Danma: Danganronpa, but Monster Hunter!

This is the strength of a Level 6 adventurer...

That's incredibly powerful, absolutely terrifying.

At this moment, Linne, riding her fanged hound, quickly approached from behind. Without saying a word, she took out a traditional Chinese medicine and wanted Angie to take it.

"No need, Linne. I already used the antidote, but it didn't work for my current condition. The abnormal resistance didn't work either. I think I was affected by the Poison Bird, so I got alcohol poisoning." Angie waved her hand with a wry smile, then reminded her, "Linne, you should also be careful and stay away from that Poison Bird."

Linne responded with an "Oh," and obediently moved to the upwind side, while Grace looked surprised.

"That guy actually has this kind of ability?" Grace glanced at the corpse of the poisonous bird beside him, his eyes showing some surprise.

He had noticed the smell of alcohol in the air, but was it really strong enough to cause alcohol poisoning in a high-level adventurer? While it wasn't entirely impossible, it was still a bit far-fetched.

Rather than simple alcohol poisoning, Grace was more inclined to believe that some special toxin was hidden under the disguise of alcohol, which was not easily detected, and that this toxin had to be extremely special in order to bypass the abnormal resistance of high-level adventurers.

However, there's no point in dwelling on this now. The culprit, the Poison Bird, has long since died under the claws of the Rathian. Whether the truth about the poison is simply alcohol or a special toxin is irrelevant now.

The most important thing for them right now is...

Touching the corpse.

"Blazing Boy, what should we do next?" Grace put away his weapon and looked at Blazing Boy who had come over. Beneath his helmet, his eyes were filled with a smile.

"In short, let's notify the guild members first. They'll help us clean up the mess." Flame gestured to Ailu, who understood and then took out a special signal flare to notify the guild members. After doing all this, Flame rode Onion and attentively circled around Angie, who was still somewhat weak, and gently supported her.

Flame watched Ailu's actions with some helplessness, finally sighed, and changed the subject.

"While we wait for the guild members to arrive, we can harvest the loot from the monsters we hunt. Generally, each person can carve three times, but some monsters are special and can be carved more times."

“It feels…like a dungeon.” Lina blurted out.

"It's a similar feeling, but the monsters here don't have the convenient setting where tearing off the magic stone turns their entire body to ash. You have to extract the materials yourself. Although the guild will give hunters some material rewards after retrieving captured monsters or monster corpses, what kind of materials they will give the hunters depends entirely on luck."

Flame shrugged and explained with a smile, then winked mischievously: "However, although it's all about luck, if you have a good relationship with the guild and are relatively strong, the guild will turn a blind eye if you specify one or two materials. After all, high-level hunters are very precious."

"...Mr. Blazing Flame is rather cunning."

"It's just a little bit of wisdom, but I have to admit that this method is quite useful when you want to make a piece of equipment but lack a certain material."

Flame pinched his fingers and made a gesture that might enrage the Koreans.

Angie and Lina exchanged a glance and couldn't help but laugh. Grace also smiled.

At that moment, a signal flare rose into the distant sky, a reply from the guild members indicating that they had received the mission completion notification and would arrive shortly to confirm.

"Alright, enough of the small talk," Grace said, turning his gaze away from the rising signal flare. "Flame Boy, do you have any suggestions regarding this extraction?"

"Suggestions regarding extraction..."

“That’s right.” Grace stroked his beard and nodded slowly. “You just said it yourself, right? All of us are qualified to extract materials, so the materials we extract must be of maximum value.”

"I see... I happen to have a plan."

Upon hearing this, Blazing Flame smiled and said, "There's not much to say about the materials used by the Poison Bird. The weapons and equipment that can be made from it aren't particularly good. Compared to the materials used by the Rathian, it's just a bonus. And the equipment that can be made from the Rathian's materials is also unremarkable, but the weapons made from its materials are excellent."

"If you want to do a good job, you must first have the right tools. If possible, I would like to gather all the materials I can extract this time and forge a weapon for Angie."

"Give it to me? I clearly..."

“I think it’s fine.” Before Angie could finish speaking, Grace’s voice came through, “I’m strong enough already, and this axe is more than enough for me. Human little girl, what about you?”

Seeing Grace turn her gaze towards her, Linne naturally did not hesitate at all.

"I agree."

She hadn't contributed much in the battle just now, and was feeling a bit overwhelmed that she was actually entitled to a share of the final spoils.

Angie wanted to decline, but clearly, the current situation didn't allow her to do so, so she simply gave up: "...Whatever, whatever you want, meow... um."

Lie Yan smiled as he watched An Qi suddenly become arrogant, frowning in annoyance as if he had bitten his tongue, regretting his unintentional slip of the tongue.

"Very good, in that case, our goal has been set."

“A hard shell, a wing membrane, superior spines, and most importantly, reverse scales.”

Chapter 101: The Female Rathalos's Ruby!

"Reverse Scale?"

Upon hearing the term, Greist frowned slightly. To be honest, the term reminded him of a task he had once worked tirelessly to complete.

The quest required a rare drop from a monster, which happened to be called XXX's Reverse Scale.

Then... he spent a full half-month in the dungeon before finally completing this quest with great difficulty, even going so far as to swallow his pride and rely on the good luck of a certain elf...

This "protest zone" shouldn't be something that instills resentment like that other thing, right...?

“That’s right, reverse scales. Hard shell, wing membrane, superior spines, and reverse scales, these four materials are the four materials needed to make the Rathian One-Handed Sword.” Flame nodded slightly: “However, the reverse scales are actually special scales that grow on the tail of the Rathian. We were lucky, this Rathian just happens to have reverse scales on its tail.”

