[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-bear-school-astartes":3,"chapter-bear-school-astartes-bear-school-astartes-chapter-4":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Bear School Astartes",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1620041,2087,"Chapter 4. Two Bears’ Sword","bear-school-astartes-chapter-4",4,"\u003Cp>The strategy for combat between a lone enemy and a group is to transform a one-on-many confrontation into several one-on-one fights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Fog Demon isn’t an exceptionally powerful monster; even a farmer with a long-handled pitchfork can escape from a single Fog Demon if he remains calm and courageous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their claws are indeed sharp enough to dig into the ground, but in terms of attack distance, the pitchfork has a significant advantage over the claws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Lann had experienced several battles in this fantastical medieval world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew well that in sword fights, enemies that could easily be dealt with one-on-one become threatening in one-on-two situations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the one that gets \"easily dealt with\" would be you!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reality is: humans, even Demon Hunters, have blood vessels and tendons just millimeters to centimeters beneath the skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to claws or weapons, millimeter-thick flesh is virtually nonexistent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A scratch is an injury, and injury affects movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then regardless of personal will, disadvantages grow increasingly serious, eventually leading to the inevitable slicing of the throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann had not experienced such a scenario, nor was he at all eager to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, even though the Bear School’s Demon Hunter mutation formula emphasizes constitution and strength, and its swordsmanship style is robust and solid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still frequently shifted his footing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seventeen Fog Demons surged forward noisily, while the mentor’s gaze behind him was cold and devoid of warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man could only move sideways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To avoid being surrounded by Fog Demons, he had to be at least twice as fast as them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a young man in a state of hunger, is that possible?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——Not just possible! Lann did even better!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bang!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thin leather boots, driven by the muscles and bones, stomped the ground, kicking up a cloud of dirt in the soft valley soil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the flying dirt, there were even a few weed roots mixed in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man, not physically robust, charged sideways like a crazed bear!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The screeching scavenging creatures immediately turned to follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the scavengers’ explosive power couldn’t match that of a Demon Hunter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the contest of straight-line distance, they were quickly left behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, among the originally long queue of Fog Demons, the ones at the end now had the chance to take the shortest route and block Lann from the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Foul-smelling mouths with twisted, hideous teeth still bore strips of rotten meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five Fog Demons had already seized the path Lann was on, standing eagerly bent over, rubbing their claws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the young man’s expression didn’t change a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if he wore not cheap cotton armor, but the ancestral armor of knights and sirs. Or as if the five claws capable of tunneling underground didn’t exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He watched the mouths of the five Fog Demons widen with the approach of fresh flesh until they could no longer resist the temptation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following their predatory instinct, they leapt, the squat bodies utilizing their weight mid-air, thrusting their claws downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Lann’s cat-like eyes widened slightly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\" Quen!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Magic Seal that forms a physical shield appeared, accompanied by a magical glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, this Magic Seal would remain invisible, activating only in the instant the Demon Hunter is struck, deflecting the attack then shattering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with the knowledge from the Bear School, it would form an orange spherical shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This isn’t any advanced usage; in fact, the entire Magic Seal system of Demon Hunters is seen as mere tricks by actual Wizards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even against the mere assault of a Fog Demon, this Magic Seal could barely block the first one before overloading and shattering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lann, a young man hurled from the Stable Era to the Barbaric Era, would certainly utilize every force he could access amidst the sense of crisis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spherical shields are common, the generation from the ground to the head is also common, but...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if, and I mean if.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An enemy coming down from mid-air, at a coincidentally perfect moment in time and space, during the formation of the shield, gets tripped by the yet-to-close spherical shield...what would happen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Fog Demon may never have experienced the feeling of stepping down stairs and missing a step, or raising a leg not high enough going up stairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, it experienced that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any combat, balancing plays an extremely important role, and the Magic World has varied strategies for it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann’s cat-like eyes momentarily met the panic-stricken eyes of the Fog Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the mid-air tumble, three out of five Fog Demons were \"accidentally\" shifted off balance by the forming shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They soared over the young man and crashed into the Fog Demon crowd chasing fresh flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, chaos erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of a shield shattering rang out, and even though he didn’t directly face the attack, the force of the three monsters’ impact was enough to break the Quen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In midair in front of Lann, two other claw-stretched scavengers were already whistling toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t care how their fellow beings had flown away, they were just eager to taste the first bite of flesh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lann, without his shield, gazed at them with eyes that mirrored theirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both sides seemed to be looking at a piece of meat already lying on the chopping block.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The earlier casting of the Quen Rune wasn’t for protection at all, you fool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a \"boom,\" the orange-yellow shield shattered into kinetic shards!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two monsters in midair hadn’t yet realized what had happened when the outward explosion of the shards threw off their stances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a cold light flashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cold sound of a blade cutting through the air chilled to the bone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cheap Velen Longsword was held by Lann beside his face, its tip aimed directly at the monster’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This dull longsword was deliberately positioned at an awkward angle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Lann lunged forward, it felt as challenging as piercing through cured leather.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were a silver weapon, it would be as easy as slicing through regular meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it was difficult, the thin body of the monster couldn’t withstand the thrust with momentum and center of gravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It pierced through the first monster’s stomach and, as if by coincidence, the sword tip plunged into the second monster’s chin, laden with warts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It went straight into its brain from the chin!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed like a frantic swordsman, adrenaline pumping, with a streak of luck, ended up not killing the first one in front but instead took out the second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet beneath this facade, Lann’s precision, power, and control over the blade edge were impeccably flawless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except at the last moment, his hand accidentally banged into the crossguard of the sword hilt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thrust was powerful, and the monster’s resistance was strong enough that the crossguard loosened with a \"crack.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under this pressure, the wooden sword handle also cracked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hand burst open, splattering blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But more seriously, the loosened crossguard meant the longsword could still be used against ordinary people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, against monsters, even these creatures, it was a death wish!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann effectively lost his sole weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the fifteen monsters behind him had scrambled back up and rushed toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Lann seemed as if he had completed his task, relaxing the muscles in his arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He let down both the skewer-like longsword and the monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without looking behind, amidst the clamor of the monsters’ footsteps, he already heard the sound he was waiting for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a sound that anyone with achievements in the art of battle would naturally produce, light-footed like a cat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the mist behind the fifteen monsters, a tall and robust black silhouette emerged silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold and soundless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Bordeaux, safety had been confirmed; there were no Fog Demons here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of silver light streaked by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Lann’s precise and ruthless swordsmanship, Bordeaux’s style adhered to the consistent traits of the Bear School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Solid strength!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pshhh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of bloodletting mixed with the noise of bones being smashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bordeaux’s silver sword, tainted with the monsters’ stench of blood, carved out a chilling arc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four monsters, due to their dense formation, were cut right through the chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fifth had its chest half-split, the silver sword stuck in its sternum, and the immense force flung the thin body away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the sword tip protruding from its chest, the upper half of the sixth monster’s skull was sliced off along the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fifteen monsters huddled together, exposing their backs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Bordeaux, it only took a few sword swings to handle them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Lann’s \"use\" was more than worth the value.\u003C\u002Fp>",1429,"2026-06-06T10:40:07.661Z",1,"novelbin.me","c96061e8f1d2ff45b8f77c290b0daf92ebf316306a4c45335ec401db4eadb2f3","bear-school-astartes-chapter-58","bear-school-astartes-chapter-3",1043,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbear-school-astartes-cover.jpg"]