A Knight Who Eternally Regresses - Chapter 454

Chapter 454: CHAPTER 451

Encrid reacted as Dunbachel and Rem moved.

Arrows pierced the dark night sky one after another.

Several torches were knocked to the ground.

In Encrid’s mind, every situation was painted like a picture.

In the urgent situation, Encrid’s instincts shone coldly. His intuition cut through the darkness like a blade.

‘Half will be saved.’

Some of the hostages tied to the poles were on the verge of death.

The giant spider had no intention of saving the hostages on the poles.

It was clear that its only intention was to crush their morale.

A monster thinking like this?

It was surprising, but now was not the time to question it.

What mattered was how many could be saved.

It wouldn’t be possible to save them all. Beneath the glowing blue-white stone, the giant spider extended its sharp legs.

They were as long and pointed as spears.

‘Exactly half.’

Throwing something to kill it was possible, but it wouldn’t save anyone.

Will activated. The ability to see a step ahead extended his prediction, showing him a glimpse of the future. It was a future seen in the realm of intuition.

But even so, there was nothing he could change.

In the meantime, Rem and Dunbachel killed two spiders.

An axe and a curved blade split the monsters’ heads.

Encrid also reached one of the creatures and stabbed it with Ember.

Pushing off the ground, he approached and swiftly pierced the monster’s head. He thrust and withdrew, immediately readying his stance again. Just because he had seen an unchangeable future, did that mean he should give up?

Encrid didn’t think so.

Whether it worked or not, he would take the next step forward.

There were nine poles in total.

Even if he ran, someone would die. That was the picture painted on the canvas of the future Encrid had seen. But he wouldn’t stop.

And then a silver light tore through the canvas.

Slice!

The light advanced, cutting off the spider’s leg that was about to pierce a hostage.

Encrid halted the step he was about to take. He even forgot to breathe.

Did he think he had seen a Knight’s sword?

It was an illusion.

What does it mean to cut through cloth alone?

Why is it called a disaster?

The mercenary King thrust his spear at an angle that couldn’t be understood.

Ragna struck down with incomprehensible force.

Sinar’s sword manifested in an incomprehensible form.

And now.

Oara moved at an incomprehensible speed, changing the picture painted on the canvas with her sword as if it were a brush.

She had been farther away than Encrid, but now Oara was everywhere.

There were six poles with hostages, six that Encrid had missed, and Oara was at all six.

A divine skill created at a violent speed unfolded before his eyes.

If a single strike had sent shivers down his spine before, now his entire body was filled with euphoria.

This was what he wanted to do.

This was what he wanted to see.

This was what it meant to be a Knight.

Oara of the Red Cape Knights began moving her sword, rampaging among the monsters.

Her sword transformed into a rain of calamity, pouring down on the spider monsters.

“Impressive.”

Rem was in awe.

“Ah.”

Dunbachel uttered a gasp.

Encrid’s gaze was fixed on Oara’s sword.

“Hahaha!”

Oara laughed out loud.

With just a simple longsword, she killed spider after spider, each with a head as large as a human’s.

It was a series of simple movements.

Exactly as she had been taught.

“There’s no need for flashy swordplay.”

It was as if her words echoed in his ears.

She stabbed, slashed, cut, and struck.

That was enough. With each laugh, Oara’s sword grew fiercer, her kicks like a sledgehammer, and her speed increased.

One spider monster opened its mouth and spat out a mass of web. The mass was even bigger than its own head.

Oara’s sword cut through that too.

Slice! From the split web, tiny spiderlings exploded out.

There were far more than a hundred, pouring down right above her head.

They were tiny, no bigger than a finger.

But it wasn’t a problem.

Although Encrid couldn’t see it, he guessed that Oara had snorted in disdain.

In an instant, her sword created a flower.

A flower of afterimages made by dozens of stabs.

Zap, zap, zap!

In a single moment, dozens of the tiny spiderlings died. She had done it all with her sword.

Though Encrid watched, it hadn’t been a long time. The changes on the battlefield had occurred in mere moments.

The appearance of the hostages, Oara displaying her Knightly power—all of it happened within just a few breaths.

Oara stopped at that point, lowered her sword, took a deep breath, and shouted.

“All troops—return to your positions!”

Upon hearing that, Encrid began to rescue the hostages one by one, tossing them behind him.

