Peresen's special crossbow ration was notoriously scarce among Shadow Hunter circles. The kingdom has several military-grade natural crystal production sites, and the polished lenses support more than sixty percent of the continent's crossbow needs, but they always keep the best for themselves. Ah Dong was lucky enough to see it once on the black market, so he didn't hesitate to add it to his bucket list, after "Around the Continent" and "Cottage by the Sea".

Now that the blackened aid was hanging from her crossbow gun, the girl suddenly felt unreal. The skies were clear on the hunting grounds, the water shimmered in the distance, but there was not a single annoying glare in the expensive lenses. The scene from a few hundred meters away had never been so clearly reflected in his eyes, and his field of vision was more than double that of the one that Ah Dong had used before, giving the hunter another three points of confidence in addition to his own skills. Seeing that there was still no movement on the other side of the scope, she couldn't help but poke her head out from behind the thick barrel and brushed her fingers pityingly over the smooth surface of the sight. After hours of lurking, the girl relied on it to keep her from getting bored as usual.

The salty smell of the wind spread from the far sea to Ah Dong's side, causing the hunter to wrinkle his nose uncomfortably. The girl's place was the most inconspicuous of the nearby rock platforms, the rock pillars were less than 100 meters high, and the top was wide enough to accommodate people, and it was rare that there was a taller rock mound behind it as a shade, but it would not block too much of the view of the lurkers.

The island is small, with a few dozen metres of limestone rocks offering a glimpse of the coastline, but the other half is hidden behind towering peaks and rolling tropical jungle. The island's only river, which originates from the clouds, crosses the entire forested area, and still maintains a considerable flow rate at the trumpet-shaped estuary at the foot of Adong. Even if it was her first time at sea, the girl could tell from her experience as a hunter what dangers were hidden in such terrain - the island was a complex ecology, full of organs, and perhaps an unimaginably high number of species.

However, it was not up to her to decide where the ship would land, and the young people of the moment had no time to worry about the possible crisis in the depths of the island. She held her breath to make sure that the slight noise in her ears was not the sound of a wave, and her eyes snapped back to the sights, and she silently entered the combat mode.

Dozens of seconds later, with an earth-shattering roar, a bright light appeared on the line between the woodland and the gray sand.

The waves shook the trees around him, but the firelight didn't stir up too much smoke, and under the lenses, Ah Dong could clearly see the two figures thrown out from behind the trees in the chaos. The girl's heart sank, the body of the gun adjusted slightly, and her fingers subconsciously tightened the trigger.

The figures were large and small, and their upside-down flying postures were quite embarrassing, and they rolled several times on the wet sand before they could barely stabilize their center of gravity. As soon as one of them got up, he picked up the big sword that he had thrown beside him with his backhand, and waved his other hand left and right towards the empty place, which was exactly the direction of Ah Dong.

"It's all safe...... Was it not a direct hit? Great......" Ah Dong muttered to himself.

Kaede on the beach endured the churning in his chest, and spit out the broken leaves in his mouth along with the bloody phlegm. At this moment, he is covered in mottled armor, which is far more than "safe and sound". Despite the weapon's cushion, he alone took on most of the aftermath of the previous explosion, and the embarrassed Asha behind him was pushed away by him first. The old hunter didn't believe the emblem engraved on the girl's hunting suit, but that she needed to maintain her combat power to the maximum in the subsequent battles.

Feeling Ah Xia's resentful eyes, Kaede pouted into the depths of the swaying bushes: "Concentrate on fighting, and wait until we get back to the ship, that guy is not an opponent we can distract." ”

The girl nodded in compromise as she pulled away in the direction of the river beach, throwing away the bone knife on her right hand that was visibly curled, and pulling a random handful from the hilt that lined up horizontally on the side of her rucksack. The bone-white blade has a faint metallic sheen, and the handle also bears the emblem of the kingdom.

