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Heavy breathing could be heard not far away, and Su Yi's hair stood on end. He turned his head to look.

The Tigrex used its powerful forelimbs to grip the edge of the cliff and climbed up with all its might.

"Uh! You didn't go down?" Su Yi quickly grabbed the catch ball.

To be honest, this narrow place is really not suitable for fighting. If you are not careful, you will fall off the volcano, which is about 200 meters high.

Boom!

Beneath their feet, the Lava Dragon strode forward, reaching the shattered mountain peak, and slammed its heavy claws down on it.

Rumble!

The mountain shook, and a large amount of soil and rocks were ripped off.

At the same time, Su Yi and Honglong on his back were affected, their steps became unsteady and their bodies swayed.

In the brief interval between the next strike of the Lavasioth, the Roaring Dragon roared and pounced on Su Yi.

"Great Ferocious Jackal Dragon! Hold the line!" Su Yi immediately dispatched his companion beasts.

"Awooo??" The Great Jagras was stunned for a moment when it felt the powerful aura of the Ancient Dragon that belonged to the Lava Mountain Dragon as soon as it appeared.

But seeing the menacing Roaring Dragon, it realized what was happening and activated the protective barrier at the last moment.

Bang!

The barrier trembled violently, and the Thunder Dragon paused slightly, but continued its crawling motion. The barrier shattered immediately, and the Thunder Dragon pushed forward ferociously, pushing against the Great Jagdragon.

"Such powerful strength." Su Yi quickly recalled the Great Ferocious Jackal Dragon and immediately ran to the side.

This is why Su Yi is currently reluctant to engage in direct combat with monsters of the Tigrex level.

The difference in strength is too great. Even if the Odogaron were to activate its ferocious form, it would probably only be able to put up a slight fight in terms of power.

But if they were to actually fight, they would have to consider many factors to have any chance of winning, and the companion beast would likely be seriously injured or even killed.

Bang!

The Lava Dragon slammed its fist against the mountain peak once more, causing Su Yi on its body to tremble again.

Then, the Lava Dragon used its body weight to press down on the mountain peak, leaning forward and immediately starting to crawl on all fours instead of standing on two legs.

The mountain peak beneath their feet reversed again, and the Tigrex roared furiously as it slid down the slope. Su Yi seized the opportunity and launched his flying claw hook onto the Tigrex's back.

The next moment, Tigrex slid off the slope and landed on the Lavasioth's rocky shell. Then, Tigrex eagerly climbed towards the edge of the shell. Finally, Tigrex spread its forelimb wing membranes and glided down from the Lavasioth's back.

Su Yi thus hitched a ride away from the back of the Lava Dragon.

Behind them, the Lavasioth continued its relentless advance, unstoppable. The Roaring Dragon took a breath, glanced at the Lavasioth that had gone far away, and then glared fiercely at Su Yi on its back.

"Now we're in a bind." Su Yi's palms were sweating, and he was prepared for a major battle.

"Su Yi! Get on here quickly!" In the sky, the Steel Crow flew over quickly, and on the cart below, Aibo, Aiden, and Luca shouted loudly.

"We're saved!" Su Yi immediately launched a grappling hook to hook onto the cart and pulled it toward the Corviknight before the Tigrex could swing its body.

Roar!

The Tigrex roared and scooped up a rock with its forelimbs, hurling it at the Corviknight in the sky.

"Get out of the way to the left!" Su Yi, who was hanging under the cart, shouted immediately.

"Caw!" The Steel-Armored Raven remained calm under pressure and reacted quickly to dodge.

Watching the Corviknight fly away, the Tigrex roared in exasperation.

After the thrilling escape, Su Yi had no desire to continue the pursuit.

After collecting some Lavasioth shells on the way here and loading them into the cart, Su Yi had Corviknight fly back to the base first due to weight limitations.

They planned to walk back to their base along the coastal outskirts of the Ancient Tree Forest.

"Are you alright, Su Yi?" Aibo asked with concern.

"Fortunately, the shock outweighed the damage," Su Yi said. Fighting a Tigrex on the back of a colossal Elder Dragon—probably no one else could do that.

"Have a drink to calm your nerves, Meow Meow." Lucao handed over a bottle of beverage.

"Thank you." Su Yi took a big gulp of water to calm his excited emotions.

Su Yi couldn't help but reflect in his heart: Is it true that every time I watch a play, it ends badly, but I still dare to do it again next time!

"That was really close, we would have been in danger if it weren't for Corviknight," Aiden remarked.

"Who knew that the Lavasioth would wake up at this time? I have reason to suspect that the noise from the fight between the Zergling and the Tigrex woke it up," Su Yi said helplessly.

"Where do you think the Lava Dragon is so determined to break through the obstacles and move forward?" Aibo asked curiously.

"The ancient dragon's graveyard, the Valley of Miasma," Su Yi said. Of course, he didn't tell the whole story: In fact, the Lava Dragon was guided to the ley lines of the Dragon Crystal by the Netherworld Dragon.

"The Valley of Miasma?" Aibo asked, puzzled.

Just as Su Yi was about to explain, Aiden suddenly pointed to the sky and exclaimed, "What's that!?"

Above the canyon, a dark shadow flew along the path taken by the Lava Dragon.

Su Yi narrowed his eyes, then immediately widened them.

"Quick, hide!!" Su Yi shouted in a low voice, and at the same time quickly ran to the pile of rocks at the edge of the canyon, found a rock and hid.

Without hesitation, Aibo and Aiden immediately followed Su Yi and hid.

call!

With its black, thorny wings flapping, the dragon descended, its demonic body gleaming. The dragon's gaping maw roared softly, and its massive, demonic horns gleamed menacingly in the sunlight.

