Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1334 1306. One Step Ahead
As if he had completely lost interest in negotiations, German spoke to Lan, the foreign intruder, in the tone of a manager or master, telling him to drown himself in this nightmare that was about to collapse.

Watching the wheelchair and the old man disappear like illusions, Lan En felt that the other party's identity in Yanan might be more complicated than he imagined.

But German’s identity can be discussed later. The most important question now is, what will happen to him, Maria and Adeline after this nightmare collapses?
Without the blood of Yharnam, Lann does not have the ability to travel through dreams and resurrect in dreams like those awake hunters.

Maria and Adeline are themselves the "products" of this nightmare.

"Ms. Maria, are we...are we going to die?"

Adeline was drowsy, but she still couldn't hide her fear and helplessness as she spoke.

Maria originally wanted to comfort those who asked her for help as usual.

But this time she just opened her mouth but couldn't say anything, leaving only a sad and miserable smile.

My own comfort has already harmed so many people in the research hall. What qualifications do I have to comfort and encourage others?

Nightmare, collapse... whatever these random words mean.

Maria just held Adeline's hands tighter.

But just then.
"After so much procrastination, I finally left!"

Lan En's words were a little unclear due to his sleepiness, but they were mostly sneers, which came from not far away.

The man, wearing boots made of dragon scales as plate armor, walked on the sand towards Adeline and Maria.

"Hold on a little longer, get ready to go, Maria!"

The witcher said as a matter of course, but Maria looked up blankly.

go?
At this moment, an inexplicable but enormous sense of fear filled Maria's heart.

It seems like the world is about to collapse in the next second!

Where can I go now?!

But when Maria looked up and saw the witcher's eyes, the surprise in her heart overwhelmed her fear.

The pair of amber cat's eyes didn't change in appearance, but they somehow made people feel more profound.

Maria didn't know what was going on.

In the 'future' Yharnam, old hunters like Henrik can easily explain the basic concept of [Clairvoyance], and know that the theory of this special sense comes from Byron Weiss's 'Theory of the Inner Eye'.

But in this period of time, the old Yharnam
When the frenzied hunters slaughtered the small fishing village, they inferred from the traces of the corpses. Lan En was a little surprised that they actually wanted to find the literal "inner eye" in the skull of the creature.

This is a manifestation of very immature theoretical development.

This theory was still very immature in the old Yharnam era. Maria was lucky enough to know the name of it. How could she really understand it?

So at this moment she could only barely support her body and asked in a daze.

"Go? Where are we going?"

"Go to a dream that's not much better than here." At this point, Lan En was actually in the mood to tell a joke. "It might even be a little worse."

But after telling the joke, his face immediately became serious and he gave instructions to Maria.

"Listen, Maria. I don't know what state you and Adeline will be in after you go there. After all, you two should have been dead for a long time there."

"So after you get there, don't worry about anything else. If anything goes wrong, immediately give you and Adeline a blood collection bottle. Remember?"

If he just used Cainhurst's technique of stabbing himself and attaching blood to the knife to increase the lethality, then it would not be worthwhile to use a blood collection bottle, which Maria considered to be a "dangerous item".

But since this is a matter of life and death, let’s deal with the rest after we survive!

Maria remembered Lan's words, but she was still confused and didn't know what would happen next.

"What are you going to do?"

Maria shook her head subconsciously, trying to clear her mind.

And then, she saw Lan's actions.

The demon hunter's deep eyes stared at the place where German was just now, as if there was nothing there, but in his eyes there was still something.

At the same time, the demon hunter's hand touched a large dagger tied to the belt around his waist.

A smooth and quiet sound.

The large dagger with a dark blue blade was pulled out by Lan En.

He held the large dagger in his hand, but the posture was not a normal dagger fighting posture. Instead, it was more like a surgeon holding a scalpel, cautious and steady!
But at the same time, his surgery was as decisive and precise as that of the top surgeons!
The dark blue blade was stabbed out, but under the surprised gaze of Maria and Adeline, the sharp blade of the large dagger suddenly seemed to be missing half of it after it was stabbed out!

It was as if half of the blade had been inserted into the body of some invisible being.

No, not 'like'! The dark blue blade of the dagger really stabbed into something!

