Chapter 399 Let them bite
The hunting insect lay on the poison dragon's flesh wing and stung it for a few seconds, then flew back to the insect stick user's arm, and used its mouthparts to inject the extracted essence into Maka's body.
Maka moved her limbs and said, "It's quite exciting, huh?"
Hunting back about ten meters, Maka's legs suddenly exerted force and began to accelerate.
“Ted!”
“Okay!” Ted squatted down, raised the big shield to the top of his head, and held it diagonally.
Maka, who quickly rushed in front of Ted, jumped up and swung the insect stick to hit the surface of Ted's shield.
Ted roared and exerted his strength, suddenly stood up and raised his arms to push the big shield upward. Maka used Ted's height and this thrust to push the insect stick simultaneously, and sent herself into the sixth place in a pole vaulting posture. Seven meters high in the air.
Subsequently, she turned around in the air, swung the fire dragon stick, and the blade of the stick smoothly penetrated into the lower jaw of the poisonous monster dragon.
"Hey!"
Maka let out a soft drink, and used the head of the stick hooked on the jaws of the Poisonous Dragon to exert force again to pry herself higher into the air.
The fragile neck and abdomen of the poisonous monster dragon is already in front of you.
Maka swung the fire dragon stick with all her strength. Both ends of the insect stick hit the poisonous monster dragon's fragile abdomen one after another. Balls of flames spurted out, burning the poisonous monster dragon's sticky skin.
Where the high-temperature flame comes into contact, the mucus on the body surface is dried out in an instant, and the loose and soft skin begins to shrink.
As a creature that lives in the cold, damp environment of permafrost caves all year round, this guy's tolerance to fire and high temperature is ridiculously poor.
The poisonous monster dragon hissed in pain, the sucker on its tail came loose, and Maka knocked it down from the top of the cave.
Maka, who had nowhere to draw on, fell together with the Poison Monster Dragon. Ted rushed forward and raised his shield to catch the fall. Maka landed safely with the help of the force.
The Poison Monster Dragon fell to the ground and was unable to turn over for a while. Hayata took the opportunity to rush closer, aiming at one of the Poison Monster Dragon's wing claws to launch a continuous attack.
The reason why they did not attack the head, neck, abdomen and other vital parts was because the purpose of their trip was not to hunt the poisonous dragon.
It is better to attack the wing claws, hind limbs and other parts to weaken its mobility.
Gordon had the same idea. He ran quickly towards the other wing claw. When passing by Ted and Maka, he couldn't help but turn his head and glance at the two of them.
“When did you two have such a tacit understanding that you still play combos?”
They both gave him a thumbs up.
Gordon twitched the corner of his mouth and continued to rush to the poison monster dragon's wing claws to start charging up.
After three stages of charging, the Fire Dragon Sword swung down. The scorching sharp blade cut a bone-deep mark on the right wing claw of the Poison Monster Dragon. The explosion of flames from the sword body scorched a large area of pale skin.
The poisonous dragon roared in pain again.
Gordon, who was accustomed to entering a strong power-charging posture, quickly stopped his movements.
The power of the Fire Dragon Sword is too "exceeding the standard" for the Poison Monster Dragon. If you use a strong charged slash and a real charged slash in succession, you may be able to chop off this guy's wing claws.
This is somewhat unnecessary.
Since discovering the importance of the young poisonous dragon as a decomposer and the ecological base of the permafrost, Gordon has not dared to mess with the poisonous dragon, or even take too heavy a blow.
Even if you don’t kill it, if you chop it to the point of paralysis, turn around and then be killed by other higher-ranking predators, the ecosystem in the surrounding area will probably be out of balance for a while.
When your own safety is not threatened, doing so would be a violation of the Hunter Code.
Glancing out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Ted was stabbing the cannon into the ring-shaped mouthparts of the poisonous monster dragon. He was about to pull the trigger of the dragon cannon and quickly shouted to stop:
“Stop! Do you want to blow it to death?!”
