Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1326 1298. Church Town

Tracing the traces with keen vision, Lan En found a blood-stained pendant at the location where Ludwig just started to deform in less than two minutes.

[Shining Sword Hunter Badge]

Ludwig is the [First Hunter of the Church].

Now that Old Yharnam is about to be destroyed, even if it is out of the need to appease the survivors, he will definitely not be a disposable, disposable item of the Healing Church.

According to Lan En's understanding of the "future" Yharnam.

Ludwig was actually still active for a while after Old Yharnam was destroyed by the beast disaster, and finally he was "missing" in the official statement of the Healing Church.

So, Ludwig came down to block the passage between Old Yharnam and Church Town, and he didn't hesitate to slaughter. But after completing the task, no matter how uneasy he was, he would still return to Church Town.

The Healing Church must have arranged a response to open the door.

It's just that in this nightmare, Ludwig's beast transformation time was greatly advanced for some reason, and he turned into a beast on this night.

Lan En, who knew that Ludwig should have proof of the connection through the history of ‘future’ Yharnam, found the badge directly.

[Shining Sword Hunter Badge], unlike the [Sword Hunter Badge] that every hunter in the church has, this is a mark that only Ludwig himself and his direct hunters can have.

Without a doubt, it is the thing that best represents his identity.

Maria quickly brought the trembling Adeline back here.

The Blood Saint was already full of fear at this time. In just one day and one night, the Yharnam she was familiar with and the Healing Church she was familiar with became like this.

She hasn’t collapsed yet, which is considered to be a strong tolerance.

“I’m thinking about whether to place her first.” Maria whispered to Lan En, with a cold expression and a worried tone, “She can’t bear it anymore.”

“But where is the safe place now? Where do we have time?”

Lan En responded to Maria as he led the way into the closed passage in the mountain.

He also frowned. It's a good idea to let Adeline find a safe place to stay first, but the key is... this nightmare is almost over!

"No, I'm fine!" Suddenly, Adeline, who was following them, interrupted.

As if not to worry about the two people in front, she grinned an ugly smile, but her hand was always covering her heart anxiously.

"In this situation, you are going to save more people, don't worry about me. If I encounter danger, I will find a place to hide!"

"Adeline." Maria called the name of the Holy Maiden of Blood in a low voice.

During this time in the research hall, in addition to taking care of those patients, only Adeline was among a group of clergy, which would not make her feel uncomfortable.

Lan En didn't speak, he just walked up silently, and people didn't know what he was thinking.

"Boom~"

Walking all the way up to the stone door that had been closed, the Healing Church didn't know what technology it used. Lan En just brought the [Shining Sword Hunter Badge], and the door opened automatically.

"Church Town." Looking at the open stone door, Adeline sighed in a low voice. "Oh my God."

Yes, sighed.

Because the light and shadow reflected from the open stone door. It is also orange-red fire!

Lan En and the other three walked out of the closed passage made of rocks.

When they arrived here, they saw how the fire that ignited the whole of Yharnam came about.

A lava flow flowed down from nowhere, directly down the mountain, all the way to the location of Old Yharnam.

And this church town, which should have been the safest shelter tonight, did not look safe and peaceful at this time.

The firelight is not so bad, because the church town has adopted a large number of stone and steel structures under the management of the Healing Church, and there are very few wooden structures.

The flowing lava is not a diffuse random turbulence, but flows directly down under the mountain and gravity.

So although it looks like the firelight is not small, in fact, from Lan En's position, there are only dozens of people wearing Healing Church uniforms, busying around the lava flow to prevent fire.

And more people.

"Bang!!!"

A loud explosion!

In the direction of the Healing Church Cathedral in the center of the church town.

The luxurious and heavy door of the cathedral was smashed open!

The clergy who was desperately holding the door outside, and an old hunter who broke the door from the inside and flew out, were thrown far away before landing heavily.

From the door of the cathedral, a bright tongue of fire licked out from the crack of the door.

The clergy standing outside the church seemed to have received the order long ago.

After the church door was opened by the flames, they all turned their heads away, without looking into the cathedral at all.

It was just that under the special echo structure of the church, the distant and painful roar of the beast echoed from the church door layer by layer for a long distance.

Two more clergymen in black robes hurried to the door of the cathedral, and it seemed that they still wanted to close the door and the scene inside at the same time.

The old hunter who was knocked out of the cathedral stood up tremblingly in the distance.

Half of his skin was burnt, and the windbreaker was burned to the skin by the flames, almost turning into a paste.

But his swaying body seemed to be completely unconcerned, and he just twitched his nose desperately, like a hound that smelled blood.

He only had eyes for the cathedral gate, and he was hunched over, his tongue frantically and unconsciously hanging outside his lips, approaching the cathedral.

