Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1189 1171. Unusual

This force was so violent and wild that it swept across the lush mountains, leaving behind hideous and terrifying traces.

It was like a 'natural disaster', filled with primitive rage.

Just looking at those jagged and hideous broken roots and trunks can make people shudder and hate their own associative ability as intelligent creatures.

When Lan En actually saw the signs of destruction, he immediately understood.

Why was it that those escaped mountain villagers, only a few hundred meters away from their destroyed village, did not dare to go inside to check the situation, and turned around and ran away after being persuaded by the hunters?

Even if this kind of destruction is only a trace or a remnant, it is enough to make people feel the horror of being threatened as if their lives are being threatened.

The amount of adrenaline secreted was so high that my lips went numb, my body trembled, and I was sweating like I was taking a shower.
It is normal for people to lose their minds in such situations.

but.
They are just mortals.

The thick leather soles of his boots trampled the broken wood chips on the ground, and Lan En walked calmly into the area filled with traces of horrible destructive power.

Although Lan En is usually very approachable and can chat with almost anyone who doesn't have any bad intentions towards him.

But his body and the hormone levels within it had been surgically enhanced by the Interstellar Empire, and he had accepted the memory of the great war in the sea of ​​stars.

And he himself has crossed several worlds, made his own choices in these worlds, and borne the consequences and gains.

Whether in terms of body or mind, he can no longer be considered a so-called 'mortal'.

According to the Space Marines' concept, he is already a true 'superhuman'.

The feeling of terror still exists, but the heavy weight on Lan En's nerves is not too heavy to bear.

"I-I'm here too, meow!"

The fluff ball had its little mouth open, staring blankly at the large area of ​​traces that looked like a natural disaster.

But when Lan En walked in first, the Feline cat clenched its little paws to encourage itself and followed.

"The fracture was caused by crushing. The wood of the trunk was broken into pieces under the sudden pressure. This is pure and powerful physical force. But why?"

Lan En squatted down and gently stroked the broken part of the tree with the tips of his leather gloves.

He first rubbed his fingers to confirm the feel, then put it under his nose and sniffed it gently, but finally frowned.

"Why is there no trace left on it?"

Crushing a tree with physical force will inevitably result in contact.

And with the demon hunter's keen senses, this contact must carry information about the target.

Generally speaking, it will be residual smell or something like that.

But after Lan En smelled it, he smelled nothing.

Lan En looked down at his roaring bear head pendant, which had been shaking slightly since he entered this area.

The necklace was shaking because of the large amount of unstable chaos magic scattered in the area, and the shaking did not increase when it was close to the broken tree.

This shows that the force that shattered these trees was not the physical impact generated by magic.

And he could tell from the feel of the broken ends that the thing that crushed and cracked the trees must have a tough and rough skin, just like brown paper.

But even after such direct and intense contact, he still didn't smell anything.

Lan En's [Spiritual Vision] was also turned on, and he looked around. However, the chaotic magic in the venue was like a color palette that an artist had used for a long time.

Apart from being able to see that a large amount of chaotic magic was indeed passing through here, it could not provide any useful information.

Lan En frowned and slowly stood up from the broken tree stump. The traces of the crushed dense forest extended to the other side of the mountain.

In the dense forest, it was like a big cake that had been gnawed out of a line by a dog.

"This thing is some kind of creature."

Lan looked around and whispered the known information in accordance with the working habits of a demon hunter.

"But with such a large size and such great power, it didn't even leave a footprint? How did it do that?"

Flying with magic?
If you can fly, why bother to fight your way through the woods?

And if it can fly, why is the territory expanding so rapidly only today?
After a brief moment of contemplation and silence, Lan En called out, "Flannel Ball."

"I-I'm meowing!"

The calico cat carefully jumped over the wood splinters and sawdust on the ground, kicking its legs from time to time to shake off the sawdust on its fur.

Lan En turned his head and looked at it: "Can you adapt to it?"

The kitten clenched its claws, and although it was still a little nervous about the brutal marks here, it still insisted on speaking.

"No, no problem! I'll be fine after a while, meow! It's just a monster I haven't seen before!"

It puffed out its chest as if to give itself courage, and the small triangular ears on its head also stood up.

"Then come and help. This place looks weird to me." Lan En didn't waste any words. He patted the fluff ball on the head and started assigning tasks.

"You are an Elucat from the Valley Raiders Clan. You are good at finding the remains and traces of monster materials, right?"

