Monster Hunter Gathering

"What... is going on?" Homura Akemi looked at the "witch" whose body was constantly expanding with horror in her eyes. "Is this... a witch?"

It feels very similar to a witch, but also different.

The size of the "witch" is still growing at this moment, and she is even gradually beginning to produce corresponding "familiars".

But why is this witch... a ball? ! ! ! !

"What did that winged lion do?" Homura Akemi immediately turned to look at Nie Chiwu, and Nie Chiwu said, "This is the winged lion."

"It studied the structure of witches and analyzed the structure of the Seed of Sorrow. Based on this, it created a witch who is a [Monster]."

"Don't worry, its basic abilities are basically the same as the witch's, and the winged lion can help us adjust its strength." Nie Chiwu said easily: "Training ground target! Girl!"

"Huh?" Homura Akemi was stunned for a moment, then turned around to see Naofumi Iwatani pull out a huge heavy crossbow from somewhere, holding it in his hand and skillfully loading it with ammunition: "Let's try out the effects of various ammunition on the witch. I also brought a small dragon-killing gun..."

"Alright! Then, could you please pause time for a moment, Homura? We can test whether stacking weapons together can cause greater damage..."

"Oh right, use more attribute bullets! Everyone says witches max out physical resistance and don't put in any magic resistance at all. I want to see if that's true..."

Under the somewhat numb gaze of Homura Akemi, Naofumi Iwatani, holding a heavy crossbow, smiled brilliantly and began to pour crazy firepower on the "witch".

"Hahahahaha!!! As expected, the heavy crossbow makes people happy!!!!"

Naofumi Iwatani laughed and began to bombard the witch, forcing Homura Akemi to move a little further away from him.

These hunters...are all quite strange...

written request for leave

Today's on-the-job training, let me fight with reality

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Chapter 377 Prelude 1

"Very good. The attribute energy contained in the blended bullets can indeed have a significant impact on monsters..."

While Naofumi Iwaya was laughing and attacking the imitation witch, Nie Chiwu squatted beside Naofumi Iwaya, took out a black fountain pen that cost two dollars, and a piece of paper he found in the waste paper pile at home and started to record.

Homura Akemi glanced over from the side and noticed that Nie Chiwu was holding a slightly yellowed answer sheet that looked like it had been printed many years ago. There were a bunch of Chinese characters written on it. Then, in the signature area, Homura Akemi used her not-so-familiar knowledge of Chinese characters to recognize the name...

"Nie...Chi...Wu?"

Then Homura Akemi looked at the score written in red pen, 89 points.

"Is this your previous result?" Homura Akemi blinked.

It turns out that this group leader had good grades in the past?

Hearing what Homura Akemi said, Nie Chiwu suddenly realized something. He looked down at the score on the old answer sheet in his hand. After a brief silence, he said, "The full score in our high school was 150 points."

"Uh?"

Homura Akemi was stunned for a moment before saying, "At least I got the passing score..."

“…Our passing score is 60% of the total score, not 40 points like yours.” Nie Chiwu’s voice passed slowly by Homura Akemi’s ears, causing her to instinctively calculate what the passing score of 150 points was.

"Ah, ninety points..." Homura Akemi suddenly fell silent. Like Nie Chiwu, she stared at Nie Chiwu's old answer sheet that had been put away for ten years and had 89 points written in red pen for the passing score of 90 points.

"Ah... well... at least you tried hard to fill it up." Homura Akemi comforted Nie Chiwu.

"Let's not discuss my high school practice test." Nie Chiwu turned the answer sheet slightly, covering it with his body, and then got down to business: "What do you think of the power of our heavy crossbow?"

"Very...strong." Homura Akemi looked at the witch target that was being continuously destroyed by Naofumi Iwatani's heavy crossbow bullets. "I just tested this witch's defense with a weapon. It's far superior to that of an ordinary witch."

"The bullets you fired may not seem to have a very fast initial velocity, but the damage they cause after hitting their targets is... enormous." Homura Akemi looked at the bullets that had now sprayed water after focusing on the witches and asked, "What's the principle behind these bullets?"

"Monster Hunter Biology! Girl!" Nie Chiwu turned up his nose. "As for how these bullets are made... that depends on our hunters' blending skills."

"But specifically, the characteristics of hunter weapons largely mimic monster attacks... For example, the essence of the dragon cannon is to imitate the breath of dragons."

