Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 2013, 1985. Dragon Head
Lan En's thoughtful gaze quickly swept over the left side of Ge Fuya's body, where his left arm should have been.

However, after noticing Lan En's barely perceptible glance, Ge Fuya's expression suddenly tightened.

Goffya has undergone too many limb repositioning procedures, carrying more than a dozen arms on his back.

Although limb extension is a very advanced technology, it has inevitably distorted his body.

A bunch of arms were piled up on his back, and actually, no one could tell which were his original two arms and which were extensions.

Because of his deformed body, he is already different from the normal situation. He cannot be used as a reference.

And at this moment, Lan En looked at the intention of his left side...

Before Ge Fuya could even come up with a possibility in his mind...

With a sharp 'whoosh', the silver light enveloped in blood flames left a thin trail in mid-air, slashing directly at the left side of Ge Fuya's body.

The already stiff expression on the golden demigod's face suddenly hardened even more!
"when!"

An arm on the left side of the back swiftly grabbed a standard-issue longsword and blocked the blood-red blade shadow, sparks flying between them!

Instantly, the standard longsword of Nymgford was severed in two by Arondette's blade. The break was clean and smooth.

But in the end, they managed to withstand that blow.

However, behind Gefuya, there was another burst of golden light, like smoke, which was blasted out of his body after he took Lan En's blow.

After this attack, the golden demigod felt increasingly that his body was becoming more uncoordinated and powerless.

Ge Fuya felt the changes in his body, but he wasn't too panicked yet.

Although he had never heard of the skills that Lan En was currently displaying, he was, after all, someone who had fought alongside his brothers on the battlefield of the Giant Wars and had fought his way up to become a border garrison general.

What kind of grand and bizarre scenes haven't I seen?
It's simply a technique used in combat to gradually weaken the enemy through repeated exchanges of moves.

Having a general idea of ​​his current state, Ge Fuya's mind was at least not completely thrown into chaos.

Even though his mind was relatively stable, Griffia wasn't a particularly outstanding warrior, otherwise he wouldn't be so far behind his brother.

He couldn't figure out the logic behind Lann's technique during the battle, or how to deal with it.

And right now, the most important thing is not this unfamiliar technique.

"Clang clang clang!"

The witcher moved around the towering demigod, his longsword repeatedly darting toward Griffia's body like the fangs of a viper.

He swung his sword repeatedly, but each time he failed to achieve his goal.

Even so, the Witcher's expression remained unchanged, while Griffith was clearly becoming agitated.

Because with each clash, the weapons on the dozen or so arms of this golden demigod would become shorter!
The high-quality steel fragments clattered and clattered as they fell from Gefia's hands, then silently sank into the lava floor beneath their feet.

Judging from the current rate of damage, Gefya, who is at a disadvantage in terms of weaponry, will soon be unable to even protect himself.

The world was a fiery red, illuminated by the lava, the air distorted like a funhouse mirror, and the faint shouts of battle and muffled sounds of fighting continued to echo from afar.

Just as Lann launched another surprise attack, 'whoosh' severing the handle of a one-handed axe from Gefya's hand, causing the heavy axe blade with its short handle to fall into the lava.

The Witcher's eyes weren't on the menacing arms behind Griffin; instead, they were still fixed on the left side of his body.

“Now that things have come to this,” the Witcher asked him calmly, “what are you still hiding in your left hand?”

Having said that, Gougher lost all hope.

He understood that the faded person in front of him had already seen through him.

Lan En is used to understanding his enemies through feedback and observation during combat. Although Ge Fuya seems complicated and strange due to his limb-splitting technique, after so many battles and entanglements,

The extent of Lann's analysis of him, converted into a quantitative scale projected onto the retina by Mentos, was roughly 60-70%.

While it's impossible to know his body's movements before he does, creating a model of his outline is no problem.

And within the body of Gefia that Lan En sensed... this guy had a thick left hand, hidden behind a bunch of arms that had been attached to his back, and among the robes he was wearing!

Whatever the enemy is hiding, that's what you need to be careful about.

This simple principle applies even outside of intense, fast-paced battles.

So now, Lann is slashing through a bunch of standard weapons in his hands. Whether or not they will injure Gefya's body is secondary from a tactical perspective. The primary goal is to force out his left hand and see what's going on.

