Ivan thought back to all the monts they had shared together, when they had confided in each other, while dreaming of things that had previously seed so unattainable.
Under the blows of such a mad and unpredictable man, Argan was forced to retreat.
But Liam, still keeping his cool, saw his chance.
He suddenly appeared in the knight's blind spot.
Argan imdiately spotted the threat, and instinctively blocked the attack.
Then he realized his mistake, but it was too late.
And Liam, thanks to his excellent innate sense of combat, imdiately spotted this flaw.
And he certainly wasn't going to miss this precious opportunity.
Liam's sword beca immaterial and passed through Argan's sword, before reappearing just after, the blade of the sword eting and then breaking the knight's armor.
But the montum of the sword had been almost completely stopped by the armor, which canceled out the lethality of the attack.
"No, the armor is too strong in that area!"
The feat of cutting off Argan's arm had made him overconfident.
Liam imdiately realized his mistake: the degree of protection of armor was obviously not the sa everywhere.
But it was already too late, and the precious opportunity to defeat their opponent had been wasted.
Argan didn't wait, and took the opportunity to imdiately push back Ivan and Liam before retreating, sweating slightly from the adrenaline.
He felt a sharp pain from where Liam had hit him.
"Argan, you were this close to seeing the lord of the underworld there."
Suddenly, a mocking voice appeared not far away, while a second man wearing armor similar to Argan's appeared.
Only, his armor seed slightly more luxurious and noble.
Argan frowned and whispered:
"Tengan."
Ivan wanted to go back to the attack like a madman, but Liam grabbed him by the shoulder.
Ivan turned and looked at Liam with a glint of madness in his eyes.
"Don't hold back, Liam! This guy killed my brother in arms!"
Liam gave him a deep look, before finally removing his hand.
"Go ahead if you want to die, but know that the second guy who just arrived is no less strong than the one who killed Wigor."
Liam's words brought a glimr of lucidity back to Ivan, who cald down a little despite his overflowing emotions.
Tengan, with a mocking look, watched the scene with a smirk.
"You seem to be having so difficulties, Argan."
Argan growled, gripping his sword tighter.
"These kids are tougher than expected. And you, couldn't you have arrived earlier?"
Tengan shrugged with an air of relaxation.
"I like to let my colleagues have so fun before I intervene. But it seems that you are really starting to lose control of the situation, so I could no longer be content to remain a re spectator."
Tengan was Baron Barthon's backup in case the attack failed for so unknown reason.
Even the soldiers did not know that Tengan, who was a knight at the height of his success and one of the strongest knights under Baron Barthon, was accompanying them.
Argan suppressed a grin, and at the sa ti his anger.
If it weren't for the fact that this comrade really liked to see blood flow, he might still have his arm.
But although he didn't like Tengan and his arrogant way of approaching every situation, he could only admit that he was indeed a formidable warrior.
And above all, he himself, as a knight at the stage of small success, did indeed have a lower status than Tengan.
"Very well. Please help kill these two young fighters," Argan finally said, pointing to Liam and Ivan, the latter painfully getting back into fighting position.
"Then we'll definitely capture this village and end this damn battle."
Tengan shot Argan a nacing look.
"You're telling how to do things, Argan?"
Of course, Argan was already unhappy with Tengan's arrogant tone, so he shot back with a aningful look as well.
Especially since using a polite phrase was the most he could concede to Tengan, he certainly wasn't going to bow down any further.
The two looked at each other for a mont, then Tengan finally raised his hand.
"It's okay, don't look at like that, I was just teasing you a little."
Argan stopped looking at Tengan after these words, then began to stare at the two young rcenaries.
Then without further ado, the two knights pounced on their opponents with astonishing synchronization.
Liam and Ivan, although determined to fight to the end, stood no chance against the combined might of Argan and Tengan.
After a few exchanges, Argan dealt Liam a deep gash to the side, causing him to fall to his knees, while Tengan pierced Ivan's shoulder, causing him to groan in pain.
His sword fell to the ground, Ivan could no longer muster any strength in his right hand.
As the two knights prepared to deliver the final blow, a deafening scream rent the sky, echoing across the battlefield.
