Episode 27
“The Viscount is alive!”
“Escape! Escape and take the Viscount…”
Senior Knight Raoul’s death was a great shock not only to the general soldiers but also to the Tethron Knights, but they felt an even greater sense of duty to protect their master.
The remaining Tethron knights began to band together to escape.
Of course, McLane’s forces and Logan had no intention of letting them go.
“Everyone surrender! If you don’t surrender, the only thing you face is death!”
Logan’s booming voice, as if he had regained his strength, contained a force that overwhelmed the battlefield.
However, there were people who could not accept reality despite seeing his momentum and the achievements he had achieved.
“Don’t be funny, kid!”
The knight of Tethron, who was probably 2 meters tall, rushed forward like lightning and swung a two-handed sword.
It was a fast attack that was completely unsuitable for his size, but it still had great power. There was a rush of slashes that perfectly utilized the advantages of the huge body and the great sword.
but.
Ugh.
It was actually the article that was split apart with a horrifying sound.
dump.
“If you want to leave behind a corpse, surrender!”
Logan, covered in blood spattering from the body that had been split lengthwise in two, bared his teeth and screamed again.
Logan’s blood-stained appearance maximized the effect of his overwhelming force on the battlefield.
“The Archduke killed a knight with a single sword….”
“Did the Prince have that level of skill?”
Even the allied knights who were unaware of Logan’s activities were sick of it, so it was an even more enormous pressure on the Tethron knights.
“Damn. Is this really a reward?”
“Damn it! Where did such a monster come from?”
“Isn’t this bad…”
Logan, with his body covered in blood, had a creepy appearance. The McLane knights rushed at him, led by him, and the troops surrounded him.
And in the meantime, even Padric, who had taken out four intermediate knights despite being seriously injured, was announced to be alive and well.
Even in that situation, only after the heads of the nine knights who resisted until the end were cut off did the 32 remaining knights of Tethron surrender.
* * *
“Viscount Tethron?”
“It looks like he ran away.”
“Really? Well, anyway, the place to go is obvious.”
Logan’s eyes were complex as he saw his father sitting on the floor without any shelter and spraying potion on his wounds.
“Are you okay?”
“Then it’s okay. It couldn’t be better than this.”
“Fortunately, the.”
“Well, there are a lot of things I want to ask you, but let’s put them off until the war for now.”
Logan, who read his father’s will, nodded silently.
“Okay now let’s go end the war.”
I could feel the bright energy in his light voice.
His eyes seemed stronger than usual, as if saying it was okay wasn’t an empty statement.
But that created a small problem at this point.
“Get the knights ready! We’ll head straight to Tethron Castle.”
Padric’s appearance was truly brave, but it was not what Logan had hoped for.
‘Then you’re in trouble.’
Logan, who expected his father to come out like that, spoke the words he had prepared in advance.
“Don’t overdo it and make sure your wounds are treated. I will lead the mercenary group first and head to Tethron’s main castle. And I will end this war.”
Fortunately, my father could not understand the meaning behind the words.
“Hmm… yes, do that.”
I just smiled brightly and nodded.
“then.”
Logan got impatient for no reason, so he nodded and immediately turned around.
“Logan.”
At that time, his father flopped down in his seat again and called him in a low voice.
“yes?”
Padrick, who made eye contact with Logan who turned around, waved his hand without trying to say something.
“…No, no, go and see.”
Logan tilts his head and turns around at the sight of his father.
“…Thank you.”
I flinch.
It was a small voice that I wondered if even someone right next to me could hear.
However, Logan, who had acquired transcendental senses thanks to the Force Core, heard it clearly in his ears.
A strange feeling of being warm and yet depressed struck his heart.
It felt like some of the memories and resentment from my past life were melting away.
‘no. I was sorry.’
As I lowered my head, remembering the mistakes of my past life, I smiled strangely.
It was a feeling I felt for the first time while recalling my past life.
But that strange sense of disconnect wasn’t bad.
There was a lot I wanted to say because my heart was tickling, but I couldn’t get it out loud.
“…I’ll be back.”
All that came out was a small voice just like my father’s.
On the way to chasing Harman Tethron.
Logan, riding at the head, had a slightly carefree smile on his face.
* * * Doo doo doo doo.
A war horse galloped alone across the field.
“Hey!”
The rider was busy repeatedly whipping the tired horse, reflecting his nervousness.
‘Where on earth did it all go wrong?’
The head of Harman Tethron, a horseman with a distorted expression, was so complicated that it felt like it was about to explode at any moment.
‘Everything was perfectly prepared.’
It took a whopping three years to prepare for it.
The armament of soldiers was strengthened, and training of conscripts as well as regular troops was conducted periodically.
In order to reduce the 70 knights to 100, they reached out to other nobles.
