A Knight Who Eternally Regresses - Chapter 453



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453. Indeed

Does it make any difference that today is short? Nothing.

The task was clear: stop the threat coming to the city.

Encrid moved immediately. Repeated movements tend to become mastery.

Even if it wasn’t exactly a repeat of today, the skill of preparing weapons was already at a mastery level.

“Is there a custom here of waking people up with screams?”

Rem woke up.

“It’s a monster. It must be a wave.”

Encred spoke calmly and went out.

The rest of the group will follow on their own. We pass the group of soldiers and head back to the castle walls.

Instead of climbing up the wall where Oara was, I waited for a moment in front of the gate.

“Let me out!”

Then Rowena’s man appeared and said.

Encred hit the bastard on the back of the head.

Bam!

“… … Huh? What are you doing?”

Millio asked in surprise.

“If you send me out, I’ll die.”

To be exact, it was Milio who tried to support this kid and died.

“Well, that’s true.”

“A commander’s head must be cool.”

Encred spoke calmly, but he was not lying.

‘You shouldn’t die like that.’

The ending of the story of Aura never leaves my eyes. It was neither tragic nor magnificent.

It’s separate from the previous fight.

She died without even being able to put up a proper fight.

They said they had to protect the city, but they failed.

So it was a dog’s death.

Should I leave it like that?

No. I don’t want to do that.

You shouldn’t leave it like that.

Encred set a goal.

The boatman watching this burst into laughter.

There was one thing that would never change, no matter how much he changed, and the boatman saw that it would tear Encred apart.

Yet the boatman also expected something.

‘What on earth should we do?’

What will that crazy author gain by repeating today?

What else will change?

I don’t know. It was just fun not knowing.

For this reason the boatman laughed.

It would be fun to watch them struggle to change and end up stuck in today.

“Oh!”

A cry was heard. Encred leaped into action. He was prepared for the incoming arrows and ran out of the gate before the hostages could come out.

Without stopping at going out, I stepped forward without hesitation toward the darkness beyond.

“What are you going to do if you go crazy here?”

Rem followed.

“What are you following me?”

“I guess I’ll become a caregiver who takes care of patients.”

“If you’re going to do it, do it right.”

Encred looked around, his eyes searching for something even slightly unusual.

Rem sometimes felt amazed when he saw a captain like this.

It’s as if he knows the future.

‘Is it something like an instinct that you acquired instead of talent?’

I asked inwardly. If I opened my mouth to ask, I would hear something strange again.

“When I die, I just repeat the day.”

It’s the same thing.

Who would believe such a thing?

Encrid quickly found the pole and the glowstone.

The spider monster was carrying glowstone and a pole on its belly.

It was a group of monsters waiting to make a surprise attack on one side.

“Rem.”

Rem knew Encred’s intentions just by calling him.

The two immediately split the monster’s head.

The hostage was rescued. Encred thought it took less time than yesterday.

But that wasn’t the result.

“Oh, Lord Ara?”

I returned to the gate again and saw Asia, so I asked her.

“I saw those two freaking bastards and went into the demon realm.”

It’s too late. The aftermath of your actions has changed the situation.

Encred tried to jump into the magic realm right away, but he was too late.

Dada, dada, dada.

It was the same as yesterday. Arrows were flying and waves of spiders were starting to form.

Spiders the size of adult males swarmed me.

“Rem, Dunbakel, let’s break through!”

“Why?”

Luagarne asked back, but was ignored.

Encrid began to pave the way to the direction of the Demon Realm, or more precisely, to where Oara was headed.

It would take time, but I had to push through.

Everyone followed Encred’s words without a word.

“It was a good thing I sharpened the axe.”

Rem dropped both arms as he spoke. His arms shook wildly, and what he held in his hands was a steel axe made of Levis Mountain.

And Rem used a technique he named the Git-axe.

He ran forward, the axe cutting a wild trajectory.

And any spider caught in its path turned into a corpse.

Between the thick black blood, Luagarne held a whip in her right hand and a loop sword in her left.

“Don’t stop me.”

She spoke and lashed with her whip and cut with her sword.

Dunbakel also took out two curved swords.

Encred was similar. He advanced by cutting, stabbing, and destroying with Aker and Sparks.

This is the inside of the magic realm that was penetrated like that.

“Roman-!”

A faint cry was heard. The trees of the Demon Realm blocked some of the sound. Thanks to that, the sound did not spread further.

As I entered the magic realm, I felt an unpleasant sensation, but I ignored it.

Encred saw three of the spider’s arms piercing Roman’s stomach.

The staff made of spider arms jutting out from the back was stained with Roman’s blood.

The spider monster wasn’t unscathed either.

The spider monster’s head was also crushed by Roman’s club greatsword.

“Fuck, I can’t go alone.”

Roman said.

“Oh, Lord Ara?”

Encred turned his gaze and asked.

The scream was from a short-haired sergeant, who was gasping for breath while clutching her stomach on one side.

I looked around and saw dead owlbears and such.

‘Wasn’t there just one?’

There were two more similar monsters, the Owlbears.

