Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1316 1288. Heavy Armor
"Oh!"

The firearms specially made by Ludwig's church workshop exploded again!
It is a safe combat habit to use firearms to consume the enemy after gaining distance.

In order to highlight the advantages of this habit, Ludwig's firearms were specially enhanced in range and power.

And given Ludwig's proficiency in [Acceleration], he is basically always in an advantageous position in terms of distance control.

As Lan En rushed forward, he could use [Acceleration] to retreat synchronously.

Although retreating is slower than advancing, he can shoot to delay the approach of the opposing demon hunter.

If you want to dodge bullets, you have to make one more lateral movement. This wasted step is the basis for Ludwig to maintain his distance advantage.

Even though this body now has no brain to control it, the old hunter can replicate his previous tactical moves based on his physical experience alone.

In the past, this tactic should have helped him complete many hunts easily.

Faced with this tactic, one can either ignore the mercury bullets and charge forward, or use long-range attacks to counter each other.

But those charging beasts had never defeated Ludwig.

Even if the enemy is also a hunter, there are probably few people in Yharnam who dare to fight Ludwig.

Putting aside the advantages of the church workshop's special firearms, are there a few hunters in the entire Yharnam whose blood quality is higher than Ludwig's?
For hunters who use mercury bullets mixed with blood as their main killing method, the quality of the blood determines the extent of the damage.

With one shot from Ludwig, an ordinary hunter would lose half his life even if he had a blood collection bottle.

If someone shot Ludwig, he might just shake his shoulder and feel a little pain.

But today, facing Lan En, this tactic is not as effective as before.

Ludwig's habitual tactics always put his enemies into an uncomfortable position.

However, when the Witcher Lann retreated after Ludwig used [Acceleration] and fired the second shot, he immediately realized the opponent's tactical intention.

Immediately afterwards, the biological intelligent brain in his brain began to perform instant rapid calculations according to his wishes.

Finally, an optimistic conclusion was drawn:

"Gun power is being imported into the model, Smaug armor strength and Quen's Sign are being imported into the model, sir."

The biochemical intelligent computer's voice is as capable and precise as ever.

"Excluding the so-called 'blood quality' of the mercury bullets, I don't think the enemy's firearms can cause any trouble to your heavy armor."

The calculation was completed in a flash, and Lan, who received the accurate report from Mentos, had also made a tactical decision based on the calculation results.

- Do you think I'm one of those brainless, armorless Yharnam beasts?!

“Bang, bang!”

The bullets continuously hit the target who was charging straight ahead without dodging, but there was only a loud bang of the metal bullet colliding with the hard barrier, and the advancing figure seemed to be unaffected at all!
Lan's left hand was blocking his face, his palm making the [Quen Seal] gesture, and sparks from the bullet being knocked away burst out from his arm armor.

The mercury bullet first broke the [Quen Seal], and then hit the dragon scales of [Smaug]. Only the bullet was deformed under the compression of kinetic energy.

This kinetic energy was transmitted to the armor layer by layer, but because of the excellent shape design of Smaug's entire set of armor and the strength of the material itself.

Even the mercury bullet that hit the side ribs from a tricky angle would be bounced away by this heavy and brutal armor!

And those impact forces, after penetrating into the tightly arranged armor plates, acted on Lan En's body.

However, the impact may still cause internal organ damage to the normal human body.

Lann now has a layer of steel cables on the outer layer of his muscles to strengthen his muscles and bones.
Absorbing energy layer by layer, weakening layer by layer.

The impact of the bullet on his tensed body was even less than the impact of cutting his nails.

There was a series of loud bangs!
But in front of Ludwig's special firearm, Lan En was like a giant bear running into the breeze!
Rampage! No reaction!
Ludwig's tactics rely on using shooting to hinder the enemy, thereby creating room for his own distance control and making it easy for him to do so.

However, facing an opponent who is charging straight at him with a full body of heavy armor and an amazing tolerance to impact, this method is completely useless if Lan En cannot be worried about getting hurt!

Inside that round mouthpart, countless eyeballs were spinning frantically.

But they were not Ludwig himself after all, and when their physical tactical habits did not work, they had no idea what strategy to adopt.

The mouthparts squirmed and gasped, carrying a disgusting smell of internal organs.

Judging from the size and position of this mouthpart, it is indeed possible that the thoracic organs of Ludwig's body are inside it.

The wild and majestic body rushed straight towards Ludwig!

This time, a silver light flashed from Lan En's right hand!
"Stab!"

Arondite's blade is extremely sharp!
The upward slash from bottom to top first cut Ludwig's gun into two pieces of different sizes. The cut on the metal section was smooth and neat, and could reflect light and serve as a mirror.

