Chapter 558: The Top Hunter May Not Be Right

The hot air balloon of the Ancient Dragon Observatory floats at the lower edge of the cloud.

Although this type of balloon is not as fast as ordinary airships, it is more stable and can stay in the air for a longer time. Just like this one, it has been watching here for several days.

In the boat-shaped hanging basket, the dragon scholar held a long telescope and looked at the north.

"Hmm?"

Many tiny black dots appeared faintly in the distant sky.

It was like a stain sprinkled in the pure blue sky.

The dragon scholar's face became serious, and he rotated the telescope to adjust the focus. The images of the black dots became clearer, and below them.

A dark red giant shadow slowly emerged.

It was like a moving mountain, moving forward slowly but unstoppably.

"Fire a flare!" The dragon scholar put down the telescope and shouted to the assistant who was sorting out the data: "It's coming! It's heading due north and has passed the landmark mountain!"

The assistant raised his head, confused for a moment, then came to his senses, hurriedly took out a flare from the bag, pulled the fuse, and shot it into the air.

After waiting for a minute, he fired another one, and then fired three or four in a row until the sky in the far south also lit up the flare, and then stopped firing.

The early warning signal was sent out.

The long horn sounded in the fortress, and everyone's face changed at the same time.

Whether it was the craftsmen debugging the equipment on the city wall or the hunters carrying shells and crossbows in the battle street, their hands moved faster.

This is the signal that the old mountain dragon is coming.

From this moment, about 24 hours later, the old mountain dragon will enter the visual range of the observation balloon above the old fort, and the first phase of the defense operation will break out soon.

The pig chop, who was mixing high-density dragon-killing carbon, shook his beard, and two drops of refined fire dragon marrow in his claws spilled onto the table. Amid the pungent smell, a large area of ​​the solid wooden table was scorched.

Evelyn, who was helping on the side, comforted him, "Don't worry, there's still plenty of time."

The pig chop, with a sweaty nose, nodded his head.

It stabilized its emotions, added several curing agents in appropriate proportions to the golden-red viscous colloid like magma, solidified it into a waxy state, and completed this blending.

This is the formula improved by the masters and scholars.

While not weakening the power of the dragon-killing carbon, it has greatly improved its stability. There is no need to worry about it exploding by mistake as before, and it is possible to be used in actual combat.

The prefix of "experimental type" of high-density dragon-killing carbon can finally be removed.

With the cooperation of Evelyn and several alchemy scholars, the high-density dragon-killing carbon that had just been blended was packed into a hard leather package.

Then use rivets and belts to fix it on a solid steel stake as long as an arm.

Xia Zuo walked into this temporary alchemy workshop, glanced at the explosives neatly stacked on the workbench and in the corner, and asked: "How are the preparations?"

"Done! The 19 high-density dragon-killing carbon materials provided by the guild have been blended into explosive bombs!"

Evelyn added: "Eight sets of explosive stakes for attacking the legs of the old mountain dragon, six explosive bombs for the giant dragon. We have increased the amount of dragon-killing fruit used for the above, which will be more effective against the old mountain dragon.

The remaining gunpowder rock and fire dragon bone marrow were used by us To strengthen the power of the explosive barrels, these explosive barrels will be used to deal with the group of velociraptors. "

"Yes."

Xia Zuo nodded, "I brought some people here, let's move these explosive barrels for dealing with small monsters to the designated location first."

Ajin smiled and poked his head in, followed by twenty male and female hunters with inconspicuous equipment but very experienced, "Leave the hard work to us!"

In the past few days, Ajin and these low-star hunters from all over the Shulet area have played a role beyond the expectations of Xia Zuo and others.

They can do more than just hard work.

Hunting is indeed a very talent-intensive industry. Most hunters will never reach the level of being able to hunt flying dragons alone in their entire lives.

These two-star and three-star hunters are the main body of the hunter group.

Novice hunters and low-star hunters are two completely different concepts.

These hunters may not be comparable to upper-level hunters in terms of martial arts and equipment, but their experience in dealing with various small monsters is unmatched by upper-level hunters.

Take the hammer master Ajin for example. In the past ten years since he became a hunter, he has never hunted a flying dragon, and there are very few records of hunting large monsters.

But the number of blue speed dragons and wild boars he has killed combined is likely to easily exceed four digits.

He knows everything about the habits of blue speed dragons, their eating habits, and the smell of which creatures' blood is most attractive to them.

According to him, if a group of blue speed dragons come over, he can know with his eyes closed which direction they will attack from, how many groups they will attack in, and whether they will move their claws or mouths first.

A three-headed pterosaur can make him flustered, but if it is a blue speed dragon, he will not be afraid of ten of them.

Similar to Ajin, these low-star hunters have more or less mastered some inexplicable experience and skills.

Evelyn Pig Chop and the others have listened to a lot of their opinions on the arrangement of bait and bombs.

The plan of using bait to gather the speed dragon group, and then throwing bomb barrels from a high place for concentrated bombing has long been modified.

These low-level hunters, who have spent half their lives dealing with small monsters, all agree that the strategy of gathering a large group of velociraptors together and then killing them with powerful explosive bombs is too natural.

With the habits of velociraptors, it is impossible for such large-scale crowding to occur, no matter how many baits are arranged.

Evelin was very embarrassed at the time.

The person who proposed using explosive bombs to reduce the number of small monsters was the legendary hunter Master Campbell, and the perfecters of the strategy were himself and Pork Chops, both high-ranking hunters.

However, after carefully listening to the explanations from Ajin and others, she realized that these humble low-star hunters were right.

So, she put aside her meaningless pride and put herself in the position of a helper.

When it comes to dealing with small monsters, these people are experts.

"Let's go together." Evelin took off the burqa she wore during the reconciliation and put on her armor.

Pork Chops also wears his cat-armored helmet.

"It's okay, don't worry yet."

Seeing that Evelin and the others were preparing to join in, Ah Jin smiled and waved his hands and said: "The large force of the Velociraptor group has not arrived yet, but the leading 'scout' is expected to appear soon.

There are three or two of them. It would be too wasteful to use large barrels of explosive bombs. Use a knife to deal with them first.

We plan to move the bomb barrels to a location and hide them first, and wait until the critical moment to use them.

You go and have a good sleep first to recuperate your energy. The tough battle ahead will depend on you. Just leave those small monsters to us. "

Evelin and Pork Chop looked at each other.

Looking at the dark circles under each other's eyes, they reluctantly accepted Ajin's proposal, "Then I'll leave it to you, the vanguard."

"Vanguard? We like that."

Ah Jin turned to look at his companions behind him and chuckled, "Poor guys, be careful when holding explosive bombs and releasing explosive bombs. These things are all filled with ingredients.

That old mountain dragon is said to be sixty or seventy meters long, and the rest of us combined are not enough for it to swallow it in one gulp, but velociraptors and the like, hehehehe.

The leather armor we are wearing is almost worn out, and we are just about to get a new one. Where are you guys? "