Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1338 1310. Grasp the key
"It seems that the time recorded in that nightmare is quite far away."

Irene turned her head back and whispered to Lan.

"You and Simon, did you find out the truth about that nightmare together? As far as I know, that lady Maria has been dead for at least several decades, right?"

When it came to conceptual words about time, Irene got stuck.

As Lan knew it, their sense of time was destroyed in this endless night of hunting.

So much so that after getting stuck, Irene could only vaguely say words like "decades" instead of a more precise time range.

"Things are complicated." Lan En shook his head. "That nightmare can be said to have been figured out and ended by Simon and I. But Simon died before the matter was completed. Will this have any impact?"

"To be honest, I don't know." Irene swung her crow mask left and right. "Under this blood moon, even we will encounter situations we have never seen before."

"But maybe, I, I mean maybe?" The red witch raised a finger cautiously and said, "Can we go to the places where he often appeared before? If he didn't get into trouble because the nightmare disappeared, there should be clues."

"Leave it to me." Irene threw the rag that had been used to wipe the leather gloves outside the door of the Orton Chapel.

It was up to her to determine whether Simon was in trouble or not. After all, although there were three sober people here, one was a stranger and the other was a red-robed witch who had difficulty moving.

"It's not just a matter of determining whether he survived."

After confirming that Irene would go find someone, Lan En emphasized in a low voice.

At the same time, the pair of amber cat eyes looked at Irene and the red-robed witch seriously.

"We need to determine what state the person is in after a dream collapses."

Today's Yharnam is a huge dreamland where multiple ancient gods and superiors are eager to give birth to the Son of God and complete the incarnation ceremony, but are jealous and do not want other ancient gods to complete the ceremony, so they interfere with each other and carry out their own plans.

What will be the state of the Yharnam people after they come out of this nightmare after being trapped for so long? Perhaps we can get some reference from Simon's experience.

The reason why Maria and Adeline are not used as reference objects is that they were brought out by Lan En using the [Demon Wolf Fang] to directly cut through the space, and they did not follow the normal process of "resolving the dream and then coming out from it".

The mechanistic differences were unclear, and Lan and others did not dare to take the risk.

Irene understood what Lan meant and nodded solemnly again, then asked thoughtfully.

"I think I understand what you mean." The two dark lenses on the crow mask stared at the unusually tall stranger. "It seems that you want to end this as soon as possible."

"But are you really sure?"

"Not too much." The demon hunter stretched out his index finger, tapped his temple, and said carefully, "60%? No, about 70%."

These days, he and Mentos have been speculating about what is in that lost or sealed memory.

Although the blockade of this memory was very strict and cautious, through his instinctive reactions and feelings during this period of time, he and Mentos's guesses were relatively optimistic.

Under such circumstances, he felt that he should have a 70% chance of ending this nightmare.

"To be honest, I don't have enough confidence, but the current situation is good."

Lann whispered as he turned to look at Henryk.

At this time, the old hunter was carefully putting the bread rations and large pieces of bacon that Lan En had taken out of the alchemical leather bag and given to him into a storage box.

Looks like he cherishes it very much.

"Now, there is no time for us to delay."

Lan En said heavily.

Gascoigne's two lovely daughters, Victoria and Oliveira, are two little girls who obviously want to sleep more so that they can eat less.

So even when they were sleeping on their mother Viola's lap, they looked sad and very uncomfortable.

Lan En felt that he was not very sure about it, but this was somewhat related to his character that pursued perfection.

In fact, after hearing his certainty, both Irene and the red witch raised their heads and looked at the witcher's face.

Surprise and disbelief.

They didn't feel that what Lan En said was unreliable at all, they just felt that the chances were too high!
"Seventy percent?!" Irene, whose voice was always cold and erratic, was so excited that her tone was a little distorted. "Wait! We don't even have a clue how to end this dream now!"

She even straightened her back and stood up from the wall she was leaning against.

"You ended that deep and horrible nightmare, which is really great, Lan. But I have to remind you that you must have received reminders and information from Simon during this process, right?"

"He was obsessed with that deep nightmare and had been chasing the truth in it for who knows how long. That's why he accumulated all kinds of information. But now..."