Nie Chiwu explained with great interest some things that Homura Akemi could not understand, but through Nie Chiwu's repeated explanations, Homura Akemi gradually understood some of the basic principles of these devices.

To put it simply, it is to roughly utilize the attribute power similar to compressed energy to deal a devastating blow to the target.

Use different bullets to cause different damage to the opponent, and even... there are some special bullets.

Homura Akemi didn't know how to describe those bullets for a moment. She only knew... something unbelievable happened in front of Homura Akemi.

The witch in front of me... was poisoned and fainted.

Not only that, under Iwaya Naofumi's attack, the witch also once entered a paralyzed state with lightning on her body...that state seemed to appear out of thin air.

The witch can... poison and paralyze?

Homura Akemi accompanied the two of them, constantly experimenting in this fake witch barrier, and even... Nie Chiwu didn't know when he called over a round cat wearing a blue ninja suit and muttered to it for a long time.

"Leave it to me, Boss! Now's the time to show off what I've learned!" Dai Mao raised a hand and said to Nie Chiwu with enthusiasm, "Come out! Let's draw lots with the cat mechanism! I'll show you the power of the cat-style dragon-striking spear!"

Under Homura Akemi's shocked gaze, the tiny cat took out a huge mechanical device from somewhere and sat on it.

The obviously compressed and charged dragon-striking spear was aimed by Daimao at the target witch's body.

"Attack meow!!!"

As Daimao pulled the starting device, the Cat-style Dragon-Slaying Spear was suddenly fired out.

The huge, rotating dragon-slaying spear suddenly shot out and pierced directly into the target witch's body.

The huge rotational force caused the greatest damage so far.

The target witch, whose body was much larger than that of a normal witch, fell to the ground with a bang under the attack of the cat-style dragon-slaying spear and struggled on the ground.

"!"

Homura Akemi looked in disbelief at the mechanical device which was not much taller than herself. She could not imagine that such a simple-looking device could cause such huge damage to the witch.

It was as if he ignored the witch's defensive ability.

"How many... devices like this do you have?" Homura Akemi opened her mouth and said finally.

"Enough to assemble a fortress." Nie Chiwu said calmly: "Don't you think that this fake witch barrier... is prepared for the purpose of building a fortress?"

Only then did Homura Akemi realize why Nie Chiwu waited until she brought Nie Chiwu to the location where Witch Night appeared before letting Winged Lion forge the witch and create this witch barrier that ordinary people could not see.

"Or, you should call this place a name that's more suitable for the Winged Lion style." Nie Chiwu snapped his fingers: "The name of this place now should be... Maze."

"Just wait until the Witch Night appears... and untie this witch barrier..." Homura Akemi imagined what would happen next.

By that time, a huge fortress with unlimited firepower will appear out of nowhere in front of Witch Night, and it will not be discovered by any citizen of Mitakihara City.

With the power of these hunters' devices... maybe they can really defeat Witch Night.

However, after thinking about the existence called Tenkai Ryu, Homura Akemi decided to cooperate seriously with the hunters.

She had to consider whether this was her only chance and whether she would be able to see these hunters again if she entered the next reincarnation.

"Then get ready to pull the rope and start the time stop, Xiaoyan." Nie Chiwu grinned: "Come to this maze and build our intercepting fortress!"

Chapter 378: The Traces of the Heavenly Dragon and the Girl's Conversation

In a place far away from Mitakihara City, which is no longer the area where Mami and other magical girls from Mitakihara City deal with witches, there is a witch's barrier. Just as Nie Chiwu and others are preparing to use the characteristics of the witch's barrier, it is also being used.

Within the witch's barrier, the witch's familiars had been violently slaughtered, leaving only the witch herself to maintain the existence of the barrier.

The real reason for this result was... an existence that suddenly broke into the barrier.

At this moment, Tianhuilong is using its claws to pin the witch to the ground, and while the witch is constantly trying to recover her body, Tianhuilong will directly use its sharp teeth to tear the witch's body into pieces to eat.

But Tianhuilong did not kill the witch directly. It also realized that after killing this relatively energy-rich prey, the barrier that allowed it to temporarily reside would dissipate directly.

Therefore, it does not intend to stay in the outside world for too long before replenishing enough energy and recovering.

After escaping from the hunters' siege, Tenkai Dragon also fought a fierce battle with Chaos Black Dragon in this world.

The battle between the two aggravated Tianhuilong's accumulated injuries, and in the end, Tianhuilong let Chaos Black Eclipse Dragon escape.

