I draw skills in Monster Hunter World

Chapter 96 Rock Dragon
After discussion, the team finally decided to take over the contract of [Night Crying Rock].

Since it is a four-star contract, I also get two cat meal tickets.

Hunting preparations begin here, and there are not many monsters to hunt in the lava cave.

However, due to the active nature of the concubine spider, it was not suitable for large-scale activities, so Li Ming focused on mineral mining and purchased a large number of small cat mining picks.

This is an attempt to increase hunting income.

After two days of preparation, after finishing the combo of stir-fried dragon meat and vinegary poisonous bird tongue, the team hit the road.

Six days later, large amounts of volcanic ash particles drifted in the air.

Covered by gray clouds, the sky became dark and dull.

Where the gray is the thickest, the boundary between the sky and the ground becomes blurred.

There is only a volcano tip shining with orange light, standing quietly.

The truck was stored at the ore transfer point on the outermost edge of the lava cave, and the team and the three cat trucks continued deeper.

Through mountains and forests, across waters.

The team arrived at the recommended camp marked on the map, a small island surrounded by shoals.

The recommended camp areas generally have extremely high security and are not too far away from the core hunting area.

Set up the tent and set up the barbecue grill.

The team decided to rest for one night and then go deeper into the area to start hunting tomorrow.

"It turns out that you can identify the lurking rock dragon by just tapping it."

Beside the fire, Chuying was looking through the monster encyclopedia and was a little surprised.

"This is true in theory, but the implementation requires empirical support, otherwise even if the ore is different, the knocking feedback will be different."

Li Ming explained.

"Sure enough, I don't think it's that easy."

The next day, dark volcanic ash covered the sun.

There is no difference between day and night in the lava cave, except for a little more light between the gaps in the clouds.

Worshiping the Cat God, the team set off.

After three hours of traveling, we arrived at the mining area.

The temperature inside the cave rose sharply, illuminated by countless streaks of orange-yellow magma hanging down.

These magma overflow from the inside and outside of the rock wall. Some of them accumulate on the surface to form pits, and some of them gather together to form a river of magma flowing freely.

The team that was reflected in orange drank the cold drinks and explored the cave.

As for the two cat carts loaded with small explosive barrels, they were on standby outside the cave.

Otherwise, there is a possibility of accidental explosion in a high temperature environment.
The miners dug for traces of the veins, which were quickly explored by the team.

Following the mining route and continuing deeper, large areas of colorful mineral veins appear on the surface.

"It's grey-white, with convex layers of lumps, and the knocking sound is very clear. We split up to look for those with similar characteristics, and then marked them."

After Li Ming finished speaking, the two men and two cats split up.

Ding ding!Dang Dang!Boom! .
Various knocking sounds echoed in the mine.

An hour later, a small calibration flag was placed, and more than a dozen mineral veins suspected to be rock dragons were selected.

The team regrouped and tested each one one by one.

Bang!Bang!
Li Ming swung the mining pickaxe and struck it twice.

The stacked massive mineral veins were immediately exploded.

Midoduo picked up a broken piece and observed the cross section.

"It's crystallized from the earth, meow."

"There is no response even if the whole thing is broken. Replace it with another one."

After digging all the way, the exposed gray-white mineral veins were eliminated one by one.

Until the last piece was left, there was still no trace of the rock dragon.

"Will it go deeper into the Ku Mine?"

Chuying, who felt there was little hope, expressed her idea.

"Try it. If it's not there yet, you'll have to explore the depths."

when!
The pickaxe was raised and dropped, and a crisp sound came.

Where the pickaxe was embedded, several deep cracks appeared on the surface of the gray-white rock.

But it seemed like something was sticking it together from the inside, causing no rocks to break apart.

Everyone was taken aback when they saw this.

The gray-white rock trembled slightly, then deflected slightly, and then sank again.

click~
Chuying took off the green bear tube, unfolded it from the fold, and then took aim by shooting from a crouching position.

Bubu crawled to a high place and took a vigilant lookout.

Midoduo took off the disc-shaped paralysis trap on his back and made preparations to set it up.

The team already has a certain tacit understanding in terms of cooperation.

Seeing that everyone was ready to fight, Li Ming threw away his pickaxe, took off his shield and ax, and approached slowly with his sword and shield in hand.

After finding the correct distance, charge up the power and launch the attack with two consecutive slashes.

when!when!
The sharp strike of the charged sword is basically the same as cutting on solid rock.

However, the splashed water-based solvent seeped into the slashing cracks.

The gray-white rock was immediately eroded into countless honeycomb-shaped holes and began to disintegrate from the inside.

Milky white trickles flow down the rock surface.

But because the attack still failed to penetrate, the gray-white rock trembled twice, but nothing was revealed.

