Monster Hunter: Wild Pointer

What's the matter? You want to write a letter to my family as well?

"How many months ago was your promotion to two stars?"

Not expecting the other party to ask this question, Aolan was stunned for a moment, then replied, "Five months ago."

"Want to be promoted to three stars?"

Ao Lang's eyes lit up immediately, "Of course I do!"

"Then why haven't you completed a single proper two-star mission yet? If you want to be promoted, hurry up and complete the required two-star missions!"

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Chapter 125 This armor is poisonous

President Sophia directly assigned Orlan a bunch of two-star difficulty tasks.

For example, conquering the group of dog dragons on the city's migration path, hunting the beetles and sand dragons that may affect the safety of migration, etc.

She had been very busy recently with the city relocation and had little time to keep an eye on Muti personally. In order to prevent the two little guys from causing trouble again when she was not paying attention, she had to fill up their schedules first.

I thought that accumulating tasks to get promoted to three stars was enough, so there would be no complaints from Olang, and he would prevent the boy from leading his daughter astray.

That's right. In Sophia's opinion, the reason why Muti participated in such an outrageous thing as hunting the Boom Dragon must be that he was led astray by that kid. As for whether it is possible that there is something wrong with her own child.

impossible! Absolutely impossible!

Orlan really had no complaints. He and Muti had not accepted two-star missions before, simply because for them, two-star missions had completely lost their challenge and were meaningless.

Besides, wasn't the Sunshine Town mission also a two-star difficulty giant bee hunting mission at first? It only became a three-star queen bee hunting mission later.

Well, no matter how many reasons you have, in order to get promoted smoothly, there are always some hard and fast rules that must be met.

So Orlan focused on completing the two-star mission.

Relocating a city as big as Barubare will bring endless troubles, and with the intentional arrangements made by the president, there will be no situation where we have nothing to do.

In fact, there was no need for Muti to do this with him. She had already been promoted to three stars, and accumulating two-star tasks was meaningless to her.

But Ms. Sophia persuaded her to join the company with just one sentence: "Take this opportunity to consolidate the foundation." She worked hard every day and devoted herself to the public welfare of Barubare.

Amidst the hustle and bustle, the great migration of Barubare began.

A small group of hunters set out first to confirm the safety of the road to the first relay point, followed closely by a coordination team composed of craftsmen and guild managers, and then one convoy after another consisting of countless caravans.

The distance between the first convoy and the last convoy may be hundreds of kilometers.

Under the meticulous arrangements of the president and other staff, the entire Barubale moved slowly in batches towards the destination of this migration in a busy but not chaotic manner.

Nearly half a month later, the first convoy successfully arrived at the flat grassland in the southern part of the Ruins Plain.

The so-called mobile city is still a city. It is not just a bunch of caravans crammed together. Craftsmen built fortifications and divided streets according to a plan made in advance, thus building the skeleton of the city.

Subsequent convoys arrived one after another, filling up the city's body.

More than a week passed, and when the last convoy arrived at the grassland, Barubare's migration was finally completed.

The colorful Balubare appeared on this golden grassland like mushrooms emerging from the ground after the rain.

"boom!"

The shell exploded beside the monster, causing it to stagger.

The cold light of the blade broke through the smoke, and the blade, surrounded by sword energy, slashed across the monster's short hind legs, almost cutting the joint in half.

The ugly beast, emitting a pungent stench, howled miserably and fell to the ground.

The red-armored beast was already dying, its shell shattered and covered in blood. Even its iconic long tongue had been severed by the hunter's attack, leaving only a short section hanging from the side of its mouth.

"Drink ah ah ah!"

A familiar roar sounded from behind him, and the swordsman in black armor quickly rolled to the side to get out of the attack position.

(Borrowed the high-definition picture from the book friend "Unlicensed Warlock")

The musketeer holding a large shield rushed forward like a chariot, and the large alloy shield almost flattened the triangular head of the red armor beast.

Then, she suddenly raised her large shield, forcing the red-armored beast, which was on all fours, to stand up backward, exposing its chest and abdomen that were not covered by the shell.

He thrust forward with his gun lance, and the heavy blade penetrated the chest of the red-armored beast. Then, flames burst out from the muzzle.

"Dragon Bomb Cannon!"

"boom--!"

With a deafening explosion, a huge hole was blown from the chest to the abdomen of the red-armored beast, and the charred internal organs mixed with blood splattered all over the armor of the gunner.

With a weak howl, the poor red-armored beast fell to the ground, losing its last hope of life.

