Monster Hunter: Wild Pointer

This one-handed sword was made with only iron ore. The blade is not hard enough and its sharpness is too poor. It will curl when it hits the bones of small monsters.

However, this weapon also has an advantage - it is easy to strengthen.

As long as you can get high-quality minerals such as chalcogenide, pyroxenite, and even amphibole, it is easy to improve its performance in all aspects.

"Has the teacher even considered these things?" Aolan muttered to himself.

"What did you say, meow?"

"Nothing." Orlan adjusted his mood. "If you want to collect ore, I'll join you. I also want to strengthen my hunter dagger."

"No problem, meow! But we have to go say hello to the boss first, meow, otherwise the boss won't know where we are going, meow." Seabuckthorn spoke in a cheerful tone, obviously in a good mood.

Having someone to look after you can help you pass the time, even if it's just chatting.

The man and the cat ran to find Joda, who was busy handling official business in his office.

Hearing that the two of them had just returned to the city this morning and now wanted to go out again, Qiao Da also felt a little emotional, "Young people are full of energy.

If you want to mine ores, we recommend the Gobi Desert in the northeast. There are many exposed mineral veins there, and if you are lucky, you may even collect high-quality mineral materials such as light crystals.

But since you're all going there, um, wait a moment."

Qiao Da took out a blank task form from the drawer and filled it out on the spot. Soon, he pushed the completed form in front of Orlan and said, "How about completing this task while you're at it?"

Orlan took the receipt with both hands.

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Subjugation Quest: Gulu Gulu, Bang! (★)

Mission content: Defeat 5 shield bugs

Mission location: Gobi Desert north of Loklak

Mission time: 5 days

Reward: 600z

Possible monsters: Yellow Speed ​​Dragon, Herbivorous Dragon

Client: Since you are my boss, I won’t waste ink.

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Aolan: “.”

This was the first time he saw a client write a document on the spot. Is this really okay?

"It's okay, it's okay. Don't forget that our City Wall Guerrillas are also an official organization." Qiao Da took out a seal and blew on it, then stamped it on the mission document. "It's reasonable, compliant and legal."

Seeing that Orlan was still a little skeptical, Qiao Da explained with a smile: "The target number of shield insects to be subjugated is set by the guild. The total number is 70, and the range is the entire large area north of Rocklark.

If the target number of subjugation is 15, the mission difficulty will be set to two stars. If there are large monsters active in the target area, the difficulty will be further increased to three stars.

The Gobi Desert you are going to has just had a hunter come back yesterday. There are no signs of large monsters there, so it is very safe.

Plus, there are only five targets for the mission, so it's rated one star, and accordingly, the reward won't be too high."

"I understand." Ao Lang nodded. "Thank you, boss."

He knew that it was Joda who was taking care of him, otherwise why would he specifically reduce the number of mission targets and lower the difficulty and threshold?

"Look for mineral veins and collect ore while you're at it. By the way, do you know anything about monsters like shield bugs? Their shells are very hard, so don't force yourself on them."

"I know. My teacher showed me how to deal with that thing."

"That's good, it saves me the trouble of explaining." Qiao Da waved his hand, indicating that they could leave.

After leaving Qiao Da's office, Aolan looked at Sea Buckthorn and said, "How about we take a break for half a day, maintain our equipment, prepare our props, and then set off early tomorrow morning?"

"No problem, meow! Don't forget to bring two extra pickaxes, meow!"

Chapter 21 I will expel the shield bugs from this world! Not a single one will be left alive! (gritting teeth)

Tighten every muscle in your body, and gather your strength together like a tightly twisted steel wire.

One paragraph, two paragraphs, three paragraphs!

The accumulated strength had reached its limit. With the momentum to break the handle in his hand, Orlan shouted and swung down the pickaxe in his hand.

"Ding!"

The tip of the pickaxe hit the rock wall, and the huge reaction force bounced the pickaxe high up.

Olang clenched his hands tightly to prevent the pickaxe from flying out of his hands, but even so, he was still caused by the force transmitted back through the handle and staggered back several steps, almost twisting his waist.

