Eternally Regressing Knight Chapter 703

703. Used both

Alexandra has a habit of harassing her opponents in duels.
Odinkar can’t tell the difference between real and practice when he’s engrossed, and Grida has face recognition disorder.
Rhinox has a similar deficiency.
He lacks the ability to judge which side to take. If he doesn’t act according to his mood, it’s like a ticklish itch in his butt.
An anecdote from his youth when he wandered the continent as a mercenary is a good example of his bad habits.

“Why are you standing there?”

Rhinox answered confidently to the question asked by his allies yesterday.

“Ah, I decided to take your side from today.”
“What the hell? Even if you’re a mercenary who’s been sold to Crona, don’t you have any business ethics?”
“Ah, I don’t know.”

Rhinox attempted to assassinate the onlookers by closing their ears and bursting their clothes. Of course, he failed.
Yesterday, he was on the ally, today, he was the enemy, and he had switched his affiliation with just a few drinks.
The more intimate reason, known only to Rhinox, was that he had a friend on the enemy side that he liked.
When he mixed his sword once, he realized that there was someone who was too good to kill.
That’s why he switched sides.
The nobles were fighting over land, and eventually, the noble on the other side hired a famous mercenary company.
You could say that his anger slapped his reason.
The noble on the other side couldn’t back down after hearing that, so he hired a mercenary company of similar size, and the light fight between ten or so people developed into a large-scale battle.
And the ending was truly hopeless. Both nobles ended up ruined.
One side didn’t have enough krona to pay the mercenary company, and the other side’s brought in territory residents rebelled.
Well, this wouldn’t have been a problem if Rhinox or the mercenaries had intervened and subdued them, but since the fight was almost over, I thought it was unnecessary, so I withdrew.
Rhinox wasn’t given the nickname of Destroyer for nothing.
Of course, it was because he specialized in destroying technology, but it was also a nickname given to him because he sometimes caused a complete disaster in the situation.
That’s why he was sometimes given the unpleasant nickname of a mercenary who could always be an enemy.
Anyway, this is why Rhinox didn’t make any decisions on his own. That’s why he’s not a pioneer. He does
n’t walk his own path, but follows others.
He knew that if he did whatever he felt like, things would go wrong, so it was true that he couldn’t become the head of the household.
His question reflected his life and personality up until now.
When he finished explaining the situation, the head of the household would make the decision. That was Rhinox’s way of thinking. And the words that came out of the head of the household were ‘let’s fight.’
In the midst of this, a fierce voice rang out from the separated group.

“Did my father say that?”

Kwaaaa. The pouring rain muffled some of his voice, but not so much that he couldn’t hear.
The reason why the two groups were divided and fighting within Zaun was simple. No, it was complicated.
One side was friends of those who had been hurt by Hescal.
The other side was those who believed that Hescal would never do that.
They didn’t believe him even when he told them how much Hescal had cared for them and what he had done.
While the two groups were showing their fierce aura toward each other, something in the sky clumped together and moved in an artificial shape, drawing something that looked like a human face.
What is this?
Encred’s head tilted up in surprise. The rain hit his eyes and he looked up at the sky crookedly, and the thing that had formed a large face above his head spoke.

“You who are cursed, I will receive you into my arms. Come out of there now and seek the light. Those who do will live and get what they want.”

It’s an order.
And a threat.
Also, I feel an overwhelming presence. It can’t be helped.
Suddenly, a head bigger than a parade ground appears above my head and speaks.
And the will behind those words is so great that my skin tingles.

Swish.

There was even a strange method mixed in. Everyone was looking at the head floating in the sky. A black shadow suddenly appeared behind the head of the head.
All four of them reacted. Encred took a step to the side, the head of the head turned his waist and swung his elbow, and Rhinox spread his blade and stabbed.
And Alexandra’s sword came out of its scabbard and was put back in faster than anyone else.
The rain covered the sound, covered the smell, and dulled the five senses. In the meantime, it was a scaler that had attempted an assassination.
It had black scales mixed with red scales. It
wasn’t a named creature, but it looked like a special individual. So it must have been an evolved or transformed monster.

Bam!

