Monster life starting from picking up materials

As for those of them who are already on the front lines, they should conduct further investigations and make preliminary preparations for the crusade!

"Let's go. We have to clear the way for the follow-up troops."

……

"The main body of the storm has been confirmed to be a steel dragon, but the ancient dragon that appeared in the giant tree is more than just a steel dragon."

"The unknown ancient dragon that attacked the second group has appeared. This time, it's attacking the Steel Dragon."

The commander looked at the second regiment commander, and the dark-skinned man also folded his arms solemnly.

"Yan Feilong is here too."

The commander looked at the dragon scholar again. He believed that the other party knew which Flame Queen Dragon it was.

"The situation has become complicated. Hopefully, the conflict between them will be beneficial to our position."

"Also, have you observed any other abnormal phenomena? Especially those that might be caused by an unknown ancient dragon?"

The dragon scholar looked at the investigator who reported back.

"It seems not. We only saw the unknown ancient dragon smash the steel dragon with pure brute force. They disappeared in an instant. The captain then called us back to report, and he continued to follow up with the rest of the people."

"I understand."

The scholar nodded and had some guesses.

"Well done! Let the hunters prepare themselves. I will personally be at the front lines directing the defense of the stronghold."

"Leave it to me to dispatch."

The leader of the second group nodded.

474

Chapter 474: Drinking poison to quench thirst?

"It's a rare large-scale event, but I would rather it didn't happen."

The commander muttered to himself as he watched the large number of guide insects flying around the marching troops.

This mission is divided into several parts, and the personnel dispatched this time are also divided into several parts. The subjugation of the Steel Dragon and the hunters who will face the Steel Dragon are only a small part of it.

Quell this disaster and the resulting monster riots.

Moreover, because they have never deployed a camp outside the base, they have to dispatch more non-combat personnel to participate in the logistics mobilization, which can share the burden on the hunters.

But in such severe weather, these non-combatants became a burden before they could provide any help.

"Attention alert!"

The guide insects at the front of the team began to flash a dangerous red light, and the hunters in front slowed down and retreated, shrinking the size of the team.

"Ouch!"

"Hang!"

The female fire dragon and the thunder wolf dragon crushed the woods in front of the team. The destruction caused by the two twenty-meter-long monsters directly involved the tiny human team.

Not only that, the thieves' eyes reflected the chaos of the team and began to file out of the woods.

"what!"

Some people fell down, some were attacked by the thief dragon and were forced to engage in primitive hand-to-hand combat.

"Non-combatants, retreat inward! Escorting hunters, watch your flanks and don't disperse!"

The commander shouted loudly as he loaded the crossbow in his hand. The gunpowder and the string symphony, and the spiral bullet threw the flesh and blood on the chest of the thief dragon away, and then shot into the body of another thief dragon, eliminating the two thief dragons without hurting the team members who were suppressed by the two thief dragons.

He actually wanted to use a chopping axe, but he knew better than to mention that he was not a very good hunter.

After rescuing all the team members within his sight, he looked at the front of the team and saw that the hunters had already intervened in the fight between the Thunder Wolf Dragon and the female Rath Dragon.

Rather than causing damage to monsters, their focus is more on restraining the monsters individually, allowing the red-eyed monsters to escape the stress of combat and reassess the current situation.

Rainwater will infect wounds, the increased difficulty of hunting will make wounds more difficult to heal, and monsters will instinctively avoid danger.

The Thunder Wolf Dragon retreated first. Perhaps for it, the more important thing at the moment was to find companions.

The hunters began to surround the female fire dragon. Humans seemed small compared to the monsters, but the aura of the monster hunters could not be ignored.

Compared to the Thunder Wolf Dragon, this female fire dragon was also a little greedy. She pounced on the nearest hunter and bit him, obviously intending to fill her stomach before leaving.

The hunter closest to it was wearing a set of female fire dragon swordsman armor.

"boom!"

The female fire dragon that rushed forward seemed to be slapped in the face, and the hard spine on its chin was cut off in half. This injury was no less than disfiguring, causing it to let out a shrill howl.

The hunters around cheered a little.

"Don't relax, close it."

The hunters' high morale made the female fire dragon even more afraid. The monster bullies the weak and fears the strong, and the attack just now obviously made it understand who is weak and who is strong, so it escaped through the gap deliberately left by the hunters.

The hunters had no time to celebrate this small victory. They retreated to the rear to help regroup the team and completely wiped out the attacking group of thief dragons.

"There are people injured."

"In this situation, we cannot spare personnel to escort the wounded back. That would be even more unsafe."

"We can only keep moving forward and find a suitable place to set up a temporary camp."

The commander's expression was serious, and his words left no room for doubt.

"The location of the storm seems to be shifting away from the giant tree and toward other directions!"

The dragon scholar who was accompanying the team on the front line inspection this time stood on a high rock and waved to the commander.

"How to say?"

The commander came under the stone and followed the scholar's gaze to look at the storm in the distance.

The storm spread out widely. Compared to the tornado driven by the Steel Dragon Rider, the word "typhoon" might be more appropriate for a storm of this magnitude.

"It seems to be approaching the southern coastline, as if... it is being driven."

The scholar murmured.

……

"The rain has died down and the wind has died down."

The captain of the investigation team stretched out his palm, as if holding up raindrops, or as if sensing the wind.

But the damage caused by the wind did not diminish, and the Steel Dragon could summon the storm again at any time, and the mess along the way was proof of that.

"The monsters and the storm are moving towards the southeast."

The team members were a little worried that if the storm did not stop, the investigation team's base would most likely be affected.

