The Amber Sword volume 2 - 64

Chapter 64 – The rcenaries

There was another man who flew out from the battlefield. Eke then struck down three rcenaries in the blink of an eye, and caused the crowd to have an opening. He moved towards the opening before anyone was able to react, but Brendel was slightly intrigued by his choice.

Capo was directly in the youth’s path.

The elderly rcenary brought his sword horizontally with his body inclined forwardly, and charged forward like a fearso beast with tightly pursed lips.

[Randonian fencing. This swordsmanship was created by Swordmaster Imaria and was widely used in the continent in its early days. But there are not many practitioners in this era due to its technical difficulty. The number of users in this world who are truly able to use this style are exceedingly low.]

Brendel’s eyes narrowed a little. Almost all the people who knew this swordsmanship are highly skilled.

[Just raising this swordsmanship alone requires 133 TP from level 1 to level 2, and virtually exceeds the requirents of any typical sword styles by sixty percent. The accuracy rating is 2 tis better than a military swordsmanship, while the damage increase is 1.3 tis more, but there are not many players who actually spent ti on it. That’s because the market price for the skill over one million Tor coins. As for book copies, there are only a few kingdoms who possessed them in their museums.]

Eke apparently realized his mistake as well, but trying to retreat backwards had beca impossible, and he could only charge forward recklessly. Even though he did not use a sword from the beginning, it was clear from his fighting techniques that he was trained in the ways of the sword. Brendel recognized it as one of the knight’s varied swordsmanship.

[These two rcenaries look like they are close with each other, but the techniques they used are completely different. That’s quite interesting.]

But it was not exactly a rare thing to see in a group of rcenaries, so Brendel was just slightly interested in seeing how things turned out.

Eke directly charged into Capo while using his body to avoid the sword’s path, but Capo did not disappoint Brendel. He cleanly swung his sword twice and sealed off the youth’s options, and forced him to leap sideways.

If Capo took one more step, he would certainly force the youth into a dire state.

Brendel’s current stats were unlikely to match either of them, but he was certain of this fact more than anyone in the battlefield. As expected, Capo had seized the best position to attack where Eke was going to retreat next, and his sword was pulled back to prepare for a decisive strike.

But Brendel’s irides widened slightly.

Capo’s movents was slower by half a beat, and the youth grabbed his shoulder from the smallest opening to stop his arm from moving. He then lurched forward and smashed onto Capo’s body, knocking the veteran rcenary backwards by five steps. This change nearly surprised everyone, and even the youth’s stupefied expression was clearly reflected in Brendel’s eyes.

But Eke imdiately shook his head. He saw that Capo’s stagger was a montary thing, so he imdiately turned around and escaped into the crowd.

[Well done.]

Brendel secretly praised Capo. He had deliberately received the blow from Eke but the way how he did it was really covert, and the average person would not be able to see through his actions. Brendel was the only exception with his unimaginable experience behind him, and everyone his age would have been deceived.

Brendel did not exclusively use a sword in the ga and used other weapons for at least a decade. He had spend over a hundred and forty sumrs as a warrior. With one hundred and ten years in the way of the sword, and his foundation was beyond many people.

(TL: The ga is 8 tis faster in VR, so if the protagonist started off as 16 years old, then he would be around 33 years old IRL when he teleported to this world.

When I translate/localize, I also think about various aspects visually. So how I imagine it is from way early on when I TLed this series, this young naive fresh green kid Brendel t Freya for the first ti and fought with her for years, then witnessing her death on the battlefield and Aouine’s demise, etc, which is the starting point of what Brendel is doing now and why he acts that way.)

Brendel’s true stats were rely that of a mid tier Iron-ranked fighter, and it looked like he was not even close to Eke’s match. But if they were to truly have a fight, Brendel would not lose even if there were two Ekes fighting him, especially when his military swordsmanship was at level 10 (9 1).

With the mories of the original Brendel about his grandfather’s swordsmanship, he was literally unmatched by anyone his age, and the military instructors in the army would just barely be proficient enough to beco his students.

