Chapter 159: Dragon Slaying

The final bargaining result was twelve percent. Jeremy Burt needed to work with Li Mochen to handle the more dangerous close-range diversion, creating space for the three long-range snipers, including Chu Siguo.

Since the harvest involved over twelve million gold shields, the group specially signed a hell contract.

They happened to have a few outlaw-level beast hides and blood. Elisa was responsible for drafting, Jeremy Burt wrote the text and magic runes, and then everyone signed their names on it.

If the hunt for the black-scaled fire dragon succeeded, Jeremy Burt would take a 12% share of all the spoils. The remaining portion would be divided as a whole among Li Mochen and the others in the ratio of 52:10:10:10:10:8.

This time Elisa did not contribute intelligence, but she, Chu Siguo, and the other two could temporarily reach the outlaw level in strength, and Qi Tai also contributed a dragon-slaying bullet, so Brent Goodman's contribution would be the smallest.

Li Mochen took 52% because the most critical strike was still to be completed by him, and he would also be responsible for the most dangerous grappling and diversion afterward.

After that, Jeremy Burt added the clause 'not to disclose any information related to the hunt for the black-scaled fire dragon.' He seemed very worried that the people present would leak his participation in today's hunt.

Apparently, the contract provided by the Nathan Sports Group was also generous, and the detective from the Tianyan Detective Agency did not want to lose it.

Li Mochen was happy to see it happen. He also did not want too many people to know about the hunt for the black-scaled fire dragon.

The so-called hell contract was a type of soul contract, one made with the power of the hell lords. Once someone violated it, these powerful lords who witnessed the contract would be very willing to collect the soul, or even life, from the violator.

When everyone signed their names and dripped their blood on it, a dark red color appeared on the surface of the beast hide, and then it burned fiercely. This was a sign that their hell contract had been noticed by a hell lord and had taken effect.

"Then let's begin!"

Jeremy Burt looked at Li Mochen: "The premise of this contract is that A-Mo can pierce its heart from twenty kilometers away. We only have this one chance—"

Even in a severely wounded state, the black-scaled fire dragon still had a strong sense of perception. Once they entered the range of twenty kilometers, it would likely alert this giant sub-dragon. Among all magical creatures, dragons were not the top class in sensing ability, but they were still extremely powerful. Especially their vision, which could not only perceive temperature differences around them but also observe the flow of magical energy within dozens of miles.

Moreover, even if someone could hit the black-scaled fire dragon's heart at twenty kilometers, they might not be able to penetrate its dragon hide and scales, as well as its source energy armor.

The defense of a giant sub-dragon was comparable to that of a magical main battle tank.

Under normal circumstances, an outlaw of his level would need a level 14 magical sniper rifle to penetrate the defense of a black-scaled fire dragon within eight kilometers. If the latter was in a state of source energy armor enhancement, the shooting distance would have to be shortened.

It was foreseeable that Li Mochen would also have to use a magical silencer this time to avoid causing too much magical disturbance from the sniper rifle. This would greatly reduce the bullet's power—it was clear how difficult this sniper shot would be, unless Li Mochen could hit the black-scaled fire dragon's weak spot.

Jeremy Burt was only willing to give him a chance because of the astonishing marksmanship Li Mochen had shown recently.

Li Mochen did not answer. He was already at the sniper position, using the 'True Dragon Vision' that Elisa had cast on him to observe and calculate.

Fortunately, the black-scaled fire dragon's breath had turned this dense forest into a sea of fire. The high temperature caused by the flames made the air in the forest rise. If used properly, this could increase the speed of the bullet in the chamber by about 1.3 times and greatly enhance its armor-piercing ability. In addition, the forest fire could be used as cover to conceal the bullet's trajectory.

Twelve minutes later, various magical arrays appeared around Li Mochen again.

Intermediate Fire Blessing, Primary Wind Blessing, Primary Armor Piercing, Primary Combustion, Primary Sharpness, Primary Thunderclap—

The difference was that this time he also summoned the dragon lich Xuanhuo, who cast a high-level 'Flame Propulsion' spell on the advanced dragon-slaying bullet.

