Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1802 1774. Flame Spray
Cassandra once told Lan about her childhood and revealed some of the artifact effects she had seen when she was still confined to the island of Kephallonia.

She said she met an enemy when she was a child.

She stabbed the man's kidney with the broken spear from behind, and the spear penetrated deep enough for a palm to fit into it. However, the man turned around and knocked her away, and chased her for several blocks as if nothing had happened.

This shows the wonder of Isu artifacts.

Therefore, Cassandra later learned lessons from a series of experiences and began to pursue the offensive principle of "as long as there is an opportunity, then the damage must be inflicted in one go at the first contact."

This has shaped the falconer's current fighting style of "definitely finishing off the enemy immediately if there is a chance."

This kind of artifact that "has no effect when it hits" is quite different from Alexios's golden shield that is simply "too hard to cut into".

Lan En had never encountered this before, but now, at the moment when the sword of the Lady of the Lake pierced the Minotaur's neck, the witcher immediately realized through the touch of his hand that this was the Minotaur in Greek mythology - it was this type of opponent!
Lan En grasped the Minotaur's thick neck with his palm. His body should have begun to become weak after the long sword pierced its neck. He instantly judged: This guy didn't show any sign of fatigue at all!
In just a moment, Lan En accurately recalled Cassandra's warning.

That warning contains the method to deal with this kind of enemy: keep fighting and make the damage exceed the ability of the Isu artifact to withstand!

So the moment Lan En stabbed the Lake Lady's sword through the Minotaur's neck, a series of techniques to expand the damage naturally began to be carried out.

Feeling, thinking, recalling, acting... a series of decisions and trade-offs, all worked together with Mentos in Lan's brain in an instant, and the process was completed efficiently, and the answer was finally obtained.

Arondite was suddenly pulled out from the Minotaur's neck!

After Lan En took the long sword back, he immediately blocked it to his side!
"Clang!"

The sound of metal hitting metal and rebounding against metal reverberated throughout the Isu labyrinth, reaching who knows how far away.

The Minotaur seemed fearless and even indifferent to the huge wound on his neck!
From the moment Lan En stabbed the long knife into its neck, the axe in its other hand had already swung around and chopped it down!

But with Lann's swiftness, the witcher had already completed a series of actions before it swung the axe into place.

"Stuck!"

The Minotaur's power was transmitted to Lan's arm through the collision of weapons, and then through the witcher's skills, his foothold was pressed into two footprints on the blue building material of the Isu!
The effects of forces are reciprocal.

Lan's excellent skills allowed him to directly withstand the power of the Minotaur, holding the hilt with one hand and the back of the knife near the tip with the other.

There was no unstable center of gravity or disorganized posture.

But the Tauren doesn't have this brain.

Its golden axe was shaken and lifted back greatly.

Lan En held the back of the knife with his palm and pressed forward!

"bass!"

A sharp knife flashed!
The half-meter-long front end of the Lake Lady's Sword was held down by Lan En's palm, and it suddenly slashed upwards from its original parrying posture!
From the lower edge of the Minotaur's back ribs, cut all the way to the lower edge of its chest ribs!

Lan, who was standing on the side of the Minotaur, actually cut through the side of its body!
And this is not over yet!
After the front end of the blade passed by, the demon hunter suddenly turned around, causing the long sword to turn violently!
Just now it was the blade head, and now it was the roaring bear head counterweight ball on the three sides of the handle that was smashing down towards the Minotaur's head!
"Oh!"

After being hit by the counterweight ball, the huge bull's head slammed into the Isu building materials that had just been knocked down by the minotaur, leaving only the base of the wall. The force was so great that the bull's head even bounced back to its original position.

When they first met, Lan En was still worried whether this "monster formed by a special artifact" would have the same reaction when being hit as a normal creature.

But when he saw the Minotaur subconsciously shaking its head after hitting the wall, Lan En had already made a judgment.

After being beaten to a pulp by the Minotaur, Lan En suddenly withdrew a step and did not rush to chase him.

The left hand that was originally pressing down on the blade loosened, facing the ground, and a few knuckles flipped flexibly.

[Seal of Aden]!
The chaotic magic power in Lan's body poured out, forming a rune circle emitting purple light on the ground.

The Minotaur shook his head subconsciously like an ordinary cow, trying to regain his balance, but his movements suddenly slowed down by more than 30%.

It is very powerful, and the power of one of its arms is like that of a large catapult.

[Seal of Aden] simply cannot suppress it for long.

