episode_0069

Attacks launched by each other.

The end result was actually predestined.

No matter how much you show all your might.

Because Rozar, who is barely at the level of a Sword Auror, cannot defeat me, who is at the edge of a Sword Expert.

No matter how much it is an attack aimed at hitting me at least once.

The probability that the attack would succeed against me converged to zero.

But even so, I couldn’t help but laugh at the sincerity the woman showed.

‘It’s fun.’

That last attack was an incredible blow from a sword auror.

All I could think was that if I met him later, he would have grown into a great swordsman.

I looked at the stunned woman, then looked away and spoke to the drivers.

“I’ll just go. It was quite an enjoyable match.”

Leaving behind the still dazed knights, I walked on.

A considerable amount of time had passed since I left the training center in a very good mood and was in a much better mood.

“What should I do now?”

I was feeling bored again and was wondering what I should do to make the most of my time.

Urgent footsteps follow.

The family servants were walking around with quite serious faces.

Vieron was also among them.

I approached Vieron, who had an urgent expression on his face.

Vieron’s face said that everything was going well when I appeared.

“Vieron. What’s going on?”

“Duke Mertain. Duke Erdi has not returned yet.”

“Hmm? Isn’t that guy like that sometimes?”

He was a guy who often went out in the past to clear his head or organize his thoughts.

I wonder if there’s anything surprising about the fact that he hasn’t come back until now.

“That’s… Today is their anniversary… ”

“Ah.”

I didn’t know because I had recently forgotten the concept of time itself.

Has it already happened like that?

‘Anyway, it’s the anniversary and you haven’t already come back?’

It didn’t make sense.

If it were any other day, it would be the anniversary of his death, but he still hasn’t come back.

I had to judge that there was something wrong with this.

“I will look for it.”

“Please.”

“Okay.”

I left them behind and quickly left the place.

If something really happened to Erdi, there is only one culprit.

‘No matter what, it is. Are you doing something crazy that messes with the duke?’

The one I was waiting for so long.

I thought I was in a hurry and would make a mistake in the process, but I never thought I would touch Erdi directly.

‘If I meet you, I will somehow kill you.’

With that promise, I left the mansion to find Erdi.

***

Erdi, duke of the Verdium family.

As usual, he had come out for a moment to get some air to collect his thoughts.

As he looked up at the sky, he was greeted by the almost setting sun.

‘Now that I think about it, today is the anniversary of his death.’

Has so much time already passed?

Erdi let out a laugh as time passed faster than expected.

At that time, I had no idea that time would pass so quickly.

‘It’s already been two years.’

It’s still funny when I think back to that time.

That time when I was going crazy and giving up everything.

When I think about it now, it was truly foolish and pitiful.

Because at the time, I thought that was it.

He was out of his mind, and if he hadn’t come to his senses at that time, the current duchy would have collapsed. Fortunately, thanks to one person, such an unfortunate incident was prevented.

‘Why, I don’t like the fact that he is a hero.’

Who would have thought that the guy who bullied me so terribly would become my benefactor?

Even if he grumbles and gets annoyed now, the gratitude in his heart is much greater.

The contradictory feelings of dislike and gratitude intersect.

Is this correct?

Erdi thought that he was very strange.

He was getting some fresh air while thinking about old times, and after being dazed for a moment, he got up from his seat.

‘I guess I should go now.’

It was clear that the family vassals would worry if he was gone for a long time, so he decided to go now.

It’s also the anniversary of his death.

It was the moment when he roughly shook off his clothes and was about to start walking.

A sudden tingling and ringing sensation.

A numb boil filled his body.

Erdi looked at the source of death.

Several particularly dark figures in the setting sea.

Their existence seemed like an abyss, as if they were born from darkness.

Erdi could tell that they were definitely not some idiots.

“Who is it?”

Erdi said.

In fact, he already knew who it was.

The fact that those guys with such a deep-seated murderous spirit came looking for them means that they are assassins.

Nevertheless, the reason I asked was who made the request.

However, of course, the assassins did not respond to him.

‘Could it really have been there?’

To be honest, he was skeptical even when he heard Kariel’s words.

However, seeing the assassins come like this, it seemed like what Kariel had said was true.

Even so, I never thought they would send an assassin.

This was a guy whose liver was overboard.

‘I’ll have to go back later and clean things up.’

Of course, that was something that could be done assuming that he could return alive.