Even if the two were not knights, it would have been a series of crises. It would have been a bloody fight. You could tell just by looking at the traces.

They also risked their lives to get it done.

But there are no ghouls. There are no pieces of Balrog or anything like that.

“How did you know?”

The short blonde asked. Her complexion was also pale. It was hard to see her as normal.

Blood was gushing out from the stomach he was clutching. Even if the bleeding was stopped immediately, it was a wound that did not guarantee survival.

“Because of me, the Master couldn’t fight properly.”

She spoke plainly, but there was a note of melancholy in her words.

“That’s not it, you idiot.”

Roman said with a smile. Her eyes never left Roman’s.

Roman began to blink as he finished speaking. The scent of death was strong in the air.

“Did the monster set a trap?”

Luagarne muttered. It was just as he said. This is what happens when you go inside.

Encred took action with the situation in mind.

Let’s move further in.

“Are you going to die?”

Rem asked. It sounded like he was telling her not to go. It was exactly as he said.

“Anyone can see that it’s impossible.”

Dunbakel muttered.

Encred looked back at the two.

“Even if this is my end.”

I have no intention of persuading you. Only sincerity remains.

Knight Oara shouldn’t die there. She shouldn’t die like that. Even though I know that, I can’t just let her go.

“If I have to go forward, I will go forward.”

Encred finished speaking.

“Who said what?”

Rem snickered. He continued saying that nothing he said would mean anything to someone whose head was broken.

“Who would say that?”

Encred responded to those words by asking back.

Sometimes Rem seemed unaware of my condition.

“I’ll be the one to say it. Just tease me by walking.”

I said I should have gone a long time ago.

“When this is over, you’re going west?”

“I guess so.”

“okay.”

Encred nodded and moved forward.

Inside, a young child was seen, a piece or crumb of the courtesy name Balok.

“Balrog? No, it’s a fragment.”

Luagarne uttered the same line.

“fragment?”

I asked because I had some time to spare this time.

“There is a monster in the Demon Realm who is considered a fighting-crazed demon. In his right hand he holds a sword that burns with fire, and in his left he holds a whip that cannot be broken by anything.”

“Are you saying it like you saw it?”

“My fighting style is based on studying him.”

I mean, I saw it with my own eyes.

“That looks like a piece of that guy. I heard that when he gets bored, he splits off a part of his soul and does something like that.”

Encred nodded roughly and looked ahead.

Just looking at the red muscle made my shoulders ache. I could feel the pressure pressing down on my body.

Is the sculpture knight-grade?

Oara’s body also came into view. She was already dead. Next to her, a ghoul with its head split open appeared.

The monster is named Jerix.

Will die.

Does that mean we shouldn’t do anything?

Encrid took hold of his sword. He straightened Aker.

“Can you speak? Your father is a Balrog? Is your mother a ghoul?”

Encred threw a provocation. Naturally, there was no answer from the monster.

Rem stayed by his side, saying that he was unlucky and that he had come to get relief but had met with misfortune.

Dunbakel was terrified again.

This time, instead of attacking, he ran away.

Luagarne did not care about my life.

instead.

“It’s a shame I won’t be able to see you become a knight.”

He left these words.

* * *

“I’m going to stab my ex-husband in the face and go, but what the heck? How many lovers have you had, really?”

Even in the new day, the joke of the knight Oara was still the same. It was when he saw a group of trolls blocking his way.

“If you go alone, you will die.”

He was trying to stop Aura from going in after leaving the magic room, but she shook her head.

“If you step back from here, there will be no next time.”

As soon as Aura finished speaking, five trolls that had been writhing in the darkness of the demon realm began to slowly approach.

Those were the ones commanding the monsters.

“I’ll leave that to you and go.”

Aura still smiled. She showed a faint smile.

Again in a new today she said.

“Your dream is to become a knight? I asked you then, if you were a knight, what category would you protect? And I told you what I would protect. What should I do to protect the city?”

The answer was a no-brainer.

“Eliminating the magic.”

“That’s right. So my dream is to kill Jerryx.”

She tried to kill the ghoul by giving it her ex-husband’s name.

Oara’s purpose was clear: she was addicted and had a limited time to live.

The candle wax had melted, leaving only an inch of candle left.

The only thing she wanted for the rest of her time was this:

Killing the core monsters that make up the magic realm.

It is to cut down and eliminate monsters that show power equivalent to that of a knight.

But I don’t know if Jerricks isn’t the nuke.

“What are the odds?”

Luagarne asked.

“If you fight, you will never lose.”

Smiling Oara says. I know. She doesn’t support it. But the problem is that another monster of similar level to a ghoul, or even scarier, will appear.

‘What if there was one more knight-level power?’

Then it’s easy to talk.

No, Aara knew long ago that such power was needed.

What she needed was a knight. It was a task worth taking down the demonic realm.

Then, you will be able to achieve your wish without much loss.

But what if that isn’t possible?

“Even if I die, I will kill that bastard and die.”

This is the dream of the knight Oara.

Encred saw the end of that dream again and again. The magic does not end. Soldiers die. Roman dies. The city is finished. The wave cannot be stopped. The magic prepared, and humans did not.

