Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1315 1287. Mouth Part Eyeball
It didn't actually take much time for Lan, Maria, and Henrik to separate.

They just stopped by the research center to take a look.

Because both Maria and Lan knew that there was no hope anymore.

Gray blood disease is a thorny plague. The Healing Church Research Hall, which Maria originally believed to be the "way to salvation," also showed its true colors after Lan's revelation.

The research hall is not about studying how to defeat the plague, but hopes to gain more profound knowledge through this peculiar plague pathology.

They would like to see patients become more seriously ill and have more mutations so as to show more complex disease manifestations as a basis for research.

With this research purpose, there has been no progress in the treatment of gray blood disease.

Maria insisted on going to take another look. In fact, she just wanted to give up.

It was precisely because this process did not take too much time that Lan En went with her.

This female hunter who was born into a blood noble family, her current mental state seemed really wrong to Lan En.

After witnessing the truth of the research hall and the hunter's transformation into a beast, he returned to Yharnam and saw the spreading sea of ​​fire.

Maria now often loses her mind when looking at burning buildings on the road, and her hands, which should be steady and precise, tremble uncontrollably.

She would only break free when Lan En intervened every time.

Given her mental state, Lan En wouldn't be surprised if she committed suicide.

After all, what she witnessed today undoubtedly shattered many of the things she had previously believed in.

But Lan En didn't want to let such a cool, capable and kind-hearted female hunter disappear in the burning old Yharnam.

On the one hand, Maria is indeed a powerful hunter, with skilled skills and strong blood. Lan En's next goal will require such a powerful helper.

On the other hand, in Yharnam, Lan rarely saw a hunter who could truly care about others.

The trust that those patients placed in Maria was invaluable.

Therefore, the witcher was willing to take out extra time now, when time was running out, to accompany Maria to the research hall.

Now it seems that Lan's decision was very correct.

"Are you sure you're not guilty? What have you become now?"

Boots with bone-white dragon scales on the outside were swimming in the sticky pool of blood.

There was a bloody 'rustling' sound, and the sound of the scales colliding slightly with each other.

Lan En's body was already covered in blood.

The smelly and sticky blood was dripping down from the edge of Smaug's dragon skin skirt.

The demon hunter walked cautiously, asking questions towards the 'thing' that blocked the road to the church town.

He could vaguely tell that the 'thing' might have been Ludwig, proudly called the "First Hunter of the Church" by the Yharnam people not long ago.

but now
"Whoo~"

Ludwig was in a daze and did not feel himself opening his mouth to breathe, but a gust of foul-smelling air did blow past the right side of his face which was still twitching involuntarily, accompanied by a very close breathing sound.

This person in front of me. What is he talking about?
Ludwig's mind was fuzzy and confused, and he still didn't react.

Even now, he was able to control his left eye and turn it to the right.

The only movement he could make was to roll his eyes. His neck was no longer under his control.

But Lan En, who was standing opposite, could see it clearly.

The hunter in front of him, who was once praised as a hero, now had a distorted body.

Just like all beast patients when they have an attack.

His limbs began to become emaciated and elongated by lycanthropy.

The outfit that originally fit him well and was neat became loose and short after this change, and was basically hanging empty on his body.

But he is different from ordinary beast patients.

In addition to the basic changes in body shape, Ludwig's right neck
"Whoo~"

Another deep breath came out without Ludwig even opening his mouth.

Because the thing that emitted the deep breath was not Ludwig's "mouth" in the conventional sense.

——On his neck, which had become so thin that even the cervical vertebrae were visible, the needle hole left by the blood bottle had now expanded and torn into a mouth!

The mouth protruded outward from the base of his neck and collarbone.

It didn't look like a human or a normal beastman's mouth. Instead, it looked like the mouth of a sea creature, a squid. It was round and constantly surging and wriggling.

And during the peristalsis, the inner wall of the oral cavity is also exposed.

There are no normal oral structures or sharp teeth inside. Instead, there are densely packed, crowded spherical eyeballs!

Moreover, the weird, wriggling mouth was protruding more and more and getting bigger and bigger.

In terms of shape and position, it even began to occupy the space that originally belonged to the normal neck and head.

Lan En narrowed his eyes slightly and paced in the pool of blood.

