Academy Slave Instructor

92 – Death Knight

Death Knight

Death Knight is a strong Undead.

Death Knights, which are made by reviving knights who existed in the past with strong grudges, curses, or black magic, are close to the highest level among undead and demonic beings.

In many cases, the soul of a knight who dominated an era became a Death Knight, so it was difficult to deal with with only the strength or skill of the body, but since the energy of darkness was added to it, everyone knows how powerful they are without saying.

“As expected, it’s an empire. If it’s an empire, there should be about a hundred Death Knights.”

Rai nodded and smiled.

It is common for death knights to be summoned by someone, but they also often occur naturally.

The strong grudge emitted when a knight dies creates a Death Knight.

There are various reasons such as betrayal, unfulfilled goals, promises, etc., But most of them are defeated in the battlefield or lost their country when they are full of grudge.

Layla glared at her when she criticized the empire that had grown by subjugating numerous countries, but she didn’t say much.

“Did those who stink of corpses enter Legandia?”

When Selma asks, referring to the necromancer, Rai shakes her head.

“I feel like I’m resurrected by myself.”

When I explain briefly to Selma, who doesn’t know much about her necromantic arts, she frowns.

“Death Knight without an owner.. It’s amazing.”

“Originally, those guys are old-fashioned guys who talk about how good they are, so it’s the same whether they have an owner or not. The problem is…”

“The Death Knight penetrated the wall.”

Leila listens to Rai’s words.

This simple statement that the Death Knight had penetrated the wall was a very serious matter.

It was better for the Necromancer to come inside and summon the Death Knight.

The wall that protects the city is not just a simple wall.

The walls of Legandia, built to the level of a fortress, block all monsters and enemies.

Unless a dragon-level calamity comes or tens of thousands of troops take time to break through.

A lot of magic is installed to protect the castle walls.

This means that the longer the time without being attacked, the more magic accumulates and the stronger the castle wall becomes.

Of course, due to maintenance costs such as magic stones, there is an appropriate line, but the more magic is installed over a long period of time, the more difficult it is to break through the wall.

Ironically, the most important border castles are constantly attacked and weakened by consuming the magic they have installed, while the castles and capitals inside the territory that are not attacked become safer over time.

Legandia has never been invaded in the history of the empire.

No enemy can penetrate the wall, which can be called a lump of magic that has been built up over a long period of time.

It is more likely that you walk in believing that the guard guarding the gate is blind than sneaking over the wall.

But there is no way the guards will miss something like Death Knight.

“What is the basis for natural occurrence?”

When Layla asks, who wants to deny that the castle wall has been breached, Rai looks around.

“If I had been summoned, my mind would have been unstable and it would have been a mess, but it’s clean. As if it didn’t leave any traces on purpose. It means thinking normally. The traces left on the wall are also left as if it were scorched by the guy’s strong energy, and there’s just one here. Is there anything else? I was very careful not to leave any traces.”

It was an explanation I had to admit.

And things got serious. A Death Knight strong enough to break through a castle wall. In addition, he retains his spirit as it was in his lifetime.

You can use all the knowledge you have accumulated throughout your life.

A knight who has accumulated enough experience to become a Death Knight, such as strategy, tactics, and fighting techniques, wields his sword with a cool mind.

If the priest tries to use holy power, he will cut the priest first, and the soldier’s movement will determine the commander’s intention.

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Assuming the worst situation in many ways, Layla hardens her expression and leaves first, saying that she will check the report and the castle wall.

The two remaining in the musty-smelling house stare at each other.

“Grandma, take care of yourself. It won’t be long before you live, but it’ll be sad if you wake up first after being beaten by a Death Knight.”

“Take care of yourself. Didn’t the man you killed come back with a vengeance?”

Two people who care about each other leave the house and continue to talk while walking on the street.

“Why did he kill the alchemist? Death knights are beings born to fulfill a purpose, so there’s no way he just killed them.”

