Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1317 1289. Beast Ludwig
Arondite's silver light flickered again.

However, in the process of locking the enemy's weapon with armor and thus restricting the enemy's actions, Lan's slash still made him frown.

'Has the distortion increased?'

The demon hunter locked the greatsword with his left armpit and elbow, and raised the long knife in his right hand straight up diagonally.

According to Lan En's original plan, the knife should have cut diagonally upward from the opponent's right armpit holding the sword to the left collarbone and break out of the body.

The neck should be cut off together with the entire right shoulder.

But the mouthpart that grew out of Ludwig's neck, and the countless eyeballs on the inner wall looked at Lan's blade and began to spin wildly!
The slippery friction sound of the eyeballs rolling and rubbing almost makes one's hair stand on end!
Through the friction and tug of war between his heavy armor and the opponent's sword, Lan En keenly felt that the opponent's body was suddenly deformed more thoroughly!
The moment he swung the knife, the sound of bones breaking and reconnecting, muscles tearing and healing suddenly could be heard.

In this extremely short period of time, it was almost compressed into a teeth-grinding sound of bones and flesh pounding together.

"Snap. Bang."

The sword of the Lady of the Lake cleanly cut off Ludwig's limbs from the right shoulder of his right hand holding the sword. The flesh and blood, along with the sword, fell into the pool of blood.

Even the air flow blade wrapped around the gracefully curved blade, the surging air swept out a huge amount of blood from his body, spreading a blood-red and foul-smelling curtain along the horizontal surface where the blade cut.

However, the knife did not cut off his head.

Because Ludwig's already skinny body, his neck suddenly stretched to almost twice its original length!
The entire neck looks almost like a horse!
And he has become like this, can he be killed even by beheading?
When Lan En released the greatsword that he had clamped with the advantage of his heavy armor, he immediately stepped back!

A rain of blood suddenly burst out from Ludwig's body, covering the space within a radius of ten meters around him.

That was the minced meat and blood bursting out of the body during the violent and rapid transformation!

"Ang!!!"

A shrill sound like the braying of a donkey or a horse burst out from the blood rain.

Mixed with the pain of distortion, there was also Ludwig's own collapse.

The voice came from Ludwig's mouth, but the dominance of this body no longer belonged to that head.

When his head was controlled to make sounds, he must have been very scared.

Lan En's amber vertical pupils quickly scanned the surroundings.

In the area covered by the blood rain, the two arms that Ludwig had chopped off, as well as the weapons that were carefully crafted by the workshop of the Healing Church, were rapidly melting away.

Behind me came the sound of someone rushing in a pool of blood.

"What's happening here?"

Maria held her hat, stopped beside Lan, and spoke in a low voice while looking at the sudden rain of blood.

"Adeline." Lan En asked without turning his head, "Have you settled it?"

"She is in a safe place. She is almost scared to death here." Maria's tone was much calmer than before. At least she didn't sound like someone who was pretending to be calm after a breakdown.

This was thanks to Lan En accompanying her through the research hall.

"I heard some powerful guns firing here, so I rushed over after settling Adeline."

She glanced at the demon hunter beside her with her blood-red eyes.

"This is not in line with our previously agreed 'quick and quiet' approach."

In fact, although Lan En and his team went to the research hall halfway, they made Maria and Adeline face the reality.

But it wasn't much slower than Henrik and the others.

However, those old hunters were already addicted to arson and blood at this time. Lan and Maria would be happy if they could avoid getting too entangled with them.

That's why Lan En took a step ahead, found a relatively safe road ahead, and quickly killed the old hunters who blocked the road.

Maria followed slowly with Adeline. If there were any insane old hunters wandering around after Lan left, she would take care of them.

"Plans cannot keep up with changes." Lan En said to Maria cautiously, while raising his chin towards the receding blood rain. "This guy is not someone you can fool by 'walking quietly'."

"What do you mean?"

Maria looked at the gradually fading blood rain in confusion, but in the end, after seeing clearly what it was, there was only shock and pain in the eyes of the Blood Noble.

".Ludwig?!"

Finally, after the blood rain subsided, the 'thing' standing staggeringly above the blood pool was revealed.