Li Ming continued to attack, while reducing the swing strength of the charged sword, he also kept changing the point of attack, as if he was afraid of severely hitting the rock dragon.

As hard as rock, it can also produce the kind of super resonance echo when it cuts the monster's carapace scales. This rock dragon's back is also perfect for storing energy.

Unfortunately, the high temperature generated by the oversaturated energy storage will cause the water attribute shield ax to quickly lose water. It is too far to go to the underground river or shoal to refill the water!

Li Ming thought of a way and continued to charge energy with slashes.

hiss~his~
After filling the energy bottle, the energy-storing sword soon entered a high-heat state again, and water vapor continued to emerge.

"Chu Ying!"

"I'm here!"

"Come here and help me pour some water."

"OK?"

"Use the water stored in your water beast armor."

"coming!"

Chuying got into a shooting position, picked up the green bear tube on her back, and ran forward.

Twist the yellow water-retaining sponge on the water beast's gauntlet, and the water will flow to the frog-style ring-shaped head slap where the sword and shield are integrated.

"I'm going to release a high-pressure backfill slash, everyone try to stay away!"

After Li Ming shouted, the shield began to slide down from where the sword body was.

呲~呲~
Not long after, the shield blade began to spin rapidly.

The water-based solvent sputters outward in a ring shape.

Li Ming took two steps back, aimed at the rock formation and launched a straight slash.

呲!呲!
Under the injection of water-based solvents, the cutting of rock formations becomes silky and smooth, with only slight resistance.

puff!After a ball of blood mist burst out.

As for the cutting of meat, it came to a temporary stagnation.

Boom~ boom~
The ground trembled, and large areas of soil around the gray-white rock formation turned outward.

Li Ming wanted to continue to exert pressure, but found that the rock formations were rising too quickly, making it impossible to suppress it.

Bang!
A bloated flying dragon whose whole body was covered with gray-white rocks jumped up from the soil and appeared.

The head with two rocky horns swung left and right to look around, and a pair of yellow round eyes embedded in the depression of the rock quickly locked on Li Ming.

Woohoo~woohoo!
The rock dragon opened its mouth, and a roar echoed through the mine.

Bang!Bang!
Chu Ying, who was further away, was not affected and took the opportunity to shoot at the rock dragon's chest.

when!when!
Two clusters of sparks splashed up, and the level 2 normal projectile left a slight mark. The projectile was twisted and deformed, and was directly blown away.

Seeing that it was impossible to penetrate, she could only attack from her back, which had a cut wound.

Li Ming, on his side, quickly shook his head to offset the impact of the ear-splitting roar, and stood on one leg holding an ax.

Before this battle, the energy bottle was over-charged. How to evade and counterattack became Li Ming's first priority.

Bang!Bang!
The rock dragon's claws moved laterally and it lay on its side.The bulging body of the rock was bloated and began to roll and roll on the ground.

Amid the tremors, it was like a toppling hill, rolling downwards.

Li Ming put one foot on the ground and jumped sideways.

While avoiding the crushing body, he thrust towards the head of the rock dragon.

As soon as the rock dragon got up, he saw the whirling shield blade striking at him.

Immediately hit him with his head.

when!Bah!

The rock head shell collided with the shield blade.

The shock wave shock visible to the naked eye was transmitted through the ax handle and directly reached Li Ming's body.

throat!throat!
The ground was dented and shattered by his feet.

Blood gushed out from his nostrils, but Li Ming still didn't let go.

Waiting for the force of the rock dragon's collision to dissipate, the whirling shield blade began to press down and cut.

Of course, the rock dragon would not give in, kicking its claws on the ground and continuing to push forward.

Li Ming, who was facing a hard attack, had reached his limit at this time. He raised his shield and ax and rolled back.

In the dark cut between the two rock corners, blood spurted outward.

Feeling the pain, Yanlong immediately fell into rage.

The rock formations covering the surface of the torso turn orange due to the high temperature inside.

Although he has little combat experience, he is quite strong in both strength and defense.

Li Ming commented in his heart.

Hu~hu~
While breathing heavily, waves of hot air emerged from his mouth.

The rock dragon leaned back to gain momentum, then straightened its head and thrust forward.

"Heat light ray! Avoid!"

Li Ming shouted and immediately fell down.

呲!
Straight orange flames sprayed out from the mouth of the rock dragon.

Since the momentum building movement was very obvious, he was confident enough to dodge.

But team members who focus on other aspects may not always be on guard.

Heat rays hit the rock wall behind.

After the rock formation was quickly burned through, a stream of magma squeezed outwards and spurted out.

Li Ming stood up and looked at the rock dragon's chest, where the massive scales were most obvious.

According to the monster encyclopedia and past hunter experience, that is the weakest and most easily damaged part of the rock dragon's surface shell.

