Chapter 36: The Hunt

"Whoa—"

The originally flat and dense blades of grass were suddenly lifted up by the force that erupted below, and it was no longer possible to hide the black shadow hidden in the blades of grass. The doe, who was grazing leisurely, screamed, and before she could escape, her neck was broken by a strong wind.

Watching the fleeing deer in all directions, Iroh stretched to make sure there was no ambush around her before lowering her head to enjoy the delicious venison.

Aelo knew that the dragon he had summoned this time was indeed extraordinary, and the battle had lasted for two whole days, but there was still no result.

Maybe the strength of the green dragon is not as good as his own, but the other party knows how to take advantage of the location and try to smooth out the gap.

There had been more than ten battles between them in the past two days, but Iroh had not been able to keep each other - with Iroh's current strength, even if he deliberately controlled his strength and did not use a large-area lethal attack, it was an incredible thing.

Not only is the green dragon itself extremely suitable for fighting in the forest, but it also seems to be completely integrated with the forest, every attack of Iroh is endured and defused by the forest, and every attack of the green dragon is like the entire forest is standing opposite Iro.

If it weren't for Iroh's own perceptive vision, I'm afraid that he would have been forced to admit defeat by this long hunt at this moment.

But Iroh didn't get restless because of this, on the contrary, he enjoyed the process. The first time he had such a hunt battle with an enemy in the jungle was very rewarding for Eloh.

At least in the beginning, Iroh will be attacked from time to time, and not so long ago...... He's already managed to sneak up on the other side once.

The other side of the forest.

"I didn't expect such a big harvest this time......" Natalie, a young green dragon with emerald green scales, was leaning against a broken mountain rock, carefully using her talent to probe around.

"It's really exciting, it's only a teenager, but it's on par with me in the forest. This time it was really in vain. ”

In her perception, there was no sign of any living presence around her, except for the breeze that passed through the leaves.

"Come to think of it, if you chase it all the way, it's not this guy's style. Natalie looked at her left forearm, which she had treated with magic and herbs, but still seeped blood from it, and her heart was as calm as water, "It seems that I have to admit that I was the first to win the game by that guy...... But until the last moment, no one can easily say. ”

Dozens of minutes ago, Natalie found a shallow beach with a slightly smooth flow next to the river in the forest and began to drink, but Arlo used Transfiguration to shrink her body, and launched a surprise attack with the cover of magic and rocks and mud and sand in the water, first making a splash to block Natalie's vision, and then recovering her body as quickly as possible, showing her front paws towards Natalie's throat.

Natalie reacted immediately, immediately stretched out her left arm to block, grabbed Ailo when she pierced her forearm, changed the angle to the situation, and opened her mouth to spew a corrosive aura towards Iro.

Iroh's reaction was no surprise as his arm continued to press, trying to press his claws against her neck, while he tilted his head slightly, making a difficult dodge that a dragon could barely dodge, watching the corrosive aura brush his face while his tail spun around like a nimble python, the end blade stabbing directly into Natalie's lower abdomen.

Hardly hesitating, Natalie seemed to have already seen Iroh's attack, she gently shook her wrist, and used a beautiful skill, taking advantage of the opportunity of Iro's dodge to lose her strength a little, and instantly freed herself from Iroh's attack.

The next moment she fought back again, grabbing Eloh's front paws with a backhand that she didn't have time to retract, slightly deflating Iroh's balance slightly, perfectly defusing Iroh's tail attack, and then her spitting weapon was prepared at an exaggerated speed, only this time the scale of the breath was smaller, but it was also more deadly - the highly corrosive gas was condensed like never before, turning into an emerald green ray and shooting towards his left eye!

"The ability to counter sneak attacks is also so strong......"

The golden threads in Ello's eyes, who seemed to have been unavoidable, appeared slightly, and the next moment they broke away out of thin air and appeared ten meters away.

The teleportation technique that has been preparing since the beginning of the sneak attack has finally worked!

However, in the next second, the strange fishy smell from the wind made his pupils constrict.

At some point, Natalie actually prepared a magic arrow that was ready to be launched in the air, and at the moment when Iroh broke away with teleportation, she did not hesitate to activate the last hole card.

Fortunately, Ello's biggest characteristic is that he doesn't do things that he is not sure of. He who has known Natalie's terrible for two days is extremely well prepared for this sneak attack, and at the moment when the magic arrow is about to hit him, he successfully escapes with a shift technique!

It's just that despite getting out of Natalie's blow, Iroh is still alert.

"This pungent smell...... Is it the venom of a high-purity silver-light blood snake?"

Comparing it with the information in his memory, Iroh immediately understood the horror of this venom, although it is not deadly, as long as it is purified by a special process, then even a dragon that has entered the youth will be paralyzed in just a few seconds after the skin is cut by the weapon smeared with this venom, and it will be slaughtered by others!