Despite being angry, the Tianhuilong began to look for a temporary place to rest and prey to recover from in order to avoid other threats that might catch up.

It soon discovered the witch, a prey rich in energy. After several consecutive hunts, Tianhuilong also found a way to use the witch's barrier to temporarily reside.

Moreover, following the breath of these witches, Tianhuilong also found a prey that was strong enough and rich in energy.

Tianhuilong is now waiting for its appearance, and at the same time, Tianhuilong is quietly spreading the mad dragon virus in his body.

The more aggressive the witch is, the more energy she can restore to the Tenkai Dragon after sucking the vitality of humans.

This is also the reason why those witches became agitated because of the Mad Dragon Virus.

However, the magical girls who were unaware of this could only notice some changes in the witch, and began to try hard to defeat the witch who had turned into a mad dragon.

On Tomoe Mami's side...

"Be careful."

Inside the witch's barrier, Tachibana Hibiki bumped his fists, then delivered a straight punch, smashing the familiar that was about to attack Sayaka into pieces.

Meanwhile, Tomoe Asami felt for the first time...

It turns out that team battles are such a reassuring thing.

Although Unosaki is a little strange as a magical girl, her extremely strong body like King Kong, holding the magic wand, she can withstand all the pressure from the familiar with her own strength.

Mami Tomoe felt that she could just stand on a high place and snipe the witch with a flintlock rifle.

It was a little too relaxed, and... a little enjoyable.

This experience of cooperating with others and fighting together unexpectedly made Mami feel happy, as if some of the loneliness in the past had been soothed.

"Go away! Go away!"

Unosaki didn't care so much. She was now using the magic wand (physical) in her hand to beat all the familiars that rushed towards her into a bunch of mosaics.

The small bottle for storing blood that was originally embedded in the top of her physical magic wand is now mixed with some black substances stored from the familiar, making the bottle look a little black.

In the end, Mami used a ribbon to transform into a huge flintlock rifle, which directly killed the witch completely. The witch's barrier also dissipated as the Seed of Sorrow fell to the ground.

"The fight is finally over..." Uno Saki breathed a sigh of relief, and then she canceled her transformation, turning from a muscular magical girl in a pink puffy skirt back into a normal pink-haired high school student.

"There's a Seed of Sorrow." Mami picked up the Seed of Sorrow and said, "You... don't need this, right?"

"I should be consuming my physical strength, and... my shame." Uno Saki turned her head with a blank look and looked towards the void.

"I don't have any special consumption, and since I got the hunter's benefits, my transformation problem has gradually been solved!" Hibiki made a "yeah" gesture to Mami.

"So what kind of monsters do you kill in your own world?" Sayaka was particularly curious about the experiences of these magical girls from other worlds: "And the magical girls of your other members..."

"The monster I defeated is called a demon." Unosaki sighed: "It's a creature that looks like this..."

Unosaki picked up a branch and started drawing on the ground. Soon, she drew a very cute creature head that looked like a mascot.

"Isn't this cute? This is really a monster..." Before Sayaka could finish her words, she saw what Unosaki drew underneath that cute head: "Really?"

Under that mascot-like head is a strong body like that of a world bodybuilding champion.

Sayaka couldn't help but combine the cute head and the strong body in her head, and shuddered instinctively.

In a sense, this Unosaki-senpai is really strong inside...

Tachibana Hibiki also explained the monster he was going to face.

Noise.

Randomly appearing, the nemesis and natural enemy of mankind, it is almost impossible to destroy with firearms except for the war girl, and it is an abominable monster that can only be defeated at the moment it attacks humans.

After hearing that humans attacked by noise would be reduced to ashes along with the noise, Mami and Sayaka showed expressions of pity.

Mami Tomoe even sighed that the lives of magical girls in other worlds were also very difficult.

During this communication, the girls' relationships became closer, and Mami and Sayaka even asked about other hunters.

When Sayaka heard that there was a righteous hero who could save the world among the hunters, her eyes lit up, especially when she heard that the other person had blue hair like her.

The existence of other hunters from various worlds also amazed Mami and Sayaka.

A strange hero from another world, a warrior from the last century, a demon-slaying swordsman from the Taisho period...all these identities aroused the girl's curiosity.

"That's great." Sayaka said with some envy: "If possible, I also want to become a magical girl to protect others..."

Ah, fell asleep