Of course, if you want to get close to destruction, the risks you have to bear are also quite high.

Because whether it is a physical collision or a burst of hot air from the abdomen, as long as the distance is close enough, it is very difficult to avoid it.

Bang!Bang!
Seeing the opponent charging towards him, Li Ming could only move around to avoid it.

"Trap deployment completed, meow!"

At this time, Midoduo waved his paw to give a reminder.

Li Ming picked up his shield and ax and ran to guide him.

After running around in circles several times, he finally led the rock dragon to the paralysis trap.

click!

Under the heavy tread of the claws, the mechanism was triggered.

Under the surge of electric light, the rock dragon's body became stiff.

Li Ming assembled his sword and shield and recharged the energy bottle.

The high-pressure backfill starts in the spin.

呲!呲!
A harsh cutting sound sounded.

The massive scales on the chest are indeed thin, but their toughness is much stronger than the thick rock shell.

Li Ming could only increase the pressure and strive to completely cut off as soon as possible.

As the whirling shield blade slowly moved downward, a strip of charred black cuts appeared.

Li Ming changed his movements, checked the distance range, and swung his shield ax horizontally to cut again.

Sparks and charred smoke emerged from the incision in large numbers.

Li Ming noticed that the shield blade of the frog type and ring-shaped sword had become less sharp under the high-intensity continuous cutting.

The amount of water-based solvent spills is also rapidly decreasing.

Water-based energy injectors are relatively durable, so the only explanation is that under high-temperature environments and high-temperature cutting, the accumulated water flow will be exhausted again.

It would be nice if someone could rotate it in
At this time, Li Ming deeply felt the disadvantages of insufficient members.

But now there is no choice but to continue to resist.

The rock dragon's trembling body quickly calmed down.

Since Li Ming just wanted to cut open the carapace on his chest as quickly as possible, the long cuts did not go too deep.

Yanlong didn't feel any deep pain this time, but he knew that Li Ming must have done nothing good, so he immediately pressed his body down.

呲~呲~
Located on the stomata on both sides of the abdomen, hot orange-yellow airflow erupts outward in a small amount and then quickly dissipates in the air.

This seemingly weak attack is actually preparing the ground for a real attack.

呲!呲!
As the rock dragon's body heaves, a large amount of orange-yellow hot air erupts.

Li Ming, who was holding the shield axe, saw that the strip cutting was about to be completed, so he chose to resist.

"open ah!"

Facing the scorching hot air waves, Li Ming let out an explosive roar.

boom!
Li Ming, who had a lot of heat attached to his body, exploded and flew backwards.

Eller directed the cat car to dispatch immediately.

Li Ming, who was lying on the ground with burnt smoke lingering on his body, suddenly raised his hand.

"I'm fine! Ahem!"

Li Ming coughed and quickly got up from the ground.

The fire dragon meat in the cat rice is loaded with mist balls [fire-resistant dragon scales (emerald)].

Giving it super strong resistance to fire attacks.

But for the collision of the dragon chariot that followed, he could only avoid it by flying.

Boom!

The rock pillar hit by the rock dragon collapsed, and a large number of rock blocks fell from the cave roof.

Li Ming calmed down and started to wait and see.

When the rock dragon turned around, he saw the incision on his chest and couldn't help but sigh weakly.

The two V-shaped cuts were indeed deep enough, but unfortunately they still failed to break the carapace.

This toughness is too strong, right?
When Li Ming sighed, the rock dragon raised its neck and charged up its strength again.

When he saw another heat ray, he gave a warning and immediately swooped down to avoid it.

Aww.
A dry roar sounded, and thick smoke poured out of the mouth, but no heat rays were spit out.

"Misfiring?"

Li Ming, who was lying on the ground, took a look, stood up, quickly took out a sharpening stone, and polished the shield blade.

As for the energy-charging sword, since it is not just an attack method at the moment, he does not plan to sharpen it.

when!when!
Chuying shot Rock Dragon in the chest area to attract attention and provide support.

The failure to penetrate the carapace was already expected, but the vibration from the V-shaped incision showed that the carapace had actually come loose.

Li Ming only needs to make another incision to complete the V-shaped cut into a triangle, and the carapace on the chest will be cut off and removed.

"Li Ming, I'll guide it."

After Chuying shouted, she picked up the heavy crossbow and ran toward the rock dragon.

Li Ming thought for a moment and responded: "Be careful! Besides, I still need to store water!"

"Rescue team! Water bag!"

After Chu Ying finished shouting, a dye ball stuck directly on Yanlong's face.

The dumb rock dragon attacked Li Ming several times but failed, and he was already angry. When he saw that Chu Ying dared to be so provocative, he immediately changed the target and pursued him.

(End of this chapter)