[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-bear-school-astartes":3,"chapter-bear-school-astartes-bear-school-astartes-chapter-563":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},1620293,2087,"Chapter 563 - 565. Tracking","bear-school-astartes-chapter-563",563,"\u003Cp>The search process went smoothly. Now it was getting late, and the armed squads coming out in groups should also be looking for places to set up camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, their warhorses had to carry people, armor, and supplies, but Lann was leading Bopai by hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human endurance far exceeds that of horses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A seemingly counterintuitive fact is that in long-distance marches, infantry generally wait for the cavalry to catch up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The longest continuous running time record for ordinary humans is more than twenty-five hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for Lann, who had already implanted the gene seed and undergone three surgeries, he could not be measured by the standards of ’ordinary humans.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The winter woods had already almost shed their leaves and transformed into branches reaching towards the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky was getting darker, and the branches appearing to pierce the sky looked grotesque and sinister under the dim lighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cold wind blew through the gaps in the forest, twisted into strange whistles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bopai had already exerted its maximum potential as a purebred Codwin warhorse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its muscles swelling and veins bulging as it galloped was a sight that artists could capture and preserve in expensive paints for posterity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In its eyes, the strangely dim woods around it passed by like silhouettes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in front of it, there was always a tall figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavy footsteps like a warhammer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But above this heavy mass, there was a swift figure!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The proportions of the Astartes’ body looked like an enlarged human figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No problems like elongated limbs, unstable center of gravity, which those who grow to this size conventionally face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one must describe Lann’s current sense of speed, it would be Olympic sprint champions’ sprinting speed plus three hundred kilograms of mass!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive weight carried a fierce wind, enough to break the branches and twigs that it passed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, after a not very long pursuit, Lann spotted a faint glimmer of firelight in a clearing in the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were about fifteen people, gathered around a campfire preparing to rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wore glossy, dark full-body armor, with a pair of black wings seemingly about to soar skyward on the sides of their helmets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their longswords were sharp, with sturdy crossbows and strong bows; in terms of appearance and presence, they were more refined than the Northern soldiers Lann had known.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, even in Baron Velen’s Viserad’s cavalry squad, the leader Philip was a dirty person with a blackened neck and hair matted under his leather cap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their tattered cotton armor would be stained with alcohol, thick phlegm, snot, and other substances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann’s heavy footsteps, along with Bopai’s heavy breathing, awakened this group preparing dinner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all became alert, arrows notched, bows drawn, longswords unsheathed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of neat military bearing, it was another area in which they were superior to the Northern Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann let go of the reins, allowing Bopai to walk away and rest on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself stood in the heavy shadows cast by the firelight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His rapid travel had not even displaced his hooded cloak, and standing in the shadows, only a giant silhouette could be seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Niflgaard soldiers opposite murmured to each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A giant?! I thought that was just a Northern bumpkin’s superstition!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a wood, a plain forest! Not the mountains, where would a giant come from? Even if it’s a legend, I think it should be a Deerhorn Spirit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the south, most of the creatures common in the north had become material for legendary tales.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The southerners even mocked Northerners for their superstitious ignorance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, these soldiers fighting in the north for the first time felt fear born from the unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following that, influenced by armor and sharp swords, fear turned into aggression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under his hood, Lann could hear the increasingly heavy breathing of those opposite, along with the puffs of white mist coming from their mouths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just in case.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann spoke calmly in the darkness, without a hint of fluctuation, only a large puff of white vapor from the heat floating from the shadow into the firelight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want to ask you Southern gentlemen something: I passed a village here heading eastward. That village was slaughtered, the perpetrators burned the corpses and used torture... was that you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Lann spoke the first words, the expressions of those opposite visibly relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being able to speak human language, he wasn’t a northern monster from the stories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the second sentence immediately made these slightly relieved Niflgaard soldiers... laugh out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The laugh was filled with astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, Lann wouldn’t mind. After all, the transition from tension to relaxation, with a laugh along the way, seemed natural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this laugh was different; it gave Lann the feeling that—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Someone actually asked us this?\" and \"I actually got tense because someone asked such a silly question?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no need for a reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mocking laughter was the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Niflgaardian aiming a crossbow at Lann still had a mocking smile on his face, but his finger had already begun to tighten, the mechanical spring was about to activate, launching the bolt on the string.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the next moment...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whoosh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An intense wind pressure appeared out of nowhere, nearly pressing the lively and bright campfire into a thin layer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ordinary person’s sight and reaction speed couldn’t even spot Lann’s shadow under such circumstances!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They still stared blankly at where Lann had been standing, where a large cloak fluttered in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But causing this powerful wind pressure... was a gigantic human body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive palm completely enclosing the Niflgaardian’s head!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with just this one action, the noise it made was like a hammer hitting a helmet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Lann almost appeared instantly, infiltrating their formation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those cat eyes glimmered in the darkness, observing the entire situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crossbowman’s head being struck heavily triggered the mechanism in his hands instinctively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whiz\" sounded the bolt with a trident head flying past Lann and directly into another Niflgaardian’s armor neck gap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, without even turning his head, it was as if Lann had planned it in advance, lifting the Niflgaardian in his hand to his side with one hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, the \"whiz whiz whiz\" of arrows cutting through the air arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arrows fired by bows or crossbows sparked on the Niflgaardian’s armor, with a few at tricky angles piercing weak points of the armor and lodging into their bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person ’shield’ in Lann’s hand fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Niflgaard Army was indeed formidable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was their quick reaction ability or the quality of their arsenal, it was considerably better than the Northern Army.\u003C\u002Fp>",1107,"2026-06-06T10:40:23.767Z",1,"novelbin.me","72e0e7ee272b4706b52986cdd0bd77af57521549ebbc22c2c3d059ecf9d7f140","bear-school-astartes-chapter-564","bear-school-astartes-chapter-562",1043,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbear-school-astartes-cover.jpg"]