Chapter 802: Close the window
In his two years in the arena, Lu Xiu has fought against almost every monster that Golden Feather City can get his hands on and is not on the forbidden list. At that time, the little dragon people had won dozens of games in a row, and it was when they were emerging in the arena that the owner of the field, in order to make up for the sluggish business during the challenge festival, specially transported a snowy mountain monster from Piresente to prepare a special battle for the specially selected hunters.
"It's called the Ice Crusher and Uncle Harder mentioned it once. When I met in the arena, I paid more attention. Stimulated by the aroma of wine, the little dragon's tongue was full of relish, but his throat was a little itchy, "It's a whole level stronger than the native species, it won't want to eat us, probably just think of us as the lords here......"
The monster regrouped from the ruins of the wooden house, and Jia Xiao saw its face clearly for the first time. Counting the tail that stretched out behind him, the beast dragon species was more than fifteen meters long, and its entire body was covered with blue-blue scale armor, and the armor was covered with an equally solid layer of ice and snow.
The Ice Shatterer's head is eye-catching, and its huge crown resembles a square warhammer, making it undoubtful of the destructive power it contains. Most of the monster's recipes are insects and ants that live below the surface of the ice, and the crest can help it crack through the perennial ice in the snowfield, smashing a few houses and a few hunters.
"But be careful not to get too far away from it, once the speed of this guy's charge is raised, even the special railing in the arena can't stop it." Lu Xiu pouted, as if he remembered some unpleasant memories.
"What are you kidding...... How do we get rid of it? The epee hunter lamented. This battle was not in his prediction, and the opponent he encountered could not be easily shaken off for a while, and Jia Xiao, who was recovering from his injuries, was a little lacking.
"The bad news isn't just that, the environment doesn't affect it as much as other snow species – see the snow on it? That guy needs these things to keep warm in the snow. The dragonman whispered as he made a gesture to disperse.
The Ice Shatter Dragon's body is not strong in keeping out the cold, which means that it is in warm areas, and the decline in combat power is not as obvious as that of other snow species. The behemoth was as agile as ever, taking a few steps back from the ruins, tossing off the rubble and wood chips hanging overhead, its small eyes under its crown locking onto the two running hunters. The monster's eyes glowed with a hungry green light, and the beast dragon's signature thick hind limbs moved, and they had begun to secretly accumulate strength.
Seeing this, the two young men ran towards the intersection in front of them, the square in the village was the only area in the vicinity that was still quite empty, even if the hunter had the ability to make a break in half in the alleys that were constrained everywhere. Keeping in mind the warning of his companions, Jia Xiao deliberately restrained his speed and kept a distance of two positions from the giant beast. The hunter thought it was foolproof, but he suddenly heard the sound of smashing tiles behind him, and the beast dragon species forcibly started to charge, regardless of the short running distance.
"Dragon Car!" The epee hunter shouted and quickly dodged to the side. He only felt a strong wind sweeping through the back of his neck, and the Ice Shattering Dragon's extremely close charge did not face him, but forcibly deflected ninety degrees, as if he couldn't wait to leave, and ran to the house next to the road, "Huh...... It's not going to be an escape, is it? ”
"Don't stop!" The little dragon man approached his companion, forcibly pulled one of his arms, and accelerated under his feet, "That guy will come back!" ”
Jia Xiao was stunned, and the beast dragon species smashed several rooms one after another, and the speed of the charge became faster and faster. Under the rubble, the smoke and dust raised behind the monster's tail bypassed an exaggerated arc, and from dozens of meters away, it actually turned around again, and began to approach the escape route of the two.
"Hide!" The towering giant tree in the center of the square was close in front of him, and when it was still a few meters away from the mouth of the alley, the specially selected hunter jumped up vigorously and jumped up first, and instantly crossed the distance of seven or eight meters, Jia Xiao was dragged behind him like a kite, and he also slid heavily on the sandy ground. After landing, the heavy sword hunter heard the roar of the dragon cart getting closer and closer like a maggot on the tarsal bone, and his heart was cold.
Behind the two of them, the path that the Ice Shatter Dragon had walked drew a semicircle, completed the final acceleration in a very unreasonable way, and rushed out of the alley with the momentum of thunder. The monster hung its head down, its huge crown pointing straight ahead, and the sand and dust on the road ahead were all lined up on both sides, raising waves of earth.
The behemoth's neck and tail were straight, fine-tuning the direction of the charge like two rudders, but the hunter's dodge range was beyond the limits of what it could adjust. The dragon cart roared past Jia Xiao's back, and finally returned in vain.
The whistling sound passed away from his ears, and before the heavy sword hunter could sigh that he had brushed shoulders with death, he felt that it was dark in front of him, and he was in a panic as he rolled, and actually crashed headfirst into the trunk of the giant pine in the square. He got up in embarrassment, grabbed the heavy sword that fell to the side, and stabilized the double image in his eyes: "Pain...... Launching a dragon car from that angle is really a chaotic way of attacking......"
