Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1581 1553. Earthquake
The one-eyed ghost is an evil ghost that looks like a giant fat man.

The fat but strong body is covered with evil devil-like patterns formed by twisted muscles.

At the end of its hands are two fists wrapped in golden crystals, but unlike the common phenomenon of "golden crystals are the weak points" of ordinary monsters, its fists can easily be used to split mountains and rocks!

On the round head is a single eye, a golden horn growing tilted upward, and a tongue hanging at the corner of the mouth.

The power of this evil spirit is enough to destroy the city wall.

In previous pre-war discussions, Lan En and his team had always listed large and powerful monsters such as the one-eyed ghost and the giant monk as key targets of defense.

If they appear, we must try to eliminate them before they get close to the city walls, so as to preserve the terrain advantage of ordinary soldiers over the monster army.

This is also the reason why when the sound of trees being broken by huge objects and huge forces came from the distant forest, the witcher's keen senses reacted instantly, and Lan En simply leaned out to look into the distance.

But what happened next was undoubtedly something no one had expected.

It was not surprising that the one-eyed demon did not hide in the darkness and approached slowly. After all, the monster was already violent, and was also confused due to the influence of Saito Yoshitatsu.

It is normal for the one-eyed ghost to charge straight forward without fine control.

But after they came out, they did not go straight to the city wall. Instead, they swung their arms, which were larger than a person, and threw something over.

Use the arm strength of ghosts and gods to perform long-range attacks?

The one-eyed ghosts have indeed done this kind of thing many times. In fact, with their arm strength that can smash down city walls, there is no problem in using them as biological projectors.

But this time, what they threw out was not a whole piece of boulder ammunition, but a large number of finely divided shrapnel.

With the one-eyed ghost's crude method, he can definitely kill more monsters under the city wall than the human soldiers on the city wall.

This type of ammunition is also completely inconsistent with their rough and direct character.

So why is this?
At this moment, Hanbei, who is familiar with various ghosts because of his teacher [Shirazawa], and Akechi Mitsuhide, who knows about monsters because of Yin-Yang magic.

There were also Ah Xiu, Wu Ming, and Saito Dosan who knew the habits of the one-eyed ghost because of their career as demon hunters. The first reaction in their minds was to feel a moment of subconscious confusion.

Then came Lan En's loud shout.

“That’s a spirit stone!”

This is even more confusing.

Throwing out large pieces of precious and powerful spirit stones?

Do you want to strengthen those monsters?
But those monsters have already taken shape, ape ghosts are ape ghosts, and demon ghosts are demon ghosts. Strengthening them is just strengthening on the basis of this race, and ordinary monsters cannot super evolve.

Doing so is a huge waste and may even be seen as aiding the enemy.

After all, when it comes to utilizing spirit stones, knowledgeable and rational humans do much better than monsters.

If Akechi Mitsuhide could put aside his aversion to using spirit stones to disrupt the harmony of yin and yang, he would be able to draw a [Guardian Spirit Summoning Talisman] on the spot after getting a small piece of spirit stone!
But there is no doubt that although Lan En has not met Saito Yoshitatsu yet, he can already tell from the confrontations during this period that the other party is not the kind of person who would aid the enemy.

The next moment, under the gaze of everyone, a large number of golden crystal fragments, like raindrops and bullets, fell down with a crackling sound!
"Dodge the rain of arrows!"

Since the ordinary soldiers did not realize what was happening, they had no idea of ​​the existence of spirit stones or what they were.

Therefore, Hanbei simply chose to shout out the order that would be most easily accepted by the soldiers according to the situation.

After the order was shouted, many soldiers responded immediately by lowering their bodies and hiding behind the battlements.

Some foot soldiers who were not in time, and some unlucky ones were scratched by the broken spiritual stones.

However, because there was only panic in his mind and he had no knowledge of spirit stones, the brief contact with these spirit stones did not cause any effect.

There was no situation where the power was increased by absorbing spiritual stones and becoming close to a monster.

Half of the population of Iwamura City, which was close to the side facing the enemy, was urgently transferred to the other side last night.

Therefore, the one-eyed ghosts crossed nearly two kilometers in one breath and scattered a handful of broken spirit stones.

The thin wooden roof certainly couldn't block these spirit stones, but fortunately there was no one in the house, so there was only the "puff puff" sound of a crystal fragment breaking through the wooden board and sinking into the soil.

There were indeed quite a few monsters outside the city that were hit by small pieces of spirit stones, and they let out high-pitched and frantic howls.

But that was all, nothing major happened.

Therefore, until these dozens of one-eyed ghosts had thrown out everything in their hands, Hanbei, Akechi Mitsuhide, and even Saito Dosan, who had the longest contact with spirit stones and knew them best, did not know what this was for.

They were at a loss.

Lan was the only one there.

