Monster Hunter:Hunter's Notes

Chapter 124 Solidified Lava

Water-cooling bullets are extremely effective against lava dragons, but they will also greatly accelerate the cooling of the lava armor, making this guy's flesh harder.

After hesitating for a moment, Ancier temporarily removed the magazine of the water-cooled bullet and replaced it with a frozen bullet.

As the name suggests, this is a special ammunition that instantly freezes the hit location.

Now Ancier is using it to accurately snipe the mouth of the lava beast, which has quite a good effect. It is obviously very uncomfortable to see it shaking its head in pain and spitting out the ice in its mouth.

Gordon would not miss such a good opportunity. When the lava dragon had no time to pay attention to him, he took two steps forward and began to prepare for a charged attack again.

This time, his timing was very good, and the three-stage charged slash with full power accurately struck the side chest of the lava dragon that was no longer protected by the lava armor.

On the basis of the original wound, the steel claw blade easily tore through the skin and flesh, leaving a huge scar that was deep enough to show the bone.

As long as you go around the parts covered by lava, this guy's flesh seems to be quite soft?

"Gah woo hoo!" The lava dragon, which was hit hard by the ice bullet and suffered severe damage to its head, was furious.

Its movements began to speed up, and the red light in the gaps in the lava armor became brighter again.

Gordon also quickly sheathed his sword and took a few steps back. Faced with a monster whose danger level increased sharply in an angry state, few hunters would choose to be tough.

Sure enough, the lava dragon, which moved faster, responded with a tail flick without warning. If he hadn't distanced himself in advance, he would probably have behaved awkwardly in front of this thick and flat fish tail.

Ancil's support shot followed closely, interrupting the lava dragon's pursuit in time.

This is the biggest benefit of team hunting. Hunters cover each other and safety is greatly increased.

However, perhaps because the charged slash was a bit painful, the lava dragon was really targeting Gordon this time. Even if its steps were temporarily blocked by the continuous ice bullets, it did not give up.

mean.

Just like when he was preparing to lean against the iron mountain before, the muscles all over the lava dragon's body tensed up, and Gordon was immediately on full alert. The opponent was obviously planning some powerful attack.

Recalling the way the lava dragon slid quickly on the ground, Gordon guessed that this guy was preparing to charge up his strength and then glide and sprint over to hurt himself, so he immediately stopped and bent his knees slightly, ready to roll and dodge at any time.

Unfortunately, he guessed wrong.

The lava dragon was indeed accumulating strength and preparing to attack, but it did not slide and collide as he thought, but jumped high like a fish jumping out of the water, and then crashed down.

The people in Gordon were almost dumbfounded.

It’s not surprising that flying dragons can take off with their wings. Why can you, an ichthyosaur whose wings have degenerated into short fins, jump so high?

Complaints are complaints, Gordon immediately took steps and started running as hard as he could.

Faced with this kind of attack that uses his body weight to crush the opponent from the sky, there is no other way to deal with it except running out of range.

Being crushed beneath you by a large monster weighing several tons, no matter how skilled you are, you will still be crushed into a piece of cake.

Ancier in the distance shouted, telling Gordon to run quickly, but that was all he could do. He jumped into the lava dragon and fell freely in the air with the muscle power of his tail and legs, not with a few crossbows.

A bullet can stop it.

Gordon, who was running wildly, didn't even have time to raise his head to confirm the position of the lava dragon. When the huge shadow completely enveloped him, he decisively flew to the side.

Before he could lie down on the ground, the roar of heavy objects hitting the ground rang in his ears, and he could even feel a strong wind pushing him a short distance laterally.

Gordon's choice to dive to the side was undoubtedly the right one.

The lava dragon's body is roughly in the shape of a long strip. If it swooped forward, it would probably be crushed by the chin of this big guy covered in hot water.

Seeing that Gordon had successfully evaded the lava dragon's jumping attack, Ancil couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, cursed and put a new magazine into the crystal rifle, and began to fire wildly in retaliation.

Gordon didn't dare to stay where he was. The lava dragon's big head was less than one meter away from him. If it hadn't been that the guy was also a little dazed after it fell to the ground, he might have bitten it.

He stood up from the ground that was hot enough to boil an egg. Gordon once again thanked the strange bird suit for its heat resistance from the bottom of his heart. He pulled out his sword and stood up before he could.

The lava dragon had a knife on its head.

Now he no longer cares about the client's outrageous requirements for "the appearance of the ornamental fish", and hopes that this guy's self-healing ability is strong enough.

The angry lava dragon got up faster than usual. Gordon only had time to strike with a vertical blow before it jumped up from the ground, shook its head, opened its mouth and bit the hunter in front of it.

Gordon withdrew the blasting knife and moved it horizontally in front of him, firmly blocking the lava dragon's bite.

Ancier took the opportunity to continuously fire water-cooled bullets and ice-condensed bullets, continuously accumulating damage.

As the water-cooled bombs and ice-frozen bombs fell on the lava dragon one after another, the thick lava armor was almost completely extinguished, and the body that was originally deep red and almost golden red gradually cooled to a dim dark gray.

Gordon had completely given up on using his sword and switched to passive defense.

The lava armor in the condensed state can no longer be called lava armor. It is more suitable to be called granite armor. The feel of cutting it with a knife is no different from cutting the ground.

However, the solidification of lava armor is not only beneficial to the lava dragon.

While its defense power was greatly improved, its movements also became sluggish. Gordon even noticed that the lava dragon's body was trembling slightly, as if it was frozen.

The surrounding temperature of more than 50 degrees cannot be described as "cold" in the eyes of humans, but for a lava dragon accustomed to swimming in magma at thousands of degrees, the cold is indeed unbearable.

The lava armor is its thermal insulation coat. Now that it has cooled down, it is time for it to return to the lava lake to warm itself up.

Swinging its tail and forcing back Gordon who was constantly harassing it, the lava dragon ignored Ancil who kept shooting at it, took heavy steps and headed straight towards the lava lake.

Gordon and Ancil wanted to stop it, but they couldn't. They couldn't move, and they would be trampled over if they stood in front of it. They had no choice but to watch the lava dragon jump into the magma and roll around in circles.

They all look happy.

"Meow!"

Pork Chop, which had been waiting for a long time, suddenly jumped out. It was about to throw a sonic bomb to force the lava dragon out of the magma, but Ancil shouted to stop it.

"Wait for the pork chop! Throw it out in half a minute!"

"Meow?" Pig Chop turned around in confusion, but still stopped moving his paws.

Gordon immediately understood Ancil's intention. Since the solidified lava armor couldn't be hit, it was better to wait for it to "take a bath" and soften the lava armor before blasting it out.

The knife was sharpened, the bullet was reloaded, and the bath was bathed. The scene seemed very harmonious for a time.

More than half a minute passed, and just when Gordon put away the whetstone and was about to tell Pork Chop that it was time to use sonic bombs, he did not expect that the latter would attack in advance.

A head somewhat resembling an eel poked out of the magma, opened its mouth wide, and several magma balls the size of millstones spurted out, rolling towards Gordon and the others on the shore.

(End of chapter)