Chapter 192: The Knight Hates Rofan Events (4)

It wasn’t even funny. No, actually, Lee Han laughed a little due to how ridiculous the situation was, but it really wasn’t because it was funny. Anyone who’d think otherwise was either really clueless or was just tired of living.

“Someone suddenly knocked on my door, I thought it was either you or the maid, Instructor. I mean, there aren’t many people who’d come here, right? That’s why I opened the door—I thought it was someone I knew. B-But when I did, the strange man was there, and he suddenly started preaching… I-I was too flustered, I didn’t know what was going on…”

“Why didn’t you just kick him out? Use your magic. Or is your magic just for show?”

“Y-You know, using magic on a priest is a little…”

“…”

“Ah, I’m not a religious person, but my parents are Christ—N-No, I mean! There were a lot of religious people in the orphanage I grew up in, s-so I can’t just treat religious people rudely… Sorry… B-But, thank you for helping me, Instructor!”

“Haa…”

…What am I gonna do with this girl?

Lee Han felt the urge to slap his forehead. She really felt like an oblivious girl.

She doesn’t know about her power at all.

Let’s take a moment to learn about the blonde, blue-eyed beauty, Irene Windler.

First of all, the girl was the adopted daughter of Duke Galahad. To be more precise, she was the adopted daughter of Duke Blake, the current head of the Galahad, whom even the royal family couldn’t touch.

To take her lightly and touch her was an insult to Galahad. Even the royal family or hell, even the temple would’ve to think hundreds of times before trying to pull this kind of stunt. After all, if Galahad were to declare their independence right away and define the temple as an enemy, the kingdom would be split in half.

They weren’t alone like Lee Han, they were a group of people who had built up a huge force that could actually confront the temple unlike the current royal family that chose to build a symbiotic relationship with them.

The fact that the adopted daughter of such a powerful family was unaware of the power and status she possessed made Lee Han’s blood pressure rise.

Moreover…

Galahad isn’t even the only power she possesses…

Another thing that raised his blood pressure was that she, the genius magician, did not know how to properly use her power. The power so overwhelming that it could protect her and more. After all, she was a child who had the talent to grow to be an Archmage.

She was powerful enough to threaten the Ghost King when her talent hadn’t fully blossomed. Even Lee Han—someone who detested magic—acknowledged her ability and skill.

In other words, had the girl wanted to, she could easily drive the priest out. She wouldn’t need to hear the ‘abusive language’ like the one she heard just now.

But even after she heard all those words, she was just making a confused expression…

Goddammit. She’s an actual rofan heroine at this point…

Lee Han let out an inward sigh. He wasn’t sure what genre the other guys were living in, but he could be sure that this chick was a rofan heroine.

She really fit the trope of a transmigrator who acted like a fool despite having such great power and couldn’t use her power properly.

Seriously…

What a total waste.

He couldn’t do anything but to give the rofan heroine the highest praise he could’ve given.

*  *  *

Boom-!

“…”

At that moment, the interns realized that an impending disaster approached them.

It was understandable.

“Just be honest. It’ll be better for your health that way.”

After all, said disaster was right in front of them.

They all broke out in a cold sweat.

Then, at that moment…

“C-Could you… E-E-Explain to us what’s going on…? I-I really don’t understand…”

One of the interns mustered up his courage and asked that question.

In their eyes, they could only see their landlord suddenly throw a fainted priest down the floor and order them to ‘confess’. The problem here was that the intern didn’t know who the priest was.

Naturally, he also didn’t know what kind of sin did the priest commit to enrage this monster in front of him, and also why did he and the others get caught in the crossfire.

From that perspective, his question was somewhat reasonable.

“Cowards.”

However, their landlord didn’t drop his cold eyes as he pressed on.

“You, or whoever among you guys who’s hiding the truth. You cowardly, sinister fuck…”

“?”

“What did this priest do, you ask? He preached to our neighbor and fell unconscious.”

“??”

“In the middle of his preaching, he openly insulted Galahad and made fun of the fact that our neighbor was born as a mage. Also some other bullshit.”

“!!!”

Hearing that remark, the interns’ body shook. The thought, ‘Was it his first time doing any missionary work?’ crossed their minds, and they glared at the unconscious priest as if they were about to kill him.

There were two forces that even the temple wouldn’t dare to confront. The Guardian of the Lake, Galahad, and the North’s Lionel.

Those forces couldn’t care less about the royal family or the temple, and could easily declare their independence from Pendragon if they wanted to.

They also had the power to destroy the temple regardless of what the people said.

And yet that priest dared to insult Galahad.

…That was no different from courting death.

‘Crazy bastard.’

‘What the fuck is wrong with that guy’s head?’

‘This guy’s probably a heretic.’

The interns, or rather, the heretic inquisitors, stared at the unconscious priest with fierce eyes. They judged that the temple could be in danger because of this guy.

However…

“Wanna know something interesting? Only a really, really small number of people know that our neighbor is Irene Windler. So, how came this crazy fuck know that and came all the way here?”

“━━.”

…The interns’ expressions turned serious when they heard his words. If they failed to even understand what he was trying to imply, then they should just quit being heretic inquisitors.

“Sure, he could just come to this remote forest by accident, that’s a possibility. But this fucker came here all prepared. He knew for sure that the chick was living there. Which means, one of you sold information about the chick to him.”

The landlord was convinced that they had passed on information about Irene Windler to the temple.

