Eternally Regressing Knight Chapter 591

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“Social?”

When Encred asked calmly, Aekku frowned.

“What are you saying?”

Isn’t it? I don’t think so. If it was a social gathering, they wouldn’t have done something so sloppy.

And Christ said that among the social classes, those who do important work will know him.

“Think about it. If there’s someone who stands up and interferes with everything you do, it’s only natural to find out who that is. It’d be strange if there weren’t assassination attempts.”

That was Christ’s words. If we look more closely, there was an actual assassination attempt, but they didn’t know about it.

Because there was a request from Saxony.

Other assassination attempts were thwarted or resolved by Saxony.

A while ago, an apostle of curses came, but in fact, it was difficult to know the inside story.

How could you possibly know that the hideous, suddenly dead man was the Apostle of the Curse?

Anyway, didn’t you say that you would grind your teeth just by hearing your name in social settings?

So, if the level of the attack was this high, the probability that they were a cult was extremely low. That was Encred’s conclusion.

“Is this human trafficking?”

When I asked again without drawing my weapon, the men also felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange.

I think I touched this wrong?

Should I back off at this point?

But that couldn’t be the case.

Encred didn’t know it, but Crossguard was becoming a lawless city.

The influence of the market or the administrators was small, and the power was held by thieves’ guilds and brotherhoods.

The group that just attacked Encred was also a group with the funny name of the Awl Brotherhood, which meant that if you were to swear, you would get stabbed.

This was a criminal guild that was famous for avenging anyone who messed with their brothers, but the problem was that they didn’t even know who their opponents were.

They had seen a traveler come after a long time and that he was being guided by the administrator, but they only looked at the crona he had. The captain was a fool. They were brave enough to survive until now.

“Kill him!”

As Aekku spoke, men with sharp swords drawn from both sides rushed forward.

The hallway was narrow and not a good environment for drawing and swinging a longsword.

They were armed with a pair of axes, each about a foot long. They worked well together.

Instead of rushing in, they lined up two by two in the narrow hallway and attacked at the same time.

But even if only a squire of the Knights Templar had been present, there was no way he could have been defeated.

No, even the best soldiers among the Border Guard’s standing army were enough to deal with them.

Encred moved left and right, extending his hands without even drawing his weapon.

Of course, it was a speed at which the opponent couldn’t even react.

In the lamp light, shadows rose and fell from left to right.

It seemed as if a black soot-covered evil spirit was eating human shadows. From the perspective of the Brotherhood of the Awl, it might have been true.

Encred grabbed his opponent’s wrist and twisted it so fast that his opponent couldn’t even react.

Wood crack!

“evil!”

A scream followed, and as soon as he twisted his wrist, his jaw was immediately pulled out. It was Audyn’s specialty. He would press down on the lower part of the ball with his fingers and push down, causing the joint area to fall out.

“Ugh.”

The pain must have been unspeakable since the joint had been forcibly pulled out. The guy whose jaw had been pulled out couldn’t even scream properly and was drooling. Soon, tears started flowing.

I was about to pounce on him after seeing his expression, but then I turned around wondering what the hell was going on, but Encred was not going to just sit by and watch.

The dagger that the first one to have his wrist broken dropped had already ended up in Encred’s hands.

Encred measured the weight of the dagger and threw it immediately.

The dagger flew through the air with a ping and was stuck behind Aekku’s thigh.

Phew!

“Whoa!”

Boom, boom.

The guy didn’t jump but rolled down the stairs.

I didn’t even intend to kill Encred, but I thought that if he died like that, then there was nothing I could do about it.

All of this action was over before I could even breathe.

Even the healthy guys naturally froze. Those who were trying to stab with their swords rolled their eyes.

In the meantime, Luagarne had also come down after taking care of the two on the roof.

She had jumped out and was climbing up from the first floor. There was no way Encred would miss her, but if there was anyone who escaped using a strange method like sleeping scent, he was going to catch them.

Of course, there was no way she would miss such an attempt, but it was Luagarne’s habit to fight while understanding the terrain and situation. Encred also learned this well from her, so they fought separately.

All of this has created an environment that blocks the way out.

Even though the two didn’t talk in detail, they could tell this much just by looking at each other.

There were still two men standing, both holding daggers, but unable to move.

“Did you kill him?”

Encred asked, looking down, ignoring his surroundings, and Luagarne spoke as she came up the stairs.

“Oh. Shouldn’t we just save one or two? The kid doesn’t seem to care, and the innkeeper seems to know. It seems like someone scared him.”

Luagarne’s hands were really quick. In the process, she even glanced at the innkeeper’s face.

Encred nodded as if it was no big deal.

Did you just close your eyes to survive even though you knew it? That could also be considered wrong. If you see something wrong and take advantage of it, that would be the same.

Anything can be considered a sin if you see it as one, but I had no intention of judging it.

People have to adapt to their environment to survive, but if they were determined to do something like this, it wouldn’t have been a big deal to threaten the innkeeper.

“Want more?”

Encred asked friendly. The two dagger-wielding bandits knelt obediently.

In their eyes, these were monsters. They weren’t wrong.

Because to the average person, Prock and the Knight are monsters.

I jumped in just believing in the scent of sleep, but it didn’t work, so it was an expected result.

Encred shrugged and took the brazier containing the incense outside.

“Another brazier.”

“yes?”

“Change to a stove.”

There was no need to move the bed yet.

Looking at the general atmosphere, it doesn’t seem like anything would change even if you moved somewhere else.

There must be one of two reasons why they acted like this even though they clearly saw the administrator or something bringing them.

