Monster Hunter Gathering

"In the name of the blue star that shows the way!"

Regarding the recent update

The updates have been a bit sparse lately, mainly because I've been busy dealing with job changes... I have to make one last trip on Sunday, and then I'll just have to look at the results and wait for notifications, so I'm taking one last leave tonight. I'm going to rest up and deal with work issues tomorrow. When I come back tonight, I'll start gradually catching up on the updates I've missed during this period. I'm also going to release the battle chapter as quickly as possible, just like the previous battle chapter, so that everyone can read it all at once...

The main reason is that I'm already approaching 30, and work is really... my lifeblood...

Chapter 334: Do Your Best, Hunters

"Foolish words..." Altair looked down at Nie Chiwu. "This is not the world full of monsters you live in. If you really think I am a monster that will destroy the world..."

Altair raised his saber, and the spear that preceded the launch of the All-Seeing was already poised like a violin. "For your hypocritical and arrogant words and actions! You will pay for your nonsense here today."

With the activation of Senluo Wanxiang, the rubble originally scattered on the ground gathered together with Altair's will and turned into a burly giant. He raised his strong arms and smashed towards Nie Chiwu with all his strength.

But after the stone giant appeared, Nie Chiwu's expression became interesting.

"Get out of here!"

Nie Chiwu faced the stone giant that was born from the vast universe without any fear. After taking a step forward, he raised the sword in his hand.

The sound of metal colliding rang out violently. The stone giant, which was huge compared to ordinary people, was overturned by the attack of the tiny human under its feet.

To offset the upper slash... If Altair directly attacks Nie Chiwu with Senluo Wanxiang from a distance, Nie Chiwu can only use his greatsword to block Altair's attack.

But if it's a close combat like the Stone Giant...

“Professional match!”

The next moment when the stone giant was knocked back by the enemy, the claws in Nie Chiwu's hand had already grabbed the stone giant's head and pulled himself up.

A sweeping blow in the air struck the stone giant's head.

The superior greatsword made of ancient dragon materials almost crushed the stone giant made of steel and concrete in the city into scattered ruins.

"Sure enough... you only get truly angry when it involves Setsuna."

Nie Chiwu looked at Altair, who was clearly showing more emotion than before, and forced a smile. "Since that's the case, I'll let you... express your emotions more clearly."

Nie Chiwu said to Altair deliberately in a provocative tone, "Your creator has truly done something... extremely troublesome!"

"It's you! Altair!"

Nie Chiwu raised his voice. "A fragile little girl! Another fragile little girl created! That's you, Altair!"

"Boring, uninteresting, and meaningless! A child holding a lethal weapon! A truly troublesome creature!"

While Nie Chiwu was saying these words, Altair's emotions were also aroused by such provocation.

More attention was drawn to Nie Chiwu, and she only retained some of her ability to suppress the other people who were attacking her.

Naofumi Iwaya and Tanjiro stayed by Nie Chiwu's side, sharing some of the pressure with him so that he could continue to provoke Altair.

"Captain, you really are...good at provoking others."

Naofumi Iwaya's expression was a little subtle. He still remembered until now that when they first started hunting and they entered the Infinite City... Nie Chiwu was like this, dancing crazily on his opponent's weak spots and provoking him.

Although Nie Chiwu didn't continue to show this ability after the challenge to the Winged Lion and the siege of the Qilin, he was now facing an intelligent opponent again...

Naofumi Iwaya pondered for a moment.

Logically speaking, shouldn't he, the shield-carrying frontline, be responsible for drawing the enemy's fire? Why is Nie Chiwu's taunt so much stronger than his own...

"Mr. Grand Commander! Be careful!"

Tanjiro used his katana to accurately deflect a saber that was flying directly towards Nie Chiwu's throat. He continued to exert his physical strength to complete the breathing technique, so that he could see Altair's attacks clearly and use the flow of water breathing to deflect those attacks.

The next moment, Naofumi Iwatani also used his shield and cast the Prison Shield, wrapping all three of them to defend against Altair's covering attack.

"A qualified hunter should quickly send a monster into a furious state! That's how they can trigger a challenger!" Nie Chiwu said in a low voice within the prison shield, then glanced up at the enraged Altair. "I understand her thinking, but what she did... has already touched the bottom line of balance."

"We're not here to sympathize with the monsters that destroy the balance!"

