Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

Chapter 1276 You are the vanguard, then what am I?
"No need to fight head-on, use mobile warfare!" Hayata turned her head and said to Ted.

Afterwards, he took the initiative to charge towards the Ice Curse Dragon not far away.

Aiden also ran to another direction, set up a heavy crossbow, and launched fire support.

The fire bombs shot out, exploding one ball of blazing flame after another on the Ice Curse Dragon's body.

Although its firing rate is not as good as that of light crossbows such as the Fire Dragon Cannon that can rapidly fire flaming bullets, the presence of the huge magazine and ammunition belt makes the sustained firepower of this Molten Dragon heavy crossbow more than one level higher.

Ted chuckled.

Even though this alcoholic captain is a typical heavy-armored defender, the most skilled tactic used by their team is actually mobile warfare.

With spear in hand and shield at arms length, the musketeer charged forward, roaring like a wild boar king.

He wants to let the Frost Curse Dragon see what it means to have a big shield growing on your face!
Faced with the two hunters rushing towards it, the Frost Dragon gripped the ground with its limbs to steady its body, then opened its sharp beak and spurted out a stream of extremely cold icy breath.

This exhaling action is relatively "straightforward".

The upper-level hunters, who had faced more ancient dragon-level creatures than they could count on their hands, easily read out the Ice Curse Dragon's moves and avoided them with ease.

At this time, Hayata had already arrived at the side of the Ice Curse Dragon's head and slashed down with a vertical blow.

The sword blade did not give off an obvious feeling of penetrating flesh. The glassy scales covering the Ice Curse Dragon's body were very hard and not so easy to break through.

However, the dragon flame that erupted from the blade of the Flying Dragon Sword [Black Jade] played a very crucial role.

Faced with flames, the Ice Curse Dragon showed obvious disgust. More importantly, those scales formed by the rapid freezing of magma would become brittle due to the high temperature.

Preparing weapons with fire attributes is indeed the right choice!

Hayata, who had a clear idea in his mind, was about to launch a series of slashing attacks, but the Ice Curse Dragon suddenly jumped back, avoiding the subsequent attack, and breathed out another breath at Hayata.

Hayata saw it in time and dodged it.

The extremely cold breath fell on the rocky ground in the distance, leaving a trail of frost.

Alva, who was hiding behind a huge rock near the breath point, stared at the frost on the rock for a few seconds and suddenly said, "You hide here, I'll go take a look!"

"Huh?! Senior Alva!"

Before Aibo could stop him, Alva rushed out.

He ran to the edge of the frost mark, rolled over and grabbed a piece of solid ice, and regardless of the burning pain in his palms, he quickly jumped back.

The whole process took only a few seconds, and it was so smooth that it was astonishing.

Ai Bo glared at him with puffed lips, "If you continue to do this, I will report it to Miss Rania."

Alva didn't care about these things at the moment. He kept turning the piece of ice between his hands. There were already signs of frostbite on the palms of his hands, but he still refused to put it down.

"Interesting, interesting, isn't it just the low temperature?" Alva muttered.

"What did you say?" Ai Bo asked, aroused by curiosity.

Alva did not answer immediately. Instead, he smashed the ice in his hand to the ground, picked up a small piece of broken ice, put it into the sampling container he carried with him, and then explained:

"The breath of the Ice Curse Dragon is not an ordinary low-temperature breath. Do you see the ice? Don't forget that this is a volcano, an extremely dry volcano!

Ice shouldn't appear even at low temperatures! Where does the moisture come from? "

Ai Bo took two seconds to react, then suddenly realized, "You mean, the Ice Curse Dragon's breath contains moisture, similar to the Wind Drifting Dragon?"

"That's right!" Alva said excitedly, "This is an important discovery! It's also good news!
Low temperatures can be produced by organs such as freezing bags, but water cannot be created out of thin air, just like the water breath of a water dragon. If it leaves the water source and comes to land, it will dry up after a few breaths.

