Chapter 441 – Proof
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Hilda had doubts about Bark being a knight.
When I heard that Louise was a knight… I had no choice but to agree, but looking at his behavior and actions, he seemed quite different from the knights I had seen so far.
Bark calls himself a knight, has no armor, and drags around a girl as his servant.
Hilda had never seen knights taking women as servants.
Knights are quite picky about selecting seeds.
A squire is like a knight’s disciple.
It means a reserve engineer.
Therefore, exchange wars are often held between the knights’ squires. What if your squire is defeated by another knight’s squire? Of course, I couldn’t feel good.
According to common sense, men boast overwhelming physical abilities over women, so knights usually choose boys as their seed.
Perhaps for a woman to become a knight’s squire, she must already have a natural talent for sensing mana.
But Bark’s squire Karen doesn’t seem like that.
Hilda came here and saw her dealing with her monster.
Although I had the basics to a certain extent, I didn’t feel like I was using rigid body techniques using aurors that knights use.
That means he hasn’t awakened his Auror yet, and he doesn’t have any special talent.
No, rather, it was not enough to be treated as a seed.
She was a woman with a huge flaw who could not speak.
‘She treats a woman like that as her squire… She doesn’t seem to have a strong sense of sympathy…’
That’s not all.
She doesn’t hesitate to say absurd things like, “If you’re not a sword master, you have no match for her.”
If he really had that kind of skill, he could easily become a knight commander in any noble’s territory.
There was no need to do such a trivial escort mission.
But Bark dressed like a mercenary and said things like that… There was no way I could trust him.
Of course, I couldn’t ask Bark about his suspicions about mercenaries.
Even if the article doesn’t seem that great, saying something like that to a driver is suicidal.
There is no way a knight could tolerate such an insult.
No matter how poor a knight he was, he was not something that a mercenary would dare climb up.
Considering our first meeting, he didn’t seem that bad-tempered, but that didn’t mean he could take such an adventure.
As her trust in Bark hit rock bottom… Hilda couldn’t help but feel uneasy as the number of dire wolves increased more than she expected.
A feeling of regret creeped up, wondering if it wouldn’t have been right to stop Louise earlier, who trusted Bark and chose to break through.
Eventually, the situation became so serious that they were surrounded by dire wolves.
“You only deal with those who come.”
Bark’s sudden notice.
At the same time, Hilda was surprised by his sudden action of jumping into a group of dire wolves.
She lived as a mercenary for a long time.
Of course, I have also worked with drivers other than Bark.
Hilda knows that knights are powerful beings, but Bark’s actions of jumping into a group of dire wolves alone seemed reckless.
The dire wolves also seemed to have the same thoughts as her, and when they saw Bark left alone from her group, they thought, ‘What is this?’
She ran excitedly.
The teeth of dire wolves coming from all directions aimed at Bark.
They were targeting wherever there was space.
A guy aiming for your ankle.
A guy aiming for the torso.
The guy jumps up and aims for the neck.
It looked like a school of piranhas that had found fish.
They didn’t even care about the humans here.
The spear in Bark’s hand shakes.
It seemed that way to Hilda.
The window seemed to be split into several pieces and stretched out in all directions like a flower.
Hilda only realized that such an optical illusion occurred at too fast a speed.
-Puffpuffpuff!
And as if an explosion had occurred, the dire wolves that were charging were thrown back and flew away.
A dire wolf flew in front of Hilda and fell. There was a round hole in its head. His tongue was hanging out of his mouth.
It seemed like he died instantly.
Dire Wolves, excited by the death of their brethren, rushed at Bark.
Bark’s spear moved without stopping.
And without moving a single step from his spot, he stabbed the spear like a joke.
A single blow.
The tip of the spear pierces only the dire wolf’s skull. It cleanly destroys only the brain and escapes.
As if it had eyes on its back, the skull of the dire wolf charging backwards could not escape the tip of Bark’s spear.
Bark’s spear, extending in all directions at an invisible speed, looked like a hedgehog’s thorns extending out.
The dire wolves, who were briefly excited by the sight of their brethren dying without even sinking their teeth into them, seem to have come to their senses, and secretly notice and widen the distance.
There was a lull for a moment.
The dire wolf pack has not decreased by even half yet. However, Bark overwhelmed all the dire wolves.
The appearance of Bark, standing solidly without shedding a single drop of sweat, exuded the scent of a predator.
