Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1169 1151. Departure

 Sixty skilled swordsmen fought without armor

Lan Endu doubted whether the person standing in front of him at the end could collect ten bones that were not broken.

But the end result was surprisingly good.

There were many Ember Knights with broken bones, but most of those standing in front of Lan En were just sweating a little and their silk shirts were a little messy.

This meant that they were not touched by their opponents during the entire unarmored sword fight, which lasted only a very short period of time but resulted in injuries.

The opponent was sent off the field without injury.

There may be an element of luck and play involved in this kind of matchup.

But an ordinary officer would not dare to say that he could end up uninjured in a sword fight with a peasant who had never held a sword before.

The level of the ten of them is undoubtedly very strong.

Lincoln was among them.

"I'm surprised." Lan En said as he looked at the newly selected honorary swordsman standing in front of him. "You are not used to using long knives. This is completely different from the weapons you received in Sintra for more than ten years before your life."

"But you still used it well in such a short period of time, and you even came up with your own ideas to transform Cintra's swordsmanship characteristics into a long sword."

Just like Temeria has the Temerian standard long sword, Velen is subdivided into the Velen long sword, and Novigrad, a chaotic and prosperous free city, produced the Novigrad short sword.

Although the shapes of weapons tend to evolve together, the shapes are ultimately different due to different enemies, different battlefield environments, different combat requirements, or simply adding characteristics to highlight where the weapons belong.

Most of the members of the Ember Knights were originally descendants of the nobles of Cintra. After the city of Cintra was breached, they were gathered together by the palace steward Haxo, and mixed with Stewart's formation to cover the escape of the civilians.

In the first half of their lives, they received the most orthodox training of the knights of Sintra.

Cintra, which has strong folk customs and is close to the sea, has always had a lot of contacts with the Skellige Islands. It doesn't matter whether this 'contact' is robbery or friendship, anyway, the influence is mutual.

So although Cintra, as a continental country, still uses swords because of its knightly culture, it has actually absorbed many Skellige people's battle ax style.

Their swords are thicker and heavier than those of other nations, and are generally called Sintra's swords.

In the sword fight just now, their style was also to use strong and heavy chops with correct postures, without many fine skills in using long swords.

But this performance alone shows that the Ember Knights are not a bunch of idiots when it comes to swordsmanship. On the contrary, they have foundation, talent, and even creativity.

Lan En felt very interested.

"Armored, ready to go."

Concise and straightforward orders were issued, but the Ember Knights seemed to have returned to that glorious battlefield.

The corners of his mouth unconsciously revealed nostalgia and excitement.

Contrary to Lan En's expectation, he came lightly dressed, but when he left, he brought ten fully armed knights with him.

Lincoln returned to Lane's position as clerk.

And this guy really listened to Lan En's previous suggestion. While he was out fighting, he installed steel book corners on the large notepad on his waist that looked like a crossbody bag.

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Ten Ember Knights were joined on the journey near Elland, although inevitably the regular cavalry would slow down the Qilin.

But this time error is still within the margin set aside by Lan En in advance and is acceptable.

Kirin is also happy to slow things down.

Recently, it always feels that the pale horn on its head seems to be growing faster than when it was broken off last time.

At night, when the horse was sleeping on its stomach, it seemed that it could hear the tiny "clicking" sounds of crystal growth and condensation above its head through the conduction of its skull.

In this case, it certainly hoped that it would be best to grow its pale horns before officially dealing with the trouble in that abnormal area.

It is no longer the little unicorn that carelessly eats terrestrial kelp on the coral platform of the New World.

After having several adventures and traveling through several worlds with Lan En, Qilin felt that his knowledge might be better than that of his parents.

We have seen a lot of mysterious things, and now we have to deal with an abnormal area with unknown conditions. Of course, it wants to appear in full glory to feel safe.

Originally, after arriving in the Magical Middle Ages, I felt that the vitality of the creatures here was quite weak, completely incomparable to that of the New World. Qilin also ran away and played unscrupulously for a while.

In the Blue Mountains behind Kaer Morhen, the unicorn dared to run deeper. In the boundless ocean behind Arethusa, Qilin dared to deviate from the proven route and explore the depths.

But as its horizons have broadened and it has gained more knowledge, it has now settled down.

This world is indeed not very vital, but its magical abilities are strong and weird!

In terms of magic and supernatural power, Qilin is still completely confused.

In the world of fire, it stayed in the darkness with the velvet ball. As a result, the discomfort and fear from its soul almost scared it silly.

