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Death","bear-school-astartes-chapter-587",587,"\u003Cp>The secret journey of the refugee group began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They couldn’t be discovered, so even in the bitterly cold winter, they had to advance through the dangerous forests rather than the main roads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was panting, but due to the limited warmth in their bodies, the mist they exhaled was thin and pitiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking through the forest required more than twice the energy compared to walking on the main roads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As people constantly adjusted their leg movements and speed, their calf, ankle, and foot muscles could never relax, maintaining a high level of grip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking was an activity, but walking in the mountains and forests was a sport.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for these refugees, they had been weak for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Hacksaw took control of the caravan and resources within the refugee group, food was actually quite ample.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the group had been struggling in the quagmire of war for weeks, suffering irrecoverable physical and mental damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with abundant food and a safe, warm environment, it would probably take half a year to restore their vitality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They needed rest more than anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, in the war zone escaping urgently, in the harsh winter, the environment outside the forest could reveal and unleash massacres by black-clad troops at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such constant fear and shock day and night were enough to turn a strong man into a quail within days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the refugee group, a large portion were Sintra People with their families.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann had seen emaciated men and women many times, forcing themselves to smile and care for their elderly or young family members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sense of responsibility and simple moral feeling of caring for family made them bear more psychological and physical pressure, consciously or unconsciously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the responsibility and obsession of ’caring for family,’ Lann suspected that these people, long exhausted, might collapse at any second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So even though Hacksaw had greatly relaxed food distribution after that night, people still collapsed by the snow-covered tree roots, often with no chance of getting up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann saw human corpses killed by day Demon Spirits or night Demon Spirits in Velen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were emaciated, as if drained of their energy, and died exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The refugees falling on the road resembled those killed by Demon Spirits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the fiercest Demon Spirit could kill twenty people a month?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even the minor ripples outside the battlefield of war cruelly and steadily harvested human lives in this refugee group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three Demon Hunters walked at the end of the refugee group, handling the corpses of the deceased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To prevent them from becoming traces leading back to the refugee group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, the three of them could still speak. But as time went on, they became increasingly silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann had just finished dealing with a woman’s corpse, dressed only in a coarse linen shirt, with no signs of struggle, indicating she wasn’t robbed and froze to death, but someone took her clothes after her death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Into her death-relaxed hands was tucked a crude, poor-quality straw doll, onto which facial features were clumsily drawn with charcoal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strokes were very childish; it wasn’t a curse tool; it looked more like a child’s toy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a gift from a child saying goodbye to their mother...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann thought to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How long have we been in the forest, Geralt?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Lann lowered his head and asked the old master who had also just finished his work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he could get accurate time to the millisecond from the biological brain in his mind, he still asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if resisting the dead silent atmosphere, deliberately finding something to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Four days.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment of distraction, Geralt finally replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have rich experience and knowledge, Geralt. Are you accustomed to this situation? I mean, seeing so much, does your heart remain steady... without fluctuation?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know what you’re asking, if we, who live longer than ordinary folk, become accustomed to suffering and ignore it... But that’s not the case, Lann.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the closest I’ve been to war. I’m almost a hundred years old, living cautiously, never entering a war zone during its stalemates, only taking monster hunting missions after wars end. So my mood is just like yours... crap.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, including the silent Ged, the three fell silent again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-----------------\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, at the inn where four skilled individuals were wiped out, a group of people arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, five individuals calmly entered the inn, now reopened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dakley Sirifant was the leader of the group, or more precisely, the leader of all special force members scattered across Sintra.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, thinking of this identity and the power behind it, Dakley couldn’t help but take a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Status, this wonderful thing, brings pleasure. Even the stench from a latrine seems refreshing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, he was mostly a thug, gang member, murderer, smuggler in the Niflgaard Empire...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally, such people faced gallows for sure, but if one had skills and certain figures required them, exceptions could be made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was first noticed by Stephan Skellen, the Grey Heron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This significant person was a Royal Coroner of Niflgaard and an assistant of the great Emperor Enshir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to his friendship with the Empire’s Chief of Intelligence, Vatier de Liddos, his career swiftly advanced to becoming an important agent under the Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Initially, Dakley thought being noticed by the Grey Heron was the greatest opportunity of his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But surprisingly, nearly half a year ago, he was summoned by the person who promoted the Grey Heron!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vatier saw promise in him as a broker to gather vicious individuals due to his connections with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in alignment with the Emperor’s will, funded him to form an experimental troop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The purpose was to leverage elite flexibility and small target assault advantages to specifically wipe out certain enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the Sintra battlefield, he was specifically instructed—to eliminate Demon Hunters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood why such command existed, because Sintra’s Lann did something significant years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bearing the title of ’Sintra’s’, of course, caution was warranted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he didn’t quite comprehend if such emphasis on a mere Demon Hunter was worthwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although stories were exaggerated, Dakley believed there was no one capable of surviving encirclement by dozens of swordsmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guy likely relied on terrain to achieve impressive results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, upon receiving the command, Dakley kept a stern face of ’the mission is dangerous and critical, but with no hesitation for the Empire’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, internally, he wasn’t very tense. He even pondered extending his commander’s term by sparing Sintra’s Lann upon encountering him.\u003C\u002Fp>",1084,"2026-06-06T10:40:23.767Z",1,"novelbin.me","b463cffff7967148661363f52f5ed2e03445f9f2073cc4c7c530f8c5ddf45224","bear-school-astartes-chapter-588","bear-school-astartes-chapter-521",1043,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbear-school-astartes-cover.jpg"]