Future Knight

Chapter 75

Of course, this was the first time she had seen an Aura Blade in person.

However, she instinctively knew that it was an Aura Blade.

And she couldn’t say anything.

She was just mesmerized by the beautiful Aura Blade’s radiance.

She didn’t even realize that blood was streaming down her neck.

“It’s the time of judgment.”

Kang Chan’s figure disappeared in an instant.

Simultaneously, a desperate scream echoed from inside the inn.

“Argh!”

“Ugh!”

“Please, spare me!”

Awakened by the desperate screams, Miu Kalina jumped out of the carriage and followed Kang Chan into the inn.

What she witnessed was a gruesome scene of hell.

As soon as she entered the inn, she couldn’t bear the nausea and vomited everything she had eaten.

“Ugh, blech!”

The inn was a living hell.

The man rampaged like a storm, slashing and slashing again.

He seemed like a bloodthirsty demon set loose.

Before his blade, which showed no mercy, dozens of mercenaries flew around along with their innards.

Among them, his companions stood out.

Despite the chaos of flesh and blood, they were casually sitting, eating, and drinking.

They were even laughing and chatting.

While Zikyon and Erika were in deep conversation, two knights emitting aura swords appeared and charged at Kang Chan.

They were Sword Expert-level knights, pride of the Shukrim Merchant Group.

However, in Kang Chan’s eyes, their skills barely surpassed the beginner level of Sword Experts.

With that level of skill, it was impossible to stop Kang Chan, who had reached the level of Sword Master.

They looked at Kang Chan, who effortlessly split their pathetic aura swords, and uttered their final screams.

“Huh! Sword Master?”

Leaving behind that questioning last will, they scattered blood and bid farewell to the world.

The restaurant, swiftly cleared by Kang Chan, fell into a brief silence.

It was truly a suffocating silence.

The sound of blood dripping from the ceiling was as loud as thunder.

In that hellish place, the only ones breathing were Kang Chan’s party and the villagers who had no relation to the Shukrim Merchant Group.

The village resident, who had been eating, wet his pants in fear.

‘If I move, I’ll die.’

They didn’t even dare to think of moving a finger.

Considering fifty mercenaries of the Shukrim Merchant Group were dismembered like butchered meat right before their eyes, it was understandable.

Those who were alive seemed to have lost their sanity, unable to overcome the fear.

“U-uh, t-this is….”

The only one standing besides Kang Chan was the waiter who had brought the fruit juice laced with sleeping pills.

The moment he made eye contact with Kang Chan, he trembled, wetting and soiling himself.

He had a guilty conscience.

Driven by the desperate need to survive, the waiter began to step back with great difficulty.

But Kang Chan, who had approached him unnoticed, whispered in his ear.

“Are you upset because I didn’t give you a tip?”

To the waiter, Kang Chan’s whisper sounded like the voice of a grim reaper from hell.

The waiter shuddered in unbearable extreme fear.

“N-no, sir! N-no, sir! Absolutely… n-not!”

“Is that so? But still, you should get a tip, right?”

“N-no, i-it’s f-fine, hmp!”

Thunk!

“Ugh!”

Kang Chan’s dagger pierced straight through the waiter’s heart.

“I’m someone who gives generous tips….”

Kang Chan pushed the resentful waiter away and pulled out the dagger, causing the waiter to fall backward, spraying blood.

Thud!

While Kang Chan thoroughly ensured no one was left alive on the first floor, Zikyon called out to Erika.

“Hey, elf kid, shall we go upstairs and see what’s happening?”

“Yes! Let’s go, Zikyon!”

Surprisingly, Erika nonchalantly followed Zikyon through the room full of corpses.

On the other hand, Loki, the ogre, sat dazedly, lost in thought.

“…….”

To Zikyon, the death of a human was as trivial as killing an ant, so it was only natural that there was no particular reaction from her.

Erika, having experienced war herself, had also become resilient to such scenes.

However, for Loki, who still had an innocent heart, Kang Chan’s ruthless actions were very shocking.

The fact that someone could kill so mercilessly.

When the commotion downstairs grew louder, Choux Cream hurriedly dressed and grabbed his sword. As he did, he was startled to see Zikyon and Erika breaking through the door.

It was shocking because the two, who should have been pinned under him, appeared unscathed, breaking down the door.

“What, how, how did you—!?”

“Did you have fun, Mister Homo? Hee hee hee.”

“Oh my, how vulgar!”

Erika covered her eyes at the sight of the three naked men.

But perhaps because of her unusually thin and delicate fingers, her bright eyes still peeked at their private parts.

Choux Cream’s face flushed with shame.

“Grr! I’ll cut off your heads right now!”

As Choux Cream drew his sword, ready to behead Zikyon and Erika, the men behind him exploded like fireworks.

Boom! Crackle……

The entire room was filled with their blood.

Covered in blood, Choux Cream froze, sword still drawn.

His eyes were filled with terror.

Zikyon approached the frozen Choux Cream, brushing off the entrails from his shoulder and head, and asked,

“What? What are you going to do?”

“N-no, that’s, um…”

Choux Cream’s body trembled like a leaf.

Then, suddenly, he prostrated himself and began bowing madly.

“P-please spare me! Please just spare my life!”

“Do you want to live?”

“Yes? Yes! Please spare me! Please, just spare my life!”

“If you want to live, you have to pay compensation….”

