Chapter 688,
Chapter 176. Destiny for the two of them (2)
“My father…”
Jin poured a drink into his glass and looked at the distant sky.
When he thought of the Black Sea Expedition, which consisted of his father, older sister, and the family’s strongest Dark Knights, it felt as if mud was boiling inside him.
It’s no different that Jin hasn’t left to find the expedition.
The world’s best sword and the strongest warriors of the present era set out to find the end of the black sea that has never been known before.
Chasing them is infinitely near impossible, and Tikan is. No, Inse wasn’t in a situation where he was comfortable enough to be okay with his absence.
Zed resisted Rosa’s tyranny and left to find Shiron, and Moo-myeong said that he would send manpower to the Black Sea as soon as the matter about
Yona was settled… I had a hunch that it would only come when it came.
“I got the impression that you respected my father the first time we met in Sota Desert.”
“Respect… that’s not wrong. If I must correct it, it is more like awe.”
“Have you ever been defeated by your father at the Black Sea?”
Hedo let out a smirk.
“You speak for granted. Is there anyone who can stand against Sir Shiron and not be defeated? When I first saw Sir Shiron, I couldn’t even share a single sword.”
“How long after it entered the Black Sea?”
“It was about ten years ago. During those 10 years, I had a life-or-death situation not only with monsters, but also with countless other warriors who came to the Black Sea like me. I chose the Black Sea as my refuge, but there were a lot more warriors than I thought who came for training. There are over 500 that I have met.”
“Five hundred? Were there that many warriors who chose the Black Sea as their training ground?”
“There’s nothing better than a closed gym. Besides, I only learned about it after getting out of the Black Sea. At that time, the people of the world had a strong perception that the Black Sea was the land of Lord Shiron.”
Since his youth, Shiron has often left the Garden of Swords to find the Black Sea.
The fact that he actually made maps of the Black Sea with his knights is still top secret, but everyone in the world knows that he trained there for a long time.
“Currently speaking, in your time no one challenged Lord Shiron. But those days were different. Not only the lord of the secret palace and the lord of the sword emperor, but also the warriors and magicians who are said to be the leaders of each faction, and the masters of the field, all were eager to mix swords with Sir Shiron.”
As the story of the previous era began, Jin suddenly became conscious of Hedo’s age.
He was of the same age as Shiron, although his muscles were covered with insanely great muscles.
“It must have been an age of romance.”
“It must be so for the uninitiated of this era to hear. However, those who directly challenged Sir Shiron will not be able to find romance anywhere in those days. The achievements he devoted his whole life to would not have even been caught in front of Sir Shiron.”
Numerous giants were turned to dust in the Black Sea by Shiron’s sword.
Those who had a reputation were not known, but those who were on a higher level than them.
“Most of the challengers didn’t even get into a fight, and even those who could say they had a meaningful confrontation fell into despair and became disfigured or disappeared. Among them, the ones who survived until the end and waited for an opportunity were the ones like Gaju, Bigungju, and Geomwangseongju… I think it would be nice to have a drink for Geomwangseongju.”
The two raised their glasses to the sky and emptied them.
“You will be among them.”
“It was only later that I realized that I was standing in the middle of that turbulent era. At the time, I didn’t know the outside situation at all, and I didn’t even know that the world’s greatest sword existed in my refuge. The reason why I came to know Sir Shiron’s name is because the warriors who visited the Black Sea sometimes saw me and mistook me for him.”
“You as father?”
“Many challengers have come, but the Black Sea is infinitely wide. Besides, the terrain changes all the time, so those who even meet Sir Shiron are lucky. There were many cases where he just ended his life in the Black Sea after searching for Sir Shiron for a long time. I can’t find my way back.”
“I guess so.”
“I bet you haven’t been to the Black Sea alone yet. If you walk alone in that dark land… In normal cases, you will go crazy. The challengers wandered the Black Sea and drew their swords whenever they encountered anything. It didn’t matter whether it was a human or a monster. However, I was quite strong among those who visited the Black Sea at the time, so I was misunderstood as Sir Shiron.”
“Has any of them defeated you?”
“No. It’s probably because I didn’t encounter the lord of the secret palace or the lord of the Geomhwang Castle. At the time, I was obviously weaker than them.”
Although it is said that it is a boneless bone given by the sky, all of Hedo’s achievements were purely self-taught.
Although the condition of having no bones is the same, they are inevitably weaker than those who have learned martial arts from generation to generation.
Hedo knew this best about that time.
There were several times when he struggled against challengers with infinitely insignificant bodies.
At that time, Hedo’s swordsmanship was wild and destructive, but lacked depth.
“However, among those who were not challengers, there were those who overwhelmingly drove me to the brink of death.”
