Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

The master ignored Gordon's act of being good-looking when he got a bargain.

He coughed a few times, and continued: "Using a large number of Tianhuilong materials, replacing machinery with biological structures, raised the cost of this great sword to a level that is almost impossible to replicate.

In fact, this has completely violated my original intention of designing the jet sword at that time. "

Gordon, who got cheap, didn't have the nerve to answer the question.

Initially, the core concept of Shijiang's design of the jet sword was to use a fully mechanized structure to reduce material requirements and be reproducible.

In other words, he hopes to make a three-star, four-star or even lower-level great sword that can gather materials, facilitate mass production, and can be strengthened all the way to the upper level, and the power exceeds the conventional standard "universal" great sword.

For example, like Explosive Knife, the number of users can be hundreds or thousands.

Instead of this kind of "legendary" weapon that is implanted with the energy core of the ancient dragon species, ordinary hunters can't even touch it.

After a moment of silence, the master sighed with a complicated expression, "The chief engineer and I took this road astray, but I didn't expect that in the end, it was that guy who broke the road back."

"That guy?"

Gordon recalled that the master did mention just now that the final shape of the jet sword also referred to the opinion of "another person".

He thought it was the great craftsman of Longli Academy, or some engineering scholar.

Now it seems that it is not that simple.

"Um."

The master's mood obviously dropped a lot, he hesitated for a moment, and finally took out something from the drawer.

It was a half-burned notebook.

"This is."

"Well, this is the relic of Black Hawk." The master paused for a few seconds, "Hilda found it next to Black Hawk's body and brought it back, ahem.

The people in the dark night checked it and found nothing special. After confirming that it was just some blueprints, they handed it over to me for analysis. "

Caressing the severely carbonized leather cover, the master continued: "It is written on it, that guy Black Eagle's suggestion on improving the jet sword.

He proposed the concept of using 'explosion' to explosively increase the strength of the sword swing through a short burst of energy.

It was also under the inspiration of these ideas, and referring to the jet structure of Tianhuilong Dragon Wing, that we really finalized the 'explosive mechanism [Silver Wing]'.

[Silver Wing] The big sword does not need to use the material of Tianhuilong, as long as it finds a material with strong impact resistance and blast resistance, it can be mass-produced on a small scale.

This is the real 'Big Jet Sword', not the 'Tianhuilong Jet Sword' that can only be acquired by you who killed the Sky Comet Dragon.

Even if the latter is stronger, it has more important significance in the history of equipment development." The master patted the burnt notebook. "

Gordon didn't answer.

He didn't want to comment on Black Eagle, but he also understood what the master meant.

The "Jet Great Sword" fully enhanced with the material of Tianhuilong belongs to him only, and the "Silver Wing" belongs to more great swordsmen.

"I'll keep an eye on the new great sword for you. Don't worry, is there anything else?" Putting away the blueprint of the black eagle, the master was not very interested, but he still asked Gordon patiently.

Gordon, who was supposed to leave, hesitated for a while, and finally asked the question that had troubled him for several days.

"Master, what are the promotion rules for high-ranking hunters?"

The master was stunned for a moment when he heard the words. He didn't expect Gordon to ask this question. Hayata, who was also curious, also pricked up his ears.

"I see. You're talking about your promotion to Seven Stars, right?"

The craftsman smiled slightly, "It was my negligence. In the two years after you were promoted to the top position, you spent most of your time in a small stronghold, and you didn't have many opportunities to communicate with other high-level hunters, so you were confused.

In fact, it's not that complicated. There is no essential difference between the promotion rules of the upper-rank hunters and the lower-rank hunters. They all accumulate enough tasks and then get the opportunity to apply for promotion.

The key lies in the leapfrog improvement of task difficulty. "

Seeing that Gordon and the two didn't understand, the master thought for a while, and said: "There is no need to say more about the number of tasks. This time Gordon, you were promoted to seven stars, but Anshir did not. It is because of the number of tasks Anshir has accumulated not enough.

