MTL - Astartes of the Bear School-Chapter 21 Skill Analysis

 Chapter 21 21. Skill Analysis

With two "pops", Lan and Bernie jumped from the boat into the muddy beach.

“This is the place where the fish are more abundant on the outskirts of the fishing ground. It’s easy to find water ghosts here. Those beasts don’t even bother to avoid people now.”

Lan En's nose flapped, and the vapor-rich wind was mixed with all kinds of fishy smells.

 The smell of the tidal flats is not good, it smells like fish, blood, and sea.

If it were a pampered man, his breakfast would be free at the first breath.

Through the witcher's mutated senses, he felt that these smells were wrapping around him like a colorful halo.

 Finally, after careful identification, he selected his target.

—A disgusting smell that resembles rotting fish, shrimp, and seaweed mixed together.

 This is the smell of water ghosts.

 After focusing on a smell, the air where the smell is distributed is like a streamer, "highlighted" in the witcher's field of vision.

 The rest of the messy odors are filtered out.

Of course, being able to find the correct traces so easily is also due to the frequent activities of this group of water ghosts, which makes the smell here overly fresh.

Logically speaking, these smells alone are enough for Lan En to find the group of water ghosts directly.

 But he did not move immediately. Instead, he turned around and asked Bernie who had already begun to take off the bow and arrow from his back.

 “Can you track those water ghosts?”

Bernie glanced at the young man in surprise, isn't this your job?

 But he didn’t say much.

“These are obvious footprints, as well as the broken scales of the water ghost, but any individual will do.”

  "." The Mentos in his mind sent out a series of ellipses of unknown meaning.

Lan En looked at the beach in front of him expressionlessly.

The black and smelly mud is dotted with all kinds of strange and messy marks.

 Caused by wild beasts, drifting objects, and water ghosts.

 To those who have no tracking experience, this is just a messy mud field.

It is impossible to distinguish the scales of a water ghost from the scales of a fish, and the so-called "obvious footprints" cannot be seen at all under the messy traces.

　　I am a human being and I am really sorry!

 The corners of Lan En's mouth twitched faintly.

“Very good, I need to adjust my combat status, and I’ll leave the tracking to you.”

 There wasn’t much explanation, and it happened that Bernie didn’t want to ask any more questions. Anyway, this job was actually very easy for him.

So the man wearing long leather gloves walked forward and began to naturally survey various traces and use this to plan the direction of travel.

 In Lan En's mind, Mentos began to work according to Lan En's plan.

“New analysis project-[Trace Detection]

 Skill source-[Fisherman Bernie]

 In information integration and analysis, the current progress is -1%. "

"The results of the analysis will be passed on to me in the evening. I don't want my head to be as swollen as a Coke bottle when I deal with the water ghost."

 “Roger that, sir.”

 Mentos’ intelligent voice is as smooth as the flow.

 The process of knowledge transfer by the intelligent brain cannot be changed because of lack of authority. Painful for sure.

 But it’s okay to choose a time to suffer.

The exchange in his mind was rapid, and Bernie was still looking down at the mud.

 Lan Enze didn’t understand at all why he could always pick up on all kinds of subtle traces.

For example, seeing a shallow scratch on the mud, or finding clues in the already messy pile of footprints, and then adjusting the direction immediately.

 The adjustment in that direction was much more precise than the scent he caught with his witcher's sense of smell.

 Lan En followed and sighed. Extraordinary senses also require knowledge and experience to use them more efficiently.

Every qualified witcher is an out-and-out master of pursuit.

Although I don’t regret killing my teacher with my own hands, I still need to make up for the lack of experience and ability. In a world with backward productivity, even the skills of butchers cutting meat and coopers hoisting barrels are passed down from family to family, or can only be learned by apprentices who have to pay and put in effort.

　　Not to mention the ability to feed a large family such as hunting and tracking.

 But fortunately, Lan En’s good partner allows him to extract and summarize nutritious knowledge just by looking at it.

“Your tracking method seems to be different from mine over there.”

Following behind Bernie, Lan tried his best to pretend to be knowledgeable.

 No matter whether it is right or not, you have enough confidence anyway!

“Just like just now, you were looking at the scratch on the mud, and we usually focus on the mess next to it.”

Bernie recalled the "messy" in the young man's mouth.

Aren’t those signs of dead fish or rotten meat, dragged into the hole by crabs?

 What use is this for tracking water ghosts?

 Bernie has doubts, but he doesn’t dare to say anything.

After all, who knows what the tracking skills of other witchers are?

Perhaps they can use crabs to tell fortunes?

“The scratches are the marks made by the water ghost’s toes on the ground. There are webs between their fingers, and the marks are obviously different.”

 Bernie answered the questions honestly.

“[Trace Detection] is undergoing skill calibration

 In the process of information integration and analysis, the current progress is -9%. "

“Sir, I suggest you keep trying to ask questions.”

 The sound of Mentos made Lan feel happy.

Of course, the brain can extract a skill from a person just by observing it, but if the skill holder explains the skill information, the progress bar will of course accumulate faster.

 But Lan En was not prepared to keep asking.

Pure and innocent.

This tracking process is not long. When we reach a small **** about 200 meters away from the landing place, the chirping cry of the water ghost can be easily heard by ordinary people.

 After crossing this slope, you should be able to see groups of monsters.

Bernie turned to look at Lan En, his meaning was obvious -

 Then it’s your job.

The young man was completely different from the previous tracking process and stepped forward without hesitation.

The sharp silver sword of the Xiong School was unsheathed with a low and gentle sound of metal friction.

The gentle voice meant that the hand holding the sword was very stable, which gave Bernie a sense of relief.

"Put away your bow. There are only five water ghosts in total. I can deal with them. We have never cooperated before, and your arrows may interfere with me."

So Bernie put the bow and arrows back on his back again.

He had already doubted Lan En's tracking skills along the way, but now that the young man directly stated the exact number of these water ghosts, he completely threw away his doubts.

　　The young man walked leisurely across the hill, making gestures with his free left hand in front of him.

The golden magic light flashed away, and a magic rune of the same color began to wander around Lan En's body.

 “Queen.”

Lan En, who has completely changed his clothes, plans to use a more radical combat style this time.

The good equipment gave him a lot of confidence.

In this case, the ball-shaped [Quen] of applied school knowledge is not suitable, but the original version is more advantageous.

　　A few screams down the **** suddenly became silent. Five pairs of dead fish eyes without eyelids stared at the figure slowly walking down the slope.

Then

 “Wow!!”*5

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 (End of this chapter)