Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1415 1387. Adulterated Demon-Resistant Gold?

With one hand, he was holding up the three White Rose Knights who were being squeezed to death by the pressure from the front and back, while with the other hand he was at ease, even a little carelessly, defending against the continuous and chaotic attacks from the opponent's back row.

No matter whether it was the long weapons swinging from the back row of the enemy or the arrows shot from the crossbows on the stairs further back, they were all completely blocked by Lan En with just a standard half-hand sword.

The 'linear defense' formed by the iron bar, under the extraordinary technology, was transformed into a 'surface' defense, almost like a shield.

Amid the noisy war cries and curses, the sound of flying crossbows was almost inaudible.

But Lan En still shook the tip of the sword slightly, and the crossbow arrow that did not even leave an afterimage in the air that could be captured by the normal human eye was easily knocked away.

"Break the witchcraft! Break the witchcraft!"

The knights who were squeezed to the back and shouted loudly but still could not make any progress, continued to push forward with their heads down and shouting.

"Use the magic-blocking gold arrows! Damn idiot! Let the eternal fire take you away!"

But the crossbowman at the back had a complex expression of shock and anger on his face.

His anxious and fearful perspective shifted back and forth between his bow and quiver, and the figure standing in front of everyone.

"What do you think I used? It was a magic-blocking gold arrowhead! It was magic-blocking gold! But... but he didn't react!"

The narrow staircase could only accommodate three armed knights standing side by side. The curses and shouts of dozens of knights gathered at this time made the stairwell, which was already echoing, even more chaotic.

But even so, the continuous exclamations of disbelief from the crossbow-wielding knights in the rear still cast a heavy shadow on the hearts of the White Rose Knights.

"Swindler! Liar!"

"These demon-blocking metals are fake!"

Even though they were concentrating so hard that they had to shout to speak, the knights still subconsciously started cursing immediately.

There is no doubt that demon-blocking metal interferes with chaotic energy, and countless warlocks have verified it at their own risk over the past two hundred years.

This naturally blue anti-magic metal was discovered in Kovir and immediately became a strategic resource.

Related mineral veins have been discovered one after another, but Kovir still accounts for three-quarters of the continent's total production of anti-magic gold, and is also an important source of fiscal revenue for the northernmost country on the continent.

The effectiveness of demon-blocking metal is beyond doubt.

The swordsmanship and strength displayed by the enemy in front of him must be evil witchcraft!
If that's the case, then of course there must be something wrong with the magic-blocking metal that the Knights purchased! Either it's a fake that's been dyed, or it's an inferior product with insufficient purity!

Demon-blocking metal is a good business to make money, and metal trade has always been priced by weight since ancient times.

Ordinary metals are mixed into the original magic-blocking gold ore for smelting. The extra weight of the ordinary metals added in is calculated according to the price of the magic-blocking gold.

This matter is not new, but the White Rose Knights obviously did not expect that the magic retarding gold purchased by the Knights Temperance and the resources of the Church of Eternal Fire could be adulterated to this extent!
The sword hit the witch user, but he didn't react at all? !

However, while the White Rose Knight was cursing the inferior magic-blocking gold, he looked at the huge figure that was blocking the entire staircase and remained motionless despite several tons of impact force.

The deep darkness beneath the cloak made their hearts tremble, and they couldn't help but have an absurd thought -

Is this situation really a problem of magic-blocking gold?
Lan En didn't care whether it was a problem with the magic-blocking gold, he just felt that they could move forward.

The hand in front slowly made a series of "clacking" sounds during the stalemate.

That was the sound of the buckles and belts on the armor gradually tightening due to the swollen muscles!

The surging power was mobilized, and when Lan En stepped on the ground, one could almost hear the sound of his boots crushing and grinding the large bricks on the ground!

When the entire staircase was designed, this level of power confrontation and crowd density were not taken into consideration!
The long, large stone steps that were spliced ​​and interlocked made an unpleasant sound of stone friction!
That's the stone being squeezed and shifted!

The entire bluestone staircase seemed to be about to collapse due to the confrontation of forces!
But Lan En is still working harder!
Dozens of armed knights who had crowded the stairs were unable to stop retreating due to the push from a person on the opposite side!

The armor on their bodies collided with each other with a loud clang, veins bulged on their faces under the helmets and blood rushed to their heads, but they just couldn't stop retreating!

A long sword can easily block a halberd or even a hammer with one hand.

Lan's hands were always steady, but the sword often gave way.

After all, the longsword has structural disadvantages compared to the halberd and warhammer.

But it doesn't matter.

