Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

Things like motion sickness and seasickness usually get better as soon as you get off the vehicle. This is the case with Anshir, and he completely returned to normal after a short rest.

In order to prove that he was safe, he deliberately set up a heavy crossbow and fired a few shots at a certain protrusion on the distant rock wall. He hit it accurately without even using a scope, and the spread of the bullet points was not even as big as a plate.

Gordon admired this shooting level. Compared with familiar shooters, perhaps only Mr. Miles could hold him down.

Anshir's weapon is called "Ore Crystal Nova". As its name suggests, it is an ore-type heavy crossbow made of light crystals and colored crystals as the main raw materials.

The seemingly slender and gorgeous crossbow body has a heavy texture that does not match its appearance. When fired, the crossbow bullets shot out from the translucent crystal crossbow body are like shooting stars, with impressive power.

Folding and putting away the heavy crossbow, hanging it back behind his back, Anshir glanced at Gordon with a slightly provocative gaze, as if asking, "How about my skills?".

Gordon gave a thumbs up very face-saving.

Now that Anshir was fine, the two began to make the final preparations before departure.

Since the purpose of this trip was not to hunt monsters, Gordon did not bring too many hunting props. Except for a few bottles of recovery medicine just in case, he also filled up cold drinks, and almost nothing else.

Reducing the load is also to bring back more ore and materials.

Anshir is similar. Most of the archers carry all kinds of crossbow arrows and corresponding blending materials when hunting. However, the ammunition he carried this time is not too much, and it seems that he is planning to spare it. Bag, bring something back.

"By the way, what did you come to the volcano to collect this time?" Gordon asked as he put the carefully sharpened giant shears back on his back.

Anshir straightened the folds of the hem of his clothes, "Didn't I say that I'm here to collect ammunition materials."

Gordon looked at him speechlessly, "Don't come here, I've never heard of anyone traveling so far to collect ammunition materials, the cost along the way is enough for you to buy a bunch of finished ammunition."

"I prefer to use handmade crossbow shells."

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Gordon pouted, since Anshir didn't want to say more, there was no need to ask.

"Let's split up later, or what?" Gordon came to the gate of the camp and pointed to the map in his hand. "I plan to go to a mine in the northwest to try my luck first."

Anshir hesitated for two seconds, and said, "Let's go together then."

Gordon smiled secretly when he heard this.

If Anshir really came to collect materials for crossbow bombs, then he should go to places where the materials are concentrated, such as looking for groups of red velociraptors to obtain "fangs", or looking for bursting fruits.

If he has a clear goal, such as searching for a special treasure, he will not accept the exploration mission with him, let alone be willing to act together.

Looking at it now, there is a high probability that this guy doesn't know what he wants to do, the young master who just ran out to relax?

What a mysterious guy.

Leaving the hunter camp, Gordon and Anshir walked through the underground caves one after the other.

The terrain around here is very complicated, consisting of countless large and small caves and tunnels connected in series, most of the areas are even deep underground, and if you are not careful, you will lose your way.

Fortunately, he brought a map, Gordon was glad.

If there are some similarities between the Metabe dense forest and the Shretsen Hill, the natural environment of Latio Volcano is really different.

The pungent sulfur smell diffused around, the sky covered by volcanic ash was gloomy, the sun could not be seen, and the scorching air made breathing even more torture.

When Gordon and Anshir followed the markings on the map and came to the huge underground cave, they finally couldn't help it.

Red-red lava waterfalls flow down from the rock walls and converge into lakes, occupying most of the cave.

The radiated heat wave has already caused a burning sensation on the skin, and if it stays for a long time, it may even cause low-temperature burns.

"Huh, let's have a cold drink?" Gordon took a deep breath and suggested.

An Xier took out a towel from nowhere, wiped the sweat from his forehead, nodded and said: "Well, if this continues, you will suffer from heat stroke."

Gordon took out a bottle of frosty white potion from his luggage, and poured it with his neck up. The cold potion slid down the esophagus into the abdomen, and was finally absorbed by the stomach.

A refreshing coolness spreads from the inside out to the whole body.

This alchemy potion made of ice crystals, bitter worms and other materials is not just a bottle of cold drink, it can continuously resist high temperature for hunters and avoid heatstroke for a long time.

Compared with Gordon's heroic gulp, Anshir looked much more elegant, as if it wasn't some medicine, but some kind of fine wine or coffee.

"It's delicious?" Gordon asked in a strange tone as he watched Anshir slowly "taste" the cold drink.

"It's not delicious." Anshir took out another towel, wiped the corner of his mouth, and commented objectively: "It's bitter."

"Why do you feel like you are enjoying yourself?"

"The taste has nothing to do, you have to enjoy the feeling of coolness slowly sliding down your throat."

"Hypocritical!" Gordon scolded with a smile.

Anshir corrected with an authentic expression: "It's calm and elegant."

Pork Chop, who also drank the cold drink, looked at the two helplessly.

Maybe it's because they are real peers? Always feel that when these two people stay together, they will become a little more childish than usual?

Pointing to a black rock wall made of solidified lava, with a faint metallic luster, Gordon took out an iron pickaxe and said, "There may be mines there, let me dig it out?"

Anshir was noncommittal, but took off the ore crystal nova from behind, expressing with actions that he would be in charge of vigilance.

"okay!"

Gordon moved his arms, and excitedly came to the rock wall, selected an area where the metal flashes were most concentrated, and swung the iron pick in his hand vigorously.

"Clang!"

The iron pick hit the rock wall, making a buzzing sound, and some finely broken rocks fell off, but there was no ore.

Gordon was not discouraged, and continued to swing the pickaxe.

As a great swordsman, he was naturally very strong. With the continuous hammering of the pickaxe, a crack was opened on the rock wall. Gordon remained patient and dug deep according to the crack.

A few more minutes passed, and with a crisp "ding", something slightly larger than a fist fell to the ground.

Gordon picked it up, knocked off the gravel attached to the surface, and found that it was a raw metal ore with high grade, and it could be used for equipment forging after a little smelting.

There was a bluish sheen in the silver he had never seen before, and Gordon happily put it away and continued digging.

It took him nearly half an hour to dig all over the rock wall where the magma flowed, and finally found two pieces of metal ore similar to the one before, and a relatively unusual earth crystal.

Seeing that there was no value in continuing to dig here, Gordon put away the pickaxe and went to Anshir's side.

From the latter's mouth, he learned that this silvery green metal ore is the so-called "Pyrenite", a higher-grade metal mineral than larkite.

It is also a necessary material to strengthen the Explosive Knife into an Explosive Knife Kai.