Not even an enemy was encountered, it was purely the natural environment that affected it.

Then we arrived at Arda. Smaug's scales, evil energy, and dragon fire were fine, but what were Zhaogruin's claws? !

Space cutting!

Even if Qilin is ridden with thunder and strengthened, he can't stop it! Therefore, the ancient dragons from the New World no longer dare to travel too far.

Just leave it like this, why don't you just stay calm?JPG

Marching all the way, the quality of the Ember Knights ensured that they did not fall behind or fail to keep up when Qilin controlled the speed.

Starting from the high hill castle that was originally located in the hinterland of southeastern Wellen, adjacent to the ancient oak tree on Balder Mountain, we had arrived in the middle of Wellen at night.

This area has a primitive style that has not been developed by civilization.

The woods are dense and sultry, and the swamps and meadows are mixed together. You may fall into it if you make the wrong step. As night fell, there were even weirder sounds in the surroundings, as well as howls of wolves and shouts of monsters.

Only the looming outline of the dirt road that has been trampled by people on the ground can prove that this place is still passed by people, and it is not a completely wild place.

"Pfft!"

There was a crisp sound of a sharp blade entering flesh, followed by the blade being pulled away from the body, and the smell of blood spread from the wound into the air.

The precise and decisive technique resulted in the blade not making an unusual dry sound as it rubbed against the bones, and was very smooth.

"This is the last wolf around." An Ember Knight said, taking back his spear and wiping the wolf blood, wolf hair and grease on the gun head. "Are we going to eat wolf tonight?"

"It's too troublesome, so I can't do it." Lan En said nonchalantly, "I have a lot of supplies in my bag, so I don't need to go to such trouble."

So the Ember Knight put away his spear and came to the lit bonfire.

The Knights of Ember respect Lann as a god, but their relationship is not cordial.

When they were fighting guerrillas together in the occupied Sintra border area, they had been eating and living together.

When they were relaxing, the knights would joke to Lan En, such as that he was actually younger than most of the knights.

Lincoln was grimacing and shaving with a small mirror.

Lan En said that his embarrassing period of growing a beard was too ugly, so it would be better to shave it off.

Although Lincoln himself always wanted to look more mature, he had no choice but to bear the pain and hold up the mirror while the brothers of the Knights behind him laughed and scratched it off.

"Come and eat, meow!"

Beside the bonfire, the small three-flowered Ailu cat was shaking the pot and shouting energetically.

"Buttered bread slices with bacon and cheese shreds! I also found some wild leeks nearby and chopped them up and added them in!"

Velvet Ball also helped cook in the New World Investigation Team's Chef Mao. Whether it tastes good or not, he is quite proficient in the operation.

With the help of the other two knights, it was soon busy with the efficiency of a big pot.

"Thank you, Mr. Velvet Ball."

"Ah, there's no need to call me meow so seriously! I'm a little embarrassed, meow!"

When Fluffy Ball heard this address, the triangular ears on his head twitched uncomfortably.

It’s hard not to like the Ellu cat’s brave, optimistic, active, and labor-loving nature.

The two Ember Knights who made a fire and cooked with it were initially just unfamiliar with the reserve and distant respect because it was following Lan En, but they soon started chatting and laughing.

Although Lincoln was ordered to shave and turned into a hairless young man of 17 or 18 years old, he still arranged vigils and vigilance shifts, and distributed food.

Qilin's four legs were bent and he was lying behind Lan En. The mane-bearded chin rubbed against the ground in boredom.

It wasn't until the demon hunter stretched back his hand and brought a hard-looking object to its mouth that Qilin snorted happily, opened his mouth, picked it up and started to nibble on it.

That was Lan En's original alchemical ration in order to meet the material needs for intense bone growth after he was implanted with the [Bone Strengthening Organ].

Later, after the period of rapid bone growth passed, he stopped eating much, but he still had a box of brick-like inventory buried under the bed in the secret culvert.

This thing is indeed hard enough to be used as a brick to support a bed.

But after returning this time, Qilin took advantage of the fact that no one was in the secret culvert, so he dug it out for some reason and started to chew it.

According to it, it suddenly felt that the taste of this place was a bit delicious, so it turned over the bed, found it and started eating.

Although it had smelled these special food rations before, it had no interest in them.

The fish and kelp in the sea are obviously more delicious.

I don’t know if the current situation has something to do with the extraordinarily fast growth of its pale horns this time.

However, Lan En was well aware of the outrageous aspects of the creatures in the New World, and he was ready to see what Qilin could do after it was given free rein.

(End of chapter)