Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 870 852. Immortal

“It’s only right to help each other during the journey.”

The old knight seemed to be talking casually and sounded like a decent man.

And obviously, even a wandering knight should know more than a group of lumberjacks. What's more, the way Fordlink was hesitant to speak just now made it obvious that his identity was not simple.

Lan En was thinking about how to get more information from him.

The old knight himself carried the small shield behind his back, held his flame-shaped sword, and used the tip of the sword accurately and steadily to lift the coats of the corpses of the lumberjacks on the ground.

Lan En noticed a strange phenomenon on the upper bodies of these lumberjacks.

Black ‘holes’ appeared on their bodies.

It wasn't the wound left by Fodolink when he killed them just now, but a simple, bottomless 'hole'.

The largest hole was the size of an orange, and the smallest one was like a cherry.

It looks very deep, but you can't see the other side of these lumberjacks' skinny bodies through the hole.

It's as if the exits of these holes are connected to some non-material aspects of them. What appears to others is the entrance connected to the physical plane.

"There are so many [Dark Rings]. It seems they have died many times."

Fodolink said calmly, and then stopped paying attention to these corpses.

With Lan En's hearing, there was no way he could not hear clearly at this distance. But in order to get information, he very skillfully changed his expression to a blank look, and then blinked at the old knight.

Guys who can understand other people's emotions are naturally good at acting.

"What? I didn't hear clearly. What did you just say?"

"I said these undead people have died many times, and their humanity is almost drained from the [Dark Circle]."

Fodolink had a good personality. Looking at Lan En's natural blank expression, he raised his voice slightly and spoke in more detail.

"Looking at their intact clothes, they must have starved to death here many times. After all, walking up the mountain from here, there are many undead people who have turned into wandering souls on the way back to the undead settlement."

"They probably didn't dare to go back, so they died here many times. With the loss of humanity, they became confused, their memory deteriorated, and they even forgot about their own deaths."

Lan En nodded silently, indicating that he heard clearly this time.

After all, if you continue to pretend, you will look too ignorant.

Mentos and Lan sorted out the existing information in their minds: the local name for this kind of person who has been resurrected from the dead is [immortal]. As the name suggests, their bodies seem to have incredible immortality.

No matter whether they are starved to death or hacked to death, nothing can prevent them from coming back to life.

In the process of resurrection from the dead, [humanity] will be lost.

Lan stretched out his tongue and licked his lips. He felt that the "humanity" in Fodolink's mouth might not be the same thing as the "humanity" in the context he was used to every day.

In the daily context that Lan En is familiar with, 'human nature' refers to the comprehensive external expression of a person's empathy, sympathy, and other emotions.

But from Fodolink's point of view, the [human nature] of this world seems to be a tangible indicator of matter and energy.

Without this kind of thing, a person's cognitive ability and memory will be severely damaged, and they may not even remember that they have experienced a painful death.

After the [humanity] of the undead is completely lost, they will become this kind of wandering soul.

What matters is ‘churn’.

Mentos highlighted this word in red.

Because if the resurrection process of the undead consumes their humanity, then as long as they are killed a few more times, they will be fine.

But since it is ‘loss’, it means that the loss of human nature is only a phenomenon that occurs in the process of immortality.

The resurrection of the undead will lose their humanity, but even if their humanity is exhausted, it will not affect their physical resurrection.

The result was a group of lumberjack ghosts lying in front of the two men.

Is this some kind of curse?

In Lan En's knowledge, only curses can do such unreasonable things.

[Immortal]. And it sounds like there are a lot of [Immortal].

Super large curse.

Lan En couldn't help but grind his back molars. This sense of déjà vu, as if he had just arrived in Yanan, made him feel trembling.

The lycanthropy disease in Yannan City was considered by him to be a super-large curse at the time.

Fodolink looked at the corpse on the ground for a while, and his old and deep eyes seemed to have many thoughts and emotions.

But that was all. He shook his head heavily at the corpse, slung the flame-shaped sword behind his back, turned around and prepared to leave.

He waved to the witcher behind him without looking back.

"Come on, I also want to go back to the undead settlement to supply supplies. You can follow me, 'young master'. Although it is poor and chaotic, it can still deal with some undead people who suddenly turned into wandering souls, so it is considered safe."

He mocked Lan En's ignorance of the undead without any malice.

In his eyes, the most immortal person in this world today should really be a pampered and well-protected 'young master'.

After all, Prince Lothric has delayed for too long.

The [Fire Passing Ceremony] should have been held long ago.

Lan En kept up with Fodolink's pace smoothly and asked questions without leaving any trace.

"Just put their bodies here?"

Can't we deal with these undead people?

"Even if they are smashed into pulp and buried underground, the undead will still come back to life. It's useless no matter what."

Fodolink felt that he almost understood Lan En's identity, so he could accept a certain degree of 'ignorance' he showed.

"But I just released a lot of their blood. Losing body fluids can slow down the resurrection process of the undead a lot."

Lan En's brows relaxed a little, and he finally had a way to target the undead.

Bloodletting? Then my [Air Blade] must be considered a professional counterpart.

The 'immortality' of the undead is not their fault, but their fault lies in the fact that after they die and become inhumane, they become wandering souls with indiscriminate and strong impulses to attack.

Killing ordinary people is considered killing. But if the people killed were also immortals, the result would be like the group of lumberjacks Lan En faced just now.

The more wandering souls kill, the more they kill. It's like a mad disease spread by killing people.

In the end, if it can't be contained.

Lan En and Mentos imagined the scene together.

Although the knights in this world seem to be extraordinary, the basis of the feudal dynasty's rule is ultimately a large number of civilians.

Judging from the organizational power of the feudal era, if the undead ghosts broke out, it would probably be like destroying the country, right?