Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 713 I'm Gathering Agility in the Land of Gathering Mothers

Besides the Everfrost Tundra, there is also a special island map in the Icefield region called the Guiding Lands...

The ecology of this area is very peculiar. It looks like the ancient forest, the anthill wasteland, the coral reef plateau, the miasma valley, the permafrost, and the crystallization grounds were all smashed up, and then some parts were selected and mixed together to form a composite.

After simplification, there are six basic terrain types: forest, wasteland, coral, miasma, ice and snow, and lava.

Due to this unique dynamic ecological change, the map may attract all dragon units scattered in different areas, including principalities and derivative subspecies, and may even have a special attraction for certain ancient dragons.

Overall, this map is even more dangerous than the Elder's Recess... However, players cannot enter through official channels until their guild reputation reaches a certain level; the only way to get in is to try to sneak in by air.

Cheng Tian is not included here.

As mentioned before, thanks to his technical support for the Hunter Guild, Cheng Tian's relationship with Xingchen and Yuechen is no longer just a cooperative one. There are already signs that he is about to annex them. If Cheng Tian suddenly withdraws from the Lieyang Fortress at this time, although the hunter community will only return to their original hunting habits, the withdrawal symptoms will definitely last for a long time.

Therefore, Cheng Tian's authority within the Hunter's Guild can be considered to be at the highest level; he can truly go wherever he wants.

With this extremely high level of access, Cheng Tian essentially monopolized the Gathering Place; only when he nodded and issued a task could other players be allowed to enter.

After confirming that his strength had reached its limit and preparing to attempt a second breakthrough at the dual extremes, Cheng Tian immediately took action.

After sacrificing Eileen to kill the Ice Fang Dragon in a single, militarized hunt and gaining more permanent agility bonuses, Cheng Tian simply settled down in this dangerous area where monsters kept coming and going and constantly respawning, and began a highly targeted hunting campaign.

Those monsters that should have been scattered across different maps and areas, and were not easy to encounter, were all encountered by Cheng one after another while he was waiting for them in the Gathering Lands.

It must be said that these individuals are truly powerful. Without exception, all of them that can appear in the Guiding Lands are champion-level or higher BOSS units. Some of the leader templates are so powerful that they would dare to go head-to-head even if an ancient dragon came.

Of course, getting beaten up and running around screaming in pain is a different story.

Furthermore, when defeating them, their strength itself is not the decisive factor; the most troublesome aspect is whether other monsters intrude.

Because the Guiding Lands is a small area with a variety of terrains, monsters can easily encounter each other, leading to typical "territory battles" where three monsters can appear together.

Although they will attack each other, hunters and players are clearly the ones most affected.

Moreover, sometimes you have to face this situation: when the monster's health drops to a certain level, it will instinctively choose to run away from the current area and stay in another place, and at this time you have to follow up and kill it.

Even if you have enough control to keep it in place, you can't stop other monsters from hearing the sound and smelling the scent, and they'll sneak over from other areas to provoke you.

...But Cheng, by using the power of the Great Vortex to seal the entrances and exits of the area, avoided the situation of two or three dragons in the same frame to the greatest extent. At the same time, he led his own combat squad, accompanying bonded beasts, combat mounts and other units, and turned the hunting and extermination into a brutal siege with many against few.

There are virtually no monsters capable of surpassing Cheng Tian's mental attributes in terms of strength, at least not among the non-Elder Dragon units at the current B-rank difficulty. The only creatures capable of forcibly crossing the Great Whirlpool and entering the current hunting area are winged wyverns. And when stubborn flying units like the Pink Rathian, Bazelgeuse, and Black Diablos manage to find their way through the Great Whirlpool, they'll likely land to find, along with the monsters Cheng Tian and his companions have already defeated, the strongest Brute Wyvern on the ground, or a two-headed calamity.

Seeing this thing is far more terrifying than seeing Cheng Tian.

Some monsters are fairly intelligent, or rather, their instincts take over. When they realize something is wrong, they will run away... and without exception, they will be knocked down from mid-air by the Solar Punch.

Tobi-dragon, Paralysis Dragon, Wind Wanderer, Frostwing Wind Wanderer, Great Paralysis Thief Dragon, Thunderjaw Dragon, Glavenus, Nargacuga, Ferocious Claw Dragon, Tigrex, Pink Rathian, Zinogre...

Somewhat counterintuitively, after spending five days completing this series of stakeouts and raids, the "most troublesome" unit that Cheng Tian chose was actually a Wind Dragon with a leader template.

Yes, this Wind Wyvern, which occupies a middle position in Monster Hunter's ecological niche and can be listed in many monster recipes, is the most troublesome one that Cheng Tian has encountered after hunting so many Primarchs and subspecies.

However, it's not that the Wind Dragon is troublesome, but rather that this particular Wind Dragon is the most troublesome.

This wind dragon, which doesn't occupy a high ecological niche, almost wiped out Cheng Tian's entire team.

It utilizes the power of nature.

In short, in the icy region of the Guiding Lands, the Wind Wyvern, holding a bottomless, gunpowder-free, hollowed-out explosive barrel that a hunter had previously lost in the Guiding Lands, performed a roar-like, loudspeaker-style attack.

The power of this sonic bomb, which was similar to a wide-area sonic boom, was not significant in itself, but the avalanche it triggered buried Cheng Tian and his group, who were located halfway up the mountain.

If it weren't for the protective barrier and the timely release of the Flame Cat couple with their extremely high body temperatures, Cheng Tian and the others would have had to go through a lot of trouble to break free.

Although Cheng Tian's personal combat strength has been raised to an absurd level, having initially surpassed the standards expected of B-level difficulty and bronze rank, he still needs to maintain awe when facing the power of nature.

With the last Wind Dragon specializing in Wide-Area Sonic Bombs becoming Cheng Tian's sacrifice, Cheng Tian's base Agility attribute finally reached the maximum value of 50 points.

Moreover, it's not just strength and agility; Cheng Tian already had 44 points of basic charm, which reached a maximum of 50 points.

Cheng Tian calculated that after sacrificing the Ice Fang Dragon, he had sacrificed 11 more to meet the final requirement.

So naturally, it's time to face Akuma.

However, before Cheng Tian could even approach them, the guild issued a quest that was clearly related to Akuma.

[Guild-commissioned investigation: Recently, there have been numerous reports of deaths involving tempered and overlord-level individuals. According to on-site reports, these tempered individuals were all killed with their bare hands, without any trace of weapons, traps, gunpowder, or sacrifices. Please conduct a thorough investigation to find the source of these deaths.]

(End of this chapter)