‘It might be a little difficult.’

Each person is significant.

And one of them.

Even amidst the strong life and presence, there was one character who particularly caught the eye.

‘Is he around 40 years old?’

He looks quite old.

The scars all over the face and the dark atmosphere give off a sense of decadence.

He had a very handsome face, to the point that some people said he looked quite charismatic.

A middle-aged man stood in front of Erdi.

Then he opened his mouth.

“Duke of Verdium. Is that right?”

“If I say no, will you go back?”

“No.”

“And what are you asking? On the subject of assassins.”

“That’s right too.”

The conversation was cut off for a moment.

The middle-aged man’s face was very expressionless, as if his emotions had been castrated.

However, the murderous intent hidden in the expressionless expression was so great that just looking at it scared me.

Erdi pulled out the sword hanging from his waist.

The sharply forged blade gave off a cool air.

However, all the assassins drew their swords.

“I will deal with you.”

A middle-aged man steps forward.

The other assassins retreated without any opposition.

Erdi laughed at that.

“You’re going to deal with me alone. Isn’t this a way to ignore me?”

The force against the duke is not well known in the world, but those who know do know.

They have a power so powerful that most people cannot match it.

Therefore, Erdi was truly dumbfounded to be dealing with him alone despite the presence of many people.

However, the middle-aged man shook his head as if that was not the case.

“I have never ignored it. If I had really ignored it, I wouldn’t have brought my men. However, the reason I deal with him alone is to make a suggestion.”

“Suggestion?”

An assassin makes a suggestion to the assassination target.

It was a very ironic situation, but Erdi couldn’t help but be intrigued by the man’s next words.

“I am in a position where I cannot back down from this request. No matter what happens. But I have one principle. The point is that the ground is completely given up. If I lose this fight, I’ll leave cleanly.”

“What if I lose?”

“You know there is only one answer.”

“Is it death?”

“Okay.”

Erdi recalled the middle-aged man’s suggestion again.

An offer to stick together one-on-one and just leave if you lose.

For Erdi, it was an offer that he had to accept unconditionally, to the extent that there was no better condition.

Even if it’s Amulil Erdi, it’s impossible to deal with everyone over there.

However, he was not naive enough to take the assassins’ words literally.

“How can you believe that?”

“Can’t you believe it?”

“Yes. Common sense tells you that believing the words of those who came to kill me is something only a fool would do.”

Instead of answering, the middle-aged man took out a dagger and cut his own palm.

Blood begins to pour from the marks.

The middle-aged man turns his bleeding palm downward as if nothing is wrong and shouts quietly.

“Blood Oath.”

As the man shouted, the blood spilled on the floor took the form of a kind of magic circle, and then a chain came out and bound the middle-aged man.

Soon, the chains that bound the man no longer seemed to have disappeared.

“If I do not keep my promise, I will die. Do you believe it now?”

Erdi was unable to answer the middle-aged man’s words.

It was because of the eccentric behavior of the middle-aged man just moments ago.

‘Obviously that’s… ‘

It’s a blood oath.

There was no need to believe or question, the blood oath was clear.

‘How on earth?’

Blood oath.

The only people who could use it were special beings.

‘An oath that only the blood people can use.’

The people of blood was the name given to those who dealt with blood.

Although they can be seen as similar to vampires, they are completely different from vampires.

If vampires survive on blood, the people of blood are obviously humans and do not lust for blood.

However, there is one curse hanging over them.

It is a curse of murderous intent, and it is consumed by a murderous intent for no reason at any time, and as long as it resists its impulse, it will one day go on a rampage and kill everything at random.

‘Because of that, the oppression was severe.’

Although it is already more than 200 years old.

It was written in detail how severe the rampage caused by the bloody nation was at that time.

It’s so horrible that it can’t be put into words.

As a result, the oppression is bound to be severe.

By now, it was safe to say that virtually all of them were dead.

However, the middle-aged man in front of me was clearly of bloody nationality.

‘It’s very calm, unlike what you see.’

The life that the middle-aged man had was real.

‘This is it. ‘I never thought I’d meet a bloody people here.’

I never thought that I would meet an assassin and an assassination target.

Erdi laughed at this situation.

“I accept it.”

However, it is a situation that makes you laugh.

Just because the being in front of me was a blood race didn’t change the fact.

Accept the offer and win.

That was it.