But Lan En's actions, from the smashing of the sword hilt just now to the casting of the seal now, were originally just to squeeze out a little time in the close and continuous battle.

For now, the time squeezed out is enough.

"Hoohoo!"

A small flame suddenly jumped out from the palm of the demon hunter's dragon-scale gauntlet.

The flame originally looked ordinary, and it would not look out of place even if it appeared in the hands of an ordinary magician.

But soon, the ordinary flame began to change color rapidly!
When the flames turned into a bluish-purple hue, occasionally something like glittering scales would fall from the flames.

The surrounding air suddenly heated up, and a clear temperature difference appeared in the air, resulting in a ripple-like texture. [Spell: Flame Queen Dragon Fire]!
When dealing with an enemy with extraordinary regenerative abilities, in Lan's experience, using fire is usually the appropriate choice.

Of course, the "damage ineffectiveness" caused by the Isu artifact does not seem to be the same as regeneration.

But it doesn't matter. The sticky nature of [Flame Dragon Fire] allows it to burn deep into the target as if it were sucking the marrow out of its bones, and it is difficult to extinguish.

Can provide continuous and massive trauma.

In any case, it is very professional and appropriate at this moment.

The blade of the Sword of the Lady of the Lake slashed across Lan's left hand.

The invisible but real air flow blade was rolling on the blade at that moment, rolling the blue-purple flames and scale powder around the blade.

And instantly, it began to burn on this divine weapon.

At the same time, the [Seal of Aden], which had only hindered the Minotaur for a very short time, was also crushed by the brute force of the minotaur!

The rune circle emitting purple light on the ground shattered and dissipated.

But in Lan's tight tactical planning, there was almost no gap. He immediately took over the end of the [Yaden Seal] and suppressed it!

He would not waste time with the Minotaur, nor would he give it any chance to breathe or relax.

After all, Cassandra's experience in facing this kind of enemies had already taught him that he must strive to cause as much damage as possible in a single contact.

So, two seconds ago, from the moment Lan En grasped the Minotaur's neck and sensed its special situation, he had already determined that this battle needed to end very quickly and that it would decide life or death immediately.

The entire battle would not last more than twenty seconds. This was the tactical bottom line Lan En had set for himself.

"Moo!!!"

The Minotaur, who had just broken free from the [Seal of Aden] and had not had time to stand firm, let out another violent roar!

Because a blade burning with blue-purple flames was sticking out of its chest.

In just a moment, the blue-purple flames multiplied and spread like mold under a camera that was accelerated a thousand times, leaving charred marks on the Minotaur's thick skin and hard hair.

And it was visible to the naked eye that the burnt areas began to sink inward unusually, as if the flames were burning deeper into the flesh!

Although the violent minotaur seemed to have no sense of pain and fear at all, its own ferocity did not allow anything to be alive within its sight, let alone let it stand and be beaten.

Immediately, the Minotaur swung his axe around himself and tried to stand up.

But before it could put its planned actions into practice...

"Oh!"

Lan kicked the Minotaur hard.

The force of this kick was not that great. After all, the diffuse air flow waves caused by the collision of flesh could not even blow away some small stones.

But after this kick, the Minotaur seemed to be unsteady on his feet and staggered again.

This stumble took more than a second.

The Minotaur before us combines the characteristics of at least several animals, including humans, cows, and gorillas.

This is just Lan En's rough judgment. If he could dissect the sample on site, with his level of biological knowledge, he would undoubtedly be able to know more accurately and know more.

But the other party's current behavior has made it clear: this is not an animal for anatomical experiments.

It's 'too lively'.

But it doesn't matter. With Lan En's current martial arts attainments, the feeling left by several times of stabbing into its body, and the Sword of the Lady of the Lake still staying in its body.

It was enough for him to sense the opponent's body movements in his mind and predict and analyze the Minotaur's movements.

For Lan En, who had seen through the Minotaur's movement pattern, it was not difficult to kick him and break his center of gravity when his body was already in a shaking and reorganizing state.

And then... a blue-purple flame exploded!
"Hoohoo!"

[Igni Seal]!
He used the knife in his right hand to cut a big gap, and before the gap was eliminated by the power of the Isu artifact, the hot blue-purple flames poured into Lan's left hand like a jet!
In fact, there is also a move called [Flame Jet] among [Spells].

However, the spellcasting speed of the sorcerers is still a bit slower than that of the demon hunters. After all, they are not a group of people who specialize in close combat with spells.

Therefore, when using fire to make limited, simple and fast changes, Lan En usually uses seals if possible, and [Spellfire] only serves to provide flames.

(End of this chapter)