“C-compensation?”

“Yes, for the mental damage.”

“I-I’ll give it! Of course! How much do you want? Just tell me!”

“Everything you have….”

“A-all of it?”

“Why, don’t want to? Then die.”

When Zikyon raised her hand, Choux Cream panicked and shouted,

“No! I’ll give you everything. Just a moment!”

Choux Cream hurriedly began to pour out everything he had in front of Zikyon.

Using the key around his neck, he opened the huge chests that filled the room, revealing an unimaginable amount of gold.

But Zikyon, uninterested in such a quantity of gold, asked indifferently,

“Is this all?”

“Yes, this is all.”

Choux Cream had reverted to his polite and servile merchant persona. But to Zikyon, it only made him seem more despicable.

“Is this really all?”

“I swear on my life, this is everything I have.”

“Oh, you’re betting your life?”

As Zikyon began to exude a murderous aura, the panicked Choux Cream turned pale and, with trembling hands, pulled out a small pouch from his chest.

“T-the truth is, here…”

Zikyon snatched the pouch and opened it, finding it filled with diamonds worth more than the gold in the chests.

Only then did Zikyon whistle in satisfaction.

“Whistle~ For a day’s work, this is pretty sweet.”

At that moment, Kang Chan came upstairs.

“Is everything taken care of here?”

As Kang Chan approached, Zikyon hid the diamonds in her cleavage.

“No, not yet. We just need to kill this one.”

At the mention of killing him, Choux Cream’s face went pale as he clung to Zikyon’s leg, begging.

“You said you’d spare me! You said if I gave you everything, you’d spare me!”

“Of course, I don’t lie. I won’t kill you. Hey, finish him off!”

“Please! Spare me! Please!”

Choux Cream, tears and snot streaming down his face, wailed for his life.

Seeing this, Kang Chan sheathed his dagger and said,

“Go.”

“Pardon?”

“Go, before I change my mind.”

“What? You’re unexpected.”

Zikyon was surprised by Kang Chan’s generosity.

Just moments ago, he had been intent on killing him more than anyone else, and now he was letting him go?

“Well, then, I’ll be leaving.”

Choux Cream hurriedly fled before they could change their minds.

“Yes, go on.”

Just then, Kang Chan called to Erika, watching Choux Cream.

“Erika.”

“Yes?”

“You take care of him. Kill him or let him live.”

“Me?”

“Yes.”

Even if it wasn’t her, she couldn’t possibly have any good feelings toward the man who had assaulted someone made in her likeness.

Kang Chan understood and respected her feelings.

Erika felt grateful for his thoughtful consideration and answered energetically,

“Yes!”

Erika aimed her rail gun at Choux Cream as he ran out of the inn.

Soon, the rail gun roared, firing precisely at Choux Cream’s head.

The loud report of the rail gun echoed through the village, and the bullet, tracing a clear spiral, smashed Choux Cream’s upper body like a watermelon.

Thud! Splatter!

It was an absurd death for Choux Cream, the rising power and eldest son of Shaved de Gaulle Choux Cream, the owner of the Choux Cream merchant group that ruled the continent.

While Zikyon teleported the gold confiscated from Choux Cream to her lair,

Kang Chan approached Mu Karina, who was healing her neck wound in the inn filled with corpses.

Seeing Kang Chan approach, Mu Karina flinched momentarily.

She had felt a moment of fear at the sight of his demonic form.

But she soon composed herself and asked calmly,

“What is it?”

“I need a carriage.”

“There are plenty of carriages outside.”

The carriages outside had all lost their owners and were left abandoned.

“We’re new here. Can you tell us a shortcut to the Helion Kingdom?”

“The Helion Kingdom? That’s the fiercest battlefield right now. Are you really going there?”

The Helion Kingdom, which had been a fierce battlefield for over a year, was no longer a city of beautiful culture but a land of corpses.

“That’s why we’re going.”

“You mean you’re going to fight the Green Elves?”

“Yes, we were on our way to fight them.”

Upon hearing this, Mu Karina no longer feared him.

He wasn’t a villain exploiting merchants.

To her, Kang Chan now looked like a legendary hero.

A true hero going to fight for justice.

Her perception of him had completely changed.

“Then come with us. We’re heading to the Helion Kingdom too.”

Kang Chan’s face lit up with rare joy at Mu Karina’s words.

“Really?”

“Yes, we’re delivering dwarf-made weapons purchased here to the Helion Kingdom.”

“Then we’ll rely on you only until the Helion Kingdom.”

“Rely? Don’t mention it….”

Thus, Kang Chan’s group joined the Karina merchant group and headed toward the intense battlefield of the Helion Kingdom.

Traveling with the Karina group made the journey to the battlefield much easier.

No random thugs dared to pick a fight.

The Karina group also provided lodging and meals.

All the worries they had at the start were resolved at once.

The journey to the battlefield felt more like a leisurely trip.

Kang Chan decided to gather information about this world from her.

He needed to understand this world to facilitate his revenge.

Of course, he had companions native to this world.

But it was hard to expect much from them.

Loki knew even less than him, and Erika probably wasn’t much different.

Zikyon’s perspective on humans and the world was too different, so her insights weren’t helpful to Kang Chan, a human.

Therefore, Kang Chan used every spare moment to ask Mu Karina about the current state of affairs and gathered comprehensive information about this place, the Arkandor Continent.