Chapter 152 – Knights (3)

“Go and bring the lord.”

However, the knight who heard Dojin’s words tilted his head as if he had heard it wrong.

“…… What?”

“Are you deaf? I told you to bring the lord.”

“You’re a big adventurer. A real knight is on a different level from the candidate you defeated.”

“Ah- that’s right.”

Dojin cleared his ears and let the knight’s words flow through one ear.
That gesture was easily understandable even to the knight, so the knight immediately started running towards Dojin.

Indeed- I wonder if it is true that all knights become level 2, and I rushed at a speed that was incomparable to other candidates…….

‘This should be enough.’

Dojin is a superhuman who has already reached level 3. He was even one of the strongest in the world, with Level 4 just around the corner.

It would be even funnier if he struggled against a level 2 knight at most.

Poo-! The knight who was hit by the back of his nose his withstood the impact of his head his being bent backwards, then moved forward and swung his sword at Dojin.

However, Do-jin lightly stepped on the footwork to avoid his sword his, and continued to strike the knight’s face with his fist.

Puck, puck, puck-!

Emilia, who was watching from her side of her, took pity on the knight, and a one-sided assault ensued—not long after, the knight, whose teeth were all chipped and bleeding profusely, grabbed the back of his nose and started screaming .

“Moore-! Haha! Hugofuja!”

The knight who shouted quickly turned his back and left this place at the speed of light. Seeing her like that, Emilia tried to chase after her knight, but Do-jin stopped her like that.

“…… Is it okay if I don’t follow you?”

“It’s okay. I will come back anyway.”

“No, isn’t it a problem to come back?”

“Why?”

“Seeing you go like that, you must have taken someone to catch us, didn’t you?”

Emilia looked at Dojin with a worried expression. Just because he was Dojin, he wasn’t the strongest or invincible.

There were numerous strong men stronger than him in the world, and the weak used to develop equipment to catch the strong in their own way.

I don’t know if Dojin becomes a level 4 strong person who can be counted on one hand even if he scours the kingdom, but his life could be threatened until then.

“No matter how strong you are…….”

“It’s okay.”

“…… Can I trust you?”

“What, do you doubt Master? Shall we do one more sparring?”

“No- that’s not it…….”

She was full of worries, but she was more afraid of her fists in front of her nose than the dangers of the distant future.

She washed away her worries at Do-jin’s words and waited for the article to come.

Soon after, the knight led the knights and reappeared in front of the two.

They built a siege in an instant, watching the candidates who fainted as a group and Do-jin sitting carefree between them.

Among the knights who made up the siege, the knight whose face had been smashed by the former Do-jin came out with a recovered face.

“Adventurer-. I will arrest you on charges of assaulting and attempting to kill a knight and obstructing the execution of public affairs. If you do not comply with arrest, you may be penalized and-.”

“I asked to bring the lord, did you bring your friends?”

“Ha, the lord is not someone you can meet just because you want to meet him…….”

“So, did you think you could beat me with this number of people and brought me here?”

“…… It’s very arrogant, but that ends there.”

The knight said so and moved out of the way for the best power they had brought. The paladin who came out from among the knights looked at Dojin with a hardened expression that could be seen even through the helmet of his.

While the paladin was solidified, the knight began to line up the history of the paladin.

“As for this person, he is a level 4 paladin who is in charge of escorting the paladin and current saintess as well as the champion of the Holy Kingdom. It’s Miss Charlotte!”

“…… Only.”

“Do you think you can beat this person no matter how hard an adventurer struggles!”

“…… Stop.”

“Yes? Oh, sorry. Holy Knight. I don’t even know the subject….”

Hearing Charlotte’s muttering, the knight slipped back, thinking that he had offended the paladin by being too mean.

However, the reason Charlotte was so hard was not because of the article. No, in a way, it was because of the article…….

Dojin saw Charlotte looking at him and her bright smile her blossomed. She was hidden from view by the helmet, but she could feel her expression her decaying.

“Charlotte. Long time no see. Is the saintess well?”

“…… Don’t call me out there so casually.”

“What, what between me and you?”

“…… ?”

And around that time, the knights also began to intuit something strange. It was because Do-jin’s way of speaking was the opposite of Charlotte being frightened at seeing Do-jin, rather than being frightened at seeing Charlotte.

“Um, what are you doing…… ?”

One of the more discerning knights cautiously opened his mouth to Dojin.

Dojin smiled and looked at her article that she had assaulted.

“Me? Knight assault, attempted murder.”

At Do-jin’s words that he had no intention of telling them, they started to tremble. It’s because I realized that things were turning out of the ordinary.

Still, she seemed very difficult to apprehend him without Charlotte’s help. According to the remarks of the knight who came in full swing, wasn’t he a strong man who reached at least level 3?

Dojin stopped in place and smiled at the trembling knights.

“What are you doing? Do you want me to call the lord?”

He didn’t say it three times. On that day, the knights of Yeongju Castle started running until their feet were sweaty.