The gun was chopped into two unequal pieces, and so was the hand holding the gun.

The elegant blade passed through Ludwig's body as if it was cutting through the air, bringing out large amounts of sticky and smelly blood.

From the upper arm near the armpit, the skinny and deformed gun-holding arm was separated from the body along with the chopped-off gun barrel! However, after cutting off the enemy's hand cleanly, Lan En did not immediately pursue.

Instead, his legs were also entangled in spiral wind.

【Acceleration Technique】!
It flashed to the side a not-so-far distance!
That is less than two meters.

But immediately after Lann dodged to the side, the round mouthpart that had grown on Ludwig's neck made a 'gurgling' sound like nausea.

Then there was a 'wow'.

It was hard to tell whether the liquid was black or dark green, but it spurted out from the mouthparts whose inner walls were full of eyeballs.

He vomited right where Lan En had just been standing.

The blood pool was boiling, and even the rocks below the pool made a hissing sound as if they were being corroded.

Amid the sound of corrosion, a hazy but foul-smelling smoke rose up.

Although Lan En was wearing heavy armor, this armor did not have the ability to resist poison.

Demon hunters are very resistant to poison, but that is in the normal world.

In Yharnam, Lan En didn't even dare to let [Turbid Flow·Destruction] come out to "eat" a few bites of food, let alone let his own body try the poison here.

So he hid away simply.

But after dodging to the side, Lan En did not relax.

Because his left hand holding the gun was cut off, this actually made the opponent's tactical choices simpler.

The half-sword in Ludwig's right hand made an almost 'whipping' upward move on his arm, which was extremely uncoordinated but able to swing fully because he was weak enough!

Lan En raised his head and calmly watched the sword blade, whose end was almost enough to leave a white line in the air, pass by his chin.

In theory, the gap after the enemy completes a sword swing is a good time to attack.

But Lan En still did not act rashly.

On the one hand, it was very strange that Ludwig, the first hunter of the church, had an ordinary half-hand sword as his main weapon in his right hand.

On the other hand, the large metal scabbard on his back doesn't look like a 'simple' scabbard at all.

really.

With a "click", the unique mechanical opening and closing sound of the Yharnam mechanical transforming weapon was heard.

Following the demon hunter's calm and composed reaction, Ludwig smoothly and precisely inserted the half-sword in his hand into the wide metal scabbard behind him!
And from this posture of sheathing the sword behind the back, which was similar to that of a demon hunter, he directly stabbed it forward with one hand, connected to the huge metal scabbard!
In this state, this is no longer an ordinary half-hand sword, but a giant sword similar to the [Muddy Stream] before the materials of the Nergigante were added!
The wide metal scabbard was in the shape of a leek leaf, and the religious patterns of the Healing Church were engraved on the sword surface, which was similar to the pattern of the cloth strips hanging on the backs of clergymen.

As a church weapon, it has a similar mechanism to the [Church Hammer]. The half sword in Ludwig's hand actually served as a 'handle'.

Once the scabbard is put back and inserted into the mechanism, the hilt of the half-sword directly becomes the hilt of the big sword!

Ludwig's body was in an extremely twisted posture, and he stabbed the huge sword on his back forward with one hand while spinning around.

The posture was so twisted that it was as if the being controlling the body was not used to the human body, but was more accustomed to the movements of fish, worms, and the like.

But although the posture is uncoordinated, it is also full of suddenness and unpredictability because of this.

Even Lan En was only able to determine whether his move was a stabbing or a slashing one when he was halfway through it.

However, this was the end of the trouble Lan En caused.

An attack that has been seen through is meaningless.

There was a sharp sound of metal friction and a 'sizzling' sound, accompanied by fierce sparks.

This movement did not come from the confrontation between the Sword of the Lady of the Lake and the giant sword in Ludwig's hand.

Sparks from the metal friction flew up into Lan's elbow.

The demon hunter had a calm expression, and relying on his solid armor, he simply tilted his torso slightly to the side.

And the space between the torso and the arms was left, allowing the big sword to stab in directly!

Then coordinate and lock the elbow, forearm and torso!
The metal blade of the greatsword rubbed and bumped against the scales of Smaug on the armor. But in the end, Lann was completely restrained and unable to move.

He is a man of great skill and courage, and at the same time, he feels it is a matter of course to wear heavy armor and torture the enemies.

"You really are..." Ignoring his elbows and armpits, the opponent desperately twitched the giant sword, and the friction and grappling sound between metal and dragon scales was simply harsh.

Lan En tilted his head and said, "I've never fought an enemy wearing heavy armor."

"Stab!"

(End of this chapter)