"It's coming!" Before the young hunter could pull out enough distance, there was a crisp click in the distance, and the trunk of the tree snapped.

The moment the huge beast body emerged from the shadow of the tree, it was locked by Ah Dong's telescope. At the other end of the camera is a tall beast dragon with dark blue body, monster scales and hideous armor, and the tail end is surrounded by heavy blade spines, and the heavy hammer is straight behind it. Unlike ordinary beast dragon species, the opponent's forelimbs are unusually thick, more like a pair of slightly smaller hind limbs hanging on the chest. Affected by the weight of its forepaws, the monster's back is unusually flattened, hunched over, and its head and neck are strangely stretched forward.

As soon as they stepped out of the woodland, the beast couldn't wait to chase after the two hunters. Seeing that Ah Xia and Kaede were separated left and right, the monster's feet sank, and with an angry roar, it jumped forward, turning into a blue wind and jumping towards Kaede who was a little closer. The Shadowhunter dragged his heavy sword and left a trail of footprints in the sand, still unable to avoid being bullied in the blink of an eye. The beast stretched out one of its forelimbs in the air, its claws folded under its arms, and its protruding wrist slammed into the sand in front of Kaede like a huge fist.

"Boom ——!" Even though the hunter tried his best to dodge, he only narrowly avoided the direct attack of the fist claw. The gray sand was instantly rolled up half a foot high, leaving a deeper sand pit in place, and the impact pushed Kaede a few meters away again, and the tip of the sword was only able to stop when it plunged into the ground.

"Whew...... It's dangerous. The old hunter looked fearfully at where the monster had landed. The violent power did not come from the strength of the beast's body, but from a real explosion. The source of the explosion was the long, misshapen hands - a layer of green substance applied to them, to be exact.

Over the course of more than a day's battle, Kaede learned about the properties of the mysterious green substance. As rumored, it is a slime fungus that lives on the surface of the monster's body, and can reproduce naturally by absorbing a small amount of nutrients, and is distributed in both claws and club-like bumping horns on the top of the head. If the saliva of a big guy intensifies, it can grow wildly within a few minutes.

The slime mold itself is negligible in toxicity, but it has a very tricky property - once it is violently impacted, it will release the stored heat in one go, and evolve into a powerful explosion that is difficult to reach even standard explosives. The monster's heavy carapace can easily withstand the waves of fire it creates, but the hunter does not have the same ability, no matter how good Kaede is at close combat, approaching rashly is tantamount to killing himself, and the length of the battle is therefore delayed again and again.

"If I get hit head-on, no matter how strong the hunting suit is, I will already be a broken corpse at this time." The old hunter took a breath, reorganized his posture for battle a few meters away, and said secretly in his heart, "It's worthy of being called 'Broken Dragon', I met you at the first place after going to sea, I really don't know if it's our luck or misfortune." ”

The broken dragon didn't show much surprise when it missed the blow, as if it had become accustomed to the dexterity of the hunter in the days of fighting. It faced the gray-faced maple, its tail cocked upwards for no apparent reason, and it bowed its head as if it were bowing, and the tips of its horns were buried in the sand. The green slime molds peeled off and were buried in the sand pit, and the ground between the man and the beast lit up slightly, as if something was breaking through the ground.

The Shadow Hunter's pupils shrank, and he fell to the side without saying a word. The beast dragon slammed its legs and took a step back, pulling its big horn out of the ground. As if it had touched a trap buried underground, the explosion spread from the square inch in front of the horns. The fierce flames swooped like a beast that had been dormant for a long time, with shining claws and fangs, and swooped down on Kaede's location.

The flash of fire blew a deep crater between the two. After the roar, the broken dragon looked fixedly, and the maple was no longer there, and where the hunter had stood before, a pair of footprints were intact, as if they had not been affected by the explosion.