Once something is carefully hidden is revealed, its threat level is reduced by more than half! However, Ge Fuya himself seemed determined to hide his left hand. His face was filled with deep resistance and vigilance as he glared at Lan En.

With a clang, another longsword was cleaved in two.

The arm on the demigod's back moved quickly but methodically at this moment.

The arm, which still had a weapon, was turned to the outside of the body to deal with the Witcher's attack.

Meanwhile, other arms lifted Gefia's once majestic and dignified lord's robes, now tattered and worn. From them, they retrieved a bell and pulled out spare weapons from the storage container.

Those densely packed, twisted arms passed and coordinated with each other, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen arms were fully armed again.

During this process, the Witcher attacked Griffia no less than twenty times. In an instant, the blood-red sword light enveloped the demigod's entire body like a grid.

However, the limb-setting technique was clearly very advanced. Ge Fuya controlled more than a dozen arms without any hesitation, just as smoothly and methodically as he controlled his original two arms.

I wonder if this limb-connecting technology, when used, also significantly enhances the brain's control over the limbs.

The weapons that Gevya distributed to each of his arms often broke down prematurely before they were even fully in place, in order to deal with Lan En's slashes.

However, the Golden Demigod was incredibly wealthy, and it's unknown whether the Bell had anticipated this situation or how much stuff it had stored up.

In the end, through this tug-of-war of consumption and replenishment, Gevya managed to replenish his weapons.

Lan En did not show any emotional fluctuation because of this.

Both he and Gefuya were among the strongest warriors. The battle had been very fast-paced, and the demigod had spent less than ten seconds switching weapons.

The echoes of their tearing through the air and shattering steel still linger in the air.

However, just when Lan En had mentally prepared himself to engage in a fast-paced war of attrition with Ge Fuya...

"Heh." A cruel and decisive smile flickered across the demigod's lips for a fleeting moment. "You want to see my left hand?"

"Then come and see, you faded one."

The Witcher's eyes narrowed sharply in that instant, and he immediately made an evasive maneuver.

However, under Griffia's armpit, in the shadow hidden by his tattered lord's robe, a bright orange-red light was rapidly becoming conspicuous through the fabric!
Then, "Boom!!"

The fabric of the clothes that blocked the orange-red heat was instantly reduced to ashes!

This lord's robe, made of excellent material and blessed with prayers, was previously worn by Gevya and wrapped in magma chunks spewed out by a lava dragon, yet it only became slightly tattered!

But now, there isn't even a moment's resistance under that intense heat!

In an instant, the intense heat struck Lan En, carving a long trench into the lava ground! Lan En was blasted away a great distance.

As the heat gradually subsided, Ge Fuya's expression gradually changed to one of satisfaction after venting his anger.

And under his left armpit, his 'left hand' was curled up there.

But that can no longer be called 'left hand'.

Gavya's left arm now appears to be embedded in the severed head of a dragon, which has become Gavya's left hand!
Thanks to the reattachment technique, the dragon head that was attached to Gefia's left hand looked as if it were still alive.

Through its wide-open mouth, you can see its throat, and the flames inside are gradually shrinking back. From the dragon's mouth to its throat, the heat gradually dims.

The dragon's head even stuck out its tongue and licked the corner of its mouth.

On Gefia's head, his eyes no longer held any 'resistance' or 'guardianness,' only the calmness of facing the battlefield.

This was originally a tactical deception that he had planned in advance.

The dragon head attached to his left arm was indeed one of his trump cards.

It's not a big deal if someone sees that you've 'held back', but how and when to use a trump card is a matter that really shows the skill of the player.

Once Griffith confirmed that Lann knew he was hiding his left arm, he had already made a plan.

Even after Lan Enming said he could tell, he refused to show his left arm.

And through his expressions, actions, and even subsequent tactical responses, he was trying his best to tell Lan En one thing: this trump card is very important, and I'm reluctant to play it. I won't reveal my hand until I'm forced to the very last moment.

Therefore, from Lan En's perspective, he would naturally focus his attention on the final moment, where there is a very high probability of a fierce 'trump card counterattack', just to be on the safe side.

But in reality?
Just as Lan En was preparing to wage a rapid war of attrition against him, he immediately revealed the dragon head on his left hand! And the moment he revealed it, he struck with deadly force!
(End of this chapter)