Monster Hunter: Wild Pointer

Orlan put the spear on his back and came to the iron hammer, trying to pick up the hammer as well. He managed to lift it with difficulty, but his legs were shaking.

Muti slung the axe's strap over his shoulder like a small satchel and held out his hand to Orlan. "Can I help you with that?"

".No need." Orlan refused with gritted teeth.

Seabuckthorn looked at him sideways, "A man's pride, meow."

A large hand reached out from the side and took the sledgehammer from Orlan.

The craftsman hefted the sledgehammer onto his shoulder with a relaxed expression. He then picked up the one-handed sword beside him and said in a steady voice, "Anything else you'd like to try?"

“.No more, thank you.”

"Follow me." The craftsman led the two out of the blacksmith tent from the back.

Only then did Aolan and his companions discover that there was a large pen for grazing bobos behind the blacksmith shop. Several fat and strong bobos were strolling in the pen, leisurely eating grass.

After looking around curiously for a few times, they walked around the fence and came to an open area.

The craftsman paused and said, "That's it."

Aolan removed the spear from behind him and suggested, "Try the sledgehammer first. It's the only weapon that's not defensive. Then, from lightest to heaviest, try the one-handed sword, shield axe, musket, and spear."

"The boss's obsessive-compulsive disorder is getting worse." Seabuckthorn muttered softly.

Muti nodded in agreement.

"I'll demonstrate it to you first. Try to imitate these movements and tell me how you feel." Olang, who knew how to use a sledgehammer, picked up the heavy hammer.

He performed several movements such as swinging, hitting, swinging horizontally, and knocking.

Muti tried his movements one by one. Although the details of the movements and the way of exerting force were a little non-standard, it was enough for experience.

Seeing Muti put down the sledgehammer, Orlan smiled and asked, "How does it feel?"

"It's quite powerful!" Muti really likes the heavy and solid feel, "but there's always a feeling..."

"Your center of gravity is unstable," the craftsman said. "You're too tall and too thin. If you want to use a sledgehammer, you'll need to adjust your movements accordingly. The handle of the sledgehammer will also need to be lengthened accordingly."

"That's not a problem. It depends on whether you like it or not," Orlan pondered. "Or would you consider using a long-handled hammer?"

"Long-handled hammer?" Muti looked puzzled. She seemed to have never heard of this weapon.

"It's a hunting whistle," Orlan said with a smile. "The senior who taught me the sledgehammer jokingly called it that. It's also a striking weapon, if you're good at music."

"No, no, no, no." Muti shook his head frantically. "I'm utterly terrible at music. When I was little, my sister tried to sing, and it made her cry."

".OK."

"I'm getting curious, meow." Seabuckthorn blinked at Muti.

"Put aside the sledgehammer for now. Let me try other weapons first." Muti said anxiously, as if he wanted to get rid of the topic quickly, and then took the initiative to pick up the one-handed sword.

A very standard combo, in which the shield attack part was tried several more times with emphasis.

"It still feels a little too light and I can't hold it down in my hand," Muti said, shaking his head.

Having anticipated this outcome, Orlan picked up the shield axe and said, "Try this, a heavier blade."

"This is a shield axe." The craftsman corrected very seriously.

"Yes, yes, this is a shield axe." Orlan replied with a smile.

Perhaps he himself did not realize that since he joined the City Guerrillas, met Seabuckthorn, Resha, Asa, Nuri and others, and later left Lokrak, he became friends with Muti, who was the same age as him.

During the past six months, his personality has become much more cheerful. He no longer has a stern face like before, and he would crack a joke from time to time.

"You try it first. Don't you also want to try defensive weapons?" said Muti, who put down his one-handed sword.

"Row."

Orlan fixed the large shield of the shield axe on his right arm, raised his left hand to chop the sword, "Wow, it really feels much more solid than the one-handed sword."

As he spoke, he performed several basic slashing and blocking movements in succession, which felt good. He then tried tactical movements such as rolling, but the results were a bit sluggish.

The craftsman reminded, "The shield of the shield axe is much larger than the one-handed sword. It's not very suitable for rolling when holding it. Try sliding to dodge."

