Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1169 1151. Departure
Sixty skilled fighters fight without armor
Lan En even doubted whether the people standing in front of him could have ten with intact bones.

But the final result was surprisingly good.

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

This means that they were not touched by their opponents during the entire process of the armorless sword fight that was extremely short but resulted in injuries upon contact.

The opponent was sent off the field without any injury.

This kind of battle may have an element of luck and performance.

However, an ordinary officer would not dare to say that he could escape unscathed if he fought with a farmer who had never held a sword before without armor.

The level of these ten people is undoubtedly very strong.

Lincoln was among them.

"I'm surprised." Lan En said as he looked at the newly selected honorary swordsmen standing in front of him. "You are not used to using long swords. This is completely different from the weapons you were trained to use in Cintra for more than a decade before your death."

"But you guys were able to use it quite well in such a short time. You even had your own ideas and transferred some of the characteristics of Cintra's swordsmanship to the long sword."

Just like Temeria has the Temeria standard longsword, Velen has the Velen longsword, and the Novigrad shortsword was produced in the chaotic and prosperous free city of Novigrad.

Although the shapes of weapons tend to evolve in a convergent manner, there are still differences in shape due to different enemies, different battlefield environments, different combat requirements, or simply because of the characteristics added to highlight which side the weapon belongs to.

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

In the first half of their lives, they received the most orthodox Cintra Knight training.

Cintra, with its tough folk customs and close to the sea, has always had a lot of exchanges with the Skellige Islands. It doesn't matter whether this "exchange" is robbery or friendly, the influence is mutual anyway.

So although Cintra, as a continental country, still uses swords because of its chivalric culture, it has actually absorbed many of the Skellige people's styles of using battle axes.

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

In the sword fight just now, their style was mostly based on heavy and powerful chops with correct postures, without many of the fine techniques used when using long swords.

But just this performance alone shows that the Embers Knights are not a bunch of idiots in swordsmanship. On the contrary, they have the basics, talent, and even creativity.

Lan En felt very interested.

"Put on your armor and get ready to go."

A concise and crisp order was issued, and the Embers Knights seemed to have returned to that glorious battlefield.

Nostalgia and excitement unconsciously revealed at the corners of his mouth.

Contrary to Lan's expectation, he came with light luggage, but left with ten fully armed knights.

Lincoln returned to Lane's position as clerk.

And this guy actually listened to Lan En's previous advice. When he was going out to fight, he installed a steel book corner on the large notebook that was like a cross-body bag on his waist.
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Ten Embers Knights joined the journey to the vicinity of Elland, although inevitably, ordinary cavalry would slow down the Kirin's speed.

However, this time error is still within the margin that Lan En had reserved in advance and is acceptable.

Kirin is also happy to slow things down.

Recently, it always felt that the gray horn on its head seemed to grow faster than the last time the horn was broken off.

When the horse lies down to sleep at night, it seems that it can hear the tiny 'cracking' sounds of the crystals growing and condensing above its head through the conduction of the skull.

In this case, it would be best if it could grow its horns properly before officially dealing with the trouble in that abnormal area.

It is no longer the little unicorn that eats kelp carefreely on the coral plateau of the New World.

After going on several adventures with Lan En and traveling through several worlds, Qilin felt that he might be more knowledgeable than his parents.

It has seen a lot of mysterious things, and now it has to deal with an abnormal area with unknown conditions. Of course, it wants to appear in its prime to feel safe.

After arriving in the Magical Middle Ages, I felt that the creatures here were quite weak, and they were completely incomparable to the New World. Qilin even ran away and played for a while without restraint.

The Blue Mountains behind Kaer Morhen, the Qilin dared to go deep into them. The boundless ocean behind Aretuza, the Qilin also dared to deviate from the explored route and explore deep into it.

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

The vitality of this world is indeed not very abundant, but the magical abilities of people there are strong and weird enough!
When it comes to magic and supernatural powers, Qilin is still completely confused.

