Quit being a knight and become a mercenary

55 – Main Force of the Rhine-Palatinate Empire (5)

At the sudden invasion, Zachry showed his anger by pointing at me and Karin.

“These cowardly mercenary bastards! How dare a bow-slinging elf b*tch invade a sacred duel!”

When I heard that, a laugh came out of my mouth.

This is not a duel arena where knights throw their gloves at each other and show off.

In other words, it is a battlefield where only a few soldiers join forces or use cowardly tactics to win.

It’s like talking about a duel in a war. If you’re being unfair, you should have cut off my head a long time ago, right?

“Is this a battlefield, a duel where knights gather and duel for good measure? “Have you broken through the expert wall and come down with dementia and have difficulty seeing in all directions?”

“A lowly mercenary who wouldn’t be able to pull out these intestines, make sausages, and feed them to pigs!”

I stretched out my left hand and flicked my index finger at his.

“If you feel wronged, either cut off my head or be defeated by me. Would you like to choose one of the two?”

At those words, our knight got angry and swung his sword at me.

“Die! “You lowly mercenary!”

The weight of a rock was transferred to my arm through the sword.

‘It’s so heavy. ‘Is this a person or a machine?’

Immediately after blocking the blow, like an uneducated mercenary, I kicked Sir Zachry’s waist.

Because his posture wasn’t very good, it didn’t give him much of a shock…

“Such a coward?”

Zakri, who had put all his effort into swinging the sword, momentarily wavered.

Using the momentum I had at this time, I raised all the aura remaining in my body to the limit and pushed the guy.

Like an angry wave, I struck with as much force as I could muster with each swing of the sword.

“Are you going to date that elf bowman?”

Karin and I are still dating, but we are not dating.

No, even if we were dating, there’s no need for me to smile and say, ‘We’re dating.’

“You care more about killing me than anything else, right?”

“That is not wrong! “You cowardly mercenary!”

Like that, I swung my sword and pushed the guy little by little.

If I lose the advantage I barely gained, I will definitely be cornered due to my lack of capabilities.

We must attack and kill him right here and now.

“Die, you bluff bastard who will cook and eat a snail!”

“Oh, if you eat snails well-cooked, they become an exquisite delicacy. As expected, the lowly mercenary doesn’t seem to know how delicious snails are!”

“I guess that’s why your soldiers are so mushy because they eat grilled snails or something!”

Having said that, I continued to swing the sword.

“Children, you can’t kill me with skills like that!”

Zakri filled his sword with aura and kicked my sword away, and started pushing me back again.

“There is no way! You weak sausage mercenary! “Just die!”

A strike with an aura on the sword, a swordsmanship with the weight and strength of an expert, hit me like a typhoon.

Every time the swords met, a burden was felt throughout my body, as if I was blocking a rampaging cow with both arms.

This attack had the power of a special move used by most knights, but you could tell just by looking at Zachry’s posture.

With the foundation and stamina built up through countless training and combat experiences, if you just concentrate, you can use sword strikes of this level of power as naturally as breathing.

‘Expert, is there a reason for being an expert? ‘Look at that mighty power.’

I thought to myself as I blocked this attack.

I want to reach this point someday, no matter what it takes.

No, I want to surpass the swordsmanship skills of this bastard who stands in front of me like a wall and one day reach the peak of being called a sword master.

I can’t lose to someone who has such a clear challenge and is only one or two levels above me.

And then I worried.

‘What method can I use to beat this guy?’

“Martin, you coward! Are you really planning to run away in fear of this Master Zachry’s sword? The hesitation is clearly evident in the sword! “Do you think I’ll lose even after mobilizing my women?”

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This guy is scratching my insides.

He even said something disparaging about Karin, so I felt like I wanted to use all my power to cut that guy’s tongue out.

If the person with limited skills gets excited first, he or she will lose.

Even if I rely on my emotions and do my best, I still can’t beat the knight in front of me with my skills.

Just as I threw a kick at the guy who was pushing me hard and threw him out of his stance, if only I could create an opening at the critical moment and stab him in the neck with a knife…

‘Victory can be achieved.’

That’s why, no matter how much he provoked and pushed me, I held on with the determination to just move forward like a rhinoceros horn.

“Die! “You petty mercenary!”