"I see." Orlan tried sliding down, and it was indeed much smoother. "Next, let's try axe mode. How do you operate it?"

Chapter 76 Try this! This is powerful!

Under the guidance of the craftsman, Orlan inserted the sword into the shield, activated the mechanism, transformed the weapon into an axe, and swung it majestically several times.

"Oh! This is good. Muti, you should try this! It is more powerful than a katana when swung!" Oran said excitedly.

"The center of gravity of the shield axe is further forward than that of the greatsword or katana, so it feels very solid." The dragon craftsman who is very familiar with the characteristics of each weapon explained.

After swinging around for a while, Orlan disassembled the axe and returned to the mode of using the shield and sword.

"You seem to like this?" Muti asked with a smile.

Orlan's breathing was a little heavy. "Hmm, sort of. The sword and shield form can attack and defend, and the axe form is very powerful. If I had to choose between defensive weapons, I would probably choose this, but..."

"But?" Muti tilted his head.

A trace of helplessness flashed across Orlan's face, "This weapon's strength requirement is no less than that of a greatsword or a great hammer, and its endurance requirement is even higher.

I don't have your ridiculous physical fitness. I'm confident I can use weapons like the shield axe well, but with my high-frequency offensive habits, my endurance might not be able to keep up, and prolonged combat might have an impact."

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"It's your turn. Try it. I think you will like it." Orlan handed the sword and shield to Muti.

Muti first tried the sword and shield mode, then activated the mechanism and switched to axe mode.

Orlan raised his eyebrows. Unlike himself who still needed to be taught by the craftsman, Muti was quite skilled in switching to axe mode. This guy must have had some experience with shield axe, right?

She held the axe handle with both hands and swung it vigorously for a few times. After pausing for a moment, Muti suddenly released her left hand and held the axe handle with one hand.

Ao Lang felt his scalp tingling. Holding a heavy weapon in one hand, aren't you afraid that the axe will slip out of your hand and fly away?

Obviously, he was overthinking it. Muti, who was holding the axe with one hand, slowed down his movements, but his swinging posture was still stable, without any sense of force.

After a moment, she stopped moving, switched her weapon back to sword and shield mode, and made a sword flower with her left hand holding the sword.

Noticing that she seemed to be subtly troubled, Aolan couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong? Don't you like it?"

"It feels a little light." Muti whispered.

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Now not only Ao Lang, but also the craftsman and Seabuckthorn beside him fell silent.

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Muti quickly added, "I mean in sword and shield mode, especially the sword slashing part. The feel in axe mode is still very solid!"

"Okay." Orlan looked at the remaining spears and muskets.

Those are the two heaviest weapons of all.

"Let's try the spear first," the craftsman suddenly said. "The spear and the musket are about the same weight, but the spear's attacks are mainly thrusting, rarely swinging, so endurance is more important than strength.

The gunlance combines thrusting, stabbing, swinging, and smashing, with a lot of shelling action, requiring the user to fight against recoil and requiring a higher level of strength."

Orlan changed to a spear, tried it briefly, and then put it down.

Just as the craftsman said, the strength required for a spear is actually not that exaggerated, and with his strength, it is no problem to use it.

But this weapon is too "stable". It can be said to be the most defensive of all weapons, without a doubt. It is seriously inconsistent with his combat style.

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Muti gave up quickly after trying. Her fighting style tended to be steady, but the spear was so stable that she felt like she couldn't use all her strength.

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"The only thing left is the gunpowder rifle." Orlan looked at this last weapon. "I don't need to try it. I don't think I'll like it very much."

"What's wrong?" Muti asked curiously.

"The one-handed sword is an arm shield, and the shield axe is a large kite shield. I can accept both types of shields, but the spear and gunlance are both larger and heavier tower shields.

Although this type of shield offers greater defensive capabilities, it severely limits flexibility, and I'm afraid I won't be able to get used to it."

"Okay, I'll try." Muti walked forward and picked up the rifle.

"Uh-oh!"

"What's wrong?" Seeing that Muti looked happy, Olang couldn't help asking.

"The shield feels the same as the spear, quite heavy in the hand, but why does this lance feel much heavier than the spear?" Muti's tone was obviously cheerful.

