## Chapter 811 – 811. The Plum Blossom Swordsman Reincarnated Into The Baek Family
Terius leaped forward, holding a wooden shield in front of him.
A dull thud echoed with the impact against the shield. An arrow, shot from the front, had struck the wooden shield. Terius gritted his teeth. He didn’t stop advancing.
“Guh!”
An arrow pierced the neck of an ally beside him. It was an instant kill. Even a potion wouldn’t save him. The face of the ally he glanced at was one he remembered. They weren’t close. They had only crossed paths a few times while on guard duty or during meals. He remembered the man saying he wanted to survive and return home to his wife.
Terius gripped the shield tighter. He pressed on. His feet hit the ground. It was squishy, and he almost slipped. The ground he glanced at was hell. A bridge made of rocks and human corpses. The once clear river had turned red with blood, and human entrails and eyeballs floated on the surface.
‘This is madness.’
He gritted his teeth and continued forward.
After crossing the bridge, a castle wall appeared. It was an incredibly tall wall. Allied soldiers were placing ladders against the wall and climbing up.
The soldiers of Mavelot responded by pouring hot water and sand. They stabbed at the soldiers with long spears. The enemy didn’t panic and responded calmly. The allied soldiers were dying one by one.
“Get out of the way! I’m going up!”
“Don’t get excited! If you lose your reason here, it’s over!”
Unable to watch any longer, the knights moved. They climbed the wall and went over the top. The sound of swords clashing could be heard. Mavelot’s knights were also on the enemy’s wall.
Terius grabbed a ladder and started to climb. Normally, he would have waited for the right moment before going up. For him, the most important thing was to protect his own life. He avoided dangerous actions as much as possible.
But today was different.
‘I have to kill the enemy and earn merit!’
He needed money. With 1 billion Ner, he could save Nepia, who was living as a slave.
Terius had been a slave himself until a few years ago, so he knew how harsh the life of a slave was. Among the slaves he had seen, many chose suicide.
‘Nepia…! Nepia…!’
Terius, who had climbed up the ladder, swung his sword at an enemy holding a bow. The enemy screamed and fell. Terius climbed onto his body and cut off his nose with a dagger.
One nose.
Proof that he had killed an enemy. The value of this one nose was 150,000 Ner. It was far from enough.
Terius rummaged through the soldier’s body. There was a money pouch. There was a necklace with a small gem embedded in it. As Terius was frantically gathering the corpse’s possessions, he saw the words on a white handkerchief the enemy soldier had.
To my beloved Daddy, Jenny Depp. Please come back safe!
“……”
Terius paused. His hands trembled.
“Terius! What are you doing spacing out there?! Do you want to die?!”
A knight from the rear shouted.
The knight blocked the sword of an enemy soldier who was attacking Terius. Terius snapped back to his senses and stood up, holding his sword and shield.
“I’m sorry! I’ll help right away…”
“Kuh-erk!”
A sword imbued with aura pierced the knight’s chest. Terius gripped his sword hilt tightly. A blue aura bloomed on the blade. Terius’s sword fell on the enemy’s neck. *Thwack*. With a chilling sensation, the enemy knight’s head fell off.
Terius grabbed the knight’s head and hung it on his waist. Killing an enemy knight would earn him at least 5 million Ner.
He looked at the dead allied knight. His eyes were not properly closed, and he had a sorrowful expression. Terius reached out and closed the knight’s eyes. As Terius was about to return to the battlefield, his gaze fell on the knight’s sword.
‘…The knight’s sword is worth money.’
This was the knight who had saved him. It wasn’t right to take and sell his sword. It was right to bury the sword with his body when he made a grave for him later.
‘He’s already dead, does that kind of thing even matter?’
After a moment of hesitation, Terius took the knight’s sword and ran towards the enemies.
*Kukukukukung*.
The castle gate opened. The cavalry that had been waiting outside charged in.
“Hahaha! We won! It’s our victory!”
“Loot! It’s time to loot!”
“Stop! Soldiers of Baron Prucus! Lord Kyle has not permitted looting!”
