A Knight Who Eternally Regresses - Chapter 418



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418. Sword and Metal

Christ walked up to Encred and knelt down on one knee. Then, from his kneeling position, he raised one arm and bowed his head, his attitude truly solemn and dignified.

It seemed as if the knight was swearing allegiance. The words that actually came out of his mouth were similar.

“I will serve you with all my heart.”

Encred stared at Christ. He knew the man in front of him to some extent.

Is this because of what I did?

Ending the civil war? Being moved by it? So you’re pledging your loyalty anew?

It was absurd.

Krang gave himself the title of general. In lieu of a title. He handed over all the territory in this area along with it.

‘The border guard isn’t small either.’

If you govern and manage the entire territory, how much could you fill your pockets with?

Christ, kneeling on one knee, looked at the dirt. To his eyes, the grains of dirt looked like grains of gold.

This was not a floor of dirt, but a floor of gold.

‘It’s a great territory. How many corners will there be where Crona can come out?’

There is no need to raise taxes. What if you connect all the trade routes of the cities under the name of the general and take a commission from the upper class?

There was no need to take a bribe.

What if you had a stake in a different sized company and invested in the top of Lockfried or other emerging tops?

I was able to earn a ton of money.

Well then, what would you do if you could earn that much?

The answer was set.

Kreis set the stages of his dream. First, a small salon. Then, a salon street. Ultimately.

‘City of pleasure.’

The goal is to create a city filled with only things to enjoy.

A city where everything from eating, drinking, and clothing is handled by merchants, and inside, people only enjoy pleasure!

It is also known as Christ’s salon city.

Christ’s dream was no less than Encrid’s.

That’s because they’re turning an entire city into a place for people to play.

I also thought that this wasn’t completely uncompetitive.

Although it costs astronomical amounts of money to build a city, we expect that the return will be greater than the investment.

Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t like to play?

What if we created a place where the powerful, the upper class, and others with a lot of gold could gather and play?

What if things that were previously only available at the banquets of the great aristocracy could now be enjoyed at any time in Christie’s salon city?

‘This works.’

What you need is capital. Krona. Gold.

The original plan was to earn a lot of money and open a small salon in the capital, but if I could earn more money and build a castle and a city right away… … .

“… … Eyes, hey.”

Cris, lost in a dream, heard the voice calling him and raised his head.

Encred met Wangnuni’s eyes. In those large eyes, he saw ambition burning like the flames of hell.

“… … Okay, do your best.”

He wasn’t the kind of guy who would listen to someone telling him to dry up.

Encred realized this anew.

He said that he was the only sane person in the Mad Company.

“Oh, there is a gift from Your Majesty.”

Christ quickly came to his senses and stood up and said.

“Two sets of Drake’s scale armor, a sword’s worth of Leviathan iron ingots and inkstones, and the famous sword Aker, which I’d ​​like to appraise just in case.”

If I had to convey it, it would have been Krang.

So, when they emptied the national treasury, they took everything that was supposed to be given to Encred.

‘Is this okay?’

They were such expensive items that I had that thought for a moment.

But it was a natural thing for Krang.

“Don’t you think it’s so obvious that I should take care of my own people first? It’s not unreasonable.”

Drake’s scale armor was renowned for being both easier to move in and harder than regular plate armor.

Levis steel was harder to obtain than Valery steel.

It was much lighter than ordinary iron, yet as strong as Valery steel.

Gold was a metal that could not be bought even with five times the amount of gold of the same weight.

Nickname: ‘God’s Trial’.

Although it was five times heavier than ordinary steel, it was a metal that had all the good properties, such as strength and ductility.

If only the inkstone were not so heavy, it could be called a gift from God, but its weight was the problem.

It was a metal that was only used for engraved weapons, which were special weapons used by knights, as it was meaningless if it could not be refined for proper use.

Of course, among them, the Uber Mountain inkstone is considered to be of the highest quality, but inkstones from other regions are items that ordinary people would never be able to see in their entire lives.

Finally, Aker.

‘Wasn’t it the royal treasure?’

Encred was also a name I had heard of.

That’s right.

Aker was the name of a famous sword used by a knight of the past.

The anecdote of a giant cutting a rock with just a stroke of his hand without using any force was so well-known that it was even made into a fairy tale.

“I thought you sent it while embezzling the national treasury.”

It was a worthy gift.

Encred nodded at Chrys’s words. After all, they were emptying the national treasury to resolve the financial difficulties caused by the civil war.

They were great items, but since he was offering them, there was no reason not to take them. Encred nodded coolly.

“I have a lot to say. A lot.”

Then Luagarne came up and spoke. Her eyes burned as hot as Christ’s.