After I had already blocked forty times his sword, his patience seemed to have almost run out and his sword began to show emotion.

Well, he is a guy who thinks honor is more important than life.

That guy must have suffered a blow to his pride because Karin fired an arrow into a battle he thought was a duel.

But since I keep receiving attacks and not even accepting provocations…

‘This kid is so excited.’

“I will kill you with the honor of our family!”

When his emotions reached their peak, I shouted loudly.

“Senior Karin!”

As soon as I said those words, I heard Karin’s voice.

“I understand!”

She didn’t tell me exactly what to do, but since she has been in sync with me so far, she will do whatever she can to support me in this situation.

Believing that, I put my strength into both hands.

I think this will be my last chance to beat him, and I will do whatever it takes to win.

“Please.”

When I finished saying that one word, Senior Karin’s arrow passed by his ear.

It only grazed the ear, so it wasn’t a fatal wound or a meaningful wound…

Right now, he is swinging his sword with the full determination to kill me, but suddenly an unexpected attack comes.

“Huh?”

Zakri’s sword was clearly shaken at this time.

It was powerful enough to kill me, and the orbit was somewhat stable…

“Were you so weak that you could be shaken by just one arrow? Lord Zachry!”

I was now squeezing out my aura from my body and, if possible, my sword, like I was squeezing out a rag.

The aurors remaining in my body helped me forget for a moment the fatigue I had been feeling, and gave me the illusion that I could do anything at this moment.

‘It’s so amazing to be an Auror.’

And then I struck the side of Zachri’s sword with all my might.

Because I did not reach the level of Auror Expert, which is the level of cutting steel, I could not cut Zachri’s sword myself.

It was possible to throw the sword in his hand away at the moment of opportunity.

“Holy sh*t!”

Like a veteran knight, it is a good attempt to immediately reach out to take out the sidearm he is holding…

“Do you think they will let me do it?”

I immediately swung my sword and decapitated Zachry.

If it weren’t for Karin, I wouldn’t have been able to defeat him with my own strength, but anyway, since I defeated him in this battle, I would have had enough of an opportunity to go one level higher.

Now, if I were to pick up and drink the elixir filled with chills that I obtained earlier, reaching the level of expert wouldn’t be a dream.

I shouted in a loud voice with all of those sentiments in mind.

“Whitebeard mercenaries, Martin Mayer, decapitated Viscount Vichy’s senior knight Zachry!”

After shouting that, I expressed my gratitude to Karin with a glance.

Karin twitched the corner of her mouth at my signal and pretended to take a drink with her right hand.

It would be nice to get a green signal this time.

It would be nice to feel the afterglow of decapitating the enemy knight’s head, but there is still the task of capturing the enemy viscount.

“There is no time to get lost in the lingering emotions! Just like this, I’m going to help Captain Dalton and catch the damn Viscount! Run!”

After saying that, I filled up my aura and ran out.

The platoon guys somehow chased after me, even though they were foaming at the mouth.

“Does it make sense to move like that? “That speed is crazy, f*ck…”

So I ran like hell and somehow got to where Captain Dalton was.

A thick fog of auras was rising near the captain, and the enemy low-ranking knights were being cut down with their armor intact.

“Viscount! Viscount Vichy, come out! “Let’s fight one-on-one like men!”

As we dug in while reducing the number of enemies, Dalton soon got close to where Viscount Vichy was, but…

The knights under Vichy Vichy were not stupid, so they somehow concentrated all their power on the strongest captain in our mercenary corps.

Meanwhile, the Viscount was trying to escape somehow to avoid the danger of being captured…

“If you’re so obsessed with Captain Dalton and run away without an escort, it’s like tailgating me to catch you. “You’re such a dirty bastard.”

I immediately proceeded forward without any hesitation, even if it meant depleting all the remaining aura and stamina in my body.

In the process, we ran into enemy soldiers and knights, but we moved forward quickly, cutting down those we could cut and avoiding those we could.

And when the Viscount was about to mount his horse.

“Where are you running!”

I grabbed the guy by the scruff of the neck and threw him to the ground.

“Ugh…”

Then he pointed the dagger at the guy’s neck and said,

“Martin Mayer, platoon leader of the Whitebeard Mercenaries, has captured Vichy Vichy! “The soldiers and knights under the Viscount’s command, put down your swords!”