Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1714 1686. Constant Darkness Spreads
Because the change happened due to his own mistake, or Lincoln's "self-perceived mistake", the secretary of the Embers Knights believed that it was his responsibility.

What's more, the one facing the monster created by the curse and fighting with it face to face to buy time is his lord, which makes Lincoln feel heavy and urgent.

Triss didn't say anything more. She was busy sending messages to the Embers Knights, and she only sent some images to Lincoln.
After unexpected deaths occurred in the quarantine area of ​​the Nilfgaard military camp.

Lan En's body, which had been moving with ease, suddenly paused for a moment, but immediately returned to normal.

But even so, he still cautiously stepped back a few steps in the next moment.

And in the next moment, the demon hunter suddenly saw the vengeful ghost in front of him. The eyes under the copper-green crystal horns, which were also emitting copper-green light, suddenly became brighter!
"Roar!!!"

The vengeful ghost opened his arms wide and howled to the sky!

Its huge and solid muscles show its inhuman brutality and ferocity even more in this action!

And with the appearance of the roar, invisible waves spread!
Everything in the world began to lose its original diverse colors, leaving only different shades of black and white.

The iron chains wrapped around the arms of the vengeful ghost broke with a crisp sound of metal breaking!

Two large bronze bells fell to the ground, making a distant humming sound.

"I thought you were not used to the local climate and couldn't use it."

As the vengeful ghost howled to the sky, Lan En placed his palm in front of his eyes, observing the process of his palm slowly loosening and tightening, and spoke softly.

The strength of muscle stretching, the fluctuation of physical strength, and the speed of recovery
Various complex and difficult-to-quantify indicators were recorded and calculated by the biochemical intelligent brain during Lan En's simple movements, and finally a report was submitted, allowing him to accurately grasp his own status in the ever-changing battle.

And on his body surface, the outline of [body light] is more prominent and eye-catching in the gray and white world.

【Always dark】

In the magical world of the Japanese Warring States Period, monsters will have this ability when they become powerful enough.

The demonic powers of the monsters carry a foul aura, and that foul aura is connected to the underworld.

And if the monsters are powerful enough, they can even use this to draw some of the power of the underworld into the human world!

Temporarily create an environment similar to the underworld in the living material world!

Monsters and filthy things can certainly thrive in this kind of environment, but the oppression and weakening of humans is much greater than when they are around monsters under normal circumstances!
Not to mention that in such an environment, the suppression of humans by the foul aura and demonic power of the monsters themselves will not disappear, but will be superimposed instead.

If you don't care and let the monsters accumulate their influence to the end, the demon-slaying warrior can be suppressed and turned into a cripple who can't breathe even after taking a step!
But since the power of the underworld is being "pulled" to the human world, the vengeful ghost can't be in the magical Middle Ages and pull the underworld of the Japanese Warring States over, right?

If it was the vengeful ghost in its original state, Lan En still thought it was possible.

But obviously, the vengeful ghost in front of him had already undergone "localization transformation".

Sure enough, in this world, the [Eternal Darkness] released by this vengeful ghost's hand is not the same!
There are no more blood-red flowers on the ground that grow, bloom, and wither instantly.

Instead, a misty, light and hazy white fog appeared in the air.

And unlike the [Eternal Darkness] in the magical Japanese Warring States world, not only is the power of the living suppressed in this environment
"呲呲呲~"

The sound of water splashing on a hot iron plate kept bursting out on Lan En's body [body light]!
The witcher's eyes looked at his body.

In this world, if a living person rashly enters the world after death, it may be like the feeling of a strong acid meeting a strong base.

But at the moment, the power of the afterlife was blocked by the [body light] and could not hurt him for the time being. However, the suppression force on the living was still increased on him.

When [Eternal Darkness] was activated, the iron chains connecting the two bronze bells on his arms broke.

The vengeful ghost walked towards Lan En.

Its huge claws twitched and so did the thick muscles in its chest and neck.

It's just that half of the body is twitching because of an angry expression, and the other half is twitching because of a fearful expression.

It had empty hands, and Lan had empty hands too.

Lan had put away his weapon long before he confirmed that it was a cursed creature.

