Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1582 1554. The Power of Spirit Stone
"That is.!"

Hanbei looked in the direction where Akechi Mitsuhide was pointing and his eyes suddenly widened.

Even the veil that was meant to conceal his handsome and kind face and increase his majesty could not hide his doubt and surprise at this moment.

I saw that on the criss-crossing stone beams, at a large open space at the highest point, there was a section of torn city wall, and on the city wall was the previous tower.

"Collect the line! Check the number of people and the wounded! Cheer up if you don't want to die!" Akechi Mitsuhide stood up holding the big bell, and walked towards Hanbei while commanding the frightened foot soldiers.

"That's the Michisan Master and His Highnesses up there." When he got closer, Akechi Mitsuhide said to Hanbei worriedly, "This is a drastic change, we should go up and protect the lord immediately! The spirit stone, this dirty thing that disrupts the harmony of yin and yang!"

As Akechi Mitsuhide said the last half of the sentence, he looked at the stone beam under his feet with lingering fear but still disgust.

Among these spliced ​​and connected stone beams, one can easily see something like a golden crystal from the gaps between the stones. That is the power of the spirit stone.

Ordinary people often confuse this "manifestation of the power of spirit stones" with the spirit stones themselves. After all, they look very similar.

Only those who truly understand spiritual stones and have studied relevant Buddhist knowledge such as Yin-Yang can distinguish them clearly.

"Mitsuhide is right." Hanbei first affirmed Akechi Mitsuhide's proposal, but then hesitantly said, "But why would Yoshitatsu use the spirit stone in such a spectacular but unwise way?"

Akechi Mitsuhide was stunned for a moment, with only anxiety and disgust for the spirit stone on his face, but in the end he really didn't know how to answer.

It certainly makes sense that tearing up the original terrain would wipe out the huge advantage the human side had.

But at the same time, since we have the ability to use the spirit stones to such an extent, wouldn't it be enough to just lift up these raised pieces of land and then smash them at them?
The weight of the earth and rocks that are being lifted up by the power of the spiritual stone is at least 10,000 tons.

Wouldn't it be as easy to smash into the original wall of Iwamura Castle as to tear up the defense line made of shredded paper?
Is it because this secret technique of controlling the power of spirit stones to change the terrain can only support the formation of the terrain once, and does not support subsequent control of the land to launch an impact attack?

This is one way of explaining it.

But on the other hand
Hanbei looked up at the plot of land that had been raised to the highest point, where the tower stood.

If they really wanted to use terrain changes to undermine the human advantage, they could simply place the target, Dosan, in the middle and let him be besieged.

Put it at the highest point? Isn't it easy to defend and difficult to attack?

What on earth is Yilong doing?
"It seems that she is determined to kill you, Master Dao San."

Lan En pushed open the window that was stuck and crushed by the twisting of the building. It shattered into pieces with a crackling sound. He looked out and spoke half seriously and half jokingly.

"Your relationship as father and daughter is really strained. Look at this piece of land that is raised high up. Doesn't it look like an execution platform that everyone is watching?"

"Shut up! Stop making sarcastic remarks, kid!"

Saito Dosan growled, and dust fell from his shiny head.

He anxiously checked Ah Xiu, who was fine, and patted and hit her.

I didn't feel relieved until I confirmed with my own eyes that everything was fine.

His steps were a little unsteady, but Saito Dosan still came to the crooked window and looked down.

"Iwamura Castle is truly destroyed this time. I'm sorry that Ando Mamoru has lost this old friend."

"When you take control of Meinong again, you can build him another city." Lan En whispered to him, "Fortunately, we have moved all the people in these places away in advance."

"Spiritual Stone. Oh, my Yilong has actually been bewitched by the Spiritual Stone. What good are these essence powers?!"

Saito Dosan said this with a sad tone.

"I'm afraid that after this battle, the power of the spirit stone, which was not known to many people, will no longer be hidden."

Saito Dosan looked at the scars on the ground beneath him, which were hideous but spectacular, and clenched his fists tightly.

Although the power of the spirit stone can be utilized by both good and evil, it is precisely because this power is too easy to be exploited that the process of fighting for the spirit stone alone will cause chaos in the world.

He had spent decades collecting spirit stones to prevent them from flowing out, and also to prevent the knowledge about them from spreading.

But today, it only takes Saito Yoshitatsu a few minutes to announce it to the world.

Such a huge structure that is interconnected, crisscrossed, and hundreds of meters high at its highest point cannot be hidden and will inevitably spread throughout the Japanese archipelago.

In fact, Lan En was also shocked by the power of the spirit stone at this moment.

He is not someone who has never seen big scenes.

For example, the drastic changes in terrain were similar to what he was experiencing now. He had personally seen the twin princes of Lothric at the end of the fire era raise the entire mountain range where the Holy Fire City was located by hundreds of meters!
I have also seen the eldest son of the sun among the gods of fire, who shattered a mountain range with a lightning spear.

But what are those roles?
Lothric, the Holy City of Fire, is the strongest country that has taken over the responsibility of passing on fire since the mythological era and lasted all the way to the end of the world of fire.

