Chapter 149 Monster Hunter: Plague

Just like the Ancient Forest in Monster Hunter: World is based on the "Ancient Forest", the Coral Plateau is based on the "Land Coral Plateau".

One after another, huge "coral" platforms and peaks are located below, forming a special area that looks like an ocean, but is essentially a plateau. The scenery is very spectacular and beautiful.

Then naturally, the canyon below is full of toxic and harmful gases, which has become a variant of the "Valley of Miasma".

And the flat-headed brother who seduced the elf girl is the target of this mission.

With a wolf-like body, rough skin that makes people unable to look directly at it, sharp and deformed claws, and a long head as flat as a car seat, the original overlord of the Valley of Miasma, the "flat-headed brother" scorpion dragon, is currently preying on the living cat dragon.

This scorpion dragon is the wild monster leader that disturbed the ecology of the Coral Plateau as mentioned by the elf girl.

But it was precisely because he knew the identity of the flat-headed brother that Luke was more convinced that the so-called ecological disturbance was probably due to some hidden reasons.

After learning a lot of relevant information from the elf girl, Luke immediately went to the guild to check the public hunting records. After all, the Coral Plateau is not a hidden scene. Although it is relatively dangerous, there are indeed many people who choose to seek wealth and honor in danger.

Not to mention, Luke really found a lot of useful information through screening and sorting.

First of all, there was originally a wild monster leader entrenched in the Coral Plateau. It was a leader-level "Wind Dragon" who always liked to squat at the highest point of the Coral Plateau, using the broken empty barrels left on the plateau by human heroes during their adventures as a loudspeaker, and roaring at the entire Coral Plateau whenever he had something to do.

But almost four and a half months ago, this Wind Dragon, which was equivalent to intermittently releasing wide-area sonic boom bombs throughout the plateau, was killed by a team of heroes who went there to look for eggs.

It is said that this group of heroes have more or less lost the monster eggs they collected with great difficulty because of the wide-area sonic boom bomb.

It took a lot of effort to transport the corpse back to the Starry Base. Unlike the game where you can only get a small amount of materials by killing one, a whole Wind Dragon really divides a lot of usable materials. In addition, the craftsmen of the Starry are very good at material loss rate, and finally made a lot of equipment.

The male Wind Dragon suit is now worn by the hero who was called "Guardian Taidaoxia" at that time. It was also after that that in order to improve his recognition in the eyes of the world, Guardian Taidaoxia changed his name and replaced it with the prefix "Feng Piao".

The death of this leader Feng Piaolong also caused the ordinary Wind Piaolong group to be leaderless and began to fight internally.

Then the flat-headed brother who originally lived at the bottom of the canyon appeared and replaced the position of the sonic boom wind dragon to occupy the leader position of the Coral Highlands.

The guild didn't record exactly when it appeared, but judging from the casualty records of the guild, it has been there for at least two months.

Unlike the Sonic Boom Phantom, which is also very strong, annoying and can fly, but is relatively friendly to ordinary people and heroes who go there for adventure, this non-flying Flathead has extremely strong territorial awareness and predatory desire.

Based on her long-term experience of fighting various wild monsters, she determined that this Flathead has an extremely terrifying olfactory perception range while having almost no vision. As long as there is a little smell that does not belong to this area in the territory, the Flathead can follow the smell and find it directly, which is equivalent to turning on the smell of the whole map.

After Luke learned about this from the elf girl, he began to stare at her fiercely with a look without a trace of smile.

This look is a question to "You know there is such a dangerous boss and still let me catch the living Wiggler Eel?"

It was not until Luke stared at her until her hair went all over her body, and she shouted "I forgot about this! I didn't mean to hurt you!", and chose to add money before returning to normal information exchange.

Unlike the neutral leaders like Sonic Boom Phantom, this flat-headed brother is completely a hostile boss.

He is swift and sensitive. He will flee immediately when he sees something bad, and come back again after his injuries are healed. He is much more difficult to deal with than Phantom.

The elf girl is the only brave who has successfully entered the Coral Highlands in the past two months and almost killed the flat-headed brother twice.

Both times he ran directly into the canyon full of poisonous miasma, making the elf girl unable to chase him.

Although he ran away twice, the elf girl still confirmed several things through the vision feedback of the tree species guarding various places in the highlands that she had planted earlier.

That is, this flat-headed brother was originally a carnivorous animal that lived in the canyon full of miasma, but was more inclined to scavenging. Under normal circumstances, he would not stay in the highlands.

With Luke's reminder, the elf girl also recalled a point that she had overlooked before. Rather than saying that the flat-headed brother she had injured had come back after recovering from his injuries, it seemed that he had been driven away by something and had to leave the canyon and return to the highlands.

In addition to the marks of arrow wounds left by himself, there seemed to be many smaller scratches and bites from wild animals and marks left by small knives, and he always looked starving.

When he heard the elf girl's description, Luke immediately thought of the small beastman race that was not friendly to the human camp - the strange-faced tribe.

Perhaps only these small races that are highly hostile, can also make and use various small tools, and can also hunt in groups can drive away the flat-headed brother.

But if you want to know exactly what is going on, there should be no other way except to explore the depths of the canyon, which is very strong against magic and signal shielding.

But no matter what, Lucia has killed this miserable claw.

The miserable claw, which is at a disadvantage, also smelled Lucia, the enemy who caused it two consecutive major injuries, and its ferocious head directly threw away the cat lizard in its mouth and roared loudly at the sky.

This battle naturally does not require Luke and others who slowly descended later to participate in person. Everyone is in a learning state. Luke only needs to find an opportunity to curse the flat-headed brother after Lucia shoots a signal arrow in the sky.

In a sense, this is the first time that Luke and others have witnessed a high-level battle.

Compared to the Fengpiao Tachiman who mainly focuses on defense and seeing the knife, Lucia, who uses the "one-handed bow and arrow" combination of elf round shield + elf war blade + elf war bow, is much more violent and direct.

Its fighting movements even reminded Luke of the female elf in the arcade game "Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Shadows", but Lucia's dimension was obviously much larger than that in the game.

Relying on the strength of her body and the performance of her round shield, Lucia almost never dodges. When facing the claw attack of the Claw Dragon with all her strength, she basically resisted head-on, stepped back a little, and then used a rising dragon sword to try to cut a spark from the chin of the flat-headed brother. The force was so great that the flat-headed brother, which was 14 meters long from head to tail, was directly hit backwards.

Then, while it was leaning back and stiff, she suddenly hit it with a falling shield, and her fist with bulging muscles and the round shield that was obviously optimized for striking hit the flat-headed brother's head.

This was really powerful, and the seat of the car had a noticeable dent.

At this time, Lucia took out her bow and arrow and fired a signal arrow at the sky.

Ten seconds later, the head of the Claw, who was still a little dizzy, showed a mark of "intensified damage" curse.

It was also at this time that Luke, who was completely hostile to the Flathead, saw the plug-in display pop up above his head.

[Infected Claw Dragon (lv28) (Super Dark Gold Monster) (HP 43%) (Rune Level 12) (Resistance: Electric Resistance 5%, Fire Resistance 15%, Ice Resistance -15%, Poison Resistance 95%)]

[Monster Characteristics: Enhanced Sense of Smell, Enhanced Laceration, Plague Infection (Negative)]

… Plague! ?

Seeing this special label, Luke immediately began to brainstorm.