Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1684 1656. Shocking Change
Lann snatched an axe spear from the guards who were chasing him from behind, threw it without hesitation, and then rushed towards Istrade's position.

The three of them and the cat poked their heads out of the sewer outside the Ensenada Palace.

I immediately subconsciously thought of the goal of this group of Lion-faced Spider followers and ratmen.

The followers of the Lion-Faced Spider believe that their god is the god who symbolizes "unnatural death".

Therefore, the sacrificial method tends to cause abnormal deaths.

Their offering is to let the victims' fate threads break in the big web woven by the lion-faced spider and be swallowed by the lion-faced spider.

And if a person's abnormal death causes greater waves and involvement, it would be an even better sacrifice.

It is for this reason that the belief in the lion-faced spider was immediately defined as a cult shortly after its appearance.

There is a secret passage leading to the sewer exit of the palace in the cultists' secret base. Is there any need to guess what it is used for?
Immediately, they followed the traces detected by the demon hunter's senses.

Some guards spotted them on the road, but seeing that Xi'er Tanshavier and Lan En were both legitimate royal guests, they did not dare to stop them directly and could only pester them along the way.

Finally, after a lot of entanglement, he ran to the grand staircase at the main entrance of the palace and witnessed an assassination attempt on the king with his own eyes!

At this point even an idiot would know that something bad is going to happen!
"Hey~"

A spiral whirlwind wrapped around Lan En's legs, making his figure as fast as a puff of smoke!
【Acceleration Technique】!
Behind Istrada, on the marble steps that were already splattered with large patches of glaring blood and body parts.

The demon hunter suddenly appeared.

At this time, after the long-range attack by the three people and the cat, there were almost no ratmen left.

Although they were the elite among the five hundred ratmen, the ones who attacked them were witchers, sorceresses and Elu cats.

Basically, as soon as the three people and the cat showed up, the dozen or so rat assassins were wiped out like wheat being cut.

And when Lann came to the king and queen.
Lan En grabbed the iron claw of a ratman with one hand. The ratman's arm, which was thinner than a normal person's, was like a small wooden stick that was easy to break in his hand.

"Squeak!"

The giant water rat's eyes were red and it screamed.

Then there was a muffled bang, and the annoying scream stopped abruptly!

Lan En grabbed the rat man's arm with one hand and swung him to the ground with his backhand!
The weight of the rat man was like a piece of paper in Lan En's hand. With just a turn of his wrist, the rat man's body drew a perfect arc in the air.

Then it hit the marble steps!

Blood and broken bones were squeezed out from under the skin due to the huge pressure, like a juicy tomato that was suddenly crushed.

The originally neat and clean marble steps were now dented and damaged like a spider web.

The dull sound of the rat-man hitting the ground had not yet disappeared in the air, but Lan En had already turned around, as if he had planned the action in advance.

He lowered his shoulders and thrust his elbows, then delivered a low hook into the rat man's chest.

There was some skill in his punch, so he didn't let it directly penetrate the rat man's body, leaving the corpse hanging on his arm and causing trouble.

Instead, he pushed the rat man out directly.

It was as if it was knocked away by the Hundred Ton King. Behind the rat man was the canal. Because it was flying too fast, its body skipped several times on the river surface before finally splashing into the river.

By this moment, all the rat assassins were dead.

Only the three humans in wet clothes were left.

Lan's advance was too fast and too fierce. Mentos' battlefield calculation ability was combined with Lan's experience and judgment.

After breaking into the arena, his subsequent cleanup of the ratmen was so neat and tidy that it almost seemed like a rehearsed performance!

So much so that after half a minute had passed since they came out of the water, the three humans were stunned.

Just a few seconds? All the ratmen brought here are dead?!

In half a minute, the number of ratmen killed was less than the time it took them to get out of the water!

But the fact is that death is over.

Lan En turned around and stretched out his hand, his palm directly covering a person's shoulder, followed by a dull "click" sound.

The man's shoulder blade and collarbone were crushed.

As he turned, Lann's legs swept low in a half circle.

With the same sound of bones breaking, the other human assassin's knee was morbidly dented inward from the side.

It was not until the two human assassins lost their ability to move at the same time in Lan's hands that the last human assassin seemed to come to his senses.

The three human assassins were different from the ratmen in that they did not have iron claws on their hands, but a dagger or dagger.

The man originally had a dagger in his right hand, but when he came to his senses and saw Lan En in front of him, something seemed to flash in his gloomy eyes.

Finally, he pulled out a dagger with his left hand and rushed towards Lan En.

His movements were quick and efficient, and it was obvious that he was still an expert even after spending some time in cold water.

But this is meaningless in front of Lan En.

The opponent's dagger was stabbed at him, but he crushed his arm halfway and stuck it in mid-air, as if it was clamped by a vise.

But despite the severe pain, the hand holding the dagger still showed no fear and retreated, and continued to stab Lan. It was as if the knife was not facing Smaug, who was stacked with layers of armor and looked hopelessly solid, but thin flesh and blood.