His eyes, which suddenly became deep, were staring straight at the direction below his feet, and his focus was not just on the wooden floor of the tower below his feet.

Nor is it looking at the rammed earth and brick walls below the tower. Instead, it is looking further down, all the way to the earth that supports the walls!
In the [Spiritual Vision], the power of those scattered spirit stones was like stars, scattered over half of Yancun City and a large area of ​​land outside the city.

The accuracy of the one-eyed ghost is indeed as good as random guessing, and the dispersion range is very large.

But it is precisely because of this diffusivity. In Lan En's eyes, a large area of ​​golden starlight began to form a network under the earth!

This is a world with a long and clear historical context and civilization development. Even Abe Haruaki dare not say that he has exhausted all the spells and rituals even in the Japanese archipelago.

So at this moment, Lan En only knew that something was going to happen, but he didn't know what exactly would happen!
And in the next moment, the earth was torn apart!

The rumbling sound of the ground was like a cold wind whistling through the cracks in the mountains.

The dark earth began to emit a strange light from the bottom up!

Not only in Iwamura City, but also in the mountains, rivers and forests within a radius of dozens or nearly a hundred kilometers, a large number of birds and beasts began to scream and flee as if they were frightened.

These are the earthquake signs that the Japanese are very familiar with!

And the following phenomena are even more magical than the earthquake!
Under the power of the scattered spiritual stones, the solidified rock shelves began to break through the ground, pushing up more and larger tracts of land!
Suddenly, the earth was torn apart by supernatural forces. The originally flat ground might have had a horizontal distance of only one centimeter, but after just a few seconds, the height difference between the two places had been stretched to more than ten meters!

"what!!!"

"How is this going?!"

"Buddha bless you! Buddha bless you!"

The land smashed down by the broken spiritual stones suddenly formed a messy and steep terrain on the Meinong Plain!
The stone bridge connected and condensed by spiritual stones, like a reinforced stone beam, lifted up a large piece of land and held it up into the air.

But supernatural forces aren't always a winner when pitted against the natural force of gravity.

Many loose soils and huge stones that were not properly supported could not be held up. By the time the criss-crossing stone beams supported a small half of the entire Iwamura City and a large area of ​​land outside the city wall, the top was even more than a hundred meters high.

Large chunks of solidified ground and boulders broke apart and fell from above.

The sound of these things falling to the ground was like dull thunder, and it never stopped for a while!
And in the gaps between these huge blocks of earth and rocks that are as big as buildings, you can see things like small black dots falling with them.

At the same time, there were a large number of monsters that were brought to the sky by the change in terrain, as well as the unlucky soldiers guarding the city.

Their roars and screams, mixed with the thunderous sound of falling rocks, seemed small and distant.

"Hold on! Get down! Get down on the ground!"

Hanbei knelt on one knee, supporting his body with his arms. His first subconscious reaction was to issue clear orders, so that even if the soldiers lost their minds, they would know what to do to protect themselves under his concise and clear orders.

"The city walls are more solid than other plots of land! Stay down on the ground and don't get shaken out! It won't be that easy to die as long as you're not unlucky!"

The soldiers had no idea what was happening.

Many of them were shouting "Buddha bless you" or "Buddha punish you" and so on.

Even in such a drastic change and danger, Hanbei still killed the latter immediately. The more shocking the change is, the more people need to remain calm in dealing with it.

If someone disturbs the morale of the army at this moment, then there is no need to talk nonsense and he will be executed directly.

At this time, Hanbei looked down along the broken city wall and found that the monster that was originally clinging to it had disappeared.

The height difference of dozens of meters from the flat ground is simply shocking at this moment.

The foul black smoke that the monsters that had fallen down turned into when they dissipated looked as small as ants, not to mention humans.

I don’t know if it’s because the wind at high altitude is colder than on the ground, or if I broke out in a cold sweat because of the sudden change.

Anyway, almost everyone on the city wall now has pale lips and trembling bodies.

Hanbei looked down from the other side of the ruined city wall.

This side was originally the city wall facing the city.

But at this moment, a house that was at the foot of the city wall two minutes ago was now supported by a stone beam more than 20 meters above them.

At this moment, Hanbei could only be thankful that half of the city residents who were close to the city wall facing the enemy were evacuated last night.

Now the soldiers are all connected to the solid city walls, so the casualties are not serious. But if it is a civilian residence, I don’t know how many people have died by now.

And then he saw Mitsuhide Akechi standing up cautiously at the edge of another section of the city wall, holding a half-human-sized bell.

Akechi Mitsuhide did not look down immediately. Instead, he searched among the criss-crossing stone beams in the sky and the land supported by the stone beams.

Finally, he pointed towards the highest point towards Hanbei!
"Look there! Master Dao San's tower!"

(End of this chapter)