Monster Hunter:Hunter's Notes

Chapter 123 Water-cooled Sniper

Looking at the lava dragon hanging on the edge of the magma lake, with half of its body exposed, as if it was taking a bath, Ancil made a calm gesture.

He took out a dye bomb and pressed it into the barrel of the crystal rifle.

The effect of this special ammunition is the same as that of dye balls. It can help hunters track monsters through strong smells and pigment traces. The advantage is that it can be fired from a long distance using a ballista to prevent the monster from being found after it escapes.

"Snapped!"

After a soft sound, a large area of ​​brightly colored paint exploded on the lava dragon's back. The lava dragon immediately raised its body alertly and looked around.

Ancier methodically replaced the magazine of the crystal rifle with a water-cooled bullet, activated sniper mode on the spot, and began to attack.

The water-cooled bomb, which was mixed with flowing water grass as the main material, exploded into a cold spray of water on the neck of the lava dragon, and then turned into a stream of white steam and dissipated due to the high temperature.

The lava near the impact point was instantly cooled and turned into pieces of black stone, which fell off.

The lava dragon shuddered. It had long been accustomed to the volcanic environment and hated water, and it hated low temperatures even more. The attack just now made it very uncomfortable.

The water-cooling bomb effect is outstanding!

Ancier continued to fire, and the water-cooled bullets hit various parts of the lava dragon's body accurately and rhythmically, giving it an extremely uncomfortable cold shower.

"Gahwuwuwu!" The lava dragon let out an unpleasant roar.

It finally locked the location of the attacker, Ansir's side.

Shaking away the evaporated water droplets on his body, the lava dragon angrily jumped out of the magma lake, twisted its body against the ground, and swam over.

The extremely high-temperature lava carapace melted the ground a little, and the molten rock ground became the lubricant that assisted its advancement. The speed of this guy sliding on the ground was not slow!

Gordon immediately stepped forward to greet him.

The reason why he didn't take action before was because he was waiting for the lava dragon to come ashore!

When Gordon blocked his way, the lava dragon, which was still lying on the ground swimming and sliding, immediately jumped up. Only then did Gordon have the opportunity to see its full picture.

Its head and neck are streamlined, similar to those of fish, as is its long and flat tail, which facilitates its movement in fluids.

The structure of the body is somewhat similar to that of a flying dragon, except that the parts that should have wide wings are replaced by two short fins. Compared with the pair of legs with webbed claws, it has a sense of underdevelopment and incongruity.

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After walking slowly around Gordon who raised his sword for a few steps, the lava dragon raised its neck and let out a demonstrative roar.

Gordon, who was baptized by the roar at close range, couldn't help but cover his ears. Ancil, who set up a heavy ballista in the distance and sniped, was not bothered by this. The water-cooled bullets hit the lava dragon one after another.

The water-cooled bullets evaporated by the hot lava armor turned into steaming water vapor and spread out, hitting Gordon's face, stuffy and hot.

He felt as if he had been in front of the red-hot stones in a dry steam room and had a large ladle of water poured on him. His whole body was almost half-cooked.

But Gordon didn't complain. It was better to be half-cooked than burnt.

He even felt very lucky. Fortunately, he changed into the strange bird suit before coming to the volcano. If he was still equipped with the original refined ore suit with negative fire resistance, maybe everyone would be gone, right?

Putting aside the messy thoughts in his mind, Gordon quickly approached the lava dragon and drew out the big sword in his hand. He believed that with the "quality" of the opponent's three-star dangerous level, he would not be disabled after just two sword blows.

Seriously injured.

The lava dragon's movements on the ground were not agile, and most of its attention was attracted by Ancil who continued to shoot. The claw blade of the Explosive Blade Kai landed smoothly on its thigh.

There was no flick knife, which meant that the lava dragon's defense was not too difficult. However, the sluggish feeling along the handle was the first he had seen since using the sword.

Looking up, Gordon finally understood the source of this sluggish feeling.

Just like there is mucus on a fish, the thick layer of lava armor wrapped around the lava dragon is its best defense layer.

Under the continuous attack of water-cooled bombs, the lava armor turned into a semi-solidified state and had a viscosity similar to maltose. The claw blade of the explosive knife was quickly stuck after being embedded, making it difficult to penetrate further and truly damage its body.

However, Gordon's powerful and heavy blow still caused the lava dragon to feel some pain. It turned its head and glared at him viciously with its pearly white eyes.

Not only did Gordon not feel panic, he was even a little happy.

He is not the main attacker in this battle. As long as he can firmly grab the attention of the lava dragon and create a comfortable enough output environment for Ancil, it shouldn't be difficult to deal with this guy.

With this thought in mind, Gordon pulled out the explosive knife Kai with force and prepared to cut his leg with the next knife.

However, the lava dragon was not a target. Faced with Gordon's continuous attacks, it launched a counterattack.

The extremely flexible body was slightly bent, and the muscles all over his body were as tense as the pressure rod of a catapult. Gordon, who was halfway through the slash with his blade, immediately interrupted the attack at the risk of spraining his waist, and hurriedly rolled backwards.

"boom!"

The lava dragon aimed at the position where Gordon had just stood and used a powerful iron mountain support. Even though Gordon rolled in time, the former didn't hit anything, but it still made a dull roar.

Gordon stood up and was still frightened. A mid-air collision could make such a noise. Now he was about to be hit for real, and he might be seriously injured in an instant.

Putting away the subtle pride in his heart due to his successful hunting of four-star monsters, Gordon's eyes became cautious again.

"Gordon! Don't attack the cooled parts of the lava armor! The meat will become hard!" Ancil's reminder came at the right time.

After a period of baptism by water-cooling bullets, the lava armor on many parts of the lava dragon's body was nearly extinguished and turned into a dark red and dark gray color.

The magma that cooled to a solid state lost its glue-like viscosity and high temperature, but became harder. Gordon decided to follow Ancil's suggestion and try to bypass these parts.

He stepped closer and tentatively struck the lava dragon's chest with a light overhead slash, an area still emitting high-temperature red light.

The sharp and heavy blade of the Explosive Knife easily cut into the molten lava armor, and a large piece of golden-red magma was blown away by him, revealing the rough dark gray skin underneath.

"Aha!"

Gordon laughed boldly, turned the sword and put it on his shoulder, and began to accumulate power.

Seeing that the lava dragon moved its body and was about to leave the attack range of the blasting knife, he did not hesitate to release the charged slash that had only been saved to a certain stage.

Due to the movement of the lava dragon, this charged strike was not very accurate nor deep, but it still successfully tore a large piece of skin on the lava dragon's chest that was no longer protected by the lava armor.

As a being at the top of the food chain in the nearby area, the lava dragon, which had not felt this kind of pain for a long time, staggered two steps and let out an angry roar.

However, at this moment, an icy bullet exuding frosty white air was accurately shot into its mouth, ending its roar.

Anhil removed his eyes from the scope and snorted coldly:

"shut up."

(End of chapter)