Monster Hunter Gathering

"Hey, hey, hey! How dare you include me in this? I'm really afraid of trouble..." Kazuma wanted to refuse, but Nie Chiwu clicked on the images of the Pillar Slayers. Kazuma muttered to the screen twice and then slammed the table in anger, "I'll join, okay?! I could just go back to my world and deal with the future and be a rich man with nothing to do every day, but why am I facing this again?"

"So!"

Nie Chiwu also slammed the table and stood up: "Now! Let's start the [Kimebutsuji Muzan subjugation plan meeting]!"

"Goal! Save as many surviving humans as possible! And defeat all the demons!!"

"Use all available means!!! Defeat the monsters that go against nature!!!"

—Plan under discussion—

—After discussing the plan—

In the training area, several people were testing the weapons of their choice.

Because Er Qiao needed to free her hands to use ripple qigong, she chose a one-handed sword as her main weapon. She could directly attack with a shield and a one-handed sword at close range. And because the weapon was made of monster materials, it unexpectedly had a strong ripple conduction property.

Naofumi Iwatani chose the heavy crossbow. His own Four Sacred Shields already provided him with strong enough protection. Now he also chose to strengthen this ability and supplement it. The heavy crossbow with its protection ability and burst damage naturally became his choice.

Kazuma chose the bow, which matched his own abilities. The stealth and sniper skills allowed Kazuma to make the best use of the bow's characteristics.

As for Nie Chiwu...

"I want the Bug Stick! Give me happiness!" Nie Chiwu roared in the blacksmith shop. "Monster Hunter is fun without the Bug Stick! Flying Sticks are the best in the world! This is the value of a perfect weapon!! Next time I become a swordsman... I want the Bug Stick!"

Nie Chiwu got his insect stick and hunting insect as he wished, and started training in the training area with several other people.

After several days of training, they have mastered their weapons and are constantly improving their plans for the expedition.

"Today we should set out to hunt Muzan." Nie Chiwu, after a dashing cassock slash, also took back the well-behaved hunting insect and said, "Grandma Cat said that hunters must eat a cat meal with special ingredients before setting out. After lunch, we should set out."

"...In the blink of an eye, it's already been half a month since I came here." Iwaya Naofumi sighed, "What a pleasant time it has been."

The half month he spent here was the most relaxing time for him since he crossed over. If he had not confirmed that time did not flow in this world, he would not have felt so relaxed.

"Let me deal with that Wuzan!" Er Qiao said, arm in arm with Nie Chiwu. "By the way, let me see the story about my grandfather you told me last time when you get back."

"No problem, JOJO! Da Qiao is a gentleman with a very noble spirit!" Nie Chiwu responded cheerfully, "Your Joestar family has been gentlemen for generations! Speaking of which, there's also the story of your grandson..."

"Stop! Stop right there!"

Kazuma stopped everyone's sighs with a loud voice: "Why are you all suddenly raising your flags together?! Don't make such obvious flags before the final battle!!"

"I won't die anyway." Er Qiao said confidently.

"You won't die anyway." Naofumi Iwaya also spread his hands.

"At least you won't die!" Nie Chiwu patted Kazuma's shoulder vigorously: "You have to get used to it as soon as possible!"

"No way! You guys are abnormal!!!"

Amidst Kazuma's roar, the few of them also welcomed their cat meal before departure.

After several people confirmed that they had brought the items they had planned, they checked their equipment and whether the skill beads on the equipment were properly installed.

After everything was ready, Grandma Cat also prepared the most luxurious meal for the few people since they came here.

After eating those ingredients, several people even felt that their physical conditions had been obviously adjusted to the best, and even the fatigue from training and making plans in the past few days disappeared.

After finishing the cat meal, several people came to the door of the base, and all the Felynx in the base followed and supported the hunters.

The leader of the cat cart team, the colorful dazzling Felu cat, was also dragging a cat cart and said to the others, "Don't worry, hunters! If you are in danger, meow will drag you to a safe place."

"I wish all the hunters good luck in their battles." Grandma Cat also bowed slightly to the few people.

"Then! Let's go!"

Nie Chiwu shouted excitedly, and four well-trained pterosaurs flew over from a distance. Nie Chiwu and the other three raised their arms together, shot out their claws and grabbed the pterosaurs.

Along with the pterosaur's cry, the figures of several people disappeared into the void.

"Yoshi! Ikku let's go!!!!"

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At this moment in the Ubuyashiki residence, a blind man with bandages wrapped all over his body, accompanied by his wife and daughter, was confronting another violent man in a suit.

"Once I die, the morale of the Demon Slayer Corps will be raised to an unprecedented level."

Ubuyashiki Kōya, the lord of the Demon Slayer Corps, looked at Muzan, who had been lured out using him as bait, and said, "Thank you, Muzan."

The next moment, the explosives he set up around him would destroy the entire mansion and forest around him, leaving Muzan with no way to escape and have to fight to the death with all the Demon Slayers who surrounded him.

