[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-bear-school-astartes":3,"chapter-bear-school-astartes-bear-school-astartes-chapter-564":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},1620294,2087,"Chapter 564 - 566. Flicker","bear-school-astartes-chapter-564",564,"\u003Cp>But compared to the opponents these Niflgaard people face, they are actually no different from those villagers who were slaughtered and executed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ’human shield’ in hand blocked the first wave of arrows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These Niflgaard soldiers, even in this sudden panic, maintained segmented shooting, which can be considered extremely well-trained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The time difference between the two waves of arrows was barely two seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this time was more than enough for Lann to carry out the planned action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hoo—boom!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Single-handedly grasping the head and face of a Niflgaard soldier, waving his arm, this weight of at least over a hundred kilograms including armor was like a wet towel in Lann’s hand!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The currently active [Muscle Enhancement Organ] combined with the mature [Bone Enhancement Organ], Lann’s strength was rushing towards that of a finished Interstellar Warrior!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second wave of arrows was swung open mid-air by this ’towel’, then released. With a whistling sound, the mass of over a hundred kilograms slammed horizontally into the chest of another Niflgaard soldier!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him was a thick tree trunk, pinning the flung soldier between it and himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This allowed the impact to be fully absorbed by his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Puaaah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps his rib broke, or maybe his organs burst; whichever it was, the soldier couldn’t help but spew out a mouthful of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood left a viscous trace on their shiny black armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, three soldiers had already lost combat capability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fifth of their men down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If on an official battlefield, this level of personnel loss could already cause a complete collapse of a campaign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lann slaughtered too quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So fast that the fear of the death of comrades and allies hadn’t even entered the minds of the remaining soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, these Niflgaard soldiers inherently held a sense of superiority over the Northern People.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this might have been their first time stepping onto Northern soil and meeting Northern people, they had been indoctrinated for long in Niflgaard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Northern People are backward,’ ’Northern People are superstitious and ignorant’... and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their sense of superiority made them subconsciously resist surrendering when facing Northern People.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the resistance continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was exactly what Lann wanted, because... he never intended to leave any survivors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third wave of arrows, after Lann threw out the soldier in his hand and killed another Niflgaard person, finally found his new position after moving!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as those arrowheads, reflecting tiny sparkles in the firelight, rushed towards Lann...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tzing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A clear silver light flowed out like molten mercury from the Demon Hunter’s waist!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This narrow silver light flashed a winding and smooth trajectory mid-air, then the twinkling arrowheads were directly deflected amid a series of ’ding-ding-dang-dang’ clinks!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scene was so impactful for the Niflgaard soldiers that it was enough to leave them breathless!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was this considered?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had encountered targets where arrows were ineffective, and their military training taught them how to respond to such situations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Niflgaard’s army was renowned for dominating half the continent. The entire southern part of the continent was conquered and suppressed, with the Empire’s power established on this unparalleled army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They prided themselves as world hegemons, considering themselves peerless and invincible in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had a complete military industrial system, an excellent combat command system, and down to each soldier, detailed and practical training procedures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast, the Northern barbarians were like monkeys who just learned ironworking, wrapping themselves in iron sheets and holding an iron stick!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Niflgaard soldiers couldn’t help but recall, what were they trained for?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What to do when facing an enemy’s large shield, how to handle well-protected siege machines, even how to respond to a Warlock’s magic shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one had taught them what to do when facing someone who used a sword, speed, reflexes, and physical prowess to deflect six or seven arrows!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This represented the enemy’s comprehensive superiority over them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern people had dismissed the existence of many monsters as fairy tales, thus had seldom seen the Demon Hunters who eradicate these creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even if they had encountered Demon Hunters, they had never seen one like Lann.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It takes a rare talent to remain calm and perform extraordinarily in unprecedented crises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast majority’s performance in dire situations depends on the effort put into their daily training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So army training was divided into many subjects and indicators to cope with complex and ever-changing battlefield environments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But obviously, dealing with an enemy like Lann... the Niflgaard Army had never made such a plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, their ostensibly unparalleled troop quality across the continent became unremarkable, and there was no manifest performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let alone targeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Niflgaard people were bewildered, or rather, they didn’t even have time to be bewildered before they were going to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tzing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gleaming silver blade flashed, and a soldier’s fine armor was like nothing before Aron’s blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His right wrist was chopped off, along with a gaping wound large enough to fit a hand on the right side of his waist, slashed by the swiftly moving Lann!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His companion standing beside him only suddenly realized, after the warm blood in the cold air splashed onto his face, that the person next to him had already fallen with a wail!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time this Niflgaard soldier tried desperately to catch sight of the assailant, he could only see the tail of a shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann’s rapid, powerful footsteps even lifted patches of the sod he stepped on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The maximum they saw was the roots of sod flying in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, their comrades fell one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air blade flowing on the sword’s edge carried out large amounts of blood, which quickly became cold and sticky in the chilly environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This forest clearing quickly became layered with fresh blood!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining Niflgaard soldiers, their military boots making ’plop’ sounds in the pool of their comrades’ blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This isn’t right... This isn’t right... Monster!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Niflgaard people began murmuring frantically, then shouted and screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These sounds twisted into grotesque howls by the surrounding bizarre tree branches, further terrifying them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann flashed eight times among them, in their line of sight, within their reach, taking away eight comrades without resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifteen people, four remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Lann, who had stopped, stood on one side of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Positioning his feet into a forward bow and rear horse stance, his long blade returned to its sheath, left hand pressing the scabbard mouth, and his right hand holding the hilt gently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of him, these four had formed a line.\u003C\u002Fp>",1095,"2026-06-06T10:40:23.767Z",1,"novelbin.me","2fbee96c960064fa0b868c171f6c9ceab6cd6b4c0f402ab4eac763bfccec851f","bear-school-astartes-chapter-565","bear-school-astartes-chapter-563",1043,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbear-school-astartes-cover.jpg"]