyone marveling at the power of the ancient dragon and the difficulties people faced under these natural disasters.

"Okay, now that we have made the decision, let's start recruiting and selecting the personnel for the fourth group. We must prepare the personnel within five years. In the next eight years, we must prepare the supplies and the long-distance sailing ships that can withstand the Kirin Thunderstorm!"

At the command, the chaotic conference room returned to normal and began to discuss various issues concerning the Fourth Phase of the Ancient Dragon Investigation Team.

The Hunter's Guild is very concerned about the Ancient Dragon Investigation Team. Even now when humans in the Old World are still facing various problems, they continue to select top talents to form investigation teams. In addition to the academic desire to know the reasons why the ancient dragons made the Ancient Dragon Crossing.

I want to know more about why the ancient dragon crossing has become so frequent and find a corresponding solution.

Every time an ancient dragon crosses the river, it causes considerable damage to human settlements.

Large cities like Dongdoruma are still okay, as they have sufficient supplies and defense facilities. Even if they are on the route of Gulongdu, they have enough capabilities to repel Gulong and force him to change his route.

However, in this world, there are still more villages and castles with poor defense capabilities. There are only so many top hunters, and even if one appears every ten years, it is impossible to cover all human settlements in the Old Continent.

This resulted in the situation that the powerful countries in the Old World could repel or even kill the ancient dragons, but the weaker ones could be forced to close their borders and their trade and transportation routes were interrupted by two ordinary monsters at the map king level.

Therefore, each session of the Ancient Dragon Investigation Team shoulders a heavy mission. They do not seek to completely end the phenomenon of Ancient Dragon Ferry, but only to make Ancient Dragon Ferry return to its former state, which only occurs once every hundred years.

New World, Star Stronghold.

The forging house, which had been greatly expanded and renovated, was now filled with a strong and high temperature.

A circular conveyor belt was slowly turning with a mechanical creaking sound, and two giant steel claws were firmly holding a red metal pillar that was ten meters long.

Under the watchful eyes of the leader of the second-phase group, a mechanical hammer dropped from the ceiling and hit the metal column heavily. It ran continuously for half an hour, and the metal column was completely stretched into shape.

Soon, four Detters came over pushing a specially made large cart, and skillfully operated the mechanical claws to place the metal pillars on the cart.

For a year, a whole year, the entire forge house worked on this large metal column.

The assembly line machinery took half a year to build, and it wasn't even used to make a single hunter's equipment. It was all used to process this stuff that had no technical content.

Finally, today, the last one was processed.

Thinking of the empty warehouse behind the forge, the leader of the second phase felt relieved, but his heart was twitching. That was the ore savings of the entire investigation team, and even the ones traded from the cats of the ancient tree fire dragon clan.

But fortunately, today, it all ended!

Outside the forge, Mantis looked at the metal pillars that were carried out by the four cats of the ancient tree fire dragon clan, and for a moment he had an unwanted thought.

It can't bear it!
Taking over this metal pillar means that the deal between it and the investigation team is over. Its Xucheng mechanical beast, which has more than doubled in size and reached a length of 35 meters, will not be able to get such good parts in a short period of time.

That’s right, Ge Mantis has become addicted to fleecing the investigation team!
In just one year, despite Mantis being so picky, it still used the metal pillars that were delivered one after another, as well as the buildings and machines dismantled from the Star Base, and with the help of the engineers who helped design various linkage parts for the mechanical beasts in their spare time, it finally expanded this large-sized 'Mechanical Nergigante', which has changed a lot but has been sufficiently improved in actual combat, into what it is now.

As for the physical labor that Mantis had to put in to get the help of engineers, for a serious "Gundam patchwork enthusiast", aren't those large buildings that need to be moved and built just another kind of building block toys?

By the way, this mechanical Nergigante was named "Annihilator No. 1" by the engineers of the investigation team. They were so cruel that they even added a cockpit for humans to enter inside the mechanical beast, which was originally the operating core of Mantis.

God knows how the Grand Commander felt when he watched the Mantis put together the 'Annihilation No. 1', and then a Dragon engineer tremblingly climbed into the cockpit in the name of testing its practicality, fearing that he would be crushed by those things.

Fortunately, the test was passed without any major problems. The only bad thing was that when the dragon engineer came out, he always muttered that there was still room for improvement, and that perhaps their investigation team could also make something like this.

This idea seemed far-fetched in the eyes of old-school hunters like the Grand Master, but after hearing it, the scholars actually agreed with it and even included it in their future plans.

For a moment, the Grand Commander didn't know whether he couldn't keep up with the times or these scholars were crazy.

At the entrance to the stronghold, the Grand Commander and the Commander-in-Chief were saying goodbye to the Mantis that kept looking back every few steps, and to the Detels of the ancient tree fire dragon clan who had accepted the mission and came to support. They were afraid that Mantis would become depressed and plan to build a nest and live permanently in the Star Stronghold.

Only after they completely disappeared into the forest did the two of them breathe a sigh of relief.

The Grand Master and the Commander-in-Chief looked at each other.

This year seemed like a dream. It seemed like something happened, yet it seemed like nothing happened.

The existence of the Mantis and the thirty metal pillars promised by the Grand Commander resulted in the investigation team's development progress being almost zero in that year. Some chain reactions also caused significant changes in the team's situation at this time.

First, inside the Star Stronghold, many things that were planned to be put in the future and required a lot of manpower were built in the short period of one year with the precise assistance of the Mantis.

Let’s not talk about the current situation, but it will be much more convenient in the future, and the number of people in the fourth group can be appropriately increased.

In short, I can proudly say that the future of Star Stronghold is promising!

(End of this chapter)