The man whose neck had been pierced by Alexandra’s sword strike was struck by Gaju’s elbow.
The man was blown away like a kite with a snapped string and fell.

Boom, chin!

The monster that rolled around a few times squirmed and got up again. Is he a strong-willed guy?
He got up after being beaten like that?
Should I say he has extraordinary vitality?
Rhinox was the one who ended it. He took back the hand that had stabbed the air and quickly walked in front of the guy.

“What are you?”

As he spoke, he pulled out a sword with a thin blade and cut off the punctured neck. With a rustling sound, the severed neck rolled through the rainwater.
The drawn sword was returned to its scabbard at a frightening speed.

“Written.”

As he put his sword in, Rhinox waved his hand in the air. I could tell from the training that his current state was not normal.
The blackness of the area hit by Hescal was a sign of poisoning. That was what was affecting Rhinox.

“The damn guy said that the disease was worsening for two days from today. I was scratched by a poisonous sword in the midst of the dock. The baby was crazy.

The engraved weapon is a weapon that contains the knight’s will. He put poison on it? If he didn’t use poison from the beginning, but chose that method to win, then his will would be damaged.
But he did it anyway.
He would be curious about what was going on in Hascal’s head. Encred felt the same way.
And it wouldn’t be that hard to guess.
The situation up until now was piling up in his head. His thinking ability organized what he saw and heard based on that piling up.

‘Schmidt came from the Empire and has no intentions.’

But Hescal must have used him. It was as if he had persuaded him to get on board with the Empire.
You can tell by looking at Schmidt’s expression now.
He looked like someone who had gone on a picnic smelling flowers and ended up stepping on horse dung.
He was angry because of the unexpected behavior.

‘Using the word Schmidt creates confusion.’

It was a simple structure, but it was easy to fall for if you didn’t know about it. Actually, it was easy now that I look at it, because when I first saw it, I thought Encred was also the Empire’s trick.

‘Hascal manages and personally moves those who travel between the three villages.’

So it would have been easy for him to hear that Odinkar or Magrun were returning, and that he, Anne, and Ragnar had joined them.

‘Why did you aim for Anne?’

That’s not Hescal’s work. He just meddled.

‘It was Hascal who opened the way and intended the direction, but it was not what he wanted.’

I saw his swordsmanship. The precision displayed in his swordsmanship suggests that he has strengths in using his head in this way.
So, the one who wants that is a magician or sorcerer.

‘He has sorcerers and wizards under his command.’

Or as an assistant.

‘Not leaving coincidence as coincidence.’

Hescal did so. Now that we’ve come this far, we can see that Encred herself was being used by him without even knowing it.

‘The head of the household has made me suspicious.’

Ragnar, who returned after several years, immediately asks for sunrise. The head of the household and his wife knew the current crisis, so they could not give him sunrise or anything right away.
Then, a suspicion arises. Could Encred of the Border Guard be the one behind Zaun? Isn’t it reasonable to suspect?
To outsiders, the Border Guard seemed like a group that suddenly appeared. To someone who didn’t know, it would seem like Naurilia had revealed her hidden power, just as Azpen had hidden her knight power.

As expected, Naurilia has hidden the dagger.

This is how the thinking could end up.
Zaun is powerful. Enough for a recruiter named Schmidt from the Empire to come and speak to them.
Zaun would always refuse the calls of those who demanded their power. Sometimes they would use force, and sometimes they would compromise.
Because this happened repeatedly, they became nervous about the intentions of the armed group that had hidden their true intentions.
Hescal would have used this to cleverly make them suspect each other.

‘You even showed Grida the traces of a monster on purpose.’

What was Hescal doing behind the scenes? He was buying time. In other words, he was going through the same thing in Zaun that he had been through on his way to Zaun.

‘It hurts.’

It was a proper hit.
If Kreis or Abnayer were there, wouldn’t it have been hit?
I don’t know.
Now, I understand Hescal’s accident. It’s a stalling attempt. I don’t know the purpose. I can’t guess that.
Then what about Gaju?
If we ask Anne, Gaju even postponed treatment. It’s right to think that she refused the diagnosis. What she said then was ‘not now’.
Only Anne heard that, and Anne said that only to herself and Ragnar. It was natural.
Ragnar heard it himself while protecting her, but even if he hadn’t, there wouldn’t have been anyone else to talk to except for these two.
Anne said she came to cure illnesses, not curses, and stirred things up here and there.
No one said anything, but they looked uncomfortable somewhere.
It was like an outsider suddenly asking how long she had been coughing.