"Muti, there's no need to end with the Dragon Bomb Cannon every time. Isn't it troublesome to clean the armor?" Sheathing the sword, the black-armored katana user took off his helmet, revealing a helpless face.

"And the materials were all blown to pieces, meow." Seabuckthorn muttered while dismantling the portable cannon. "I was originally planning to get a complete piece of the carapace to use as a shield for 'Fire Dragon Unit 1 Kai Kai', meow."

"I'm sorry." Muti scratched his blood-stained hair, trying to change the subject to hide his embarrassment. "By the way, Orlan, do you have enough two-star missions now?"

"Yeah." Orlan smiled.

More than a month has passed since Barubare migrated to the grasslands south of the Ruins Plain.

During this period, Orlang Seabuckthorn and Muti never had a proper rest. They completed two-star tasks continuously with super high efficiency, completing one every few days.

Taking into account the large number of tasks assigned by the guild during the migration operation, I finally reached the minimum standard for applying for promotion tasks.

After returning this time, he planned to rest for two days, make good preparations, and then go to the gathering place to receive the promotion task and try to be promoted to three stars.

After stripping some useless but sellable materials from the corpse of the Red Armored Beast, the two of them and the cat rode Maru Bird back to Balubare.

They first went to the Dragon Boat Gathering Hall to settle the task, and then they came to the blacksmith shop of the dragon craftsman.

When they entered the blacksmith shop, the craftsman was grinding something with a grinding wheel. He didn't say anything when he saw the two of them come in. He only looked at them after he finished the work at hand.

"Now that you're here, how do you feel?" The craftsman asked Olang.

Before this mission, Orlang had put in a lot of effort to change into this "Scorpion S" suit.

This set of armor, made mainly of venomous spider scorpions, has outstanding advantages, but also obvious disadvantages.

The armor itself contains a small amount of venomous spider scorpion toxin. Due to the small dosage, this toxin will not cause damage to the body's organs, but it will cause the user to enter a mild poisoning state similar to sub-health, thereby weakening the strength (attack -).

However, when the user exercises vigorously, or encounters danger and is injured, and the heartbeat accelerates, the trace toxins flowing in the blood will be transformed into another substance similar to stimulant drugs, greatly improving the user's strength and concentration (power liberation).

At the same time, this set of armor will activate various toxins, thereby improving the efficiency of various toxin accumulation. It is very suitable for use with weapons with abnormal properties such as toxicity, paralysis, sleep, etc. (special critical hit).

Not every hunter can accept that the protective gear they wear daily is "toxic", so the dragon-man craftsman specifically reminded Orlan to come over after the mission is completed.

If Orlan cannot adapt to these double-edged sword effects, he also has a way to completely detoxify this set of armor.

However, if he did that, this set of armor would become a relatively sturdy set of ordinary armor. To be honest, he didn't really want to do that, but the specific situation still depended on the user's wishes.

Facing the question from the dragon craftsman, Orlan answered without hesitation, "It's great! No modifications are needed at all!"

If anything, it's just that the full-face helmet is something I'm not used to, but that's just my personal preference."

In fact, he was a little uneasy when he first put on this "Scorpion S" suit.

But he soon discovered that the "toxicity" of this set of armor was not as terrible as he had imagined. It only reduced a person's strength from 100% to 90% or 95%.

In contrast, the benefit this set of armor provides him after entering the battle far exceeds this insignificant weakness.

The rewards far outweigh the costs, so what else could he be dissatisfied with?

After confirming Orlan's meaning, a smile appeared on the indifferent face of the dragon craftsman.

What could make craftsmen happier than having their carefully crafted works recognized by customers?

Chapter 126 Red Blade I

Although he usually cleaned and maintained them well, in order to ensure that everything went smoothly during the promotion mission, Orlan still planned to ask the dragon craftsmen to conduct a comprehensive inspection and maintenance of his weapons and armor.

This is not a job that can be completed in an hour or two. If cracks or hidden structural damage are found, hot forging will be required again. The craftsman asked him and Muti to leave the equipment first and come back to pick it up in two days.

When they left the blacksmith shop, both of them were only wearing a base shirt. To others, it was nothing, but they felt uneasy as if they were wearing pajamas on the street.

"Let's go to Teacher Nazia's studio, meow, and borrow her tools to make some modifications to 'Fire Dragon Unit 1·Modification' meow!" Seabuckthorn suddenly said.

