Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1194 1176. 'Meat Amount'

The moment Lan En lifted his hood, he was declaring the military power he possessed.

That is the deterrent power created by killing people on a battlefield that is like a meat grinder.

Heward was well aware of this and expressed great understanding of the Duke of Cintra's hasty decision.

The Embers naturally served as nodes in Lann's command system.

Everything happened very smoothly, and they already had tacit cooperation.

"In order to maintain basic combat effectiveness, I will not confiscate the weapons of the White Rose Knights. Is that okay?"

Lan En spoke to Lincoln beside him without turning his head.

The young clerk smiled and looked at the knights who had gathered around Shiward but had already put away their swords.

"Let them try, sir." The young clerk said calmly, "It's better to try them. I'm a little curious about their quality."

The witcher shook his head.

I don't know where the Embers Knights learned this character from, that they are cautious in their actions, but can inadvertently reveal their pride.

"My Lord, what is our primary goal?"

Another Embers Knight asked nearby.

Lan En pointed around and said, "Just evacuate as quickly as possible."

There was actually no room for detailed command now, because the primary goal was to get this group of people out of the Pontar Valley.

The Scoia'tael destroyed many carriages and killed much livestock.

This greatly reduces the convoy's carrying capacity and operational efficiency.

This is also the main evidence that Lan En believes that the other party actually wants to delay time.

If your car is destroyed and you are reluctant to leave the things in it, then the remaining things in the car will have to be overloaded, making it move even slower.

All Lan and the Embers Knights could do was to forcefully order and supervise these people to abandon their baggage, discard all unnecessary things, and start moving quickly outside.

The Embers Knights began to take over the management of the entire team under the leadership of Lincoln, and Lincoln himself began to pick up the notebook that could be carried on one shoulder like a large shoulder bag and began to become the secretary of the steward.

Triss waited until the Embers Knights had all begun their respective duties before she stepped forward to Lann's side.

"What on earth have you figured out?"

The sorceress folded her arms, supporting the weight on her chest.

She was not like Lan En, who connected the scattered clues into a line in her mind.

In fact, she just found out that the arrow of the Squirrel Party was the same as the one she found when she was removing the arrow that was stuck in Buchter's right upper arm, so she went to find Lan En.

So even though Triss has been standing behind Lan and showing her support, she is actually not very clear in her mind.

Lan En pursed his lips and kicked the wreckage of a carriage with a broken axle into the ravine beside the mountain road.

"The thing we are investigating can indeed be seduced, Triss."

Lan turned and looked at the sorceress.

"Have you ever thought about what it did to those living creatures, 'there was not a single living creature in the area it passed through'?"

Lann had beautiful eyes, and Triss always loved looking into them as the two of them kissed and went deep into each other.

But now, these eyes were also looking at her, but the associations evoked by the words made her feel a chill in her bones.

"What do you mean?" Triss said stiffly, refusing to believe. "What do you mean?"

"I mean: the living things, the 'meat'."

Lann weighed his tone as he spoke the last word.

"For monsters, aren't they usually used for eating?"

"." Triss blinked, as if she didn't understand what he said. "For eating?"

She repeated, "To eat? Lan, do you know how wide that thing is? How many creatures are there?"

"From the time it first appeared, it has already passed one-fifth of the way through the Mahakam Mountains!"

Mahakam is a long mountain range running from north to south. The "crossing" mentioned by Triss does not mean crossing horizontally, but emerging from the middle of the mountain range and extending all the way to the current approach to the Pontar River Valley.

This distance is indeed close to one-fifth of the length of the Mahakam Mountains!
If all creatures within this range are eaten.
The pile of meat could block the mountain river beneath their feet!

It turned into a bloody dam of flesh!

This is also the reason why this conjecture has not been put forward before.

This amount of meat. Among the small countries in the north, the annual meat consumption of many countries does not even reach this level!
What could have eaten up one-fifth of the life on the Mahakam Mountains in just over a month?

"But this is a very likely guess." Lan En said calmly.

"From its early trajectory, it can be seen that it is a brainless, frantic creature. It often goes in one direction and then randomly turns around." "It eats too much and too much. So it often finishes eating in one direction, and then turns around when it sees more meat and closer meat in another direction. There is no planning, and no thinking."