For this reason, he, his wife and two daughters will all become bait to be destroyed by explosives.

But Ubuyashiki Kōya knew that all the sacrifices would turn into the power of the children of the Demon Slayer Corps, turning them into tigers and dragons chasing Muzan.

Just as the furious Muzan was about to kill, several shrill screams rang out in the sky.

"Damn Pterosaur! It's not even in the New World anymore and it crashed!!! Qiao! It's all your fault! Our Pterosaur crashed!"

The next moment, four figures holding huge weapons smashed through the roof and fell into the room. Both Muzan and Ubuyashiki Kōya had only time to show a moment of surprise.

Because countless bombs have been detonated.

Chapter 6: Defeat Muzan! The Commission Begins!!

The sudden crash of the pterosaur was unexpected by Nie Chiwu and his companions, especially the four of them who were thrown down from the sky by the pterosaur in an orderly manner.

If it weren't for the fact that hunters were immune to fall damage, they would have probably died once before the crusade.

But the sudden plane crash also stunned several people. Only Naofumi Iwaya instinctively sensed the danger after the fall and raised the shield on his arm.

At this moment, countless explosives have been detonated, and Iwaya Naofumi has no way to protect everyone, so...

Between the Ubuyashiki family and the four of them, Naofumi Iwatani finally reached out his hand to the Ubuyashiki family.

"Spirit shield! Prison shield!"

The next moment the shield was created around the Ubuyashiki couple and the two children, Naofumi Iwatani and the others were swallowed up by the violent explosion.

Nie Chiwu, Kazuma, and Er Qiao were killed almost instantly in the violent explosion. However, because of his strong defensive ability, Naofumi Iwaya was killed by the bomb with most of his body from the chest down, leaving only his right arm with a shield and his head.

Naofumi Iwaya only felt that his body had lost consciousness, and Muzan on the other side was not much better than Naofumi Iwaya. He was blown into a pile of rotten meat and flew backwards.

The thorns mixed in the explosives weakened Muzan's regeneration ability, which was why Nie Chiwu and others were easily torn to pieces by the explosives.

Although Tamayo and Beimingjima Xingmei, who had been hiding nearby using Yushiro's blood demon art, were also surprised by the sudden appearance and abnormal behavior of several people, they had no time to care about them after seeing that they were all torn to pieces by the bomb.

At this moment, Muzan thought that the prison shield released by Naofumi was Ubuyashiki Kazuya's next plan. Just as he was about to attack the prison shield, many meat seeds appeared around him.

Those flesh seeds that contained blood demon magic stretched out their thorns and pierced Muzan, whose attention was diverted, and completely fixed Muzan's body in place.

And Tamayo rushed forward as before, approached Muzan with a blood demon technique that obscured his vision, and stabbed his left hand into Muzan's body with the medicine for Muzan.

But at this moment, Naofumi Iwaya had no time to pay attention to these things. The feeling of his body being blown up was unexpectedly bad, and the most uncomfortable thing was that the numbness was almost gone, and the severe pain was reappearing in his body.

Naofumi Iwaya didn't listen to the conversation between Muzan and Tamayo at all. He just reluctantly took out a bottle of [recovery medicine] from his [backpack] and drank it into his mouth tremblingly.

When Naofumi Iwaya drank the recovery potion, he saw out of the corner of his eye that Gyomei Hieijima, holding a halberd and a heavy axe, rushed towards him like a weeping Acala.

The huge chain hammer destroyed the motionless Muzan's head almost instantly, and at the same time that Muzan recovered his body in an instant, the pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps also arrived on the other side.

And those pillars also saw a scene that shocked them.

On one side was Gyoumei Mikado who was fighting against Muzan, and on the other side, at the location which should have been the center of the lord's mansion, two huge shield balls like prisons were standing there.

Next to the prison shield, a man wearing strange clothes with only his head and right hand left was recovering his body at an extremely fast speed, just like the [Evil Ghost].

The moment the pillars and Tanjiro arrived, Gyomei Kiyomizu pointed in the direction of Muzan and roared, "He is Muzan! He is Muzan Kibutsuji!"

"Even if you behead him, he won't die!"

While Beimingyu Xingming was shouting this, a colorful cat car suddenly flew across the sky when no one noticed it, and three bodies that were being repaired quickly fell into the center of the battlefield in full view of everyone.

"!"

When Nie Chiwu got up, he was stunned by the current situation and felt some hostility. It was obviously because of the four people's strange recovery ability that they were mistaken for ghosts.

"Oh no! We've been mistaken for ghosts!" Nie Chiwu only took a split second to understand the current situation and realize who was protected inside Naofumi Iwaya's prison shield.

"Kazuma! Tamayo! Jotaro! Let's go!"

After Nie Chiwu roared like this, he rushed directly towards Wuzan.

The pillars and Tanjiro also immediately used their respective sword skills, using the offensive moves in their respective sword skills.