Rem caught them and sent them further back.

“Damn it, Oara!”

The lover of Rowena shouted as he carried a hostage on his back. It was Rowena.

Other soldiers also began to carry the hostages and run back.

“Close the gate!”

Encrid glanced back slightly. He saw the bodies of the fallen Milio and some soldiers.

If Milio had responded to the earlier call, he might have survived, but instead, he threw himself to protect his subordinates.

It wasn’t something he calculated, it was just instinct, and his body moved on its own.

But it was still a pity.

He would no longer be able to dream.

The dream of marrying Oara was over.

The dead cannot be with the living.

Instead, Rowena survived.

“Don’t die, I’m here.”

The soldier carrying Rowena on his back kept shouting as he ran.

Does the Demon Realm also bloom with flowers?

There was a saying like that within the city.

People lived here and loved, too.

These were the things Oara wanted to protect.

“Captain, are you just going to watch?”

Rem asked. The situation was different now. The number of monsters crawling out was on a different scale from what they had seen from the walls.

There were an overwhelming number of them.

And it wasn’t over yet.

In front of Oara, a dark shadow suddenly appeared and slashed down with a sword.

Encrid’s eyes caught it.

It wasn’t just one sword but several.

The strikes were so fast that they left dozens of afterimages.

Clang, clang, clang!

Oara’s sword moved to block them all. She countered every single one, even adding thrusts.

But the creature that had struck with the swords retreated to avoid her attacks.

Encrid could now see the opponent.

It was a peculiar form. A monstrous spider with eight legs standing on two like a human, the remaining six limbs hanging down like arms.

“A special type.”

Luagarne said, drawing out a whip.

The spider monster with eight swords had a face resembling a human’s. It had pale skin, and where its eyes should be, there were dozens of insect-like compound eyes.

A single round hole was where its nose should have been, and it had no mouth.

In its eight limbs, it held eight white blades.

Or rather, they were fused together. The legs themselves were blades.

“Well, well, Jerix. Is this your new lover?”

Oara laughed as she spoke. Even if everything displeased her, she would still laugh. That was Oara, the laughing Knight.

“Master!”

Roman shouted as he rushed out from behind Oara.

“You damn monster bastards.”

On the other side, a short blonde stepped forward, and four Squires retreated behind.

At that moment, arrows started flying from within the gray forest once again.

It was before they could even recover Milio’s body.

Encrid raised his shield to block them, and the others did the same.

No arrows flew toward Oara and the Junior-Knights.

Only the standoff between the bipedal, eight-armed spider and Oara continued.

‘A monster on the level of a Knight.’

The reason a world without monsters couldn’t be imagined, even with Knights present, was simple.

It was because there were monsters that could challenge Knights.

This was one of them.

The monster with eight legs flashed its dozens of red eyes.

“Kiiik.”

To Encrid’s ears, it sounded like the creature was laughing.

“Having fun with another woman, huh!”

Oara shot back with a joke. Her courage was remarkable.

The spider with eight blade-like arms exuded a terrifying aura just by its presence, but Oara didn’t care.

She raised her sword, and the spider sidestepped.

From behind it emerged an Owlbear.

It had the head of an owl and the body of a bear, with two abnormally large hands.

When it clenched its fists, they looked like two boulders attached to its arms.

The puffed-up feathers made its body and fists look even larger.

“Well, that one’s no pushover either.”

Rem said.

Encrid felt the same. The moment he saw it, he was taken aback.

His heart also started pounding.

A powerful monster, clearly far from being average.

“Are you guys serious?”

Oara’s mouth opened.

Two monsters charged at her. The Knight’s sword clashed with the monsters’ weapons.

The speed, which had surpassed its limits, left a long, fiery trail in the air.

As the trails overlapped, they painted a picture of scattered light.

Clang! Clang!

The sounds of explosions mixed in at moments.

The two Junior Knights were looking for an opening to join the fight.

It was difficult to find an opening to intervene.

Although it was two against one, it was hard to say that Oara was dominating.

And this wasn’t the end.

Thud, thud, thud!

There was a monster shooting arrows.

From beyond the Demon Realm, more monsters began crawling out.

It was a wave.

The wave that Knight Oara was holding back was now crashing down on Thousand Bricks.

Oara swung her sword in a wide arc, pushing the two monsters back a bit, and shouted.

