Monster Hunter: I can accept monster quests

As for the other moves, they were only a few in number, so Chen Yan fought and retreated, quickly leading it to the first ambush point.

After Chen Yan rolled over again to avoid its hypnotic bubble, he turned around and ran behind a tree and disappeared.

The Floating Dragon, which had a clear advantage, naturally pursued closely. But just as it drifted past, what appeared in front of it was not Chen Yan, but a bug cage hand-woven by Flower Cat.

Before it could react, the plump, flashing-winged beetle exploded in fright, the blinding light instantly blinding the Floating Dragon.

The Floating Dragon roared, its eyes tightly shut, large tears streaming down its face. Disoriented, it flapped its wings wildly, trying to fly upwards but wobbling left and right before crashing headfirst into the ground.

Chen Yan and Hua Miao were waiting for it to land.

A human and a cat attacked from the left and right respectively. Even faster than them was a sharp crossbow bolt that flew by. The bolt, specially designed for armor penetration, pierced directly into the air sac in its neck, creating an opening in the furry balloon.

Chen Yan roared and swung his sword at the base of the Floating Sleeping Dragon's tail. Compared to its air sac with its built-in deflection function, its tail was easier to cut.

Flower Cat, on the other hand, had its sights set on the wings of the Floating Sleep Dragon.

"If I can't cut your skin, I can still cut your wings/tail!"

However, the Floating Dragon's tail and wings are not so easy to cut. Its flat tail is covered with dark red gelatinous carapace, and the blade gets stuck after cutting in half an inch. Its wings have four hard toe bones, and the blade is bounced out by the bone after cutting in only a finger's depth.

Although the attack by the human and the cat was quite imposing, the damage was too low, even less than Harley's arrow.

Chapter 28: Super Brave!

As soon as the Floating Dragon recovered from its dizziness, it immediately felt pain.

Chen Yan and Hua Miao's knives couldn't cut very deep, but they couldn't withstand the endless slashing. The pain from each wound was enough to make it twitch uncontrollably.

It frantically inhaled, trying to float up again, but the soft skin on its neck was full of holes left by crossbow bolts. It couldn't inhale as fast as it leaked out. Seeing that two gleaming katanas were about to fall again, it had no choice but to turn its head toward the ground and expel all the hypnotic gas from its body.

The milky white mist quickly engulfed its form, but Chen Yan and Hua Miao were prepared. They launched a water moss ball, and the mist quickly thinned out again.

But in that short while, the Floating Dragon flapped its wings and took flight again. Although it flapped its wings vigorously, it didn't fly very high, only about half a meter off the ground.

After being beaten, its expression was no longer ferocious; instead, it looked at Chen Yan with a somewhat aggrieved expression.

Chen Yan was slightly taken aback.

Seeing that Chen Yan had no intention of attacking it, the Floating Dragon took a few hard breaths, its neck slightly bulging, and it flew away unsteadily, as if wearing a deflated balloon.

Harley jumped out of the bushes behind Chen Yan.

"Why don't you keep attacking it? You might actually succeed in hunting it. You'll be the first person in the stronghold to kill a Sleeping Dragon. People will be so envious!"

Chen Yan flicked his katana to shake off the stains.

"Forget it, I think it's kind of pitiful."

“Boss Harley, you don’t know, it’s actually a subspecies of a monster. Its home is 108,000 kilometers away from here. It’s not easy for a Floating Sleeping Dragon to leave its home and come here. It usually just eats ants and doesn’t cause much damage to the ecology. It’s not a threat to us. Let’s just teach it a lesson.”

Harley laughed, then pressed on with a pointed question.

"Are you sure? Can you swear on your conscience that it's not because it has beautiful black skin like mine that you're hesitant to harm it?"

"what?"

Chen Yan was shocked. How could this be related to you?

But then I thought about it again, and the Floating Dragon's soft, dark, patterned black fur was actually quite beautiful. Yesterday, when I bumped into it, it smelled quite nice. How could I have forgotten to touch it a few times to test its texture?

