Monster Hunter:Hunter's Notes

Chapter 359 Air combat and super charging

Maka couldn't help but sigh when she saw Hayata attacking with a series of air blade slashes and forcing the Thunder Wolf Dragon back.

"Wow, young people today are so fierce!"

Feng Ying curled her lips when she heard this. You don't seem to be much older, right?

Maka waved the insect stick, and the whistle hole at the end of the stick made a soft sound. The hunting insect that had been attacking for a long time flew back to her arm with some fatigue and began to rest.

The battle between Thunder Wolf Dragon and the forward is in full swing. This is a good time for the shortstop to attack.

She drank a bottle of the forcible medicine given by Hayata and the others, took two steps back, and then accelerated her charge. She used the bug stick to leap onto the back of the Thunder Wolf Dragon again, and started an aerial battle.

This kind of mid-air combo, commonly known as "air combat", is also one of the main attack methods of the insect stick user.

When dealing with monsters like the Thunder Wolf Dragon that have high weak points or that like to float at low altitudes, most melee weapons will feel helpless, and the Bug Stick is an exception.

Insect stick wizards can "fly".

A highly skilled insect stick user can even use repeated force to rise with the flying dragon taking off, and then forcefully poke the flying dragon down in mid-air.

This dazzlingly gorgeous and complex method of staying in the air is very difficult to learn, which also makes the insect stick the most difficult to learn among all weapons.

Therefore, hunters using this weapon are relatively rare.

In addition to the advantage of high R&D points, choosing aerial combat also involves huge risks.

The only point of strength for the flying insect stick users is the long stick in their hands. Although most monsters lack the means to deal with attacks from their backs, once they encounter them, the risk will be great.

The reason why Maka is willing to take risks again and again is partly due to his aggressive personal fighting style.

The more important reason is that during her first back-mounted air combat, she discovered that there were a large number of lightning bugs hidden in the carapace and hair on the back of the Thunder Wolf Dragon.

If the fire dragon stick's flames hadn't startled these guys out, it would have been difficult to detect their presence from the outside.

Hayata and Feng Ying had communicated information about the Thunder Wolf Dragon with her, and she naturally also knew the importance of the existence of the Thunder Light Bug to the Thunder Wolf Dragon.

If we can eliminate as many lightning bugs as possible now, it may be very beneficial for the subsequent hunting.

Every time Maka waved the insect stick, several lightning bugs would be scorched by the flames or frightened away. After the lightning burst symbolizing death, the insect corpses fell down with a crackle.

Thunder Wolf Dragon, who was fighting with Hayata, quickly noticed something unusual on its back.

It immediately became frantic.

For Thunder Wolf Dragon, protecting thunder bugs can be said to be an instinct that goes deep into the bone marrow.

To this end, they have even specially evolved charged hair that can attract lightning bugs, and a hollow carapace that the lightning bugs can burrow into.

Just to make the lightning bugs more willing to live on them and provide them with electric energy as powerful as thunder.

It is mentioned in the information provided by Yanhuo Village that the weak attributes of Thunder Wolf Dragon are ice, water and fire.

In fact, the Thunder Wolf Dragon itself is not afraid of these. It is the thunder bugs that are afraid of these. In order to ensure the survival of the latter, the Thunder Wolf Dragon habitually hates water, fire and low temperature.

Maka's attack against the thunder bug completely angered the thunder wolf dragon.

Its muscles tightened again, but its movements were completely different from when it was preparing to lean against the iron mountain.

Feng Ying remembered this action. The last time she encountered the Thunder Wolf Dragon, she was knocked unconscious by this attack.

"Get out of the way!"

Feng Ying screamed, picked up Xiang Lan who was still swinging her sword and retreated together.

Hayata immediately stopped attacking and retreated.

Maka on the back of the Thunder Wolf Dragon was not as greedy as before. When he was reminded, he used the insect stick to borrow strength and somersaulted back.