For some reason, Lieyan sensed that someone seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief.

Shake your head, banishing this strange feeling from your mind.

Flame glanced around, then drew out a brand-new hunting knife he had crafted using the remaining steel and rock dragon materials, and immediately demonstrated it to the other three people present.

In Flame's hands, the eighty-centimeter-long hunting knife was as nimble as a light dagger, piercing into the gaps in the female Rathian's chest scales. After a few cuts, a piece of the hard shell was quickly peeled off. Next, Flame went to the female Rathian's wings covering the ground and cut off a large piece of wing membrane in the same way.

The superior thorns are even simpler to retrieve. The thorns that Angie cut off during the battle were actually the superior thorns of the female Rathian. Now all you need to do is pick them up.

"That's roughly how it's done. However, it's best not to use excessive force when skinning the parts. Try to keep the rest of the parts intact, otherwise it may reduce the guild's rewards for subsequent quests. The hunters will share some of the losses caused by excessive force."

Flame handed the hunting knife to Ailu, asking it to help peel off a little bit of the Poison Bird material. Then, looking at the three of them, he smiled slightly and said, "I've finished peeling it off here. The rest is up to you."

Grace, Angie, and Lina: ".........."

"I think I'll pass; I'm not cut out for this kind of delicate work."

The dwarf veteran looked at his large, rough hands and sighed. He preferred work that allowed for more space to work than this kind of delicate work.

Angie was also somewhat helpless.

She wasn't opposed to gathering monster materials herself; in fact, she was somewhat looking forward to it because the materials she gathered would eventually be used in her weapons.

The problem is that she is still suffering from alcohol poisoning, and it is unknown how long it will take for her body to return to normal.

so..........

Grace and Angie's eyes were both focused on Linne.

"It's up to you, little human girl."

"It's up to you, Lina."

Lina: ".........."

Fine, I was a supporter to begin with anyway, so I'm just going to be a supporter again now.

Linne sighed softly, silently took the hunting knife from Grace's hand, and began to work. Unlike Flame, she did not directly attack the female Rathian, but instead approached Ellu, who was skinning Pukei-Pukei materials, and started by testing her skills on the Pukei-Pukei.

After she finished extracting the materials for three people, feeling her hands getting warm, she immediately started extracting materials from the female Rathalos.

First, she tried to attack the hard shell on the female Rathalos's chest, just like Blaze had done. But at that moment, her hunting knife seemed to have hit something and made a crisp sound.

Linne: ..........Is this bone? But I'm only peeling off the surface, so I shouldn't have touched the bone..........

Unable to contain her curiosity, Linne curiously reached out and touched the part that had just made the sound.

That spot is located right in the center of the female Rathalos's chest. It's worth mentioning that that area seems to be warmer than the rest of the body, and it's also emitting a faint glow.

To be honest, seeing a glimmer of light on a somewhat blurry mass of flesh and blood seems a bit far-fetched, but Linne can assure you that there's nothing wrong with her eyes.

In other words, this is all true.

There is something beneath this area.

Linne pressed down hard, and then a round, rosy bead jumped from the window into her palm.

The bead was about the size of a ping-pong ball, and was crystal red in color, as clear and translucent as jade. Although it had just been taken out of flesh and blood, there was not a trace of blood on it.

Seeing this unfold, Lieyan thought: Holy crap, what incredible luck!!

"Mr. Blazing Flame, what is this?"

Holding the bead in her hands, Linne looked at the flames with great curiosity.

"...If I'm not mistaken, this should be a female Rathalos's Ruby, a rare gem that only occasionally forms inside a female Rathalos. Only truly lucky hunters have the chance to find it during the extraction process."

After a moment of silence, Blazing Flame slowly replied,

"What are the effects of this ruby?" Grace asked thoughtfully, stroking his beard.

"How should I put it..." Lieyan rubbed his face.

"Ruby is a necessary material for upgrading Rathian weapons. The weapon I'm making for Angie, the Princess Rapier, will require a ruby ​​as a material if I want to upgrade it to the next level."

However, it's too early to talk about that now, because Ruby is only one of the materials needed for the upgrade. In addition to Ruby, two other materials are also required: one is the horn of an Elder Dragon called Chameleon, and the other is the wing membrane of a Rathalos.

Before that, we need to use the Spider's Hook and the Fire Dragon's Marrow to upgrade the Princess Rapier to the second stage.

Besides being used as material to upgrade weapons, it is also very expensive. Furthermore, although unconfirmed, I suspect it could be a replacement for the magic gem on Riveria's wand.

Grace: !!!

What did you say??

This thing could actually be a replacement for magic gems?!

Grace's expression immediately turned serious. Loki's Familia, the magic gem on the Bitter Magic Wand has been there for a long time! That thing is not only extremely expensive, but also very easy to damage. Once damaged, it has to be repaired or replaced at a specialized shop, which costs a terrifying amount of money.

If this ruby ​​could replace the magic gem...

Chapter 102: A Money Crisis?! (Of course, that's impossible)

"Blazing Boy, are you sure?"

Grace's expression was serious, while Lina and Angie, who were standing next to her, felt the ruby ​​in their hands become hot to the touch after hearing this.

Magic gems and magic stones in the world of DanMachi are completely different things.

Magic stones, needless to say, are simply the cores of monsters found in dungeons. Magic gems, on the other hand, are man-made items that can only be created by special craftsmen and do not exist in nature.

Whether a staff is equipped with a magic gem or not will make a world of difference in its performance.

Because of the scarcity of such specialized craftsmen, and because magic gems are among the most powerful items that can enhance magical power, the price of these artificial gems is unimaginable to ordinary people.