Harley looked at the dumbfounded Chen Yan, laughed, and patted him on the shoulder.

"I'm just kidding! You're right, that's why we hunters exist. As the most important link in the ecosystem, we hunters are both witnesses and protectors!"

She whistled, and the pterosaur circled down.

"Let's go see if the mudfish dragon has surfaced yet."

Luckily, the Mudfish Dragon was indeed there. Even luckier, not only did the Mudfish Dragon trigger the quest, but its cub also triggered the quest.

The larger, whiter ones were posted by Mudfish Dragon.

[Mudfish Dragon issues quest request: If a Mudfish Dragon has no dreams, what's the difference between it and a salted fish?]

[The Barroth is dead! I'm incredibly strong now! I'm going to fight the Diablos! Ten of them!]

[Compensation for the service: Mudfish Dragon Leap/Lung Strengthening/Mud Stirring]

The smaller ones, those with lighter colors, are mudfish larvae.

[A Mudfish Dragon cub issued a quest request: I don't want to eat fish anymore!]

The fish's innards smelled awful and tasted awful; I almost threw up. I want to eat other monsters' flesh!

[Compensation: Luck]

The Mudfish Dragon's quest was simple and straightforward, and the rewards weren't particularly impressive. However, the rewards for the Mudfish Dragon cubs piqued Chen Yan's curiosity.

Harley was in a good mood for some reason and was happy to play along with Chen Yan's antics. As for the horned dragon, it was easy to find. She looked for a sunken sand pit in the desert, fired a whistle arrow, and a moment later a horned dragon was indeed disturbed by the sound and crawled out.

"The horned dragons of the New World are similar to those of the Old World; they are extremely sensitive to sound. Moreover, you don't need to provoke them; just seeing them will make them chase you to the ends of the earth, as they are always in a state of rage..."

Sure enough, they flew in the sky, and the horned dragon chased on the ground, quickly leading them to the swamp where the mudfish dragon was active.

Enraged, the horned dragon paid no heed to any traces of territory and charged straight into the swamp.

The Mudfish Dragon was truly brave. The moment the Diablos charged into the swamp, it leaped out of the mud, swung its powerful tail, and prepared to give the Diablos a good whack.

However, the scream that followed the collision did not come from the Diablos, but from the Mudfish Dragon that had initiated the attack.

It was clearly the one that ambushed and attacked the Diablos first, but the Diablos's tail axe was faster than its tail fin!

The horned dragon roared. It had never been so angry. It was one thing to be bothered by flying insects, but how dare a stinky fish living in the sewers attack it?

It didn't even use its most lethal weapon.

It merely began to slowly swing the double-edged axe at the end of its thick, massive tail. Before the Mudfish Dragon's terrified eyes, the giant axe, carrying terrifying force, slammed down on the Mudfish Dragon's short, thick lower limbs.

As if razor-sharpened, the Mudfish Dragon's pectoral fins, tail fins, and lower limbs were all severed, blood gushed out, and mud splattered everywhere. A single axe strike from the Diablos rendered it unable to escape.

Despite the screaming Mudfish Dragon, the Diablos still wouldn't let it go, swinging its tail axe again, this time smashing it directly into the fish's mouth that was constantly yelling.

With a few cracking sounds, the mudfish dragon's entire lower jaw, along with several plate-like sharp teeth in its mouth, was shattered to pieces, and as blood gushed out, it could no longer let out a scream.

One more axe blow!

This last axe strike was the most devastating. The horned dragon swung it almost the entire way around, its thick carapace bulging from the taut muscles. With a roar, it delivered a powerful blow to the mudfish dragon's head.

A sickening cracking sound spread, the mudfish dragon's head caved in, its eyes rolled back, and its entire body stretched into a straight line as it crashed into the mud, its fate unknown.

Three axe blows shatter the wasteland, I reign supreme! Lord Horned Dragon, I am one of our own!

Harley, who witnessed this, was amazed.

"Are the Mudfish Dragons of the New World really this brave? They actually dared to attack a Diablos?"

