Eternally Regressing Knight Chapter 569

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The Holy City-State is famous for not spending money on nothing.

“Haha, I appreciate your efforts with blessings.”

This is a famous story that was often used to fill in the gaps with words.

Whether they are believers or not, they do not use Krona. They cherish it. If possible, they try to solve it on their own.

If you were to rank the countries that the Architectural Guild dislikes, wouldn’t the Sacred Nation be number one?

It’s clearly number one in terms of what the top of the continent hates.

Leona had said something like that too.

“I respect priests, but I don’t work with religious thugs.”

This was similar for all priests, corrupt or not.

When the Holy Nation needed mercenaries, it used its own martial arts holy warriors, when it needed guides, it used trained heretic inquisitors, and it also operated its own merchants.

“Isn’t it amazing? All of this is just to avoid using Crona?”

Leona’s opinion.

Encred agreed, but saw an additional meaning.

‘From the beginning, we don’t allow outsiders to interfere with church events.’

Well, it could be because I don’t want Crona to leak out.

So how unusual is this?

How much did they say they would pay for these people to come to church?

Those who engage in the business of chasing people, commonly called manhunters, are people who will not move unless they receive an advance payment. So, it means that they have already received a certain amount of krona.

That’s a little surprising.

Encrid thought so, so he asked.

And although Crona is Crona, her bold actions were a bit more surprising.

Those who came from the Holy Nation would have scattered their words here and there as they crossed the border of Naurilia.

If you use an information guild or something like that, it won’t be a problem to just hand out requests.

Instead, I would have to pay a fee, but if I felt bad about that, I wouldn’t have entrusted the work to them in the first place.

That is, from the time they left the Holy Land, they spared no expense in chasing this saintess.

It was much easier to understand the intentions of this kidnapper than of a kidnapper who didn’t even exist.

‘gain.’

It would be more profitable to catch a child who has become a saint than to hire a hunter and use Crona.

Noble intention? There is no such thing. The feeling and the situation were telling me that.

“Who are you?”

The three pursuers had no eyes to recognize their opponents.

All three were wearing thin leather clothing that seemed like it could be used as armor in an emergency. They were all wearing light clothing.

“Any traces of the pursuer? No traces found?”

Encred said, realizing that his first pick was a dud.

Then there was nothing for them to do.

“These kids, I wonder where they heard the rumor and joined, but it’s not something for a bunch of idiots to get involved in.”

The woman glared fiercely as she spoke. She looked anxious. The three who had suddenly appeared did not look like ordinary people.

Just looking at Audin’s size made me feel uneasy, but then there was the fairy, and then there was the man whose face alone stole my gaze.

Why is he so handsome?

Even though I was very surprised and embarrassed, my face caught my eye.

The blue eyes and black hair seemed to be casting some kind of spell.

But that doesn’t mean I blurted out, “He’s handsome,” with my pupils dilated.

Just from listening to the words the woman spoke, Encred could tell that the Crona the Holy Nation was giving was not a small sum.

Have you ever seen a religious order event like this? No.

Actually, I wasn’t curious about the exact amount, so that was the answer.

“Audin.”

Encred spoke and approached the man standing on his right.

It wasn’t just that he approached her. To the opponent, it would have looked like Encred had suddenly grown a lot bigger.

Without even having to push the ground, I leaned forward, raised my hips and kicked the ground with my strong legs, and as I advanced, my opponent’s face widened.

His expression changed from wariness and anxiety to shock at every moment.

Encred’s senses were already at a level that was different from that of a normal swordsman.

As he was about to swallow a breath to express how surprised he was, Encred’s hand slashed at the back of his neck.

He stopped one step to the right of the opponent from the front and swung his arms.

His gently curved left arm flew out like a whip and struck.

puck!

The opponent fell over with a thud. Encred caught the falling opponent and gently placed him on the ground.

Audin, who was rushing right next to him at a similar speed, put the other two to sleep in the same manner.

One is to clench your fist and hit the top of your head like a hammer.

thud!

He didn’t die. His eyes rolled around, only the whites of his eyes were visible, and he collapsed with a groan.

Another one was lightly strangled, blocking his breathing.

“Ugh, ugh.”

The man who was suspended in the air with his neck held flailed his feet.