Lan En's deep eyes remained motionless as he carefully observed the empty space in front of him, and then he suddenly pulled the hand holding the dagger down!

It was like cutting a knife on the cover of a thick book, and the contents of the book leaked out from the knife edge. After Lan En pulled down the dagger, the originally empty space suddenly revealed an unusual posture!
On the beach of this small fishing village, Maria almost thought it was an illusion.

She saw the Yharnam-style, tall, sharp and eerie buildings!

But there was no time to waste, as they were becoming increasingly sleepy, a level that could no longer be controlled by physiological reactions.

So she just glanced at the demon hunter who was waving at them as he cut through the space with a large dagger.

Maria gritted her teeth to resist sleepiness, dragged Adeline and rushed towards the knife edge that suddenly appeared in the air!
Following closely behind, Lan En also followed behind and rushed in!
The three people's bodies were a little out of control due to the sleepiness that was so strong that it exceeded the range of physiological reactions.

He immediately rolled on the ground under the momentum, and did not stop until he rolled nearly ten meters and hit the wall.

There is no beach, no sea water.

The ground was a damp stone brick road, and the water marks on the bricks reflected the cool light.

A layer of cold night mist floated ankle-high, making the light even more blurred.

There was a "bang" sound. That was the feeling of Maria hitting the wall while protecting Adeline.

The "clang" sound was made by Lan En's armor.

It’s strange to say, but just now the three of them were so sleepy that they looked like they were going to fall asleep in the next second.

But now, their sleepiness was fading fast, and the huge change in sensation even made them a little dizzy.

"Ding-ling, whoosh~"

There was a mixture of the crisp sound of metal hitting the ground and the sound of air flowing.

Lan En let out a long breath and stood up by supporting himself on the ground.

He first looked at the knife-edge that stood upright in the air as the three of them rushed out.

The scene behind the blade turned completely dark almost immediately after they rushed out. Then the blade itself in the air closed up immediately, leaving no trace behind.

After watching the 'blade' that divided the space heal quickly, Lan En bent down and picked up his large dagger from the ground.

A dim light was reflected on the dark blue blade.

[Zhaguluin·The Tooth of the Demonic Wolf].

Using the demon wolf from the world of Arda, it can use its claws to cross the boundary between the underworld and reality.

Its claws alone can cut through space.

If it is just used normally, then this large dagger is actually almost an indestructible weapon.

But in Lan's hands.
"What is that?" Maria asked, shaking her head to adjust to her mind that had just woken up from the turbulent sleepiness. "Where is this place?"

"The situation is a bit complicated. What should I say?" Lan En first put the [Fang of the Demon Wolf] back into the scabbard and tied it to the belt of his armor. Then he turned around, opened his arms to Maria and Adeline, and showed a helpless smile.

"Welcome to Yanan."
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"This is Xin Yanan?"

As Adeline walked, her palms gently brushed against the stone brick wall beside the road, following her footsteps.

She muttered in a low voice, a little dazed.

The awful day that had destroyed Old Yharnam the previous moment, even the heat from the burning city still lingered on her skin.

But the next moment, they passed through a knife-like cut in the air and arrived at... a rebuilt Yharnam city?
"It's just Yanan."

Compared to Adeline who was still in shock, Maria was much more indifferent at this time.

She raised her pale cheeks and looked up from under the brim of her tricorn hat at the sky divided by the roofs of Gothic buildings. And at the abnormally large, blood-red moon!
"Besides, it was Yanan who was destroyed again."

Compared to before, after the ceremony of sending off the dead for the orphans of Kos, German told Maria the truth.

Now, Maria no longer feels anything when she jumps across many years in one step.

And compared to the beast disaster that burned down Old Yharnam, how much better was this hunting night with a big blood-red moon in the sky?

Lan En was in front, finding the way and leading the way.

Although he was a foreigner, he was at least more familiar with the place than the two people from the old Yharnam era.

Mentos compared the landing point they had just rushed out with the map records from the last time they came to Yharnam, and found that it was not far from Gascoigne's house.

He wanted to take Maria and Adeline to Orton Chapel to see how the Gascoigne family and the Crow Hunter were doing.

"We are just people living in the nightmare of memories."

Maria spoke in a low voice, but this sentence was addressed to Lan En.

"But you have that dagger. What on earth is that?"

(End of this chapter)