The Knight Who Devou Chapter 158 : Chapter 158

Chapter 158 : Subjugation

‘There are too many of them.’

Rauel, who had hidden herself in the forest, frowned as she felt the presences approaching from behind.

‘The Piercer’ was already activated with an arrow in hand.

It was no exaggeration to say that everyone within this small forest was within her sensory range.

Shaking off the enemies would have been a piece of cake, but.

“Damn it, damn it, for

to be in this state……”

Because of the burdenso baggage that was throwing a tantrum even while being dragged by the scruff of his neck, she had no choice but to exclude running away from her options.

In that case.

“Be quiet, for a mont.”

“What?”

Rauel didn't answer and counted the number of arrows in the quiver at her side.

‘Thirty-two arrows.’

Including the one in her hand, thirty-three.

It had been a long ti since she felt the capacity of her familiar quiver to be so disappointing.

‘If I had known this would happen, I should have brought one more quiver.’

It can't be helped.

She had to make the most of what she had.

T-zing.

The mont she drew the bowstring, Rauel felt ti slow down.

Every movent within the forest entered her sensory range, and their paths began to be read clearly.

From the trajectories of people, animals, or insects, to the subtle flow of the air.

Among them, there were exactly 112 movents that seed to be enemies.

But.

‘Six of them look like knights.’

Take out the leaders first.

The mont she decided on her target, the string, wrapped in a blue light, was released.

Ting.

The arrow, imbued with azure mana, cut through the wind and flew.

And riding the wind created by the cold midnight air colliding with unfamiliar movents, it bent ever so slightly, several tis.

The arrow, imbued with mana, far surpassed its original effective range, flying over 300 ters to reach its target.

Puk.

“K-keuheuk!”

A knight, with his eyes wide open, collapsed from an arrow that suddenly flew out from behind a tree and pierced his neck.

“Sir Kimbel!!!”

“Sir Kimbel is down!!”

The mont a commotion arose around him.

Another arrow, which had been shot high into the sky from the other side, silently lodged itself in the head of a knight who had carelessly taken off his helt.

“Kuh……?”

Thud.

“Sir Roman!”

“Sir Roman has fallen!”

A commotion began to rise again in the quiet forest.

And that commotion continued exactly three more tis, bringing an ever-increasing disturbance to the enemy camp.

However.

- Tang!

Soon, Rauel felt the last of the six arrows aid at the knights get deflected by a sword swung by its target.

At that mont, she also felt that knight rushing towards her at a terrifying speed.

‘He knows my location?’

How?

Separate from her bewildernt, her judgnt of the situation was quick.

“Run back to where you were.”

“What!?”

She didn't wait for Zayd's answer and leaped into the forest.

And while calculating the enemy's movents, she released the bowstring in succession.

Pababak.

T-ing.

Arrows were fired in succession from the bowstring, which had its elasticity and strength enhanced by gathering mana.

A perfect predictive shot that even calculated the flow of the wind and the enemy's movents.

But the approaching enemy deflected Rauel's arrows in succession.

- Tadadadang!

And imdiately began to run towards where she was.

At that mont, the assessnt was made.

‘Sensory and speed-specialized. Armor is also substantial.’

The most difficult type of opponent for her.

Rauel went back out of the forest and headed for a wide-open clearing.

“Why! Why!?”

Zayd, who was returning to the original campsite, shouted in surprise upon seeing her approach.

“Ugh!?”

Whirl.

Rauel grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and threw him into the middle of the clearing.

“What is this……!”

For a Corporeal Arts user, Zayd twisted his thrown posture and landed.

Confirming his position, she slid back and drew her bowstring in succession.

T-iiing!

As if playing a single-stringed harp, the mana-imbued bowstring let out a series of clear notes.

The fired arrows headed straight for the front of the knight who had appeared as if waiting.

“Found you!!”

Tadadadang!

A slender knight, fully encased in full plate mail and with his helt pulled down.

He was deflecting all the arrows aid at the gaps in his armor and approaching her with a fearso montum.

The curved katana-style sword from the east was astonishingly fast.

As was his charging speed.

The distance closed in an instant.

Thud.

Rauel's back, which had been slowly retreating, touched Zayd's body.

T-aang!

“Got you……!”

The mont the knight who had deflected an arrow from less than 10 ters away let out a thrilling cry of victory.

Puk.

“Keuk!?”

The first arrow that had been fired in the clearing accurately pierced the joint of the knight's shoulder armor.

He expressed his surprise with wide eyes inside his helt.

“Eek! Still……!”

The mont he tried to force himself to charge again.

Woong.

A small crossbow popped out of Rauel's right hand.

“The end.”

Pushuk.

A short word, three arrows fired with a small noise.

They pierced directly into the heart of the knight who was trying to close the distance again.

Pupupuk.

“H-how could this……”

The light in the knight's eyes inside the helt faded.

