Tai Mei sprinted quickly to follow, and Li Fan continuously issued commands, guiding Qiu Qiu.
After a chase through the forest for a full ten minutes, Qiu Qiu, who had arrived at the ambush point's slope bottom, stopped bouncing and rolling, instead coming to a steady halt on the grass.
"Waaaoooh...."
The excited Great Jaggi stopped abruptly, lowering its head and constantly changing its angle as it observed Qiu Qiu.
It seemed this shield bug was quite peculiar in its eyes.
Eudora, at the top of the slope, saw that the time was ripe. She raised her greatsword and swung it at the base of the upright logs. On the other side, Xiong Da hugged the logs and pulled with all his might.
*Crash! Dong!*
Scattered logs along with a giant round stone cascaded down.
The Great Jaggi turned its head at the sound and jumped back in fright.
Just as it was about to spread its wings and take flight, its claws were scraped by a log, causing it to lose balance.
Under the continuous impact of several rolling logs, its body quickly tilted to one side.
*Clang! Clang! Clang!....*
The giant round stone struck its carapace, emitting crisp sounds.
"Roar!~"
Xiong Da raised his arms, roared, and leaped down from the platform at the top of the slope.
Xiong Da's backside landed squarely on the Great Jaggi's torso, stirring up a cloud of dust.
The Great Jaggi, which had just managed to get up, collapsed onto the ground again.
Eudora dragged her bone greatsword and ran a short distance. As she leaped into the air, she raised her greatsword high.
"Heeya!"
Using the force of her descent, she struck the Great Jaggi's left wing with her sword, sending a spray of blood flying.
Li Fan, holding a paint ball in one hand and a sonic bomb in the other, first threw the paint ball.
Upon contact with the carapace, it burst, and a cloud of pink mist spread out.
Li Fan inhaled deeply, trying to memorize the slightly irritating scent of the paint ball.
This was not only the primary means of tracking monsters outside of one's field of vision, but also the first item on the hunter's examination checklist.
"Waaaoooh! Waaaoooh! Waaaoooh!...."
The Great Jaggi let out a series of extremely agitated cries, and smoke billowed from its slightly open maw.
"It's enraged already?"
Li Fan was somewhat surprised.
But then he remembered that this was not a game driven by numbers, but a real world.
Combined with the Great Jaggi's recent experience of being wounded, he quickly understood.
The Great Jaggi, enduring the constant blows from Xiong Da's claws and the greatsword, managed to stand up.
Its two claws dug into the ground, and it twisted its torso to quickly turn sideways.
*Whoosh!* A sharp, pale red tail whipped out with a whistling sound, striking Xiong Da's shoulder and forcing him to retreat three steps before he could barely stand steady.
The sudden sideways tail whip also caused Eudora's greatsword, which was aimed at the wing, to strike the hardest part of the torso carapace.
*Clang!* Sparks flew!
Given the sharpness of the bone greatsword, without a charged slash, it was impossible to cut through the torso carapace.
Eudora's sword bounced off, and she was jolted backward slightly.
Fortunately, she had enough strength to quickly regain control of her greatsword and maintain her balance.
The Great Jaggi seized the opportunity to lower its center of gravity, lifting one claw and repeatedly scraping it on the ground, confronting Eudora.
"Bird car charge or great beak smash?"
A thought flashed through Li Fan's mind.
He then realized that through years of playing Monster Hunter, he had unconsciously developed the habit of observing a monster's preparatory movements to predict its attacks.
Eudora, panting, held her greatsword vertically in front of her.
The plan had been executed perfectly, but when it came to displaying her personal skills, she felt a sense of being lost.
The main reason for this was that Eudora had never participated in hunting a Great Jaggi before.
She had no concept of the timing of attacks, the control of sword reach, or what kind of moves the Great Jaggi would use.
Expanding the variety of monsters hunted was an unavoidable test for any hunter who wished to grow.
When the Guild conducted the four-star hunter assessment, besides the monster's strength, the most valuable indicator was the variety of monsters previously defeated.
As a solo hunter, this was Eudora's weakness.
After a moment of standoff, the Great Jaggi suddenly raised its neck high and walked forward in an almost upright posture.
"It's the great beak smash!"
Li Fan immediately made his judgment.
Seeing this, Eudora changed her stance to respond, holding her greatsword horizontally in front of her.
"Don't defend!"
Li Fan shouted a reminder.
The great beak smash was a multi-hit continuous attack. In the game, even weapons specialized in defense like the Lance and Gunlance would lose a lot of stamina trying to withstand it.
Upon hearing the reminder, Eudora immediately drew her sword behind her and ran away.
The Great Jaggi, in its upright state, tilted its neck back again, its claws digging into the ground, and its head slammed down like a heavy hammer.
Sensing the attack approaching from behind, Eudora dodged with a leap.
*Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!*
All four pecks of the great beak missed. Eudora, quickly getting up, continued to draw her sword and confront it.
Everything had happened too quickly to think.
Now, looking back, if Li Fan hadn't reminded her not to defend, she might have suffered a heavy blow due to being unable to fully withstand the continuous pecks of the great beak.
The Great Jaggi didn't give Eudora much time to consider. It began to run with its legs, and at the same time, the fireballs of molten fluid in its mouth were sprayed irregularly to the sides.
"Defend!"
As Li Fan gave his reminder, Xiong Da also grabbed the Great Jaggi's tail from behind.
The bird car charge was a simple charging attack. The Great Jaggi's reckless nature caused it to use all its strength during its charge, completely disregarding its balance.
As a result, in the latter half of the charge, it simply slid on the ground. Therefore, as long as this impact was resisted head-on, a counterattack could be easily launched.
What was even more advantageous at the moment was that Xiong Da was dragging behind the Great Jaggi's tail, pulling backward with all his might.
The impact force of the bird car charge was significantly reduced.
Just as Li Fan felt that everything was under control, a fireball of molten fluid landed at his feet, and the scorching molten fluid immediately spread.
"Ouch! Ouch!.... So hot!"
Li Fan's flat shoe immediately melted from the heat. He had no choice but to endure the pain, take off his shoe, throw it away, and quickly escape.
*Thud!* The Great Jaggi, sliding on the ground, collided with the bone greatsword with a dull thud.
The impact force was so small that even Eudora, who was fully defending, found it somewhat unaccustomed.
However, she would not easily let go of this immediate opportunity.
Taking a deep breath, she raised her bone greatsword behind her, and a faint glow appeared on the bone sword.
"Ah! What is this?"
Seeing the Great Jaggi crawling on the ground in front of her slowly moving backward, about to leave the range of her charged slash, Eudora exclaimed.
"Don't, Xiong Da!"
Li Fan, who was pouring water on his flat shoe to cool it down, saw this scene and quickly shouted.
A bewildered Xiong Da released the Great Jaggi's tail and stopped pulling backward.
This mistake was not Eudora's or Xiong Da's fault; it was mainly due to a lack of coordinated teamwork.
However, a combat system that collaborated with monsters had never existed before, so all experience in coordination could only be accumulated through actual combat.
To ensure stability, Eudora had to abandon the charged slash and take a small step forward with her greatsword.