Bloodhound’s Regression Instinct

Chapter 43

Thud- Thud-

After the conversation between Yan and the knight, there was no more small talk.

It was because the cold air started to pierce their lungs as soon as they opened their mouths.

After a long time.

“Halt.”

Sabo, who was running at the front, quickly grabbed the reins of his horse and said quietly.

The knights all stopped their horses in place with Sabo.

“…Have we arrived?”

Charl whispered and asked from the side.

Yan looked at Sabo, who was looking around, and answered.

“It seems so.”

“Huff.”

Charl took a deep breath and clenched her fists.

It was his first time experiencing such a real battle, so she showed her determination.

Sabo kept looking around and stopped at one point.

Yan looked at where Sabo was looking.

‘A village?’

It was more like a ‘clan’ than a village.

The houses were barely enough to withstand the cold, and they were crowded together.

‘It’s awkward to call them houses.’

Maybe they should be called huts.

Anyway.

There were barbarians wearing animal skins all over the place.

If they wore proper clothes and had proper houses, they would be no different from a normal village.

Yan didn’t take his eyes off the place and asked Sabo.

“Is there one leader for each clan?”

“Yes. The guests are in danger, so please just watch from above.”

Sabo raised his arm at a right angle and clenched his fist.

Then the knights on horseback slowly gathered around him and formed a formation.

Whoosh!

Hee-hee-hee!

Sabo swung his arm forward with force and the knights drove their horses at a tremendous speed towards the barbarian clan.

“Charge!”

“Attack!”

“Help!”

“I don’t want to die.”

“Danger! Knights! Knights!”

The barbarians spat out short imperial words, as if they were not good at communicating with each other, and started to run away.

The knights chased after the barbarians.

It was impossible for a human to outrun a horse.

“Kuaaaak!”

“Ugh!”

Puff. Puk. Squeak.

Every time the knights swung their swords, the barbarians fell down with a dying breath and a scream.

Seeing that, Lorena, Charl, and Cruel’s faces hardened.

“…What is that?”

Charl stuttered. The sight before her eyes was too cruel.

Then.

“Hooaaah!”

“Kuk! Kukeuk!”

The barbarian men stepped forward to evacuate the women, children, and elders.

Their individual strength ranged from 9th to 8th grade, but.

Squeak.

They couldn’t resist the sword with sword energy and fell down.

It was too much to face the Mokap Knight Order, which was composed of all 6th grade or higher.

The knights who slaughtered the barbarian men didn’t stop there.

They drove their horses into the interior of the clan.

“Kyaak!”

“Hoo… Hooah!”

The woman who tried to protect the child had her throat cut and sprayed blood.

The barbarian elder who leaned on a cane had a sword stuck in his head and spat out his last breath.

It was a massacre.

Charl looked down at the tragedy unfolding in the barbarian clan with trembling eyes.

“Is this… a knight?”

The knights he knew were the apostles of justice who protected the weak and were loyal to their lord.

But.

“This… this is not a knight, but a devil!”

The barbarians struggled to escape from the knights’ swords.

The knights chased the barbarians to the end and took their lives.

Cruel was also shocked.

It was his first time seeing such a slaughter scene, as he was from a relatively peaceful imperial central noble family.

“Huh, huh.”

He felt his face burning and his breath rising sharply.

Yan looked at Cruel quietly.

[The magic is reacting to the blood.]

Momon diagnosed Cruel’s condition accurately.

Yan nodded.

It was inevitable because of the nature of the magic that craved blood.

‘I don’t like it.’

He had removed 90% of the magic he originally had, but he still reacted to the blood.

It meant that removing the magic was meaningless.

Disappointment crossed Yan’s eyes.

He thought he was a useful guy, but he couldn’t overcome even a fingernail-sized magic.

The next thing he saw after Cruel was Lorena.

She closed her eyes tightly.

As if she hadn’t seen anything.

Her personal strength was beyond the level of a weakling, but in other aspects, she was still a weakling.

She had no firm belief.

She had no center.

He was about to judge her like that.

“Uaaang!”

A baby’s cry rang out from the clan.

At the same time, Lorena’s eyes opened wide.

She rose up and shot towards that direction.

Clang!

The knight’s eyes widened as he swung his sword carelessly at the baby.

It was because the one who blocked his sword was someone he didn’t expect.

