Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 449 448. Drawings and clues

“There were no external injuries, and there were no obvious traces of toxins on the bodies. Were they killed by magic?”

 Lan En pulled the head of a corpse and began to observe the teeth and bones of the corpse without caring.

Gede stood behind him, looking around with the vertical pupils in his cat eyes shrinking unsteadily.

“It’s not surprising. Anahad’s era was the golden age of demon hunters. It wouldn’t be surprising if there was a mage stationed in Hainkawehe. Not to mention magic traps.”

“And it makes sense why the two of us found nothing. We didn’t see any traps or poisons here because the chaotic magic in the magic traps has dissipated completely within a few decades, and even our necklaces can’t sense it.”

 Lan En found nothing when he used [Spirit Vision] to observe just now.

But out of the principle of caution in everything, and because of the resounding name of Anahad, he would rather act cautiously in a pattern that he did not see.

 So I decided to test it with [Alder's Seal] first.

It now seems that the lethal traps here were actually used and then disappeared.

 But this does not mean to sit back and relax, on the contrary.

From the depths of the secret room and around the corner of the corridor, the sound of rusty iron chains squeaking began to be heard.

At the same time, flickering green firelight slowly emerged from the depths of the dark corner.

Gede caught the green firelight immediately. They had just seen this thing.

  He quietly pulled out his reinforced Bear School silver sword from his back.

Lan En, who was half-crouching with his back to the corner, raised his head and held the scabbard at his waist with his left hand.

“The fingers are almost twisted into chicken claws. This magic makes their death very painful.”

The young man whispered calmly and stood up from the ground.

 After he turned around, Gede stared motionlessly in the direction where the green light was getting stronger and stronger, and said.

“It can be seen that I can even hear their cries of hatred for the living now.”

   The voices of the demon spirits will never get used to the voices of the living no matter how many times they hear them.

 Their upper and lower jaws, which have turned into skulls, will open and close in a "click-click" manner, and their throats, which clearly have no vocal cords, will also emit heart-rending wails.

That wailing sound is full of hatred and jealousy, as if a person has unreservedly shown the malice in his heart towards you.

The malice makes people feel chilly.

 But as many humans have maliciously speculated—

Witchers don't seem to be human, they don't feel anything about it.

The rusty thin swords in the hands of the demon spirits scratched the body of the demon hunter, exploding large golden fragments on the protection of [Quen's Seal].

The sharp silver sword slashed straight down, and the body like a big bow was thrown down with the silver sword, making the blade of the silver sword look like a whip drawn out.

On the other side, Lan En waved the long knife in his hand in roughly the same posture.

The blade brought up a turbulent flow of air. Even the blade stopped in mid-air, but the air that was brought up hit the ground like a waterfall, and then collapsed invisible.

 Three sporadic demon spirits, except that their teleportation is a bit annoying. In front of Gerd and Lan En, they only lasted for more than a minute.

 Then there were three shiny piles of evil spirit dust on the ground.

 Amidst the pleasant friction sound of metal and scabbard, Lann withdrew the Sword of the Lake Lady.

Ged happily knelt down and swept the evil spirit dust into his pocket.

“The heavy blow you just made can be seamlessly connected and slashed twice in a row. It is very similar to the swordsmanship of the school, but it is a little different.”

 While collecting the trophies, he asked Lan En.

“Just let me see you like this, okay? After all, the basics of our swordsmanship are the same.”

 This kind of inquiry is necessary.

 In an environment of cold weapon combat, technology is like an heirloom.

　　Not only do the Easterners hold back their hands when teaching their disciples, but wait until the master is about to die before revealing the truth. Western sword masters also have various confidentiality measures.

 For example, writing sword fighting ideas into a sonnet.

"If you want to learn, I can show you the original version. Don't learn this one." Lan En's fingers of his left hand resting on the handle of the knife were tapping in boredom.

“This version now puts a lot of pressure on the bones. I’m not sure if your ankle bones can withstand this kind of force. You know, right? Highly flexible joints like the ankle are very fragile.”

 In fact, after the bone strengthening process began, Lan began to optimize his moves.

  Increased bone strength represents an increase in the body's endurance.

Many ways of exerting force that would have initially made your body unable to bear it have now been brought within the normal range.

And if you want to make your combat level high enough, of course you have to test yourself repeatedly on the edge of your physiological limits and pursue the ultimate performance.

 As the maximum range of twisting between joints increases a little, the power accumulated and thrown can be greatly increased!

 In terms of Lan En's talent for swordsmanship and Mentos' calculations, his swordsmanship is undergoing some optimization.

 Simply put, his current threshold for using swordsmanship is breaking away from the category of "mortal".

Gede is not a hypocritical person. After Lan En showed his attitude of not rejecting communication, he really hoped that he could be given some advice.

So Lan told Gede the place where he would stay, just like he told Vesemir and Geralt.

 After the demon spirits of the mob, there was no obstacle in Anahad's secret room.

 The three people successfully entered the deepest part.

This is like a researcher’s bedroom.

 A desk, a laboratory table, a bookcase, a bed and a storage box.

Several half-burned candles, with tears of melted wax stuck to the ground and table.

 Lan En snapped his fingers and simply lit the candle with [Igni].

Lan En first went to the bookshelf that interested him most, but after reading quickly with the help of Mentos, he found nothing.

These books appear in the library of Arethusa, and they are not the "little secrets of the witcher" as expected.

 The only harvest was an old piece of parchment, on which a recipe was arrived at after messy calculations.

 【Bear School Mutation Recipe】

 This is the origin of the characteristics of Xiong School and other schools of thought.

On the other side, Gede found a stack of equipment blueprints in the storage box.

The same old parchment material, the same complex calculation process, and finally a set of equipment was obtained on the seven pieces of paper.

That is the school equipment of the Bear School, including two steel and silver swords, a crossbow, and a set of armor.

 “Woohoo!” Gerd cheered, shaking a stack of parchment in his hand toward Lan En in the flickering candlelight.

 “Master level! Master level school equipment! A complete set!”

 “I knew there were good things in Anahad’s secret room!”

Lan took it over and took a look. Although this set of equipment was more powerful than the Advanced Bear School set he was wearing now, it was still not his target.

 So young people appear to be relatively calm.

“Very powerful equipment, but what I’m looking for is the Grandmaster level. And this set of blueprints should be a revised version? Look at the calculation marks on it, it’s hard to tell how different the final version of the blueprints is from it.”

 “Then this is also a master-level equipment blueprint!”

Lan En's cold water couldn't be poured on Gede's head at all. He had long been used to the hard life, and now he couldn't be happier.

 “Then why not come and see this.”

Beside the two of them, Regis raised the note in his hand.

Just now he was the one who walked to the experimental table and desk to check.

 “I think the clues above should be useful.”

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 (End of this chapter)