Just as the horned dragon was roaring triumphantly to the sky, a small black shadow fell off its nostrils, disappeared into the mud, and vanished.

The two mudfish dragon quest bubbles in Chen Yan's mind popped open.

[Task completed.]

[Strengthen Lungs]: Your lung function has been greatly enhanced.

[Luck]: Your unconscious actions may be the result of good fortune.

A warm current surged forth, splitting into two streams. One stream converged in his lungs, and as the cool sensation dissipated, Chen Yan's breathing gradually became long and deep. As for the other reward, luck, he was still unaware of its specific effects.

I learned from Harley that mudfish larvae have to go through countless twists and turns to grow into adults. The existence of fish-eating creatures and the cruel phenomenon of cannibalism mean that only one or two out of hundreds can successfully grow into adults, and those one or two are incredibly lucky.

"It should work well, right?"

Chapter 29 The Camp Uproar

Outside the camp, Harley and Chen Yan chatted and laughed. Flower Cat sneaked into the camp. It rummaged through the ashes in the stove, but instead of the roasted eggs it had been longing for, it saw a monster that terrified it.

"what!!!"

The cat's screams echoed through the sky. It stumbled out and hurriedly hid behind Chen Yan. After thinking for a moment, it ran behind Harley before speaking.

The cat, clinging tightly to her thigh, curled up its round body as much as possible, its eyes fixed on the dark camp.

"Inside the camp, under the stove, I secretly hid it. It's alive, not dead, it's even hatched, and it's eating it, enjoying it immensely!"

Chen Yan picked up the incoherent, frizzy cat and stroked its fur with a kind expression.

"Hey friend, if you're going to tell such nonsense, my whip will lash your butt as fast as a horned dragon's tail!"

Hua Miao clung tightly to Chen Yan's arm.

"Yes, yes, yes, it's a horned dragon! There's a horned dragon in the furnace ash! I dug one out! Chen Yan, do you know what a horned dragon is? It's a horned dragon with horns on its head, it sounds terrifying, and it just chopped a mudfish dragon to pieces with its tail axe!"

Harley chuckled after hearing Chen Yan's translation, and then rubbed the frizzy cat's head.

It feels nice to the touch, so I touched it again.

"Hey, Chen Yan, why is your Palico acting so unserious, just like you? Was it scared by the sight of the Diablos beating up the Mudfish?"

"No matter what, there's no way monsters could possibly appear in the camp. The camp's location is so tricky; not even a horned dragon, let alone a katana, could get in..."

She was laughing happily, but when she saw that Chen Yan not only didn't laugh, but instead slowly drew his knife and stood guard at the camp entrance, she stopped laughing.

She took out an armor-piercing crossbow bolt from her bosom, carefully mounted it on her arm crossbow, and was about to take a step when she suddenly stopped. She then took out a small porcelain bottle wrapped in layers of oiled paper from her bosom and handed it to Chen Yan.

"If I don't come out within five seconds, smash the bottle inside. Remember, not a second more, not a second less!"

As soon as he got his hands on the porcelain bottle, Chen Yan, who possessed the sense of smell of a crowned dinosaur, immediately detected a unique scent. He felt a chill run down his spine for no reason, his scalp tingled, and he almost threw the bottle away.

"What kind of monster's excrement is this? It smells like a fire dragon, is it a Golden Rathalos or the Black Flame King?"

Harley paused in adjusting the crossbow and looked at Chen Yan in surprise.

"Golden Rathalos, I found one in the Ancient Forest a few years ago. It saved me many times. By the way, how did you know?"

Chen Yan sniffed, holding the small porcelain bottle at a distance, his disgusted expression making Harley roll her eyes.

Even a dog's nose isn't as sharp as yours...

She stayed close to the edge of the campsite, making her footsteps extremely light, almost shuffling in little by little.

Although she still didn't quite believe there would be any horned dinosaurs in the camp, it was always better to be safe than sorry, just in case some blind horned dinosaur dug a hole into their camp...

Harley, fully alert, turned her head slightly to look inside, and what she saw made her freeze in the doorway.