Eternally Regressing Knight Chapter 590

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“There are four inns in Cross Guard, and this one is the cleanest.”

Luagarne nodded. It wouldn’t matter to Frock, who had a dull sense of smell.

Encred, despite his sensitive senses, could tolerate this much. There was a time when he wandered the mountains for several days while covered in the blood of a demon.

Compared to that time, it was an environment that was at least as good as a mansion, if not a palace. Of course, that didn’t mean it was good.

But I didn’t really want to go all the way to the mansion the administrator was talking about.

“Give me the best room.”

Snake Eyes gave the innkeeper a few coins and said:

The first floor of the inn was bustling, as it doubled as a pub.

As the party entered, three or four of the people occupying the greasy tables glanced back. None of them had clear eyes. Their eyes were bloodshot or seemed drunk on something. Those who looked back quickly turned their heads back and went back to their work.

It was not even early evening and the sun had not yet set, but people could be seen playing cards and such here and there.

There were six tables on the first floor, three of which were used for card games and two for dice games.

Encred became aware of a gaze that had not left his face until then.

It was the last remaining table. A sharp, needle-like dagger was stuck diagonally on the table, and there was a man with a scowl staring blankly at Encred.

Normally, when you lose an eye, you would cover it with something like an eye patch, but this guy exposed his injury as it was.

The scars were messy, as if he had been cut and scratched many times. It wasn’t particularly pleasing to the eye.

The guy right next to Aekku whispered something in his ear, but his voice was too quiet to be heard.

I only heard a few words, like sleep, night, and guest.

“Those guys from the Demonic Cult come out at night and kidnap people. That’s why people’s nerves are a bit tense.”

Snake Eyes spoke again while the employee, who looked to be over ten years old, went to clean the room.

Encred nodded and ordered a glass of rum. He liked milk and tea, but if he ordered something like that here, it would probably be a liquid that would be hard to swallow. He saw the owner sitting at the bar pouring an amber liquid into a tin cup.

That glass doesn’t look clean either.

Encred had that thought, but he accepted the glass and tasted it.

I wasn’t much of a drinker, but this was really something else. It was cheap rum mixed with water.

“It’s a fun city.”

Luagarne looked around and said, “It’s probably not really funny.”

The atmosphere was grim, harsh, hopeless and gloomy, and it hung over the entire city.

“How about going to the mansion right now?”

Snake Eyes asked with an attitude of respect for the other person’s intentions, but Encrid shook his head.

“It’s okay.”

I thought it would be better to stay here rather than staying in the mansion and constantly going back and forth, since I also had to look for the missing guild members.

Originally, it was said that to catch a ghoul, you had to carry raw meat dripping with blood in the middle of the night. If you wanted to catch a wild beast, you had to go into its den.

Moreover, could there be anyone here who would pose a danger to me? No, my intuition told me so.

“Then I hope you can defeat those demonic spirits.”

Snake Eyes spoke in a whisper and left, and Encred thought about why the eyes of an ordinary author looked like a snake, and it seemed easy to understand.

It was like a doll whose emotions were hard to read, like the eyes of the boatman I saw last night.

Compared to the boatman’s eyes, it was full of humanity.

After Snake Eyes left, a young waiter brought food.

There were mushy apples, eternal stew boiling in the corner of the inn, and roast pork, but Encred did not even touch the stew and mainly ate a few apples and roast meat.

The meat had a strong gamey smell and wasn’t good to eat.

But it wasn’t like I was picky about food like Ragnar.

After eating a quick meal, I went up to my room and it was cleaner than I expected. There was no bed, but the sleeping area was made up of several layers of blankets.

The inn was a three-story building, and the room was at the end of the third floor.

It smelled a little, but as long as there were no fleas, it was better than sleeping on the street with only a cloak on.

“Can you prepare some water to wash in? It would be better if there was something like a bathtub or a bathroom.”

“There is a bathtub.”

As Encred looked around the room, the boy employee quickly answered.

At those words, Encred flicked a silver coin and the child caught the shiny coin with both hands.

“ah.”

The child was a little surprised. It was quite a lot of money. The child glanced at the stairs leading down and said, hiding the silver coin in his pants.

“You are rich.”

The boy waiter was deeply moved and served her with all his heart. After eating and washing, he finished his first day in the city.

Cross Guard has reportedly seen few tourists or peddlers recently.

He said that it was because socializing had infiltrated the already difficult situation where making a living was difficult.

Perhaps because of that, there was no sign of life on either side of the room. Although the inn had over ten rooms, it seemed like only the group was staying on the third floor.

“I really don’t like that guy’s eyes.”

Encred nodded in agreement with Luagarne’s words. She took a few sips of the water provided by the inn and frowned.

They can live well in swamps and do not need to wash, but there is one thing they are picky about, and that is drinking water. They like clear water. Therefore, they would express considerable discomfort when they drink murky water.

“This is a place where nothing is right.”

Luagarne complained. In reality, there was nothing to complain about, such as where to sleep or what to eat, so it was because of the water.

The Border Guard had an abundance of water sources thanks to the nearby Pen-Hanil River, and there were many water bodies further up the mountain, so there was plenty of clear water.

The conditions here are not much different, but the fact that it is like this means that it is not being managed properly.

The gap between them and the border guard right next to them was clear.

Is it because he lost the war? Or is it because he lacks the qualities of a lord?

Both, I guess.

Encred nodded, thinking.

