Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1327 1299. Clergy Beast
The steps in front of the Cathedral in Church Town were built very majestically during this period.

Scattered clergymen stood near the main gate outside the church.

They had obviously received orders to guard the gate here and prevent anything from coming out, and at the same time they could not let anyone, including themselves, see what was happening inside.

That is the deepest and most untouchable secret of the Healing Church.

All those who know about this will be eliminated just as Archbishop Lawrence ordered in his last human roar.

But these are just clergymen guarding the gate, how could they possibly stop Lan En?
"Bang bang!"

At the end of the stairs extending upwards, the luxurious and heavy door of the cathedral was still shaking, making a collision sound from the inside out.

And on the steps, there was a "hissing" sound.

Lan En loosened his hand, which was originally holding a clergyman's shoulder. The dragon scale armor on the gauntlet made a slight sound due to the change in the opening and closing angle of his palm.

The blade of Arondite was as clear as silver lake water, and it was pulled out smoothly from the opponent's chest.

Thanks to the swordsman's excellent skills, the splattered blood didn't even stain the armor.

The clergyman, whose hands were released and let go, rolled down the stairs with his body limp like mud.

There was no one blocking Lan En's way, so he immediately went up and pushed open the door of the cathedral.

There is no difference between her and the 'future' Yharnam.

After the door opens inside the cathedral, there is still a staircase leading upwards.

There are creepy statues on both sides of the stairs.

The head was like a hollowed-out walnut, with a golden spear poked between its numerous, skinny arms, pointing diagonally upwards.

Weird and chilling.

But above the stairs, there was an extremely explosive noise!

"Aww!!!"

The brutal beast roared, and the sound sounded familiar to the demon hunter who had just entered.

Lan En stood at the bottom of the stairs just before entering the gate, unable to see clearly what was happening or what the scene was like above.

But he only saw that as this chaotic beast roar continued to echo in the echo structure of the cathedral, the firelight that was reflected on the ceiling of the church and then scattered became hotter and hotter!

"Oh!"

This time there was a dull thud of impact.

A black shadow flew directly from the stairs and hit the door that Lan En had just opened.

Unfortunately, the place where the shadow hit was supposed to have a relief, but it was at least a flat facade. However, after Lan En opened the door.
"Crack!"

The dark shadow hit the corner of the opened door directly, and its head shattered to the ground.

Finally, it fell at Lan's feet like a broken water bag, with a sound of juice filling up.

He was an old hunter, wearing a wide-brimmed hat with flabby edges.

Not only was his head smashed, but his body also had burn marks on it.

The smell of blood, roasted protein, wood, leather, and even the strange smell of stone cracking due to high temperatures all began to rush into the witcher's nostrils.

The roars of wild beasts, the excited growls of hunters, and the sound of metal and flesh tearing against each other were heard everywhere.

But in this chaos, Lan En seemed to have been mentally prepared.

His expression was calm as he quickly climbed the stairs, taking in the entire cathedral above.

The most conspicuous thing in sight was, without a doubt, a wild beast.

A burning beast!
"Ouch!!!"

Just like the clergy beasts that Lan En had hunted with Henrik in the 'future' Yharnam.

The huge body was so dry that its bones were exposed, and its hair was so lush that it was frightening.

The wolf had strong and ferocious antlers on its head. One of its hands was shriveled, while the other was abnormally strong.

The only difference between this beast in the cathedral and the clergy beast Lan En had seen before was that it was burning!

It's not the kind of burning that would harm hunters due to their hobby of using fire.

Instead, it was as if hot lava was flowing inside its chest, under its bones, and on its hair!
Glowing, hot, and on fire!
If the common sense of the Yharnam people is: use fire to deal with wild beasts.

Lan En felt that common sense probably wouldn't work on this beast.

How many fires could be as hot as its current temperature?

The beast was able to appear in the cathedral, and the Church of Healing blocked the clergy of the entire cathedral.
In Lan En's speculation, the only one was Lawrence! "Roar!"

Lawrence roared, and his strong arms slapped the ground randomly, and after a sudden drop, an explosive wave of fire spread out.

There was a sizzling sound as the protein was rapidly burnt and the human body fat began to boil!

But no one screamed here.

In other words, nothing made a 'human scream'.

"Ahhh!" He roared in a daze and meaninglessly.

The mad hunter's facial hair grew thickly, even though more than half of his body was burned by the flames.

But he seemed unaware or indifferent, and the steel sledgehammer in his hand immediately hit Lawrence's palm which was on the ground!

"Bang!" There was a loud bang!
The hammer with a mechanical structure on its head is an explosive hammer!