“Looks like they are the knights of the former Dark Knight father. The first is Sir Vanessa.”
“Yes. In the meantime, I happened to meet those who tried to challenge Sir Shiron and had a duel, but Vanessa came to me with a purpose.”
-The crime of impersonating the head of household is great. whether intended or not.
-What are you?
-However, if you have a better use than that, you will be able to see the family head once alive.
-What bullshit are you talking about?
Jean’s eyes widened as Hedo explained the conversation he had with Vanessa.
“It looks like your father was trying to recruit you, tower guard. Sir Vanessa will check your skills and, if you can speak, take you to your father.”
“It must have been.”
Although not known to the public, Hedo was gaining enough fame in the Black Sea to attract Shiron’s attention. It was an unusual case indeed.
Besides, if he had been recruited at that time, Hedo would have become the Dark Knight of Runcandel, not Ziple’s butler.
“Vanessa couldn’t last more than ten minutes and lost. It was the first time I had such a shock.”
“I feel like my shoulders are shrugging for some reason.”
“And ran away like a dog. Like the demons that ran away from me, showing all sorts of ugliness.”
“I can’t imagine you doing that.”
“Think again. What was the form of a man who had never been educated and had never left the Black Sea since he was fifteen?”
Then I was able to draw without difficulty.
“…It looks like it’s in a state like a beast or a monster.”
Hedo now and Hedo then were completely different people, always wearing a shirt and suit with no wrinkles and using polite words.
“I screamed and ran away. I threw everything I could get my hands on and I even pooped on it. I didn’t even think of being ashamed. I just thought I had to survive.”
“What happened after that?”
“The escape was successful because I knew the Black Sea a little better than Vanessa. I was hiding and concentrating on my recovery, but the first emotions I felt in my life made me suffer. humiliation and defeat. It was then that I first realized that ordinary feeling. With a vengeance.”
From that day on, Hedo devoted himself to training to beat Vanessa.
In fact, surviving in the Black Sea itself is training, so life has not changed in particular, but I have a goal.
“I searched deeper areas than usual to find stronger monsters, and another few years passed while fighting challengers wandering there. The black I called the Veil…”
Hedo paused.
That was not the original name for the longsword he called the veil.
The real Veil, now a member of Sandra’s family, called the sword ‘Shakan’.
Hedo did not retrieve the Shakan from the Veil.
It’s a simple task that Sandra only needs to give one word of command, but without Shakhan, the veil can’t exert its full power.
“…That’s what I got at that time. The one who had Shakan was an in-law monster who used the power of chaos. I don’t know why the old Runcandel teenage knight’s sword was on him.”
“Hmmmm, why don’t you ask Bale directly? Wait a minute, I ran out of alcohol just in time.”
Jin went back to the restaurant and brought a new drink.
“Before it was sealed, it is said that it was lost during a battle with old teenage knights in the Black Sea. Losing the sword was crucial to the sealing. The monster I made was probably acquired by accident.”
It’s been a long time since I’ve been in the middle of a long time.
“I didn’t expect to hear stories like this all of a sudden. The sword will surely be remade to your liking. My third sister will soon bring in a great blacksmith from Hufester. He is a person called Vin Blanche.”
“That’s the first name I’ve heard of.”
“It’s the incarnation of Picon Minche, so you can look forward to it. So after you got the sword, did you challenge Sir Vanessa again?”
“I tried again, but I couldn’t win. Even though he has more power than Vanessa. After that, after three more fights, I only won once. It took about a year for each visit, so I’ve been chasing Sir Shiron and his knights for several years and raiding them continuously.”
“Did you fight other knights besides Sir Vanessa?”
“I would have fought almost every black knight in the Black Sea.”
“But you managed to survive.”
“Lord Shiron regarded me as a cute wild beast, so I was able to survive.”
“Did you say it was a cute wild beast?”
“In a land all black and dark, in a land of desolate landscapes and terrible lands with only monsters… I was a challenger who didn’t need to be polite. Sir Shiron always took the humans who came to that land to challenge seriously, but I treated him like a stray cat.”
Jin thought of images of Hedo and stray cats at the same time, but of course, there was no similarity.
“It’s a stray cat. Can you?”
“At that time, I was already looking at 10 stars based on the size of simple power. I don’t think Sir Shiron, who treated me like that, died in the Black Sea. Besides, the white watch and the dark knights of those days will all be with you, so stop worrying about your father.”
Jin’s eyes widened.
Ever since the story of Shiron first came out, Jin had been carrying on the conversation in a slightly downcast state without even realizing it.
Hedo recognized that and cared for him.
“Thank you. But then, Tower Keeper, why didn’t you become your father’s knight?”
