Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

After a great deal of effort, I finally managed to appease the Effluvium Vaal Hazak and get it to roughly understand the battle plan.

At this moment, Feng Ying's hair was disheveled, her armor was covered in sticky fungal threads, and she was in a very sorry state. Fortunately, the Vaal Hazak hadn't used its full strength, and she wasn't injured thanks to the protection of the [Dragonvein].

Grumbling as she climbed up from the ground, Feng Ying said unhappily, "Such a big reaction, you'd think I was trying to hurt you."

The Effluvium Vaal Hazak snorted a puff of effluvium from its nostrils, ignoring her.

Even though it understood that Feng Ying had brought those two Flame Elder Dragons to eliminate the excessively proliferating fungi, which was, in a way, helping it, this behavior could also be interpreted as leading other Elder Dragons to wreak havoc on its territory. With the pride of an Elder Dragon, it was natural to feel dissatisfied.

However, the Effluvium Vaal Hazak did not strongly object to the plan.

It was also clear in its mind that its control over the rampant fungi in the Guiding Lands had reached its limit, and if this continued, the widespread dispersal of spores was inevitable.

As an Elder Dragon, it may not have had the same clear environmental awareness as humans, but even from a selfish point of view, it had to do this.

Otherwise, once the widespread dispersal occurred and affected other areas, the "masters" of those areas would definitely trace the source back to the Guiding Lands to settle the score with it.

It still remembered the scene of four or five Elder Dragons bombarding the Guiding Lands in the past, and it didn't want that scene to happen to it.

Feng Ying wrinkled her nose and picked off a large piece of spore sac from her shoulder armor and threw it away. "Actually, if you ask me, hiding isn't very safe either.

Why don't we find a way to give you a full-body disinfection first, burn all those fungi off, and then take you off the island to avoid the storm?"

"Gi?" The Effluvium Vaal Hazak turned its head to look at Ai Bo, as if asking her to translate.

Ai Bo gave the Vaal Hazak an awkward but polite smile, and then said to Feng Ying, "What are you thinking? Vaal Hazaks have special habits, and their survival depends on the effluvium environment.

If you burn off its spores, it won't spread spores when it goes out, but how do you expect it to survive?"

Feng Ying casually said with a mindless, rambling attitude, "Isn't there another place with an effluvium environment? Why don't we take it to the Rotten Vale for a while?

Even the good-natured mushroom glared at her angrily.

The Plunderers, from which it originated, have now become a sentinel tribe responsible for monitoring the Effluvium Lord of the Rotten Vale, and are naturally full of vigilance towards that guy at the bottom of the Rotten Vale.

Even if there is a possibility of peaceful coexistence between the two Vaal Hazaks, even if those two of the same species really hit it off with that one percent probability, would that be a good thing?

You finally solved the fungal outbreak, and then you create a Vaal Hazak outbreak, right?

Anci shut you up, meow!

"Okay, okay, I'm just talking nonsense." Feng Ying got up from the ground. "But seriously, those two Teostra and Lunastra are fierce by nature. I hope they'll just burn the fungi on the island and leave obediently, but that's impossible.

They'll definitely want to find you and eliminate you as well. You can't hide, and you can't leave. It's a bit of a problem.

It seems we'll have to fight. The two of us working together should be able to repel them, but we need to make some preparations in advance.

The biggest weaknesses of Teostra and Lunastra are low temperatures and frost. In that case, the northwestern area of the Guiding Lands would be a good battlefield. By the way, are you afraid of the cold?"

The Effluvium Vaal Hazak looked at Ai Bo.

Ai Bo was at a loss. She really didn't know how to translate this long passage of Feng Ying's. Just as she was thinking about how to explain it piece by piece, Feng Ying had already stepped forward.

She drew out her Frostcraft Greatsword and came to the Effluvium Vaal Hazak, poking it somewhere on the tip of its wing.

"Gi!" The Effluvium Vaal Hazak retracted its wing as if it had been electrocuted.

"Looks like you're afraid of frost too. Then using the snow-covered area as a battlefield isn't suitable." Putting away her weapon in the face of the Effluvium Vaal Hazak's dissatisfied gaze, Feng Ying said helplessly, "How come you're weak against every element? Aren't you a bit too useless?"

The Effluvium Vaal Hazak sprayed Feng Ying's face with effluvium again.

Feng Ying waved her hands, dispersing the effluvium. "We still need to find a suitable place in your familiar effluvium area as a battlefield.

The place has to be small, otherwise we can't handle those two guys creating a firestorm when they fly up. It's best to have some cover, ponds or something, so we can avoid fire attacks.

Get more of those effluvium-controlled puppet corpses, it would be good if they could consume some of their stamina.

This is your territory, you have the advantage of terrain. Let's face Teostra and Lunastra together!"

By the end, Feng Ying was a little excited.

"Gi?" The Effluvium Vaal Hazak tilted its head in confusion.

"...Ai Bo, translate it for him slowly."

Seliana, Astera.

Jia Jia's arrival attracted a lot of onlookers.

The veterans of the Research Commission basically knew this rare "field worker," and the sixth fleet members who had only arrived in the New World for less than two years had also heard some strange legends.

Having a rare opportunity, they naturally ran over to see the excitement.

Jia Jia, who rarely saw humans for months on end, seemed a little unaccustomed. Her Xeno'jiiva layered armor also seemed to sense the emotions of its symbiont, wrapping her up in layers.

Fortunately, the Third Fleet Master and his sister were usually somewhat dignified. After dispersing the crowd of onlookers, the group went directly to the Ecological Research Institute.

Their reason was very strong. Jia Jia joined the Ecological Research Institute when she first arrived in the New World. In terms of organization, she was always a researcher at the Institute, so it was only reasonable to come to the Institute to settle down.

But Fufu knew that their motives for inviting Jia Jia over were probably not so pure.

She decided that she couldn't leave Jia Jia for even a step these days, for fear that she would see Jia Jia being carried onto the dissection table when she turned around.

As a result, another person moved into the Third Fleet Master's already not-so-spacious private room.

Perhaps it was because she had been holding back from talking to anyone for so many years, Jia Jia was surprisingly talkative, and she and Fufu were chattering non-stop.

The Third Fleet Master, who was naturally fond of quiet, didn't mind. His gaze towards Jia Jia was especially gentle, but that look didn't seem to be looking at a person, but rather at a super rare environmental creature or something.

After confirming that it wouldn't snow tonight, he even used excuses such as "let's go to the hot spring together" and "I'll help you scrub your back" to examine Jia Jia's body.

"As expected, the Xeno'jiiva can adapt to warm environments. That's right, some people even bring them back to the stars as pets, so their adaptability shouldn't be too bad."

"So it's connected to the spine? No wonder the host can control it through consciousness and even share senses to a certain extent."

"It's a pity that I can't take it off completely for research. Can I cut off some more tentacles for specimens?"

The Third Fleet Master held a notebook, circling around Jia Jia, while Jia Jia was crouching in the hot spring pool, shrinking in fear.

Fufu wrapped Jia Jia in a large bath towel, preventing the Third Fleet Master's increasingly excited "invasion."

Perhaps it would be better to stay away from this woman.