Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1233 1215. ‘Trapping’ the ancient dragon!

The scales and skin of the Flame King Dragon are dark red, but the temperature of its body is so high that the air around it is a little heated and shiny, and shiny scale powder is falling at any time.

This gives people the illusion that it is a leaping fiery red.

Lan En is wearing a fire-proof mist layer brought by [Intense Sweating]. The Flame King Dragon is heavy, but because of the cat claw structure, it passed by him silently.

Its claws did not make much noise, but this body of more than 20 meters long moved on the ground, and it had to shake anyway.

When passing by a person, this vibration will remind the person's body: there is a terrifying big guy next to you.

But Lan En has become accustomed to the giants around him.

Smaug is more than 140 meters long, so what? Not to mention the Molten Mountain Dragon, and the ancient snake king dragon skeleton in the Miasma Valley.

The flames were still raging in the base, and many houses had collapsed because they lost their load-bearing capacity.

Fortunately, there were many open spaces in the base, so Lan En could walk freely.

The flames were burning, and the heat stirred the air to make a whirring explosion sound.

Humans and ancient dragons passed by each other, walking in opposite directions without interfering with each other.

When the Flame King Dragon followed the smell and entered the arena built by the natural cylindrical rock wall.

A loud but not explosive explosion sound came from inside, and spread all the way up along the cylindrical rock wall, releasing rumbling sound waves towards the sky.

That was the sound of gunpowder dust raised by Lan En with the [Alder Seal], which was immediately ignited by the high temperature after the Flame King Dragon entered.

However, because the strict closed environment of the bomb barrel was lost, it did not cause an explosion, but only burned violently.

In the sound of the violent burning of gunpowder, the roar of the Flame King Dragon like a lion was mixed.

This was not the sound of being injured or frightened. On the contrary, it revealed surprise and comfort.

And just after confirming that the Flame King Dragon had completely entered the arena.

"Bang bang!"

Two rounds of ammunition were fired from the light crossbow in Aiden's hand from the periphery of the fire scene.

The ammunition, standardized by the craftsmen in the workshop area of ​​the New World Investigation Team Phase II, passed by Lan En with a tail flame at the tail.

The ammunition pierced through the swaying fire curtain and directly hit the two explosive barrels that he had placed at the side of the arena gate, with only a little corner exposed!

"Boom!!!"

This time it was a real explosion!

There was also a structural fracture of the rock blocks at the arena gate, and the sound of "clicking" falling down.

Aiden, wearing only a shirt under his armor, ran in with his light crossbow on his back.

His face, which had been roasted red, was full of expectation and surprise.

"Did it work? Did it work?"

Deep in the base, the originally rough and solid gate collapsed into the shape planned by the biochemical intelligent brain under the impact of the explosion and the "stress defects" arranged by Lan En in advance.

Large rocks fell and piled up, and the air they displaced formed wind, which wrapped fine sand and dust and temporarily blew away the surrounding flames.

The whole gate was completely shattered and piled in its original position without collapsing outward.

And from the arena that was already blocked by large pieces of rubble, a heavy crash to the ground was heard at this time.

Then there was a roar like a lion, but the momentum and volume were completely incomparable.

This time, the roar was filled with pain and anger.

The roar trembled from the cylindrical rock wall and echoed far away in the entire valley.

A group of people who were retreating in the distance looked worriedly in the direction of the burning base after hearing the sound.

Inside the base, Aiden looked at Lan En, who was also smiling excitedly, a little confused, "What did you do in there?"

"What can I do?" Lan En smiled, "It must be the rockfall trap above. The rope net with stones couldn't withstand the high temperature of the Flame King Dragon and fell down."

"I just adjusted the position of the rockfall trap towards the place where the gunpowder powder was floating. I didn't expect it to hit it."

"Ah?" Aiden was even more confused, "Will it run away after feeling pain? We want to confine it here!"

Yes, confine it here. In other words: trap the ancient dragon!

This is something that no one has done or even thought of in this world so far.

The ancient dragon is at the top of the ecological chain and is a god-like life.

Even if it is to repel the ancient dragon, only the top hunters are qualified to form a team to accept the task, and the success rate is not high.

So hunters like Winder who are out of the standard can deal with various ancient dragons alone and repeatedly.

Only then will he become the ace of the Hunter Guild's aces, and let the entire Fifth Group Fleet wait for him at the port of the Old Continent for a week.

But even so, so far, the only record of an ancient dragon being killed by humans is the Tianhui Dragon.

There is no need to talk about capturing it.

And now, the two hunters want to trap the Flame King Dragon in this arena!

