Chapter 192 – 192. Knights’ Hell (2)
14 out of 40, the number of knights defeated by Erinn’s sword.
Most of them were young knights who were slightly older than Erin, and had been in Armitas for less than a year or two.
After achieving the record of 14 consecutive victories, by presenting an official order with the seal of the Duke of Armitas, Eun-hyeon proved that he was indeed the instructor who was officially in charge of training the Armitas knights.
Above all, the knights who struggled or were defeated in a match against a 17-year-old girl had no choice but to feel very proud.
Afterwards, penalties were imposed on the 14 knights who had been defeated by Erin, and Eun-hyeon was engrossed in training the knights who received the penalty.
“This fucking baaaaal!”
A young knight who was running while wearing Eun-Hyeon’s specially-made bracelet-type artifacts, one specially made for each of his hands and legs, lay down on his seat, vomiting disgust.
“Number 6, is it difficult?”
Calling the knights by number, not by name, meant the order of the knights defeated by Erin.
“Eh, how can it be hard not to run while wearing something like this!”
Under the control of the owner, Eun-hyeon, the bracelets and anklets specially designed to respond only to Eun-hyeon’s magical power can control the weight of the artifact at will.
No matter how ordinary running is to improve physical strength, it is common sense that it is not something a person would do to continue running with a total weight of 20 kg, each carrying 5 kg on each arm and leg.
Even without strengthening the body through magical power, if it was to run without resting for more than an hour without resting, the physical strength would be discharged and the reason would not be properly maintained.
“But is my child doing well?”
“Oh…”
Erin, who was silently undergoing training, trembled at Eunhyun’s voice mentioning herself.
“Could it be that our condolences are also possible, are you giving up because the knight of Armitas is impossible?”
“That, not that…”
“If it’s hard, I won’t stop you. However, even losing to a young girl, can you claim to be a knight of Armitas at that level? If it were me, I wouldn’t even fall asleep at that level.”
Knock up
Hearing Eunhyeon’s sarcastic remarks, the knight bit his teeth and burned his eyes with anger.
“Jen… Jaang! Who knows who will lose!”
The knight, who forcibly raised his limbs that seemed about to break off, started running on the training ground again.
As long as they received an official appointment from Armitas and were carrying out their duties as instructors, the knights, who couldn’t even rebel against him, had to run around the training ground in anger.
However, not all of the 14 young knights who had been defeated by Erinn were training in the same mood.
“Haha… I won’t be…”
“Let’s die. I am a piece of trash that is of no use to the ducal family.”
“The water in the lake would be warm if I jumped in now…”
There were also knights who couldn’t continue training because they were overcome with a sense of shame at the fact that they were defeated by a young girl who hadn’t even graduated from Aether.
“Hey, do your best! Knights!”
Seeing the pessimistic expressions on the faces of some of the knights, Erin hurriedly cheered them on, but her knights looked at Erin and made faces that they couldn’t understand.
“How is that possible?”
“Aren’t you tired?”
“That’s possible with those frail limbs?”
“I’m trash after all…”
Realizing that her own cheering was of no avail, Erin put on her embarrassed face.
“What…”
She knew that the mentality of her knights was shaken because of their defeat in battle against her, so she, Erin, felt an indescribable sense of guilt in her heart.
She hurriedly shouts while looking at Eun-hyeon, who is supervising the training from afar.
“Hyunah! If we continue like this, the knights will be in real danger!”
“Keugh!”
Erin was unaware of how much damage the pride of the knights was being damaged by a girl who remained sane and laid-back despite her rigorous training.
“Jen… Wow! I will do this! Around this point!”
“Geunseo uh uh uh!”
“All right, that’s good. I don’t know why, but he’s recovered!”
Even as Erin put on a puzzled expression at the sight of the knights suddenly recovering, she let out a sigh of relief.
“… Hey.”
“Yes.”
Eun-hyeon, who was watching them from a distance, turned her head and replied at the voice calling her from behind.
Among the knights, the most senior knight opened her mouth with a confused expression.