It could be that Administrator Nari knew but was pretending not to know, or it could be that the administrator was behind it.

Encred thought about this and searched through the thief’s chest for a thick rope.

‘It was human trafficking.’

It seemed like they had at least some tools to tie up people to sell them. They really had no intention of killing them. Encred tied the hands and feet of the two thieves and sat them down in front of the door.

“Wake me up if anyone comes.”

It was like creating a thief doorbell on the spot.

“When it’s time to sleep, you should sleep.”

As he spoke, Luagarne nodded. It meant that she agreed. It was true that one should rest well when one can. And the two of them really did sleep.

The two thieves were troubled by the tightly wrapped rope, but they also had no intention of running away.

The two of them fought against the fear among the corpses of their comrades. It seemed as if they would come out at any moment and stab them with their swords.

It was only at dawn that the source of the terror came out, untied the rope, and spoke.

“Put it away.”

The two thieves cleaned up the traces of last night. Of course, the traces of blood on the floor were not completely erased. The inn already had a coppery smell, and now it was mixed with the smell of blood.

Encred dragged a backless chair from the room and sat down in the hallway.

Luagarne rubbed her eyes a few times, wrapped the whip around her waist, and came out, leaning against the wall in front of the stairs. She was in a good position to react no matter what happened.

“Who ordered you to do this?”

Encred asked.

“No one told me to do it.”

One of the thieves swallowed hard and said.

“When tourists or peddlers come, they just catch them, threaten them, extort some krona, and steal it.”

The thief continued, but it didn’t seem like there was any truth in what he said.

Unfortunately, the captain who fell down the stairs died, but the cause of death was strange. Instead of his neck being broken, he died with a crumb-like spot on the white of his eye.

‘He didn’t die because his cervical vertebrae were out.’

Even if rigor mortis had set in, the body was strangely hard and heavy. It felt as if the body was turning into hard stone.

Or maybe the intestines were made of stone.

The body was so heavy that it took two struggling men to carry it away.

Encred thought it was strange, but didn’t really ask when asked. Luagarne saw it too, but she just said it was strange.

“The administrator brought us here, so what are we going to do about it?”

When I asked the two doorbells, they both said that the administrator was a retard with a long neck and didn’t even notice.

The city is already in the grip of a civil war between guilds, with murders occurring every day, but the administrator said he was just a human being desperate to save his own life.

Encred wondered, “Really?” He had already met the snake-eye administrator and he didn’t seem to notice anything.

The two remaining thieves also added that the truly strong one was the Windblade, and I found that story quite amusing.

He was said to have killed a famous knight and was hiding here.

The two chattered nonstop. Naturally, neither of them wanted to cross the black river with one swing of the sword.

In the midst of the half-sobbing, half-chattering conversation, Encred managed to glean a few useful bits of information.

The bottom line is that this city is rotten to the core, socially and otherwise.

So what should we do now?

‘I have to eat from the morning.’

Encred did as he pleased. He got up and ordered food.

“Are you really planning to eat here?”

Then the innkeeper asked. He was holding a large kitchen knife in his hand, but he didn’t seem to be in the mood to fight. His face showed his emotions, full of anxiety and worry.

“If you don’t eat at the inn, what are you going to eat?”

“Just go out and catch some locusts and eat them.”

Luagarne said something next to her, but Encred just tapped the table.

The owner sighed deeply and turned around. Then the child employee came over and whispered.

“Well, it’s better to run away.”

“why?”

The child learned to see the world through the eyes of a child.

What is the scariest thing for a child who has never left the city of Crossguard since birth?

These are the people who usually threaten you. These are the people who have never been punished for anything they have done.

To this child, the crime guild was on par with the god of death.

“Scary people are coming.”

The child didn’t think Encred was a bad person, so he spoke with courage, but the person he was talking to didn’t even pretend to listen.

The first floor of the inn also served as a restaurant. Although it was early in the morning, guests came in one by one. And among them, two men with fierce expressions approached Encred.

Drrrrrr.

A man grabbed the back of a chair and dragged it over to the table next to where Encred was sitting.

He sat down with his legs spread and the back of the chair pressed against his chest, and looked at Encred intently and asked.

“What are you?”

Encred also turned his gaze and naturally scanned his opponent.

The first thing I saw were two short swords hanging from his waist. Those were his main weapons. Judging from the worn leather around the handles, it seemed like they had been used for a long time.

If it was uncomfortable, he was ready to draw his sword at any time, even in an uncomfortable position. I could tell just by looking at him.

“Guests waiting for breakfast.”

“That’s not wrong.”

Encred spoke and Luagarne received. Crossguard was dominated by three criminal guilds.

There were a lot of things that happened to get the city to where it is, but to make a long story short, a few criminal guilds suddenly got bigger and they couldn’t be controlled.

There was even an incident where a commander of a stationed unit was killed in a guild war, and there were also rumors that other commanders were actually close to guild members.

As time passed in this state, it soon became a lawless city centered around criminal guilds.

As a result, gambling and drugs became rampant, and it was common for people to die on the streets.

It was natural that a foul smell would waft out when entering the alley, and because excrement was not properly disposed of, feces were strewn all over the place.

That’s why there were so many rats and many people got sick.

The man who had just approached Encred was a member of one of the three criminal guilds.

“Oh, really?”

The man answered with a sly grin. He didn’t have a cute face, but Encred thought it was cute.

Even though you seem relaxed in your speech, aren’t you nervous and putting a lot of strength into your toes and fingertips?

The intention was obvious.