"That's right, meow!" When the fluffy ball saw that he was indeed talking about the area he was familiar with, he felt the confidence of a professional.

"Then let's look for it together." Lan En said to the ball of fluff seriously, "Even if it's just a scaly claw." Felyn nodded obediently, then ran on all fours to a farther place.

Lan En also began to search.

He really hoped to find some biological remains of this unknown creature, otherwise the whole thing would seem a little too unusual.

Among all the situations faced by Demon Hunters and Space Marines, "unusual" is almost the worst news.

But good luck did not come to Lan and Fluffball.

The two of them searched for about half an hour, but still did not see any living creatures.

Not only was there no trace of that horrible creature, there was not even any trace of the animals that should have existed in the forest.

Just like the information we got before - all living things in the range were dead.

And there were no bodies.

Lan's frown deepened, but at this moment, the call of the Felyne cat came from the other side of the fluffy ball.

"Wait! There seems to be something here, meow!"

The witcher immediately dropped the odorless wood in his hand and walked over there.

When he arrived at the location of the fluff ball, he saw Felyne skillfully moving the scattered tree trunks that had been broken into pieces the size of a person from one place to the side.

Lan En came over and lent a hand, and they quickly finished cleaning up.

What was exposed to them was
"Armor?" Lan En carefully checked it with his [Psychic Vision] and confirmed that there was no danger before fiddling with it. "It's still damaged."

It was a whole piece of breastplate that had been somewhat deformed by the impact.

If it weren't for the leather straps remaining on the edge of the breastplate, it would be difficult to confirm whether this was an iron plate or a forged breastplate.

The hardest part of a suit of armor was damaged like this, even if it was hit head-on by a small catapult's volley of stones, it would not be much of a problem.

And this was not what surprised Lan En the most.

When he used the tip of his thumb to wipe away the blood and mud caked dirt on the chest of the breastplate, revealing the small shield emblem on it, his eyes could be described as puzzled.

"Gold and red mountain-shaped patterns on a black background?"

To make sure he was right, Lan turned around and asked the flannel ball for some water, and then wiped the small shield emblem on the breastplate.

"Why is the armor from Aedirn here?"

The demon hunter frowned slightly and muttered softly.

The biochemical intelligent brain searched and confirmed it in just a moment.

This emblem is the emblem of Aedirn, one of the four northern kingdoms, which is located on the east and west sides of Temeria across the Mahakam Mountains.

And judging from the manufacturing level of this breastplate, a breastplate with a small shield emblem installed on the chest can only be equipped by officers above the rank of lieutenant.

How could an Aedirnian officer's breastplate appear here?

This place can be considered to be in the deep mountains of the Mahakam Mountains, and in terms of territory, it is within the territory of Temeria.

To get here from Aedirn, even if it were to go downstream from the nearest Haji Fortress, it would take a whole afternoon.

And that was just the journey on the Pontar River. After getting ashore, how long would it take to walk in the mountains to get deeper into the area?

If the breastplate lying here now had been painted with the emblem of the white lily of Temeria, Lan En would not have felt so puzzled.

"Well done, fuzzball."

Although he was puzzled, Lan En still patted the little head of Elu Cat encouragingly.

Information is information, whether it confuses people more or not, it is a gain.

The fluff ball also narrowed its eyes, looking very happy to be praised.

Then, Lan En and Fluffy Ball began to focus on checking the area around this area, and sure enough, they gained more than that.

They dug out an arrowhead from a pile of shattered wood.

Now there was no smell or trace of anything in the place, only messy and violent destruction.

And this arrow did not have any magic power, so Lan En only felt there was something underneath after stepping on the pile of sawdust.

There was a slight "click" sound, and almost at the same time, Lan En immediately raised his foot.

Even with such a sharp reaction, when Lan En raised his foot, he found a strange arrow hanging on the sole of his thick-soled leather boots made from the tanned skin of a petrified chicken snake.

The arrow is in the shape of a triangular pyramid, but after being physically impacted or squeezed, a thin, needle-like barbed blade will open on each edge of the pyramid.

Insidious yet ingenious design.

Once this kind of arrow enters the human body, the best result is that a large piece of muscle will be cut into pieces.

The worst-case scenario is that the thing unfolds near your internal organs.

Thanks to Lan's super fast reaction and the strong leather on the sole of his boots, this mechanically triggered arrow only hung on the shallow layer of the sole of the boot.

Lan En took it off, thoughtfully closed the barb on the arrowhead, and put it away.

(End of this chapter)