Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 2086, Chapter 2058: Unstoppable Momentum
By the time Lan En and his group arrived at Tower Town from the ruins of Laufer, the town's only remaining divine beast, the Lion Dancer, had already been stuck into a gun barrel and placed atop the town's walls.

Just like when this place was first breached many years ago.

The Horned People's technology lies primarily in spirit summoning techniques, and their warriors are also skilled in this art.

They would undergo arduous cultivation, a self-torturing kind of asceticism, to attract powerful celestial spirits to descend upon them.

The mythical beast lion dance is called a "mythical beast," but it is actually just like the lion dance in Lan En's hometown. It consists of two people supporting a lion-shaped skin as decoration.

They were called divine beasts because powerful spirits descended upon them as a whole.

The jihadist army burned the town, which was already deserted, once again.

Furthermore, in order to save time, they went straight for the spiral tower!

As Lan En and his group entered Barrett, high-pitched battle roars and muffled thuds of colliding forces echoed through the air from the spiral tower in the distant sky.

It was as if the entire space was trembling to some kind of drumbeat.

"We can't wait any longer, let's get started!"

The tactics for dealing with the unsealing of the Spiral Tower are very simple, and the Holy War Army had already been notified internally.

So Lann and his group, who had rushed straight from the ruins of Laufergu, didn't even stop for a moment.

It rushed straight across the scorched land of Tower Town, rushing like a whirlwind into the border between Spiral Tower and Tower Town.

Rush upwards along this spiral staircase that seems to be built in the void!

Enil Ilim, the towering spiral, is the pinnacle of the Horned People civilization and their center of faith and research.

But now, this Tower of Babel, which had not suffered any calamity even when the Holy War Army conquered the Shadowlands and was directly sealed into a shadow, is now filled with the sounds of battle and slaughter!
Lan En and his companions raced along the magnificent spiral tower.

Although it's called a 'spiral tower', the entire structure of Enil Ilim is actually more like a giant spiral staircase that spirals upwards without any support.

It was just too magnificent; the staircase was like a grand avenue, and many palaces and halls could be built at the corners above.

This is also what Lan En believes is completely contrary to common sense in architecture: where can a spiral staircase just spiral upwards directly, while carrying so many heavy structural elements?
At the same time, the Golden Tree, as the origin of life in this world, is also in the beliefs of the Horned People.

Therefore, many large trees still grow on the spiral tower.

Meanwhile, as Lan En and his companions formed shadowy silhouettes atop the sacred stone tower...

"Oh!"

Nearly two hundred meters above their heads, a section of the spiral tower's walkway suddenly exploded!
The heavy stones, along with a large tree that had been broken, were pulverized and scattered in the direction of the impact.

A figure dressed in blue and silver was the culprit who smashed the covered bridge with tremendous force.

"Lelana!"

The distance was so great that even with the tall stature of the Kalia royal family, they looked like tiny black dots from a distance.

But Messermo recognized his wife at a glance.

Back in Ensis City, Leilana, who had slain four Black Knights in the blink of an eye with her twin swords, was now clearly being sent flying backward after being struck.

This caused it to crash into and destroy parts of the roads and trees on the Spire.

Being thrown off the main structure of the Spire Tower, which is essentially an open, unsupported spiral staircase, means there's nowhere to hit a wall; only a crash to the ground provides any foothold.

Leilana's current situation is not only about facing a height difference of more than 200 meters, but also about crashing into the ground at an angle.

"Crack!!!"

Right where she flew out, a small storm cloud suddenly appeared!
Within the storm clouds, a powerful figure flew out alongside Leilana!

That was a horned warrior!
However, he was alone, yet he was even more imposing than the mythical lion dance with the beast pierced by a gun in Tower Town!

His entire body was covered in ancient yet magnificent armor, the design of which clearly indicated that it came from an era even older than the standard armor worn by the Knights of Rodel.

He was as tall as Lan En, and his armor was silver with a hint of gold. What was most special about him was his helmet, or rather his head—it was a head with many twisted and bent horns.

This was the first living Horned Man that Lann had seen since arriving in the Shadowlands.

He held two large machetes, which resembled Chinese broad-bladed cleavers, but the backs of the blades were deliberately designed with various intersecting, angular shapes.

"Those are the Divine Bird Warriors! The progenitors and origin of the Horned Warriors! They are still guarding the Spiral Tower after all!"

Melina recognized the person above at a glance.

The Horned People's techniques all involve spirit summoning, and the Divine Bird Warriors were the first spirits that the Horned People warriors summoned into themselves. Therefore, they are the oldest and most powerful.

Legend has it that their appearance and power are similar to a furnace of life.

Both were dual-wielding weapons, but Leilana was clearly no match for the divine bird warrior opposite her.

The divine bird warrior, accompanied by storm clouds, pursued Leilana, whom he had slashed away.

But when he had fully leaped into the air, Lan En and the others finally saw clearly. It wasn't a 'thundercloud storm enveloping him' at all; rather, he had summoned a storm, and the twin blades in his hands were crackling with lightning!