After regaining his senses, Ted smacked his lips, and withdrew his finger on the trigger slightly uncomfortably. Instead, he raised his blunderbuss and poked it forward twice.
Hayata and Maka also slowed down the frequency of swinging their weapons.
The fluorescent glands on its head and tail became brighter, and the scarlet color of its abdomen became darker.
The Poison Monster Dragon used its wing claws to support its body. There was a faint purple mist seeping out from the folds of its abdominal skin.
“Back off!” Gordon warned loudly.
Everyone immediately retreated to the rear and distanced themselves.
At the same time that the hunters began to retreat, the Poisonous Dragon suddenly lay on the ground, and a large cloud of purple poisonous mist spurted out from the glands in its abdomen, spreading in all directions with the airflow aroused by its flat body when it lay down. .
When the hunters saw this, they immediately accelerated their retreat. Fortunately, the poisonous mist did not spread too far and no one was hit.
However, the poisonous mist lingering around the poisonous monster dragon cannot dissipate in an instant. Anyone who dares to get close to it will be poisoned.
Fortunately, the hunters were not in a hurry. After retreating to a safe distance, they waited patiently.
Poison Monster Dragon made other moves at this time.
Using the cover of the poisonous mist, it pressed the ring-shaped mouthparts on its tail, or cloaca, to the ground.
After the soft body squirmed for a while, a large ball of slimy egg sacs, almost as tall as a person, was excreted by it.
Gordon and the others immediately recognized this thing. After all, they had just seen it yesterday. The poisonous dragon babies hatched from the vesicles in the egg sacs.
In this way, the behavior of the Poison Monster Dragon just now cannot be said to be "excretion", but rather childbirth.
Looking at the poisonous dragon's cloaca dripping with mucus, Maka couldn't help but shuddered, "It's too disgusting."
The mass expelled by the poisonous dragon is not as stable as the one seen yesterday. After a few seconds, the vesicles in the mass burst.
Five or six poisonous monster dragon cubs emerged from it, fell to the ground, sniffed around twice, and then squirmed towards the hunters quickly.
At the same time, the Poison Monster Dragon also hissed and launched an attack.
Gordon looked at each other with his companions.
They have known for a long time that the poisonous monster dragon will use its young as weapons.
But seeing this scene with your own eyes, it is inevitable that your scalp will go numb.
They can probably understand why this kind of low-level flying dragon species, which has a low ecological niche, slow movements, and physical strength that is not even as strong as a big strange bird, is classified as a four-star danger level.
If an ordinary three-star hunter encounters this situation, especially if he is hunting alone, he will inevitably be a little confused.
Coupled with the violent toxins, four-star hunters are prone to misses.
“According to the original plan, Hayata Maka restrained the poisonous dragon, Brother Ted, we, uh.”
Gordon paused and said helplessly: "We let them bite."
“Damn it, it’s all for better food later!” Ted said angrily, putting away his shield and musket, and walked forward with Gordon.
Hayata and Maka attacked from the side, forcing the poisonous dragon to stop, and then drove it away.
Gordon and Ted opened their arms and stood among the squirming poison dragon babies, allowing these slimy little things to jump on them and bite them.
Hearing the "crunching" sound in his ears, Gordon couldn't help but sigh.
If a hunter whose armor quality is not up to standard is bitten by these little monsters and bites through the weak parts of the armor, or is drilled into a gap in the armor, the end will probably not be good.
“Pork chop!”
“It’s coming down, meow!”
Gordon and Ted stood together, holding their breath, when Pork Chop ran over and smashed a capture tranquilizer bomb at their feet.
The anesthetic smoke dispersed, and the Poison Monster Dragon babies fell to the ground one after another.
Pork chops were tied together with ropes that had been prepared long ago.
The first batch of poisonous dragon cubs have been captured.
(End of this chapter)