Nie Chiwu clenched his fist. "I sympathize with Shanshan's situation! I know the pain her creator has faced... I understand the consequences of someone innocent but enveloped in inexplicable malice."

Nie Chiwu took a deep breath. "I never lack sympathy! I am a human being! If Shanshan stood before me, I would not sit idly by and remain indifferent!"

"But I'm also a fucking hunter! I can't ignore those unrelated people who are implicated in revenge!!!"

Nie Chiwu glared, "All the other people in this world who have dedicated everything to their lives...people who have risked their lives just to survive in this world."

"Why should they, who have given their all, face the fate of world destruction in complete ignorance?" Nie Chiwu said, "Unfortunately, we can't save everyone. We are just a group of people gathered here. I can see more misfortune, but as a hunter, I can only save the part in front of me."

Outside the prison shield, the sound of Altair's attack and the collision of the prison shield continued to sound. Nie Chiwu gripped the sword in his hand tightly and looked at Naofumi Iwatani and Tanjiro.

"I can only try my best to do what I can do now."

"...What are you going to do?" Iwatani Naofumi shook his head. "I don't care about that, but as a companion, I believe in what you are going to do."

"I..." Naofumi Iwatani paused, then tapped Nie Chiwu's shoulder with his fist. "I've always felt that what we can accomplish...is absolutely beyond the world's imagination."

"of course."

A smile appeared on Nie Chiwu's face. "Because we've been prepared for this for a long time! Because we're fucking hunters!"

"We are Monster Hunters!" Nie Chiwu smiled brightly. "Under the blue star that guides the way, let each of us strive with all our might to move forward."

"So……"

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At this moment, Altair was outside the prison shield, using his own attacks to attack the prison shield created by Naofumi Iwatani.

The shield's defensive power was somewhat beyond Altair's expectations.

Chapter 335 Dragon Sealing Power

Not only Shield, but other people on the battlefield had also reacted and started to besiege Altair.

Alice, who was originally in the military camp, also began to help Celega and others to suppress Altair at this moment.

As for the protagonist of the same work as Serega, Kalon, although still standing in the military camp, his magic mecha was entangled by Jotaro using the Hermit Purple.

Altair didn't care about those who besieged him.

She couldn't accept what Nie Chiwu had just said about Shan Shan.

"Do you think... you can be safe just by hiding in this cage?"

As Altair raised his hand, an extremely huge saber began to emerge from the void, pointing directly at the prison shield released by Naofumi Iwaya, ready to destroy the three people in the prison shield together.

"stop!"

Ruwei Kanoya drove a robot taller than a building and grabbed the handle of the huge saber, trying to stop it from falling, but the force of the fall was far beyond the upper limit of his body's tolerance.

In the struggle with the saber, the huge robot's body began to overload, and in the end, Ruei Kanoya was unable to prevent the huge saber from falling.

The huge saber destroyed the prison shield released by Iwaya Naofumi almost instantly, but...

There was no sign of Nie Chiwu and the others in the prison shield.

"what?"

Kanoya Ruwei was stunned for a moment, trying to find traces of Nie Chiwu and others, and then he heard a rumbling sound coming from underground.

In just a few seconds, the rumbling sound had reached the feet of Altair where he was floating. The next moment, Naofumi Iwaya, holding a hideous ochre shield with curved horns like a devil, rushed straight towards Altair in the sky from the ground.

Triceratops Shield... This shield form was unlocked by Naofumi Iwaya using a full set of Triceratops materials. Just like the Triceratops body named Desert Tyrant, this shield not only has extremely strong charging and ramming capabilities, but also has the same specialized digging capabilities as the Triceratops and the ability to accurately lock onto enemies underground.

In the brief moment of jumping from the ground into the air, Naofumi Iwaya and Nie Chiwu grabbed each other's wrists, and then used brute force to launch Nie Chiwu towards Altair like a rocket.

When Altair noticed Nie Chiwu approaching, Nie Chiwu was already only a dozen meters away from her.

Just as Altair was about to climb up and increase the distance between him and Nie Chiwu, he saw Nie Chiwu suddenly smash something into the projectile on his left arm and shoot it directly upwards.

The dazzling light almost instantly covered Altair's entire field of vision, illuminating the surrounding area as if it were daytime.

An indescribable feeling of dizziness inexplicably appeared in Altair's mind, which made Altair lose the ability to continue to rise into the air, and he was forced to fall downwards.

