Chapter 42: The Heavyweight Empress
『Trigger the Stage 7 Main Quest and get 20 Hypnos Points, "Starter Outfit" Upgrade Ticket*1』
True Main Quest 7: Hunting Musou
"Description: After learning the origin of that scale, you think that the grounded place is most likely the birthplace of the Black Eclipse Dragon, and you are destined to fight it, which is also an important part of forging your legendary name in this world, but now, you will face the strongest monsters under the natural disaster, come on!
【Completion Condition: Hunting Thunderwolf Dragon 0/1, Heavy Beetle 0/1, Boom Dragon 0/1』
『Reward: 80 Hypnos Points, Monster Card*3』
"Failure Penalty: Hypnos Points Reset to Zero"
After receiving the task reward, and then listening to the glasses Niang describe the appearance and weaknesses of the three monsters, the time came to noon unconsciously, and after eating lunch in the open-air cafeteria, An Ran embarked on the road to Sky Mountain with a strong sense of sleep.
Because of the awkward position of not far away, and the fact that there is only one mountain road in the vicinity that only the villagers know, there is no catcart service in Sinat Village, which is also the first time in many days that he has felt how hard it is to travel with his legs.
"Thinking about it, the main reason why Scourge monsters like to stay in deserted places is probably that no hunter who is used to riding in cat carts wants to go all the way to fight monsters...... Alas ~ the first day without a cat car, think about it. 」
Along the way, the cool mountain breeze blew, and occasionally stopped to look at the wild flowers on the side of the road, An Ran was not in a hurry to hunt the three monsters, because when he was having lunch, he learned that this commission was completely the reason why the glasses lady asked the great elder to come on his own initiative, saying that he wanted to contribute to the construction of a public security environment near the village.
In fact, the villagers of Sinat Village don't care what kind of large monsters will appear in Sky Mountain, because they will only go to Sky Mountain to dig when they need some special ores, and with the village's self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy and a longer lifespan than most monsters, most of the monsters that have been dangling in Sky Mountain have been boiled to death.
Enron had always wondered why there were the least number of dragons among the hunters, and it dawned on him after hearing the information described by the villagers of Sinat Village.
"Hunting? Why hunting? Wait until the monster dies naturally, it's only a few decades. ”
“......”
For this kind of "I can't beat you, but I live longer than you", An Ran can only say that he can't be provoked, but it seems that because of the extremely long lifespan, the reproductive ability of the dragon people is very low, even in Sinat Village, which is a large gathering place for the dragon people, there are only more than thirty people in the entire village.
After coming to the Sky Mountain camp, An Ran felt that such a thing as a dead house would be quite a terrible thing if it had an extremely long lifespan, and judging from the soup pot that was already full of mushrooms, I was afraid that no one had been here for some years.
Considering that he had walked for almost three hours to get here, and most of it was still relatively steep mountain roads, An Ran made a decision that he definitely should not spend the night here.
"This Great Elder is not planning to let me come hunting and clean up the camp for him by the way, this is too beautiful, as a salted fish that is not so salty, it is impossible to clean up, if I have to spend the night here I would rather sleep on that pile of mushrooms. 」
So the biggest problem before him now was how to settle the three hunting commissions in two hours and get back to Sinat Village before the best time to sleep.
"It would be nice if these three guys got together, let's use the upgrade coupon first, I didn't have time to look at it while listening to the chatter of the glasses lady, and I can't save this thing for the New Year. 」
After using the prop, which was so simple that the introduction was only one sentence of "upgrade the starter suit", a streamer of light was injected into Enron's clothes, and then he checked the upgraded attributes.
"Starter Outfit (Non-Detachable): A set of clothes that will not be damaged by any damage, and can be transformed into any appearance."
"Rarity: 2 Stars, Grade: Unknown, Carus Value: 100, Skill: Revival"
"Revive (Special Skill, cannot be upgraded): Triggers when you take critical damage and enters a near-death state, clears all negative statuses and quickly recovers all injuries, Cooldown: 72 hours"
While lamenting that he might have to develop in the direction of the meat shield in the future, Enron was full of curiosity about this skill with a cooldown, this was the first time he had seen a cooldown time with a clear price on the skill, but after thinking back to his main attack method, he still accepted this setting.
"Sword energy is not a skill, "real name liberation" can only be used when you are desperate, "flash" can be used up to six times or the arm will be broken, and the rest seem to be passive, maybe only a salted fish messenger like me is not so big in pursuit of active skills. 」
An Ran, who was very satisfied with the new skills, happily started this hunt, but the more he walked, the more he felt that the name Sky Mountain really perfectly expressed the terrain of this area, and this naming ability was more than ten times more than that of a glasses girl whose name was all based on preference.
An Ran, who stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down, felt that at this height, nothing would remain intact if he fell, but when he stared into the abyss, the ground under his feet suddenly shook rhythmically.
Then he took two steps back away from the cliff, and remembered that when no one had ever said that this was an earthquake-prone area, a huge chelicerae had smashed in front of him, and he felt an even stronger tremor.
An Ran sighed that he was worthy of being a "heavyweight empress", and at the same time pulled out the Chixiao Sword to prepare for battle, and when the heavy beetle completely appeared in front of him, he understood why this monster could be called the empress.
In addition to its extremely large size, a beetle was forcibly fastened to its back with a moon-shaped pincer tail, which completely explained how domineering a generation of empresses was.
An Ran, who had mourned for the beetle for a while, raised his sword and stabbed at the empress's relatively soft abdomen, and there was no splash of juice as expected, and his sword did not even pierce the opponent's defense.
The tip of the sword pierced the belly carapace less than an inch before it was blocked by another layer of hard objects, and the heavy beetle that jumped up quickly made An Ran have to roll to avoid this Tarzan pressure, the weight of this empress is not something that his small body can bear.
After the smoke and dust cleared, Enron and the heavy beetle entered a confrontation situation, but this situation lasted less than three seconds before two balls of thunder light fell from the sky and an earth-shattering roar.
", it shouldn't be so coincidental, let's come together, are you still human in the white night?"