Seabuckthorn looked at him speechlessly, "What are you doing, meow?"

Aolan put down the pickaxe and shook his hands, which were numb from the shock. "And practice the charged slash."

Seabuckthorn glanced at the pickaxe that Orlan was leaning on the ground, the tip of which was slightly bent. "Are you stupid? How many pickaxes did you bring?"

If you keep using it like this, your pickaxe will break down before you even collect the ore you want, meow!"

".Too."

Orlan looked at the broken pickaxe in his hand, then at the exposed mineral veins on the rock wall.

It turns out that compared to swinging the pickaxe normally, smashing it with a charged slash like this has no advantage, and the cracks in the ore veins are not opened up much. It takes a lot of energy, joints, and the pickaxe.

Aolan had no choice but to give up the "cultivation method" he had come up with on the spur of the moment, and honestly swung the pickaxe with normal force.

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

"Well, if you want to save energy, the rhythm of swinging the pickaxe is very important. Doesn't this have something in common with the fatal combo?" Orlan stopped the pickaxe in his hand and muttered to himself.

Seabuckthorn couldn't stand it anymore, so he jumped up and kicked Orlan in the thigh, "Focus on mining, meow! Disrespect the pickaxe and ore, they won't respond to good things!

Let’s go back to the training ground in the city to practice, meow!”

".All right."

Facing Seabuckthorn's stern stare, Orlan had no choice but to throw those messy thoughts out of his mind and concentrate on the vein in front of him.

The crisp and rhythmic knocking sounds rang out again.

Soon, a fist-sized piece of chaffinch stone rolled down along with many small pieces of stone. Seabuckthorn lay on the ground and carefully collected them.

It also did not miss those small fragments containing metal minerals. Whole pieces of high-grade ore are relatively rare. If enough mineral fragments are collected, the workshop can also help with smelting.

"Look, meow! Only by concentrating can you deliver the goods, meow!" Seabuckthorn raised the dark blue ore in his claws in front of Orlan.

Orlan nodded and continued to jingle.

In this open-pit mine, they collected two pieces of chaparral, several pieces of iron ore, and some scattered earth crystals, which was quite a harvest.

If they found three or four more similar mineral veins, their main goal of this trip would be almost achieved.

After packing up the ores, the man and the cat continued to look for the next suitable place for mining.

As they were walking, Seabuckthorn suddenly stopped, grabbed the hem of Orlan's clothes, and signaled him to stop.

"What did you find?" Orlan immediately lowered his body and asked in a low voice.

"Look there, meow!" Seabuckthorn pointed to the shadow on the sunlit side of a rock wall dozens of meters away. Two dark yellow creatures were lying quietly on the vertical rock wall, seemingly sleeping.

They are about two meters long (official data is 295cm), and their bodies are very flat, like an elongated shield.

The thick shells covering their bodies faintly reflect a metallic luster, and just by looking at them one can feel their hardness.

This is the target of this expedition - the shield worm, a very special small monster.

Although not very ferocious or dangerous, it is an annoying creature that causes headaches for hunters.

The hard carapace has amazing defensive power. Not to mention his hunter dagger, even those high-level weapons would find it difficult to break it in one go.

In addition to swinging the pair of semicircular chelicerae in front of their heads to bite their targets, they can also curl their bodies into a ball, roll back and forth, and hit their enemies.

This rolling attack is quite fast and makes no noise, so it is not difficult to dodge under normal circumstances.

But imagine you're in the thick of a fight with a large monster, and at a crucial moment, a shield worm, who has no grudge against you, suddenly rolls out from a corner and strikes you in the lower back.

Countless hunters suffered greatly, were seriously injured, defeated, or even died as a result.

Sometimes they will climb onto other monsters and lie there motionless. From the hunter's perspective, it's like the monster has several pieces of hard-to-break-through armor on its body, making the hunting difficulty soar inexplicably.