As she spoke, Irene pointed to the door of Orton Chapel.

The finger was not pointing to the vast 'outside world', but to the blood moon in the sky.

"None of us has experienced anything more since the blood moon rose! Everything is unknown!" Irene put down her hands, but raised her chin towards Dr. Yusefka and her bound sister.

The dull voice under the crow mask said, "They look like people from the Choir. I have never dealt with them in this nightmare before. I have never even seen them. I thought they were all dead in the upper echelons of the church."

"Now in Yharnam, the human traffickers from the Unseen Village of Yahagul are beginning to show signs of activity."

"Around the cathedral in the church town, the deliberately created traces of decadent and bloody wreckage indicate that the blood hunters with filthy blood flowing in Cain Hester are beginning to show up."

"Yharnam is now a mess, even if we remove the influence of a few ancient gods! Where are you going to solve this nightmare?"

Facing Irene's doubts, who had been forced to suppress herself and become rational in the surprise, Lan En nodded indifferently.

"Yeah, it sounds like after the blood moon, the city of Yharnam is in a real mess."

"Even a sober hunter like you who has been struggling in the flashback for who knows how long has never encountered such a big mess as this one."

"But Irene, think about it."

As he spoke, the witcher raised his head and looked through the door of the Orton Chapel at the ominous blood moon in the sky, his eyes revealing deep meaning.

"The source of all the changes, this special moon phase. Wasn't it me who made it rise with the help of 'someone'?"

Lann emphasized 'someone'.

This emphasis made Irene and the red-robed witch suddenly feel enlightened yet a little confused.

It was as if they had just suddenly remembered that such a person existed.

This is not normal.

Very unusual.

The reaction caused by the blood moon was so huge, so why didn't Irene, who knew that it was Lan's actions that caused the rising of the blood moon, ever pursue this logic?
Their minds were influenced.

In just a moment, Irene looked up suddenly and met Lan's eyes.

They both realized this.

But at the same time, Irene covered her head, still trying to sort out her current thoughts.

"I was definitely affected, but something was wrong, and I was still awake."

The Crow Hunter whispered, she was keenly aware of the aberration of this thought influence on her.

For people like Henrik or Gascoigne, even if someone came up to them and said, "Time in Yharnam is abnormal right now," their clouded minds and logic would not be able to understand it at all.

But now, Irene and the red witch, just by being pointed out by Lan En, immediately woke up and realized the existence of the problem.

"Sir, there are two possibilities for expanding this phenomenon."

In Lan's mind, Mentos synchronously completed the logical deduction based on the subject's instantaneous reaction, and presented the deduction results to the subject.

At this time, Lan En was not only not panicked by the influence on the mind of the sober hunter who was his important helper, but he even raised his eyebrows and showed an interested smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Otherwise, it's something that's influencing Irene's mind. This method is nothing compared to the ancient gods. So just mentioning it can really wake her up."

"Otherwise, this kind of mental deception requires certain conditions to be met before it can be solved, just like the memories I sealed up in Mentos."

"And if it's the second possibility, then I just came over and mentioned it, and they immediately realized it. The conditions are obvious, aren't they?"

Yes, the conditions are very clear - this sentence, this logic, must be said by Lan En to them!

The witcher looked at the ominous blood moon hanging coldly in the sky outside the chapel with a half-smile, muttering to himself.

"You really are waiting for me."

"Master William!"*2
Lan's murmurs overlapped with the Crow Hunter's murmurs of realization.

Obviously at this moment, they all immediately realized the crux of the matter.

In the end, it was this academy leader who had a profound influence on the academics, research, development, habits and even customs of the entire Yharnam and the Healing Church since his academy days in Byronvis.

It can almost be said that his academic theories and the apprentices he brought up have created Yharnam's present-day form.

And there is no doubt that after Byronvis was closed and his students deviated from his academic path, the desires of the ancient gods were projected onto humans.

The master gave his last and most important guidance to a stranger from another world.

——The answers and guidance that Lan En wanted were all found while he was sitting comfortably in a rocking chair by the lake, which was reflecting the huge bright moon.

(End of this chapter)