Chapter 171 – Return

#171.

“Lie. Here’s a free knight’s card. From now on, you can use it as your ID.”
“Thank you. Arisha.”

When Arisha looked at her ID, she saw that it had ‘True’ written on it. From now on, I will become the wandering knight True.

“And I’m sorry about the price for the mana stones, but I have to pick them up from the capital in about three weeks.”
“All right. I’ll come before it’s too late Just wait a little bit.”

She said Daegeum as an excuse, but she couldn’t help but not know that there was a hidden meaning behind it that she wanted to see me again soon.
When she mentions it openly, Arisha blushes and shakes her head.

“…That’s not what you mean.”
“Not really?”
“Uh, anyway, I have to come back in three weeks. Got it?”
“All right. I will definitely come.”

He gently kissed her eyes, filled with regret and lingering regret, and then fell.

After saying goodbye to Arisha, Hisha, who had retreated to one side of her this time, approached and embraced her.

“Lie. You have to be careful. Call me if anything happens.”
“Huh. My sister is doing well too. Call me anytime if you want to see it.”
“Huh. Love you.”
“Me too.”

Jjook!

After kissing lightly with Hisha, we left the castle gate after being seen off by the two.

“Sister. Then let’s go quickly!”
“Huh. Even my father will be happy to see you, even if you don’t show it.”
“Well.. Is that person?”
“Pu-huh! Let’s go.”

After making jokes about Lucas, we immediately left the capital and headed for Frencia Street.
We hurried our steps while looking at the city walls that had become dots in an instant.

When I entered a mountain road full of vegetation after passing through a wide open meadow.

─Kyaaaaa!!

My ears were torn and screams rang out.
At the voice of desperate yet earnestness, I spurred on a tree branch to gain altitude and stopped in my footsteps.

“Eris.”
“Huh. Let’s go.”

Although our place is on the outskirts, it is a land within the influence of the Frencia family.
It was something Eris, the heir to the ducal family, could not overlook.

Turning around, we climbed higher and looked in all directions to find out who might be in need.

You can see black smoke rising from the town in the distance.
All the wooden fences at the entrance were broken, and in front of them, bound people were being loaded into carriages.

“Eris. I’ll go first!”
“Huh!”

Spa Papa Papat—!

Using Space Leap in succession, he quickly narrowed the distance to the village.
The goblins giggling while forcibly confining people to the wagons didn’t notice me at all.

There were also goblin warriors who could use sword skills in between, but they didn’t mind.

“Huh!”

It rotates while spewing aura stems close to the bag.

Let’s go!

A storm of spinning blades devastated the goblins.
It does not harm people at all and takes their lives with delicate control.

“Kieek! Stop humans!”

As a massacre took place around them, a goblin who appeared to be a shaman threatened people as a shield.
All the other guys who saw it tried to protect themselves by imitating the goblin shaman.

Certainly, there seems to be enough intelligence to learn witchcraft.
No matter how unrelated I am, I cannot take the sacrifice casually.

But..

“Sick.”

It only has meaning when it works.

Parbat-

An aura that had been biting the skin of the goblins violently slammed the space, protruded from the side of the goblins, blew off the arm branches holding the person, pierced the heart, stirred the body, and slashed it out before escaping.

“Big..”

After giving a terrible death to all who dared to threaten, including the goblin shaman, he broke the people’s restraints and ran into the village.

Tada da dat-

-Sah, save me…!
─Sir, what!

A farmer about to run away from a goblin’s dagger.
She is the farmer’s daughter who appears to be on the verge of being raped next to him.
Besides that, I see a lot of people.

“Huh!”

He immediately draws out his sword.

Cheer up!

A storm of blades covered the village.

Hundreds of auras whirled around and stained the surroundings with blood.
Aurors only fall into two categories.

Humans and monsters.
Based on those two standards, only one side was accurately slaughtered.
Blood splatters here and there, soaking the floor.

I already saw them running across town, but I didn’t worry.
Eris is out there anyway, so I’ll take care of every one of them.

Because the aura was stretched to death, not a single drop of blood was stained on the blade.

“After!”

I took a breath and drew my sword, but a presence approached from the side.

“I… This…”

It reminded me of the time when I went to the meadow to subdue the wildlings in the Frencia family.
A village girl with her red face was holding out her handkerchief with a shy smile.

Even though he was wearing a hood, he must have had an irresistible energy of honour.
I was grateful for the sincerity, but I tried to refuse it because I wasn’t strong enough to sweat to kill a goblin, and I had to adjust it so that there wouldn’t be blood on it in the first place.

“True. Everything outside has been taken care of.”

