Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1322 1294. [Water-Shaped Sword]

The bright moonlight reflected by the two swords was reflected on the filthy and dirty pool of blood.

It seemed as if even this crazy and insane scene was given a touch of tranquility.

In the distance, the fire in Yharnam was growing bigger and bigger, and the flames illuminated half the sky from bottom to top.

The ashes of the burned wooden buildings now drifted down like warm snow.

Ludwig seemed to have a premonition that he didn't have much time left.

After controlling the deformed beast claw wrist to shake out a sword flower, he confirmed that Lan En had refocused his attention, and then he stabbed straight with the moonlight sword in his hand.

Starting from a low position, he stabbed straight into Lan's body.

At this time, the sword in Ludwig's hand was adapted to his body size, and the width of the sword was almost as wide as the height of a normal person.

Out of a tentative mentality, Lan En did not dodge the sword directly.

Instead, he raised the moonlight sword in his hand, turned sideways, and held it diagonally to block beside him.

"Om~"

The two swords, sparkling with bright moonlight, rubbed against each other, but did not produce the kind of harsh and sharp sound like that of steel rubbing against each other.

On the contrary, even the sound of the collision carried a hazy and blurred feeling.

A handful of magical blue light spots suddenly exploded between the ice-blue sword blade and the blue-green sword blade.

The blades collided, but Ludwig, who was now standing up straight and as tall as a Brute Jaw, reacted almost synchronously with Lan to resist the impact.

The demon hunter's already solid footsteps suddenly sank a little further, and there was a "crackling" sound of rocks breaking under his feet stepping into the blood pool.

The arm that Ludwig stabbed with was deflected and tilted sideways because of Lan's sideways blocking.

The demon hunter noticed something almost immediately when the swords collided, and his amber cat eyes raised and looked at his opponent.

Judging from the size and weight, there is no doubt that Ludwig, who has been twisted into this state by the beast disease, has the advantage.

But now, his force performance is almost the same as Lan En.

The left eye, which only had a glimmer of humanness left, looked at the witcher calmly in the moonlight.

The more Lan En narrowed his eyes, the more serious his expression became.

Even though he's in a distorted state, do he still want to fight the final battle as a human knight and with human swordsmanship?

Without saying a word, both of them understood what the other meant.

Next, only the sword can speak!

Taking advantage of the inertia of being blocked laterally when he stabbed just now, Ludwig's claws and wrists rotated.

What follows immediately is a counter-attack and a downward chop!
The blue-green sword left a dazzling afterimage in the air, accompanied by plankton-like light spots.

But even when Ludwig was fighting back and attacking again so quickly and smoothly, he still couldn't make Lan's eyes fluctuate.

Ludwig enjoyed a heroic reputation in Yharnam, and people praised his noble character and superb swordsmanship.

However, this is ultimately limited to the praise of "a Yharnam".

Lan En's swordsmanship has spanned several worlds!
"when!"

His eyes were motionless, so calm that he seemed to be doing nothing. But Lan En's hand had already controlled the greatsword in his hand, and it was placed horizontally at a subtle angle at a subtle time.

[Water-Shaped Sword·Dengli]!
Unlike the collision between steel, the unique swordsmanship techniques will produce dazzling sparks that spread in a circle.

Between the two moonlight swords of different sizes, a circle of dazzling spots of ice blue and cyan burst out in the collision!
Born out of the Ashina Style's swordsmanship that is like the water of Ashina, Lan's own skills have long since broken away from the mold and surpassed boundaries.

This swordsmanship was even praised by Ulmo, Lord of Waters, in the world of Arda.

Using the name "Ashina-ryu" is not only no longer appropriate, it also shows a lack of respect for Ashina Isshin, who taught him swordsmanship, and himself.

So Lan En temporarily called his swordsmanship the [Water Shaped Sword].

For example, [Treading Carp] was originally a relatively basic technique in the [Ashina Style], which allowed the swordsman to bounce back the enemy's blade beautifully like a carp jumping out of the water.

And through this process, one can allow one's own power to penetrate into the movement of the enemy's body, accumulating it until the last moment, just like constantly adding sand into the operation of a machine, eventually causing the enemy's posture to collapse.

This sword technique was originally only used between mortals, with real steel blades colliding, and it was a sword technique that could fully display its characteristics.

But now, even if they are two extraordinary and magical weapons, Lan En can easily control the interaction between them and achieve the effect he wants.

With a "crash", Ludwig stepped on several horse legs when he stood up. He involuntarily took a few steps back before he could barely stand firm.

An enemy who was about the same height as a Barbarian Jaw Rex and wielding a huge sword as wide as a person's height was actually bounced back by Lan En after he chopped down!
Ludwig's left eye couldn't help but widen slightly even in the pain and exhaustion of beast transformation!
He was an expert in swordsmanship, but it was precisely because he was an expert that he could feel the disharmony of his body at this moment. His flesh, blood and bones, which had already been deformed by the beast disease, were like sand mixed in during the movement, and there was something subtly wrong.