As the people around him looked on in shock, Nie Chiwu reloaded his left hand and shot out the grappling hook, which directly hit the falling Altair, pulling the two together and falling towards the ground together.

Nie Chiwu stepped on Altair's body without any hesitation, pulled out the big sword he made from the thorns of the Nergigante, and pressed it against Altair's body.

The impact of the fall, the weight of the sword itself, and Nie Chiwu's brute force.

The three combined with each other and penetrated Altair's body when Nie Chiwu and the dizzy Altair fell to the ground together.

When Altair woke up from the dizziness caused by the flash, he realized that he was seriously injured.

Why could a mere flash bomb cause him to feel dizzy? Altair had no time to consider this. Now that he was injured, Altair could only immediately initiate a causal reversal and prepare to change the cause and effect of this incident.

puff……

Accompanied by a slight dull sound as if a water balloon was punctured by a knife, a huge wound appeared from the front and back of Nie Chiwu's abdomen, penetrating his entire body.

Even others could see the light coming from the other side through the wound.

A large amount of blood gushed out from the wound in Nie Chiwu's abdomen. The hunter's originally strong heartbeat now caused the blood to gush out of the wound.

"hunter!"

Serega's pupils dilated. She didn't expect that Nie Chiwu had already inflicted heavy damage on Altair, but such a thing happened in the blink of an eye.

but……

At this moment, the seriously injured Nie Chiwu did not fall down. Instead, he grasped the Nergigante Greatsword in his hand and twisted it fiercely in Altair's body.

As the terrifying sword covered with thorns twisted, the wound on Nie Chiwu's abdomen rapidly expanded, but...

The person who finally showed a painful expression was Altair, who was nailed directly to the ground by the Nergigante Greatsword.

"what have you done!"

Altair stared at Nie Chiwu in pain.

She had clearly activated Senluo Wanxiang, reversing the cause and effect of her body being pierced by Nie Chiwu's sword onto Nie Chiwu himself.

The wound on Nie Chiwu's abdomen should have proved that his Senluo Wanxiang was successfully activated, but why was he still seriously injured?

Why is everything in my world affected?

"Does it hurt?"

Nie Chiwu's expression turned grim due to the severe pain in his abdomen. The muscles in his neck were bulging from endurance, but Nie Chiwu smiled. "Feel this pain! It's the essence of nature!"

"When you show malice and fangs to others, be prepared to feel such pain!" Nie Chiwu pulled the greatsword directly out of Altair's abdomen, leaving behind a wound that was much smaller than the one on Nie Chiwu's body, but still looked a little scary.

"This is the very essence of life! A vital part of the infinite ecosystem!" Nie Chiwu acted as if the wound in his abdomen didn't exist. He swung the Nergigante Greatsword, nicknamed the [Ghost-Slaying Weapon], at Altair beneath him. "Dragon Sealing Power! Little Girl!!!"

[PS: Dragon Sealing Power is a special ability that mainly appears on weapons with dragon-attribute attack power. Its main function is to halve or completely seal certain specific abilities of ancient dragons. It appears in MHW.]

"Go away!"

Altair raised his hand, and the sudden impact knocked Nie Chiwu back, but the wound in his abdomen still affected Altair.

She felt threatened.

It wasn't that Nie Chiwu hurt her.

It was this power beyond her comprehension that made Altair vaguely sense something unusual.

It's like something big is about to happen.

Altair forced himself to fly high into the sky, trying to find a little space to heal his injuries, but Cereja, Kanoya Ruwei and Alice, who had the ability to fly, immediately chased after him, trying to slow down Altair.

At this moment, Nie Chiwu, who was blasted away by Altair, directly smashed a large electronic screen on a building and was embedded in it. The wound on his abdomen was still spurting blood.

Tanjiro rushed to Nie Chiwu almost immediately and stuffed the secret medicine he was carrying into the mouth of Nie Chiwu, who was already dying, to prevent Nie Chiwu from using the cat car.

"It really works..." Nie Chiwu's mouth twitched in pain, but he still managed a smile: "It's worthy of being Mie Mie Zi's weapon..."

"Kazuma, hurry up." Nie Chiwu pulled himself away from the big electronic screen and said to the assembly voice: "We need to solve the problem before any accidents happen..."

"Why does this feel like odd jobs?! It always gets assigned to me! And why…"

Kazuma roared in the assembly voice: "It's something like bringing Aqua along to steal other girls' ashes!"

Chapter 336 Heavenly Return

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