Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1805 1777. Binding
As always, under Lan En's control, Qilin was obedient and submissive.

After all, asking Lan for help was something it was used to, but being left behind by a horse was something it was completely unaccustomed to.

"Don't rush to the island!" Lan En grabbed Qilin's pale mane and now took over the direction of the ancient dragon. "Keep rushing to the sea!... You can't hurt it anyway, so why is it running?"

"Xilulu!"

The cooperation between Qilin and Lan En has been tested for a long time. Now it knows which direction to turn just by grabbing its mane. It responds to the demon hunter while executing the plan.

'I couldn't hurt it, but it seemed to have some animal instincts. It ran away first, I chased it, and then the chasing instinct kicked in.'

At this time, the Qilin had gained a lot of knowledge from following Lan En, and its current appearance was considered an alien species among the Qilin.

Therefore, with the ancient dragon's intelligence level that even exceeds the average human, it can also understand that the 'dark horse' in front of it only looks like a horse, but it has no idea what it is actually.

But on the other hand, the natural wildness from the New World allowed it to vaguely feel from the subtle movements and habits of the black horse: although this thing was definitely not a horse, it actually possessed some of the habits and instincts of a horse.

Perhaps it was some Isu technology that caused this.

Lan En looked at Qilin in even more silence: "It can't overcome its instincts, and neither can you?"

The ancient dragons of the New World possessed strong intelligence, which enabled them to overcome their instincts.

It's just that the ancient dragons are often at the top of the ecological chain, and even the natural environment has to give way to them. Therefore, these creatures often have no need to restrain themselves.

It is enough to live freely according to your instincts.

But Qilin has traveled a lot with Lan En as a friend, and he has seen a lot of the world. This guy has overcome his instincts more than once or twice.

When it was in the Fire World, it didn't have the chance to run even once for two or three days. Didn't it just stay there obediently?

After all, it is this world that makes it feel safe.

As expected, Qilin himself also said bluntly: "Xilulu!"

"How can I bear this? Seeing it jump out and pass me!?"

"Okay, okay."

Lan En curled his lips. What else could he say?
Qilin can be unreliable at times, but is usually reliable when asked to help.

Lan En often solves the troubles caused by Qilin, but Qilin will also stand up when Lan En needs him.

Maybe this is the case with most relationships between friends.

"What methods have you used to stop it?"

Lan En pushed the silver hair that was pressed to the corner of his mouth by the wind behind his ears and asked Qilin.

The movement speed was too fast, and the calm air turned into a fierce gale under the relative speed.

The sound of air hitting the body was enough to make one's eardrums explode. Fortunately, they used the mind link created by the [Axis Seal] to maintain the conversation.

Otherwise, Lan En's body would be able to withstand the continuous impact of airflow at this speed, but his voice would definitely be carried away to an unknown place.

"I bumped into it! Gently. But it didn't do anything. It was just a cloud of black mist!"

"I also gave its hooves a slight shock..."

Qilin was silent for a moment, and Lan En could only tentatively say, "It's no use?"

"No," Qilin responded simply, "it is obviously more energetic."

"Good!" Lan En patted Qilin's neck fiercely, "You did a good job!"

So this thing was activated from the seabed near Atlantis because you charged it with electricity before, right?
Isu technology, charging and starting, very reasonable.

At this time, although Lan En had controlled Qilin to turn in time, he wanted to drive the ghost horse back to the Aegean Sea.

But the speed of the ghost horse and the Qilin was too fast.

For two horses running at the peak speed of high-speed rail, the turning radius cannot be small at all.

Under Lan's control, at least the ship did not pass directly through the Pephka area of ​​Crete, but it did go more than ten kilometers inland.

On this day, fishermen fishing along the coast of Pevka would inevitably see the huge noise of even rocks and trees being knocked down or even blown away by the wind pressure.

Crete, the island where the Minotaur myth was born, will produce what stories in the future from today's scene. Perhaps only people in the future will know.

However, in this extremely short period of time, Lan En and Qilin had crossed a depth of more than ten kilometers, and had already traveled dozens of kilometers in an arc. Now they had just brought the pursuit battle back to the sea surface.

"You didn't try to limit it in some other way?"

Lan En questioned Qilin.

He could also see that Qilin actually had no ill will towards the ghost horse. When it tried to use force against the ghost horse several times before, it controlled its strength very well.

It was provoked by the other at first, and started to speed against each other. As a result, now it sees that the other can also speed up to such a high speed and is running around in the Aegean Sea.

Qilin then felt something was wrong and wanted to quickly slow down the opponent to avoid causing any chaos.