Why not?

She was weak to the ‘unknown’.

‘How could it be like this?’

I couldn’t believe it even after seeing it. No genius could have achieved this kind of growth.

Especially when viewed through the eyes of a talent reader, Encred’s talent was still limited.

Even if it had improved, it was still the same level. Although Luagarne never said it out loud, among the talents given to Prok, hers was beyond outstanding and bordered on mystical.

So, I could see not only what I have accumulated now, but also what I will accumulate in the future.

Encrid always seems to be half a step beyond the limit.

It means that you are pushing the limits of your talent.

In that state, he became a skilled person who was at the top among the junior knights.

‘How did you do it?’

Luagarne felt a burning desire for the species like never before. The unknown was moving vividly before her eyes.

Encred was not burdened by Prock’s gaze. Just as he had been indifferent when Lebart had talked about frustration and despair, he was also indifferent now. Rather, he asked how he had come here.

“My covenant was with the Queen. It is now over.”

Originally, I should have left to find another unknown place, but there is an existence that I cannot believe even when I see it up close, and cannot understand even when I try to understand it.

Her coming here was inevitable, it was fate. That was what Luagarne believed.

“Why? If necessary, should we make a covenant?”

Luagarne was willing to make a covenant with the man in front of her for the rest of her life. For example, she was willing to accept it even if he asked for her spiritual love.

“Okay.”

Encred didn’t think it was necessary. Instead, his head was filled with other thoughts.

“Are you upset that I came first?”

At Captain Sinar’s words, Encrid looked at her and asked.

“Did the trip go well?”

Shinar smiled at that question. It was rare for her to smile. Those around her who knew the fairy Shinar were surprised, but Encrid remained calm.

“Were you worried?”

“That’s good.”

That was the end of it. Shinar returned to his usual cold, expressionless expression, as if to prove that he was of a race other than humans, and Luagarne followed behind Encred.

On the way in, Encred was deep in thought. Rem saw him and tapped him on the shoulder and asked.

“What are you thinking about?”

Encred’s mouth, which had been furrowed and lost in thought, opened.

“What happens if you stop and then use a moment of acceleration when transitioning from a diagonal slash to a stab?”

The change in speed caused by the brief pause in the middle will confuse the opponent’s eyes, and when it goes from slow to fast, the rhythm changes, so it will feel faster. Then, it will be harder to block.

“… … Have you been thinking about that until now?”

Rem asked.

“then?”

Was there anything more urgent than that?

Encred asked with his eyes.

“We’re not called the Mad Company for nothing.”

Rem thought the human in front of him was the best, and Encred wondered why Rem was saying something like that now. Wasn’t it like spitting in his own face while lying down?

“If you do that, your tendons will snap, your muscles will rupture, or something.”

To use will is to torture your body.

If you stop in the middle of a quick slashing motion and then quickly stab again, it wasn’t at the level of being overworked, it was at the level of asking to kill your body.

“Just do it moderately, moderately. If you understand, nod your head. Moderately, moderately.”

Rem kept repeating ‘moderately’.

Audin, who was listening from the side, smiled brightly and added.

“You will need special training, Brother General.”

No one was quicker to change a title than Audin. He uttered the word general without a care.

“Special training?”

Encrid showed interest. Audyn was delighted. It was the first time in his life that someone had followed his training like this.

He thought of those who had taught him in the past.

“Please save me.”

“Is today finally the day I can see the Father?”

“… … Are you serious? You want to increase the intensity of the training here? Come on, let’s fight instead.”

When I think back to that time, now.

“What kind of training?”

There are people who show interest and even open their hearts.

If you are not satisfied, it is a lie. Also, the man in front of you is a person who is more upright and straight than anyone else.

When Audin heard what this man had done in this civil war, he shuddered.

‘Father, I would like to ask you something.’

Is that man an incarnation sent by the Lord because he could no longer bear the poverty and wickedness of this land?

They were that impressive.

When I didn’t retreat before the last wave of ghosts, I almost shed tears as I advanced forward.

Moreover, the opponent was a servant possessed by the devil.

This was clearly God’s arrangement.

Audyn said, his thoughts drifting away.

“There is no end to training the body. You did the striking technique to train it to be like steel. This time, it is a method to develop body control.”

The striking method was to hit the body with a steel hammer. Encrid had been doing this consistently, but it was difficult to say that it had seen much effect yet.

It wasn’t that it was boring. Where else can something like that happen more than once?

The only thing Encred had was to do his best today and keep repeating it, even if the results didn’t come right away.

“Control?”

Encred asked back.

He had already mastered the art of moving his body to the point where he could do somersaults and swing his sword.

Because the level of a junior officer was no joke.