Holy King Osroes has been in charge of the duty of guarding the [Original Flame] that stabilizes the world for tens of thousands of years.

Whether it is the city itself or the royal bloodline, their accumulation is too deep.

So the two princes just activated the magic circle, and the entire mountain range was lifted up.

The eldest son of the sun is the dragon hunting god who has been fighting since the ancient dragon war at the beginning of the Fire Age!

The eldest son of the most powerful god-king [Lord of the Sun] Gwyn. His power is so strong that it is reasonable in Lann's eyes.

But what did Saito Yoshitatsu's monster army do just now to change the terrain?
They used the one-eyed ghost's arm strength to scatter a piece of spirit stone over a distance of two kilometers, and then activated an unfamiliar spell and that was it.

Those spirit stones might be four or five cubic meters in size in total?
But it took Saito Dosan several decades to build up this mere reserve of four or five cubic meters of spiritual stones.

It was with just four or five cubic meters of reserves that Yoshitatsu Saito built such a giant structure that could tear the earth apart!

The spirit stone is regarded as the omnipotent [Philosopher's Stone] among the Southern Barbarians. The power contained in it seems to be even more powerful than the little bit Lan En knew before!
"At present, the only way to reach our side is through the intertwined and steep stone beams."

Lan turned and spoke to the others in the room.

He just stuck his head out to take a look just now, but he had already memorized the criss-crossing roads.

"There is no doubt that the current terrain is indeed suitable for the monsters to exert their individual combat power, which is generally higher than that of humans."

Some of the narrow places on the stone beams make it difficult to walk. If you step on empty air, you will fall directly to the ground.

In this situation, they can't even form a tight formation, and ordinary humans will be so scared that their legs will go weak. How can they fight against the violent and bloodthirsty monsters?

And things are indeed developing in the direction that Lan En said.

Although because the ground was loose before, few monsters could successfully stay on the stone beams and the raised ground during the shaking and uplifting.

But at this moment, among the criss-crossing stone beams, at the entrances that connected to the ground, a group of black dots began to crowd upwards without hesitation.

The monster is coming up!
"Boom!"

In the sky, a sudden and heavy thundercloud began to gather.

Then, the azure blue lightning swept across the ground like a rake plowing the ground, blowing up a large area of ​​foul black smoke after the monsters died.

"Xilulu!"

The blue and white horse, like a god, neighed loudly. On its back, the calico kitten stood up like a brave knight, grabbing the horse's mane!

The Qilin did not climb up the stone beam. It just stood on the messy ground and tried its best to stop the monsters that had not yet climbed up, but it did not dare to attack those that had already climbed up.

Lan En felt somewhat relieved by this restraint, because this time Qilin would finally use its brain, which was theoretically smarter than that of ordinary humans.

These stone beams are interconnected and do not appear to be indestructible.

If it rashly summons lightning to break one of the lightning bolts, the entire giant structure might collapse due to a chain reaction.

Of course we have to admit that this might also be because the fluffy ball standing on its head reminded it.

The Qilin intercepted many monsters, but it could not stop all of them.

The stone beams connecting the ground were still covered with monsters that looked like black dots, crowding upwards like branches on which ants cling.

"Yixiu, let's retreat. This is too conspicuous as we are at the highest point!"

Saito Dosan put on his sword at his waist, picked up the spear that had been placed on the weapon rack, and signaled to go out.

A samurai who comes from a legitimate samurai family might even be concerned with Bushido or something like that.

But he stole the country, how could he be an old man with a dull mind?
"You go first." But at this time, Lan En was standing at the window, looking down at the monsters climbing up, and said lightly.

"In a place like this, it's a fight to the death. Saito Yoshitatsu won't stop until he kills you. You, too, must want to resolve this matter today, right?"

Saito Dosan, who was about to impatiently persuade Lan En not to be stubborn, shut his mouth.

"If we have to fight, I'd rather choose to fight here. After all, the noise I make will be louder. After looking around, there's no bigger or more stable plot of land than this one."

"I will meet a powerful character eventually. I will stay here."

"What about us?" Wuming stood in front of Saito Dosan, looked up at Lan En seriously and asked, "Do you think we can't fight?"

"That's not what I meant. You two are quite vicious. I've seen that before." Lan En raised his hands and smiled as if in surrender, then he became serious under Wuming's gaze.

"I will fight against the monsters that Saito Yoshitatsu sent here to kill my father in one fell swoop. But in the meantime, it will be up to you to deal with Saito Yoshitatsu himself."

"Who knows how many spirit stones she still has in her hands? Where did she get these secret techniques?"

"You all need to be careful. She has been behaving abnormally for a while now, so she might become stronger than you."

When saying the last half of the sentence, Lan En raised his eyes and spoke to Ah Xiu who was standing next to Dao San and looking at him.

The half-demon beauty pursed her lips and nodded, and then the three of them turned around and left without any more hesitation.

Lan En knelt on the ground, his hands on his thighs, his eyes slightly closed, and began to adjust his body and mind in a meditative posture.

Half an hour later, the sound of thick and hard scales rubbing against stones caused Lan En's eyes, which were originally slightly closed, to suddenly open.

(End of this chapter)