"What kind of monster is that? Such a terrifying figure!" Aiden's muscles were tense, and his expression was extremely tense, just like when he faced the ancient dragon.

“Nergigante, the Destroyer of Nergigante!” Su Yi murmured, cautiously peeking out from behind the rock.

This Elder Dragon Slayer, who preys on Elder Dragons, has finally tracked the Lavasioth to the New World.

Nergigante looked at the canyon that had been crushed by Lavasioth and let out an excited growl.

Su Yi reached into his side pocket and took out his Rotom phone.

"Su Yi, that guy doesn't look good, Rotom." The Rotom's sensory abilities, derived from a Ghost-type Pokémon, filled it with dread about the monster in the distance.

"Turn off the sound and flash, I'll just take a few pictures," Su Yi said in a low voice.

“Understood, Rotom,” Rotom replied in a low voice.

Su Yi quietly peeked out, picked up his phone, and took a few photos of the Nergigante, which had its back to them.

Nergigante didn't linger. Instead, it rubbed its wings against the ground, leaving a few thorns as a mark, before flying into the sky and chasing after Lavasioth along the canyon.

I generally consider the content of the story to be a parallel world to the main Monster Hunter series, and I mostly treat it as a legend or Easter egg in this book.

Chapter 130 The Beasts Lurking in the Forest

"What kind of monster was that?" Aibo asked, emerging from behind the rock, still shaken. The monster gave her an inexplicable sense of unease.

“Yes, I unconsciously held my breath. It felt a lot like when I faced an ancient dragon,” Aiden said solemnly.

"Because that's an Elder Dragon, an Elder Dragon known as the Nergigante, an Elder Dragon that preys on Elder Dragons," Su Yi said.

Nergigante was first observed during the Second Fleet's investigation of Teostra's Elder Dragon Crossing, and its traces were occasionally discovered during the Elder Dragon Crossing afterward.

Nergigante is not an ancient dragon native to the New World. Instead, it came across the ocean to hunt ancient dragons that were about to die of old age.

Its exact habitat is unknown, or it may be similar to the Deviljho, a nomadic hunter that moves around in search of prey.

Later in the game's storyline, it failed to hunt the Lavasioth, but discovered the Elder Dragon's Recess, a place rich in energy and teeming with Elder Dragons.

The Nergigante then seized the territory of the Grimals there as its lair, which led to a large number of Grimals being displaced and gradually scattered throughout the New World.

So, the hunters' occasional lectures from Gigantopithecus during subsequent hunts were largely thanks to Nergigante.

"An ancient dragon that preys on ancient dragons?!" aibo exclaimed in surprise.

In the world's perception, ancient dragons are invincible natural disasters, powerful and mysterious. But now there are ancient dragons that specifically hunt and prey on other ancient dragons.

"Ancient dragons are not gods, but rather powerful beings whose abilities cannot be analyzed for the time being. And when a being is killed, it dies."

Although Elder Dragons are hunted by players in Monster Hunter games, in reality, many Elder Dragons are only repelled and not completely killed; their powerful vitality is not so easily ended.

However, this does not mean that the ancient dragons cannot be completely eradicated. The Ancient Dragon Crossing is the final journey of these powerful creatures who cannot withstand the ravages of time and seek their own graves.

Everything is simply part of the natural cycle.

Su Yi walked towards the place where he had just exterminated the dragon and left traces. The blue guide insects attached themselves to the thorns and some footprints, making them conspicuous.

Su Yi took a few photos of the marks with his phone, then tried to pull out the white thorns.

"Heave-ho!" Su Yi used all his strength to pull out the thorn, while Dew Grass next to him used Sword Dance to enhance its power to the maximum, and then meowed wildly as it pulled out a thorn, which made Su Yi very envious.

"We might be able to research something from these things." Su Yi carefully put away the thorns.

The Nergigante preys on Elder Dragons for the enormous energy within them; its powerful regenerative abilities make it need to absorb more energy than other Elder Dragons.

However, Nergigante doesn't necessarily have to prey on Elder Dragons; any creature with powerful energy can be its prey, except that Elder Dragons have higher quality energy.

But whether in the New World or the Old World, there are many powerful creatures like that, so why is Nergigante so obsessed with Zorah Magdaros?

Su Yi once read something like this: If it's just to maintain its regenerative abilities, Nergigante doesn't need to be obsessed with Zorah Magdaros. But what if, for some reason, it has to obtain Zorah Magdaros's high-purity, massive energy?

In a future study, it was found that the spikes of the Nergigante produced a biological response the instant they were injected with nutrients, and began to differentiate into egg cells.

Could this lead to the hypothesis that Nergigante was born from some special thorns that it deliberately grew?

In order for a certain type of thorn to be transformed into a reproductive cell capable of developing into a complete individual, a large amount of highly pure energy is required.

The seemingly far-fetched hypothesis that this is why Nergigante is so persistent in its pursuit of Zorah Magdaros suddenly becomes quite convincing.

The research equipment in the Monster Hunter world may not be able to produce much now, but what about the research equipment in the Pokémon world?

Following the plan to revive the Serpent King Dragon fossil, Su Yi silently kept another highly imaginative plan in mind.

"Let's go," Su Yi said. As long as they continue investigating the Ancient Dragon Crossing, they will inevitably have to confront the Extinction Dragon sooner or later.

Emerging from the scorching canyon, Su Yi and his group walked along the outer edge of the ancient tree forest.

"I've seen a lot of interesting things during this survey."

"In order to forge his own weapon, Zhanlong is searching for high-quality minerals dropped by the Lavasioth."