Still, even with his own vast experience, he did not reach his grandfather’s unapproachable aura that made people feel like they were on a tight rope hanging over cliffs. He was sowhat close to that state and becoming a grandmaster, but the more he raised his levels, the more mysterious he felt his grandfather was.

[A re veteran soldier in that November War...? Even a level 100 warrior like myself can’t gather up an aura to fight against him, it would really be ridiculous to write my grandfather off as a simple soldier. Especially when I don’t even see a hint of his strength on Leto.]

Leto was another soldier who experienced the November war. The only difference was the fact that he joined in the later part of the war, while Brendel’s grandfather experienced the entirety of the whole war.

[Who exactly received the Fire Emblem from the Holy Cathedral of Fire?]

Brendel had actively worked with Aouine’s governnt in the ga, and joined the Church of light. This thought streaked across his mind and vanished.

Everyone looked at each other in silence as the situation suddenly changed, but the first noise that surged was from the surrounding citizens. Everyone started talking about why and how the rcenaries failed to capture the youth. Even though the majority of them did not really see how the fight started and ended, it did not interfere with their gossiping nature.

The rcenaries who were knocked onto the ground by Eke climbed up slowly. Even though they did not speak, their eyes did not show any signs of anger or depression, and instead showed like they were relieved.

Brendel naturally did not miss any of that. When he turned back to the girls, he saw Amandina also turning towards him, and their glances exchanged certain information.

“Brendel, they don’t seem like they want to go after him.” Romaine muttered next to him.

Brendel chuckled and nodded.

“Captain Capo, are you alright?”

Brendel saw a few rcenary soldiers going up to Capo carefully and asked. Capo looked blankly at his wrist for a while and then regained a strict face and look at his n.

“I’m fine. Alright, everyone form into groups and seal off Chablis. Don’t let Eke escape. If there are any problems with this afternoon’s situation, I’ll take full responsibility—”

“Oh.”

“Okay.”

“Understood, Captain Capo.”

The rcenaries answered stiffly, but their reactions were slow enough to raise a few heads.

But Capo seed to ignore their actions. He surveyed his surroundings and his eyes fell upon Brendel. He had observed the entire battlefield and noticed Brendel helping his man out, but it was only now that he had the ti to scrutinize him.

Capo was actually surprised when he studied Brendel.

He had noted Brendel’s abilities with at least a mid-tier Iron-ranked fighter, but he did not expect him to be so young. Any twenty years old youth with his skills would raise surprise anywhere, and his imdiate thoughts went to Eke. That youth was the most talent person he saw in his life, and he was the commander ‘Maned Wolf’ Maccarlo’s adopted son. He had attained the Tier 2 Prowess at the re age of seventeen, and in his mories, only the Blessed prodigies would attain such results at his age. (TL: Tier 1 prowess is iron rank, Tier 2 prowess is silver rank)

Eke has been the rcenaries’ hope and pride since he was young, and when he deserted from the rcenaries, commander Maccarlo rely wanted them to bring him back, and the rest of the rcenaries did not wish to see the youth get punished because of this reason. It was clear that the youth was dearly beloved by them.

When he thought about Eke, Capo’s heart steadied itself, and soone like Brendel appeared to be a natural thing. He exhaled and walked over to him, with his expression slightly more relaxed.

“I am grateful for your assistance, please call Capo. May I ask for your na, Ser-?” He said.

“Brendel, there’s no need to be so courteous.” Brendel was also studying him.

The veteran rcenary had a pair of a ashen irides, and his brows looked as if they were constantly bunching up together like he had uncountable problems. Coupled with his looks was shoulder-length grey hair, and a pair of hands with long fingers. If he did not have calluses on the hands, he would look like a piano player.

Because of his looks, he did appear to be an attractive older man and he might even attract fangirls’ screams.

Brendel was sowhat jealous. Even though he was quite good-looking as well, he lacked a certain maturity that Capo had, who looked like he had been through ups and downs.

[Looks like these rcenaries are not your average ones either. I wonder which famous group they belong to in the southern regions. There doesn’t seem to be any indication on their clothes, or any easily identifiable emblems on them right now. If they went out for a mission, there might be so clues...]