Episode 4
The two-meter-tall monster was so powerful that even experienced soldiers were reluctant to confront it head-on.
“Inferno.”
Hurrah!
Inferno revealed its presence with heat instead of answering.
A hot sensation filled my lungs, and soon my whole body felt warm.
“I have to save that child. Help me.”
I saw a boy running slowly across the field.
The gray wolf ran four or five times faster than the boy.
The gates are not closed yet.
However, it was unlikely that the soldiers stationed at the gate would come and rescue the child.
The child’s parents heard the news from behind and came running.
Their cries shook the cold night air. The shaking reached my heart.
I passed through the wide open gate.
The soldier guarding the gate shouted instead of closing it.
“Your Majesty, Your Highness!”
A longsword dangled from my waist.
In his left hand he held a circular shield.
Her outfit was simple and did not contain any magical items.
“Follow me.”
Four soldiers followed my orders.
Because if I die anyway, they’ll know that I’m dead too.
‘The number is four. I’ve imagined fighting the enemy countless times.’
During the time of Luis de Breyot, I memorized all kinds of sword techniques.
I didn’t have even a single drop of aura to support my swordsmanship. Of course, at the time, I was so weak that I couldn’t perform swordsmanship properly.
‘I also have the experience of Louis de Hebron.’
Louis de Hebron’s swordsmanship was mediocre.
It meant that he was somehow able to fight against a wild beast.
I absorbed his experiences.
No, we are one body.
A meeting of humble talent and genius theory.
That was Braioga’s theory of raising dogs into dragons.
Srrrrrr!
The long sword slipped through the armor.
The sword’s trajectory filled my vision.
The poem that the legendary knight had recited came to mind.
-I struck the moon reflected in the water with my sword and went up against the flowing moonlight, my distant thoughts.
A poem I had memorized without even knowing its meaning came to mind.
That was a derogatory term used to describe a sword fight.
No, there was no more accurate expression than that.
Strength entered the hand holding the sword.
There was no tremor. Like a swordsman who had been swinging his sword for a long time, I filled my lungs with the air of the battlefield that spread out before me.
‘You can do it.’
I’ve been practicing my swordsmanship for the past few days.
Although I had never properly performed them before, I imitated the sword techniques one by one that I knew perfectly in theory.
Every time, I saw hope.
And today, I discovered something beyond my hopes.
‘Like a wolf.’
I ran towards him.
There was no reason to back down.
My people were in danger, and I was a member of the Hebron Baron family who had to protect them.
In exchange for protection, our family collected taxes from the people of Yeongji.
“Inferno, inhabit my sword!”
The flames of Inferno were engraved on my sword.
The tip of the long sword turned red.
Keu …
The gray wolf leapt at the boy, ready to devour him.
I also ran in.
“Get down!”
The boy lay flat on his stomach with his eyes tightly shut.
The moment I jumped over the boy and faced the gray wolf!
Swoosh!
The red-hot longsword cut through the wolf’s jaws.
The moment the sword touched the creature, a burst of flames shot out. It tore a long slash across its upper snout, sending the creature into a panic.
In swordsmanship, flow was important.
He retrieved the swung sword and stuck it into the wolf’s stomach.
Cheeeeek!
It smelled like burning meat.
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Smoke billowed from the wolf’s belly.
The bastard twisted his body and fell down with a thud.
As one died, the three gray wolves slowed down.
They didn’t rush. They circled around me.
They didn’t rush in rashly.
It wasn’t just because of me.
The soldiers chased after them, brandishing spears and threatening the wolf.
“Whoa! Whoa! You guys! Get back out!”
“Tom, wake up quickly. The master has come to save you. Get up and thank him!”
A soldier forcibly lifted young Tom up.
Tom barely managed to get up and bent over again.
I knelt down and bowed.
“Thank you, Young Master!”
I didn’t like Tom’s skinny body.
“You must not die already. Live for forty, no, fifty years longer and work for Hebron. That is your destiny. Come early tomorrow morning to the storehouse of the Lord’s palace and get grain and meat. Eat it and gain weight. That is what you must do now.”
That was Breyo’s calculation.
Even ordinary people were kept alive for a long time and exploited until their roots rotted.
“Oh, of course! I will live for Hebron!”
That was when.
“Look behind me, behind me, behind me!”
The wolves moved in packs.
Of course, there weren’t four of them.
The four were just the vanguard, and twenty more appeared afterward.
I looked at the wolf pack and asked the soldiers.
“Okay, right?”
The soldiers looked at me in horror, but I ran with a smile.
“Good! Really good!”
I slew the gray wolf that was guarding me.
As I killed one, two rushed at me at the same time.
I dodged one and cut the other.
And I cut down the one that missed me.
Every movement was as natural as flowing water.
‘As expected, Aura is a pity.’
Swordsmanship was created with the aura as its basic premise.
Swordsmanship is completed by sending the right amount of aura to a specific body part at the right time.
As I still had little aura, I used my swordsmanship with the bare minimum of aura.
But that alone made him a powerful figure in this rural baronial territory, one that would be difficult to find rivals for.
“Your Majesty, you are truly amazing!”
“But you have to go back. Those, those wolves… …!”
A soldier pointed behind me. There, too, wolves were running.
He opened his mouth wide and breathed out white breath, exuding murderous intent.
The giants formed ranks and shook the earth.
‘This is a battlefield!’
It was a feeling I had never felt while living locked up in the basement of the Duke of Breyo’s house.
Every nerve in my body was on edge.
I realized that I was alive and breathing.