‘It might have seemed like he was ignoring the therapist named Mileschia.’

How clever.
The head of the household had conveyed the words ‘not now’ to himself and Ragna.
He had said it through Anne, using my illness.
Was it a message that it was not the right time to take the sunrise?
Or was it a message telling me to wait for whatever purpose I had come here for?
It feels a little late to realize it now, but whenever I think of ‘not now’, I have various thoughts, so I think it would be okay to say that the head of the household had some intentions.
This is one of the conclusions I have reached after conjecturing up to this point.

‘I’ve been waiting for this too.’

Odinkar said he was frustrated when he encountered a veiled enemy while coming to Zaun.

‘It’s the same as Gaju. He wanted the enemy to be exposed.’

I knew that if I left it alone, it would eventually fester and burst, so I wanted to see the enemy inside as quickly as possible.

‘ah.’

The head of the household also used Encred. He saw the reputation of Encred of the Border Guard and Ragnar’s skills. He
must have also taken care to ensure that Anne did not feel uncomfortable moving around the household.
Even if it was not visible on the outside, he did so.

‘Alexandra also taught me.’

Why? This is a sign that we are allies.
If we were enemies, there is nothing we can do, but what if Encred happened to come at this timing?

‘This side also doesn’t leave coincidence as coincidence.’

He pulled the suddenly rolling stone towards him as much as possible. So that
the one holding it would have the advantage even a little.
In this way, Gaju exposed the enemy called Hescal.
Hescal bought time and captured the moment he wanted.
Gaju had been waging a war of wits with an invisible enemy for years.

“These authors are really.”

Encred muttered.
Meanwhile, the face floating in the air shamelessly sent the scaler away.

“What difference does the addition of two swordsmen and a young girl make? Tempest Jawoon?”

Then, Encred laughed involuntarily at the sight of Gaju’s actions.
Gaju raised his fist toward the air and revealed the longest finger in the middle of his hand. Yes, he extended his middle finger.
Although cultures differed from continent to continent, it had the same meaning for everyone present.
Well, it was basically telling him to shut up and get out.
Or asking him to try his penis.
It was a gesture that didn’t really match his serious expression.
Gaju wasn’t hiding his emotions. Encred knew that now.

“Grida can’t recognize people, and Alexandra has a disease that causes hives to appear on her body if she doesn’t tease someone during a duel.”
“Not to that extent.”

Alexandra chimed in from the side, but isn’t this something that others can see better?
This is the objective third-party perspective.

“Just as Magrun couldn’t hold back his harsh words, you don’t know how to show your emotions.”

Gaju nodded at Encred. The emotions he showed toward Ragna earlier must have been real.
The worry was real, and the joy was real.

Kwaarrung.

A lightning strike of a different scale than before struck. Dozens of white rays split from above his head, splitting his face floating
in the sky from where he had come from. As the lightning tore through his face, only pitch-black dark clouds remained in the sky as before.
Only then did Ragna emerge from inside and ask.

“I have a penny targeting Anne, so I came to cut it down. What’s going on?”

Encrid gave a terse answer.

“fight.”

Ragna nodded. It wasn’t obvious, but it was a nod that showed a sense of anticipation.
If not, I would have just let it go in one ear and out the other.
I don’t know why, but he seemed to be frustrated, as if he had some kind of frustration.
It seemed like it would come out as anger, but he seemed to be holding it in well.
In conclusion, that kid was also a kid who couldn’t fight and was impatient.
Well, I guess I can guess why he was angry.

‘I’m not like that.’

Encred thought so, and was excited to deny what the figure in the sky had said earlier.

‘Just two swordsmen.’

What is the scope of that mere? It was worth exploring.
Of course, there would be a mountain of work to do before that, but for now, the first priority would be to stop the group that was about to bite each other in front of me.