Compared with the previous Unit-01, Unit-01 abandoned the design of using a barrel as the outer shell and unfolding it to form a fixed gun mount, because it was found that Unit-01 was convenient to carry, but once unfolded, it had to be folded again in order to move, which took a lot of time.

However, the monsters in battle did not stand still. This relatively fixed artillery position was not practical in actual combat and was destroyed by the Boom Dragon in an instant.

To this end, when making Unit 1, it clearly came up with the idea of ​​a "mobile turret".

Of course, it wants to do it in one go and make Unit 1 into a tracked tank.

Unfortunately, its current technology is far from the level of a hand-made engine, and it can't even make qualified tracks, so it can only settle for the next best thing and get a small cart.

Although it doesn't look very imposing, it is very quick to push and you can fire a shot and then move to another place. It is surprisingly practical.

It went to Nazia's studio this time because it found that the center of gravity of the cart was too high and not stable enough when firing, so it planned to modify the cart to see how to ensure flexibility while lowering the center of gravity of the car body as much as possible.

Olang didn't understand mechanical matters, and there was no need for him to worry about them. After giving Seabuckthorn some money and letting it do its thing, Olang came to the training ground.

During this period, the two-star monsters they hunted were no match for them, but they did gain a lot of practical experience.

Many moves that were originally unskilled and not mastered were also honed in battle.

Orlan did not rush to pick up the sword for training, but first took out the memo and sorted out all the experiences and thoughts he had gained during this period of time.

Due to his lack of skills, luck and other reasons, he was unable to refine and condense his sword energy to the extreme even when hunting the Sand Dragon, the Queen Bee, and later when fighting the Boom Dragon.

That state is called "Red Blade" by the sword users. The highly concentrated sword energy can not only effectively increase the power of the attack, but also stimulate the muscles and improve the body's functions to a certain extent.

Therefore, there are many high-level sword moves that can only be performed after the sword energy has condensed to a certain level.

In the recent battles to hunt two-star monsters, Orlan consciously practiced his moves on those monsters and successfully entered the so-called "Red Blade" state several times.

He tried to use the air blade slashing move commonly known as "Dragon Slash" in the red blade state, but unfortunately this move was too difficult and he never hit the target once in actual combat.

Like Muti said, we still need to practice hard.

Although he failed, after repeatedly activating the Red Blade, he discovered that the Red Blade state had some subtle similarities with the Ghost state.

The core of the former is to condense the sword energy. Most of the sword energy lingers on the sword blade, and a small part stimulates the body, indirectly improving the body's functions.

The latter more directly stimulates the blood and qi in the body, activating the muscles all over the body, but does not have much effect on weapons.

"So, speaking only of enhancing physical functions, the essence of the two is similar. Both stimulate muscles through some kind of energy to enhance physical abilities." Orlan muttered to himself as he closed the memo.

Coming to the training target, we started trying all kinds of strange things.

Concentrate your mind, imagine the target as a monster, accumulate sword energy, gradually enter the red blade state, throw away the sword, replace it with two swords, and try to see if you can dance wildly.

The result was unsurprisingly a failure.

After all, most of the condensed sword energy lingers on the blade of the katana. If you lose the sword, what sword energy can you talk about?

At the training ground, Muti's blood pressure rose when he saw Orlan activate the red blade and throw the sword aside.

She decided that if Orlan dared to do this again, she would rush into the training ground and beat that guy up to make him understand what it meant to "respect the katana"!

Orlan started trying in the opposite direction again.

This time he did not throw the katana again, but in the red blade state, he tried to perform the "quick upward slash followed by downward chop" sword move that he had used after he turned into a demon.

This time, he succeeded!

Muti, who was originally a little indignant, was also stunned.

Excluding the special case of the Great Elder, her mother is the most powerful katana user of the contemporary era, almost without a doubt. Therefore, she can confidently say, what katana moves have I not seen?

I've never seen this before.

There is no doubt that this is a new move created by Orlan himself. Although it is still very rough, it has already become the prototype of a real "move".

"What was that move called?" she couldn't help but ask.

"What?" Orlan was stunned for a second before realizing what Muti was asking.

He only used this move twice accidentally when fighting against the Thunder Dragon, and Muti probably didn't see it.

After hearing Orlan's brief explanation, Muti's face twitched. What kind of nonsense is this about a "katana technique based on demon transformation"?!

"However, since you can use this move even in the Red Blade state, it means that other katana users also have a chance to master it." Muti extended his hand to Orlan, "Let me give it a try."

Olangping raised the training sword, Muti took the sword, walked to the target, and began to accumulate sword energy.