Monster Hunter: I can accept monster quests

Once they find the Black Flame King and the Purple Poison Princess, with two fire dragon kings around, the Extinction Dragon will no longer be a threat.

The Nergigante seemed to have guessed Chen Yan's thoughts and relentlessly pounced on him again, only to be dodged by the Pink Rathian's dive. After circling around him a few times, it created some distance between them.

A new cycle has begun.

After a while of struggle, Nergigante still hadn't gotten anything. It let out another angry roar, which made Chen Yan and Hua Miao, who were tired of hearing it, scratch their ears in unison.

Just when he thought the situation was looking very promising, he suddenly heard a sound that made him dizzy, which could be roughly described as—

"Ding, Ding! Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding! Ding, Ding!"

Having been subjected to so many law enforcement actions that he developed a stress response, Chen Yan suddenly looked up and, sure enough, saw the monster he least wanted to see in the higher sky.

That enormous figure roaming the sky—the Bazelgeuse.

"I forgot about that! How could there be no Bazelgeuse in the Elder's Recess! How could a Bazelgeuse not be attracted to me and Nergigante!"

Bazelgeuse shook its head and tail, scattering eggs everywhere.

Seeing the scattered orange lights, Chen Yan's heart trembled. He immediately ordered his Rathalos to fly at top speed, disregarding its stamina, in an attempt to escape the bombing zone. At the same time, he instructed his Meowth to keep a close eye on the falling Blast Scales, making sure the bombs didn't get close.

The cat clutched a handful of jerky, its eyes fixed on the dense swarms of Blast Scales falling from the sky. Just as it estimated the distance was about right and raised its paw to throw the jerky at the Blast Scales to detonate them in advance, Nergigante arrived again.

Without the warning from the Flower Cat, it actually managed to sneak up to a few meters behind the Pink Rathian. It did see the Blast Scales flung out by the Bazelgeuse, but compared to Chen Yan, whom it had been longing for, these things were nothing.

The Nergigante roared excitedly and charged forward, baring its fangs and claws, but its roar ruined everything.

Even the slightest impact can activate the scales shaken off by Bazelgeuse and cause a violent explosion, let alone the roar of Nergigante.

Sure enough, the ubiquitous Blast Scales immediately became dazzling, and after they completely surrounded Nergigante and Pink Rathian, they exploded.

The entire sky was engulfed in the flames from the explosion, and Chen Yan, who was in the midst of it, felt as if he had witnessed the birth of the universe.

To make matters worse, the continuous explosions completely excited the Bazelgeuse, causing even more and more scales to fall from beneath it. This time, there was no need to deliberately detonate them, as they were already so red they were about to explode.

After unleashing its Blast Scales, the Bazelgeuse swooped down. Its body was even larger than that of the Nergigante, and it roamed in the sea of ​​fire created by the explosion of its Blast Scales.

Finally, it simply stood between Nergigante and Pink Rathian, kicking Nergigante with its hind claws and banging Pink Rathian with its chin. The red-to-purple Bazelgeuse made Chen Yan and Nergigante dizzy from all the commotion.

It was like a well-meaning matchmaker, desperately wanting Chen Yan and the Extinction Dragon to get married.

"No, if this continues, we're doomed!"

Chen Yan decided to risk getting up from the swaying back of the Pink Rathian. He gripped his knife tightly, looked at the excited Bazelgeuse, and prepared to unleash a "Flying Blade Rock Slash" to calm it down.

After hastily stuffing some food into his stomach, Chen Yan patiently waited for his opportunity. Just as the Bazelgeuse raised its head to display its plump chin and raised its tail to reveal its ferocious nature, Chen Yan made his move.

A flash of crimson blade light streaked past, instantly shattering the newly grown scales on the Scaled Dragon's neck, leaving a bloody gash and spurting out blood.

To Chen Yan's surprise, as he sheathed his sword, Nergigante also retracted its claws at the same moment.

He also took advantage of the Bazelgeuse's tail flicking out and scratched it twice, tearing two bloody holes in its big tail.

Chen Yan subconsciously looked up and, through the narrow gap in the explosion, inexplicably met the eyes of the Nergigante.

Both the man and the dragon looked on with surprise. The coincidence was too perfect, so perfect that it caused the Bazelgeuse, which was attacked from both sides, to misunderstand something. It glared angrily at Chen Yan and the Nergigante.

So all that fighting between you and the dragon was actually your scheme against me? Truly—

Chen and Mie joined forces to devise a clever plan and slay the Exploding Scale Dragon on the volcano!

Chapter 81 It's Too Late

With a deep, resounding roar, the wounds on Bazelgeuse's neck and tail were squeezed to stop bleeding by the rapidly growing scales.

Chen Yan looked at the newly grown, hook-shaped, layered scales on the front of its neck. The poor feel of the blade cutting into it gave him a headache.