He conjured a thundercloud right there on the height of the spiral tower where he was!
While Lelana was still flying backward in mid-air due to the impact, she brandished the Kalia Knight Sword in her hand, and blue radiance magic condensed into a sword, which shot towards the Divine Bird Warrior one after another.

But this guy's body is frighteningly strong!
He didn't care at all about the flying magic swords; even the shattered magic of the radiant stones couldn't affect his movements in the slightest!
With a cold face, Messermo crushed the stone steps of the Spire Tower under his feet!
The reaction force immediately caused it to rush towards Leilana, who was in mid-air in the distance!
But the next moment, "Bang!"

A hand clad in a bone-white gauntlet pressed directly onto his shoulder, stopping his body from rushing forward.

"Leave the battle on the Spiral Tower to others, we have more important things to do!" Lan En shouted, his steps never faltering. "Qilin, Velvet Ball!"

"Xilulu!"

Not far away, the ancient dragon of the new continent immediately stopped, roaring as its crystalline horns crackled with electricity!
"Clang!"

A thunderclap suddenly appeared! Accompanied by a booming sound that echoed through the air!
The blue lightning came from nature and struck directly down from the thunderclouds summoned by the divine bird warrior!

The bird warrior was completely unprepared for this situation, as the clouds he summoned were cleaved from his path.

Moreover, the Qilin's lightning, in terms of destructive power alone, can only instantly burn the stone slab ground into lava, and then cool down naturally after a few seconds.

In this era of gods and demons, he wasn't particularly outstanding; he might not even be as formidable as Leilana's few Radiant Stone Magic Flying Swords.

But the impact was significant.

The divine bird warrior had originally leaped in an arc to chase after the flying Leilana. However, after being hit, his body plummeted dozens of meters in mid-air, falling lower than Leilana in the trajectory of his leap.

It was only when a sudden gust of wind howled that he was able to fly up again.

But at that moment, something small had already caught up with Leilana, who was flying backwards and had nowhere to get a foothold in mid-air.

It was a ball of velvet that Lan En had simply thrown away!

"Go on, meow!"

The calico kitten first curled up into a ball to reduce resistance, and only when it reached Leilana at high speed did it suddenly spread its limbs, turning into an expanded cat blanket.

The cat's reaction speed allowed it to grab Leilana in an instant, spin around, and change their direction, crashing them into the nearest spiral tower floor.

The divine bird warrior, who had just rushed over with a whirlwind, left not even a cat hair behind in mid-air with his pair of greatswords.

Two impact sounds came at the same time, as the velvet ball and Leilana crashed into the floor, and the divine bird warrior rushed into the other floor due to inertia.

Upon hearing this sound, Messermo immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Leilana was at a disadvantage in a one-on-one fight against the Divine Bird Warrior, as long as she wasn't completely helpless in mid-air, she wouldn't completely lose the fight.

Landing means there has been no failure.

Behind Lan En and the others, the electricity on the Qilin crackled, but then the sound faded into the distance.

That was Qilin running towards the direction of Rongbuqiu and Leilana.

Messermo knew that Laylana was now safe.

The three of them never stopped moving forward, continuing their rapid ascent to the top of the Spiral Tower.

Similar scenes were common along the way.

Just as Messermo had predicted, the horned people who could study within this pinnacle of technology could not possibly have died or lost their fighting ability simply because they had been confined in the shadows for hundreds of years.

The interrogators, a distinctive feature of the Horned People civilization, along with their priests, various horned warriors, and two other divine bird warriors, were all locked in a fierce battle with the invading holy army.

Veteran Gaius, crackling with purple gravitational lightning, clashed back and forth with a divine bird warrior in mid-air. The two of them smashed through floor after floor of the spiraling tower as it wound its way upwards.

Golden and purple lightning clashed endlessly.

Several knight commanders from the Knights of Flame gathered together a large amount of Mesmer's Fire.

The dark red flames and thick, snake-like smoke swirled and exploded, clashing with the last divine bird warrior.

The entire spiral tower, from top to bottom, was a complete mess!
Everywhere there were bursts of colliding forces and flames of various colors.

"Hurry up! Hurry!"

Margarita was also here, but she was mainly standing at the broken and fractured part of the Spire. Chaos magic controlled many temporary bridges to be built together, making the road unobstructed and facilitating the movement of the Holy War Army.

The headmaster of Aretuza was well aware of how dangerous the warriors on this battlefield were for a sorceress like herself.

Fortunately, while the people in this world are incredibly strong, their magic seems rather rigid and lacks any real functionality. It gives her the feeling of seeing ancient magic.

If it weren't for Margarita today, the Jihadists would have been completely helpless to see the part of this oddly shaped building with its access blocked.

At Margarita's call, the three of them rushed across the makeshift bridge in the blink of an eye.

And before them stood the top of the spiral tower where the Gate of God was housed!
(End of this chapter)