MTL - Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 876 858. Abandoned Fortress

 When Lan En first came to this world, he first chose to keep a distance from the group of lumberjacks.

 That was because the Lady in the Lake’s special reminder made him alert when he first arrived, and secondly because he had never seen the undead or wandering souls, the ‘features’ of this world.

 That’s why prudence is the first consideration.

Now that the method of producing undead and wandering souls has been clarified, Lan En has no scruples in taking action.

 “This is the proper meaning.”

The female knight of the Kingdom of Twilight speaks in a refined manner, with a bit of an ancient accent, and she seems to be the type of person who has received an elite education.

She agreed with Lan En's way of interrupting the tense atmosphere, and then she opened the distance between herself and Leonard. She placed her palm on the large rapier at her waist and kept her distance around the corpse truck. alert.

 Same with Leonard.

 After Lan En put away the knife, he looked at the witcher up and down for a while, and then nodded imperceptibly.

 Seems to be affirming his own vision.

 And these people are indeed as Leonard said: they have no objection to turning into insects for a period of time, if they can really get a better body in the future.

 For a normal ordinary soldier, the longer his fighting career, the worse his physical fitness will become due to suffering.

Hence, Leonard often completes a conversation with a target in just a few words to other people.

The ability of [Mother of Rebirth] is indeed very attractive to battle-hardened warriors.

There is also a knight in strange-shaped armor, with a lean body wrapped in armor and a shield full of spikes. It felt like I could get a piece of meat scraped off if I walked past him.

 The Undead Settlement and the Deep Church are the two ends of this road.

For example, a wandering knight holding a short-handled axe. The ax is vaguely glowing with yellow lightning, and it feels quite fierce.

 Leonard, as a goddess knight, undoubtedly did his best.

 With good luck and good skills, I suffered some skin injuries after a fight.

The huge convoy of vehicles walked back along the route that Lan followed Fodolink.

Lan En felt that many of them did have two brushes.

According to the communication between Lan En and Leonard, this road was originally opened to connect the two places.

Most people in this world talk little and are silent, so once they speak, they will first express their attitude.

　　The convoy assembled under the leadership of the Archbishop was indeed filled with many good players.

 If you have bad luck and poor technique, you may injure bones, ligaments, tendons, and nerves.

 In today's increasingly chaotic world, everyone wants to live longer.

After leaving Lan En, he struck up a conversation with other warriors and knights in the convoy.

 Leonard has reached an agreement with several people.

 He felt that this was a powerful warrior before Lan En took action. After Lan En took action, his judgment was proven.

 After all, as long as you fight, you will most likely get injured.

　　It’s just that his silver mask blocked his entire face, so Lan En couldn’t see any more expressions except a slight nod.

 This is a ‘funeral road’ specially built to transport the undead.

Undead people who want to seek relief and sleep go to the immortal settlement. That village in the fiefdom of the Duke of Ulster has long experience in dealing with undead. It is said that the technology was brought by the Duke from his hometown Karim.

 They will execute the undead in a ceremonial and crisp manner. Then take this road to Yousui Church.

 After being received by the Netherworld Church, the blood in the undead corpse will be drained to maximize the recovery time of the undead, and then buried in the cemetery next to the church. The whole process is full of ritual and religious aspects, hoping to give final comfort to the immortals.

 It wasn’t until the [Saint of the Deep] Eldridge was sent by the king of Lothric to settle in the Church of the Deep as a sage and gained this title, the reputation of this road became not very good.

 But what exactly happened, Leonard was tight-lipped and didn’t want to say more.

 Others don’t even know.

 It seems that this is another secret with considerable implications.

There were no twists and turns along the way, and the convoy entered the same forest where Lan En first came to this world.

 Because it had been cleaned up by Fodolink, the convoy did not even meet a wandering spirit.

Arrived in the forest, the terrain was complex and the field of vision was limited, so the soldiers in the convoy began to spontaneously walk around and observe in front of and behind the convoy.

Lan En also saw the goddess named Rosalia again, but she still had the same sad, helpless, and desperate look.

With this expression, the black casual clothes looked more like mourning clothes at a funeral.

Following the convoy, Lan was able to continue deeper into the forest. Last time, he was taken out directly by Fodolink.

This forest has so much water that it can even accumulate a lake-like pool in the forest.

Across the water pool, Lan En's eyesight allowed him to vaguely see at the other end, what seemed to be some Gothic architectural ruins composed of broken bricks and tiles.

 “That is the remains of the fortress of the French Undead Army.”

 Leonard seemed to still regard Lan En as the best candidate to recruit to serve the goddess, so he followed him and talked to him.

“The fortress of the famous [Salary King]. Humph. Although only a little bit is exposed from this angle, in fact, the main body of the fortress is under the cliff over there. It is very big. Now only the roof is exposed.”

Lan En tilted his head, looking at the ruins and nodded slightly.

 Then it’s the title of “Salary King” again. What exactly is it?

And judging from Leonard’s sneer tone, when he said ‘big name’, it was obvious that he was sarcastic.

With his good vision, Lan En could see on the other side of the water pool, two warriors wearing heavy armor and holding powerful large weapons, bowing to the convoy here.

 Although it is so far away, no one may even be able to see it.

 “Is there anyone else in the abandoned fortress?”

Lan En asked without looking back.

"Exiles. The knights who committed crimes in the city of Lothric were sent to this ruins by King Othroais. They wore the armor of atonement to guard the hometown of the [Salary Kings]."

 “Guard?” Lan En scratched his forehead, a little confused.

“After all, isn’t this an abandoned fortress? Is there anything else worth guarding inside?”

"Ha, although it is an abandoned fortress, it is the fortress of the [Salt King] who is as powerful as a god. Even though the French Undead Team has performed the fire-passing ceremony a long time ago, there is never a shortage of speculators."

Although Leonard was irritated with [Xinwang], he did not avoid the power of [Xinwang]. Instead, he bluntly admitted it.

As he spoke, he raised his leather-gloved hand and pointed to the other side of the large pool of water, which was the front of the path they were currently taking.

“A group of magicians from the Behem Dragon Academy want to come here to explore the magic of the Undead Team. It is a combat spell specially created for the Undead Team by the Crystal Old Man, an ally of the Undead Team.”

"After the Frank Undead Team passed the fire, the crystallized old man did not return to Lothric City to find his twin brother, but stayed here all the time. They are both the legendary great magicians, [Big Hat] Logan's spell inheritance By."

 “Those fellows in Perheim have been coveting their knowledge for a long time.”

 (End of this chapter)