Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 388 The Big Black Hedgehog Takes the Blame Again

The hunter team, who had been confident of their hunting mission, suddenly went wild. After all, the figure that appeared in the distant sky was so iconic.

On the first day of their fourth group's arrival in the New World, a special scholar brought a detailed portrait of Him and told them about His appearance one by one, and emphasized how dangerous He was.

To become an elite hunter, if one is not a rare genius, recognizing the situation and making accurate judgments are almost essential skills, and are also the key to their survival in difficult hunting missions.

"Prepare the smoke bombs!"

They did not have the impulse of young hunters who wanted to go up and give it a try when they saw the ancient dragon. Instead, they gave up decisively without any hesitation, as the strange earth-transforming sand dragon was in a bad state because it was hit by the explosive barrel of the trap set in advance.

Before the Nergigante landed, it threw out two smoke bombs that were enough to cover up their scent and quickly evacuated in another direction.

The hunter's figure disappeared from the field of vision. The strange earth-transforming sand dragon could not stop its violent emotions, which were catalyzed by the parasitic gnawing insects. It roared and kept crashing around in the smoke.

At this time, the Nergigante, whose body was covered with thorns, fell from the sky with the momentum of a comet hitting the earth, and directly crashed into the strange Earth Dragon. The seemingly thick sand armor shattered into pieces under the full force of the Nergigante. The flying thorns penetrated deep into the body of the Earth Dragon, pierced through multiple organs and then came out of the body, firmly embedded in the earth.

The strange earth-transforming sand dragon, which had been extremely frenzied, became motionless almost instantly.

The smoke dissipated under the impact of the Nergigante, and the hunter team had already hidden their bodies behind a distant earth slope. Through the gaps in the cactus bushes, they carefully looked at the Nergigante that was pulling its front limbs out of the collapsed back of the strange Earth Dragon.

At the moment of the death of the Sand Dragon, those scarlet insects kept flying out from the gaps in the Sand Dragon's shell. They were attracted by the Fatalis and hung on its body.

"turn out to be."

The young crossbowman had just uttered a sound when the captain covered his mouth.

The captain gave him a sharp look, and only let go of his hand after making sure that the boy understood what he meant.

Then we saw that the originally plump bodies of the scarlet insects quickly shriveled up after coming into contact with the Nergigante. After most of the insects died, the Nergigante's regenerated shell grew thorns again, which trapped the few remaining gnawing insects that had luckily survived. Then, after letting out a wanton and comfortable roar, it raised a strong wind and rose into the air, flying towards the depths of the swamp.

Only then did the hunters breathe a sigh of relief.

“I never expected that the monster mutation in the Great Ant Mound Wasteland was actually caused by Nergigante! Those insects that can spread the plague actually have such a deep relationship with Nergigante.”

"Yes, a hunter in the base said that he saw a monster that looked like a Nergigante severely injuring a female Rathalos, and then throwing red bugs at the female Rathalos. But it was dark at the time, so he was not sure whether it was a Nergigante. Now there is no need to guess, it must be this one!"

The team members started discussing quickly, and the captain took out a telescope, and after making sure that the Nergigante had completely left, he quickly stood up.

"Quick, collect all the corpses of those insects. What we saw today must be brought back to the Star Base as quickly as possible!!" As soon as the captain finished speaking, the team members reacted quickly, put away their weapons, and quickly ran towards the death base of the Earth Sand Dragon in a common alert formation.

On the other side, Nergigante came to his temporary lair in the swamp.

The bones of many large monsters were piled up here. In addition, there was a dying male sea beast lying there with a horrific puncture wound on its face.

The Nergigantes threw the gnawing insects that were stuck in the thorns and also had only one breath left, but had become more tenacious due to multiple mutations, onto the sea beast. After watching the gnawing insects open their ferocious mouths and bite the sea beast's body amid the sea beast's painful wails instead of continuing to seek death by attaching themselves to it, a trace of scarlet flashed across his eyes, and he went into the depths of a cave nearby with satisfaction.

To be honest, compared to the Silver Dragon, the Nergigante is like a scumbag. His attitude towards gnawing insects is to use them and then discard them. He has no idea of ​​symbiosis at all.

These 'Apostles of the Abyss' were unable to gain any advantage against Nergigante, a villain who was also designed based on the devil.

Of course, not gaining any advantage is one thing, but being able to have an impact on Nergigante is another.

"The apostle from the abyss, over the passage of time, has subtly corroded the knight's armor and tarnished the knight's noble spirit, eventually turning the silver-white knight into a scarlet evil spirit, corrupting him in this ominous power."

Even a ruthless character like the Original Silver Dragon, which was able to rival the unleashed Nether Dragon and chase it all the way, could not completely resist the erosion of the gnawing insects. Even though the Fatalis had been absorbing the life energy of the gnawing insects all along, the special insect poison accumulated little by little and still broke through the ancient dragon's mental defenses.

Among the ancient dragons, the already manic Nergigante was unknowingly led to the violence within, and was showing signs of losing control.

In the current situation, it seems that the Nergigante has taken the initiative, but as long as he cannot let go of the 'life energy' extracted and refined by the gnawing insects, and cannot give up this way of obtaining energy without having to chase the ancient dragons, sooner or later, he will be like the knight, being induced little by little, and finally actively degenerate, and start a symbiosis with the gnawing insects.

“What! You really saw it!!”

At the conference table, the Grand Commander looked at the returning hunter team in disbelief.

Some time ago, gnawing insects were rampant in the Big Ant Mound Wasteland. Although scholars have conducted emergency research and determined that gnawing insects will become exhausted and lose a lot of vitality after forcibly parasitizing monsters.

Therefore, they judged that under such a survival mode, neither gnawing insects nor monsters would be able to survive in the end, and would not cause a rapid collapse of the ecology.

And in an environment like the New World where monsters are very active, things will definitely get back on track as time goes by.

The conclusions reached by the scholars did not satisfy the senior members of the investigation team, especially the head of the third phase of the team, who was also a scholar. She believed that the investigation team's existence was not just to investigate Gulongdu and ignore the ecology of the New World.

Hunters exist not only to protect human civilization, but also to maintain the ecology. Therefore, even if there is only a slight possibility of ecological collapse, they cannot pretend not to see it and let it develop freely! !
(End of this chapter)