Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1048 1030. Nether World
"This is."

After the last scream of the humanoid smoke dissipating, Lan En frowned and rubbed his ears. The sound was not human movement.

"Is this some kind of demon spirit?"

Lan En murmured doubtfully.

Demon spirits, he had seen a lot of these monsters in the Magical Middle Ages, and had killed a lot of them.

Most of them are souls full of resentment and persistence, unwilling to go to the place where they should go after death.

But that resentment and persistence will basically twist the soul into a mindless monster. No matter what it was that it was attached to before death, it may be forgotten after turning into a demon spirit.

But the miserable green human-shaped smoke just now gave Lan En a different feeling.
That is a force more evil and darker than demon spirits.

Lan En looked at the only black dagger left on the ground, squatted down and cautiously stretched out his fingers towards it.

But before it actually came into contact, as soon as it was close to a certain distance, a deep cold feeling came from the fingertips.

That's not an ordinary physical feeling of cold.
"Be careful! Don't touch it directly!"

Radagast held the staff in his arms, pointed at the dagger on the ground cautiously and spoke.

"That thing comes from the underworld! It's not from the human world!"

Netherworld?

Lan En slowly retracted his palm, stood up and stepped aside, letting professionals handle it.

Radagast pulled out an unknown piece of leather from his arms, and then dared to grab the sword through the leather.

"That is another dimension that is different from the real dimension. It is not a place that mortals should come into contact with. Something really big happened this time! Someone has involved the power of the nether world!"

The world looks different from different angles.

As a person with [spiritual vision], Lan En can understand this.

In the Magical Middle Ages, if he wanted to see the world from the perspective of the four-element interface, the scene he would see would be very different from the world in the eyes of ordinary people.

The structure of the world of Arda may also be very different from that of the Magical Middle Ages.

Lan En doesn't quite know what the 'Netherworld' is.

But this does not prevent him from understanding all this with reason and thinking.

Because the enemies are in the 'Nether Realm', even Arondette can't really touch them and cause substantial damage?
This ability of 'being in the ghost world' alone has restrained all ordinary attacks. Even Lan En can't hurt enemies in this form.

[Arden's Seal] I don't know if it will be useful, but I probably have no hope. Arden can forcibly transform demon spirits from incorporeal bodies into more vulnerable entities.

But is it useful against 'enemies in another dimension'? Lan En thinks that Arzu, who developed the Witcher Seal, may not have even studied it.

"So, is this evidence that the dark enemy has awakened? Can it convince others?"

Lan held Arondette in his hands and carefully looked around the dark and ferocious old castle while asking Radagast.

He just felt that this world was relaxed and leisurely enough, but he shouldn't start a war that would affect the entire world at this time.

"I-I'm not sure! But I know who to go to!"

Radagast wrapped the black dagger, quickly tied it with a leather rope, and then put it in his arms.

Panting, he pulled Lan En and walked out.

At the same time, an extremely dense sound of flapping wings began to appear in the old castle, which was originally so quiet that it was deathly silent.

It's those big bats!

"Let's go! Let's go find Gandalf!"

Because of fright and panic, Radagast staggered and ran ahead.

Lan En quickly followed him, grabbed his collar and pulled him up.

The sloppy old wizard looked like a little chicken, holding his staff tightly in his arms and being lifted up in the air.

"Want to hurry? Leave it to me!"

Before Radagast could react, he saw Lann lifting himself up and jumping directly towards the ferocious and towering wall of Dol Guldur!

"Ah~"

The old man screamed in confusion.

But then, the sound of mechanical bites came from Lan En's left hand.

While jumping down, the hook claws had already grasped the corners of the wall of this old castle that had not been damaged after thousands of years.

The rope tanned by the ferocious jackal dragon's mane can easily carry hundreds of kilograms of weight.

From the stairs that had already climbed several floors and were hanging in the air, I dropped directly to a height of more than thirty meters, and landed again on the malicious bridge when I first entered the old castle.

In the last dozen meters, Lan En let go of the hook.

He fell vertically to the ground.

In the gloomy castle behind, the flapping wings and screams of vampire bats are getting closer and closer.

That symbolizes that the dark power in the castle is getting closer and closer to them!

"No, no, no!"

Radagast looked at the ground and shouted incoherently.

But Lan En remained calm as ever.

On his finger, a silver ring decorated with a cat face was shining slightly.

Land directly!

A cloud of smoke appeared out of thin air and enveloped Lan En's feet as they landed.

No twists and turns.

Before the screams of bats behind him could catch up, Lan continued to drag Radagast out of the castle as if nothing had happened.

The old wizard was still in a daze, being lifted up and down in Lan En's hands.

It took a while before the same complaint broke out.

"Oh my God! Can't you discuss it with me first?!"

"Discuss? You need to be quick! Besides," Lan En responded without sincerity, "You wizards don't have the magic to safely descend quickly? Then what kind of magic do you know?" "What can love do? Anyway, I can’t! Can you care?”