“Our lord is Eugene Prucus!”
“Heh heh. You think we don’t know you’re trying to stop us so you can loot for yourselves? Ah. Don’t worry, we won’t touch the women. If you mess with a woman carelessly… Damn. Just thinking about it is scary.”
“You bastards! How can you call yourselves proud soldiers of Prucus!”
“Pride? Does pride feed you? Screw that!”
Their argument didn’t last until the end. They had gained the upper hand in the war, but the outcome of the war was not yet decided. The enemy was still fighting without surrendering.
‘Spoils of war…! I have to get spoils of war!’
Terius, who needed money, was enraged as he watched Eugene’s soldiers breaking into houses and looting. He snuck into a house when no one was looking. There was no one there. They had evacuated. He searched the house thoroughly, looking for anything that could be worth money. He didn’t see any expensive items.
‘Damn it… At this rate, I won’t be able to gather 1 billion Ner even after several years…’
Terius shook his leg anxiously. Even at this moment, Nepia might be suffering.
‘Nepia…’
A method flashed through his mind.
He would kill the lord of this castle, Baron Mavelot, himself. Kyle was fair. He would give a reward that was proportional to the merit earned.
‘I don’t know how much the commander will give, but… he’ll give at least 100 million, right? If not, he’ll give a reward worth 100 million.’
Terius ran outside.
He ran frantically along the path the cavalry had taken.
At the center of the castle, beyond a makeshift wooden fence, Baron Mavelot was making his last stand.
Kyle, unusually, was not participating and was watching the battle from a distance. Terius felt puzzled. Normally, Kyle would have been the first to move to the front.
“Commander!”
“…Terius. You’ve come too.”
“Commander. You don’t look so good? Are you okay?”
“I’m a little tired, but there’s no problem.”
“That’s a relief.”
Terius glared at Baron Mavelot, who was at the center of the enemy forces, and was about to head to the battlefield, but Kyle grabbed his shoulder.
“Wait. Terius. It’s not a place for you to go. Baron Mavelot will surrender soon.”
“Commander… I need to earn merit.”
“…Why all of a sudden? Weren’t you not interested in merit?”
“I was until now. But now… I need money. I need money to save Nepia!”
“…Nepia. Is she Eugene’s slave…”
“I will definitely save Nepia.”
Terius, who spoke with a heavy tone as if making an oath, ran towards the enemy lines. Kyle couldn’t stop Terius. His mind was complicated with thoughts about Eugene.
Terius approached Baron Mavelot along with the allies who were charging at the enemy. The morale of the allies was high. They were all fixated on earning merit, glaring at Baron Mavelot. Terius felt like his allies were his competitors.
“Kill him!”
“Mavelot Castle will not fall!”
“I… I will surrender! Please spare me!”
“This is hopeless…”
“Are you going to let Mavelot be trampled on! Get up and move!”
Shouts echoed from all directions. But Terius couldn’t hear them. He was focused on only one person, Baron Mavelot.
An opening appeared. A knight next to the Baron collapsed due to physical exhaustion, opening a path.
‘This is dangerous. Baron Mavelot isn’t very tired. I need a more certain opportunity…’
Then, a wooden carving hanging on Baron Mavelot’s waist caught his eye. A wooden carving of a knight riding a horse.
Information he had heard before came to mind. Baron Mavelot had a special artifact that allowed him to summon 100 wooden puppet knights every two days.
An artifact like that was priceless. 1 billion Ner? That was a joke. He could earn more than 10 billion Ner.
“I won’t be defeated like this…! I will definitely bring reinforcements and wipe out the Prucus family!”
Baron Mavelot, who had been shouting in frustration, suddenly turned his body around. He threw himself into the sewer flowing on the ground.
“Baron Mavelot is escaping!”
“Catch him! Catch him no matter what!”
“Do you think we’ll let him get away after coming this far!”
The allies shouted and jumped into the sewer. But they couldn’t move and floundered. The armor they were wearing was too heavy.