Selma thinks hard about Rai’s question before answering.

“There was nothing wrong with the guy who was murdered. He was kind to those around him and didn’t have a personality that would cause any problems. Oh, he did test on animals illegally.”

“Animal testing?”

“Yeah, they say they found it after they were murdered and searched the house, but it’s nothing big enough to be a problem.”

Saying that, Selma takes out a piece of paper with the contents written on it and gives it to Rai.

The alchemist illegally administered animals to test his reagents.

It is illegal to experiment on livestock recklessly, but it is not a big problem enough to be fined.

However, there are quite a few alchemists who secretly experiment with dissatisfaction after being provided only with old livestock that are about to die.

“Is Death Knight an animal lover?”

“What a mismatched combination.”

Selma laughs at Rai’s reasoning.

I think Rai who said it is a funny reasoning.

“Or did an alchemist test a reagent on an animal to create the Death Knight?”

“I’d rather have that chance.”

It was an absurd reasoning, too, but Selma nods her head.

She works as a fixer, and even Selma, who often trespasses on other people’s lands, is well aware of the greatness of the castle walls where her magic is accumulated.

Even when Selma and Clay were in their prime, they couldn’t penetrate the castle walls with her magic, so they used to camouflage themselves or hide behind objects that went inside.

However, no matter how strong the Death Knight was, it was hard to believe that she had broken through the walls by herself.

“Then the dead alchemist was conducting research that would shock the world. Transform rats into death knights! Had the research succeeded, the empire would have unified the continent.”

Ray and Selma, who were joking around, parted ways and headed to their respective homes.

* * *

Late night.

There was a woman who was walking on the dark side of the street.

There was a message from the guards that they would be closed at night, but that was unacceptable to those who made money working at night.

She is in charge of delivering ingredients to a restaurant.

Those that start business in the morning receive fresh ingredients the day before or early in the morning.

With the sudden curfew, many people were worried about business the next day, but the law-abiding business association banned all deliveries.

Store owners who do business early in the morning are on fire, and they find someone to deliver at night, even if they pay a premium.

A person like a woman.

She makes a living doing delivery work, so if a woman doesn’t have delivery, she will have a hard time the next day.

So it was hard to refuse the words of the store owners that they would give money as if they were competing with each other.

The woman moves her things while looking around with her anxious eyes on the street where she can’t see people.

The guards are patrolling, so they can’t move many things, but even if they move just one thing, they get paid for working for three days.

There is no one on a street that is normally crowded with people walking around.

A woman walking nervously in a creepy atmosphere is relieved when she sees a person walking at the end of the street.

It was better to see even strangers on the streets that gave off the atmosphere of a city that died in one day.

The unknown person was carrying a load on his shoulder and moving it somewhere, as if he was doing the same delivery work as himself.

‘Yeah, that person goes around like nothing, is there anything special?’

The woman who thought that she was never a guard because she did not carry a torch, she calmed down a little and walked with her light steps.

But as she gets closer and closer to the man walking from the end, her womanly expression hardens.

The silhouette is not a person wearing plain clothes.

I thought it was natural for her to be big since she is a person who carries a big load, but when I looked closely, she wasn’t that big.

She looked big because she was wearing armor.

Each part of the armor was so heavy that it would be heavy even if you were holding only one part of the armor.

He’s not just a guard, he’s a knight.

The woman froze in amazement when she met the knight on patrol.

Her dark helmet, her face invisible, was turned towards herself.

She

She already broke the curfew, but if she runs away from it, the guilt is added.

She says she’ll make a little more money.

The knight emerges from the shadow created by the building with a steady gait.

As the moonlight shines on her knight, the woman is startled and she drops her pack.

Her armor, wrapped in shimmering black energy, looked ominous just by looking at it, and only darkness existed inside her helmet, as if covered with a black cloth.

And what was placed on her shoulders was not a burden, but a person.

She doesn’t even think of screaming, she shudders and then her legs give out and she falls over.