That was until I heard Eris’ somewhat shrill voice.
Feeling mischievous with the tree frog symbol, I received the handkerchief with a friendly smile.

“Thank you. I’m glad you’re safe.”
“Oh, no… Then I’ll go!”

But the village girl kicked off the game and withdrew and disappeared despite my million-dollar smile.

Even if it was me, it seems that I couldn’t win against Eris’ murderous smile.
As I looked down at the handkerchief, Eris came over and pinched her side.

“Looks like we became friends in a short time? Get a handkerchief.”
“Ah… It’s a joke. I left my sister and had an affair with someone.”
“Joy! Let’s go. That’s enough, I’ll take care of the aftermath.”
“Huh. Okay.”

Rather than help us clean up here, it would be prudent to return to Frencia Street as soon as possible and report this fact so that reinforcements can be dispatched.

As soon as I was about to leave the village and run away, a group of people approached me.

Among the people we rescued, there were no wounds on their bodies.
Among them, an old man opened his mouth.

“Thank you. Thanks to my benefactors, I was able to escape safely. How can I thank you for this..”
“It’s okay. Because it was nothing We’re busy, so stop…”

It was too much trouble to share her words, so when I tried to cut off the conversation, the old man glanced at Eris and cautiously opened his mouth.

“Then can you even hear the names of the benefactors? Looking at the small person, I wonder if this person is not a princess..”

Eris’ dazzling silver hair and her red eyes are uncommon.
In particular, the villagers belonging to the Frencia manor couldn’t pass by her appearance.
She glanced at Eris, looked around her, and then stepped in front of her.

“The knights will be dispatched by tomorrow evening. So please don’t worry too much.”
“Oh, thank you. Such consideration even for the little ones.. Thank you very much.”
“Please give thanks to this person. I just didn’t let them get away.”

At Eris’s words as she points at me, the eyes of the villagers turn to me. Even the curiosity of young children shines in the eyes of young children, as if the appearance of her hood deeply pressed is approaching more mysteriously.

“My name is True, a wandering knight. It wasn’t a big deal, so you don’t have to be so. Enough then. Hurry up Lady Gong.”
“Yes. Is it so. True.”

─Aigo thank you!
– Long live the princess! Long live the Wandering Knight True!!

The villagers saw us leaving the village, chanting Eris and my names.

Eris, who had been silent, opened her mouth after the distance widened to the extent that she could no longer see the village as she continued to run.

“Lie. It’s popular.”
“What. Are you still not angry?”

Eris shook her head.

“No. Rather good If you build up your reputation bit by bit like this, the vassals won’t reject our relationship.”
“Is there anyone who refuses?”

She opened her mouth wide, wondering if there was a crazy person who would rebel against Lucas Frencia.

“Of course not. Still, that’s just the stamping and pressing of her father’s power. In fact, when I adopted you, there was a lot of talk.”
“That’s what you can’t do. No matter how talented you are, if you say that someone you don’t know where you came from might inherit the Duke’s family, there will be a lot of backlash.”

Lucas himself said he had no intention of doing so, but from the point of view of his retainers, he was inevitably anxious.

“Once you know what I mean. You mean you want to be acknowledged by everyone?”
“Huh. If your reputation shakes the continent, no one will object.”

Ever since Eris met me again, she has been thinking about our future. You simply want to go further in your relationship.

Even though she knew that she had other lovers, she passed over quite willingly, but it seems that her desire to monopolize me is expressed in this way.

Even so, I feel kind in not saying such things openly.
Also super mama. In short, he is the owner of Schumamton.

“Don’t worry. I told you before I was 20 that I would reach 10 stars. Wouldn’t that be enough to object to?”
“That’s right… I’ll believe it.”

A half worried feeling that I might not overdo it. I had a firm belief that it would be possible.

10 stars. It is lower than the 11 stars, which can be said to be the strongest class in this world, but it is a high level that can never be ignored.

In the past, I wondered if it would be possible before I turned 20, but now I am sure.

‘I was a god in my previous life, but of course it’s possible.’

In fact, there was a time when I knew that this body was the body of a god while doing my best in a dungeon, and I was disappointed with my humble talent.

But now it was different.
At that time, after absorbing the fragments of the soul, this body began to show off its formidable talent.
Didn’t he randomly awaken new skills based on his existing skills?

At first, I thought it was just a coincidence, but after repeating it two or three times, I realized that it wasn’t.
This can be said to be the talent of this body.
As he obtained the fragments of his soul, his potential as a true god’s body began to awaken.

So you have to hurry even more.
If you go around the ancient ruins, collect soul fragments, and continue to develop your potential, even 11 stars, let alone 10 stars, is not a stretch at all. 12 stars, of course.