"Have you found out? Feel like you're getting weaker, right? Kaede took her heavy sword and approached the Shattered Dragon along the edge of the crater. As long as it is an explosion, the heavy and sticky sand and the moisture contained in it are its natural enemies, which is the original intention of the three of them to go to great lengths to lure the broken dragon to the isolated island Bund.

After consuming a large amount of slime molds and achieving little success, the green color on the lord's arms and on the top of his head became lighter. Moving at high speed, Kaede's eyes keenly caught an inconspicuous gesture of the broken dragon raising his hand and bowing his head. The hunter was secretly happy in his heart, and his feet increased again, his hands completed the accumulation of strength in the movement, and the rising sword blade slammed into the arm of the broken dragon with a muffled sound.

The heavy sword swung open the monster's forelimbs, stopping it from licking its arms. The beast dragon species failed to replenish the colony, and in annoyance and anger, he opened his arms left and right, aimed at the hunter in front of him, and made a hook action humanely. The claws of the broken dragon were powerful, but they did not push the hunter back as usual. The broad spine of the sword was like a door panel between the man and the beast, and Feng was short and bent his knees, and his waist was bent into a bow, and he blocked it with two bangs, and he did not move half a step under his feet.

"If you don't rely on those pesky slime molds, you'll only have that power." Ignoring the beast dragon's surprised eyes, the hunter's heavy sword swung out one after another. After fighting and off for a day, he finally found a great opportunity to be able to fight in close quarters, and Kaede could easily let it go. A flash of sword light flickered between the two, and Kaede's blade was firmly stuck to the Shattered Dragon's forearm like a magnet.

Taking advantage of the moment when the monster's attention was attracted, Axia, who had already fled far away, quietly went back and forth. The huntress circled, carefully treading the sand in the corner of the dragon's sight, the soles of her feet as silent as those of the Ellu. The beast dragon species concentrated on the thorny big sword in front of him, and when he sensed the vibration behind him, Ah Xia was already close at hand. The girl screamed, and her twin knives were accurately embedded in the gaps in the blue scale armor, and with a bend of her arms, she jumped behind the monster as if she were flying with the fulcrum.

Ignoring the hideous carapace on the back of the broken dragon, Ah Xia knelt less than half a meter below the neck of the fierce beast. Her knives were held back, her gums biting, and the blades slammed into a visible bulge on the midline of her back.

The hardness of the bone blade was obviously insufficient, and with a crisp sound like a crack, the blade and the scale armor of the broken dragon broke almost simultaneously. The tip of a knife flew out, creating a silver scratch on Asha's helmet. The girl threw away the dagger without changing her face, and pulled it out from her back, the blade neatly penetrating into the flesh and blood along the shatters of the beast's armor. She slammed the other knife in her left hand a few more times until the dagger had no handle, and then she jumped from the big guy who was screaming in pain.

"Got it!" On the stone platform in the distance, Ah Dong's spirits were lifted, and even if it was not for Ah Mei's victory gesture on the other side of the mirror, she could clearly see the bright white hilt on the back of the broken dragon. The girl had never thought Peresent's badge so cute, and Asha's sacrificial blow not only severely damaged the monster, but also left a conspicuous mark on the heavy crossbowman in the distance. The lurker held his breath as the bullets and fires and loud explosions that had been waiting for hours in the chamber of the gun erupted.

The shattered dragon that was suddenly attacked had already lost its square inch, and after receiving several slashes from Kaede in succession, it retreated again and again, hanging its head and gasping for breath. Under the gaze of the old hunter, a blood flower suddenly soared from the back of the monster's neck, and the special bullet pierced through the scale armor and exploded again, breaking the short knife that remained in the body into large and small pieces. The shattered blades rolled through the monster's body like dozens of steel nails. Xu is blow pierced the spinal cord, and the pair of fist-like forearms of the broken dragon stretched forward in vain, and then he was numb, lost control of most of his body's strength, and fell under the big sword.