Not long ago, the [Beast Cutter] that Lan En and Maria had dealt with was in the hands of the old hunter, in the shape of a whip blade with the blade spread out.

The two clergymen who were blocking the door and were knocked back with the old hunter were now pressed on the hideous and slender whip blade, and the old hunter seemed not to see it, or he didn't care if he saw it.

"Ci La La!"

The whip blade was recycled with sparks under the action of the mechanism, and once again formed the appearance of a thick and heavy machete.

But the two clergymen who were pressed on the whip blade before and still had signs of breathing were cut into several large pieces in this process.

They fell to the ground with a crackling sound.

The old hunter didn't care, but the clergymen present didn't seem to care either.

They were all wholeheartedly concerned about the situation inside the cathedral.

The out-of-control killing of the old hunter and the lava that had not yet drained away in the church town were nothing compared to the things and things that happened in the cathedral!

That was a truly great discovery! There was a child born from the superior!

There was the blood and corpse of the Son of God!

The slight smell of blood leaked out when the door was opened, and everyone who was busy putting out the fire, blocking the door, evacuating, and monitoring the surroundings couldn't help but look up and twitch their noses.

This smell of blood was too sweet and too tempting for the people of Yharnam.

But the self-control of the clergy was better than that of the old hunter who was filling himself with blood bottles all day long.

Even the two clergy who went up to block the door had to lower their heads with difficulty at this time to prevent themselves from looking inside.

The old hunter sniffed, drooling like a hungry hound, and rushed into the church through the crack of the door with his severely burned body!

The door slammed shut, but then it was shaken by the impact from the inside out.

There was a loud "bang bang" sound, dull and monotonous like a countdown to a disaster.

When Lan En and Maria saw these scenes for the first time, they immediately realized that the "key" they were looking for was in the cathedral!

That church was not unfamiliar to Lan En. In the "future" of Yharnam, he killed his agent Amelia in the cathedral.

In silence, the Blood Noble and the Demon Hunter looked at each other, and then they placed Adeline in the entrance passage that had been closed again.

The two of them rushed towards the Gothic cathedral standing not far away!

Lan wanted to truly end this nightmare, while Maria couldn't wait to find out what happened in the Healing Church and whether her teacher knew about it.

In any case, their goal was to end this disaster!

Many people from the Healing Church saw them on the road.

Those clergy, mentally retarded giants who did manual labor, and tall descendants of Sumeru with pale skin.

But Maria didn't care at first.

She was a hunter with some reputation, and had even received an invitation when she was in the cathedral meeting before.

The Healing Church was very familiar with her.

Now that the cathedral is so chaotic and the church town is so chaotic, it is normal for her to go over and see the situation, isn't it?

"Bang!"

The gunpowder burned and expanded in the barrel, and the mercury bullet almost brushed the edge of Maria's one-shoulder cloak and hit the brick and stone ground.

And the one who fired this shot was a clergyman of the Healing Church.

This shot seemed to be a signal, telling everyone that someone who did not belong to the church town appeared here and hoped to reach the cathedral!

Almost the next moment!

"Ah!!!"

The mentally retarded giant who obeyed the orders of the Healing Church roared, waving the tools and bricks in his hands and rushed towards the two people!

Maria used the [Acceleration Technique] to disappear erratically. When she appeared again, the blade of the [Falling Leaf] long knife had pierced the mentally retarded giant's belly from the side, and the tip of the knife came out from the other side of the belly.

Blood splashed on the stone bricks.

"What is going on?!"

Maria exclaimed.

She was not surprised that the Healing Church would kill. Following Lan En's footsteps in the lower level of Old Yharnam, she has gradually recognized the true background of the Healing Church as an organization.

She was surprised that people here should not attack her as soon as they saw her!

She is a serious hunter, even if she came up from the lower level, it is normal!

But Lan En's eyes looking at the cathedral became brighter and brighter.

"Isn't this clear?"

The demon hunter raised his arm without looking back, and a mercury bullet hit his arm armor and bounced straight away!

"Something happened in that church that cannot be known to anyone! They didn't even allow the clergy outside to look inside! They certainly wouldn't let anyone outside the church see it alive!"

As if the hostile will had been activated, the healing church staff, who were already busy, now attacked the two people even more frantically.

"I'll take care of it! You do what you should do!" Maria swung her long sword and chopped off the head of a clergyman behind Lan En. "Don't worry about me! I'm going to find my teacher and ask him clearly!"

This was originally what Maria wanted to do first after so many unexpected changes.

So Lan En didn't say much, but took a deep look at the blood noble with white hair and one-shoulder cloak fluttering under the tricorn hat.

"Whether you find someone or not, don't go too far, Maria!"

"What do you mean?"

"Anyway, don't go too far. If you go too far, you won't be able to come back!"

Lan En didn't explain more. He straightened his body and rushed towards the cathedral!