Meanwhile, Nergigante looked at the Bazelgeuse's large tail, which was covered in crimson scales, and hesitated whether to sacrifice a few teeth to take a big bite.

The Bazelgeuse, caught between a rock and a hard place, is much more straightforward.

The exploding scales on its tail, already glowing red-hot, don't even need to fall off; with just a gentle shake, a massive, overwhelming explosion will engulf the Nergigante once again.

Chen Yan, who was standing in front of it, was hit by its enthusiastic, fiery breath.

Unlike the pure flames of the Pink Rathian, the flames spewed by the Bazelgeuse are ignited by explosive liquid secreted from its internal glands. The temperature is so high and the explosion so violent that it is practically a flame composed of very unartistic explosions.

Chen Yan and Hua Miao stood on the back of the Pink Rathian and swung their blades with all their might. The blades flashed and cleaved through the bursts of flame, trying their best to prevent them from hitting the Pink Rathian's wings.

At this moment, the three dragons are in a straight line in the sky, chasing each other, with Nergigante in the back, Bakurin in the middle, and Pink Rathian in front.

Scales burst, thorns, blade energy, flames, and billowing black smoke filled the chaotic battlefield, where three colossal beasts locked in a fierce, pitch-black battle nearly turned the world upside down.

The Nergigante's fierce yet adorable black face was blasted bright red, but its massive tail was also torn to shreds by the attack.

The relentless pain emanating from its massive tail caused the Bazelgeuse to lose its senses, and surprisingly, it opened its delicate little mouth to bite Chen Yan. In the chaos, it actually managed to bite the tip of Chen Yan's knife.

The iron-like jaws made the blade creak under the strain, and in his desperation, Chen Yan simply jumped onto the dragon head and pried open its jaws.

Flower Cat ran over to help, using a knife to pry open its teeth. Just as it made a small opening, a burst of fiery breath from the Bazelgeuse's throat sprayed directly onto its face. Flower Cat, who now had the same skin color as a black cat, had half of its head hair singed off and was frantically scratching its nose with its eyes blazing with fire.

They were fighting fiercely in the back, while the Pink Rathian was exhausted in the front.

In just half a day, it first flew from Star Base to Coral Highlands, then fought against Dazzling Bird, Wind Dragon, and Nergigante, and was chased by Nergigante all the way to the edge of the Elder's Recess.

It had already exceeded the amount of exercise it used to do in a month. At this moment, the little dragon's tongue was drooping at its mouth, its face was covered in soot from the smoke and dust caused by the explosion, its eyes were glazed with exhaustion, its wings were flapping weakly, and it looked like it was about to collapse.

Just as the leading Pink Rathian was flying lower and lower, and it looked like it was about to lead the Bazelgeuse and Nergigante behind it into the volcano, Nergigante finally couldn't hold back anymore.

He unleashed the angrier roar in history.

He came here to kill! Not to play this pointless game of "you hit me, I hit him" with Bazelgeuse and Chen Yan!

With a swing of its claws, the Nergigante unleashed a tremendous force in its rage, extinguishing the endless sea of ​​fire.

Once the Bazelgeuse's damned tail, which was constantly growing exploding scales, was revealed, it tilted its head back, waving its enormous demonic horns, and gave the Bazelgeuse an early New Year's greeting.

The horn, carrying enough force to shatter mountains, slammed into its seven- or eight-meter-long, thick tail. The fine red scales were shattered, and the flesh burst open, scalding blood gushing from a mouth half a meter deep.

The blow shattered the Bazelgeuse's tail, but it wasn't over yet. The Nergigante then plunged its claws into the wound, and with another roar, it ripped apart most of the Bazelgeuse's tail with its thick forelimbs, tearing apart flesh and bones with a sound of cracking.

Bazelgeuse let out a deafening wail, and Chen Yan seized the opportunity to draw his sword, staring in disbelief as the ferocious Nergigante devoured Bazelgeuse's bloodied and mangled tail in front of everyone.

Then Chen Yan was horrified to discover that the Nergigante was biting a Bazelgeuse, but its little red eyes were still fixed on him. The reason it was eating so deliciously was most likely because it was treating the meat in its mouth as its own and biting it hard.

"No way, it'll be finished once it's full! Flower Cat, it's your turn to open it!"

Chen Yan flipped over and jumped onto the body of the Bazelgeuse. As he ran toward its tail, he bent down and scooped up a flammable rock, then threw it at the face of the Nergigante.

With a "smack," a small patch of Nergigante's face was charred. Provoked by Chen Yan, Nergigante, which should have been furious and relentlessly pursued him, ignored him this time and simply ate more of Bazelgeuse meat.

Chen Yan sheathed his sword and assumed a drawing-and-slash stance. He charged toward Nergigante while shouting at Bazelgeuse.

"Hey, stop howling! If you don't want to become a bald-tailed dragon, use your ultimate move! Let's work together to force it back!"

