Bear School Astartes-Chapter 714 - 697. Black Bone Spike

When ordinary creatures roar or emit high-pitched shrieks, they subconsciously tilt their heads back to ensure their airway is clear.

This results in the Extinct Dragon’s posture while roaring being: limbs on the ground, head raised.

Its chest exposed without any cover.

If it were before the first encounter, Lann estimated he would be quite pleased, as the enemy consciously exposes its fatal weakness.

However, after the first encounter, Lann realized: this ancient dragon doesn’t damn well have a ’fatal weakness’!

No matter where you strike, it’s the same.

So, using [Refined Dodge] to evade the roar’s shockwave and sonic wave, Lann followed up with [Air Blade Grand Spin], without even bothering to control the landing point.

The highly active fighting spirit on the blade, after hitting the target, was compressed by the counter-force on the blade surface, forming a glimmering yellow Qi Blade.

[Yellow Blade State]

Lann now felt relieved that the hunter skills he learned previously were effective.

Otherwise, facing such a gigantic creature, he’d probably be quite overwhelmed, not even knowing how to attack it.

Fighting against enemies of different sizes greatly varies in methods and strategies.

In his past life experiences, it’s apparent that the opportunities to battle large creatures were rare. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

With the agility and steering capability brought by [Acceleration Technique], paired with the tolerance given by [Refined Dodge], along with Lann’s own perception and timing control ability.

This resulted in, although the Extinct Dragon is covered in spikes, just brushing against it could make you lose a few kilograms of flesh and bone.

Its attacks rarely manage to reach Lann’s body.

While the Extinct Dragon was hell-bent on pinning Lann down, Wende was on its side, turning the One-Handed Sword into a flurry of blade light within the Shield Axe!

From Lann’s perspective, who had previously learned about the Shield Axe mechanics, he almost couldn’t comprehend how Wende could recharge the One-Handed Sword so quickly.

Wende’s fighting spirit control and usage techniques were extraordinary, quite fitting for his identity as the ultimate weapon of the Hunter’s Guild.

Almost within five seconds of contact with the Extinct Dragon, his One-Handed Sword seemed to have been burnt in a forge, presenting the dark red hue of steel being tempered.

This was the state when the One-Handed Sword in the Shield Axe was filled with energy.

Then, he inserted this sword back into the large shield of the Shield Axe, thus storing the energy onto the shield.

After all, the Shield Axe’s greatest destructive capacity is when the ’shield’ turns into an axe blade after transformation.

In less than ten seconds, Wende transformed his weapon from a state without any energy to a state where the large shield was covered with durable and stable pale red fighting spirit flames.

This was the [Shield Enhancement State], mixing weapon energy with one’s own fighting spirit, covering it on the shield. Typically, activating this once would deplete the weapon energy entirely.

The more weapon energy consumed, the longer the sustain time. Therefore, Shield Axe users usually activate this mode when the weapon energy is overflowing.

Additionally, his shield at this time still stored an extra wave of overflowing energy, and the One-Handed Sword in his hand had become highly hot red, filled with energy.

That’s equivalent to him amassing three waves of overflowing energy for his weapon in just ten seconds!

For a standard Shield Axe user, this process wouldn’t even be conceivable in less than ten minutes.

Even if the monster’s actions didn’t disrupt the hunter’s rhythm.

And when he reached this state, Wende’s face once again showed the mad grin Lann found familiar.

"Roar for me, huh..."

Gaffi too, at this moment, couldn’t help but cover his little cat face.

"I’ll damn well cut him!"

The ’clack’ sound of the Shield Axe transformation rang sharply.

[Ultimate High Power Attribute Release Slash]!

As always, the bold and sweeping action made the transformed mechanical weapon exert 120% killing power!

The One-Handed Sword turned into the grip of a large axe, with a shield the size of a person connected, becoming a downward axe blade!

But unlike the first time Lann saw this move, maybe due to the weapon substitution, Wende’s current ultimate release didn’t produce the previous yellow lightning, but rather five splashes of water.

[Mud Flow Shield Axe], crafted from materials of a monster named Mud Fish Dragon in the Great Ant Mound Wasteland.

This monster’s body contains an organ similar to the Flame Bag of the Barbaric Jaws Dragon, called the Flow Bag.

The water flow produced by this organ has extraordinary biological permeability.

Simply splashing it on oneself allows it to quickly enter the body, causing electrolyte imbalance in the muscles, leading to muscle weakness, stamina loss, and rapid breathing.

In Lann’s eyes, it’s basically equivalent to water poisoning.

Hunters refer to this state as [Water Attribute Abnormality].

"Damn, this guy’s attribute doesn’t suit my Shield Axe!"

Wende shouted as if his words were dipped in honey.

His water attribute Shield Axe indeed had no evident effect on the Extinct Dragon.

On the contrary, it brought trouble to Lann.

When Wende slashed with [Ultimate Release] at the Extinct Dragon’s left hind leg, he cut diagonally towards the right foreleg.

Meanwhile, Lann was maneuvering at the Extinct Dragon’s right front, and the five water splashes extending from the axe blade nearly enveloped him.

He definitely didn’t want to experience water poisoning.

Especially with an ancient dragon ahead wanting to crush him.

Lann smoothly glided backward, lightly like a sheet of paper.

Just in time to dodge an attack where the Extinct Dragon head-bashed the ground.

A pair of massive, thick horns, slammed down with the Extinct Dragon’s muscular strength, instantly created a web-shaped impact pit with a two-meter diameter on the hard Molten Mountain Dragon’s shell.

And the attack wasn’t over yet.

Most ancient dragons possess intelligence equal to humans.

After Lann dodged the head bash, the Extinct Dragon didn’t immediately pull its horns out of the ground.

Instead, it deliberately paused, as if wanting the Demon Hunter to think this wave of attacks had ended.

After the deliberate pause, its mouth buried in the ground let out a muffled roar!

"Roar!"

Simultaneously, its developed back and shoulder muscles suddenly expanded!

"Puh-sth-sth!"

Still maintaining the head bash posture, on the Extinct Dragon’s back, a series of black bone spikes precisely angled forward from this position and shot out!

If it were a normal hunter, after the Extinct Dragon’s deliberate pause, their original tight movement rhythm might already be disrupted.

The subsequent black bone spikes would directly pierce them and their armor into a sieve!

But Lann, nonetheless, isn’t an ordinary hunter.

On his retina, Mentos instantly marked the black bone spikes that truly threatened his body.

Compared to the densely scattered array of bone spikes, there were only a dozen or so.

And after Lann raised [Murk Flow] in defense, the marked black bone spikes on his retina further reduced by half.

While the Demon Hunter’s left hand held the Lady of the Lake’s Sword at his left waist.

This sword isn’t suitable for combat against gigantic creatures, but precisely because it’s nimble, now is the time when it’s handy!

"Tang-tang-tang!"

A series of ring-shaped sparks erupted!

Not more than ten black bone spikes were deftly deflected by Aron Dite.

Drawing a line of sparks on the Molten Mountain Dragon’s shell, before embedding themselves or scattering on the ground.

What surprised Lann was the texture of these black bone spikes when colliding with Aron Dite; they no longer felt like bones and seemed more metallic or crystalline.

Black bone spikes have altered in properties compared to white ones.

This should be part of the Extinct Dragon’s ecology.

And while Lann was pondering how this ecology could aid in dealing with the Extinct Dragon.