The guys we faced first were nothing more than scouts.
The main force was at the rear.
If we delayed any longer, we would be surrounded by them.
I was excited, but I wasn’t so foolish as to be intoxicated by that emotion and lose track of what was right and wrong. No, my head was working better than ever.
“Okay, let’s go back.”
The soldiers ran toward the walls.
They matched my pace and the child ran too.
“Don’t struggle. Survive for a long time. Don’t be picky about the means and methods.”
I lifted the child with one hand.
“Eww! Do, Do-ryun, let go! I’m heavy!”
“You’re nothing but skin and bones, so you don’t feel any weight. How can you do your job properly? From now on, gain weight. Turn your fat into muscle. That’s the job of a commoner like you.”
He ran as fast as he could with the boy tucked under his arm.
Even though I was carrying a child, the soldiers couldn’t keep up with my speed.
I was the first to arrive at the castle gate.
It was thanks to raising the aura and unfolding the law.
As soon as we dropped Tom off at the gate, he ran off like a beast.
His father hugged Tom and sobbed, while his mother repeatedly slapped Tom on the back.
That sight seemed very affectionate.
A corner of my heart felt proud, as if I had protected that sight.
‘Those are mine. I will not lose what is mine. I will be greedy.’
I waited for the soldiers to arrive and then said.
“Close the gate.”
“The gate will be closed only when the young master enters!”
The soldier manning the gate shouted, and I lightly swung my bloody sword, shaking the blood away.
It wasn’t a particularly impressive sword, but it was well-maintained as it was a weapon used by the Baron’s bloodline.
“Shut up, it is the command of Hebron.”
The hesitant soldiers followed my orders.
Still, it was fortunate that some level of discipline was maintained.
“Support me from the wall with bows and arrows. Don’t hit me.”
After leaving those words, I ran again.
I was so excited that I went wild.
The space I had dreamed of my whole life unfolded before me.
I stood before the judgment seat where I would demonstrate my abilities at the boundary of life and death.
‘I failed before, but I will succeed this time!’
Seo-eok!
He lowered his posture and cut off the gray wolf’s leg.
The moment the bastard lost his balance and fell to the ground, arrows rained down on him.
Choot! Seo-eok! Choot! Choot!
I danced with wolves.
If those big guys tried to crush me, that would be the end of me.
I didn’t face the wolf head on, but stood slightly away from it.
I sliced through the side of the guy who was trying to get past me, making way for them.
‘Good! Really good!’
I wondered if I had ever had such an exciting day in my life.
My heart was pounding.
‘I’m practicing swordsmanship!’
If the knights of the Duke of Breyo had seen this, they would have laughed at it, but for the first time in my life, I displayed swordsmanship that was truly worthy of being called a swordsman.
Every time the sword light flashed, the ash wolf’s breath was cut off and it fell to the ground.
Flames shot out from the tip of the sword.
One, two, … … six, seven, … … seventeen, eighteen!
“Gasp… … Gasp… … .”
I was out of breath.
The hand holding the sword was trembling.
-If you push yourself any further, your life will be in danger.
“Thank you for your hard work, Inferno.”
-joy.
The flames of Inferno have died down.
The flame that had protected me throughout the fight was extinguished.
There was only one wolf left.
He was an amazing guy, he didn’t run away even though everyone was dying.
Knock knock knock.
He said, pointing at the wolf with the tip of his sword.
“I can kill someone like you without the help of spirits.”
That was when.
Ss …
An arrow flew and lodged itself between the wolf’s eyebrows.
The bastard was frozen solid, tilted to the side, as if he had been stuffed.
Kuuung!
When I looked back, there was a man standing on the wall, just like the wall. He was Lord Brown, the only knight in our barony.
“Your Majesty, are you okay?”
“No, it’s not okay. Come down and take me with you. Haha.”
I sat down, my legs giving out.
Sir Brown leapt down from the wall and ran towards me.
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Sir Brown was quite handy.
He applied herbs to my body and wrapped a neat bandage around it.
‘There is not even a potion, so that is why it is called Hebron, the grass-eating city.’
It was not anyone else, but Yeongji who gave herbal medicine instead of a potion to the injured lord’s son.
Even that was mixed so poorly that it didn’t seem like it would be of much help in the treatment.
He brought some medicinal herbs to make a restorative potion, and ordered that a clean bandage be brought and wrapped around the wound.
Fortunately, this body was young and healthy.
It seemed like I would be completely cured just by resting for a day or two.
I had no intention of taking a break during that time.
Square, square.
The square was written on paper with a cheap pen.
Before rolling up the paper, I wrote at the top, ‘Herbal Medicine – by Louis de Hebron’.
He gave this to the old man who supervised folk remedies in Hebron.
It came with a small note.
-From now on, do not use any herbs other than this combination! Louis de Hebron.
Even though I was only a nineteen-year-old young master, I was the next head of the household.
In the cramped confines of Hebron, my word was law.
“I’m fine, so just go.”
“I will stay by your side.”
“It’s okay though.”
“I’m okay too.”
Sir Brown stood by my bedside.
He insisted that he would stay by my side until I recovered, saying that it was his responsibility to leave me alone.
After barely persuading him to leave, I was caught working out in secret and lost all reason to shake off Brown.
Sir Brown broke the heavy silence and asked me.
“Are you saying you made a contract with the spirit of fire?”
“okay.”
“The spirit’s rank is… … .”
“Lowest.”
Inferno was a mid-level fire spirit, but normally displayed powers of the lowest level.