“…Miss?”

Lorena was conflicted as she blocked the knight’s sword.

Should she save this child?

Should she stop the knight’s sword?

But she couldn’t bear to watch the crying child die in front of her eyes.

Lorena opened her mouth with difficulty.

“Please… spare the child.”

The knight’s eyes darkened as he heard that.

What Lorena was doing now was a mistake that the newbies who joined the knight order often made.

It was an unacceptable problem, even for Lorena, who received the love of the north.

“No.”

“Why!”

“It could make things harder for the lord’s subjects in the future. Because of this one child!”

The knight twisted his sword and swung it again at the baby.

Clang!

“…Miss!”

But Lorena blocked his sword again.

No matter how genius Lorena was, she was not at the level of beating a knight who had rolled and rolled in real battles.

But Lorena’s status prevented the knight from showing his full skill.

The knight was also one of the people who liked Lorena.

“Go back up right now.”

“Then spare this baby.”

“No.”

The knight and Lorena’s opinions did not narrow.

The knight shouted in frustration.

“This child could become the chief of the barbarians and cause great damage to the lord’s domain later!”

“That’s possible, but…”

“Please don’t interfere if you understand. This is tyranny, even for you, Miss.”

The knight gripped his sword harder and a blue light flickered on the blade.

It was sword energy.

He skillfully brushed off Lorena’s sword and slashed down at the baby.

Bang!

“…Damn, my arm is going to fall off.”

The one who blocked the slashing sword energy was Cruel.

But it seemed hard to block it perfectly, as he held the sawtooth sword with both hands and his arms trembled.

And behind Cruel, Charl had already held the baby in her arms.

The knight spat out a sneer and asked.

“Do I have to take it as you are interfering with the event of the Beowulf Duke?”

Cruel twisted his face.

The power and pressure he felt from the knight’s sword energy was different from the sword energy he had experienced in the training center.

He was Cruel, who had been active against the average instructors, but he was pushed back by a single member of the Mokap Knight Order.

‘Is this the skill of the Duke’s knight?’

Anyway.

“I can’t stand to see a baby get hurt as someone who will soon become a lord.”

Yan, who was looking down from above, smiled at that.

He thought he was a fool, but he spat out such a cheesy line.

“Not bad, although a bit slow.”

He seemed to have not overcome the magic completely.

But he seemed to have overcome it to some extent, seeing him spouting such words.

[Wow. I thought he was a fool by his looks, but he had some brains in him.]

“That’s right.”

Yan smiled satisfactorily and walked towards the trainees who were confronting the knight.

That’s when it happened.

Zweeeek!

A huge something flew quickly to where the trainees and the knight were confronting.

“What, what is that?!”

Cruel, who was facing the knight’s sword, was startled and backed away.

Charl and Lorena, who were holding the baby, and the knight also got out of there.

Kwaaang!

A loud noise and a large hole appeared where they were standing.

The snow-covered and frozen ground flew away and the soil that looked shaky was exposed.

“…A tree?”

Lorena spat out the identity of the thing that flew.

It was a giant tree that looked like it was over ten meters long, shot like an arrow.

They almost became the tree’s fertilizer and looked for the direction it came from.

Kwaaaaa!

A loud roar came from afar.

It was like the ‘Fear’ that the ogres shouted.

Sabo and the knights who were slaughtering the barbarians, and the trainees turned their heads to the source of the sound.

“Orc?”

Cruel frowned as he blocked the sword.

A huge one was glaring at them from afar.

Cruel mistook him for an orc.

The huge one was bulky and had no hair, but instead had strange tattoos on his head.

The knight who was fighting with Cruel confirmed his identity and quickly withdrew his sword.

He said in a serious voice.

“For now, I’ll postpone the matter of that baby.”

“Huh?”

The knight aimed his sword at the bald huge one and raised his sword energy as if he was facing a life-and-death enemy.

The knight said in a low voice.

“Ki-Mun… One of the twenty chiefs of the barbarians. So run away.”

“Run away?”

Lorena glared at the knight and he took a breath and said.

“…We could be annihilated if we’re careless.”

There was no knight who was injured while raiding the barbarian clan.

The knight mentioned ‘annihilation’ even though there were about ten knights.

Lorena looked at the knight with disbelief.

The knight smiled faintly.

“You can’t get hurt, Miss.”