The two hunters stood guard in place with their weapons for half a minute, and Ah Dong in the shadows quickly replaced them with another bullet. It wasn't until he had confirmed that the dragon had lost the strength to stand up again that Kaede put his weapon behind his back and shouted into the distance, "Come out!" The danger has been lifted. ”

The direction of the hunter's eyes was not where Ah Dong was, but he heard the sound of a rope behind the stone forest in the distance, and a young man dressed as a craftsman trembled and stepped out from behind the bunker: "Hunting ...... Big Hunter, it doesn't seem to be dead yet—"

"If you don't spare its life, who are you going to squeeze the saliva?" The old hunter took two steps forward and knocked on the boy's smooth skull, "If it weren't for the fact that the microflora is active, it would have died in our hands a day ago." Don't worry, this guy has a broken spine and is no different from a corpse that can eat and drink - don't put on this cowardly expression! Kaede's eyes widened, and he pursed his lips in disgust, "Hell, I really don't understand that you Pirecente want to cross the entire ocean with a group of unarmed craftsmen......"

"That's why we hired a strong man like you, didn't we?" The little craftsman rubbed the back of his aching head and laughed twice, "Thank goodness, I thought the fleet was going to abandon this island. ”

"Bad words, I'm not your babysitter, No-" The hunter kicked the monster's front paws. The crusher dragon's limbs that had fainted in pain spasmed, and the young man was frightened and took a few steps back: "According to the contract, the saliva is mine, and the materials for three sets of equipment will be dismantled, and the rest will be yours." Don't try to fool me with scraps, you should know what I used to do. ”

"Three sets of ......" The boy looked at the size of the broken dragon, estimated it in his heart, and the corners of his mouth drooped, "Brother Hunter, make three full sets of armor, and there will be no bits and pieces left on it, can you ...... A little more lenient? ”

The young craftsman's bold counteroffer was only rewarded with a loud shudder on his forehead. Feng took out a material jade from his waist and threw it far away on a cluster of bacteria that had not had time to explode on the side, the green slime mold was touched, and it exploded into a wave of sand in the sky, making the little bald head tremble. The Shadowhunter twisted his neck, "You kid, would you dare to wear this kind of thing on your body?" Three sets of weapons, Ah Dong's share can be converted into special bullets. You all claim to be the best craftsmen in the mainland, and you have so much time at sea, it should be a piece of cake to find a way to use those slime molds, right? Go signal and get your companion to move it away, after so long, we should find a shaded spot to rest—"

Kaede's words did not fall, and he subconsciously looked towards the sea, and a sail shadow hung high on the blue waves, which was the sea ship when everyone came. In the old hunter's field of vision, the huge ship was full of sails, and for some reason the hull of the ship shook violently up and down as if it were dancing. Ah Xia pursed her lips and tugged at the hem of Kaede's clothes, and where the girl pointed, the tide in front of her was receding at an unusual speed, and the fish, shrimp and shellfish that had not had time to evacuate were scattered on the sand, glowing with a series of fine bubbles.

"Call Ah Dong and run." The old hunter's expression changed, and his voice was quite calm, but he clearly heard his own swallowing.

"Where are you going?" The young craftsman asked without a trace.

"On the island, the higher the better." Without saying a word, Kaede grabbed the little bald man's shoulders and dragged him towards the depths of the dense forest.

"It's a tsunami! Damn it...... What about everyone on board? The boy glanced back at the sea, and saw a bright white water barrier on the horizon, and how could he not know what it meant, and his face instantly turned purple.

"As long as there's one person on the boat who isn't stupid, they're all coming towards us." The Shadowhunter's footsteps grew faster and faster, "It's better to think about how to save your life than to care about them." ”

"Broken Dragon material—"

"Shut up!" Kaede shouted impatiently, and the young man in his elbow socket immediately became silent. The old hunter gritted his teeth in hatred, and muttered from between his teeth, "I've escaped so far, but I still can't escape the war that guy is talking about...... Damn, we said we were going to the New World, how could we be stopped on a small island? ”