“If the Duke and Duchess really acknowledged your authority as an instructor, then I wouldn’t care too much. But… Isn’t there such a thing as a degree?”
“Yes. I know.”
Eun-hyeon nodded her head and slowly walked forward, unleashing her vast magical power that weighed down the entire wide training ground.
Ugh
“Nice… What!?”
The knights groaned and stopped their actions all at once, enveloped in dense magic that weighed down their bodies and made them choke.
“Eww…”
Even Erin, who is accustomed to Eunhyun’s magic, frowns, unable to adapt, but the knights of Armitas have no choice but to look puzzled at the torrent of magic they are experiencing for the first time.
“What… Hey. This… Are you human?”
As the gaze of the monster draws the attention of all the knights in the training ground at once, Eun-hyeon smiles and reaps the magic that she has opened.
“I know very well that you do not like me. I understand why.”
“…”
“I can’t understand why someone I haven’t heard of anywhere suddenly wants to steal the princess of the family I serve, and expressing dissatisfaction means that you all pledge allegiance to the duke’s family, so from my point of view, this kind of treatment and attention It’s not that bad either. In any case, I’m like a rolling stone here.”
The knights do not know Eun-hyeon’s identity.
He doesn’t know that he is a hidden hero who ended the war with Riod or Illyana in the past.
As Eun-hyeon pointed out, the man who suddenly came in was not enough to supervise their training, and even had a hostility of anger and jealousy as a man at the story of marrying a princess they worship and a famous witch in Pernin.
Some of the knights quietly listened to Eunhyeon’s words even though they put on a puzzled expression.
“Even when he said he was going to do sparring, he didn’t step forward, and seeing a young girl put forward, there must be some people who thought, ‘What kind of scumbags are all these?’”
“I know. Breath!?”
As if sympathizing with Eunhyeon’s words, a young knight muttered unconsciously in sympathy, then hurriedly covered his mouth.
It is because his muttered words in his quiet silence were heard by others and gathered all eyes.
“… Hyun is not that kind of person.”
She looked at Erin defending Eunhyeon with a strangely sad expression, and the muttered knight made an ambiguous expression and answered while avoiding the girl’s gaze.
“Oh no what… She said she only thought to herself… And that person admitted it himself.”
“A lot of people couldn’t understand. Why did he set up that fragile-looking young girl as an opponent for Dalian? I do.”
Many knights looked at Erin.
“That child. She is your companion, a child who has done a great feat in the kingdom by catching the head of the hounds that killed two of Eleanor’s escort knights.”
“What?”
“Is that child?”
Many knights look surprised at Eun-hyeon’s story.
“It was the result of many coincidences and situations overlapping, but it was made because the fruit of that child’s efforts undoubtedly came to fruition.”
Erin alone had no choice but to defeat Baron.
The factor that was able to fill the gap between the two people, who differ greatly in physical as well as experience, was the power of the Shinsoo, an extraterrestrial power she possessed, and furthermore, Elvin, who had awakened as a shadow spirit, controlled Baron’s movements. While suppressing it, I managed to win.
But that didn’t mean that Erin’s ball disappeared somewhere.
“I am by no means the ‘weak little girl’ you judged by looking at the outside. He is also the proud child I raised.”
“Eww…”
Erin turned her head, avoiding the gaze of her knights, as if embarrassed by Eunhyun’s act of praising herself in front of her in front of many people.
Normally, Eunhyeon’s praise made her feel better and she would have become distraught, but now the knights’ gazes were burdensome and made her feel resentful.
“I also express my condolences to the two knights who died while being attacked by hounds. It was a really unfortunate incident. However, I believe that the deaths of the two of you were dishonorable deaths for a knight.”
“What? This bastard?”
“Who are you to judge whether there is honor in the death of those two!?”
The two escort knights who were killed by Baron’s hounds while escorting Eleanor are colleagues who ate together with them in the dukedom and trained together.
The knights explode in anger at Eun-hyeon’s harsh words that disparage the deaths of the two former colleagues.
“Because Eleanor cried. Because she met her death while trying to defend herself.”
“That… Case!”