In the world of fire, it stayed in the dark with the ball of fluff, and the discomfort and fear from its soul almost scared it silly.

It didn't even encounter an enemy, it was purely the natural environment that affected it.

Then we came to Arda. Smaug's scales, evil spirit and dragon fire were fine, but what about Zorgluin's claws?!

Space cutting!

Even if Qilin was surrounded by thunder and strengthened his body, he couldn't resist it! So the ancient dragon from the New World didn't dare to go too far to play.

That's it, can't you just be more peaceful?JPG
During the march, the quality of the Embers Knights ensured that they did not fall behind or fail to keep up even though the Kirin controlled the speed.

Starting from High Hill Castle, which was originally located in the southeastern hinterland of Velen, next to the ancient oak tree on Bald Mountain, we arrived in the central part of Velen by evening.

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

The woods were dense and hot, and the swamps and meadows were mixed together. If you took a wrong step, you might get stuck. As night fell, there were strange rustling sounds around, as well as the howling of wolves and the shouting of monsters.

Only the faint outline of the dirt road trampled by people on the ground can prove that this place is still passed by people and is not a completely deserted place.

"Pfft!"

There was a crisp sound of a sharp blade entering flesh, and then the blade was pulled out of the body, and the smell of blood spread from the wound into the air.

The precise and decisive technique ensured that the blade did not make any dry sound from rubbing against bones, but was extremely 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 spear head. "Are we going to eat wolves tonight?"

"It's too much trouble. I won't do it." Lan En said indifferently, "I have a lot of supplies in my bag. It's not worth the effort."

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

The Order of Embers respects Lann as a god, but the relationship between them is not distant.

When they were fighting guerrilla warfare together in the occupied Sintra border area, they had always eaten and lived together.

When they were relaxing, the knights would joke with Lann, saying that he was younger than most of the other knights.

Lincoln was shaving with a grimace in his face, holding a small mirror.

Lan En said that he looked too ugly during this awkward period of growing a beard, so it would be better to just shave it clean.

Although Lincoln always wanted to make himself look more mature, he had no choice but to hold up the mirror with great pain and let the knights behind him shave it off with a smile.

"Come and eat, meow!"

Beside the campfire, the petite calico cat was shaking the pot and shouting energetically.

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

Fluff Ball also helped in the kitchen for the Chef Cat of the New World Investigation Team. Whether the food tastes good or not is another matter, but he is quite skilled in cooking.

With the help of the other two knights, it quickly finished the work with the efficiency of a big pot.

"Thank you, Mr. Flannel Ball."

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

When the fluff ball heard this name, the triangular ears on its head trembled uncomfortably.

It's hard not to like the Felyne cat because of its brave, optimistic, active and labor-loving nature.

The two Embers Knights who were making fire and cooking with it were initially a little reserved and distantly respectful of it because it was following Lan around, but they soon started chatting and laughing too.

Although Lincoln was ordered to shave his beard and looked like a young man of seventeen or eighteen with no beard on his face, he still arranged the night watch and guard shifts and distributed food.

The Qilin bent its four legs and lay down behind Lan En, rubbing its chin with a mane and beard on the ground in boredom.

It was not until the witcher reached back and put a hard-looking object to its mouth that the Qilin snorted happily, opened its mouth, took the object and began to chew it.

That was the special ration made by alchemy that Lan En used after he had the [Bone Strengthening Organ] implanted in order to meet the material needs for rapid bone growth.

Later, after the rapid growth period of his bones was over, he didn't eat much, but he still had a box of stock as big as bricks under the bed in the secret culvert.

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

But after coming back this time, Qilin took advantage of the fact that there was no one in the secret culvert and somehow dug himself out and started to eat it.

According to it, it suddenly felt that the food here tasted delicious, so it overturned the bed, found the food, and started eating.

Although it had smelled the scent of these special 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 anything to do with the fact that its horns are growing exceptionally fast this time.

However, Lan En was well aware of the outrageousness of the creatures in the New World, and he was ready to see what Qilin could do after being free to play.

(End of this chapter)