Almost everyone rushed towards Muzan, and although the pillars did not understand why Nie Chiwu and Er Qiao, two guys who were suspected to be ghosts, would attack Muzan together with them, they could not care about this at the moment.

But with the sound of a string, the gate of the Infinite City appeared under everyone's feet, and everyone was forcibly sucked into the gate by the Infinite City.

Including the two huge prison shields, they were also sucked into the Infinite City by Mingnu.

At the moment when everyone was falling, Muzan was staring angrily at the figure among those people who made him the most angry.

Tanjiro is wearing the same earrings as Yoriichi!

"You think you've cornered me like this? You're going to hell soon! You annoying ghost hunters!"

Tanjiro fell again due to the sudden change in terrain, but he still shouted with extreme anger as he fell: "It is you who will go to hell! Muzan Kibutsuji! We will never let you go!"

Veins bulged with anger on Muzan Kibutsuji's forehead: "If you can do it! Come and try it! Tanjiro Kamado!!!!!"

At this moment, an arrow came from nowhere and hit Tamayo in front of Muzan.

Tamayo lowered her head and looked at the arrow that pierced her chest from behind with surprise, but the arrow exploded, blowing her entire upper body to pieces, and her head, which was filled with surprise, was thrown out by the impact of the explosion.

"theft!"

Accompanied by a voice in the distance, Tamayo's head disappeared directly in front of Muzan, making the already furious Muzan even more angry.

"I'm going to send all of you, these obstructing ghost hunters, to hell!!!!!"

Muzan's roar exploded in the Infinite Castle, and at this moment, the culprit who shot the arrow - Kazuma, was holding Tamayo's head and screaming as he fell.

“Aa ...

Tamayo looked at the person who was suspected to be a ghost and had just saved her, but she did not feel any ghost aura from the other person.

But she had just seen him and three other people reassemble their bodies like ghosts...

"Who...are you?"

Chapter 7: Conversation on Cooperation with the Demon Slayer Corps

"What happened..."

On the other side, Naofumi Iwaya, who was dragged into the Infinite Castle together with the Prison Shield, looked at the two Prison Shields falling at high speed and knew that he could not abandon the Ubuyashiki family inside.

If my companions were here...

This thought came to Naofumi Iwatani's mind, and he thought of Raphtalia and Filo, as well as Nie Chiwu and others whom he had just met.

But in the blink of an eye, Naofumi Iwaya took action.

"Remove the prison shield!"

Naofumi Iwaya forcibly unlocked the prison shield, revealing Ubuyashiki Kōya, his wife Amane, and their two daughters who were unaware of what had happened.

Except for the blind Ubuyashiki Kōya, the four of them just came out of the shield ball and saw Iwaya Naofumi with a somewhat ferocious expression, using the huge reaction force of the heavy crossbow to move his body closer to everyone in the air.

After gathering the entire Ubuyashiki family together, Iwatani Naofumi once again extended his right hand and activated the power of the Four Sacred Shields: "Prison Shield! Spirit Shield!"

This time, the huge prison shield protected all five people including Naofumi Iwaya, and the spiritual shield appeared under the prison shield, slowing down the impact as much as possible.

"Aura Shield! Aura Shield! Aura Shield! Aura Shield! Aura Shield! Aura Shield! Aura Shield!"

At this moment, Naofumi Iwaya had no time to care about consumption. He grabbed a piece of [barbecue] with his left hand and bit it to replenish his strength, while his right hand was desperately releasing the spiritual shield.

When the prison shield finally stopped and was released, Naofumi Iwaya felt the dual sensations of exhaustion and physical recovery, half-kneeling on the ground to rest.

"Ubuyashiki Kōya... I hope what Granny Cat said is really useful." Naofumi Iwatani did not have time to rest, and directly used the [Plan A for Ubuyashiki Kōya] that he and Nie Chiwu and others obtained after consulting Granny Cat.

At this moment, Ubuyashiki Yoya was dying due to his serious illness and the ordeal he had just endured. His wife Tianyin saw the tall Iwaya Naofumi directly stuff two pills into his mouth, and took out a bottle of green liquid to swallow the pills.

"Discard the fruit and the secret medicine, and come back to life. We still need your help." Naofumi Iwatani said.

Ubuyashiki Kōya, who was already on the verge of death, suddenly felt a surge of strength within his body, and the pain that had tormented him for twenty years was gradually dissipating, and even...

The long-lost light appeared in front of Ubuyashiki Kazuya. Although the Infinite Castle in front of him was gloomy and weird, Ubuyashiki could still clearly see the young man who had just saved him.

"Thank you and your companions." Ubuyashiki had just heard more than one unfamiliar voice within the prison shield: "Who are you..."

"We are hunters," Naofumi Iwatani said after a moment's thought. "We are hunters who come here to protect the natural ecosystem and to defeat the monsters that wantonly destroy nature."