But even if Lan took off his armor and was left with only his flesh, the [tendon coils] under his skin could not be pierced by this kind of force and this kind of knife.

Lan En calmly clamped his other hand with a snap.

But before he could use force to crush the opponent's wrist bones, the man seemed to be racing against time. He twisted his wrist suddenly and slashed the blade of the dagger towards Lan En's wrist!
This technique is common in dagger combat against an unarmed person without protective gear.

The blade of the dagger does not require much space for exerting force. Just a turn of the wrist can cut a deep cut on the enemy's wrist where the bone can be seen, forcing the enemy to let go.

But in this situation, after the dagger rubbed against Lan's Smaug's wrist armor, it didn't even have time to produce a spark. After an unpleasant sharp "swish" sound, the blade of the dagger became uneven and bumpy.

Then Lan crushed his wrist bones.

This man had clearly broken one of his hands just now, but he didn't react at all. However, after this, he immediately collapsed to the ground.

It was only at this time that the guards barely arrived at the stairs of the main entrance of Ensenada Palace, which were still more than ten meters away.

The guards who followed Lan En and the others were one step faster than them and followed them at this time.

"fine?"

Lan En looked at his wrist armor which had been hit by the dagger but had no trace left, then turned to ask Istrade.

"You saved me and my Zelica, Duke Lann," the king said calmly, grabbing Lann's outstretched hand and standing up. "I express my sincere gratitude to you."

Although I think he is a good man, his voice is trembling now.

"I almost lost Zelica."

He said this with fear, and Queen Zelika was even more scared than him. She hugged him tightly and cried without daring to let go.

Faced with the love that had obviously stood the test of life and death, even Lan En didn't want to disturb it.

A group of guards rushed over, first sending one group to capture the three human assassins who were disabled by Lan, and then rushing to the king and queen.

The human wall formed a circle, with weapons facing outward, surrounding the king and queen in the middle.

At this time, a bell rang from inside the Ensenada Palace, indicating that the security was on full alert. It should be that the guard at the top of the stairs immediately went to sound the alarm, and after a minute it finally rang.

Then the whole palace, and even the whole Long Exeter, was filled with increasing noise and chaos due to the sound of the bell.

Who could have thought that such an assassination attempt on the king would happen in front of the gate of the royal palace in the winter capital of Kovir? Being able to sound the alarm a minute later was even considered a timely response.

"Okay, calm down!"

Istrada, who was surrounded, shouted loudly, which was not only to command the guards, but also to declare his health at the first time.

"The guards who were on duty! Don't stay by my side. There are enough people! Go and mobilize the security immediately and seal off the palace! Another person, pull up our respectable spy leader! My God, he is almost frozen in the river!"

"Go back to the palace, light the fire, and get a doctor. Quick! Hurry!"

The gate guard who was suspected of being an insider was sent away by Istrade without leaving a trace, while the patrol guard who happened to see this scene purely by coincidence was arranged by him to guard beside him.

Amid the human wall, the king still remembered his friends who had shown themselves to be reliable in that thrilling minute.

"Come on, Lan, everyone come in so I can thank you. We've only just begun today."

The bonnet on Istrada's head had fallen off, but no one cared about such trivial matters now.

He held Zelika, who was still crying and scared, in his arms, and while comforting her, he followed the human wall up the marble steps and returned to the palace.

Dijkstra, who was almost freezing in the water, was pulled to the shore by the axe handles held out by the guards.

"It's fucking cold." The spy chief, who was usually deep and calm, had trembling lips. "They must have used magic! There must be a sorcerer helping them to stay underwater for so long!"

And even so, the spy chief's first reaction is intelligence.

"You're very brave, Dijkstra." Lan stepped forward and patted his trembling shoulders, and said with a teasing smile, "I thought people like you would never get carried away in your life."

"I regret it now." He first retorted to Lan En, then turned his head and squinted his small eyes and looked coldly at the three human assassins on the ground, "But I think it's not a bad idea now, because I really want to know who these three work for first."

"Who are you working for? It doesn't matter." Suddenly, the human assassin on the ground whose hands were crushed by Lan En spoke.

He had been pinned to the ground by the guards, but he still stretched his head and tried to look up to speak to the spy and the witcher.

"The important thing is: although we didn't achieve our goal this time, the most important goal was actually put on the brink of destruction!"

Dijkstra's face darkened. "What do you mean? My friend, I advise you to cooperate. You should have heard of my reputation."

The human assassin just smiled at the spy and the demon hunter but said nothing.

Then, without giving anyone time to react, the three of them simultaneously felt their necks soften and their heads tilt, shocking the soldiers holding them down.

"He committed suicide." Dijkstra said solemnly. "What did he mean? What mission did he accidentally complete?"

As a spy leader, he was well aware of these tricks.

Lann raised his eyebrows, raised his hands and untied one of Smaug's wrist and hand armor, revealing the skin under the armor.

At the place where the dagger had just cut, a spider-web-like black substance remained on his wrist like a tattoo.

Dijkstra's eyes widened in horror.

(End of this chapter)