With an aggrieved expression, the interns tried to make excuses.

We didn’t do anything—!

However…

“So, it’s you?”

Crunch-!!

At that moment, Lee Han’s large palm covered the face of one of the heretic inquisitors, and just like that…

Crush-!!

“Kuaaaaah!!”

He let out a scream of pain, followed by a crushing sound.

Before the other heretic inquisitors could stop him—no, even if they knew he was going to do this, the incredible spirit that radiated from his body made them tremble like a sheep before a wolf. It made it seem like it would be impossible to stop him.

“How dare you try to pretend to not know anything in front of me?! Did you take me for a fool?!”

Crackle-!

The more he exerted his strength, the more the knight’s fingers distorted the guy’s face and dug into it. He looked like he was trying to pop a balloon, and in truth, if he were to continue, the guy’s head would actually gonna pop like a crushed tomato. Seeing this, the other guy’s expressions turned pale.

Not long ago, they had attacked him and witnessed first hand how terrifying he was, but now, the spirit he was exuding was on a whole different level than back then.

If the spirit he showed back then was like a cold wind, the spirit he was exuding now was like the heat of a furnace.

…And they were all suffocated by it.

At that moment…

“-I think you should calm down.”

“…”

“I don’t mind you killing him, but you don’t want your house to smell like blood, do you?”

“…”

“Also, wouldn’t it better if you were to torture him instead? It’ll give you more information, at least more than if you just kill him. I’ll show you our heretic inquisitors’, torture techniques while you’re at it.”

“…I see you can form coherent sentences now, huh?”

“Thanks to you.”

The woman who expressed her opinions didn’t even resist when he took a jab at her.

Instead she, Judia Pierre, just bowed her head in gratitude after seeing him gradually relax his grip.

*  *  *

Catching a liar was easy for Lee Han. Before this, he was pretty much a human lie detector, and now after his transformation, he was able to catch information that even a lie detector wouldn’t be able to catch.

If there was one unexpected thing, it was that he expected the traitor to be the woman in front of him, not the guy he just found.

“You’ve probably heard the news of me meeting with the temple official.”

The woman instead revealed with confidence what she had been doing, even though she knew that he might just kill her for it.

Whether it was because she was fearless or because she still believed that God would solve everything for her, Lee Han didn’t care. He just sat on the log chair he made and stared at her.

“…Please tone down your spirit. It hurts…”

However, though she could still wear her expressionless face under Lee Han’s cold stare, it was clear that her body was shaking. Lee Han’s spirit that was concentrated on her made it hard for her to hold on.

“Stop overreacting.”

“…”

…She wasn’t overreacting at all, so she stared at him with a wronged face.

“…Um, Instructor? She probably isn’t overreacting…”

“Huh?”

“Look at the ground…”

“?”

At that moment, Derrick, who had been hiding his presence, approached him quietly and pointed his finger at the ground with a bitter smile.

Why the hell do I need to look at the—

“…What the fuck…? Why is this happening?”

The sight that he saw was the dying grass and the cracking table—it was a handmade table that he made.

Seeing him looking so surprised to see the surroundings suddenly desertifying, Derrick gave him some advice.

“You need to stop shooting out your spirit so recklessly, Instructor—No, I think you have to practice controlling it properly from now on.”

“?”

“You know, your level has increased again…”

“That again?”

Hearing the explanation that the status window guy whispered to him left him dumbfounded.

Level? What am I, a game character? What the hell is he—

…Huh?

Wait a minute…

“Are you saying that I’m at the level of those monsters now?”

Lee Han tilted his head.

It was true that he had grown, but compared to the monsters the status window guy referred to as Lv. 9, he was still far too lacking.

To that question…

“You aren’t at that level yet, but your level’s increased, Instructor. Your current level is…”

“…”

“8.3.”

“??”

…Why the hell is there a decimal in there?

Lee Han tilted his head.

“To put it simply, this happened because you’ve accumulated quite a lot of experience. Even after you reached Lv. 8, you’ve been fighting like crazy without resting, right? It’s only natural that your level increases.”

…When Lee Han heard that, he thought that the guy was calling him a lunatic who only lived to fight, but he couldn’t bring himself to refute those words.

Because he did fight like crazy.

That too, without resting.

“…Considering that my level has already gone up by 0.3, is it that easy to level up?”

Lee Han continued, jokingly implied that if he fought a little more, he could get to Lv. 9, but…

“That Archmage, Toure’s level was 8.9. If you could fight and win against opponents of his level 6 more times, you should be able to level up.”

“…”

He didn’t expect the guy would give him a serious answer. Fighting that kind of monster six more times and winning was like trying to survive skydiving without any equipment.

To reiterate, he was lucky in his fight against Toure. There were a lot of things going on that led to his victory, so it definitely wasn’t because that monster was weak.

Furthermore…

“By the way, to go from 8.9 to Lv9, you have to complete an epic quest, [Enlightenment], not accumulating more experience points… So, you are still a long way off.”

“That means it’s a long way to go from Creation to Unrestrained, huh?”

“…”

“What’s wrong?

“…Calling it Creation is a little old-fashioned don’t you think? These days, they renamed it to ‘Transcendent’, followed by ‘Master’ or ‘Absolute Master’ to sound more stylish…”

“HAAAA…!!!”

BOOM-!!

Hearing that, the spirit of Kangho that lived and breathed in Lee Han’s heart a vicious roar.