manynovel Chapter 80 What a coincidence!
Chapter 80 What a coincidence!
"Quick, quick, move to the left!"
Flower Cat perched on the head of Pink Rathian, its vertical pupils fixed on the relentlessly pursuing Nergigante, acting as both an aerial rearview mirror and a warning sign.
Upon hearing this, Chen Yan gently stroked the left side of Pink Rathian's neck. Pink Rathian bent its wings and dodged to the left, avoiding Nergigante's deadly charge embrace. Enraged by only managing to grab air, Nergigante swung its tail and sprayed a barrage of thorns at Pink Rathian behind it, which Pink Rathian still dodged while spinning around.
By the time Nergigante had circled around and changed direction to give chase, Pink Rathian had already gotten far ahead.
It is large, explosive, and has terrifying physical strength. Its body is almost entirely covered in deadly thorns. However, the problem is that it is weighed down by these heavy thorns. Although one of its wings is equivalent to two Pink Rathian wings, it is not very fast. It is only slightly faster than Pink Rathian.
Each time, it would take half a day to catch up with the Pink Rathian and find a blind spot to ambush it. But because of its black and purple thorns, no matter if it was hiding in the clouds or under its body, it could always be easily found by the Flower Cat.
This caused its proud high-speed gliding combined with its ramming attack to repeatedly miss its mark. Nergigante, looking at the slippery trio of human, cat, and dragon, irritably started gnawing on its paws.
The Nergigante, panting heavily and with red eyes, continued its relentless pursuit. It was the kind of creature that would never give up easily once it had set its sights on a target; otherwise, it wouldn't have followed the Lava Dragon all the way to the New World.
Before Nergigante could catch up, Chen Yan and his companions quickly helped Rathalos relax.
Chen Yan rubbed the Sakura Rathalos's neck, signaling it to adopt a more relaxed gliding posture. Then he quickly turned around and used both hands to massage the stiff muscles on its wings as vigorously as possible.
As Chen Yan's fingers danced gracefully, the Sakura Rathalos let out a very pleasant low roar.
It must have been tough for this little, useless dragon to fly at such high intensity for so long.
While its eyes continued to keep watch, the cat's paws were also busy. It took out some jerky from its pocket and stuffed it into the Pink Rathian's mouth. This time, it didn't hold back at all. After feeding it the jerky, it stuffed the salted fish into its mouth in one go.
Then, with its tail curled up around the water pouch, it threw the pouch and water directly into the Pink Rathian's mouth.
Since the water pouch was made from herbivorous dragon skin anyway, it wasn't like it couldn't be eaten if it was in a hurry. After eating and drinking its fill and refilling its oil, the Pink Rathian regained some of its sparkle.
After resupplying it, the cat licked the bits of meat from between its paws and continued to stare at the Nergigante, which was darting left and right. The cat was still angry because it had missed lunch, so it threw a piece of Pink Rathian's shell at the Nergigante and loudly berated it.
"Are you ever going to stop? You've been chasing me from morning till afternoon, all the way from the Coral Highlands to the volcanic area. Did we steal your fish or gouge your eyes out? We've become friends through a fight, why are you taking this so seriously..."
The palm-sized shards clearly couldn't hit Nergigante, but Nergigante took the hits on its own.
It opened its mouth and bit down, its sharp fangs grinding the scales into powder which it swallowed whole. Then, its pointed triangular tongue darted out, licking its lips as if savoring the taste. Its eyes grew even hungrier, and it shook its head as if wanting the cat to throw it a few more pieces.
Hua Miao shuddered, feeling as if she had encountered a dragon-shaped monster no less formidable than Chen Yan.
Then it pulled out a stinking pile of dried poop from the bottom of its drawer, and slyly rummaged around, scratching at the Rathalos's loose shell, seemingly wanting to give it a "Flower Cat's Secret Sandwich".
After massaging the Pink Rathian's wings inside and out, top and bottom, front and back, Chen Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead, patted the muscles that had softened, and turned around to stop the little cat's little trick.
"Alright, stop provoking Him. He's probably starving and won't be able to hold on much longer. If we chase Him too much, we'll be in big trouble."
Flower Cat had no choice but to throw away the sandwich with a sullen look on her face.
Looking down at the landscape of red, yellow, blue, and green, and smelling the faint sulfurous scent in the air, Chen Yan realized they had reached the edge of the Dragon Crystal Land. He estimated that after flying for a while, they should be able to reach the central area of the Dragon Crystal Land.
