Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 2010 1982. Blood Flame of the Dharma Seal

Griffith admitted defeat.

The legion he brought to the Altai Plateau is now a defeated force. Even if some lucky ones escape and regroup after the war, their numbers will be extremely small.

However, Griffith did not believe that his career had completely failed with tonight's defeat.

Ningmgefu's territory is vast and rich in resources, and he has managed it very stably over the past few centuries, maintaining good relations with the local mixed-race and demi-human groups.

These factors, in this period when the Golden Law has collapsed, represent an enormous potential for war!

How much food could be grown in Lienia's vast lake region? How many people could it support?

What do the people and horses in the area around Mount Gemir eat?
The sacred tree, Abrafiel, is indeed a giant tree that grows from the seabed, with no soil on its surface, and its future is likely to be even worse.

The abundance and prosperity brought by the Golden Law are no more; how can these places compare to Nymgford?

In all calculations, only the Galid Plains under Rataen's command are comparable to the Nymgford region.

Therefore, Gough had the confidence and the practical conditions to make a comeback.

He was not discouraged or gave up because of his current failure; on the contrary, all he wanted to do now was to hurry up and get back to Ninmgoff.

They returned to their own territory, regrouped their forces, and began a new battle against the other demigods.

Therefore, he tends to eliminate the fading victims as quickly as possible, taking revenge while also extricating himself from the situation.

Amidst the fiery tornado he had created, Griffia had begun to shift his attention away from the faded figures before him and began to think about how to quickly and secretly return to his territory to avoid being hunted down by Rodel.

After all, the Faded Ones are much more fragile than ordinary Golden Tree People, and even before the Golden Law collapsed, they were stripped of their blessings and only had one life.

Although the people of the Golden Tree no longer have the stable reincarnation system that relies on the Golden Tree, they are all immortal. However, those who have faded in color will most likely only have one life.

Ge Fuya was well aware of how fast and powerful his less-than-elegant spinning whirl was once unleashed.

In any case, unless the faded one desperately blocked with a fine shield or simply retreated beforehand, he would at least suffer a severe injury with broken arms and legs and dozens of kilograms of flesh torn off.

Once seriously injured, in the heat of battle, the next consequence is certain death.

He, Griffith, would not give the Faded One any chance to obtain the Red Dewdrop Grail Bottle...?!

The demigod, who was spinning on the lava ground, suddenly felt a lack of coordination in his limbs as he was getting into the middle of his thoughts.

This feeling almost caused Gefia's mind to shut down!
After all, although 'limb extension technology' was a technology that Griffia used to catch up with those truly strong individuals and get closer to the First King he revered.

He was also repeatedly advised by [Gold] Godwin not to be so persistent.

But this technology did indeed give him a huge boost.

He was well aware of his own talent. Although he was a demigod, his talent was only about the same as that of his son, Grik.

If he hadn't used the strength from the limb extension, his current strength would probably be roughly equal to his son, Greg. After all, that's his limit.

But with the strength from the limb extension, he managed to rise a little higher. He wasn't completely reduced to the same level as his son.

And 'making the reattached limb as easy to control as an arm' is the most basic function in reattachment techniques.

In this god-like dynasty where gifted monsters emerge one after another, if even this is not possible, then the limb-splitting technique would not be of any interest to Griffia.

Since the limb was grafted onto my body, my own sensations have proven that this technology can indeed do this.

but now……

Griffith was originally on his back, like a spider flipping over, and used the dozen or so arms on his back to spin in circles, creating a storm of sharp blades.

But when he moved to the location of Lan En, some of his dozen or so arms, which should have been swinging and evenly distributed, seemed to suddenly disappear into the water as if they were being swung!
The speed suddenly decreased, and it almost collided with the pile of arms behind it!
Realizing something was wrong, Ge Fuya then focused all his attention back on the faded person in front of him.

In the eyes of this demigod, the Faded One, who should have been unable to cope with his rapidly increasing attack rhythm and should have been at a disadvantage... hadn't moved at all!
Instead of gritting his teeth in panic and trying to block the wildly swinging blades with his pitifully small longsword, he didn't try to retreat with all his might to get out of the attack range.

He simply stood still at the very moment the sharp blade was about to strike him!

No! It's not that it didn't move!

Ge Fuya's eyes widened suddenly. He noticed that the faded man's left hand was rapidly making some kind of gesture. When he looked over, he could only catch a glimpse of the gesture's tail.

Whether it was the orange-red heat of the lava that dazzled him or something else, Ge Fuya felt that there was a purple light in the lava ground, forming some strange pattern.

【Yadin Sign】!
The only barrier-type sign among the five Witcher Signs. It can seal off space or define an area, using chaotic magic to slow down the movement of targets within the area or forcibly materialize spirits and other spiritual entities.

The Witcher's sign, placed among the sorcerers of the magical medieval world, is merely a charade, and of course, it could not possibly imprison Golphia, a golden demigod.