And if it is against humans, the paralysis will only be faster.

He didn't know how Natalie had purified this venom in two days, but when he thought about it, this green dragon wouldn't have less hands than himself!

Despite knowing that there was poison in his blood, Iroh didn't plan to test it now. Natalie's danger is well known to him, even if this venom only has a little effect on himself, I'm afraid she will take advantage of the situation and put a stop to this hunt!

Iroh is like this, what he can't get for sure, he won't take risks until he has to.

"It seems that we can only retreat first, and it is not too late to come back after coming up with countermeasures. ”

Iroh understands very well that in this vast primeval forest, the identity of the hunter and the prey has always been relative, and the prey will certainly be hunted by the hunter, but the hunter also has the possibility of becoming the prey.

At this thought, Iroh did not hesitate at all, and his tail swept out a cold ray to force Natalie, who pounced on him again, and his wings spread hard, quickly rising into the air and disappearing under the cover of magic.

Natalie also didn't chase after her, and she was more experienced and patient in this regard than the current Iroh.

You know, winning or losing for a moment is not important on this battlefield.

"He's not going to give up so quickly, it's just that I haven't spotted his hidden location right now. Natalie licked her wounds, and the pain in her heart came like a tidal wave, but she had no intention of using healing magic to quickly heal the wounds.

The reason is very simple, now this kind of wound that does not affect the overall situation, but can continue to bring her pain, is the key to maintaining her combat effectiveness.

Her heart is joyful.

She was very satisfied with this hunt.

Natalie still remembered Iroh's eyes, the dark and deep pupils as barren as an extremely frozen ice field, the kind of eyes that disregarded the lives of others and their own lives, and only in the heat of battle would they glow with a frenzy that was difficult to hide.

So Natalie knows that when she is the enemy of someone with this kind of eyes, if she has a trace of confusion and lack of clarity in her mind, it is no different from suicide.

"Let me go ahead and see, you can make such a noticeable change in two days, so if the hunt continues...... Will you surprise me more?"

After carefully observing the surroundings, Natalie suppressed her excitement a little: "Don't be careless, I still have to keep moving now and let that guy into my rhythm." ”

Moments later, the cave of the spider demon.

"It's the first time I've met such an interesting opponent. ”

The black dragon shrunk again, masking its scent and sound with magic, and quietly walked deeper into the cavern.

Natalie is different from Vis and Hillcutt, and she seems to prefer her body to magic. This has led to her fighting being extremely powerful and dangerous, and previous fights have proven more than once that Iroh is no match for Natalie if it is purely compared to martial arts!

And...... Natalie, as a young dragon who has completed her third awakening, has her own talent.

Until now, Iroh hadn't seen her use her natural powers.

That's right, although Iroh has repeatedly suppressed his strength, but who can say that Natalie has not suppressed her strength?

"Don't think about it yet, just get your things and leave as soon as possible. ”

Be careful to avoid the radial milky white threads that line the rock face, which are part of a large cobweb. Reducing the amplitude of his body movements to a minimum, Iroh slowly approached the narrow platform on the side of the rock wall.

According to Iroh's nature, he naturally would not choose such a low-key way of acting as lurking, and Iroh also believed that he had the strength to enter and kill all the spider demons in the open.

But don't forget Natalie's presence.

The green dragon seemed to have set up its own eyeliner throughout the forest, and this cave was the territory of more than a dozen spider demons, and if they gathered together, Iroh was not sure that he would be able to deal with them and guard against Natalie's sneak attack while suppressing his strength to this extent.

Until it's confirmed that Natalie has really used her full strength, Iroh doesn't plan to waste her strength in unnecessary places.

The platform ahead was supposed to be where the spider demons were eating, shriveled corpses and rotting bones wrapped in heavy spider silk piled up, and a pale green viscous liquid that appeared to be venom flowed from them.

But on the bones, which were more disgusting than the garbage heap, there were a few beautiful flowers that shone with colorful rainbow light all over.

The sap of the rainbow flowers is the only antidote to the paralyzing venom of the Silver Blood Serpent, but they need rotten flesh for nourishment, watered by the venom of these giant spiders.

Without a trace of hesitation, he used the fastest speed to put all the plants that bloomed on the bones into his personal space, and Iro, who was ready to face the venom of the silver blood snake, immediately prepared to evacuate here, but as soon as his body moved, he then stopped, revealing a helpless expression.

The grinding sound of "thumping" stopped behind Iroh, who slowly looked back, just in time to face with eight pairs of cloudy compound eyes.

"Hello, goodbye. ”

As he uttered a sentence without any nervousness, Iroh opened his mouth to meet it with a compressed version of the flame breath, and then unleashed the spider's cry of pain with a spider's cry of pain, deftly avoiding the viscous webs and the spider's pain-wielding eight-legged spider on the rock wall, and in the blink of an eye, it melted into the vast forest.