Once they find the Black Flame King and the Purple Poison Princess, with two fire dragon kings around, the Extinction Dragon will no longer be a threat.
The Nergigante seemed to have guessed Chen Yan's thoughts and relentlessly pounced on him again, only to be dodged by the Pink Rathian's dive. After circling around him a few times, it created some distance between them.
A new cycle has begun.
After a while of struggle, Nergigante still hadn't gotten anything. It let out another angry roar, which made Chen Yan and Hua Miao, who were tired of hearing it, scratch their ears in unison.
Just when he thought the situation was looking very promising, he suddenly heard a sound that made him dizzy, which could be roughly described as—
"Ding, Ding! Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding! Ding, Ding!"
Having been subjected to so many law enforcement actions that he developed a stress response, Chen Yan suddenly looked up and, sure enough, saw the monster he least wanted to see in the higher sky.
That enormous figure patrolling the sky—the Bazelgeuse.
"I forgot about that! How could there not be Bazelgeuse in the Elder's Recess! How could Bazelgeuse not be attracted to me and Nergigante!"
Bazelgeuse shook its head and tail, scattering eggs everywhere.
Seeing the scattered orange lights, Chen Yan's heart trembled. He immediately ordered his Rathalos to fly at top speed, disregarding its stamina, in an attempt to escape the bombing zone. At the same time, he instructed his Meowth to keep a close eye on the falling Blast Scales, making sure the bombs didn't get close.
The cat clutched a handful of jerky, its eyes fixed on the dense swarms of Bazelgeuse falling from the sky. Just as it estimated the distance was about right and raised its paw to throw the jerky at the Bazelgeuse to detonate it in advance, Nergigante arrived again.
Without the warning from the Flower Cat, it actually managed to sneak up to a few meters behind the Pink Rathian. It did see the Blast Scales flung out by the Bazelgeuse, but compared to Chen Yan, whom it had been longing for, these things were nothing.
The Nergigante roared excitedly and charged forward, baring its fangs and claws, but its roar ruined everything.
Even the slightest impact can activate the scales shaken off by Bazelgeuse and cause a violent explosion, let alone the roar of Nergigante.
Sure enough, the ubiquitous Blast Scales immediately became dazzling, and after they completely surrounded Nergigante and Pink Rathian, they exploded.
The entire sky was engulfed in the flames from the explosion, and Chen Yan, who was in the midst of it, felt as if he had witnessed the birth of the universe.
To make matters worse, the continuous explosions completely excited the Bazelgeuse, causing even more and more scales to fall from beneath it. This time, there was no need to deliberately detonate them, as they were already so red they were about to explode.
After unleashing its Blast Scales, the Bazelgeuse swooped down. Its body was even larger than that of the Nergigante, and it roamed in the sea of fire created by the explosion of its Blast Scales.
Finally, it simply stood between Nergigante and Pink Rathian, kicking Nergigante with its hind claws and banging Pink Rathian with its chin. The red-to-purple Bazelgeuse made Chen Yan and Nergigante dizzy from all the commotion.
It was like a well-meaning matchmaker, desperately wanting Chen Yan and the Extinction Dragon to get married.
"No, if this continues, we're doomed!"
Chen Yan decided to take the risk and get up from the swaying back of the Pink Rathian. He gripped his knife tightly, looked at the excited Bazelgeuse, and prepared to use a "Flying Blade Rock Slash" to calm it down.
After hastily stuffing some food into his stomach, Chen Yan patiently waited for his opportunity. Just as the Bazelgeuse raised its head to display its plump chin and raised its tail to reveal its ferocious nature, Chen Yan made his move.
A flash of crimson blade light streaked past, instantly shattering the newly grown scales on the Scaled Dragon's neck, leaving a bloody gash and spurting out blood.
To Chen Yan's surprise, as he sheathed his sword, Nergigante also retracted its claws at the same moment.
He also took advantage of the Bazelgeuse's tail flicking out and scratched it twice, tearing two bloody holes in its big tail.
Chen Yan subconsciously looked up and, through the narrow gap in the explosion, inexplicably met the eyes of the Nergigante.
Both the man and the dragon looked on in surprise. The coincidence was too perfect, so perfect that it made the Bazelgeuse, which was attacked from both sides, misunderstand something. It glared angrily at Chen Yan and the Nergigante.
So all that fighting between you and the dragon was actually your scheme against me? Truly—
Chen and Mie joined forces to devise a clever plan and slay the Exploding Scale Dragon on the volcano!