Resurrected Immortal 294

Chapter 294 – 294. Insecticidal Cleaning Operations (2)

“…”

“…”

In the heavy, calm atmosphere, the two remained silent without saying anything.
In the dark interrogation room, Marquis Walter, reflected by the faintly shining magic lamp, looked down with a serious face.
Lyod stared at Marquis Walter, who was silent with his arms crossed.
The time of silence was so dark, stuffy, and irritating that Marquis Walter finally looked up and glared at Leo de.

“If you have something to say, do it quickly.”

“…”

“Are you pathetic? I guess so.”

Marquis Walter sneered at Liod, who remained silent.

“How are you? Is it refreshing? My downfall? Because the Guard Knights, whom you so longed to join, are falling to the floor.”

His feelings of ridiculing his own situation were soon expressed as anger at his former motive in front of him.

Cooong!

“Tell me what!”

He slammed the table and raised his voice at Riod, who was standing still with his arms crossed.

“I don’t really have any thoughts.”

Lyod’s words, which he responded with a calm and nonchalant gaze, became a kindling that further ignited Walter’s rationality.

“… You guys have always been like that. He was the son of a meager viscount, but he was always superior to me.”

Riod and Marquis Walter were so-called 20 years ago, when they were young, they graduated from Artia together.
At the same time as graduation, he took an entrance exam for the Krasir Guards, which was almost the only one in the kingdom, and Marquis Walter passed, and Riod was dropped.
The result was not different because the gap between skill and level of swordsmanship fell.
It fell because the status of the family they had was different.
Lyod’s family belonged to the viscounts, just above the barons in the aristocratic hierarchy.
Even within the court, the family of a lord who runs a medium-sized provincial fief without any personal connections, wealth or power.
Marquis Walter, on the other hand, is different.
Walter, who was born as the son of the head of the Krasir Guards, had his future already set.
Regardless of his talent for the sword or his individual goals and thoughts, Marquis Walter was in a position to inherit his father’s place and family.
That’s why Marquis Walter’s enlistment in the Knights Guard was an issue that had been tentatively decided as a pass even before taking the exam.

‘I’m different from that.’

Walter thought.
Only his swordsmanship skills are slightly behind him, but his power, personal connections, and wealth are all ahead of Riod.

‘That’s why I’m superior to Riod.’

However, despite the sense of superiority he was defending himself from, at some point, Riod began to annoy him.
As the war with the Empire began, unlike the Guard Knights who had to protect the royal family, Riod jumped straight into the front line.
Riod, who participated in the front line as a member of the kingdom as a knight, met mysterious ties at some point, formed a team with them, and began to work separately.
As time passed, news of the team led by Riod reached the kingdom, which was the beginning of what made Walter feel uncomfortable.

-He saved the small estate and villages that were attacked by the soldiers of the empire and saved many people.

-He contributed greatly to changing the game of war by killing a dangerous wizard who tried to summon a demon as a sacrifice of many lives.

– Defeated the Emperor of the Empire and ended the war between the Empire and the Allies.

Not only the Kingdom of Pernias, but many people in other countries also know the name of Riod and begin to praise him as a hero.
Every time he heard the news of his performance, Walter’s pride, which he firmly believed in his superiority, was scratched, torn, ripped off, and shattered.
Even after returning to the kingdom after the war, word of mouth about Riod continued.
Later, in recognition of his merits, Riod’s Olivion family was promoted as a marquis, and Riod requested the founder of Artia, ‘his knights’, to the previous king.
It was a very honorable thing for himself to have made such an outstanding achievement that he was victorious in his own generation.
That’s not even the 1st tier, but the 2nd tier promotion.
It was also very unusual that a second order of knights named Artia was created after Krasir, who was almost the only one in the kingdom.

“Always… Always outperforming me, outperforming me.”

As he widened the gap he could hardly keep up.
The more he realized it, the more the inferiority complex in his heart was stimulated.
All the famous high-ranking nobles in the kingdom coveted Riod.
There were endless offers to seduce him with sweet words, such as coveting Riod to covet him, putting forward an arranged marriage with his own daughter, and saying that he would spare no support.
There were not one or two women from aristocratic families who fell in love with Riod, who was like a ‘specimen of a great knight’.
Among them, the most talked about was his refusal of the marriage proposal of ‘Diane Vessel’, a daughter of the Marquis of Vessel, who promised him many things such as his position, wealth, and power.
Rejecting Diane’s proposal of marriage, who occupied the highest position in the social world at the time, was a big topic rarely seen in aristocratic society or social circles.

“What are you so good at?”