“Enki, Asia, protect the city!”

She would handle the rest of the battle herself.

The two Junior Knights who were protecting her stayed close behind.

Asia was nowhere to be seen. She had already gone to deal with the monsters firing arrows.

“This is a headache.”

Rem muttered as he drew his axe. The number of enemies was too great to handle with bullets alone.

Encrid also drew his swords. Aker in his right hand, Ember in his left.

Would Oara be overwhelmed? It didn’t seem that way.

She skillfully deflected the eight blade-like arms of the spider and the Owlbear’s massive fists.

‘Could I?’

There was no way he could do it as easily as she did.

The two monsters complemented each other’s weaknesses very well.

How could they be broken?

‘Ragna’s Lightning Sword.’

That could do it. Could his White Lightning do something similar?

Impossible. He realized it the moment he thought of it.

Encrid tore his gaze away from Oara’s battle. While she fought, he had his own tasks to focus on.

Skreeee.

Strange cries and the sound of something skittering across the ground echoed.

The approaching spider horde, emerging from the darkness, was horrifying to look at.

Encrid decided to smash that horror with his sword.

Crack, crunch.

With a vertical strike, Aker’s blade split the head of a spider whose head reached up to his chest.

Rem was helping at his side. His axe was accomplishing much the same.

Luagarne assessed the situation and spoke.

“We just need to hold out.”

At those words, Dunbachel visibly relaxed.

Encrid heard the shouts of soldiers who, despite the casualties caused by the flying arrows, accepted it as a matter of course.

“Oara!”

He had heard it from Roman last night.

That cry was for Oara, their Oara.

These were the people Knight Oara was protecting.

They were the inhabitants of the city that her conviction defended.

If Knight Oara fought for them, they too would fight for her.

And they fought for the city.

Encrid killed four monsters with his swords and then glanced forward.

It was just a feeling. An instinct. It was as if someone had told him to look ahead.

It was deeper in the forest. A different kind of monster from the spiders was walking out.

Between the gray trees of the Demon Realm, it emerged, trampling the black earth beneath it.

“Jerix, you’ve prepared a lot.”

Oara said, noticing it. She spoke in the brief moment she had after blocking and countering the Arachne and Owlbear’s attacks.

The two special monsters briefly withdrew and paused.

“Were you targeting me?”

Oara asked.

The ghoul didn’t respond.

And Oara laughed.

Encrid didn’t understand the entire situation, but he knew one thing.

They were at a disadvantage.

Jerix, her ex-husband, now the monster sustaining this Demon Realm.

The monster Oara most wanted to kill.

If she killed it, the Demon Realm would lose its power. The Demon Realm was said to be like a vast colony.

And yet it appeared.

It was making a final stand.

When coincidences pile up, they become inevitabilities.

Oara had repeatedly torn through the Demon Realm.

A monster capable of strategy.

Twin Crescent Moons.

The gathered number of monsters.

From the perspective of the monsters, there was only one way to end the threat.

Killing Oara.

All these coincidences had led to this day.

Finally, Encrid’s gaze turned to the ghoul.

Blue skin, a torn mouth, a hole where the nose should be, pitch-black eyes without pupils.

And those dangling arms, ending in half-foot-long claws, with skin that looked unusually tough.

It was as if it was wielding a sword.

Encrid noticed the ghoul’s stance.

Its gait was different, and it seemed likely that it would use its arms like swords.

Moreover, the tips of those claws were laced with poison, potent enough to infect a Knight with just a scratch.

The claws were a dark color, different from its skin, as if coated in soot.

They were as black as if they absorbed the light of the Twin Crescent Moons.

In conclusion, its stance resembled that of someone trained in swordsmanship.

“The Demon Realm makes monsters evolve.”

Luagarne said.

Encrid couldn’t fully understand why, but seeing the results before him, he could guess what had happened.

A ghoul had been born in the Demon Realm.

It had observed humans, fought them, and barely survived.

Oara had said she had let Jerix escape three times, hadn’t she?

Each time, it grew stronger. Each time, it became more cunning.

And now, this was the result.

‘An evolving monster.’

A monster that trains and grows stronger.

The corners of the ghoul’s mouth twisted upwards.

It had even stolen Oara’s smile.

Grrrr!

It let out a laugh. At least, that’s how it sounded to Encrid.

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