That was no different this time.

A bastard named Balrog’s Fragment approached the exhausted and injured Oara.

It was only natural that Jerricks was lying dead on one side.

Does that kid know he’s been given that name?

“Fuck, that thing is a monster.”

Rem knew it the moment she saw it.

Encred was curious about what the real Balrog was like, and what the non-fragmented ones were like.

It wasn’t something I could see myself wanting to know right now.

So for now, I think it would be enough to just do what’s in front of you.

Welcoming a new day once again.

Meet the ghoul.

“Are you eating properly?”

Encred asked for no reason.

“He’s my ex-husband. I wish you’d just let me break up with him.”

Oara joined in with a smile.

The monsters have evolved and are now facing off against knights.

He raised his sword while showing the smile of Oara that Ghoul had stolen.

Woohoo.

The sound he made felt intimidating.

And yet the bastard dies. Oara’s sword cuts, tears, and rips the bastard apart.

After that, Aura will die again.

If you want to run away, you can run away.

Ohara could do that.

If you choose to run away before you get hit by the Balrog’s fragments, he won’t chase those who run away.

In fact, there was a time when Dunbakel ran away in fear, but he did not chase after him.

That doesn’t mean I asked Oara why she was doing this.

Because Encrid could understand Oara.

“Roman, wait. That’s mine.”

Oara spoke and killed the ghoul.

There was even a time when he showed great courage against the fragments of Balrog.

But it’s difficult when you’re tired and injured.

Encred looked at the situation, looked back on today, reflected, fought, and endured.

What do you need now?

A few times I even pushed away the ghouls and other guys.

They tried to fight by mobilizing even Asia.

There was a day when I held on like that and didn’t die.

What I saw when I came back from breaking through the magic realm was a nightmare.

The party saw an insane number of monster spiders.

Even if the walls held up, the number could not withstand it without the knights or the semi-knights.

A monster was seen climbing over the wall and invading the city.

The city could not withstand the wave.

However, there is a moment when you see a soldier fighting and being chewed and eaten alive by a spider’s mouth.

“Eww!”

It was then that Encred saw Oara lose her smile for the first time.

And at that very moment, ghouls and other guys from the Demon Realm rushed in.

At this time, even Oara couldn’t defeat the ghoul.

What should I do?

The conclusion was simple.

‘You just have to give up the city.’

Sacrifice is inevitable.

You can persuade Knight Oara to escape and plan for the future.

If you prepare properly, you can just pick out the high-ranking monsters and kill them.

Then, we can block the demonic realm and win, and achieve Aura’s dream.

But the city will be ruined.

I will have to give up the gates my grandfather carved, as well as most of the people guarding this place.

Besides, the demons will spread past this place, and countless villagers in this area will die.

Even if the ending was a victory, it was a reality that Oara could not accept.

Encred didn’t have the confidence to persuade.

Above all, Encred himself had no intention of doing so.

His dream was to become a knight.

Was the knight in the song the one who gave up on the person behind him and eventually won?

Walking on a path of thorns even though you know it is stupid.

Because that’s what a knight was to Encred.

Escape was not on the cards.

Encred said again today, repeating:

“Go to the West first.”

“Did you hurt your head badly?”

Right next to him, Rem took his words. She didn’t seem to have any intention of leaving. That was natural.

Rem never left my side.

“Ugh, ugh.”

Dunbakel groaned, gripped by fear.

One of the powers was acting stupid.

I’m on my way back from seeing Oara’s death. Some days, I barely escape death, but I lose consciousness at the moment the sun rises.

It was a repeat of today.

“Enjoy it. Just like before.”

The boatman said.

Encrid opened his eyes again.

Today was repeated.

“If there is no city, there is no me.”

Oara said.

Today was repeated.

“Even if the end is a cliff, if I have to run, I will run. That’s why I became a knight.”

Oara said with a smile.

“Oh!”

The soldier shouted a slogan.

“Go with a smile!”

Roman died laughing.

Short blonde hair threw my life away.

Spider monsters swarmed in. A bunch of arrows made of thread flew at them.

When the space in front of the wall was cleared, soldiers blocked it with their bodies.

Squire Nett dies.

Soldiers die.

Milio dies.

Nothing will change if you give up Rowena.

The flower that bloomed in the magic realm withered and died.

This is when frustration and despair seep in.

As always, it’s time to close your eyes and give up.

“I’ll give you the answer. Run away.”

The boatman said.

As always, it’s the best option.

It was a message to run away, welcome a new day, and settle down in this suitable day.

The boatman is offering to provide some convenience.

Encred nodded to the captain’s words.

A total of one hundred and twenty-one todays have passed.

“I’m thinking of doing this. What do you think?”

Encrid discussed with the captain what he had been thinking about.

“indeed.”

The boatman said this and looked into Encred’s eyes.

Two blue flames of madness appeared in the boatman’s eyes.

“You crazy kid.”

The boatman was amazed. His eyes, which spoke of hope rather than frustration and despair, made him say those words naturally.