There was no touch of the real thing above his head, and the Ice Shatter Dragon stopped rushing after running for more than ten meters. The beast's toenails dug deep into the ground, and with a flick of its tail, it kicked up a cloud of dust behind it, making it easy to slow down.
"I also suffered a lot of losses in the dragon car, but if I fight closely, I may still have a chance to win." The dragonman whispered.
"How long did it take you in the first place?"
"Half an hour...... Probably longer. Lu Xiu pursed his lips and added, "At that time, there was a crossbow in the field, and it was ruthless at the last moment." ”
The more carefully the companion explained, the more gloomy Jia Xiao's eyes became: "We don't have heavy weapons, and we don't have half an hour to deal with this kind of guy, everyone on the airship is still waiting for us to recover." ”
"I can see if I can scare it off......" the little dragon man said as if he had made up his mind.
"Nope." The epee hunter stretched out his arm against Luciu's chest, stopping his eager companion. He pointed to his temple: "You still have your own troubles to deal with, let me do this fight." You're on the side to press me down, and you'd better find a way to contact the airship. ”
"But—"
"Unless you can guarantee that I won't face two 'monsters' at the same time halfway through the fight. Otherwise, it's settled. Jia Xiao raised his weapon forcefully, raised it in front of him and put on a posture of battle.
In the short confrontation before, before the little dragon man could attack, he already felt that his blood was about to burst through the blood vessels, so Lu Xiu couldn't say the sentence "I'm fine" no matter what. No one on the battlefield would joke about their lives and the lives of their comrades, and of course Jia Xiao was the same. Thinking so, the specially selected hunter saw that his companion had already started a solo battle posture, so he had no choice but to swallow his saliva, restrain his breath, and retreat into the distance with interest.
The Ice Shattering Dragon, a few dozen meters away, stopped its momentum and staggered and turned around. It let out a low whistle and scurried under the tree where the two men were. The heavy sword hunter leaned against the giant tree with his back, and did not move in the face of the menacing dragon chariot. As soon as he entered the battle state, his pupils slowly shrank, and the attention of the whole person instantly focused on the huge body of the beast dragon species, and even his breathing began to secretly match the frequency of the beast dragon species' steps.
Shocking destructive power aside, the dragon cart is actually the most clumsy and primitive attack method of monsters. Its shots are not concealed at all, requiring a relatively wide field to provide acceleration, the path of the attack is single, and the flaws at the end are also amazingly large. Although a considerable number of lord-level powerhouses will adjust their direction to a limited extent during the charge, the faster they are and the closer they are to their prey, the smaller the scope of this adjustment.
Theoretically, as long as they are not attacked from behind, any well-trained hunter can calmly avoid the dragon cart when it is close to three to five meters, and it can even be an excellent opportunity for hunters to counterattack. However, the blow of the dragon chariot that mobilizes the strength and momentum of the whole body often makes the brave adventurer lose his courage, slow down his actions to varying degrees, and even forget to dodge in a daze, and finally crush under the iron hooves of the monster. Fortunately, being in the team of the small hunting group is that it can make people accustomed to "fear". Compared to the hundred-meter-long ancient dragon species, the magma and thunder in the sky, the ice shattering dragon in front of him was no more than Erer.
Sure enough, as if rehearsed, while the giant beast took its last step, Jia Xiao also dragged his heavy sword and rolled to the right. The hunter's body burrowed through the waves of earth set off by the dragon cart, and accurately avoided the powerful blow of the beast dragon at the extreme distance.
"Knock ——!" The crest of the Ice Shattering Dragon's head slammed into the hundred-year-old tree behind the young man, and he was immediately forced to stop. The thick trunk was far from what it looked sturdy, crunching under the massive chiseling. Cracks appeared in the eroded roots in an instant, and the crown of the tree shook for a while, shaking off a puff of needles.
Of course, Jia Xiao didn't let go of this short hard straight, and the heavy sword swept and slashed at the crook of the monster's leg. The blade of the sword collided with the ice attached to the scale armor, and the ice ballast splashed everywhere, knocking down only a few pieces of ice shell, and the scale armor remained unharmed. Under the pain of the beast dragon species, the giant tail flicked horizontally, and without looking back, he turned around and ran into the distance, intending to repeat the old trick.
Several slightly melted ice balls were flung off their tails and easily blocked by the spine of the sword, depriving the hunter of a chance to pursue. The regrouped Ice Shatter Dragon didn't give Jia Xiao a second of respite, and the brutal charge followed one after another the next moment.