The clothes on Ludwig's body had been torn into tattered strips by the surging black hair, which was the most obvious feature of beastism.

But that's still nothing.

"Hiss~Ahh!!!"

Ludwig's face had been stretched so much that it no longer looked like a human, but rather like a horse or a donkey. The right side of his face was particularly bad, and even the position of his eyes and eyebrows were no longer symmetrical with the left side. At the same time, the sounds of breathing and shouting, like those of a mad horse or a mad donkey, also came out of his mouth uncontrollably.

Where Lan En had chopped off his arms, twisted, beast-like, slender black-haired arms grew out.

His feet were also missing.

Seven or eight horse legs grew out of his body, so crooked that it was impossible to tell what they were for.

Some grow on the belly, some hang on the back, and some, judging by the direction of the joints, simply grow towards the back of the body.

Seven or eight superfluous horse legs were twitching morbidly in the air.

The whole person is like a collection of weird and absurd things!
Its limbs were elongated by lycanthropy, a supernatural disease, or curse, that caused its body to gain a great deal of weight and size out of thin air.

The entire body is seven or eight meters long. If the upper body is straightened, it would probably be as tall as the Barbarian Jaw Dragon in the New World!
From the size of a human to this extent, the distortion and super-rationality of the beast disease are undoubtedly revealed at this moment.

The mouthparts covered with eyeballs on its neck still pushed his head aside and occupied the dominant position.

Although Maria had met Ludwig before, she could still vaguely recognize him from his distorted and elongated profile.

But at this moment, I could hardly believe my eyes.

A beast that is so twisted to this extent has never been seen before even among the group of beast patients!

And now, this beast-like person is the [First Hunter of the Church], the Glorious Ludwig.

But now, no matter how strong and noble this person's spirit was before, no matter how strong this person's body was.

After being infected with the lycanthropy, he was nothing more than a beast.

In Yharnam, this is a rule that has been passed down since ancient times and is self-evident.

The deformed and grotesque beast let out a hysterical roar from Ludwig's mouth, as if it was trying to rip his lungs out.

It supported itself on the ground with its two paws, and a bunch of superfluous horse hooves on the back half of its body were twitching nervously.

Only then did Lan En discover on the other's back that Ludwig seemed to be a hunter carrying two swords.

Among them, the transforming weapon that was carefully crafted by the Healing Church workshop had just been melted in the blood rain.

But Ludwig still has a long sword wrapped in tattered cloth on his back. I wonder what kind of technology this [First Hunter of the Church] would use to use it when he was still a human.

But now, although Maria clenched her teeth, the blade of [Falling Leaves] was already shining with a cold light.

Beside her, Lan En held the hilt of the Sword of the Lady of the Lake, opening and closing his palms constantly to adjust the feel.

There is no doubt that what they are facing is just a beast!

"Uh-huh!!!"

Ludwig, who had completely transformed into a wild beast, let out a strange cry like a sick horse.

The pain of the body undergoing such drastic deformation in such a short period of time is enough to drive a person crazy.

But the way that lycanthropy manifested in Ludwig was extremely vicious.

The pain was borne by the head which still retained traces of a human face, while the eyeballs and mouthparts which truly controlled the body's movements were completely smooth.

A roar like phlegm in the throat came from the round mouthparts covered with eyeballs.

At the same time, the mouthparts directly connected to the chest cavity began to emit a faint airflow with a disgusting odor of internal organs.

"Get out of the way, it's going to vomit!"

Lan En, who had seen this move before, immediately greeted Maria and dodged to the side.

This unique blood noble is a well-known hunter in Yharnam. As he has been given hints, he does not need to worry at all.

Lan's [Acceleration Technique] is explosive and direct, while Maria's [Acceleration Technique] is swift and efficient.

The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, almost turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared on the spot the next moment after Lan En spoke.

At this moment, the sound of "hissing" burst out!

It is still spewing liquid out of its eyeball mouthparts.

But what was sprayed out this time was not the dirty venom that Lan En had seen before.

It was a liquid that emitted a hazy white light, and it almost gave the witcher a psychedelic feeling of facing a daytime demon.

There is no doubt that Ludwig, who is sinking deeper and deeper into his beastly disease, now attacks with a kind of spiritual power.

(End of this chapter)