Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 171 On the Importance of Learning Physics Well

When Cheng Tian saw the panel of the amphibious fire dragon, his first reaction was "a bit weak".

This is obviously directly related to the BOSS units he defeated in the previous main storyline, each one more exaggerated and perverted than the other, which caused him to have some cognitive collapse about the values ​​that the BOSS should have.

In terms of health, the amphibious Ragnarok seems to be on the same level as the sun god Kukulkan at first glance, but in terms of size it is at most comparable to Cheng Tian's Red Luffa, about 20 meters long from head to tail. Except for its unexpectedly high spirit and charm, its strength and agility are all inferior to Red Luffa, or even the Red Tyrannosaurus Rex.

But Cheng Tian quickly realized that this amphibious fire dragon seemed to have relatively weak physical attributes, but its strength lay not in running onto land to confront top predators head-on, but in confining its opponents to lava caves and lakes using the terrain advantage to further weaken them and complete the killing and predation.

Don’t be fooled by how powerful the two dragons, Crimson and Deep Red, are on land. Once they fall into the water, their ecological niches with the Fire Dragon will be swapped, and they will turn from hunters to prey.

However, Cheng Tian filled the lava cave with water and sealed it on the spot, which caused it to have inherent damage, forcing it to come to the cold lake water.

Although this is also one of its home turfs, as long as Cheng Tian does not go into the water and does not give it the opportunity to use its water combat skills and death roll, it will not be easy for it to hurt Cheng Tian.

The sunlight from the Sun Fist lasted only a moment, but it caused almost irreversible visual damage to the amphibious Fire Dragon. As it rolled wildly in the water, the glaring white that could not be easily eliminated still remained in its retina. Instinctively, the Fire Dragon tried to eliminate the pain by doing a death roll, but it was just a waste of effort.

But soon, it felt its hard metallurgical scales being attacked.

At this time, Cheng Tian, ​​who was on the shore, had already sat back on the drill tank. He used the hydraulic device to raise the car body and began to shoot at the location where the Canghuoluolong rolled out a lot of foam.

However, the effect is far worse than expected.

On the one hand, the lake water absorbed the impact of the Vulcan machine gun bullets, and on the other hand, the scales of the Cang Fire Dragon had something to say.

[Metallurgical Scales: Passive Skill. Through its deep integration with the Spade Red Dragon template, the Amphibious Rathalos gains the ability to inhabit magma. When immersed in magma, its scales instinctively absorb the heavy metals within and adhere to them.

The parts where the scales are attached will gain a constant effect of -15 points of physical damage. When the single damage is less than 15 points, it will not be able to break the defense; each metallurgical scale has its own additional health. When it suffers a cumulative damage of 210 points, the scale will be broken and the flesh inside will be exposed. The damage reduction effect of the metallurgical scale will be invalid, and only subsequent attacks can hurt the Amphibious Rathalos body.

The amphibious Rathalos can temporarily extract heavy metals by drilling into flowing magma to repair its metallurgical scales, including broken ones. The repair rate is 50% of the scale's maximum health, and it can extract heavy metals once every 5 minutes.

With its special metallurgical scales and a body feature that covers more than 70% of its surface area, the actual HP of the Amphibious Rathalos is much higher than it appears.
Apart from the eyeballs, mouth, and abdomen, if you want to really damage the Fire Dragon's health bar, you need to break its armor first.

And just breaking armor isn't enough, it can actually repair its scales by taking a lava bath... just like a lava dragon.

All of Cheng Tian’s chariots are equipped with Vulcan machine guns. While they are versatile, their single-shot damage is no different from that of standard heavy machine guns, both in the 18-22 damage range. Even if the maximum damage is increased each time, they can only cause 7 points of damage when attacking the Canghulong.

Theoretically, it takes 30 concentrated hits on the same scale to break the scale and cause damage to the body.

Of course, you can also choose to use a drill to directly penetrate the scales of the beast, making a big hole in its flank that can let the intestines leak out.
But the other party will not come ashore easily to give Cheng Tian the opportunity to attack with the drill.

However, the amphibious fire dragon that was tragically sealed in the lava cave also lost the possibility of repairing its scales. Every shot it received reduced its survival rate.

Just as Cheng Tian was attacking, Irene also woke up from her egg-holding mania, collected the egg, drew her bow, and shot three high-parabolic elven arrows in a row with her eyes closed, hitting the Cang Fire Dragon, which had stopped its death roll in the water, directly.

I don't know if it was a skill or just a technique, but the first arrow pierced the scale, and the second and third arrows hit the tail end of the previous one. The three arrows were connected end to end and pierced through a scale of the Canghuolong!
The first elven arrow, far more resilient than expected, completely pierced through the scales, with more than half of the arrow's shaft piercing the Jade Fire Dragon's body. The dragon beast's screams were muffled by the lake water, but judging by the large amount of bubbles spewing from its mouth and the traces of blood that had begun to overflow and dilute, the shot must have been quite painful.

"Tsk~~ It's diving down."

Cheng Tian couldn't help but curl his lips when he found that the Fire Dragon, which had been hit by his attack and Irene's three consecutive arrows, was rapidly diving with its health and blue bars.

The other party chose the best countermeasure, diving.

Because as long as it dives deep enough, Cheng Tian and the others on land will have no way to deal with it.

Unless he was insane, he would not choose to pursue the enemy alone in a submarine.

"Don't worry, it won't stay submerged for long."

After hearing Cheng Tian's mumbling, Irene gave this answer.

"how to say?"

Cheng Tian asked curiously after lowering the hydraulic rod.

"The second additional enhancement of my Spirit Arrow is 'Prevent Self-Healing'. As long as that dragon beast doesn't have a strong self-healing ability, the skin and muscles I penetrated will not heal, forming open wounds. If it continues to forcefully dive in this situation..."

"I see. It's an imbalance between internal and external pressure."

"Bingo~"

Hearing Cheng Tian give the correct answer, Irene snapped her fingers to express her appreciation.

The power of nature is great, and water pressure will give all living things the pressure they deserve equally.

Although the amphibious fire dragon can dive freely into deep waters far deeper than a single-person submarine, that is based on the premise that it is intact.

As the water depth increased, pressure began to act on the Fire Dragon, causing penetrating damage to it, but the elf arrow, which temporarily served as a plug, was squeezed out of the wound bit by bit as the pressure increased.

Until it was completely ejected, the blood in its body began to be squeezed out of the body along the open wound, just like a bag of milk in a plastic bag with a small hole bitten in it.

But for the Cang Fire Dragon, whose eyes had not yet recovered and was still diving, it only felt its body gradually becoming weak and an unprecedented coldness coming over it, until it completely lost consciousness.

Cheng Tian Ailin, who had been waiting by the lake for half a day, watched helplessly as the amphibious fire dragon emerged from the water with its belly turned up.

(End of this chapter)