The dirt and dry leaves on the soles of my feet scattered to the left and right.

The tips of his feet touched Audin’s chest, but that was it.

Bam.

Audin absentmindedly knocked him unconscious and placed him on the floor.

There were no signs of monsters or evil spirits around at the moment, and I wouldn’t be unconscious for long, so I probably wouldn’t die at this point.

“Let’s go next.”

Encrid immediately followed the next trace. From now on, nothing was difficult.

They moved based on footprints left on the ground, broken branches, smells, sounds, traces of dead creatures, and the terrain, where people might have walked.

If other people saw me, I would run like a crazy person.

Then I ran into a familiar face.

There was a guy who once said he would give me seventy percent of the commission if I would come forward and fight him first.

A hunter who kidnaps, a villain, a scoundrel.

He was a guy who could be described in these words.

I thought he had died a long time ago, but he was still alive.

You said you’d give me seven? Of course, I knew that was nonsense, so Encred lured the demon and ran away.

It was the first time we met since then.

Rather than being a master of tracking, Lee Ja was the type to solve problems with brute force.

Muscular limbs and a hammer were symbols of his identity.

Blood dripped from the hammer.

Beside them, two dead women were seen, seemingly part of another pursuing party.

“Maybe he got greedy for Crona and killed them both first?”

After assessing the situation, Encred asked.

The bounty hunter with the hammer didn’t recognize Encred.

The two guys standing next to him were the same.

Even though there were rumors that he was an ironclad knight, how many people would recognize him if they met him face to face?

Despite Audin’s unusually large size, it was hard to immediately think of the bear-man of the Border Guard when looking at him. All I could think of was that he was a half-giant.

Sinar said, looking only at the traces lying on the floor.

“You hit me from behind.”

He must have cracked the back of his head like that because he had been cajoling him into joining forces and then had been hit with a hammer from behind.

“What are you guys doing?”

Even then, and even now, he was brimming with confidence.

In fact, he did have that level of skill.

That was then. Not now.

To Encred, the past is just the past. There is no need to discuss resentment. He is a person who lives for tomorrow, not today.

However, even though it was common for bounty hunters to stab each other in the back, this was crossing the line.

“I think you’re going a bit too far.”

Encred drew his sword without bothering to introduce himself.

Pulling and moving forward, every movement was like a flowing line.

This is the unending sword of Knight Oara, who protected the city of Oara.

The gently curved lines traced irregular traces in the air, and those traces became long and straight like meteors.

The transformed meteor turned into light and lines and fell down on the opponent’s head.

There was no room for the hammer to stop it. It was a natural result.

Ching.

The iron helmet on his head was cut uselessly by the blade. The steel slash that he had once spent time honing was now natural.

The resistance in the hand was also significantly lower than before.

The power, the angle, the will to draw and strike the sword.

It was a result of everything coming together.

Bam!

The head split open with the helmet, and the brain and blood fell to the floor in a spurt.

Actually, because I swung the sword too quickly, there wasn’t much blood on it.

The master of the hammer laid the body down next to the two female hunters I had killed.

The copper-colored soil was soaked with blood and turned black.

As Encred killed the hammer hunter, two of his comrades quickly tried to run away.

“uh?”

“eww!”

Their movements were quick. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that they were ready to run away at any time.

That’s the hunter’s rule. If you’re going to get caught, run away. This is also a rule.

However, they were very unlucky.

Here, a knight suddenly pops up and punishes them?

Isn’t this as unlikely as a god coming down to punish you?

Of course, the chances of meeting a knight and getting stabbed are higher, but both are similar in that they are not things that happen easily.

Encred caught the two moving away from each other in his field of senses. The subsequent actions were merely the implementation of the future he had seen with his insight.

Encred spread his arms out as if he was spreading wings with both hands, then closed them. He pulled out two daggers and threw them in a throwing motion. The daggers flew left and right with a squeaking sound.

Cuckoo!

A dagger charged with extreme force pierced one of the trainees’ necks and was stuck in a tree, while another was stuck in his skull, becoming a dagger headdress.

The man who had been hit in the head with a dagger flinched a few times before hitting his forehead against the tree in front of him and sliding down to his death.

Blood soaked the floor again.

“God is waiting for you.”