From beginning to end, the hostility was not very strong.

Lan En could understand Qilin's thoughts and agreed with them.

After all, this ghost horse hasn't shown any danger so far. "Huff?"

Qilin snorted in surprise.

'Other ways? How can I have other ways?'

It is just a tiny ancient dragon about twelve or thirteen years old with several unicorn horns on its body. It does not have so many colorful and strange skills.

"I'm here to find you!"

It said this with such confidence that Lan En was unable to refute it for a moment.

The ghost horse is obviously not susceptible to simple physical impact interference, and it has also tried Qilin's lightning before.

And then, [Alder Seal] was used by Lan En just now, and the opponent was obviously not very susceptible to chaos magic.

In other words: I am not very susceptible to chaos magic constructed by crude spells such as sigils.

This may be due to the self-repair mechanism of the Isu's scientific and technological creations after being disturbed, or the Isu designed sufficient fault redundancy when designing and manufacturing this ghost horse.

But right now, Qilin certainly has no more ways to restrict it.

"Xilulu!"

"Hurry up and do it!" The New World Ancient Dragon urged the old friend on his back, "Use those higher-level powers to crush it to death! Like your [Body Light] or something like that!"

See, Lan En knew that Qilin was not stupid!

In order to deal with something like the ghost horse, one must either have targeted techniques or technology to specifically control it.

Otherwise, simply use a higher-level force to suppress it with a force that its technical capabilities are not yet immune to or able to adapt to.

The [body light] on Lan En's body was undoubtedly the reason why Qilin drove the ghost horse here.

The demon hunter was speechless.

"You just want me to use [Body Light] to harness your horse, right?"

"Whoosh!"

'Just tell me whether you will do it or not!'

Lan En hit Qilin's head hard and started moving his hands.

But he did not do as Qilin thought and was not ready to jump onto the ghost horse's back and activate [Body Light] to suppress it.

Instead, Lan En sat upright on the Qilin's back and raised his left arm.

The catapult on the left arm armor opened its claws with a mechanical 'click' sound, ready to launch at any time.

"Hook?" Kirin, who came from the New World, was not unfamiliar with this thing of the investigation team. "What can this thing be..."

But Qilin's doubts didn't even have a chance to complete the mental connection.

"Wow~"

A faint sound of flashing light, imperceptible to ordinary people, appeared beside Lan En.

The Guardian Spirit Qilin, with a pair of antlers on its head and gorgeous and historic decorations on its body, silently flashed past behind Lan En.

His calm and proud eyes swept across his possessed person and the strange beast beneath the possessed person.

Without any sound or movement, [Ninety-nine Weapons] had already been activated.

The power of the guardian spirit was activated and controlled by Lan En's extraordinary martial arts, and gathered on the left arm projector. The entire mechanical structure of the left arm was covered with a layer of khaki [thick earth and clear air].

[Guardian Spirit] is a unique product of the magical Japanese Warring States world and is an absolutely high-level power.

Some [Guardian Spirits] can only make people less likely to get sick and have better physical strength, but some [Guardian Spirits] can improve people's luck and even interfere with time and cause and effect.

There is a huge difference between the upper and lower limits, but the essence of being the [Guardian Spirit] is the same.

Qilin stopped making noise. For some reason, after seeing the external form of Lan En's [Guardian Spirit·Qilin], Qilin would usually be quieter than usual.

They were in perfect sync. After Lan En activated the [Ninety-Nine Weapons], lightning flashed on the Qilin's hooves, and its already fast speed suddenly soared again for a short period of time.

The waves rolled, and the clear water of the Aegean Sea was crushed into water vapor by the unicorn's hooves. Normally, it would make people feel relaxed and refreshed.

But at this speed, the tiny water droplets in the water vapor scraping against human skin feel like ice needles piercing the flesh.

"Crack!"

Qilin sped up instantly and moved sideways. The grappling hook in Lan En's hand, which was burning with an ochre-colored flame, shot out like a cowboy. Under his precise control, the grappling hook instantly wrapped around the ghost horse's neck twice.

And it is fixed by self-engaging claws at the end.

After the ghost horse had a rope around its neck, it showed a drastic change for the first time in front of Qilin and Lan En.

Its body seemed to be trying to break free from the restraints, but even if it turned into black smoke, the hook was still firmly fixed on its neck. The only thing that could not turn into black smoke was the neck that was tied.

This is because the Isu technology, at least the Isu technology on this ghost horse, is still unable to suppress the [Power of the Guardian Spirit].

(End of this chapter)