“… Gulp…”
Hilda, seeing the overwhelming power of the knight, swallowed her dry saliva without realizing it.
-Aww~
At that time, the sound of a wolf howling is heard from somewhere.
The dire wolves began to quickly disappear into the forest one by one. It seemed like their leader was hiding somewhere, watching the battle.
“That… The knight…”
Lapard also sighs at Bark’s monstrous power.
There was a duel hall for knights in Ramona.
Therefore, Hilda often saw knights duel.
Most of them were 1:1 duels.
Among them, there was no article that showed as impressive a figure as Bark.
Hilda thought that what Bark had said at first, that she was confident in anyone other than the Sword Master, might be true.
Suddenly, all those dire wolves disappeared.
When Hilda saw Bark leisurely approaching her group, she felt her body tense up without realizing it.
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The dire wolf was not a monster that defies common sense.
In my opinion, it doesn’t go beyond the level of an animal.
On the other hand, I was leveling up and becoming three times stronger than when I was first summoned.
This only refers to the pure avatar’s physical ability, which is raised as a stat, excluding blood magic power.
What this means is that the avatar’s pure physical ability is no less than that of a knight who uses physical magic as an auror.
In some ways, it can be said to be superior.
If a knight can use rigid body magic with the power of an auror to instantaneously produce physical strength that surpasses that of a human… For me, that was a passive skill, so of course the avatar was overwhelmingly better when looking at just the physical body.
In a bloody battlefield like this, you are free from injuries.
In addition, the ability to use thought acceleration through consciousness expansion increased this avatar’s power by one or two levels.
This is why I was able to easily win against the small lord of Crea.
So the dire wolves’ attacks are slow enough to make me yawn. There was no reason to be afraid of these beasts.
After killing wolves for the first time in a while, I remembered the black tiger I saw in the zombie world.
Of course, the dire wolf seemed to be a little bigger than a regular wolf, but it was nothing compared to the ones led by the black wolf.
Heilang’s high-quality magic stone will still be sleeping safely in my inventory.
The dire wolf got scared and retreated.
Hilda and Rappard were looking at me with trembling eyes.
I think it was a bit of a shock to see abilities that I could never achieve as a mercenary.
“Bark! You really are a great knight!”
Louise must have been thrilled, as she was looking at me with completely different eyes than when I first met her.
“… Didn’t I say it was a knight? I guess you didn’t believe me?”
“Huh? Of course! Of course, I believed it! They say the more expert you are, the more you hide your skills, right?”
Louise This guy must have been embarrassed by my interrogation and is talking gibberish… I never hid my skills in the first place.
Hilda and Rappard’s eyes, which were once full of suspicion, had changed to completely polite.
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The dire wolves never attacked us again. Since it is a beast that understands the law of the fittest, it may have sensed the difference in strength and tugged its tail.
Not only were they invisible, but the monsters that often appeared one after another were nowhere to be seen.
“Maybe the dire wolf cleared out the nearby monsters?”
Louise’s guess also made sense.
It is said that it was not an area with such dangerous predators to begin with.
Anyway, we were able to have a pleasant hike.
The person who surprised me while hiking like that was Louise.
Despite walking on the rough mountain path, she did not show any sign of fatigue.
Since there is an image of an alchemist as being locked in a gloomy room and doing research, it may be just my stereotype to think that they would have weak physical strength.
But this situation was clearly strange.
Even if we exclude it because I have the body of an avatar.
Not to mention Karen.
Although they pretended not to, Hilda and Rappard’s breathing was somewhat disturbed.
On the other hand, Louise is fine.
Even if she only carries her light subspace bag, unlike us who carry her backpack one by one, her stamina is ridiculous.
Not only was her breathing shaky, but not a single drop of sweat appeared on her face. At this level, she couldn’t help but feel strange.
‘Is that possible for the average person? Why do you have such good physical strength?’
Looking at her soft forearms that showed no signs of training, she didn’t seem like a person with physical strength.
I checked her senses to see if she could handle her magic, but I couldn’t feel anything like her wizard’s circle or knight’s auror core.
As I was pondering the unsolvable mystery and thinking about asking myself, I heard Louise’s joyful voice.
“It’s over there!”
Louise was raising her arm and pointing to a place. Where her finger pointed, a cave about 3 meters high was visible.