The power of the dragon chariot was wave after wave, and in a few breaths, the square inch in front of the heavy sword hunter was covered with the hideous footprints of the beast dragon species. The Ice Shattering Dragon was like a tireless chariot, with Jia Xiao's position as the center of the circle, and the attack was launched from all directions, as if the young man was a target to practice charging. The ancient tree on which the hunter leaned had been ravaged by the beasts became more and more crumbling, cracks crawling all over the trunk, and the bark of the bark had sunk deep into the wood at the point of impact, as if it would collapse after one or two more blows. However, Jia Xiao's side was like a small isolated island in the middle of a storm, and the heavy crown roared and rushed every time, but it always missed his body by a fraction.
The young man moved and struck out, either cutting off a piece of crystal ice or a few blue-blue scales, and a heavy sword in his hand actually had the dexterity of a sword. After a few rounds, the hunter was unharmed, but there were many clear sword marks on the body of the giant beast. Although none of the sword marks touched the flesh and blood, it made the anger in the lord's chest even stronger. Seeing that it was not only the Ice Shattering Dragon, but even Jia Xiao seemed to have a real fire, Lu Xiu in the distance had to remind him loudly: "Hey! Don't fight it! Watch the time! ”
"I know!" Seeing that a new round of dragon chariots was coming, the hunter replied with a backhand sword that blessed his soul, and he actually slashed decisively at the trunk of the tree. The blow was the last straw that broke the old tree, and the giant tree fell to the side with a wail, the sound of the wood breaking like a firecracker.
When he sensed something falling overhead, the beast dragon species had no time to dodge. The criss-crossed branches resembled an inverted iron cage, casting shadows that enveloped the Ice Shattering Dragon. With a terrible howl, smoke and dust nearly a meter high rolled up in the center of the battlefield, and the monster was caught off guard and crushed under the towering giant tree weighing tons before it could get close to the hunter's side.
"Hell...... Jia Xiao? Lu Xiu leaned out from under the wall in the corner, and only after a while did he see his companion safe and sound in the smoke and dust, "How are you?" ”
"You're right, if you delay a little longer, this leg will be untenable......" The hunter rolled over to avoid the area where the giant pine had fallen, and stood up with a wry smile as he propped up the ground with his heavy sword. Moving in a small area in situ is no easier than a long-distance attack, Jia Xiao didn't realize it when he was concentrating, and when the dust settled, fatigue and sourness hit him all at once.
"Is that guy dead?"
"No—" The epee hunter shrugged and glanced in the direction of the canopy. The beast dragon species was still struggling inside, and from time to time there was the crackling sound of branches being shattered.
Compared to the second-order native species, the strength of the Ice Shattering Dragon, as a subspecies, can reach the upper reaches of the third order. Being able to confront the fierce beast that stepped into the upper position without falling behind, such a record is enough to make Jia Xiao proud.
In all fairness, if the dragon man is in good condition, he can dodge the previous series of charges with his physical strength, but he will never be as light as he was just now, and it can be said that this is a victory that only Jia Xiao can grasp. However, the hunter suddenly didn't know, and his eyes were full of regret: "It reacted too quickly and only suppressed the lower half of its body." Sorry, this tree...... It seems to be an important marker of Xuelin Village. ”
"Don't worry, it'll be ruined sooner or later, let's go." The specially selected hunter hurriedly said.
"Wait a minute." Jia Xiao took the heavy sword and beckoned to the dragon man, "This means can't control a lord for too long, we have to leave it in place for the time being, and wait for the dust to come back before dealing with it." ”
The snow on the Ice Shattering Dragon's body has not yet melted away, and it is afraid that it will only take more than ten minutes to run down from the position of the snow line. When counted, its speed is comparable to that of an airship in a cruise. If the dust is not returned, the beast dragon species that has escaped from the trap can easily escape the coverage of the dragon cavity, and the nearby villages may still suffer as a result: "My sword can't break through its defenses, and I'm afraid this blow will still have to be axed." ”
The specially selected hunter nodded and took off the weapon behind his back, and just put on a battle posture, but was snatched by Jia Xiao: "Huh? ”
"This is my fight." The epee hunter weighed the weight of his mechanical weapon and walked towards the struggling beast, "At least there must be a beginning and an end, right?" ”
"Hey! The transforming axe is not a joke, if you don't operate it properly, ......" Before the dragonman's words fell, he saw his companion touch the mechanism on the handle of the axe, and the blade of the axe swung in front of him, and the sword embedded in it was sharply revealed, "When did you ......"
"It's not very difficult, almost everyone in the group can use it, including the head of the regiment." Jia Xiao blinked his eyes mysteriously, and as he spoke, he touched the second mechanism, and the blade of the sword slowly turned into a bright red, "If you want to blame, just blame Mei Ke...... Also, when you're sleeping, it's time to close the windows. ”