The sloppy old man muttered in a low voice.

Thanks to Lan En acting too fast, Radagast was no longer so panicked at this time.

He jumped onto his own wooden sleigh in two steps. The big rabbit leading the cart began to stamp on the ground, and the other rabbits also got into work.

"Well done, Velvet Ball and Qilin."

Lan En also walked towards his companion, hugged Ellu Cat and climbed onto Qilin's back.

"Let's go."

Radagast first turned around and greeted him, then lifted his hat, and the three little birds that had built a nest in his hair flew out, surrounded him, and listened to his instructions.

"Go find Gandalf! Then lead us, quickly!"

The bird chirped in response, then flapped its wings, passing between the twisted and hideous branches polluted by the darkness of Dol Guldur, and flew into the distance.

Radagast didn't even have time to return to Rosgarh Castle to pack his things. He set up a sleigh pulled by a rabbit and ran all the way out of the Mirk Forest. The Witcher and Qilin followed closely behind.

And because of the super mobility of the demon hunters, there are a lot of vampire bats that are lagging behind, and the dark power behind them.

The pursuit has been given up.

The dark power retreated back into Dol Guldur, and so did the bats.

The power of this world is rarely presented with gorgeous sound and light effects, but it is accompanied by changes in the atmosphere and other strange phenomena.

On the staircase platform where the demon hunter and the wizard jointly dispersed the humanoid form of miserable green smoke.

A gust of dark wind blew by, and the miserable green smoke appeared again. As the small tornado gathered, it returned to its original state.

It seems that the way he was beaten to dissipate just now has no effect on him.

On the other side, in the door frame of the building that neither Lan En nor Radagast had noticed just now, a deep black shadow emerged from the darkness.

No, rather than saying that he 'emerged' from the darkness, it is better to say that he is the darkness itself.

Just like a photo with the inverse color effect turned on, the moment the figure appeared, all the colors around him turned weird.

Only he himself is still deep black.

He begins talking to the smoke figure he resurrected.

The language is awkward and barbaric, and just speaking it can make the listener feel depressed.

This is black language.

A language created by the Dark Lord Sauron.

'They are gone, my lord. Move quickly. '

The withered skull bowed deeply.

"That doesn't matter. Radagast is stupid and superficial. He always has been. No surprises. But the man who followed him here."

"It's so strange. That body and that sword."

"The sword has the shadow of the high elf's technique, but it can't even enter the Netherworld or affect it. I don't remember that sword."

"He has power in him that I haven't seen before."

The black shadow fluctuates, and every slight fluctuation can cause confusion in the surrounding scene.

".No, it doesn't matter. Now, the most important thing is to form an alliance with that dragon."

"Go and convince it! Go and seduce it!"

"Even if that dragon refuses to surrender, don't get in the way!"

The withered skull is lowered deeply to express compliance and obedience.
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With Radagast leading the way, it was easy to get out of Mirkwood.

The big rabbits pulling his cart had very strong legs, and Lan En even suspected that these rabbits were as strong as magical medieval monsters.

They had no time to talk and headed westward under the leadership of the bird.

Breaking out of the dark forest, and then crossing the Misty Mountains on a fairly gentle path.

Although the trail was very convenient, it was too secretive and winding to be completed without someone to guide it.

So Radagast, who couldn't leave Mirkwood because of his mission, simply didn't even tell Lan En.

Birds were flying ahead. They had been with Radagast for a long time, and they all seemed to have humanized wisdom like the creatures around Fort Roosegar.

Lan En wasn't sure how they found people, but they were certainly guiding the way.

"Keep going? Got it! We'll follow!"

Radagast said to the bird as he controlled the rabbit sleigh.

After leaving the chaotic environment of the Dark Forest due to magic, Qilin and Flannel Ball's moods improved significantly.

They crossed the wasteland at the foot of the mountains and followed the lead of the birds straight into a small forest.

The animated Kirin no longer wanted to follow the rabbit sleigh.

So it started playing tricks. The rabbit sled needed to make twists and turns among the exposed rocks, allowing the lead rabbit to find a suitable route.

But Qilin could easily jump onto those rocks using only the power of its feet.

The general direction was correct, and he quickly ran in front of Radagast.

In the wind, a slightly noisy sound of footsteps loomed, and the noise was due to their large number.

In the barren mountains and ridges, this group of people should be the only ones within a few kilometers.

After determining the target, Qilin jumped gracefully and lightly and ran towards the direction of the group of people.

Lan En also wanted to let Qilin relax, so he didn't pay much attention to it from the beginning.

After all, if you are looking for someone, just find it, right?

But when Qilin knocked away the bush without a care and stuck his head out.
"What the fuck is this?"

"monster!"

There was a "whoosh", and before Lan En on horseback could rush out of the bushes, a sharp sound broke through the air and shot straight towards Qilin's face!
(End of this chapter)