One sword was broken, and Lan En seemed to completely ignore the forest of swords and spears above the enemy's crowd. He simply threw away the twisted and broken sword and reached out to grab a new weapon from the enemy's camp.

Finally, after pushing all the knights to the middle of the stairs and going up.

Amid the hail of swords, guns and arrows, Lan En glanced down at the stairs beneath his feet.

He first lifted his heavy and powerful boots slightly, then stomped down hard!
"Bang! Crack!" The force points calculated by Mentos directly destroyed the stable structure of the stairs!
Starting with a crisp sound of stone breaking, the sound of "crackling" was endless!
There was no time for the crowded crowd to react. The next moment, with a heavy "boom" sound, the dense crowd in front of Lan En disappeared.

The stones that made up the stairs collapsed and fell to the ground.

It is not very high here, only about three or four meters.

But the heavy step stones still broke apart in the collision, splashing out fine lime smoke.

However, those knights who were wearing plate armor and were quite heavy suddenly became much quieter after falling.

A knight wearing plate armor increases his weight, and even falling off his horse carries the risk of breaking his neck or half of his ribs.

In this situation, the ground below is not the soft, cushioning land or grass in the wild, but the hard, angular ground formed by the newly collapsed step stones.

Lan En took a quick glance downward and saw several knights with a sharp blunt angle extending from the middle of their back to their chest.

Even if you are doing yoga and arch your back, your back is still arched into an arc, which can create an angle.
The men lay or were pressed against angular rocks, internal bleeding causing blood to ooze from their mouths, nostrils and ears.

The noisy and crowded shouting and killing sounds just now seemed to be instantly stopped.

All that was left was the slightly fearful hum of life about to disappear.

At the top of the stairs, on the side of the section that was not affected by the collapse, two White Rose Knights holding crossbows, who had not rushed forward just now, stared at the scene in a daze.

But then they saw the huge cloaked figure they had just glanced down, the hood of the dark shadow raised and looked at them.

They immediately ran up subconsciously.

But before they could turn around, there was a series of "click" sounds from the mechanism, and the two men flew back as if they were suddenly grabbed by something, leaving behind two dull sounds of falling to the ground.
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That was not the first staircase that Lan En demolished. In fact, he had demolished all the stairs in this tower. Just now, because there were too many knights gathered, he had a head-on confrontation.

Now, there is no way for people to go down the entire tower smoothly.

Fortunately, this was not a commotion caused by the fire as described by the people who were shouting and panicking in the castle, so the flames did not spread upwards step by step.

But unfortunately, this is not a fire, and the fire that the White Rose Knights have to deal with is not a fire that can be contained.

"What the hell is going on?!" Rudolf Valaris, the current commander of the Knights of the White Rose, was not wearing a normal lining under his plate breastplate, but a pair of pajamas that were obviously put on temporarily.

He asked loudly with bulging eyes: "Who are the invaders? How many people are there?"

"By the Eternal Flame, it's been ten minutes! Don't you know anything?"

"It's not a fire!" At the other end of the hall where people were running around, an Eternal Flame missionary was shouting, "The Eternal Flame protects us! The flames cannot harm good people!"

He was holding a religious book in his hands and wearing a bright red felt hat on his head, which was very distinctive.

"Knights gathered under the eternal fire! Fight the enemy bravely! The flames will only burn away the uncleanness!"

"We don't know how many people there are, Captain!" The knight reported to Rudolf Valaris, and he swallowed nervously, "But it must be a lot!"

"I just looked down, and the people we rushed down before did not appear in the castle courtyard. The conscripted soldiers there are still in chaos."

The knight's pupils trembled, but he still tried to calm himself down and reported to the captain who was wearing pajamas under the armor.

“Not one showed up.”

He repeated it again, stuttering.

So the team leader, who was so flustered and angry just now, now calmed down.

This is not the calmness that comes from good psychological quality, but the 'seeming calmness' that is almost collapsed after being oppressed by unexpected circumstances.

He knew very well what this situation meant.

Now that none of the White Rose Knights in the tower had appeared in the open space in the castle courtyard to control the scattered conscripts, that meant that no one had gotten out alive in these ten minutes of sudden events!

After realizing this, both Captain Rudolf and the several knights around him who had vaguely heard the news, swallowed their saliva at the same time and turned their heads stiffly in one direction.

——The location of the entrance door to this tower hall.

And it seemed as if responding to their gazes.

"Boom!"

A dull and violent explosion sounded suddenly, accompanied by the shaking of the solid wood and iron door!

(End of this chapter)