Hunting Cards! Star Dragon

"It's really bad!" Wu Ren said panicked.

Oops, it's not the injuries caused by falling from a height.

As a hunter, ensuring a smooth landing after falling from a high altitude is, in a sense, a compulsory course.

The biggest problem now is that the newly exposed ground was covered with magma at a temperature of thousands of degrees just a second ago.

In other words, the ground temperature is over a thousand degrees.

If you just fall down like this.

Have you ever tried teppanyaki?

The ground is the iron plate, and September and the others are the barbecued meat on the iron plate.

By then, it will be cooked until crispy on the outside and burnt on the inside.

"Li Ke doesn't taste good, meow. Cat meat is sour, meow!"

"Okay, this card is really worth the money!"

On the way down, Jiu Yue took out a regular hexagonal transparent ice block from his backpack.

【Eyes of the Ice Rabbit】

Just now, in order to cool the hot spring steam, September tore off the card and created a piece of pure ice that can reduce the temperature of the surrounding area for several hours.

Because the cards themselves were so expensive, Jiu Yue couldn't bear to throw them away. Even if it only lasted a few hours, she was thrifty and secretly stuffed the ice cubes into her supply backpack.

And now, the duration has not yet passed, and the pure ice still has a good cooling effect.

Jiu Yue threw the ice in his hand from the sky to the ground with all his strength.

The acceleration of falling and the contrast brought by the instantaneous contact with the thousand-degree high temperature shattered the pure ice into slag in an instant.

As the ice shattered, the continuous cooling chill contained in the ice also burst out, quickly cooling the ground.

At the critical moment, a piece of space that was barely enough for people to settle down was created urgently.

September: "This family will fall apart without me."

Boom, boom, boom, boom——!

Four sounds of falling were heard in sequence, and the four people landed safely, finally avoiding the fate of being made into three portions of teppanyaki meat.

"So what is going on?" Wu Ren said.

However, even if he landed smoothly, there was no change in what was happening before his eyes, which completely violated the normal laws of nature.

The large area of ​​magma has now completely turned into a huge lava vortex converging in one place.

In this world, when you feel that the laws of nature are broken, there is most likely only one possibility.

It has been recorded countless times as a "manifestation of natural phenomena and disasters."

Xingjian said: "Finally you show up, Gu Long!"

The boiling magma that gathered eventually condensed into a red dragon whose entire body was made up of lava with a temperature exceeding a thousand degrees.

The massive dragon, nearly a hundred meters long, just standing in front of her frightened Riko so much that her legs went weak and she knelt on the ground.

"Roar--!"

He growled softly, clearly filled with hostility.

No, to call it hostility might be an exaggeration.

To Gu Long, the four humans before him were too small.

So this should be the irritability after being disturbed.

To Xingjian's ears, it sounded like—

"How dare a mortal step into the realm of God?"

A red dragon who calls himself God.

[Lava Prison Dragon Hunting Level LV? ? ?]

Chapter 39: Sacrifice

"How dare a mortal step into the realm of God!"

The red ancient dragon, who calls himself a god, has a huge body made entirely of magma. He raises his head to gather strength, and then lets out a deafening roar, erupting from within and shaking the entire snow-capped mountain.

The existence of the Lava Prison Dragon, an ancient dragon that is itself a "manifestation of natural phenomena and disasters", can explain the reason for the large-scale flow of boiling magma inside the extremely cold snow-capped mountains.

The hot and boiling magma surging inside the snow mountain is the body of the Lava Prison Dragon.

When dormant, it exists in the form of flowing magma. Once it detects an intruder, it will condense into its true form, a giant flaming red dragon over a hundred meters long.

This was more than just a distortion of the laws of nature. The existence of an ancient dragon composed entirely of magma had distorted even the genetic sequences necessary for living things.

Jiu Yue frantically grabbed Xing Jian's wrist and said, "Xing, Xing Jian, can you understand? It seems very angry."

When we, as humans, saw this gigantic ancient dragon that was over a hundred meters long, we already understood the truth very clearly - we absolutely cannot defeat it!

We can only hope that the Big Brother before us will no longer harbor any hostility.

Xingjian said: "It's meaningless even if I can understand it."

Hostility? That kind of thing doesn't exist.

The ancient dragon's behavior rarely changes due to other factors. It depends entirely on its own will and will not communicate with humans.

Just like humans, they will not change their will or become hostile just because of the ants passing by. After all, communicating with them is just a matter of a kick.

It is difficult to find a second ancient dragon like Xingjian in the history of the planet, who would change because of a single human and then shoulder the expectations of more humans.

"So what's going on now, meow?" Riko's fur was standing on end, and the instinct of the half-beast in her blood made her feel an unprecedented threat.

Riko's intuition about getting angry was correct. Although there was no specific "hostility", Xingjian could also feel the will that Gu Long wanted to express.

The ancient dragon who calls himself God defines the interior of the snow mountain as its territory.

God's territory is inviolable, and the scorching flames will burn all living things that set foot here.

