Astartes of the Bear School Chapter 259

Chapter 259 258. Heretics

After the side hall of Xianfeng Temple, there is a mountain road with few buildings. After passing this road, you can officially enter the Buddhist building complex of Xianfeng Temple.

After the four people walked out of the side hall, Kurokasa no Raccoon consciously jumped to the roof.

 He had to go one step ahead to investigate the situation and eliminate the ninjas stationed there.

 But before he left, Lan En told him that if something went wrong, he should rendezvous immediately.

 The ninjas in the front hall were cleared out, but any professional ninja would be alerted by this phenomenon.

 Three warriors with low movement efficiency were traveling on conventional roads.

Old Robert was as lifeless as an empty armor, and he hurried forward dully.

 Lan En's face was calm, but the witcher's extraordinary senses were still operating.

His entire field of vision is now in an unusually vivid, high-saturation state.

As for Isshin Ashina, who was walking at the end, he was a skinny old man with a tengu face, but his leisurely attitude looked like he was out on an outing.

But the fingertips that tapped on the handle of the knife at his waist have always maintained a high degree of sensitivity.

If he thought about it, the next time he tapped his fingertips, the gold and steel dragon sword would directly burst out with an exaggerated airflow blade drawing technique.

Things did not go as Lan En expected. When a few people walked out of the side hall, they were immediately surrounded by alert monks and ninjas.

 On the contrary, the surroundings were eerily quiet.

 “Take it easy, Lan.”

 Ashina Isshin, who has experienced many battles, is more experienced than the young demon hunter expert in this situation.

 The old man smiled like an old cat about to burst into a mouse's nest and kill.

“The terrain is not spacious enough now, and the enemy's numerical advantage is not easy to use. They will meet us further behind, in a larger terrain.”

Lan En secretly turned off his demon hunter senses that were running at high power.

“So, we have to fight them at a place chosen by the enemy? Traps and positions are all decided by the enemy?”

 “What if?” The old man smiled nonchalantly. "Isn't this how 'siege warfare' is fought? If you want to achieve the final victory, you have to crush the enemy's traps and countermeasures one by one. Are you afraid?"

“It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that it's not straightforward and elegant enough.” Lan En twisted his neck indifferently.

“But now we are in Ashina, Japan. You are the local expert and you have the final say.”

The three of them have reached a wooden corridor built on the cliff.

 Going further, there is a large open space, and then there is the Xianfeng Temple complex.

The footsteps on the wooden floor were steady and steady, and the sunlight shone slantly on the three of them from the grating of the wooden corridor.

There were no birds chirping in the environment, and the black raccoon dog's signal of safety, which was supposed to report once every ten minutes, was gone.

Lan En looked at the end of the wooden corridor, the dividing line between shadow and sunlight, and his left hand had already grasped the edge of the scabbard on his waist.

 Ashina Isshin's smile got bigger and bigger under his mask.

 Old Robert's posture changed from a slow walk to a trot.

 Going out from the exit of the wooden corridor, there were no twists and turns.

The three people continued to walk towards the building complex in the large open terrain without any setbacks.

 However, when the three of them walked to the center of the land.

More than fifty flying props, with the sound of howling wind, were projected toward the three of them like an overwhelming force!

Old Robert yelled: "You devils!"

 After that, he opened his arms wide and let his armor directly catch these projectiles. The armor-making craftsmanship in Europe in this world far exceeds that in Japan. Apart from the impact, these projectiles cannot hurt Old Robert in the armor at all.

A dazzling sword light suddenly flashed out of Ashina Isshin's scabbard.

This sword light drew a flexible arc in the air, and several sparks were hit in the arc, and then all the projectiles heading towards the Tengu-faced old man were bounced away.

Even if you are only wearing cloth or raincoat, no matter how sharp the flying knife is, it means there is no harm.

 Lan's movements are more like a combination of the two.

 The fighting knife in his hand easily deflected these long-range weapons. The other hand took advantage of the sound of wind whistling in the air and grabbed it.

 After the sound of projectiles subsided, the witcher looked at the weapon he had caught.

 That is a Buddhist Buddha wheel half the size of a palm.

  Originally, it was a symbol of solemnity and enlightenment used in Buddhist rituals and decorations. But in the hands of the monks of Xianfeng Temple today, the compassionate Buddha Wheel has become a long-range hidden weapon.

Now, even the materialistic Lan En couldn't help but curse in a low voice with an expressionless face.

 “This is really an evil heretic!”

　　Throwing the Buddhist wheel from his hand, Ashina Isshin chuckled.

"Well said, 'evil demons and heretics'. These monks have already violated the highest precepts in Buddhism. So even if we kill them all, the Bodhisattva will not blame them."

 The precepts of Buddhism are nothing more than "killing, stealing, sexual immorality, and lying". That is: killing, stealing, sexual conduct, and lying.

And higher than these four major precepts, even higher than all evil deeds in the Buddhist context, it can be called the biggest and worst karma, that is, falling into heretics!

 From a believer to a disbeliever.

 From those who believe in Buddhism to those who believe in others.

 In Xianfeng Temple today, the monks believe more in doing good deeds and cultivating the afterlife than in the Buddha. There is no doubt that they believe in the practical 'immortality'!

On the surrounding buildings, rocks, and branches of this open space, dozens or hundreds of people, high and low, stood up.

Just like what Kurokasa no Tanuki explained, among them were the Ranpo people, the monks of Senhoji Temple, and the man in the hat holding a double-headed naginata.

It seems that because of the comments of Lan En and Ashina Isshin, these people who were still dressed as monks finally became angry and couldn't even maintain their dead expressions.

 A monk wearing a turban and a veil, with a few bamboo dragonflies tied around his waist shouted loudly.

"How dare people in this mortal world make arrogant remarks about outsiders?! You broke into my Xianfeng Temple today. I think you are the evil heretics who want to destroy Buddhist practice!"

 “Kill them!”

 The light body leaps from high places and then falls.

The shadow of the person even temporarily blocked the sun, shrouding the bodies of the three people in darkness.

 But there is no doubt that all three people said that this is what they came for!

 “Devil! Die!”

Old Robert's body is half-hunched, making people unable to believe that a body wearing full plate armor can lower its center of gravity so low.

 At this time, in terms of bone and muscle structure, he is more like a beast!

The giant sword roared, and it didn't even wait for the figure to fall down, and rushed directly towards a tree as thick as someone's thigh!

The giant steel sword was almost not used to chop, but directly smashed the tree!

 The bodies of Luanbo who were standing on the tree shook and fell down.

Ashina Isshin's gold and steel dragon sword was put back into its sheath at some point. At this time, he lowered his body and assumed an Iai posture.

The demon hunter took out a bottle of [Thunder] that can increase muscle explosive power from the alchemy leather bag on his waist, and drank it.

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