* * *

In the middle of the day, the lord, who was working in his office his, heard a really absurd sound from a vassal who came to visit him, and was on the verge of going crazy.

“…… What?”

“I-I mean…… Someone is calling.”

“Who is that?”

“Uh, um- that’s fine….”

“A guy who didn’t even know who the bastard called a knight called me, so he told me to come and go?”

The lord looked at his knight with enthusiasm. The knight did not know what to do and he began to break out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, he still had something to say.

“Yeah, but-! It seems you are an acquaintance of the saintess!”

“…… The saintess?”

Only then did the lord, thinking that the story might be worth listening to, put down his anger and listen to the knight’s story slowly.

He somehow managed to hold back his anger in the part where he started a fight with the adventurer and in the part where he was beaten backwards.

The adventurer was actually an acquaintance of the saintess, and when she heard that even the saintess’ escort, Charlotte, could not restrain herself, she eventually exploded in anger.

“These guys! You should have been more careful!”

Poo-!

Hit by something thrown by the lord, the knight lowered his head, feeling his forehead slightly torn.

No, how the hell do you know that Do-jin is such a great person? It’s not like they wear ‘I’m an acquaintance of a saint’ written on their foreheads.

As the knight remained silent, the lord sighed and sat back down to calm his excitement.

“…… Yes, he must have been brought to the castle?”

“I-that’s… He is in front of the dungeon.”

“What? Why!”

“He said he would not leave unless the lord came in person…….”

“Such a crazy- such an important story should have been told from the beginning!”

What an acquaintance of the saintess. Charlotte, who was rumored to have a close relationship with the saintess and her sister as an aide to the saintess, was also a stumped opponent.

If it was an acquaintance of that level, it might be nonsense, but she might be the saintess’s lover.

‘I can’t believe it… If so….’

He was a talent to be secured and protected at all costs. That alone would be the same as gaining a saintess.

The lord, who rode a wagon and rushed to the front of the dungeon, found Dojin sitting on a box in front of the dungeon entrance and the candidates kneeling in front of him and raising their hands as a group, and stopped.

“…… What kind of situation is that?”

“Well, actually, we’re doing well…….”

“I’m crazy. I wrote these things as vassals.”

Yeongju spat lamentation at his complacent past self and approached Dojin, who was admonishing the knight candidates.

And he let out a slow cough.

“Hmmmm-excuse me.”

“Yes? Ah, it’s finally here.”

“Yes, I am the lord of the Dungeon Spirit, Thunderbolt. Could I ask the teacher’s name?”

“You know what?”

“Haha, then what should I call the teacher…….”

“Why don’t you just call me Adventurer Naburang?”

“Adventurer, I’m a brat…….”

Yeongju chewed those words in his mouth and made eye contact with the knight candidates who were raising their hands behind Dojin.

Or, I wondered if they might have touched Do-jin’s heart like this…….

The candidates, who thought everything was resolved after seeing the lord, realized that the situation only got worse when they saw the lord complaining to Dojin.

“Ahaha, how can such a great person like you…….”

“Awesome? Why me?”

“-Well, aren’t you the adventurer who leads our city?”

He began to gently scratch Do-jin’s itchy parts with the conversational skills he had trained for decades. The most important thing in politics was to find the other person’s lacking part.

Now, Dojin was dissatisfied with something. Even if you don’t know what it is, it’s enough if you know that you are dissatisfied.

“Did the knights and savages make you uncomfortable?”

“I’m a knight, but I’m still your subordinate?”

“Everything I can live on is thanks to taxes, and 90% of that tax comes from the manastones that adventurers bring. In fact, it means that you adventurers are feeding me.”

“…… Whatever it is.”

‘This is it.’

Yeongju, who found Dojin’s weakness in an instant, began to slowly bake Dojin.

“Well, with your skills, you can become a knight at any time. The article is great, but that’s what non-talented people say.”

“—Stop it, I’m tired of hearing flattery.”

However, at what point did he cross the line, Do-jin suddenly cut off Young-joo’s words.

Do-jin, who raised his knee and rested his chin on it, looked at Yeong-ju. Gulp- Yeongju also realized that Dojin was about to get to the point.

“It’s nothing special- these guys are leveling up in the dungeon, but they didn’t ask for my permission and pretended to be the owner of the dungeon.”

“…… Yes? What is that?”

However, the words that came out of Dojin’s mouth were incomprehensible and absurd.

Acting like the owner of the dungeon? Where is the owner of the dungeon?

But what he said next was something that completely shattered the lord’s common sense.

“So, this dungeon. Mine.”

“…… Is that an idiomatic expression?”

“No, literally.”

Dojin stretched out his hand toward the dungeon once again.
The entrance to the dungeon protruded like the entrance to a cave, and it was connected to the first floor.

Jagoro, from the 1st floor to the 30th floor, all under the control of Dojin.
The entrance was no exception.

Whoa….

The entrance to the dungeon, which had never changed before, began to change.

“This dungeon is mine.”

At that, the lord opened his mouth wide and looked behind him.