This is the rule created by the ancient dragon's will.

"Run!" Xingjian made the judgment.

"Huh?" The three of them snorted in frustration.

How to escape?

Except for the approximately ten-square-meter area created by September using pure ice, the rest of the floor was a thousand-degree high temperature, just like the lava had just receded.

Before the four of them could move, the flames of purgation surged out from the huge body of the Lava Hell Dragon.

Even if the ancient dragon's body did not move, a single flame rising from the surface of its lava body was enough to cause an absolutely fatal blow to other low-level creatures.

Wu Ren didn't hesitate at all and immediately broke the cards in his hand.

Not to use, but to break.

“——【Steel Shield·Black Iron Heart】!”

[Steel Shield·Heart of Black Iron-Special Equipment Card]

[An indestructible steel shield made from 80% of the scales of a Black Steel Dragon.]

[After use, a steel shield with a dragon head engraved on it will be equipped on your arm. The duration is 20 minutes and the cooldown time is 24 hours.]

[Special Mechanic: Break the card and summon a giant shield of the Heart of Black Steel in front of you. After summoning, the card disappears and cannot be reused.]

The shield equipment that comes with Wu Ren's [Black Steel Dragon] armed card, however, is just an ordinary shield and is definitely not enough to block the ancient dragon's attack.

At the cost of sacrificing the entire equipment card, it was enough to protect the four people in the rear, and a huge black dragon shield rose from the ground.

"I don't owe you anything anymore."

Compared to September's [Eyes of the Frozen Snow Rabbit], this [Steel Shield·Heart of Black Iron] is definitely more expensive.

Although it was heartbreaking, Wu Ren also knew that nothing was more important than staying alive at this moment.

The huge black dragon shield that could even block the dragon breath and dragon chariot of the Savage Dragon, when resisting the flames that only sprang out from the surface of the Lava Prison Dragon's body, the reliable steel wall instantly began to melt into liquid.

"I can't hold on!" Wu Ren said.

Even if this attack can be barely blocked, the next attack will definitely be easily broken through.

"So, run!" Xingjian gave instructions again.

"So, how do we escape?" Jiu Yue asked.

Insert the summoned beast card into the Hoshimi Belt.

"meteor--!"

The Kirin appeared with a burst of lightning, and the Abyss got close to Riko's face, scaring the halfling cat girl.

"Take them away, Meteor."

"Huh?" Jiu Yue looked at Xing Jian in disbelief, and then her whole body lost weight. The meteor bit her collar and threw her directly onto his back.

The mythical beast Qilin, which can run on lightning, would not be affected much by a floor that is only a thousand-degree temperature.

First it was September, then Riko, and finally Takehito, all three of them were thrown onto Meteor's back in turn.

Meteor is just an underage Qilin, and can only take away three people at most, which is already the limit.

Jiuyue and Xingjian both judged this from the very beginning.

That's why September's look before being thrown onto the meteor seemed so unbelievable.

"Wait a minute, Xingjian!" Jiuyue asked anxiously, "What are you going to do?"

"I have my own plan! Run, Meteor!"

"Ow—!"

Meteor is connected to Xingjian's soul and its growth depends on the energy of Xingjian's body. Meteor is absolutely obedient to the orders of its master.

The horse stepped on a meteor, and the Qilin carrying the three people ran on the scorching hot ground with sparks and lightning under its feet, heading towards the originally designated exit.

Riko's head was still dizzy.

The moment she was thrown behind Qilin, she was unable to think.

The Qilin is known as the god of beasts, and as a half-orc, it is extremely disrespectful for me to lie on its back.

As for Jiu Yue and Wu Ren, they were both very clear-headed.

Therefore, I also recognize a fact very clearly.

It was Xingjian who stayed there alone, giving the chance to survive to the three people.

"Damn it!" Wu Ren roared unwillingly. Even though he wanted to jump off the meteor and return to Xingjian immediately, the hot floor under his feet kept warning him that jumping down would undoubtedly be a suicidal act.

"Xingjian..." Every time he encountered a crisis, Xingjian would use his terrifying 'body panel' that far exceeded Jiuyue's understanding to turn the situation around.

But this time, it seems different from before.

What exists before you at this moment is the ancient dragon, the ultimate existence standing at the pinnacle of this world.

Even if it was Xingjian, he would not see any chance of survival when confronting the Ancient Dragon while the Armed Card was still on a 24-hour cooldown.

The huge body that was over a hundred meters long moved again. The appearance of Qilin made the Lava Prison Dragon pause for a while, as if it was struggling over which side to clear out.

Obviously, facing the Abyss running at top speed, Ancient Dragon also gave it some face.

The second burst of flames rushed towards Xingjian's position.

Dodging the attack, Xingjian decisively jumped out of the safe position that Jiuyue had cooled down with pure ice, and his feet stepped unprotected on the floor that was over a thousand degrees hot.

The soles of the shoes were burned instantly, and the smooth and delicate soles of the feet and ten white toes were in close contact with the hot floor.

Chapter 40: I Had Hope