At the same time, Thunder Wolf Dragon used one of its front paws as its axis on the ground, whirling and leaping, like a blue whirlwind that knocked everything around it away.

Maka's retreat was not too late, but relying solely on the push from the insect stick, the speed of the backward jump was not really fast.

She only had time to hold the insect stick in front of her before it was whipped away by the Thunder Wolf Dragon's long tail.

The Thunder Wolf Dragon was about to give chase, but Hayata rushed up and intercepted it.

"Go help!" Feng Ying threw the pandan in her hand towards where Maka fell.

"Meow meow meow?!"

Pandan, who screamed and fell to the ground, wanted to protest loudly, but now was not the time to argue, so she had to quickly run to Maka to help the latter deal with the injury. Babaka also ran over in a hurry.

"I'm fine!"

Maka exerted force on her waist and abdomen, and jumped up from the ground. As a result, her feet gave way before she could stand firmly, and she fell back down.

"Okay, I'm a little dizzy."

Pandan first sprinkled two handfuls of life dust out of habit.

Although there were no obvious external injuries on Maka's body, inhaling the life dust can also have a certain effect.

"Okay, okay, Sneezy, that's enough!" Maka was not very used to things like life dust, so she sneezed, quickly poured a bottle of recovery medicine into her mouth, and stood up with the insect stick.

"I'm really fine!" She shouted again to reassure Hayata and the others.

Perhaps it was because Maka's aerial combat attack killed a large number of lightning bugs, or perhaps because he failed to successfully suppress the latter in the battle with Hayata, the Thunder Wolf Dragon seemed very irritable.

Its top corner forced back the Tachiji who was entangled with it in the front. Its limbs exerted force suddenly, and its huge body jumped back forty or fifty meters as if it was equipped with springs.

"Ouch——!"

The Thunder Wolf Dragon looked up to the sky and roared, and the lightning bugs hidden among the grass and leaves in the surrounding trees gathered around it. Blue-white lightning wrapped around its body and made a rumbling explosion.

"Interrupt it! It's charging!" Feng Ying shouted, while she put away her sword and shield as quickly as possible and threw a flash bomb.

Hayata and Maka also rushed forward at full speed.

However, whether it was the flash bomb or the hunters who tried to charge and approach, it was still a step too late.

The flash bomb was engulfed by lightning before it could detonate.

The hair on the Thunder Wolf Dragon's body stood upright like steel needles, and the overlapping golden carapace also opened layer by layer, and a rich electric light shone in it, which was countless lightning bugs.

The Thunder Wolf Dragon, which entered a super-charged state, walked slowly and looked down at the hunters from a high position.

Hayata and Maka stopped suddenly, their eyes carefully fixed on the thunder-wrapped giant beast in front of them.

"Be careful, it's super fast in this state!" Feng Ying reminded loudly in the distance.

As if to prove Feng Ying's evaluation, the Thunder Wolf Dragon, which was strolling leisurely in the garden a second ago, suddenly burst out at an astonishing high speed.

In the afterimage left by the scorching lightning, the Thunder Wolf Dragon, which looked like a real thunder in its super-charged state, jumped to the side of the Tachi user and the insect stick user.

Hayata and Maka turned around quickly, trying to lock their eyes with their opponents again.

However, the Thunder Wolf Dragon, which had not stopped at all after landing, had already rushed towards the two of them.

At this time, the muscles are always faster than the brain.

Hayata and Maka didn't have time to think too much, and flew out to both sides at the same time, narrowly avoiding this shocking roundabout collision.

The Thunder Wolf Dragon's attack did not end here.

Just when it scratched the ground with its sharp claws, stopped and turned around, and was about to charge again, another flash bomb flew towards it.

The one who threw the flash bomb was Babaka, the little odd-faced tribe who was chasing after his master.

With an angry roar, the Thunder Wolf Dragon shook its head vigorously.

Its charge was interrupted.

(There will be another chapter tonight

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