"Bell!"

Only a crisp sound was heard, and the big sword in Catherine's hand was actually bounced back, and at the same time, Catherine herself took two steps back because of the excessive force. However, the monster only left a shallow trace on its body, and it failed to break through the other party's carapace at all.

At this moment, Catherine was also stunned.

Previously, Catherine had encountered some monsters with strong defenses, but she had never encountered this situation.

Even if the Daimyo Shield Crab has a strong defense and is also covered with a heavy carapace, as long as Catherine's great sword hits the body of the Daimyo Shield Crab, even if the weapon level is not high enough, and it is used in an ordinary one, without a charged slash, it is enough to destroy the carapace of the Daimyo Shield Crab.

From this point, it can be seen that Catherine has been learning to hunt from the beginning to the present, and the problem that makes Catherine feel a headache has always been how to make her attacks hit monsters, not how to break through the monsters' defenses.

Now, however, Catherine finds that the problem she once didn't care about has become her biggest problem.

"What to do? The slash can't break through the carapace on this monster's body, so what should be done? Should I use a charged slash? But it's a bit long to charge, so it's easy to be interrupted......"

Just as Catherine was debating whether to use the Charged Slash in her mind, the giant scorpion's tail began to move again.

I saw that the body of the super-large scorpion rotated in place, and the tail of the scorpion with the huge crystal stone immediately swept over like a waving meteor hammer!

Catherine could only put on a defensive posture again to protect herself while protecting the begonia behind her, and then she could only see a "bang", and the tail with crystal growing at the end hit Catherine's big sword again. Then Catherine felt her hand sink again. The body was beaten again until it withdrew several steps in succession. I almost lost my balance and fell to the ground!

"It hurts...... The strength of the big scorpion seems to have increased again...... No, it's because it's growing in power, it's because the monster is becoming more and more active......" Catherine thought to herself.

As Catherine thought, the strange scorpion looked as if it had just woken up from its sleep, and it moved more and more quickly.

Especially the tail sweep just now, and after it was done, Catherine saw that the long, thick tail was raised again after sweeping a circle. And the large crystal at the end of the tail began to glow strangely.

"This is ......" Seeing this situation, Catherine and Begonia didn't know what the other party was going to do, but judging from the posture of the big scorpion with crystal stones on its body, the two of them, who already had a certain amount of hunting experience, judged at the same time that the big scorpion was probably going to make some dangerous moves.

Sure enough, after the crystal stone at the end of the tail was lifted high, suddenly, a jet of liquid crystal that also shone purple light erupted from the inside of the crystal stone!

"Whoosh-"

It was like a fire hydrant that was out of control, and the tail of the huge scorpion swayed unsteadily because it couldn't withstand the high-speed jet that sprayed a large number of liquid crystal jets, and at the same time, the liquid crystal jet in front of it also showed an unstable state, drawing a big S shape on the ground!

Even so. The crystal jet was still rapidly approaching Catherine and Begonia, at this time. Catherine had just recovered from being beaten to a staggering back state, and her body was still a little unbalanced, but she could only defend in a hurry!

"No, I'm afraid that the blind defense won't last long, or you have to find a way to cause damage to this monster, it's best if you can force it back, that's great......" At this time, Begonia also thought in his heart.

Therefore, Begonia, who was hiding behind Catherine, raised the hunting bow in her hand and began a new round of accumulation. The purpose is to allow himself to complete the three-stage charge of a piercing arrow, and Begonia believes that this move that has a miraculous effect against large carapace species should also cause considerable damage to the huge scorpion in front of him with a heavy carapace!

Even if it will be dangerous to do so, Begonia knows that many times the risk is proportional to the benefit! In other words, the riskier the choice, the higher the return!

"Whoosh!"

At the same time as Begonia's piercing arrow shot out, the purple crystal jet also swept over like a column of high-pressure water, and then hit Catherine's great sword, and in an instant, the liquid crystal began to fly in all directions!

Catherine discovered that this high-pressure liquid crystal jet was much more powerful than the ordinary high-pressure water jet!

This is because the high-pressure water jet is nothing more than water, and at this time, the high-pressure liquid crystal jet that Catherine is subjected to is spraying crystals in a liquid state! And judging from the color and luminescence of these liquids, they should be two different states of the same substance as the crystal stone on the strange big scorpion.

This is like liquid water and solid ice, although one liquid and the other are solid, they still belong to the same substance after all.

The biggest feature of liquid crystal is that its density is several times higher than that of ordinary water! This also makes even if the jet speed is not much different, but because the density of the liquid crystal is too large, the kinetic energy and impact generated will naturally be several times larger!

"Ahh

So this time, Catherine, who had already defended twice in a row, failed to completely block the liquid crystal that was sprayed, but was pushed to the ground by the huge impact force, not only because the impact of the crystal jet was too great, but also because Catherine's physical strength had decreased after continuous defense.

At the same time, the unbalanced body could no longer protect the begonia behind him, and the result was that the liquid crystal hit the begonia that happened to shoot the arrow in his hand and was too late to dodge!

As a long-range hunter, the armor on Begonia's body belongs to light armor, which is far less defensive than Catherine's heavy armor, so after this high-speed liquid crystal jet hit Begonia, it immediately rushed Begonia out at once!

Begonia's petite body fell to the ground because of the huge impact, and at the same time, the high-pressure crystal jet swept over Begonia's body, bringing great pain to Begonia as if a sharp knife had slashed through his body!

"Ah......" Begonia's face showed a painful expression.

"Little Begonia!" Catherine shouted.

Catherine didn't care about her own safety, and immediately got up again, and at the same time straightened her posture again, and used the big sword in her hand to separate the remaining liquid crystal jet, which made Begonia's face a little better. (To be continued.) )