"So the stronghold will definitely be deployed. The star ship was lifted onto the mountaintop, and it can't be lifted back into the sea."

The captain looked at the devastation caused by the storm and imagined that when the storm reached the coast, the wooden boards that made up the base would be torn into pieces in the sea, along with the seventeen years of hardship of the investigation team.

It's not just the devastation caused by the storm; the ashes burned by the flames are expanding in area as the storm's intensity decreases.

Once the damage from the storm is reduced to a certain limit and the battle continues, the Flame Queen Dragon's karmic fire may sweep across the entire forest in the strong wind.

The threat posed by the Flame Dragon may even take precedence over that of the Steel Dragon.

"Why did the Flame Queen Dragon come to the forest?"

The captain murmured, staring at the figures still fighting not far away, and his peripheral vision caught sight of another orange light in the sky.

"It's a signal flare, the follow-up troops are over there!"

Amid the excited shouts of his team members, he also raised his signal gun and shot a flash of flame into the sky.

"Let's go and meet them."

……

At this time, the expedition team had found a place to set up camp, and the technicians began to put down all the supplies they had on them to facilitate rest.

The commander was wandering around the entrance of the camp in the rain, waiting for the hunters who were sent out to pick up the investigation team and return.

Only when he saw that the investigation team and the hunters had returned intact did he breathe a sigh of relief.

"Let's go. You've worked hard. Let's go into the tent and talk."

Soon, the large four-cornered tent in the center of the camp was filled with people, and the captain of the investigation team also told what he had seen along the way and his own guesses.

Especially the judgment that once the storm weakened to a certain extent, the Flame Queen Dragon's karmic fire would likely wreak havoc, which made everyone's face darken.

This meant that the original mission of defeating the Steel Dragon had been supplemented by the Flame Queen Dragon, and they had to consider the status of the two monsters and respond flexibly.

It was as if the task, which was already complex and difficult, was now accompanied by a rather harsh mechanical requirement, which gave the tent an atmosphere of despair.

The commander exchanged glances with the dragon scholar, and saw the short old dragon man stepping on the table, and his height instantly grew taller.

"Don't despair. Nature's greatest strength lies in its resilience and ability to regulate. Who knows, perhaps the arrival of the Flame Queen Dragon is also part of this regulatory ability."

"On the bright side, the storm is continuing to weaken under such regulation."

Such statements may not change the predicament they are facing, but the atmosphere in the tent has warmed up.

After all, the storm really is weakening.

475

Chapter 475: Convergence.

The flames of the Flame Queen Dragon swept across the Steel Dragon's body, leaving its metal shell covered in a layer of gray, oxidized color.

Nergigante flapped its wings and hugged Steelix directly. Its sharp claws made a harsh friction sound on the metal shell, and hideous tear marks appeared on it.

Flames will destroy the hardness of metal, and the steel dragon's steel shell will also have its defense reduced under the high temperature of the hellfire.

As their cooperation became more and more tacit, many such tear marks appeared on the steel dragon's body.

"throat!!!"

The Steel Dragon, which was fighting with the Nergigante while falling, let out a shrill cry.

Such tear marks may not hurt his flesh, but the friction sound is not only harsh, but also pierces his heart.

The carapace of a steel dragon is the face of the steel dragon.

It hadn't been long since his last molt, and his new shell had already been damaged into this state. Even if he ate enough minerals, it would be impossible for it to recover as it was before. Such scars would most likely accompany him throughout his entire growth period until the next molt!

If I meet someone of the opposite sex during this period, will I still be liked by them? !

The Steel Dragon was filled with anger. He tried hard to adjust his posture to stay above the ground while falling, and actually smashed the Nergigante under him heavily into the ground.

The heavy pressure on his body intensified the impact of falling to the ground. Even Nergigante lost the ability to fight back for a moment and could only let Steelix swing its sharp claws towards his neck.

The scales shattered, and Steel Dragon could even feel himself squeezing the trachea of the Nergigante, and then the touch was bounced away by the flexible flesh of its thick neck.

Nergigante collapsed with its tongue lolling out, but Steelix knew very well that it would only take a short while for this guy to recover and be full of energy again.

"Roar!"

The roar accompanied by the high temperature of the hellfire enveloped him, forcing the Steel Dragon to trample over the Destroyer and dodge away, turning his head to glare at her.

And there's also the Flame Dragon. If it weren't for the Flame Dragon's flames that made its shell lose its luster and turn it gray, it wouldn't have been so easily destroyed by the Nergigante!

More importantly! Nergigante only attacked him and not Flame Dragon! They even coordinated with each other!

We're both Ancient Dragons on Nergigante's recipe, so why are you on the whitelist?!

The Steel Dragon became angrier the more he thought about it. Bloodshot faintly appeared in his pale blue eyes. He opened his mouth and fired an air cannon at the Flame Dragon.

The tornado released by the air mass was instantly dyed with the color of hellfire, but it also successfully resisted the hellfire, and the flame storm even wrapped the Annihilation Dragon in it.

Seeing that her flames burned the Nergigante, Nana quickly stopped breathing and instead scattered pieces of dust. The flames of the explosion enveloped the Nergigante and the Steel Dragon.

Nergigante is not afraid of fire, and to defeat her you have to use a dust explosion, she remembered this very clearly.

Even if Nergigante didn't attack her, she had no good feelings towards it. In the battles these days, she always regarded Nergigante as an enemy, but its priority was lower than that of Steel Dragon.

Nana was really angry when the scarred male Rathalos appeared before her and asked for help.

After so many years of getting along with the fire dragons, she has already developed a deep affection for them, not to mention that her favorite is the porcelain bowl among them.