Meanwhile, we had the good fortune of having Raoul, the knight commander, grow up to be a senior knight.
The moment he confirmed Raoul’s power, he made a plan for this territory war and was confident of victory.
However, all these plans came to nothing when unexpected people appeared.
‘Those guys! Those cavalry guys ruined everything. Especially that weapon!’
A rain of death pouring down in succession from an unheard of crossbow.
It was fired from a distance that could not even be responded to, and even if its existence was known from the beginning, it was a weapon close to fraud that could not be thought of as a way to stop it other than mobilizing the knights.
‘No, even if that was the case, could it have been prevented?’
As he was leaving the battlefield dressed in the uniform of an ordinary soldier, he saw a red-haired bastard running through the soldiers and striking off the knight’s head.
It was clearly the guy shooting the crossbow at the front of the cavalry.
If that guy is that helpless, maybe the other guys are too…
“No! That can’t be possible!”
Haman shouted angrily and shook his head to shake off the ominous thoughts.
Judging by his red hair, he must be Padric’s son.
A monster like that couldn’t be common.
Even if it was common, it didn’t matter anymore.
The war he had risked everything on had already been lost and his ambitions were shattered.
But not everything was over.
‘You can live if you go there. And as long as you make good use of the information about it….’
Haman Tethron continued to whip his horse and drove towards Tethron Castle.
Whether it was good luck or bad luck, the horse was almost at the gate before he coughed up blood and collapsed.
Heeheeheehee.
dump.
Haman jumped down from his fallen horse, almost falling, and shouted to the top of the castle wall.
“Open the gates! Your master has returned!”
He was wearing a shabby soldier’s uniform, but fortunately, one of the gatekeepers recognized his face.
As I barely opened the gate and entered, I heard an urgent shout.
“There’s something coming!”
“It’s like a cavalry cavalry!”
Hearing the soldiers’ words, Haman Tethron got goosebumps all over his body.
“Block the castle gate! Protect it at all costs!”
“…yes?”
He knew very well that this was an unreasonable order for the few dozen soldiers guarding the castle gate.
However, no other commands could be given.
“No one should be allowed to pass!”
Leaving only a vague sound, he rushed towards the inner palace.
“Hurry, hurry! Collect as much as you can that can become wealth! Where is Velua, Velua? Get ready to run away right away!”
The moment I entered the inner room, Haman let out a scream-like yell.
Annoyed by the bewildered expressions of his attendants, he pushed them away and ran into his office.
Even though I left the battlefield and ran non-stop, the enemy caught up right behind me.
It felt like the cool reaper’s blade was pointed at the back of my neck.
Harman, who was being chased by that creepy feeling, quickly entered the office and closed the door.
Then he immediately found his secret space and opened the safe.
‘You should at least bring gold coins. Only then…’
Haman hurriedly swept up the gold items that were his last remaining lifeline into a shabby bag.
And at that moment, a servant who was almost out of breath urgently reported the situation.
“The castle gate has been breached!”
Haman’s complexion became pale at the news, which was tantamount to a death sentence.
* * * The journey from the plain where the battle took place to Tethron Castle took more than five hours by horseback without stopping.
Even though I galloped without taking the minimum amount of rest for the horse’s stamina, I could barely see the back of the enemy’s head.
The man who jumped through the closing castle gate was wearing shabby clothes, but it is unlikely that a single soldier would be treated with such courtesy by the same soldier.
“You jumped out too quickly.”
Logan’s eyebrows furrowed, but there was no hesitation in his command.
“Occupy Castle Tethron and capture the Viscount!”
“yes!”
The number of troops visible above the walls was less than 100.
It was clear that Tethron Territory had also mobilized almost all of its forces for battle.
Because of this, even when a siege was ordered with only about 300 troops, no one objected.
Logan took the lead and charged towards the castle.
“Tesron is defeated! Open the gates and welcome the rightful victor!”
His cry rang out loud enough to be heard clearly by the soldiers on the castle walls, across the wide fields.
Logan smiled cruelly as he looked at the Tethron soldiers flinching at the sound.
All that came at him as he charged was a few arrows, so there was no need for cover fire from the mercenaries.
Logan, who rushed forward alone, kicked off his horse and jumped into the air right in front of the castle gate.
I felt light thanks to the leather armor I wore after throwing away the heavy armor that the enemy’s senior knight had turned into rags. With his strengthened body and the power of the Force, he lightly climbed the wall and soared over the castle wall in one go.
“Open the gate. If you don’t want everyone to die.”
And before I knew it, Logan’s sword was pointed at the neck of the leader of the Ten, who was guarding the walls of Tethron.
With that alone, the gates of Tethron Castle were opened very easily.
“Let’s go! Find Harman Thethron!”
Finding his whereabouts was an instant.