Argan and Tengan, interrupted in their montum, imdiately looked up. Their confident expressions disappeared, replaced by absolute stupor.
There, in the sky darkened by smoke and dust, an imnse creature hovered.
"Is it... Is it a wyvern?" whispered Tengan, his eyes wide open.
"Why is such a creature here?" continued Argan, frowning.
It wasn't just them, everyone in the village could see the wyvern flying over the village.
No one understood anything, neither the rcenaries nor Baron Barthon's soldiers.
But that wasn't the worst of it, and on noticing these details, the Argan and Tengan had hideous expressions on their faces.
What froze them in terror was that they noticed a young man in light armor standing on the back of the wyvern, the latter observing the battlefield with an imposing presence.
Of course that's how he felt from where they were on the ground.
The reality for the person in question was quite different.
"Shit, I thought flying would be a lot more pleasant than this..."
"I didn't think I'd feel more like throwing up than anything else after my first flight..." murmured Maxi, his face slightly pale.
Maria transmitted her laughter through their spiritual bond, then tried to reassure Maxi.
"Don't worry, according to the mories of my lineage, it's an event that even an epic knight can't avoid."
...
Argan swallowed hard, seeing the creature and the young man in armor still hovering above them.
"We have to leave."
"Even with the baron's entire army, we don't stand a chance against such a creature..."
Tengan didn't know what to say for a mont.
It was common knowledge that a wyvern in adulthood was not much weaker than a great knight.
It was even said that if an ordinary great knight did not use the power of his vital seed, he would lose.
Of course, telling a great knight not to use his power was like telling a wyvern to fight without its wings. It didn't make sense.
"You're right, Argan." you warned your n. We must flee imdiately and report to the baron."
The two knights began to retreat, while Liam and Ivan watched them leave, helpless.
They were not strong enough to slow them down; it would be suicide to go after them.
After Maxi had recovered from his airsickness for a while, he noticed the aura of these two knights.
With his perception, if the apprentice knights emitted faint glows, then these two knights were like ultra-powerful street lamps.
Even hundreds of ters above the ground, Maxi could easily see them.
"Maria, land right in front of those two n!"
"No need to ask twice." replied Maria, obeying imdiately.
Since the contract had been signed between the two of them, and she wanted an excellent future for her children, she would always do her best.
It was important to know that wyverns were not shy creatures, nor were they peaceful like so griffins.
In fact, unlike griffins, which were omnivorous, wyverns were carnivorous. So it was in their genes to fight, and there was no shortage of stories of human heroes fighting on the back of a wyvern.
In a titanic flap of its wings, the wyvern dived down, then slowed all at once when it neared the ground.
Its landing caused a gust of wind and threw the two knights off balance.
Maxi looked down at the two knights in front of him from his lofty position.
He completely towered over Argan and Tengan in terms of both height and aura.
"Young master, may we ask..."
Before Tengan could even finish his sentence, he heard behind him:
"Chief!"
"Captain!"
Liam and Ivan were extrely happy to see their captain. They had never imagined that their leader, who had not returned for several months, would suddenly return at this critical mont.
On hearing this, the expressions on Argan and Tengan's faces did not improve and, on the contrary, they were sweating profusely.
"Chief, captain?"
The two looked at each other, not understanding what they had just heard.
Or rather, they didn't want to understand.
Because if it turned out to be real...
Maxi gracefully climbed down from the back of the creature and slowly advanced towards the two knights, fixing his piercing gaze on Argan and Tengan.
With every step he took, the pressure felt by the two n seed to grow heavier.
With only a few steps separating them, Maxi stopped.
"Did you really think you could run away after killing my n?"
Argan and Tengan looked at the young blond-haired man in front of them, with fear and disbelief.
They had never experienced anything like this in their lives and didn't know how to react.
For his part, Maxi was really angry even if he didn't show it.
From the sky, he had had ti to see many familiar faces on the ground.
Many of them had their eyes wide open, looking up at the sky, but without the slightest hint of life in their pupils.
Seeing all these faces, Maxi's emotions seed to overflow for a mont.
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