After Audin saw them off with a short prayer.

Wouldn’t it be right to say that the god who waits is the god of war?

According to the doctrine, the god of war is a being who brings the dead and starts beating them up.

Knowing that, it would have been difficult to see what he said just now as an abbreviation.

Audin is truly mourning the dead, so if you ask him, he’ll probably answer like this.

“If you do something right, you deserve to be hit, right?”

That’s right.

Even after dealing with one party, the group continued to move.

Encred kept killing and living according to his own standards.

In Sinar’s view, Encrid had a certain line. The standard was clear.

Those who were only doing their job were not necessarily killed, but those who were overly aggressive or acted inhumanely out of greed were killed without fail.

There was no concept of punishment.

I just act according to my heart.

Watching him act like that, Sinar seemed to catch a glimpse of Encred’s Will.

He had no hesitation in acting as his heart desired.

The standard for distinguishing right and wrong is not in the eyes of others, but within oneself.

And it looked so bright. It seemed so to Sinar.

After that, the hunter continued to meet with him.

Some people opened their mouths obediently, even though they could not guess the true identity of Encred and his party.

“The trail led into the forest, so I came in, but since the child came into the forest alone, it was suicidal, so I tried to find the body. I moved while avoiding the gaze of the monsters and the group of demons. Hmm.”

He swallowed his groan before speaking.

I’ve heard that there’s a manticore living somewhere in this forest, and it seems likely, since I just saw it cut into about six pieces and lying scattered at the feet of a slender fairy.

It is a mark where the bones and muscles were cut with a single stroke of the knife. Isn’t it a sight that makes you feel respectful just by looking at it?

Above all, they could have been the ones dealing with that manticore.

“Oh, okay, then do you happen to know the location of the Holy Knights?”

“They didn’t come into the forest. We agreed to send a signal when we met.”

This was said while waving an arrow with a pouch of glittering powder attached to the end.

Encrid glanced at the arrow and moved again.

If they did well, they might be able to find the child before the pursuers from the Holy Nation.

‘But isn’t there a severe lack of traces?’

Any ranger with the knack of erasing footprints would be able to do it.

Even so, this was a bit too much.

Is this correct?

Encrid’s mouth opened as he became curious.

“Sinaar. This trace.”

There was no need to talk at length. The fairy said:

“Yeah, I think it’s strange too.”

Yes, it is strange. But that does not mean that there is another way now.

It’s strange, but he said he came east, and if not for this forest, there would be no place to hide.

Encred changed his mind a little here. He decided to move more boldly than before.

Since the demons and beasts were not a threat, I just blasted them straight through as soon as I saw their traces.

Moving in a semicircle around the forest, they caught and killed fifteen of the pursuers, but none of them found any trace of the boy running away alone.

‘This isn’t an excellent ranger, but it doesn’t make sense even if the incarnation of a hunter comes.’

Encrid stopped walking with a thought.

“under.”

One of the important things when chasing is to chase a line, not a point.

In other words, the best thing is to predict and guess your opponent’s psychology and figure out the line he will move along in advance.

It’s hard to predict where your opponent will be, but if you find a line and follow it, it’ll be relatively easy.

And Encrid remembered the question he had asked as he left the city.

‘Are you a natural hunter?’

I roughly looked through the forest and scanned the trail.

It’s not like there were no traces at all.

Because all of those chasing me had some experience working in this field.

The reason they came here was because they saw traces of someone entering the forest.

The girl went into the forest alone.

He would have been dead, and I would have thought it would be fortunate if I had found his body.

If not, you can become a meal for a monster or demon and get the remaining bone fragments.

That wouldn’t be easy either.

Among the monsters and beasts, there were many that would even chew on bones.

Even the manticore that Sinar carved into pieces is a creature that chases people by smell and enjoys chewing them up bone by bone.

Of course, this is because the group was moving around noisily, so the guy reacted.

I saw some ghouls there, and I also encountered a few spider-like creatures.

Even if you’re a great hunter, is it really possible for you to survive here? Alone? With a child?

“I think I got hit.”

To be exact, it was not the pursuers, but the target they were chasing who fell for the tricks they used.

In other words, I was completely fooled by the saint’s trick.

Encred collected his thoughts and calculated the movements of the fleeing saint.