What is most troubling for the guild is that the shield worm monster has no natural enemies. Currently, the only known creature that is confirmed to feed on shield worms is the giant monster bird.

But the giant bird also eats earthworms, insects, fish, shrimp and shellfish, instead of specifically targeting the tooth-gritting shield insects.

What's more, there are no large monster birds distributed in the desert area around Rocklak. In order to avoid the proliferation of shield insects, the guild will issue tasks every once in a while and recruit hunters to clean them up. They are typical pests.

The only thing to be thankful for is that as long as you master the correct method, it is not difficult to deal with this kind of small monster, even a novice like Orlan can do it easily.

"Seabuckthorn, be alert all around."

"Good meow."

Although intelligence showed that there were no signs of large monster activity nearby, it was always better to be cautious. After giving these instructions, Orlan strode towards the two shield insects lying on the rock wall.

He did not hide his presence, and the two shield insects should have discovered him, but they did not leave the rock wall where they lived.

Because the instinct evolved through countless years of survival of the fittest tells them that lying still is the best strategy to deal with the enemy.

But this time, they clearly made a mistake.

When Orlan approached one of the shield bugs, he did not draw his weapon but picked up a pickaxe.

But he did not swing the pickaxe to knock it. Instead, he continued to walk closer to the shield insect, inserted the tip of the pickaxe into the gap between the shield insect's shell and the rock wall, and then pried it hard.

The shield insect was pried off the rock wall by it, and fell to the ground, twisting helplessly.

The shield insect's carapace is extremely hard, but its abdomen is very fragile and soft. Orlan pulled out his hunter's dagger and stabbed it straight in.

"grumble--"

Watching the thick green fluid gushing out from the blade and the shield worm twitching and gradually becoming motionless, I felt an inexplicable sense of pleasure.

"Next is the second one." Orlan put away the hunter's dagger and picked up the pickaxe again.

As a species of beetle, the shield beetle's intelligence is not high, but the screams and smell of blood of its fellow beetles before death made it realize that something was wrong.

It actively loosened its limbs, fell from the rock wall, and curled up its body at the fastest speed. When it landed on the ground, it had turned into a large ball with a diameter of sixty to seventy centimeters, with no dead angles.

Orlan curled his lips, put away his pickaxe, walked up and kicked the shield worm that was curled up in a ball.

The enraged shield insect rolled over, turned quickly in a circle, and rushed towards him.

"Be careful, meow!" Seabuckthorn, who was on guard, warned loudly, "It hurts if you get run over, meow!"

I don't know how it knew.

If I encountered a rolling shield worm while fighting other monsters, it would be quite troublesome, but now, the shield worm is the only opponent, so there is nothing much to say.

At the moment when the shield worm rolled closer and was about to hit, Orlan's top shield suddenly rammed forward and stopped the rolling worm ball.

The shield insect seemed to be knocked unconscious, and its curled up body loosened a little.

Without giving it a chance to curl up again, Orlan rushed forward, thrust the hunter's dagger into the gap in its loosened shell, and then twisted the handle hard.

The severely injured shield insect could no longer maintain its curled-up posture and stretched out its body.

Orlan casually dealt with it with another blow.

Chapter 22 Aren’t you partners?

Letting Seabuckthorn continue to be on guard, Aolang half-crouched down, pulled out a knife and began to peel.

Although shield bugs are "pests", they are not completely useless.

The thick juice in their bodies is called "monster fluid" and is an excellent adhesive often used by craftsmen. The same is true for their hard yet lightweight shells.

The Fortress Guerrillas' blade hats and masks are made mainly of the shells of shield beetles.

Ah, no wonder Boss Joda is so enthusiastic.

Orlan muttered as he put away a piece of shell he had just peeled off and continued to swing the knife to cut. Suddenly, he felt the tip of the knife hit something hard.

When they pried the thing out, they found it was a blue mineral substance the size of a pigeon egg.

"Armor Jade?" Aolan was a little surprised. "What good luck!"

He knew about this thing, but had never had the chance to get one, let alone use it.