Aurelia searched her entire body, and only the skinning knife on her back seemed like it could be used as a weapon!
With no other choice, Aurelia could only hold the knife with both hands as she faced the Dire Wolf.
—It's time to be a thief for once!
Seeing Aurelia take out the knife, the Dire Wolf lowered its head in alert and let out a low growl.
The Dire Wolf knew that these bipedal creatures were very dangerous, especially since they used all kinds of weapons. Just like the female in front of her, who knows if she might suddenly pull out a greatsword, or if there were other humans in ambush, and the girl in front of her, who seemed very panicked as she picked up the knife, was just a bait!
Many of their brethren had fallen at the hands of humans. They couldn't take any human who dared to enter the forest lightly, even if it was just a little girl!
This was something that the Dire Wolf's mother had taught them many times!
The Dire Wolf raised its head slightly and circled Aurelia for half a turn. Aurelia also held the knife towards the Dire Wolf with tension, neither of them made the first move.
“Could it be that this guy looks fierce but is actually a coward?” Aurelia couldn't help but think, seeing that the Dire Wolf was hesitant to attack.
Are the unexpected weak monsters?
At that moment, the Dire Wolf suddenly looked up and howled, then seven or eight Dire Wolves charged forward and surrounded Aurelia!
“Hey hey—you're not playing by the rules!”
A wise man doesn't fight when the odds are against him. Aurelia turned and started to flee frantically!
“I'm just a new player, a new player without even a weapon, do you really need to call so many brothers to deal with me————”
If the situation hadn't been so dire, Aurelia would have almost cursed the game developer.
Don't underestimate Aurelia's small size, she's not slow when it comes to running. Eight Dire Wolves couldn't catch up to her!
However, they had four legs, and the distance was gradually closing in.
“You need to chase me so hard, how far is this damn game's disengagement distance——?”
Even though this Nightmarish Virtual World was a game world, Zhang Xingyu still wanted to make it a "real hunting world"!
Therefore, the Dire Wolves, which basically just acted cute in the game, were very ferocious here. They moved very agilely. Although they were initially careless and let Aurelia escape, this instead ignited the Dire Wolves' ferocity, and they began to pursue her relentlessly!
Seeing this, Zhang Xingyu scratched his head and muttered: “Well… I remember that I wanted to make these little monsters more realistic, more powerful… but are they really this powerful…”
In Zhang Xingyu's imagination, these Dire Wolves were meant to be used by players to get some trash-tier equipment and sell for money. But now, looking at the performance of these Dire Wolves, it seemed like one or two players wouldn't be able to deal with them!
Zhang Xingyu didn't notice that the Nightmarish Lord, who had been watching silently, revealed a sinister smile. (The Nightmarish Lord had secretly enhanced the monsters' abilities, preparing a “surprise” for Zhang Xingyu… but Zhang Xingyu had originally asked the Nightmarish Lord to enhance the monsters according to the situation so that they would be more suitable for the virtual game, so it wasn't really secretly, and the players were the ones who were unlucky… and they died even more miserably!!)
Seeing the Dire Wolves about to catch up, Aurelia's survival instincts erupted, and her speed, which was about to slow down, started to increase again.
Ahead seemed to be a cliff. She didn't know how high it was, but Aurelia didn't care at this point. She didn't want to become a meal for these beasts!
With a leap, Aurelia jumped directly down, landing with a thud and feeling dizzy.
Fortunately, it wasn't very high. After losing some HP, Aurelia stood up again.
“Whew—whew—so thrilling—“ The monsters chasing her hadn't caught up, which relieved Aurelia. She looked into the distance and her eyes lit up.
“It's the coast! Great!”
Aurelia happily walked towards the coast, but she didn't notice that in the woods, a pair of huge eyes were watching her.
“Huh? What is this… footprint? So big!” Aurelia looked curiously at a fresh footprint on the ground. It must have been a huge monster, because the footprint was bigger than Aurelia's head!
In the shadows, the pair of eyes that were watching Aurelia were slowly approaching.
“No matter what kind of monster it is… the most important thing now is to find the base… I'll really die without weapons… what kind of trash developer is this, not even giving a weapon at the start?”
Aurelia stood up and prepared to continue towards the coast.
Dada dada————
Footsteps gradually approached…
Suddenly, she felt a tremendous sense of danger and quickly turned her head.
Roar——————————————————
A deafening roar!
Aurelia was shocked to see a huge monster charging towards her!
With almost no reaction, Aurelia's body instinctively responded, rolling to avoid the monster's lunge.
At this time, Aurelia could finally see the monster's full appearance.
It looked like the Dire Wolves she had seen before, but the size difference was too great. The monsters she had seen before were about her size, but this one was eight or nine times her size!
Its length was 10 meters, almost as tall as a three-story building!
This was obviously a BOSS-level monster!
In the Monster Hunter world game, you could check the exact size of the monsters through the Hunter's Journal, but in the actual game, the size of the monsters you saw was reduced.
This is normal. For example, the most familiar and classic monster, the 雌火龍 (female fire dragon), is normally around 17 meters long, which is about five or six stories tall. If you were to put it in the game according to the normal proportions…
Take the simplest example, if you were at the monster's head and wanted to cut off its tail, you would probably have to run at full speed for several seconds!
If the 雌火龍 (female fire dragon) were to flick its tail, then even with a greatsword, you would have to look up and sigh—out of reach!
This would be impossible to fight!
So, for gameplay reasons, the size of monsters in the game is reduced!
However, in this Nightmarish World, they wouldn't be "cutting corners" like that. It's whatever size it's supposed to be!
As a result, what appeared before Aurelia was a huge monster!
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