"The Scoia'tael live and fight in the mountains. The breastplate of an Aedirnian officer is probably part of the pile of flesh they used to lure that thing away."

"The people sent by Aedirn should have died long ago, and their bodies were just reused."

"And now," Lan En turned around and said to the mountain road that was still scattered and broken after cleaning up for a long time, "they only need to hold the people back and wait for the thing to reach the Pontar River Valley."

"That's why we don't need to plan carefully when we attack, and we don't aim to win with one strike. After all, the goal is just to buy time."

Triss held her forehead with her slender fingers, feeling a sense of shock as if her worldview had been reshaped.

After all, she spent too little time with Lan En and had no idea what kind of monsters he had faced.

Something that can eat up the equivalent of a river dam's worth of flesh and blood in just over a month, to be honest, this thing is still within Lan En's imagination.

If it was Tishaya who was with Lan En at this moment, she would accept it quickly.

After being taught by Tishaya in the field of "Theology" and urged to review the deeds of ancient wizards, Margarita's receptive ability is approaching that of her teacher.

Triss opened and closed her mouth, but she still accepted the shock of her worldview after taking a few deep breaths.

She still propped her forehead with her fingers: "But if that's the case, something that can eat one-fifth of the living creatures in the Mahakam Mountains, if it reaches the Pontar River Valley."

The sorceress's face turned grim.

After looking at the problem from this perspective, the danger now is not just the convoy of a few hundred people brought out from the Principality of Elland.

In the entire narrow Pontar River Valley, even the Haji Fortress, which is the largest military stronghold, cannot fight against such a thing alone.

Although we still don't know how that thing has such a high eating efficiency and what it eats.

But it was undoubtedly beyond the capabilities of mortal soldiers.

“It’s pessimistic, but you’re right.”

Lan nodded, acknowledging Triss's concerns.

"So letting the people in this convoy escape quickly is actually just to reduce the number of casualties, just like what I said to Seaward."

On the other hand, how many people are there in the entire Pontar Valley?

Anyway, it is at least the size of two small cities.

"Wait!" Triss nodded at first, then looked up at Lan as if she suddenly realized something. "What do you want to do?!"

Lan En raised his eyebrows when he saw Triss's expression and chuckled: "Hey, don't think I'm so impulsive."

After laughing, the witcher became serious again.

"I really want to stop that thing before it comes. But until now, I still don't know what it is, which is too passive."

Lan reached into the alchemical leather bag at his waist, took out the conical crystal and handed it to Triss.

"Get them out of here, Triss."

"I'm going to need help after this."

Triss looked at the conical crystal placed in her hand and nodded.
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Under the supervision of the Embers Knight, many people in the caravan looked at the baggage and equipment scattered on the ground with shining eyes.

After all, as long as these things can be sold outside, they will definitely get a good price.

But in the end, everything was ordered to be left behind, and everyone was ordered to travel light and evacuate to the outside of the Pontar Valley without delay.

"We've only been walking for half a day and we're already retreating, just because we were ambushed by the Scoia'tael?"

Although his right upper arm was pierced by a special arrow made by the Scoia'tael, and Triss pulled out several muscle fibers when she pulled it out, Buchter was frowning on the way out because of the decision to retreat.

This bull-like man had no choice but to lie in the cart and talk forward.

"Come on, Buchter." Yarpen said without turning his head while carefully controlling the reins. "This time the Scoia'tael's raid is different from their previous tactics. There must be something wrong. Didn't I tell you that?"

As he spoke, the dwarf scratched his beard and gave a big smile to the Ember Knight riding a horse beside him.

"Captain, don't mind it. He's just not thinking straight and complaining."

Before setting off, the Embers took over command from Seaward and the Knights of the White Rose in full view of everyone, although this group of people did not understand what was happening.

But they have already very sensitively understood who to listen to now.

There are many well-informed people among them who have already made associations through the gun flag that Lincoln hung up again.

"I do not mind."

The Embers Knight, no longer hiding his true colors, looked at them calmly.

"As long as you don't slow me down, I don't care what you say."

The Embers Knights showed control on horseback that was in line with their current reputation. The team of several hundred people was temporarily taken over by the ten of them, and now there was no trouble that would affect the speed.

(End of this chapter)