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Metamorphosis","bear-school-astartes-chapter-699",699,"\u003Cp>As the scoutflies illuminate more and more tracks, Lann and Little Jack are getting a better understanding of their target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Analyzing the state of prey based on its tracks is a skill hunters possess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Little Jack doesn’t have Lann’s intellect for superhuman-level detailed observation and analysis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was part of a team that successfully hunted the Barbaric Jaws Dragon as a New Continent Hunter. It was because of this achievement that the Commander-in-Chief sent him as an assistant to enhance the mission’s success rate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Using clumsy hunters as just headcounts only decreases the mission’s success rate,’ the Commander-in-Chief understands this very well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sending Little Jack was a recognition of his grandson’s hunting skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fierce claw scar running from the side of the neck to the corner of his mouth was not for show but honors earned from battling monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, the two are at mid-to-lower sections of a big tree, fiddling with something using their hunting knives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of steel flipping over the sticky gelatinous substance is slippery and unpleasant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a clump of gelatinous material rubbed onto the tree trunk, showing a murky yellow-green color with a spark scent when sniffed closely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann wipes the Dragonbone Dagger against nearby leaves, cleaning its Valerian steel blade of the sticky substance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The flammable matter in its body is quite abundant... it’s high-energy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon Hunter muttered to himself, speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is somewhat of an occupational mannerism of Demon Hunters while working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These sticky residues on the tree trunk are a part of the Barbaric Jaws Dragon’s ecological habits. It’s the excessive secretion from its nasal cavity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It can also be called snot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Barbaric Jaws Dragon will rub to clean the abundant secretion in its nasal cavity and use this secretion as a territorial mark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While spitting fire, in most cases, it actually expels sparks from its nostrils, and thus the snot contains flammable materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, analyzing these tracks is actually just routine work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This habit of the Barbaric Jaws Dragon was long unraveled by the New Continent Expedition Team over decades of work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What truly caught Lann and Little Jack’s attention was the strange mark behind the snot clump.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s an impact mark, with a strong and mighty force, but the location of the impact doesn’t seem intended for an attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, it left only an impression with compressed, deformed, and splintered wood but wasn’t completely destroyed into sawdust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of timing, the impact mark and snot mark seem to have occurred almost simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And of course, the Barbaric Jaws Dragon wouldn’t tolerate a creature making an aggressive move (tree collision) nearby while marking its territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This means both marks belong to the Barbaric Jaws Dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If we estimate the Barbaric Jaws Dragon’s size from the height of the snot, then the impact location... is its side waist?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Familiar with the Barbaric Jaws Dragon, Little Jack measures the two marks with his hands while staring blankly, clearly constructing an image of a Barbaric Jaws Dragon with the appropriate size in his mind based on experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The size is about a circle larger than the Barbaric Jaws Dragon you repelled back then.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having the height of the snot and the height of the side waist, Little Jack could easily estimate the size of their target this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, he was also a bit puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But using the side waist to strike a hard surface... this is the first time I’ve seen such a habit in Barbaric Jaws Dragons.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann didn’t speak, but he was even more alert in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abnormal prey habits often indicate danger for hunters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two continued forward guided by the scoutflies. Although the Barbaric Jaws Dragon only represents four-star in the hunters’ mission system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the ancient tree forest, only rare monsters like King of the Sky—Male Fire Dragons are above it in the ecological chain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why it boldly leaves snot as territorial marks in the forest full of predators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because ecological chain positions higher than it would hardly bother abandoning easily caught herbivorous dragons to provoke it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Positions lower often come like delivering meals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the Barbaric Jaws Dragon is called a ’bully’ in the forest by hunters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The further they track this Barbaric Jaws Dragon, the more familiar Lann feels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And since even Lann, who arrived not long ago, started feeling familiar, there’s no need to mention Little Jack, who grew up in the New Continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This direction is... the path to the Star Gate?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He muttered, while the familiar feeling that arose in Lann’s heart since knowing the Barbaric Jaws Dragon was prowling around the base reached its peak... at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trail led by the scoutflies reached its end, just outside the dense forest, lay a road cleared by the expedition team for vehicle transport.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Barbaric Jaws Dragon was sharpening its claws on a stone step along that road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ’scratch scratch’ sound, monotonous and heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like its occasionally exhaled breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying a kind of temporarily, forcibly restrained ferocity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mentos analyzed the scars and traits on the Barbaric Jaws Dragon’s skin; its biological brain confirmed it was the one Lann repelled on his first day in the New Continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On that day, Lann used its own weight and movement to almost detach its thigh from the pelvis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, the nearly dislocated thigh is securely seated in the pelvic cavity and, compared to the intact leg, is even sturdier and more powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Making the two legs somewhat uncoordinated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roaming over where it was once repelled, waiting for the enemy that had once repelled it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dislocation, for wild animals, is almost a potentially fatal injury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the reduced mobility can lead to failure in hunting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even for humans, after dislocation treatment, the dislocated limb would lag behind intact limbs in many aspects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger’, this saying is wrong in most cases.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the self-healing ability of organisms has limits, injured limbs often don’t surpass uninjured ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hurt back isn’t as strong as before, a torn ligament can never be pushed hard again...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a common sense of anyone whose work is related to physical activity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in this world... ’common sense’ was overturned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Barbaric Jaws Dragon should have been hampered by injuries, leading to starvation or disease-death, yet thrived with abundant nutrition thanks to the flourishing ecology of the ancient tree forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The debilitating injuries on its body were forcibly twisted by its powerful vitality!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps accidentally, or intentionally, a collision on the side waist put its nearly dislocated leg bone back into the pelvic cavity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the days that followed, tasting success, it began constantly repeating this collision, eventually turning into a kind of exercise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The resulting effect of this exercise could almost be termed as ’metamorphosis’.\u003C\u002Fp>",1136,"2026-06-06T10:40:25.843Z",1,"novelbin.me","77dea66af3271c7533575a616a8c710857b15bc58949c1382e6c2f287c16e6b7","bear-school-astartes-chapter-700","bear-school-astartes-chapter-698",1043,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbear-school-astartes-cover.jpg"]