However, the key to this sniper shot was still the visualization of the 'Divine Fortune Purple Gold Pagoda.'

As Li Mochen completed the wish spell, the pagoda trembled slightly, and the merit energy缠绕 on it was reduced by nearly half. Then Li Mochen, without hesitation, pulled the trigger.

Seven seconds later, a burst of blood suddenly erupted from the chest of the black-scaled fire dragon. This giant sub-dragon had actually made some defensive movements, but its reactions were all guessed by Li Mochen, and the bullet mercilessly drilled into the several reverse scales on its chest and abdomen.

On this hill, including Jeremy Burt, several people had sweaty palms, watching the scene nervously. When Li Mochen's bullet hit, they were overjoyed yet also somewhat incredulous.

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The subsequent process of killing the black-scaled fire dragon was unremarkable. They simply took advantage of the giant sub-dragon being severely wounded and paralyzed, drove the Teutonic chariot quickly to approach, and then Li Mochen, Jeremy Burt, and Craig Harley were responsible for close-range diversion, while Elisa, Chu Siguo, and Qi Tai each found suitable sniper positions within two kilometers to shoot opportunistically.

As for Brent Goodman, his combat power did not reach the outlaw level and he could not fight in close quarters. However, using the 25mm 'Brutal Annihilator' on the Teutonic chariot, he could also inflict significant damage on the black-scaled fire dragon. He also had to control his firepower to avoid enraging the dragon.

Although the Teutonic chariot's protection was equivalent to that of a medium tank, it could not withstand the trampling attack of this giant dragon.

As Elisa said, the black-scaled fire dragon was indeed extremely weak, nearly exhausted. It took them only fifteen minutes to successfully bring the giant sub-dragon down in despair and wailing.

Jeremy Burt demonstrated his value as an outlaw, sharing nearly half of Li Mochen's pressure throughout the process. Even the final blow was completed by Jeremy Burt, allowing Li Mochen to easily finish the battle without entering the 'self-harm' state of fully activating his external elixir.

Then everyone tacitly began to collect the spoils, racing against time to gather everything on site that could sell for a lot of money—such as magic crystals and source crystals, dragon blood, dragon scales, dragon claws, dragon hide, snake scales, snake eyes, snake fangs, and so on.

Only Li Mochen did not join in for the time being. However, he was not just watching idly. Instead, he formed a strange and profound hand seal with both hands, causing wisps of scattered soul power to gather in his palm, gradually forming a purple gem.

By the time the gem was fully formed and solidified, Elisa and the others had almost finished packing up.

At this point, the interior of the Teutonic chariot was completely stuffed. Not only did they load a large amount of dragon blood wrapped in python skin, but they also cut at least seven tons of dragon meat and python meat onto the vehicle.

For this, they threw all the previously hunted beast meat off the vehicle—these items took up a lot of space, and level 15 beast meat was certainly not as valuable as level 19 dragon meat.

Then, considering that the Teutonic chariot could carry an overload of fifteen tons at a speed of 320 km/h, they also placed some python meat on the roof, wrapped and camouflaged with the hides of outlaw-level magical beasts like the iron-skinned dire wolf. The weight of this meat also exceeded three tons.

Before leaving, the seven people smeared a large amount of dragon blood on their bodies—in Norse mythology, the dragon-slaying hero Siegfried smeared the blood of the dragon god on his body after killing it, gaining an invulnerable physique.

The blood of a level 19 sub-dragon naturally did not have such power, but it could still greatly enhance their physical fitness and even increase their source energy strength. However, only fresh dragon blood could work; if more than thirty minutes passed, it would no longer have any ability to strengthen the physique.

—This was also one of the reasons they wanted to take down this black-scaled fire dragon; it could improve their prospects in the magical profession. For people like Jeremy Burt and Chu Siguo, money might be secondary.

However, after smearing the dragon blood on their bodies, it would take at least half an hour to achieve the optimal effect, so when they drove away, they were all covered in a bloody smell.