Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

Chapter 1223 Ancient Dragon's Dance

"Flame King Dragon?!"

Gordon pulled the sword from the ground, his brows furrowed.

He couldn't understand why the Flame King Dragon suddenly appeared and saved their lives.

The other people had similar expressions. The battle reached a critical moment, the situation took a turn for the worse, and then they escaped death.

At this moment, their emotions were not so much excitement as they were still a little unresponsive.

Maca drank a bottle of recovery medicine with a strange look on his face, "This is really the first time I've been saved by an ancient dragon."

"It's not appropriate to say it rescued him. It's most likely just here to cause trouble for Behemoth." Ansil quickly replaced the magazine for the crossbow. "Don't forget the scars on Behemoth's body and the traces on the way here."

"Too."

"What should we do next? If we want to retreat, now is the best time." After changing the magazine, Ansel looked at Gordon.

Gordon looked at the two beasts fighting each other and said, "Don't worry, this may be our chance."

"You would say that." Ansel snorted and pulled the bolt to load the gun.

"Hurry up and adjust your state, and be ready to attack at any time." Maybe because he was too mentally prepared when he decided to sacrifice himself before, Gordon felt that he was too calm now.

Not to mention fear, even the tension that should be felt when facing two ancient dragon-level creatures disappeared. This was not a good thing.

Hayata, who was standing by, stared at him, took out a whetstone and started sharpening the knife.

That look and the "clang clang" sound of sharpening the knife made his scalp tingle.

Gordon laughed dryly. Well, he still had the necessary emotions.
"Roar!!" The deafening roar interrupted Gordon's inappropriate thoughts.

Behemoth was knocked down by the swooping Fire Dragon and was pinned to the ground and bitten. He found the right opportunity to turn over.

In terms of size and muscle strength alone, Flame King Rex is only half the length of Behemoth, and its weight is probably less than one-tenth of the latter.

Not to mention being evenly matched, the two are not even on the same level.

After being thrown away by Behemoth, Flame Dragon decisively took advantage of the situation to rise into the air, avoiding the dilemma of being caught by the former's claws and completely suppressed by the former's strong body.

Behemoth, who had no wings and could not fly, stared at the Flame Dragon hovering in the sky.

The muscles in its limbs began to tense, and with a roar, it leaped up suddenly and pounced into the air.

However, this Fire Dragon was obviously not the first time to fight Behemoth. The moment Behemoth jumped, it flapped its wings vigorously and rushed higher into the sky.

Behemoth's grab was empty, and under the pull of gravity, its huge body like a mountain inevitably fell back to the ground.

The two sides faced each other in the air for several seconds.

Blue-green energy glowed from Behemoth's chest and eyes, spreading throughout his body in the blink of an eye.

A whirlwind, driven by etheric energy, was rapidly forming, and in a very short period of time, it formed a tornado column nearly 100 meters high.

The Flame Dragon hovering in the air was affected by the wind column, and its flying posture became unstable.

Behemoth stared at it with his eyes glowing blue, while he supported himself on all fours, gathering strength and looking for an opportunity.

Just when the Flame King Dragon was pulled by the tornado column and had to lower its altitude a little, Behemoth once again stepped on the ground and leaped into the air.

Due to the interference of the strong wind and air flow, Flame Dragon had no time to adjust its flying posture and was about to be torn off its wings by Behemoth and dragged back to the ground.

A fuzzy mass of air that was difficult to see with the naked eye came over.

The wind bomb condensed from ultra-high pressure air slammed heavily on Behemoth's side, knocking it back to the ground again.

Every eye was focused on the silvery figure that suddenly descended.

"Steel Dragon." Gordon pulled the corner of his mouth, the situation was completely out of control.

Two ancient dragons, plus a terrifying giant beast that is more powerful and more dangerous than most ancient dragon species gathered together.

This was the first time he had seen this scene.
The steel dragon hovering in the sky let out long roars.

It flapped its wings faster, and the tornado raging in the sky suddenly changed direction, becoming more and more intense as it enveloped the roaring Behemoth.

Looking down at Behemoth trapped by the huge wind column, Flame King Dragon roared and flapped its wings.

Countless burning scales scattered down, dancing with the fierce airflow, and were finally sucked into the whirlwind.