The sight of the servants pointing in the direction before even raising their swords made it clear that he wasn’t evaluated very well even in normal times.
The man who arrived like that and was called the chamberlain of the castle secretly pointed to a gap in the bookshelf in the office, and Logan found the Viscount hiding in the gap as if he was stuck on the wall.
“Hi!”
Haman Tethron trembled as if he had faced a ghost, as if he had long ago abandoned the dignity of a nobleman.
“I finally got it.”
Puzzle.
Logan gritted his teeth with regret for his past life.
‘My family was destroyed in my previous life because of one guy like that…’
But the moment he approached me with an angry face.
“I will surrender. We will compensate you through either compensation or allocation according to the customs of the territory. Please spare me and my family’s lives.”
The guy knelt down and changed his attitude drastically.
“According to custom?”
Logan was so dumbfounded that he almost laughed.
“They just declared a territorial war and did nothing. They invaded in one day and it was bad luck for us…Haman Tethron, is there a hair on your conscience?”
Logan calmly walked towards Haman, who was slumped on the floor.
He was languid.
He had a murderous look in his eyes and an unstoppable attitude. Haman’s response became fierce:
“Protect the honor of the nobles! Prisoners captured in territory battles are guaranteed life…”
“Honor of nobility? It’s good. We, the McLane family, respect honor, so we will also follow customs. Therefore, I will guarantee the life of Haman Tethron and give you time to leave with some wealth and family.” ”
Thank you…”
Haman sighs in relief. But Logan’s life did not decrease.
“Why why? With those eyes…”
“I’m sure my father would have said this. They will accept surrender even if there are no conditions. Because you know that honor is everything.”
“Ugh!” As
Logan took a step closer, the ominous Viscount shrieked and rubbed his butt and stepped back.
Logan ignored Haman and took all kinds of jewels from the open safe. He took out a crafted dagger.
“…It’s a pretty sword.”
“Take it. It was handcrafted by Sefina, the kingdom’s best craftsman…”
Haman’s mouth moved incessantly as a suffocating fear penetrated his skin.
But Logan slowly shook his head.
“No. It’s better for you to have this.”
“What?”
“Now…”
Sreung!
Logan showed off the sharp and beautiful blade and forcibly placed the dagger that was pulled out of the scabbard into the Viscount’s hand.
Logan looked at the Viscount’s bewildered face. He smiled brightly as he looked at him.
And…
Puuuuck.
“Cough!”
He moved the Viscount’s hand, which he was holding, and drove the dagger into his solar plexus.
“Cough.” I said I would save your life…”
“I said that my father would save my life.”
That’s right.
The dagger stuck in his solar plexus ignored the Viscount’s instinctive resistance and slowly went down.
“I’m sorry, but it’s not me.”
The Viscount’s face was distorted. Looking at Logan’s face, he smiled cruelly.
‘I could pierce his heart in one go, but…’ He
had no intention of killing him that easily.
With cold eyes, he added strength to the blade.
“Queuuu. Your noble’s… honor…”
“Ha! Do you know how many people died because of your greed? Noble honor? Before that, what was a person’s conscience?!”
Even if we don’t count the grudges from his past life, how many Young Ji-min died in this war? ”
Let’s
just end that ugly life here.”
A viscount with a distorted face as his stomach is completely split open and his internal organs are spilling out. He couldn’t even scream.
His mouth was wide open and his eyes looked like they were going to pop out at any moment. His body was trembling. He
looked like he was in extreme pain, and the Viscount was quickly heading towards death.
“Consider yourself lucky that you can die so easily.”
If he had been caught running away in the field instead of inside the castle, he would have been killed horribly, at least in much more excruciating pain than this.
However, there were many people who witnessed him entering the office. They were
a little concerned about the customs he mentioned, so they made it a hassle to deal with it like this. It was just that.
Did he hear what Logan said? The moment his wide-open eyes grew a little wider, the faint sound of breathing could no longer be heard.
Logan smiled brightly as he watched Viscount Harman Thethron’s final days.
It was not that he felt pleasure from the pain of his enemies. .
“Finally…”
It was just the sense of accomplishment that I had now overcome a difficult moment.
It finally felt real. That I had overcome my family’s crisis.
‘Ah. I have to take care of everything.’
Logan wiped the smile off his face with only a proud feeling and shouted outside.
“Viscount Harman Thethron attempted suicide!!”
The voice rang throughout the castle and had a great resonance.
The war was lost. Viscount Theron, heartbroken, took advantage of a momentary lack of surveillance and cut himself open.
Archduke Logan tried to save him, even at the cost of blood, but by the time the priest arrived, he had already died.
Many people were confused when they heard the rumor, but no one. No one asked Logan for the truth,
and with this, Tethron Castle completely fell to the McLane family.
