Monster Hunter: This Fire Dragon has characteristics

Chapter 46 The Reason for the Split of Thunder Wolf Dragon
Ever since that day when the somewhat special Thunder Wolf Dragon was discovered to have left the ancient tree area, the number of Thunder Wolf Dragons in the ancient tree area has dropped sharply, and the vast territory that it had previously occupied can no longer be completely controlled.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the monsters whose living space had been squeezed rushed into the ancient tree area. Due to the absolute gap in numbers, even though the Thunder Wolf Dragons still maintained group activities, they were beaten back step by step and their activity territory was rapidly shrinking.

Various large carnivorous dragons died every day. The ecology of the ancient tree area, which was on the verge of collapse because of the Xialong, was recovering very quickly due to the fight between these large numbers of carnivorous dragons.

The mass death of carnivorous dinosaurs provided small carnivorous or omnivorous creatures with sufficient food, and they no longer needed to hunt the few small environmental creatures.

The decrease in the number of carnivorous dinosaurs has given the herbivorous dinosaurs in many hunting grounds enough space and time to breed. In this relatively safe environment, the number of herbivorous dinosaurs is growing at an extremely fast rate.

As the number of herbivorous dragons increases, their activity range will naturally expand. Things like fruit cores and seeds that are not digested by the herbivorous dragons will fall to other places with their feces. In an environment with sufficient nutrition and suitable temperature, the seeds will quickly break out of their shells, take root in the earth, and fill the gaps in the forest.

The current environment really makes Luo Yun very satisfied.

The fight was fierce in the lower layers of the ancient tree, but both sides had a tacit understanding and did not come to the upper layer to cause trouble.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that there was nothing in the upper layers of trees in ancient times, which were only suitable for flying creatures to survive.

As time went on, more and more ancient tree natives returned, and the dwindling population of Thunder Wolf Dragons had a harder and harder time.

But it was at this critical moment that Luo Yun finally met the leader of the Thunder Wolf Dragon who had never appeared before.

When first seen, this leader of thunder wolf dragons was hunting in a nearby hunting ground. Its size was not much bigger than that of an ordinary thunder wolf dragon. The only difference was that the lightning it caused was accompanied by a hint of golden light.

There are signs of cracks on the carapace and scales all over its body, and the pair of wolf-like horns on its head are much larger than those of ordinary thunder wolf dragons. However, upon closer inspection, the horns are not very sharp, and the overall appearance is a bit gray.

Judging from its appearance alone, it is definitely a warrior who has experienced many battles, and those broken scales and shell are traces of its glory.

But Luo Yun understood that the body of this Thunder Wolf Dragon was already in great danger.

This is not what a leader of a Thunder Wolf Dragon tribe should look like.

Broken scales can fall off and be replaced, and damaged shells can be ground off and regrow. There are only two possibilities for the appearance to be like this.

The first is excessive lack of nutrition. Due to the lack of food, the body needs to retain enough physical strength to prioritize its own combat capability. Therefore, the scales will only be replaced when they are damaged to a certain extent and affect the body's defense capabilities.

This is most obvious in female fire dragons who live alone in the Great Anthill Wasteland and raise their babies. These female dragons will often replace their scales after their young are able to survive on their own, or before they need to go to the Ancient Tree Forest to find their own male fire dragons.

Secondly, because of years of fighting and too many injuries, his stored energy is no longer proportional to his consumption. His energy is no longer in proportion to his expenditure, and he can only rely on external forces to seek a chance of recovery.

Obviously, this is the situation of the Thunder Wolf Dragon leader at the moment.

The Thunder Wolf Dragon tribe did not split up, but let the young Thunder Wolf Dragon, which had the potential to become the King of Thunder Wolf Dragon, take away some ordinary Thunder Wolf Dragons and cubs as seeds of the tribe and return to their original territory. This was also the reason why the Thunder Wolf Dragon did not allow other Thunder Wolf Dragons to conflict with Luo Yun and Ya Ji, because they were not sure that Luo Yun and Ya Ji would stay.

There is no such thing as a fight between monsters. They all have small minds.

Luo Yun and Yaji were completely enraged by the two gnawed corpses of the herbivorous dragons. What if they were targeting and attacking the cubs during the migration of the group of thunder wolf dragons with their cubs?
Therefore, the Thunder Wolf Dragon chose to avoid and leave the hunting ground on its own initiative.

After arranging for some of the Thunder Wolf Dragons to leave, the Thunder Wolf Dragon leader himself took the remaining Thunder Wolf Dragons to stay in the ancient tree area, wanting to use the life energy of the earth vein nodes here to make a big gamble.

If the bet is won, its injuries will be healed and its strength will be further improved.

If the bet is lost, not only will it die, but the Thunder Wolf Dragons without their leader will become a mess.

The ecological niche of a lone Thunder Wolf Dragon is similar to that of a Barbarian Jaw Dragon. Without a leader, the Thunder Wolf Dragon tribe will be torn apart by the angry indigenous people of the ancient tree area. The survivors will either find a way to return to their territory on the other side of the Grand Canyon.

Or you can just keep your tail between your legs and become a dragon, adapt to the way of survival in the ancient tree area, and become a member of its ecological chain.

The days passed one by one, and Luo Yun's daily life began to become simple and unpretentious.

In the ancient tree area where the number of carnivorous dragons has been drastically reduced, there is too much food to be eaten.

Every day he either leisurely patrols the sky above the territory, or lies down to absorb the energy of the earth's veins.

Bathed in this environment of rich life energy, Luo Yun's growth rate is rapid. The scales on his body are like those of Yaji. The deep red scales flash with silver in the sunlight, and the proportion of silver is increasing.

In addition to these daily lives, Luo Yun also tried to pull Yaji to ambush and kill the battle-hardened Barbarian Dragon.

However, the sense of smell of this barbarian dragon was too sensitive. Whenever it smelled Yaji's scent, it would run away decisively without caring about Yaji's location.

With its huge body of nearly 20 meters in length and its focus on escaping, coupled with the complex terrain in the lower level of the ancient tree area, several ambushes and assassinations ended in failure.

The closest it came to success was when it finally jumped into a dark river and escaped.

This guy is really hard to kill!

If Yaji wasn't there, it would be willing to fight to the death with Luo Yun who had landed. But Luo Yun's own ability was not enough to kill it head-on in the narrow space below, where his flying ability was greatly restricted, so it was a bit of a stalemate.

However, Luo Yun believed that with his own growth rate, even if this Barbarian Dragon transformed into a Thunder Dragon, he would be able to kill it head-on in the future.

And as Luo Yun grew up, he had a feeling in his heart that this Barbarian Elong would be an opportunity for his transformation. However, at the moment he still couldn't figure out what this opportunity was, and why it had to be this Barbarian Elong?
(End of this chapter)