“Then let’s hurry. Don’t be anxious I must be strong Better than Lucas.”
“Whoops! It’s a big deal if my father hears it. Be careful.”
“Of course. I’m crazy? Haha!”

Lucas means a lot to Eris. He is a father and the strongest knight whom no one can replace.

Eris laughed, dismissing it as a half-joke.

“Sister. But why is the monster suddenly rampaging? It is winter now.”
“I don’t know. It’s clear that there’s something out of the ordinary…”

When monsters leave their territory and come down to the human village, there is a clear reason. Either for lack of food or to kidnap women for breeding.

But even so, they don’t move in the winter. It is mainly aimed at autumn, but it can be seen that it is too late now that half of the food has already been harvested and consumed.

“Let’s go and see first. I’ll find out when I investigate.”
“Huh. I need to tell my father.”

We hurriedly headed for Frencia Street, holding the anxiety that something was starting.

***

Center of the round table. A faint light was pushing away the darkness in all directions.

The number of people sitting around them is five in total.
Each of them possessed vast amounts of magical power and aura, and they were talking about the future.

Among them, a red-eyed man with a sleek body opened his mouth.

“Hey. Is the demon tower still there?”
“…It is not easy to avoid the eyes of the Mage Tower Master. Besides, Sernia Harpe. That bitch’s eyes are on too, so there’s no gap.”

The man called Ma gritted his teeth as if he was annoyed and replied nervously. The moment he burst into anger, he made it known that he had reached a formidable level with just the momentum he spewed out.

“How is your sword?”
“You should have known. Currently, the empire has issued a subjugation order against the church. If you go out now, your identity will be exposed.”

The man asked a question in response to the sword’s answer, but there was no particular agitation as if he hadn’t even expected it in the first place.

The tall man who had been listening to the conversation between the two burst into a hearty laugh.

Haha! The headmaster must be sad.”
“…Is that going well?”
“Of course! Unlike the Magic Tower, this one is getting ready step by step. Soon the emperor’s seat will be mine. Haha!”

The Harpe Empire’s throne is firm and shows no signs of shaking. So what the giant man is talking about is the barbaric empire. It must be Aman.

At this meeting, the man called Kwon teared her mouth open and laughed, as if laughing at the two whose plans were messed up unlike him.

Far from being bold, the two of them’s expressions hardened gradually as they laughed to the point of looking vulgar at first glance.

The man who laughed for a long time, even mentioning the religious leader, turned the topic to a man who was sitting on one side gloomily and without a presence.

“Hey Chung, how about that one? How is it going?”

The man, who had been silently looking down at the insect crawling on her palm without saying a word, looked at her hand with only her pupils moving.

“…It is perfect. The Elven Guard was completely in hand. Even the monsters can’t escape the domination. She didn’t notice at all about the parasitic anglerfish.”

‘Parasitic Maw.’
This man called Chung is a monster from the demon realm. A chimera created by synthesizing all kinds of monstrous creatures.
That monster, which could be called a familiar, was a creature that exerted tremendous power in mind control.

Haha! That’s right. Isn’t there any problem with the Tan Sea Kingdom?”
“Okay. One rat still bothers me, but that’s only a matter of time.”

The man with a long rifle slung over his shoulder answered. Red eyes and purple eyes. At the words of Tan, who had an odd eye, Kwon buried his body in the chair and looked around at everyone.

“Okay. The plan is fine. Except for the Harpe Empire. Heh..! I don’t know when the headmaster will come back. Mind. Any news?”
“Now you say you just need a little more. If we finish that job, the East Continent will also be in our hands.”

The leader of the Church of Destruction.
The Absolute of the middle world, who is called the representative of God, even these mighty ones can’t stand against.
He was currently leaving the western continent for an important matter.

“Hmm.. But is it really possible? To summon an apostle.”
“Possible. They say it’s possible if you use the guardian dragons of the Un Empire called the Dragon Empire. Yeouiju is said to have similar effects to the Philosopher’s Stone.”
“That’s right… I’m looking forward to that time. Then.. See you next time!!”

When the story was over, ‘Kwon’ grinned at ‘Sword’ and ‘Ma’, who still didn’t look good.

Starting with him, ‘Chung’, who seemed not to be interested in the meeting from the beginning, stood up and started to share in turn.

The two of them, who had been sitting quietly at the round table until the end, returned to their original seats, contemplating what to do if the leader returned.

The only thing left in the hollow where everyone was away was the weak light at the round table.
It seemed like the last hope left in this world.

The one who will drive away the darkness that consumes the world. Who is it?