Scared of her knight looking down at her without stopping her steps, she curls up and covers her head.

Her thumping heart is so loud the woman grabs her quivering mouth and she struggles to make no sound.

“……”

How long has it been? The woman, who seemed to have passed aeons of time, felt her strangeness and lifted her head.

A street with no people. She has no knights who seemed ominous and all she was left with was herself.

But she’s a woman who has had a terrifying experience, she’s too afraid to be left alone on the street, she stays there and she goes in search of a patrolling guard.

* * *

“It appeared again.”

When Layla comes to talk to her, Rai frowns at her.

“Please don’t say overtime.”

“Are you saying that when innocent citizens are dying?”

“Well, people I know might be angry, but why should I step in? I’ve already gone up after watching it, so there won’t be kids who fight well. Do I need to step in?”

Lay responds casually, and as she chews her bread again, Layla sighs, loosens her expression, and she speaks in a calm voice.

“Support takes about three days. In the meantime, we must protect the safety of the citizens. Please.”

“……”

It’s not a command, it’s a request.

She should be able to tell the head of the academy, but Rai, who was staring at Layla asking for her favor, asks.

“How does the academy work?”

“Until the situation calms down, all the academy students will stay and eat at the academy.”

“There will be a lot of backlash.”

“Because safety is more important than complaints from academy students.”

It’s like an academy that cares about its students.

The guards haven’t announced it as a death knight yet, but there will definitely be academy students who will run away if they find out about this fact.

How can dormitories be controlled, but academy students who have houses in the city can’t be controlled.

Admired by the academy’s quick response to bringing in everyone even if they accept complaints, Rai nods, though he is not happy with it.

“Okay, I’ll go too.”

“The patrol is from evening to dawn, so you don’t have to lecture until the situation calms down.”

“Yes- that’s nice.”

Leila looks at her pathetically when the instructor says it’s nice to be able to skip class.

One person is dead and one is missing.

The woman who reported that she had seen a knight in black armor spread through the town by word of mouth, and at night there was no one on the streets except for the soldiers.

Rye walks the streets on the back of a black horse, feeling the eyes of the citizens who peek through the window a little.

Anyway, patrols like this are a battle of patience.

If you decide to hide and don’t act, it’s hard to catch and you have to wait for the opponent to move first.

Black Horse looks excited because he can move around freely, but Rai just keeps yawning and lies leisurely on his back.

Rye doesn’t give orders, so Black Horse roams the streets at will.

“They say you’re shy. You can’t see them because there are too many people.”

“That’s right. The target of revenge suddenly came out, but I have no intention of coming out.”

“Hey bastard, look at your posture. You have to be stabbed once to come to your senses.”

Ray, who was walking casually down the street, greets Selma warmly as he passes by.

Not only Selma, but also Clay follows her, and then she gets hit with a knife, she says, and walks by.

As long as it is known as Death Knight, Legandia has put in all the people who are told to give up.

Even at the academy, instructors with enough skills to go out on the field participated, and countless people, including adventurers, mercenaries, and guards, were patrolling the streets.

“Honey, didn’t the knight say he was insane?”

“That’s what he said.”

Clay listens to Selma and looks around her street.

It’s quieter than usual, but there are many people walking around with torches and lights on.

“If you’re sane, won’t there be too many people?”

“As expected, my husband is smart.”

“Ehehehe, I’m smarter than I look.”

Selma smiled at Clay, who was petting the back of her head as if embarrassed to be praised for her bear-like size, and quietly turned her head.

“Unfortunately, he seems insane. Or maybe the idiot’s words were nonsense.”

A black knight stood at the end of Selma’s gaze.

Selma smiles as she sees the black knight surrounded by thick armour, exactly like her lady’s description.

“Let’s see what the skills of a knight good enough to become a Death Knight are?”

As Selma and Clay pull out their weapons, the black knight also pulls out a dark red weapon without delay.