“I know very well that sacrificing my life for the lord I serve is an act that requires great determination and determination. That’s why they didn’t mean to insult their sacrifice, but they couldn’t protect Eleanor. Do you think that honor can exist in the sacrifices made without fulfilling the role and mission assigned to you?”
“How do you know our honor… !”
“I do not know. I don’t even want to know about the knight’s honor. But Eleanor will live on, burying the names and figures of the two people who died before her in her own heart. Because she is that kind of woman.”
“…”
At Eun-hyeon’s point, the knights are speechless and stare blankly at Eun-hyeon.
“There is only one reason why I came here as your instructor at the Duke’s suggestion. I don’t intend to see Eleanor weep twice for the same reason. To do that, you have to be strong.”
“… Nice!”
Eun-hyeon’s request is too simple.
Getting stronger.
“I am a commoner who has never placed much importance on the honor of a knight. But I can suggest a way to make you stronger. If they want to continue carrying out the honor they have in their hearts and moving forward. You just need to be strong enough to show it with your body.”
Little by little, the hostile knights listened to Eunhyun’s speech standing on the podium and listened to him little by little.
“Through noble sacrifice, you can protect your honor as a knight, but it is also an act that carves an indelible wound in the heart of the master you serve. To become strong enough to become a knight who can raise the status of the master by completing the mission and returning safely. All I want is this one.”
The 14 knights, who were exhausted from the hard training of the penalty, energized their bodies and stood up one by one and looked at Eun-hyeon with one common aspiration in their eyes.
It was the same for the senior knights who received self-training or looked at the 14 junior knights with pity.
The desire to become stronger, which is necessary to raise the status of the Duke of Armitas, they serve, burns the hearts of the knights and stares at Eunhyun.
“Would you trust me and follow me?”
Inside the training ground, all the knights pretended to and bowed their heads in a moderate motion while forming a rank by matching five and a half in an instant.
“Please! Instructor!”
As the loud voices of the knights spread all over the training ground, Erin flinched and trembled.
“Haha! Great. Then, let’s start training properly tomorrow.”
“Thank you!”
All the hostility that had been planted up until now had been uprooted and disappeared from the actions and eyes of the knights who answered with loud voices at the same time.
It is because Eun-hyeon’s will to grow herself for the ducal family as Eleanor’s husband penetrated the hearts of the knights.
Regarding Eunhyeon’s skills, she had no choice but to admit that she was the teacher who raised Erin, who had extraordinary skills, and the quality of the high-density magic power that dominated the entire training ground earlier.
Erin, who had been watching the scene, put on a terrified expression.
“What. This… Scared…”
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“That was the beginning of this training.”
As she came to the duchy and was assigned to be the instructor of the Armitas knights, hearing the long-winded stories that had been going on for two weeks, Yuria frowned at her.
“Have you ever really done anything like a cheater?”
“What a rude word. I am now the son-in-law of the ducal family. Please refrain from making outrageous remarks.”
“Don’t you know who you’re talking about? If you know that I’m the princess of this country, you’ll stop saying that rude thing right away.”
“It’s not too scary.”
Eunhyun smiled and replied with a tone that said it was nothing.
Eun-hyeon, who had previously sneaked into Queen Diane’s bedchamber and left her a warning, left the palace leisurely.
“Ah-oh! I really want to punch that nasty face!”
“… Eunhyun. Don’t make fun of the princess too much. Princess. Let’s get straight to the point.”
With Alex’s intervention, Yuria, who had barely held on to her rationality, let out a sigh and released her clenched fists.
“The ‘protagonist’ still hasn’t appeared.”
Yuria calmed her raging heart with her small deep breath, and confided her knowledge of her future to Eunhyeon and Alex.
“… Hero?”
Yuria looked at Eunhyun with her slightly hesitant expression and then opened her mouth again.
“The ‘protagonist’ who leads the center of the story in the future has not yet been revealed.”
Due to Eun-hyeon’s intervention, the results of many events were distorted, the order was messed up, and events that did not exist occurred.
The future that Yuria knows and the present reality are greatly distorted.
“I wanted to discuss this with you two, so I asked Alex to come here.”