"I think its obsession with gunpowder will not make it care too much about being hit by hundreds of tons of stone."

Lan En said so, and used the Alder Seal to suppress the flames spreading around.

Because the Flame King Dragon was isolated in the arena, its remaining heat began to gradually decrease.

"Why don't we go and take a look?"

Aiden suggested, scratching his short mohawk.

Lan En agreed of course.

Although the two were braving the heat wave, they still ran to the gate of the collapsing arena with great interest and expectation.

These large pieces of rubble were almost compacted by gravity when they fell down, and only at the bottom, there was a gap between the large pieces of rubble and the rocky ground of the valley, which was large enough for humans to crawl into.

Aiden wiped his face and was about to move forward to look inside.

But then, Lan En grabbed him and took several steps to the side.

Just as he walked to the direction facing the gap. "Boom!!!"

The hot flames were like a sticky stream of water, violently overflowing from the gap.

The rocks were also burned red and shiny under the flames, almost losing their solid form.

The flames only sprayed for a few seconds!

But after seeing the flames, Aiden and Lan En raised their eyebrows instead.

"Did you hear the flapping of wings?"

"No, did you hear it?"

"No! It's done!"

The two men bumped their fists together and smiled happily.

It is undoubtedly very difficult, even impossible, to capture the ancient dragon alive.

Not to mention that the Flame King Dragon has wings, and the cylindrical mountain wall of the arena has no ceiling. If it wants, it can just flap its wings and go out.

But Lan En dared to be the "Idea King" and put forward this idea to Aiden because he thought that the Flame King Dragon might not want to run under this circumstance.

After all, there is indeed a lot of gunpowder that it likes to inhale and eat.

It is a bit difficult to break open the door and burn the rocks blocking the door into lava, and it is also a bit difficult to fly up, but if you stay still, you will have a lot of gunpowder to eat.

Yes, Lan En and Aiden are not able to trap the Flame King Dragon here and prevent it from leaving.

But they can create some obstacles for the Flame King Dragon to leave, and then create some of its favorite nostalgia, so that it doesn't want to leave.

In any case, as long as it stays in a fixed area for a period of time, isn't it equivalent to "trapping" it?

"We are so awesome!" The enthusiastic and cheerful members of the fifth group raised their hands and cheered, "This is trapping the ancient dragon! Let's report to Xingchen quickly!"

"Whether it is this Flame King Dragon or its preference for gunpowder, this is a great discovery in ecological research!"

The angry roar of the Flame King Dragon in the arena, which was hit by the rockfall trap, gradually faded.

After all, that little damage didn't seem to matter to it, and it might not have hit it accurately at all, just scratching the skin.

Then came the comfortable "snoring" sound of the cat.

Obviously, the pleasure brought by the gunpowder powder in the arena is much stronger than the irritation caused by the rockfall trap.

The latter made the Flame King Dragon roar and spit fire and it was over.

Is gunpowder something like catnip to it?

Lan En was still very research-minded and prepared to stay and listen to the noise for a while. After all, he had studied in the Ecological Research Institute of the Investigation Team for a period of time.

But Aiden still couldn't stand the heat of the flames.

He dragged Lan En out.

"Hey, don't get excited now, hurry back to Xingchen to report!"

When they walked out of the burning base again, the base was almost completely burned down.

But both Aiden and Lan En knew.

Compared to the two of them using the environment of the arena to temporarily "trap a Flame King Dragon", it was a complete profit to build the entire base!

If it were in other worlds, the leaders of the investigation team might care about material loss, division of responsibilities and powers, etc.

But in the New World Investigation Team, there was no loss of personnel this time, only some materials were lost to figure out a certain ecological habit of an ancient dragon.

And it was also "trapped".

Everyone will be really happy about it.

The commander-in-chief, who looks tough but actually has a good temper, would be considered serious if he didn't laugh on the spot this time.

Aiden and Lan En were like friends who had completed a certain "idea". Although they were tired and hot, they still talked and laughed as they chased Tishaya and the others who had retreated to the distance earlier.

"By the way," Aiden wiped his sweat and suddenly asked a little puzzled, "Why is the Flame King Dragon so obsessed with gunpowder? Although the combustible rocks in the wild are not pure, they can still burn."

"Maybe it's because of different tastes?" Lan En guessed irresponsibly.

"The Yangyan Dragon is carnivorous. The gunpowder formula of the investigation team uses a lot of gunpowder grass and scales of the exploding dragon fish and exploding goldfish, right?"

"It doesn't have these in its usual diet."

"It's indeed a reasonable guess." Aiden nodded at Lan En's novel statement, "You can talk about this idea with the director of the Ecological Research Institute."