Killing it will only allow it to revive again in its prime. On the contrary, if you weaken it and then keep it alive, you can delay it longer and more easily.

But then, Lan En pretended to listen slightly.

"Lan! Do you hear that?" Triss's voice came to his mind intermittently, even though Lan was holding the conical crystal in his hand.

"I can hear it, intermittently."

He replied three times in a row in order to provide as much information as possible in the intermittent communication.

The poor communication was expected. After all, this was a conversation between a living person and a living person in the afterlife.

But then, Lan En, who had just used [Ever Dark] on the vengeful ghost without any reaction, suddenly turned around and looked at the vengeful ghost that was walking towards him!
"You said." Lan En frowned and narrowed his eyes dangerously, "The expansion of this area has not stopped?"

Triss was standing on another inconspicuous hill with the original Northern Alliance Command Post.

The red-haired witch looked serious, but in front of her, Foltest and John Natalis, who were holding binoculars, looked even more serious! Even scary!
Triss and her companions were originally on their way to transfer, and they saw the changes on the battlefield through the gaps in the woods between the mountains.

They saw that the horrible monster had opened a barrier from its body. From the outside looking in, it was like a distorted funhouse mirror, a blurry gray and white mass, and it was impossible to make out anything.

Triss began trying to contact the Ash Knight who had already fought his way through the battlefield.

The male wizard of Aedirn had stopped casting spells to disrupt battlefield communications and was now resting.

After Triss communicated with Lincoln, the group stopped halfway up the hill.

Vernon Roche of the Blue Guards stopped and reported uncertainly: The barrier expanded by the monster seemed to have never stopped expanding!

With just one sentence, John Natalis, who had been thinking that the battle had been commanded and his brain, which was almost burning with work, could finally take a break, jumped up immediately!

Pull the king together to observe the battlefield in the distance.

Then they confirmed that it was much bigger than when they first saw it! Much bigger!

Then everyone jumped up!

The power to decide the war was transferred from my hands so easily that it disappeared in an instant!
It would certainly be a relief to have the burden taken over by someone stronger and more stable, but now something bad is about to happen again!

Triss hurriedly tried to contact Lan, but the difficulty of communication suddenly increased. Later, with the support of Sabina Grievignig, she was finally able to communicate.

"Great, you're fine in there! Its domain barrier has not stopped expanding! The current speed is..."

Now that Triss realized the unusualness of that area, she first breathed a sigh of relief and was thankful for her lover's safety.

Then he looked at the king and the sheriff who were holding telescopes in front of him, with anxiety and questions in his eyes.

"About two meters per second! Radius!"

John Natalis shouted without putting down the telescope or turning his head, cold sweat streaming down his forehead.

He used the corpses and weapon debris on the battlefield as reference points for length. He knew the length of a halberd by heart and the size of a standard steel helmet by heart.

This is the valuable experience he has accumulated from working his way up from the grassroots level.

Just by looking at the time it takes for these things to be swallowed by the field, he can have an idea.

Lan En also frowned as he listened in the darkness.

The ever-expanding [Eternal Darkness]? Even the famous monsters in the magical Japanese Warring States world don't have this!
What happened in the end? Did they really bring the entire underworld to the human world?
But normal monsters are normal monsters. The thing about this monster in front of Lan En that made him unsure about the limit of its [Eternal Darkness] expansion was that it was not a monster in essence! It was a curse!

When has a curse ever made sense? What's the difference between most curses and wishes? They just end up being fulfilled in a malicious way.

If this thing really can't be stopped from expanding, it's hard to say how big it will eventually expand from the perspective of the curse!

"What's going on outside?"

Lan En had fully realized the seriousness of the problem, and he still asked calmly.

"Lincoln and his team found about three to four thousand captives, and one of them died! Lincoln suspected that the curse was born on them. The death of this person may have stimulated the stability of the curse!"

Triss conveyed the message Lincoln had just given her as briefly as possible.

"Tell him to hurry!" Foltest, who also did not dare to take the telescope away from his eyes, shouted at this time, "Harperad! Don't take a fucking break! Inform the troops on the battlefield who have not withdrawn! Tell them to run!"

"Run!!!!"

(End of this chapter)