A flaming tornado was formed that reached the sky.

Through the barrier of fire tornado, the huge figure of Behemoth struggling and roaring could be vaguely seen.

"Roar--!"

As if to join in the fun, another huge blue shadow came breaking through the wind.

That was a Flame Queen Dragon.

Compared to the Flame King Dragon and Steel Dragon that appeared earlier, its condition was not very good. Several huge claw marks on its body were still bleeding, its tail was broken, and the crown-like curved horns on its head also showed signs of being broken.

There seems to be no need to guess who the culprit is.

Unlike the Flame King Dragon's dark blue scales that flew down and were sucked into the tornado column along with the orange-red scales, the fire tornado grew stronger under the continuous urging of the three-headed ancient dragon.

The hunters, who had already sensed something was wrong, fled madly into the distance.

The two-color fire tornado behind them was a rare and bizarre sight that had only been seen once in millions of years, but no one had the heart to appreciate this deadly beauty.

While escaping, the group came across a passage leading to an underground cave. Without thinking, they dived in.

I don't know how much time has passed, maybe tens of seconds? Or maybe several minutes.

As the two-colored fire tornado that illuminated the night sky flashed and disappeared, the roar that shook the earth and the sky was accompanied by the shock wave, which flattened the nearby mountains and swept across the dragon crystal land.

After hiding in the underground caves for a long time and waiting until the noise of the ancient dragons' activities completely dissipated, the hunters tiptoed back to the ground.

They came to the clearing in the mountains where the battle broke out before.

The ancient dragons have left.

The area where the previous battle took place also disappeared, and in its place was a huge molten pit that was dozens of meters deep and had a severely vitrified ground.

At the bottom of the pit was the charred body of Behemoth.

"This guy should be dead, right?" Maka stretched his neck to look around for a while, muttering softly.

Gordon shrugged. "I don't know. Let's wait until the temperature in the pit drops a bit and then we'll go down and take a look. We have to confirm Behemoth's death."

"And my gun! And materials! Even though most of them are burnt, there should be something useful to be found in such a large corpse, right?"

“Kababa!!”

The hunters waited by the pit until dawn, and only when the glassy floor of the pit was no longer red hot did they carefully slide in.

After inspection, they found that although Behemoth's body looked charred, the burns were not serious and he should not have been burned to death.

This made the hunters' hearts tense. They held their weapons and came to Behemoth's head.

Pork Chop went into Behemoth's nostrils and checked for a long time before withdrawing and saying, "No breathing, no pulse, meow. He must be dead. meow.

The burns in the respiratory tract were severe, and he probably died from lack of oxygen and inhalation of large amounts of super-high temperature gas. Of course, there was also the final explosion, which was enough to shatter the brain and internal organs of any creature. "

The hunters heaved a sigh of relief when they heard this.

It's better to be dead, it's better to be dead
If it weren't for the three ancient dragons joining forces, they wouldn't know how to kill this thing completely.

Relieved, Maka happily ran behind Behemoth.

The mysterious spear was still stuck there, but compared to its initial cold and shining appearance, there were obvious signs of damage and melting on the spear body and tip.

Maka was heartbroken.

She had a hunch that with the current level of human forging skills, it would be impossible to repair the spear to perfect condition.

That was a spear that could penetrate Behemoth's skull. Even Gordon's purple-sword with inscriptions couldn't cut into it.
He called for help from others and finally pulled the spear out of Behemoth's head. He waved it between his hands and couldn't help but sigh:

"It feels great, light and sharp, and even if it's damaged, the balance is still top-notch."

At this moment, an illusory creature made of pure light, which looked like a dragon but also had the characteristics of some insects, emerged from the inside of the spear and wrapped around Maka's right wrist.

"Huh? This thing can also hunt insects?!"

Ps.
　This Piercer is not made of Behemoth materials, but is a dragon rider weapon that traveled along with Behemoth. Considering the high-magic world background of FF14, it might be a bit overkill to use it in Monster Hunter, so let's cut it first.

　　As for the Dragon Soul Worm, did the game say where it came from? I forgot - I just remember it was given to me by Winning Sister after I killed Bear Grylls.
　　Anyway, only the bug stick can use it, so just treat it as a built-in weapon.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)