“I know.”

After exchanging a few words of insignificance, I closed my eyes and fell asleep, and saw the boatman. Encred felt like he had been dragged somewhere in a hurry, and it turned out to be true.

The boatman spoke as if he had been waiting, and he conveyed his intentions without even opening or closing his mouth.

“Compare that to my eyes?”

Today’s boatman was a bit familiar. He spoke lightly and cheerfully.

His personality is quite changeable.

He got angry first. It wasn’t hard to guess what he meant. He compared the snake’s eyes to the boatman’s. It seemed like he had overheard what he had been mulling over during the day.

But isn’t that something you shouldn’t say so hastily?

“It just is.”

Encred shrugged.

“How dare you.”

Regardless of the content, is it really that upsetting to compare them?

The boatman snorted and repeated his message, using the same content as yesterday but with a different tone.

“You can still go back. It’s not too late.”

Encred also started with a similar question as yesterday.

“Is something ominous coming?”

The boatman tried to say something at those words, but then closed his mouth. I couldn’t read his emotions, so it was just a guess, but the boatman’s attitude seemed like he didn’t want to talk to this kid.

“I’m not kidding.”

Encrid defended himself.

“Haha. Are you kidding me? How dare you? You only talk nonsense.”

The boatman laughed, but he didn’t pretend to laugh. He just conveyed his intention.

Encred thought again that the way the boatman was conveying the meaning he was using now was similar to how he was dealing with Will.

It was an unexpected realization. It wasn’t like anything would change right away, but it was a stroke of luck that came to me like the days when I found a silver coin on the street.

Encred said, recalling what he had just awakened to.

“Conveying your intentions is similar to dealing with Will.”

The boatman responded with a laugh and a snort of laughter. This time, he pretended to speak and conveyed his meaning properly.

“Didn’t I tell you at the beginning? You wouldn’t be able to properly perceive the conversation I had with you. Why is that? Because all of this was a conversation I had with you solely by will.”

But Encred remembered that conversation. The reason was something he couldn’t figure out even if he thought about it right away. And it wasn’t that important.

“Have a conversation with intention. Breathe in intention. Be natural and gentle.”

Encred pondered what he had learned through conversation.

The boatman laughed and got angry at the same time. It was a talent that he showed by his own will. When Encred began to recite, the boatman did not even snort and just stared at him for a while.

After a short while, the boatman conveyed his message again.

“……I said it’s not too late. Don’t forget.”

With him the boatman began to become clouded like fog.

What is this? Hasn’t this happened before?

Encrid smelled a pungent, stinging scent.

Have you ever smelled something while you were with the boatman? No.

Therefore, this was not an image, but a physical reaction.

It’s not a dream, something is happening.

“Go and see.”

The boatman’s words and realization were simultaneous. Encred’s eyes opened wide. There was a pungent smell in the room. It was not difficult to find the source of the smell.

It was a brazier filled with heated stones and charcoal to keep warm. Something was put inside to burn, and it was a sleeping scent that would make an average person fall asleep for two days just by smelling it.

Encred got up and slowly opened the window. Luagarne opened her eyes too, and when Encred pointed to the brazier with her finger, she noticed it right away and spoke.

“Growing up well and even taking care of things like this?”

Since she accepted it as a social problem, she has puffed out her cheeks a few times. It was a kind of determination, and it still is.

You’re going to start a fight as soon as you get to the city? Of course you’re going to be social. Luagarne held her breath and walked over to the window.

Encred didn’t immediately conclude that what had happened was due to the cult. It wasn’t something to be determined yet.

Rather, I just reflexively checked my body condition.

‘Is Dokdo mixed in?’

I stuck my head out and took a deep breath in the cold air, but it didn’t seem to be that. I didn’t smell the scent deeply either.

Even if it was Encred, if you took a lot of that kind of stuff, you would probably feel drowsy, but there was no sign of that.

It was thanks to my developed senses that I reacted as soon as I smelled the scent.

Didn’t Saxony say that when you stay in an unknown city, you should always start with your nose?

That was right.

It has also been said that the senses are the best warning lights.

My lungs expanded as I took a deep breath of night air.

‘No problem.’

I can use my fingers well and without feeling dizzy.

As I was leaving the window open to ventilate the room for a while, I felt a presence.

This is because the five senses are combined with hearing and the door to the sixth sense is opened.

Let’s build a day of senses based on sound, and we can roughly figure out the hidden location and number.

‘Two on the roof, two in each room.’

A total of six.

Is there a dangerous level among them? I don’t think there is, considering how much of my traces are being shed. That’s how I feel.

Encred raised his hand, lowered his palm to the floor, hit his chest with his thumb, raised his index finger to the sky, and pointed at Luagarne.

It was a signal for Luagarne to take over the room since he would take care of it himself.

Luagarne did not even nod, but just placed her hand on the window.

There was no need to check each other’s breathing or timing. The difference in power between them and the attackers was clear.

Frock jumped up onto the window with his feet up, and Encred slowly moved to open the door.

Quite.

As the rusty hinges creaked and it was time to catch my breath, the doors on the left and right opened.

The author came out of the room on the left and spoke, coming out of the dark shadows and under the lamp light.

“You will sleep soundly. People are tired.”

Judging from the scars on his face and his appearance, he was the author who lived on the first floor of the inn.

The one-eyed man who didn’t cover his eyes, and the people gambling next to him were also people I saw in the evening.