The key lies in the second half.

Let me ask you, what are the six-star dangerous monsters? Just say a few. "

"Uh, Concubine Spider, Skeletal Spider, Frozen Gelong, Black Horned Dragon, Black Booming Dragon"

"Well, most of them are subspecies of monsters that are already quite dangerous, right?"

"It really is."

"What about the Seven Stars?" The master continued to ask.

Gordon thought for a while, "The Tyrannosaurus rex, the golden lion, the rare gold and silver fire of the fire dragon?"

"Well, what about eight stars?"

"Uh" Gordon was stunned, what are the eight-star monsters?

The master didn't continue to play tricks, and said with a smile: "Most of the monsters rated as eight-star dangerous are ancient dragons, steel dragons, Yanwang dragons, Xialong, etc., as well as some extremely dangerous two monsters.

The difficulty of your mission to hunt Tianhuilong is also defined as eight stars, do you realize the strangeness? "

Without waiting for Gordon and the others to answer, the master craftsman continued: "After entering the upper position, the level of the hunter is not completely proportional to the danger of the corresponding star monster and the difficulty of the task, but in a very exaggerated steepness. The curve goes up.

It can be said that when a six-star hunter fights alone, he has a greater certainty of completing the six-star mission.

Seven-star hunters often have to work together in teams to complete seven-star missions more safely.

As for eight-star missions, such as the hunting of Tianhuilong this time, even experienced eight-star hunters are basically impossible to complete alone.

Taking Hilda as an example, letting her go alone to hunt the Tianhuilong in its prime is no different from letting her go to die. If it were me in the nine-star hunter period, the result would not be much worse.

As for the nine-star mission, well, there is no need to understand it for the time being, since it cannot be completed by a single person anyway.

So in this case, how should the high-ranking hunters advance to eight or nine stars? You can't use hunting ancient dragon species alone as an assessment. "

"It really can't." Gordon scratched his chin.

He judged his own strength objectively, saying that there should be no problem with being a qualified seven-star hunter.

If he was allowed to hunt seven-star dangerous monsters alone, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, there was about a 60% chance of success, a 30% chance of failure and retreat, and a 10% chance of being eaten directly.

This "probability" is casual and does not have serious reference, but it roughly means this.

In short, some are sure, you can try, but you may die if you try

The rare high-level hunters are not used in this way. If they really want to be assessed in this way, within a few years, the high-level hunters will probably die.

"So, except for the investigation missions whose difficulty is hard to define, the hunting missions above six stars are basically carried out by teams of multiple high-ranking hunters.

As a result, it becomes quite difficult to accurately divide strength through assessment tasks.

At the same time, it is common for high-ranking hunters to participate in missions whose stars are higher than their levels. When the two are added together, the promotion assessment can only be carried out in a more flexible way.

The first step is to complete a sufficient number of tasks corresponding to the level or above to prove that you have enough experience.

The second step is to show strength 'higher than one's own level' in a task of higher difficulty.

High-rank hunters who achieve these two points will receive a promotion notice.

Your promotion this time seems a bit sudden, but it is actually the most normal promotion step for high-level hunters.

So don't worry about anything, just accept compliments and awards with peace of mind. "

Ps. Regarding the promotion method of high-level hunters, here is a supplementary setting.

Very few people can face the ancient dragon alone, this is set at the beginning of the book (Chapter 37, the eight-star hunter Xia Zuo went to investigate Xialong alone, and came back from Amos almost not being poisoned, so he questioned Minagal Decision of the President)

Also, the highest hunter level in this book is nine stars, there is no special G position, master level.

After all, it's not a theme of cultivating immortals or fantasy that can change maps. Once a level system is opened, the force of the eight or nine-star hunters in front will be lost.

Master is a kind of respectful title, master craftsman, people like Puxian will be honored as "master".

As for the so-called nine-star mission, it may involve taboos