Bear School Astartes

Chapter 888: Chapter 871: From Foot Soldier to Cavalry (3000)

Archbishop Louis temporarily set aside his observations of the abnormal phenomenon, but Lann had to admit that these Church Knights were indeed quite skilled.

They were indeed worthy of being awarded King Ausloes’s personal crest.

The Subterranean Bishops who were within the area covered by the falling giant seemed as fragile as eggs beneath a stone.

Those who ran fast could escape the crushing range.

But those who ran slower could only hear the muffled sound of their bones being crushed in the giant’s body, followed by the ’squelch’ of broken bones piercing through flesh and spraying blood as they were crushed to the extreme.

In this world, giants held the status of slaves. Due to years of labor and grime, they seemed to have developed a thick, bluish layer of dead skin.

After being knocked down by Lann, the giant’s entire back was stained a deep, almost black blood-red.

But what about those Church Knights who were originally climbing up the giant?

”Thud.”

The massive, solid body was lifted unconsciously by the Church Knights underneath it.

The knights, like iron towers, silently raised the giant’s limbs pressing on them and walked out from underneath.

These Church Knights generally had two types of standard equipment.

One type was the Shield Hammer Knight, equipped with a massive tower shield larger than an average person and a Hundred-page Hammer with a head as big as a human head and a length of one and a half meters.

If placed in the hands of a common person, merely lifting the hammer would likely exhaust all their strength.

But in the hands of the Church Knights, it was a perfect one-handed war hammer.

The other type was the Great Sword Knight.

These Church Knights perhaps followed the same combat philosophy as Lann once did: to crush their targets with explosive heavy weapons.

They bore a Greatsword on their shoulders, with no other armament.

The Greatsword was fifty centimeters wide, with an overall length roughly level with the knights’ chins.

Given their similar physique to Lann’s, it should be over two meters long.

And at this moment, these silent and towering knights were emerging from beneath the giant’s corpse.

Then they climbed back up, approaching the Demon Hunter atop the giant’s head!

[Muddy Stream·Destruction] was drawn out of the giant’s skull.

The sword, belonging to the Extinct Dragon, was reluctant to part with the nourishing flesh and blood from the corpse, with the black mist-like Dragon Attribute Energy lingering like a tenuous thread connected to the massive wound on the corpse’s head.

It was as if a tiger was licking the remains off a bone.

The friction between the mail and plate armor turned rapid, as the leading Great Sword Church Knight’s armor clattered due to the hasty steps before engaging.

In this world, knights were accustomed to fighting in silence.

Even if corrupted and distorted by Profound belief, the Church Knights entered the deadly battlefield without a word.

The first Great Sword Church Knight to close in swung his Greatsword from the right shoulder down to the left waist.

This was a diagonal slash targeting a low stance, executed in a very standard manner, even to the point of being rigid.

Facing an opponent of similar size, opening with such a tactic made Lann suspect these knights hadn’t fought much against similarly sized opponents.

The Demon Hunter merely took a light step back, lifting his leading right foot, allowing the diagonal slash to pass beneath.

With Lann’s current swordsmanship skills, he almost never made any inefficient moves in a sword duel.

Evasion practically became the prelude to an attack.

As he lifted his front leg, [Muddy Stream·Destruction] was also raised above his head.

Using a stomp to enhance the downward strike’s power was a characteristic of the Iwami Style·One-Character Slash technique.

It fits perfectly now!

”Boom!”

First, the impressive stomp resounded!

The solid stone ground caved under Lann’s stomp, forming a cobweb-like depression!

The sword blade followed immediately!

”Clang~”

The unique structure inside the Greatsword made the collision sound of [Muddy Stream·Destruction] distinctively recognizable.

But this time, the collision was unexpectedly less imposing than the previous stomp.

Lann widened his eyes slightly in surprise, looking at the Church Knight in front of him.

This knight... was interesting.

Lann’s sword was larger and more powerful than the Church Knight’s.