The word "sinking" is not a derogatory term for her.

"It's a matter of center of gravity," the craftsman replied. "The spear and musket are about the same weight, but the spear's primary attack method is stabbing, so it has a tapering front and a thicker back to help maintain stability during thrusting.

The gunlance is more about slashing and smashing than stabbing, and the barrel parts used to fire the cannon and dragon cannon are located in the front and middle of the gunlance, so the center of gravity is much forward, so it feels heavy.

Olang nodded in understanding, but Muti didn't listen at all.

She was like a child who had picked up a handy stick, holding the rifle in one hand and swinging it back and forth.

As she swung it quickly, the bayonet at the front of the rifle, which was shaped like a sword, tore through the air, making a hair-raising whistling sound.

Seeing Muti's happy expression, the craftsman couldn't help but smile on his dark face. "Try firing a few shots at the empty space."

"Where's the trigger?"

"Just tap lightly under the handle, and be careful of the recoil." The craftsman's words were interrupted by a dull cannon shot, and Seabuckthorn was also startled.

Muti didn't even hold the rifle horizontally to get into a shock-resistant posture, but just pulled the trigger while swinging.

The recoil of the artillery fire, which was enough to knock an ordinary person to the ground, could not shake the stable lower body she had cultivated through training with the broadsword and katana.

She continued to wave and fire randomly until the ammunition in her gun was exhausted.

"This works great!" Muti said excitedly. "Although the musket is heavy and hard to swing as fast as a katana, and the inertia of a large-scale swing is also very large, with a noticeable backswing, the recoil of the artillery fire can just offset some of the inertia! Making the attack more consistent!"

The craftsman beside him was a little stunned. The unconventional technique that Muti mentioned was only used by more experienced gunsmiths, and she used it now?

"And this big shield, too! You don't have to hold the lance forward like a spear, so shield strikes are more flexible!"

As she spoke, she swung her musket aside like a sword, then used her shoulder to support the large shield and charged forward.

Orlan wondered if there was something wrong with his ears. He seemed to hear a slight airburst sound caused by the shield squeezing the air.

The craftsman was also speechless. He really wanted to tell Muti that theoretically, there was no such thing as a "shield strike" with a gunlance.

On the contrary, spear users have a shield charge move, but that move is not so much an attack with a shield as it is more like charging forward with the shield and spear, and then pushing the opponent away by lifting the shield.

However, the so-called moves are actually skills that have been continuously innovated and summarized by generations of users.

Many moves cannot be popularized not because they are not easy to use, but simply because not everyone is qualified to use them, just like many legendary "hunting techniques".

Since Muti is strong enough to wield the large shield of the gun, there is no need for her to tell her that "this is not right".

Under the guidance of the craftsman, Muti tried out the Dragon Strike Cannon and the Dragon Hang Cannon one after another.

The gunlance techniques were not as complicated as those of the katana. After learning some basic usage, she switched between various bombardments, swings, and shield strikes until she was out of breath.

"It seems that you quite like weapons like gunpowder." Orlan said with a smile.

"Yeah!" Muti smiled just as happily.

Ao Lang suddenly changed the subject, "So, compared to the katana, which one do you prefer?"

Muti's smile froze. To her, this question was just like asking "Who do you like more, Mom or Dad?"

Orlan couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Well, there's no rule that you can only choose one weapon, right?

You don't have to give up the katana, or even the greatsword.

When you feel you need to be a heavily armored vanguard, use the musket, when you want to be flexible, use the katana, and when you've overcome your poor timing, it's perfectly fine to use the greatsword."

As he spoke, Orlan pointed at himself and said, "Just like me, I was initially forced by my teacher to use the one-handed sword, but later I found that this weapon was quite convenient.

I've recently felt that the katana suits me very well, so I plan to delve deeper into it. Maybe when I'm stronger in the future, I can learn the shield axe, and maybe even the slashing axe, which is also a transformable weapon?"

Chapter 77: Partners

Although Muti looks obedient and dazed, he is actually a decisive person.

When she realized that she didn't need to give up anything, but just stopped following in her parents' footsteps and tried to explore more possibilities on her own, she made a decision.