Terius, who was blinded by the desire for merit, threw his armor on the ground and jumped into the sewer with only a dagger in his mouth. He was confident in his swimming. When he was a slave of the mercenaries, he had to go into lakes and rivers to catch fish to provide meals for the mercenaries.
Baron Mavelot was escaping quickly like a fish. Had he been injured earlier? Blood was flowing from his side.
The allies who had been chasing Baron Mavelot all gave up and went back up to the surface. They were not used to the water. Terius chased after Baron Mavelot, feeling his lungs ache.
‘Money! I need money! Nepia! I’m coming to see you!’
He came out of the sewer outside Mavelot Castle. Baron Mavelot and Terius came up to the surface and took a breath. Baron Mavelot pulled out a sword from the water.
“Did you chase me? You’re a foolish brat. No, if you’re foolish, you’re a brat.”
“Baron Mavelot! I will take that head of yours!”
Aura formed on Baron Mavelot’s sword and Terius’s dagger.
“Do you desire my body that much? But it will be your head that falls.”
Baron Mavelot used mana to gain propulsion in the water and quickly approached Terius. Terius gritted his teeth.
Plum Blossom Demise (梅花落寞).
Afterimages formed on the dagger, confusing Baron Mavelot. Baron Mavelot’s sword barely missed, and Terius’s dagger pierced Mavelot’s neck.
“Guh-ruruk!!”
Mavelot, who sensed his death, did not close his eyes easily. He squeezed out his last bit of strength and swung his sword.
“Kuaaak!”
Terius’s right arm was cut off. Terius reached out for his severed right arm, then stopped. It was because Mavelot’s corpse was about to be swept away by the current.
“No! Money!”
Terius gave up on his right arm and grabbed Mavelot’s corpse. His right arm was already far away. Terius had no regrets about his right arm. Nepia was more important than his right arm.
He dragged Mavelot’s corpse to the shore. He used an emergency potion to stop the bleeding on his severed shoulder and checked Mavelot’s corpse.
‘I, I killed Baron Mavelot! I earned merit with this…’
He took out the wooden carving of a knight riding a horse that was hanging on Mavelot’s waist. Looking closely, there was a crack in the horse part. But it shouldn’t be a problem to use the power of the artifact.
‘……I don’t know how to use it, but if I sell this, I can earn a huge amount of money.’
He held the artifact in his left hand and lay down on the ground. He was tired. His eyelids were too heavy.
‘It’s a relief that my severed arm wasn’t my left arm. I won’t be able to hold a shield anymore… but I can swing a sword with my left hand.’
He was ambidextrous.
Terius raised his left arm. The iron ring on his ring finger sparkled in the sunlight. It was a relief that he was wearing the iron ring on his left hand.
‘Nepia…’
Nepia’s face came to mind. A young face. How would she have changed now? She must have grown up beautifully.
Terius thought of Nepia every day. Even when he was being abused as a slave of the mercenaries, he looked at the iron ring and thought of Nepia, enduring each day. He trained with the single-minded determination to meet Nepia, and now he would soon meet her.
‘I’ll save you. Nepia.’
•••
The Mavelot War was over.
While cleaning up, my opinion clashed with Kyle’s.
I proposed that all the citizens of Mavelot, except for the soldiers, should be captured and made into slaves, but Kyle, on the contrary, said that all the citizens should be released. He said that only the soldiers should be taken as prisoners.
It was absurd.
I brought up my soldiers who had sacrificed themselves. I said that there should be some gain since we had suffered losses, and in the end, Kyle handed over the captured enemy soldiers to me. It seemed that he was determined to release the citizens until the end.
“The citizens of Mavelot Castle are innocent.”
“They are also parties to the war. Just being a citizen of Mavelot Castle is a crime.”
“They didn’t start the war. We did.”
“……”
Kyle seemed to have become even more stubborn. I held my tongue. It was just a waste of breath to talk.
‘I’ll have Floy kidnap the beauties later.’
After the cleanup was roughly finished, I called Scarlett in front of Kyle.