That's not all!
Lann used powerful techniques to interrupt the enemy's attack rhythm and blocked Ludwig's downward attack.

At this moment, he also pulled the Moonlight Greatsword that was originally blocking his head back to his side.

A burst of blood burst out from under his feet, and the witcher's body disappeared like the wind mixed in the blood.

【Acceleration Technique】!
With a 'swoosh' sound, it came rapidly closer!
And the big sword that was flashing with ice-blue light also chopped out mercilessly at this time!
[Water-Shaped Sword·Big Cut]!
First, the ice-blue sword blade, with a buzzing sound, chopped the sword that Ludwig had quickly put in front of him.

The huge and violent power almost seemed incompatible with the bright and quiet sword blade!
The palm of Ludwig's hand that was resting on the back of his sword, as well as his supporting elbow, were suddenly and violently impacted, making a 'bang' sound in the air, a dull sound that shook the air.

There are also white air waves.

The glorious Yharnam swordsman thought that although the sword was powerful, it was already over.

But then there was a "hiss, hi, hi" sound!
The violent air pressure brought about violent airflow. These invisible blades driven by the sword blade through the technique of [Airflow Blade], like a waterfall rushing down, impacted Ludwig's defensive sword surface which had just relaxed a little.

The amount of air brought up by this sword was so huge and the airflow blade was so continuous that on the blue-green surface of the moonlight sword, light spots like fluorescent creatures burst out one after another due to the impact.

The originally gentle and quiet moonlight now became somewhat dazzling due to the gathering of light spots!

Ludwig's beastly claws were now shrouded in light.

Lan maintained control over the subsequent airflow, trying to continue suppressing Ludwig.

But the wild airflow blew his hair that looked like melted silver, and the amber cat's eyes suddenly shrank as his hair danced!
Because Ludwig, who was originally suppressed by the follow-up airflow blade of [Big Cutoff], suddenly pushed back with all his strength.

He briefly pushed away the continuous airflow blades, then held the Moonlight Greatsword upside down and pointed it at the ground, revealing his entire chest and abdomen as if it didn't matter!
Yes, he would do so, because this was his last battle as a member of the church and a glorious swordsman.

Although both of them have a moonlight sword in their hands, regardless of the differences between the two swords, the control over the swords is not on the same level.

Before this, Lan En had only touched his Moonlight Greatsword for weapon maintenance.

According to Ludwig's previous remarks, he should have had this sword in his hand even at the beginning of his hunter career and had been using it all the time.

In terms of controlling the power of the Moonlight Greatsword in his opponent's hand, Lan En was far inferior to him.

And what is now presented to the demon hunter is precisely this gap in control.

Continuous air blades condensed out of thin air and cut into Ludwig's chest and abdomen, almost instantly turning him into a piece of minced meat.

The foul-smelling blood of the Yharnam beasts flowed out in a sticky manner.

But there was only solemnity on Ludwig's face, which was already distorted by skull deformation.

He held the Moonlight Sword upside down with the tip of the sword pointing to the ground. The crystal-like blade of the sword looked like an inverted Christmas snow globe.

Deep within the sword, spots of light like starlight and dust fell toward the tip of the sword.

The large spots of light that had exploded from the sword because of blocking the airflow blade also gathered towards the tip of the sword pointing to the ground.

The gathered blue light gradually overflowed from the sword! The light fell like a stream of water!
"Crack!"

"Drink!"

Finally, Ludwig tried to shout in a human voice and thrust the sword into the ground!
It happened in just a moment.

Taking the place where Ludwig inserted the sword into the ground as the origin, the blue-green moonlight formed a circle with a radius of ten meters and suddenly burst out from under the ground!
"call!"

The energy of the moonlight gushed upwards, and the blood in the blood pool within the range began to flow upwards as if driven by the wind.

Then it evaporated into thin air, and even the rocky ground was exposed in the circle! It was not until the light faded that the blood in the blood pool began to flow and replenish.

If the person just stood in this range
But long before Ludwig gave up resisting the subsequent air blade of [Big Cutoff], Lan En had already immediately and cautiously withdrawn.

Therefore, this sudden area attack did not even touch Lan En.

It just stopped him from controlling the subsequent airflow blade of [Big Cutoff].

But his attack was interrupted, and Ludwig, who was also a master of swordsmanship, was about to start his attack again.

The compact transition between attack and defense is the basic skill in sword fighting.

Just now, because Lan En didn't know what kind of power Ludwig would use, he dodged and retreated, creating a huge distance between them.

But after Ludwig stuck the greatsword into the ground, he was now at such a long distance that he changed his reverse grip to a normal grip while the tip of the sword was still stuck in the ground.

It looks like he's going to use his sword to strike.

At such a long distance, that is
Lan En, who had just stopped and stood firm in the distance, reacted almost instantly and immediately dodged to the side without thinking!

(End of this chapter)