The same should be true for the Ice Curse Dragon! In the ice and snow, it may still be able to absorb moisture from the air, but this is a volcano, not its home ground!

In such an environment, its strength will be severely weakened!"

After explaining, Alva poked his head out from behind a large rock and shouted to the hunters, "It is not used to the environment here. Make it spit out its breath! It will soon be dry!"

"learn!"

Hayata responded, and then said to Ted: "Don't rush to attack, keep a distance and maneuver!
Its 'real opponent' has not yet arrived!"

Ted, who was standing in front of the Ice Curse Dragon's head and was about to release the Dragon Cannon, heard this and awkwardly released his finger from the trigger of the Dragon Cannon.

After two consecutive bombardments, tiny projectiles were ejected, creating large sparks on the Ice Curse Dragon's scales.

He also used the recoil to slide backward.

After the bombardment ended, Hayata naturally returned to the attack position near the head of the Ice Curse.

If she acted as the attacker, apart from the more offensive Gordon, few people could attract the monster's attention head-on, and Ted certainly wasn't able to do so.

While he was raising his rifle to reload, Hayata had already grabbed the Ice Curse Dragon's attention.

Under the lion-head-shaped mask, Ted's expression was a little strange.

You took the position of the main forward, so what should I do? An attacker? You can't let me, a musketeer, fight guerrilla warfare, right? ? ?
But it had been agreed before that this temporary team would be led by Hayata.

Disagreement during a battle is a big taboo, so Ted could only give up the front position and run to the side to act as an attacker.

The Gunlancer acts as an attacker and cannot use the Dragon Cannon to avoid overly angering the Frost Dragon.

Then I can only use the special skills of the gunners.

Isn't it just grinding?
Hayata attacked from the front to contain the attack, Ted blocked it from the side, and Aiden continued to fire from the other side, using fire bombs to drain the Ice Curse Dragon's strength.

This ancient dragon was actually suppressed by them.

But the top hunters still didn't dare to let their guard down. It was obvious that the Frost Dragon had not yet used its full strength.

At least before rushing into the lava lake, the posture of being covered with ice armor had not yet been revealed.

So the hunters also have reservations.

Aiden controlled the frequency of firing, Hayata did not activate courage, and Ted also saved the hot cans and alloy spikes, and did not use "more powerful" moves such as the Dragon Strike Cannon, Dragon Hang Cannon, and full-bullet launch.

During the fight, the Ice Curse Dragon seemed to suddenly realize something, and it suddenly flapped its wings, forcing the hunters to retreat. Then it leaped backwards, keeping a distance of dozens of meters, and looked vigilantly in a certain direction.

Hayata and others were about to give chase, but they felt the ground shaking slightly.

Heavy footsteps accompanied by violent roars came from a distance.

Are you coming?
The hunters looked at each other, put away their weapons without a second thought, and chose to retreat.

As an ancient dragon, the IQ of the Ice Curse Dragon is far beyond that of ordinary monsters.

The rapidly approaching aura made it feel a little fearful, and the sudden retreat of the hunters made it even more uneasy.

Are you afraid that you have been cheated?

With an angry look in the direction where the hunters were retreating, the Ice Curse Dragon spread its wings and prepared to take off.

But the hunters were not going to let it go so easily.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer. Seeing the Ice Curse Dragon flapping its wings and preparing to take off, Hayata threw a flash bomb with force.

The Ice Curse Dragon, which had never encountered such a strong light attack, was caught off guard, had its vision taken away, and lost its balance in panic, falling back to the ground.

At the same time, the huge body of the Explosive Crusher, which seemed to be the embodiment of the concept of "violence" itself, rushed out of the passage and entered everyone's sight.

The dim and fierce eyes naturally locked onto the largest and most conspicuous azure ancient dragon by the lava lake.

“Gah, ah, ah, ah—!!!”

Without any hesitation, the Explosive Dragon pounced forward.

(End of this chapter)