Even those who were considered masters of martial arts would bow their heads before a knight.

“If I can’t control each and every muscle as I wish, how can I call it my own body?”

Audyn said. Fel, who was listening to him from the side, blinked several times.

‘Is that kind of training necessary?’

I had doubts because Peldo was a genius.

Originally, it was something that was naturally acquired through the body. It wasn’t something that could be learned separately.

Rem and Ragna had no doubts. Was there just one or two things strange about their captain?

For example, Rem was able to do the trick that Encred mentioned earlier, where she stopped and then started moving again.

But it’s not Encrid.

Since Audin was able to see the body, understand its condition, and check the body’s control through its movements, he knew exactly what Encrid needed.

As his sword became more refined, the things he could do increased.

It will be possible to perform movements that are beyond miracles and close to magic.

What else do you need here? It’s something that makes your body endure. It’s something that makes it so that you can naturally perform the movements you’ve pictured in your head without feeling like it’s too much.

Things that come as no surprise to someone called a genius were not the case for Encred.

“good night.”

Of course, Encrid didn’t care about that.

I’m just happy that I have something new to train for.

Since the evening he returned to the Border Guard, Encred has been training his body.

Two days later, a blacksmith arrived from the capital.

He was a man who would be sad to be second in the blacksmith’s guild called ‘Iron and Gold’.

“Not just anyone can handle the ink stick.”

Although there was a request from the king, he had put everything else aside to come here because he was told to forge a weapon for the hero who saved the country.

Encred told anyone who wanted to take any of the gifts he received, and only took the famous sword. As soon as he held the famous sword Aker in his hand, Encred knew.

‘It’s my sword.’

When Encred spoke his sentiments in an unusual manner, Rem responded.

“Originally, when you get something expensive and good, you feel like it’s all yours.”

That wasn’t a wrong statement.

Whether it was a silver or Valery steel sword, it felt like my weapon from the moment I held it.

Anyway, this is the magical weapon Aker that the knights of the previous generation used.

I was satisfied that even the name of the sword was named after the knight.

“Give me the iron ingot from Mount Levis.”

Rem coveted the iron, and Ragnar took the gold after seeing it.

“I have it.”

“Okay.”

There was no reason for Encred to stop.

“You have no intention of selling it, do you?”

Christ, who was watching, asked, but everyone ignored him.

Why are you selling this?

These are people who don’t care about people like Crona.

Christ felt a little bitter.

Even though Akerya couldn’t sell, if he sold iron ingots or gold from Levis, he could raise more than half of the capital needed to open a salon in the capital.

‘No, I can get more if I sell it.’

It was heartbreaking, but what could I do?

I had to see it as a reward for the work I had done.

Anyway, for this reason, the craftsman from the capital had to meet Rem and Ragnar.

“If you make a spear shaft out of ironwood from the Levis Mountain iron ingot and make a blade at the front of it, it will become an excellent weapon.”

“Let’s do it with an axe.”

“The axe blade has more weight on the head than on the handle, so if it becomes too light… … .”

“I think it would be better if you made it in one piece, but the length of the handle should be about this long? Please make it in two pieces.”

Rem spread his hands appropriately and spoke the length. It was still a long-handled hatchet.

The craftsman wondered what this kid was. When he looked into his eyes, he saw the face of a smiling savage.

He didn’t seem stubborn, but he looked like he would get into trouble if he got in trouble.

He held off on persuading Rem and spoke to the other guy.

“It’s best to mix and refine the ink only on the tip of a dagger or blade. If you balance the center of gravity with a dagger, it won’t feel as heavy as you think, and if you apply it to a blade, with this… Let’s see, we can make twenty swords. If we make it into a spear, it’ll be over thirty!”

“A greatsword, please, of this size.”

Ragnar only spoke and did not listen.

“It’s manticore leather. I’m thinking of wrapping the handle of my sword with it.”

The craftsman also looked into Ragnar’s eyes. His eyes were not willing to hear anything other than what he wanted.

‘This kid doesn’t seem normal either?’

The craftsman’s assistant noticed. The master usually got angry if his advice was not heeded.

That teacher.

“Let’s do that.”

Tails tucked in front of madness.

Originally, there was no medicine in front of a madman.

“Master?”

The assistant opened his mouth in surprise.

“Put the fire on.”

The disciple did as he was told and stepped on the bellows of the borrowed blacksmith shop.

The Master looked at the silently burning fire. Although the two of them did not listen to me, this was a challenge.

It would be difficult to create a weapon of the type they mentioned without using all my skills.

A greatsword made of incised gold and a full-length axe of Levis steel.

When will you ever make something like that?

The craftsman put his heart and soul into it.