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| - Hummel was running through Mearvan Town as fast as he could. A G-ranked Teostra was attaking the silent, small town somewhere in the swamps of Minegarde and wanted to move the fight to another part of the area. Finally he reached the fields, where the beast has arleady landed and started incinerating the corn with its fire breath. The archer used the seconds the dragon didn't see him and aimed a piercing arrow from his Akantor Chaos Bow right through the monster's tail to its back. Teostra screamed as he turned towards the Hunter and started a charge, only to be stopped some seconds later by two blades cutting into its left paw and a Lao-Shan-Claw crushing into its face, knocking the kaiser of heat onto its side. The other two hunters, FlaP, who was considered a master of dual blades, and Soran, the guy with the Dragon Breaker G and Barroth G Armor(Skills: Attack Up (M), Marathon Runner, Adrenaline +2 and KO-boost), finally arrived too. FlaP moved with a swift roll in front of the stunned dragon and started slicing its face with his Eternal War(upgraded from Eternal Sacrifice, 84 raw/ 790 dragon element, purple sharpness,element-boosting demonisation-mode). Soran used the time to sharpen his Hammer and Hummel attached a bottle element coating to his bow(icreases, as the name says, the elemental power of your weapon by 50%, limit of 50 coatings). Immediately as the beast got up again, a volley of dragon-energy-arrows pierced its muzzle, fliching it and giving FlaP enough time to land a last strike to the horns, severing them from Teostra's head. But instead of disabling the flaming aura that surrounded him, it got even stronger, causing the blademasters to get blown away, engulfed in flames. Hummel unleashed some lifepowder, preventing his comrades from to big damage, and kept on shooting the Elder-Dragon. "I can't come close to it, the heat is to intense!",shouted FlaP, even if he was equipped with his best anti-fire Armor, Kushala Q(+30 fire resistance, Skills:Frozen skin[deals a small amount of ice elemental damage to any nearby enemy], Metallic Protection, Sharp Sword, Sharpness+1(gemmed), Poison DMG x2)with the helmet exchanded with the Great Kirin-Piercing(Skills: Element attack up,+5 resistance to all elements). "I also have no way to reach it! You have to fight it on your own till we get rid of this flames", Soran answered, having even worse fire resistance(+-0). Both knowing they had no chance, they used a farcaster and vanished. This left Hummel alone, as he could fight from a distance the aura didn't reach him. The problem was he had the weakest armor(basic Dark Akantor gunner), meaning if he was the sole target of Teostra, he would get hit sooner or later, what again resulted in his sure death. But he had a possible solution for his problem: he pulled a bottle with a striking white liquid in it out of his bag, removed the empty element bottle, and attached it to his weapon. His little brother Nico earned his money by constantly working on new ammo and coatings for the guild's hunters, he was it who found out how to make cheap element-enhancing coatings without the use of Kirin horn, just replacing it by the much more common Lagiacrus dung(well even if this sound disgusting but it works). And this was his newest creation, the Flash coating, made from empty bottles, flashbugs and some catalyst; although still in testing state. Their advantage was that they could be carried in a lot higher amounts than regular Flash Bombs(20 pieces), while only extremely powerful bows could hold them. Hummel had luck he used such a bow and gave it a try... After bringing some more distance between him and the dragon, the archer pulled the string and released an arrow. Nothing seemed to happen, but after around 2 seconds, just as the red monster charged again, a blinding light filled the air and left the dragon without sight. While shooting it again and carefully dodging the jumping attacks, he waited for Teostra to regain orientation. The coating lasted around one minute, not any longer than a regular Flash Bomb. Hummel managed to keep Teostra flashed around 3 or 4 times, until the dragon understood he wouldn't have a chance this way and left the town. As they saw the monster retreating, FlaP and Soran came back laughing:"There is really no more noobish way of fighting than permanent flashing, but nevertheless great work considering you only wear high-ranked armor!", Soran smiled. FlaP was taunting:"Yay, I always said all gunners are little cowards. But in this case, congratulations, you saved a whole Town nearly alone. I think you should get some more material from this round." Hummel answered the praise:" You two did a great job too. Without your help I maybe ended up as dragon snack today, and if there wasn't this strange behavior of its aura, you could do even more." So they searched the burnt fields and houses for any leftovers, they found some scales and claws, the two cut horns, three small piles of unignited Firedragon powder, a large piece of severed mane and 5 pieces of hard Teostra shell. But the most interesting discovreries where a Big Elder-Dragon Jewel that wen't to Hummel's bag and some kind of white-green, glowing crystal. "I have never seen something like this... Its not like a light- or purecrystal and somehow it seems to be alive.", FlaP diagnosed. "Dont talk some rubbish, it's just a normal lightrystal.", Soran told. Flap then complained:"Did you ever see lightcrystals within Teostra? I didn't!!!! What about you, Hummel?" " I don't know what this is, but I'm sure it has something to to with that 'aura-incident' just now. How about letting someone look at this thing who knows more about dragons than we do?" The remaining two agreed. So the trio loaded the material onto their Apthonoths and Popo and went back to Loc-Lac...
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