As for the [First Hunter of the Church] who was once famous for his chivalrous spirit of honor, he was just facing him with his round mouthparts with eyeballs on the inner wall of his mouth.

The flesh on the right half of the face was sucked out and stretched tight by the big mouth, leaving only the left half of the face that still retained some normal human features. It was pushed aside as if it had no dominant position.

At this point, there was no need to answer the question raised by Lan En.

The twisted body before him had already demonstrated through its actions that it was no longer the human brain that had control over this body.

Ludwig's head seemed to understand this as well.

He could only use his left eye, which he could still control, and watch helplessly as his vision was squeezed to the far left side of his body. He could not see anything and could not do anything.

This body acted on its own based on what he had witnessed and felt, and the fear that he could not control at all made the already dazed Ludwig scream in fear.

"Ang!"

However, this cry seemed to have been distorted into something other than human.

Almost like a donkey waiting to be slaughtered.

But this funny cry, which was mixed with sadness and fear, made people feel chilled in such a grotesque, bloody and burning environment.

The two hands of the body in front of me seemed to be out of control and swayed on both sides of the body as it shook.

But the moment Lan En heard the miserable and terrified cry, he immediately flashed to the side!

And in the next moment.
"Oh!"

In addition to the blood splashing in the blood pool due to the sudden movement of the footsteps, a mercury bullet suddenly cut through the air and shot at Lan En's original landing point!
Holding the exclusive firearm made by the Healing Church for Ludwig, the thing's hand seemed to be shaking uncontrollably, but Lan En noticed it from the beginning.

Although the arm was shaking, the hand holding the weapon never loosened!
Although the beast disease can cause the patient's limbs to mutate and their minds to lose, in the early stages of the disease, these patients will still use the tools they use when they are normal.

For example, pitchforks, torches, and guns.

As for Ludwig's body, although the symptoms of beast disease he now exhibits are not consistent with the common phenomenon in Yharnam, his big eyes, big mouth and deformed limbs are more like the mutation of marine life in the small fishing village.

But there is no doubt that he has honed the hunting skills to his bones!

Even with this body that is no longer under his control, he is still a skilled hunter!

The demon hunter's heavy armor plus his own weight give him a sense of fierceness and violence even when he is moving quickly.

After suddenly dodging to the side, Lan En quickly shifted his center of gravity and stopped again in a very short moment.

Then switch the direction of movement and rush forward!
The sudden switch between emergency stop and explosive charge is a load that the demon hunter's current body can easily bear.

His strong bones, muscles, cables in his tendons, and reinforced internal organs all treated it as if it were normal walking.

But the pool of blood under his feet was different.

The rocky ground beneath the blood pool was ravaged by the reaction force of his swift and violent stomping!
It was simply crushed to pieces under the boots of dragon scales and dragon skin with a "crack" sound!
The blood spray caused by the collapse of the rocks was almost as high as Lan En behind him.

The blood was falling down, and at the same time it was splashing because of Lan En's extremely fast movement!
The next moment after the gunshot, the dull sound of boots hitting the ground was heard explosively, and Lan was already within two meters of Ludwig's body!
At this distance, in the wide-open, wriggling round mouth, densely packed eyeballs made a sticky sliding sound and turned towards Lan's direction.

With a "hiss" sound, there was a sharp sound of a sharp weapon cutting through the air!
A silver light swung out from Ludwig's swinging hand like a whip!
It was a normal-looking half-hand sword, and it looked very plain in a place like Yharnam where all kinds of strange weapons were used.

However, in Ludwig's wavering hand, the way the sword was swung out was more like throwing out the arm and the sword together.

However, facing the long sword at the end, due to the swinging force and the super strong quality of this body, a white line was clearly drawn in the air.

Lan En, who was rushing towards the long sword, had an unchanged expression.

Because of his grasp of the distance in sword fighting and his observation of the situation on the scene, he was very confident that there was no chance that the sword would hit him.

It was as if the sword that was swinging across his eyes did not exist. Lan En just stared at Ludwig's body opposite him.

really!

As the hunter swung out the sword, spiral winds wrapped around his legs!

【Acceleration Technique】!
It disappeared like a piece of smoke, and when it reappeared, it was already five or six meters away!
(End of this chapter)