Chapter 251: Beast Dragon Helicopter.
At this moment, the compiler was wrestling with a blue swift dragon while holding a dagger, trying to push it towards the back of its neck.
Unfortunately, the monster’s frantic struggles were hard to restrain, and he was directly pushed to the ground. His thick leather armor protected him from any real harm.
Humans also have blood and struggle. In a fit of rage, the compiler’s adrenaline surged, and without hesitation, he plunged the dagger into the chin of the blue swift dragon.
With a pull, blood gushed onto the compiler’s face.
“Huff, hahaha! I won!”
He got up and looked around but found that the blue swift dragons had already retreated due to the hunter’s attacks, instantly cutting his sense of victory in half.
“Nice job, wash your face to avoid bacteria growth and attracting other monsters.”
“Uh-huh.”
After cleaning up, they ate some dry rations to replenish their strength and continued forward.
The hunter led the way, with the compiler following behind. After the hunter parted the bushes ahead, he suddenly signaled for the compiler to crouch down.
“Shhh~”
The compiler cautiously moved next to the hunter and saw the gruesome battlefield ahead.
Around the pond lay numerous dead blue swift dragons. The strong stench of blood kept herbivores and predators away.
Jie Jie shook his wings—wasn’t this where the blue swift dragons committed suicide on him?
“Apparently, there is a larger monster nearby.”
After confirming there was no ambush, the two began investigating the area.
“All poisoned to death. The wounds from the attack are puncture wounds, but the monster that killed them only ate the Blue Swift Dragon King.”
“A Black Wolf Bird? No, judging by the bodies, the intensity of this battle wasn’t that strong.”
Black Wolf Birds enjoy fighting and wouldn’t leave so many intact corpses.
The compiler scanned the surroundings and squatted by the footprints near the pond. The more he looked, the more familiar they seemed.
“Footprints of a flying dragon,”
He flipped through the Compiler’s Book searching for the most fitting one:
“It’s a Spiny Dragon. If we encounter it, just avoid it.”
“At least that’s good news.”
Few aggressive large monsters appear in Spiny Dragon territory; the aggressive ones die after provoking it, like the corpses here.
They collected usable bones and claws from the remains of the Blue Swift Dragon King, bundling them together. They abandoned the water from the pond, preferring to find flowing water like a stream.
As they explored, they eventually found a stream. Following it upstream, they discovered the dismembered remains of a Green Bear Beast dumped by the riverbank.
In bird form, Jie Jie approached curiously, now able to judge their actions and intentions from gestures and partial words.
“The bear paws and meaty parts have been stripped off, no cause of death can be determined, but evidence of cooking was found. Cooking bear paws in the wild is such a waste of ingredients.”
The compiler frowned. Aside from the behavior resembling poachers who strip valuable ingredients, the apparent waste of ingredients lowered his opinion of the unknown hunter even further.
“The Green Bear Beast isn’t a protected creature. ‘Poaching’ here refers to hunting without a Hunter Guild commission, which is illegal.”
“It shouldn’t be poachers; they wouldn’t eat the bear paws on-site—they’d take them to sell.”
The hunter rummaged through the Green Bear Beast’s finger bones and noticed claw marks on the ground, but became even more confused:
“For a monster of this size, I don’t recall any that would eat cooked food.”
“It might be specialized equipment, deliberately stripping and cooking valuable parts. This is definitely the behavior of an intelligent lifeform. He must not be far…the footprints connect with the Spiny Dragon’s. What does this mean?”
Good news is that they’ve found signs of the hunter, but bad news is that this hunter seems off in every possible way.
Only then did Jie Jie notice from his perch in the tree that his own Spiny Dragon footprints were connected to the Sky Dog Beast’s. What a blunder.
“Should we fire a signal flare?”
“No, let’s just follow the stream upstream. Let’s ignore that hunter.”
The compiler shook his head. If it were just an irregular hunter, they could possibly recruit them, but connecting with the Spiny Dragon’s footprints was too strange—it’s better not to act rashly.
For the rest of the day, they encountered no more bizarre situations, and the Spiny Dragon footprints didn’t reappear.
When they set up camp at night, Jie Jie quietly flapped his wings and left, transforming into a large Gugu bird.
Night birds are perfect for nighttime activities in the Tree Sea. Just as the hunters predicted, there were no particularly dangerous large monsters nearby.
The only large monster present was sound asleep below, like a small mountain.
This was a male Tail Hammer Dragon. It had a Beasts Dragon-like structure, with a pair of fully forward-pointing horns and a head shape resembling a ram.
Its body was bulky and towering, with two high-arched humps on its back covered in moss.
A long heavy tail ended with an axe-like structure, both fitting its name and visibly dangerous.
It wasn’t the Spiny Dragon that made the surrounding area safe—it was this creature.
Tail Hammer Dragons are gentle herbivorous monsters but have the habit of driving away dangerous monsters nearby. Their massive size and axe-like heavy tail make them extremely powerful even among large monsters.
But Jie Jie was getting hungry again. The Tail Hammer Dragon in front of him looked delicious.
This Tail Hammer Dragon was right in the path of the hunters’ journey. He could feast for several days while waiting.
The Night Bird spread its wings, transformed, and descended, standing before the Tail Hammer Dragon in Spiny Dragon form.
The Tail Hammer Dragon woke up startled, instantly enraged upon locking eyes with the large flying dragon. With a roar, it spun around and swung its tail hammer.
The massive tail hammer instantly flattened the surrounding grass, trees, and rocks, assaulting with powerful wind pressure.
Facing the Tail Hammer Dragon’s specialty performance, Jie Jie jumped and hovered in the air by flapping his wings.
If it were a direct clash, he might try it, but if this tail hit his forehead, he wouldn’t necessarily have his head explode, but being knocked unconscious was inevitable.
Compared to other monsters with varied abilities, the Tail Hammer Dragon has all its power concentrated in its tail.
A fireball gathered in his mouth, Jie Jie shifted his gaze from the delicious-looking hump and unleashed a fiery explosion on its head.
The Tail Hammer Dragon groaned in pain as its ram-like horns were blown off.
Watching the low-flying Spiny Dragon, it still wouldn’t give up, spinning its body using its feet as the axis. Its tail hammer gradually rose under centrifugal force.
Jie Jie flapped his wings, waiting for its surprise.
Under the influence of centrifugal force, the Tail Hammer Dragon’s spinning speed increased, further enhancing the centrifugal force due to faster rotation.
Now, this strike, terrifyingly powered by centrifugal force, was nearly unstoppable. Until the Tail Hammer Dragon leaped with both feet, the terrifying force accumulated in its tail carrying it airborne.
It resembled a meteor centered around its tail hammer, hurtling toward the Spiny Dragon.
