Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 444 Offense and Defense Transition
The huge noise and impact force instantly attracted the attention of the sea dragon's mimic tentacles. Almost at the same time, the two mimic tentacles turned around and aimed at the gunlance user. Two different types of energy wrapped around the skeleton and began to brew rapidly.

Darren leaped into the air, holding the knife with both hands, exerting force from his waist, tensing his muscles, and quickly concentrating the dark red fighting spirit on his body. He slightly adjusted the direction of the blade, and with the help of the force of falling, swung the huge fire dragon sword quickly with the force of splitting Mount Hua.

In an instant, the cold and sharp metal blade collided with the reinforced bones on the mimic tentacle.

The moment the blade touched the reinforced skeleton, Darren felt a huge resistance coming from the blade. He hadn't felt this way for a long time. He understood that this was a problem with the weapon's cutting ability. The Yaohuo Dragon weapon was undoubtedly a good weapon, but when facing a monster like the Skeleton Dragon, it was only barely enough and was far inferior to the weapons he had in the Old World.

Resisting the reaction force, he exerted force with both arms again, and with a low roar, the sharp blade finally broke through the surface of the skeleton, and then cut along the gap, leaving a long and conspicuous "wound" on the camouflage tentacle covered with bone armor.

Darren didn't stop after landing, but swept across to cut off the scattered bones that were thrown up by the twisting camouflage tentacles. After seeing Sunshine Brother Aiden rushing to his side, he used his powerful arm strength to stop the backward swing of the big sword, turned sideways and stimulated his fighting spirit to accumulate power again.

A fireball fell from the sky, but Darren ignored it and only stared at the root of the mimic tentacle not far away.

There was a feeling of dryness in the air, and as the fireball was about to engulf him, Aiden raised his small shield and appeared accurately between the fireball and Darren. He took a deep breath, and with the help of that small shield, he swallowed the huge fireball without taking a step back, creating a fire-free area for Darren behind him.

The explosion of the fireball came and went quickly, and the flames in the air had not yet dissipated. Feeling that the impact force on the shield had disappeared, Sunshine Brother Aiden jumped back sideways. A red fighting spirit mark that was the same as Darren's was drawn on the dark red armor, and he quickly accumulated power on the spot.

The next second, Darren finished charging three times, and the huge blade cut through the air, defeating the sporadic flames in front of him. Everything dissipated wherever the blade passed, and with a tremendous force, the blade smashed into the thick skeleton.

With a dull sound, a large piece of bone flew out, revealing the tentacle body with blue mucus still flowing underneath the bone.

Even the camouflaged tentacles that were able to entangle large sea dragons in the ocean and wrestle with them began to shake under this blow, and the second fireball that was originally gathering above its head was abruptly interrupted.

Darren was not greedy for the sword, and after a successful strike, he rolled forward, half-knelt on the ground, using the sword as a shield, and slanted the door-panel-sized blade to his side to prevent the next attack from the skeleton dragon while he had not yet recovered his strength.

But the mimicking tentacle had no time to fight back against Darren at this moment!

Just as Darren rolled away, Sunshine Brother Aiden also completed his accumulation of strength. He exerted force with his right foot and rushed forward quickly towards the tentacle body without the bone fragment, and the one-handed sword in his hand danced rapidly at a specific frequency.

Every swing is the best moment for his fighting spirit to accumulate.

As short weapons, one-handed swords and two-handed swords are not suitable for fighting large monsters.

However, through a series of attempts, the hunters finally developed another attack method that was different from other heavy weapons.

The one-handed sword uses some of the greatsword's fighting spirit charging techniques to cause multiple targeted damages to large monsters through multiple and concentrated charging attacks. This concentrated explosive attack makes the one-handed sword no weaker than various heavy weapons including the greatsword in overall damage, and because there is also a shield, to some extent, this thing is a lightweight variant of the greatsword.

A set of pleasing attacks came down, and amid the silent roars of the mimicking tentacles, Yangguang pulled out the one-handed sword that was deeply embedded in his flesh and blood, kicked off with both feet and quickly moved away, avoiding the counterattack of the skeleton dragon.

The battle between the skeleton dragon and the hunter team was almost a battle of attack and defense. However, the hunters had done a lot of research on the skeleton dragon, while the skeleton dragon was not familiar with the hunters, so even the skeleton dragon suffered a little loss at the beginning.

However, a skeleton dragon is a skeleton dragon after all. As a monster at the top of the ecological niche among the ancient dragons, this minor injury is nothing to it except that it is a little embarrassed.

Years of experience allowed him to quickly understand the hunters' action patterns. His attack method also changed from the initial brutal and unreasonable attacks against large monsters, which seemed to have great power but actually had no precision, to an attack mode that was smaller in power but more controllable, with faster speed and attack frequency, and was overall more suitable for attacking small creatures.

For a moment, all kinds of small and dense electric arcs and fireballs kept appearing on the battlefield, coupled with many tentacles hidden under the sea of ​​bones that might emerge at any time. For a moment, the battle situation turned into a skeleton dragon suppressing the three hunter teams.

Fortunately, all hunters had already anticipated this phenomenon.

The battle against the ancient dragon is a long and dangerous job.

The transition between offense and defense is extremely fast. In such a battle, the hunter often looks for opportunities to counterattack in the gaps between the ancient dragon's attacks, rather than being able to achieve stable suppression like hunting ordinary monsters.

After all, the ancient dragon will not be so stupid as to let you figure out his attack methods, or put his head in front of you for you to chop.

Even melee ancient dragons would give up biting, an inefficient and high-risk attack method. Wings, claws, and shell scales are their best weapons.

On the cliff, Noah and a group of hunters who had been ready to provide support were nervously watching the battle situation below. Seeing that the battle situation began to become stalemate and the hunters in the recommended group were in danger under the attack of the skeleton dragon, an impatient hunter began to lose control and reminded Noah, who seemed calm but actually had tense muscles in his right hand holding the telescope.

"Captain, should we start providing support? At least send out the crossbow team lurking in the jungle!"

"Hu~~"

Noah put down the telescope, frowned, and finally shook his head.

"According to intelligence, the Skeleton Dragon's true form is not the two camouflaged tentacles. Its true form is still hidden under the sea of ​​bones. It's too early to send support now!"

“But it’s a recommended group”

"They are fine. This level of fighting is nothing to them! They are still in the process of getting used to each other!"

“Ah? They’re still working together?” The Hunter blinked and looked at Noah in disbelief. Based on the level of tacit understanding they’re showing now, do you think they’re still working together?

The impatient hunter felt that Noah was fooling him, but he had no evidence~~
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