Rejecting the invitations of many clique aristocrats, and rejecting the proposal of Diane, who was no different from the flower of society, Riod suddenly married Theresia.
It is also in the unhealthy form of ‘pregnancy before marriage’.
From then on, Theresia became active in her social circle, raising the stature of her husband, Leo de, and she began to devote herself to his future career.
A new rising hero, the emergence of aristocrats.
Many high-ranking nobles were wary of Riod, who was not absorbed into their faction and did not follow the control and grew on his own, and kept him in check and trampled on so that he could not rise again.
Nevertheless, the story of Riod and Theresia, who did not get swept away by either faction and maintained a neutral attitude for 20 years, surpassing the Krasir Guards and raising their reputation as the best knights in the kingdom, is truly a success story within the story itself.

“Because what the hell is the difference between you and me!”

On the verge of falling completely into hell, Marquis Walter, whose position was reversed, glared at Riod with jealousy and inferiority complex and asked.

“Is it because of swordsmanship?! The difference between you and me is because of the difference in swordsmanship!”

At some point, when he came to his senses, Leo was standing in front of him, not behind him.
Even though, except for swordsmanship, nothing was superior to him.
Riod is shining brilliantly, holding the title of Marquis like himself and occupying the position of head of the knights.

“Difference…”

Liod, who had silently accepted all of Walter’s anger, finally spoke up.
Walter murmurs, chewing on the ‘difference’ between himself and Walter, which Walter kept putting in his mouth.

“I’ve had that thought before.”

“… What?”

Walter asked as he watched Leode slowly close his eyes as if lost in her flashbacks.

“Why is he so strong? What is the difference between me and him?”

“What are you talking about!”

Hearing Lyod’s muttering, Walter, who couldn’t understand it, only grew more annoyed.
Even though he was in the interrogation room, he did not stop his indignant shouts.

“What’s the difference? It’s not natural. Because what they are carrying is different.”

“What are you carrying?”

“In his case, it was as if he was carrying the entire continent.”

Why did Eunhyun have to be so strong?
It is because he has been working hard without neglecting self-discipline even while traveling as a team.
Then why did he have to work so hard?
Because he had a mission given to him by the gods.
It was only after he died and was resurrected that he learned some of Eun-hyeon’s secret.

“I don’t know the difference between you and me. Because I never thought about it. But the bigger the burden, the stronger the person must be.”

That way you can carry it and support it.
In order to keep protecting someone, or this place, this continent, Eun-hyeon has been working hard without stopping self-discipline.
He walked forward without stopping to carry on his will.
He set his heart on the devotion of Theresia, who supported and supported him, and formed an order of knights to develop the strength to protect the people of the kingdom.
The current Artia Knights are the pride of Riod, which he created with great care.
Just as Eunhyun smiled as she was proud of her 6 team members.

“There is nothing more important than protecting the royal family, the center of this country!”

Lyod laughed at Walter’s words as if he still didn’t understand.

“You seem to be misunderstanding something. I have never moved my knights and knights, for the royal family.”

“What… Called?”

As the head of a group run by the kingdom’s budget, Riod’s remark was something he should never have said.

“What I was trying to protect was the people of this country, not the royal family.”

In a broader sense, what Riod was trying to carry was this continent itself, which his friend Eun-hyeon tried to protect even at the cost of his life.
Among them, the people of Pernias Kingdom are the limits of their tolerance.
It did not include nobles who wielded power as they pleased.
That’s why he never showed any more movement than necessary, even in the factional fights of private nobles and in response to orders from the royal family.
It is an advantage that many court nobles, including Queen Diane, regarded Artia of Riod as a thorn in their eyes.
Even if it has a very good military and system, if it doesn’t fit reason and reason, Arthia will not move.
The specimen itself of innocent knights who do not touch corruption, do not participate in politics, and move only to correct what is just and right.
Artia is an order of knights created by Riod to save and help many people by continuing Eunhyun’s will.
Leo closed his eyes and fell into his thoughts.

‘Could I have become like this.’

Riod once recalled his youth, when, like Walter, he harbored jealousy and inferiority toward Eun-hyeon.
The past feelings that Riod had for Eun-hyeon.
Walter’s current feelings for Lyod.
It was producing very similar yet different results.
Looking at Walter at this moment, I was sure of what the words of the person distorted by that dark emotion were.

‘My choice was right.’

After Eun-hyeon died, I raised my body that was once in a state of disappointment, and I have acted like Eun-hyeon to become like Eun-hyeon.
He created an order of knights, personally selected and raised many talented and good knights who did not stop developing themselves.
Just as she and her other colleagues relied on Eunhyun, she wanted Artia members to rely on her.
Riod realized that little by little, part of his dream was coming true.
He wasn’t wrong about the way he was walking.

“The difference between increasing your own value and putting down the other person in order to be aware of that ‘gap’ and catch up with it.”

Although Riod harbors an inferiority complex to Eun-Hyeon, he has been trying to be like him and he has been acting up until now.
It’s different from Walter, who was overcome with an inferiority complex and tried to put Riod and Artia down.

“That is the difference between you and me.”