But Lann... never expected to be able to trap him with just the sign.

'How interesting,' Griffin spun around, clearly seeing the meaning in the Witcher's eyes. 'You actually chose such an easy-to-understand technique to fight me?'

In an instant! A chill ran through Ge Fuya's heart! The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end!

The fact that Gefyana's body, which had been modified into a crooked and twisted shape through limb extension techniques, yet still possessed a remarkable internal logic of movement, was the key reason why Lann and Mentos had been unable to decipher his movement habits and patterns.

But if you fight him seriously, it's fine, but Lann and Mentos will be bothered by his body for at least a few minutes.

But you actually started spinning yourself around?
It's difficult to see through an enemy's body in a brief, one-on-one exchange. But the enemy himself has positioned himself like a spinning blade... This structure, which needs to be analyzed, has been simplified to its absolute limit by his own actions!
No matter what your body's internal structure or movement logic is, how complex can a spinning wheel be?
Regardless of other moves, just this one move—the instant Gefuya adopted his stance, Lan En had already seen through it completely!

The rotating arms spread out in all directions, forming the outer blade wheel.

Lan En merely used the [Yarden Sign] to slightly guide the several arms that were swinging towards him into the magic circle area. These arms were inevitably slower than the arms that did not enter the Yarden Sign area.

Even if he is only a beat slower, with Ge Fuya's extremely high rotation speed at this moment, gaps will naturally appear between his dozen or so arms that seem to be densely covered with sharp blades due to the difference in speed!
—That is, the current situation!

"Bah!"

The fire tornado of lava and hot air, whipped up by the crack, was instantly sliced ​​open by a thin, sharp blade!
[Water-shaped Sword - Single Slash - Double Combo]!
His posture was so upright, as if he had prepared the first strike beforehand, cleanly and decisively slicing through the fire tornado. The second strike, however, followed immediately, heading straight for the demigod's body!

"Crackling sound!"

A series of sounds of limbs being torn apart, severed, and blood spurting out rang out instantly!
Mixed with this was the demigod's angry, pained roar: "Ah! You lowly insect... Ahhh!"

Ge Fuya's initial roar was full of energy, but before he could finish his curse, he suddenly roared again, his voice rising by more than ten octaves!

In mid-air, five or six cleanly severed hands, still clutching weapons, flew into the air.

On the cuts of those severed hands, strange flames, pure blood red, flashed by in an instant.

Lan En's strike on Gefya wasn't exactly a straight line, since Gefya was spinning at high speed.

However, strange, blood-red flames were burning on the long blade of the Witcher's Lake Maiden Sword.

The blade, wreathed in flames, sliced ​​off five or six limbs in one go, seemingly allowing the power of the blood flames to accumulate within Gefia's body until it reached a peak, before finally bursting forth!
Just like those bloodthirsty lunatics who first caused a disturbance in the demigod alliance, those who were injured many times by their weapons with blood flames would suddenly have their blood surge up at a certain moment, bursting through their bodies and spraying outwards almost like a spray!
Ge Fuya was reduced to a bloody mess almost instantly.

In the few days since Lan En returned from outside Rodel, he has not only studied the two unique flames, [Spirit Flame] and [Queen's Black Flame], but he has also studied [Blood Flame].

Melina was worried about Lan En and refused to let him come into contact with the cursed blood of the Mother of Truth.

This is mainly because the Mother of Truth is an external deity of the borderlands, and in itself represents a law that has not been accepted by the Elden Ring.

However, if we trace their origins, both the [Spirit Fire] and the [Queen's Black Flame] come from the power of different laws.

Melina, however, showed no sign of concern.

The reason for this is that these flames are merely superficial manifestations of those laws, that is, the power of external deities.

Although each has its own function and effect, they do not touch upon the deeper meaning of the law.

Therefore, in this respect, contact with [Cursed Blood] will undoubtedly lead to a great deal of contact with the [Invisible Mother], but simply using [Blood Flame] is far from sufficient.

Therefore, Melina didn't object much and took out the bell containing cursed blood that she had obtained from [Ironthorn] Elonmer. She sprinkled the cursed blood out in batches, igniting blood flames, and let Lan En study it.

Ultimately, this allowed the Witcher to gain control of another type of fire.

[Blood inflammation] shows little in terms of temperature, but like its color, it is very responsive to blood.

Repeated or prolonged exposure to it will accumulate in the blood, eventually causing the blood to become as if it were alive, desperately gushing out of the body.

This flame could cause terrifying damage to any living being with bodily fluids.

Gevya hadn't noticed the anomaly on the Lann Blade before, partly because the Blood Madman had been reduced to ashes by the bombardment of Rajard's skull spirits, though his legion had also perished with him.

Secondly, the ground has now turned into lava, and the view is filled with orange-red heat, making the colors and light quite confusing.

Regardless, this strike dealt a severe blow to Ge Fuya!

(End of this chapter)