Perhaps understanding Chen Yan's words, the Bazelgeuse actually shut its mouth.

It trembled, frantically squeezing the rupture glands inside its body. Under the intense pain, the rupture glands were about to burst, and explosive bodily fluids almost sprayed out from its body, quickly covering all the silver-gray scales on the back of its neck, back, tail, and chest and abdomen.

After the body fluids flow out of the body, they adhere to the hook-shaped scales all over the body and solidify in the blink of an eye into water droplet-shaped, red-hot, explosive particles called "exploding scales".

Chen Yan suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Bazelgeuse seemed to only understand the first half of his sentence, ignoring the second half, "Let's work together to force it back!" Judging from its posture, it clearly wanted to blow him to pieces as well.

It was too late to turn back. Chen Yan could only use all his strength to jump into the air before the scales beneath his feet exploded. In mid-air, he gathered his strength, and a devastating blow gradually brewed in the trembling scabbard.

However, Bazelgeuse's "Heaven and Earth Together" was still one step ahead.

Before being swallowed by the crimson-gold flames surging from every gap in its scales, it let out a violent roar as if it were making a desperate gamble. Its massive body, which was over twenty meters long, was enveloped in a dazzling golden light.

Then came the explosions, the explosions, and more explosions.

Amidst the mournful cries of the air, crimson flames surged ahead, followed by a series of explosions. Layer upon layer of fire surged and churned, engulfing every inch of its body. Its outline, the shape of the Extinction Dragon, and Chen Yan's figure were completely consumed by the flames, leaving only the edges of its wings faintly visible in the sea of ​​fire.

Amidst the continuous rumbling, the shockwave from its final attack swept outwards in a ring, scorching even the wind. The Flower Cat let out a miserable cry as it was completely flattened, and the Pink Rathian was unable to maintain its shape, plummeting straight to the ground.

Fortunately, it had been flying low enough, and after a flurry of braking, it stopped just before crashing into the volcano. But it and the cat were too busy looking up at the sky, which was glowing red with firelight to care about themselves.

Where is Chen Yan?

Amidst the embers of the fire, the bald Bazelgeuse, stripped of all its scales, was the first to appear, and it staggered away unnoticed.

Immediately following was a roar of rage from the Extinction Dragon, which emerged second from the sea of ​​fire, its left horn missing a piece.

Finally, it was Chen Yan's turn. The sharp-eyed Flower Cat noticed that he seemed to have lost even more weight. A second before he hit the ground, the Sakura Fire Dragon Car, having recovered its strength, rushed forward, its wings together to catch him steadily, and he slid all the way to its neck.

Chen Yan exhaled the breath that had been stuck in his throat, and his whole body went limp.

He looked up at the still menacing and energetic Nergigante above him, and reached out to touch the neck of the Pink Rathian in its final moments.

"In my next life, I want to be a dragon. If I had a choice, I want to be a..."

Before he could finish speaking or even touch anything, he suddenly felt dizzy and was sent flying.

If it weren't for Hua Miao's quick reflexes in jumping up and catching him, he might have turned into a puddle on the ground.

Hua Miao winked at Chen Yan and secretly gave him a thumbs up.

"Touching someone's precious granddaughter in front of their grandparents, Chen Yan, you are something else."

Chen Yan's heart skipped a beat, and he looked up.

Sakura's fire dragon was curled up under a fire dragon with beautiful tricolored scales, whimpering softly.

With each groan it let out, the black and red fire dragon beside it grew even angrier; with each scratch and fire blister it displayed, the black and red fire dragon beside it grew even angrier...

It wasn't until its black and red scales were adorned with lotus-like patterns, its aura as terrifying as a volcano about to erupt, that Sakura Rathalos pointed its tail tip at the Nergigante hovering in the sky.

Two dragon shadows roared and charged toward the Extinction Dragon, one on the left and one on the right.

"So you're the one bullying my precious granddaughter, huh?"

Voiced by Chen Yan.

...

Hua Miao, Chen Yan, and Yinghuolong sat in a circle, with a pot and meat roasting over a small campfire among them.

The pot was filled with dried fish soup, and the fire was roasting dried venison. Chen Yan leaned against the wings of the Sakura Fire Dragon and slowly drank a mouthful of salty fish soup. A warm current flowed down his throat and into his stomach, nourishing his shriveled stomach.

After drinking about half a bowl, he handed the remaining half bowl of fish soup to Hua Miao, whose face clearly said "I don't want to drink it," but who kept secretly swallowing her saliva.

He took a small bite off and handed the remaining half of the venison to the Sakura Rathalos, whose face clearly said "I don't want to eat," but whose stomach kept rumbling.

Neither the cat nor the dragon accepted the food until Chen Yan smiled and stuffed the fish soup and roast meat into their hands, as they were equally hungry.