The transformable mechanical weapon made by the Yharnam Hunter Workshop was able to create a spider-web-like dent on the marble floor of the church even through Lawrence's claws!
This style of grafting the violence of gunpowder weapons onto deformed weapons is a unique combat weapon style created by a group of hunters in Yharnam known as the "Powder Keg Gang."

But this hunter, who was obviously abnormal, hit Lawrence's claws with a crackling sound that caused bones to break, and then suddenly knelt down with a thump!
It was a hunter armed with the same extendable hunting axe as Gascoigne's.

He held the axe high up behind him, with a happy and twisted smile on his face. As soon as the hunter from the Gunpowder Keg Gang smashed down with the hammer, he immediately chopped down on the back!

The Powder Keg Gang hunter had gone mad, with his spine sticking out from the blurred flesh and blood!

Immediately, his whole body fell forward to his knees out of control.

The guy holding the hunter's axe immediately came closer with his palms opened like claws!

"Pfft!"

There was a huge sound of blood gushing out! As the Axe Hunter thrust his hand into the Gunpowder Barrel Hunter's waist from behind, blood burst out!

The hunter's specially made gloves stirred the internal organs and blood vessels in his body, followed by a wild and brutal horizontal pull!

With this special technique, the degree of blood bursting out was greatly enhanced, almost comparable to the blood rain that Lan En brought out from the enemy's body using the air blade!
The hunter's long, blood-red tongue licked the blood that splashed onto the corner of his face and mouth.

Under the brim of his hat, there was only a bloodthirsty and addictive light in his eyes!

Before, Lan En had come across two high-level vampires and a group of blood-sucking creatures in the magical medieval world while searching for the blueprints of the master-level equipment of his Bear School.

But to be honest, even those brainless blood-sucking creatures who are obsessed with blood, their crazy and morbid desire for blood at this moment is far less than that of these Yharnam hunters!

This doesn't even mean that hunters are "blood-sucking creatures". They are obsessed with blood. Even if it has nothing to do with physiological needs, they will constantly pursue the smell of blood because of psychological needs.
This is simply a 'blood-thirsty monster'!
There are quite a few old hunters in the cathedral now, but Lawrence has been going crazy here for a long time and has not been captured. This is because these hunters themselves have been lost in the sweet taste of the Son of God's blood!

They don't want to think about anything else right now, they just want to bleed!

Your own or someone else's, as long as it has that sweet smell of blood!

But Lan En just felt that the smell of blood was disgusting!

"[Alder]!"

"Oh!"

The witcher, who had just walked up the steps of the cathedral, pressed his left hand, which had made a handprint, towards the ground!
Suddenly, a circular shock wave composed of chaotic magic power, accompanied by the sound of air surging, suddenly spread out from the point where the handprint landed!
There were burning ashes on the ground, rubble from the collapse, and broken pieces of prayer benches scattered on the ground.
The advanced form of the seal obtained from the knowledge of the Wolf School was instantly broken open!

In the chaos, the advanced form of [Alder Seal] can not only impact in a single direction, but also present a ring-shaped blast like an air wave.

The knowledge of sigils preserved by the Wolf School, and Lann's own reserves of chaos magic far exceeding those of a normal demon hunter.

On Smaug's armor, Berengar pursued perfection, using master-level blacksmithing techniques to stack several layers of sigils to increase its strength.

At this moment, even the old hunters who had already entered the stage of beast transformation could not stand up under the impact and fell to the ground on the marble floor!
The flames that were originally spreading on the ground were also extinguished due to the brief lack of air caused by the [Alder Seal].

The sound of metal rubbing against the opening of the alchemical leather bag came gently from Lan En's waist.

The [Holy Moonlight Sword] wrapped in cloth appeared in Lan En's hand in its normal form.

He held the hilt of the sword upside down and stabbed the head of an old hunter lying on the ground at his feet with "Kuchi"!
The Yharnam hunter obviously had no way to deal with the enemy while lying down.

The hard sword blade, not covered by the cloth, pierced through the wide-brimmed hat and the head, and the old hunter's body immediately became motionless like a rag doll.

After all, not every hunter has Ludwig's blood quality, has received such high-quality and high-frequency [blood therapy], and is also carrying the curse of the blow that killed the Son of God.

Even if your head is chopped off, you don’t know if you will die.

However, due to his caution with [Blood Healing], while Lan En was pulling out the [Holy Moonlight Sword] from the opponent's head, he swung the sword along with the momentum.

"Stab" sound.

The sword blade that had just been pulled out of the head slashed across the old hunter's neck again and cut off his head.

(End of this chapter)