Soon, the helt of the collapsed knight rolled on the dirt floor of the clearing.

Though their traits were polar opposites, he was still just a 4-Star-level knight.

His abilities were far from enough to make her ‘calculations’ go awry.

Rauel turned around with a nonchalant face, as if she hadn't just fought a fierce battle.

“H-hehehe, damn it……”

Zayd, who was looking back and forth between the corpse and her with a dazed expression.

She asks him.

“Freddie, should I kill him?”

A direct blood relative of the family she once served. As she uttered his life and death with her own mouth, Rauel felt a strange sense of pleasure.

But Zayd's choice was unexpected.

“……You can't kill him.”

“That bastard was after you, wasn't he?”

“I want to kill him too! But, too many Aslan knights have died today. Anymore, and Father……”

“Hmm?”

“Damn it! Freddie, that stupid bastard, doing such a moronic thing!”

Hmm…….

As Zayd's incomprehensible tantrum continued.

- Everyone, charge!! What are you doing!!

An enraged voice was heard from the other side of the forest.

“……Then for now, I'll just subdue him.”

The bowstring was drawn again, and exactly three arrows were shot into the air.

What kind of magic did those arrows cast?

A mont later, the reaction of the voice changed drastically.

- Stop! Stop! Retreat! I said retreat, you bastards!

Zayd looked at Rauel with a stunned face.

Then, the words he uttered without realizing it.

“Can't you capture him?”

He knew it was an unreasonable request, so he let out an awkward laugh after saying it.

But Rauel's answer was unexpected.

“I'm already on it.”

“……What?”

Incomprehensible words.

But having seen her abilities that were far beyond his common sense, he couldn't argue with her.

And at that mont.

- Aaargh!

A sudden scream was heard briefly from the other side of the forest, and then the area fell silent.

‘What on earth is happening.’

Not long after Zayd, who was half out of his mind from the midnight commotion, was staring blankly into the air.

A familiar face appeared before his eyes.

“As expected. It was easy to catch him thanks to you, Rauel.”

“Ah, it hurts!!”

A man dragging Freddie, who had an arrow stuck in his shoulder, bound in chains, with his hundred or so soldiers trailing behind him from a distance.

His companion, who was heating up the kingdom with his symbols of jet-black, murderous armor, helt, and a huge greatsword.

It was the Black Knight, Muno Drasen.

“See? You're a huge help.”

At Muno's continuous emphasis, Rauel let out a chuckle.

“You were watching all along, weren't you!”

“Well, you could have handled it all even without , couldn't you? Am I wrong?”

“……Well, that's true, but.”

“If it were just , I would have had to run around until my feet were sweating.”

“That's……”

“You're better at dealing with people than I am. So don't ever bla yourself again. Got it?”

As Rauel, who knew why Muno was saying such things, gave an awkward smile.

The brothers, who were forced to et again, were shooting sparks at each other with their eyes.

“You crazy bastard, you dare to aim for my life?!”

Freddie, who had montarily lowered his eyes at Zayd's murderous gaze, soon saw the corpse of the knight who had been struck by an arrow and was lying on the ground, and clenched his teeth.

And then he imdiately shouted.

“It's the sa for you! You would have done it if you had the chance, wouldn't you!? Right!?”

“Nonsense! Even if we're fighting for succession, aiming for each other's lives is forbidden! Are you saying you'll openly break the rule that Father set!?”

“Don't make

laugh, brother! You think Father has the mind to care about such things right now? If you disappear here without a trace, he'll just treat it as a missing person case and be done with it!? You would have done the sa if you were in my situation!!”

Zayd was at a loss for words at the sight of Freddie shouting as if he had given up on everything.

Was he intimidated by his brother's ferocity?

No way.

As his brother said, he knew very well that if he had been in the sa situation, he would have done the sa thing.

But, the winner now was him.

“……Let

ask you one thing. No matter what, you wouldn't have caused this ss just by believing in that. Who is behind you?”

“Bullshit……”

“Your treatnt will be decided by your answer, Freddie.”

Zayd asked, trying to suppress his anger to maintain his reason.

But his brother didn't cooperate.

“Don't make

laugh. You're going to kill

anyway!”

Freddie, with his body bound, shouted and looked back.

“What are you doing! You bastards! Run! You'll all die if you stay here!!”

And then he shouts at the soldiers who had reluctantly followed him to save him, or to avoid responsibility.

At that, most of them froze, but a few imdiately showed movent.

And the sniper who had dominated the clearing also moved with them.

Pabak.

An arrow shot into the air flew sowhere.

“I'll kill the one who runs away first.”

As a very gentle voice echoed, the soldiers had no choice but to stop moving.

And in line with that situation, Zayd gave a chilling smile.

“Now, what shall we do, little brother? It seems there's no one to run away. Do you all want to die together?”

At that sneer, Freddie clenched his teeth and lowered his head.

“Damn it……”

Soon, he muttered sothing while looking at the ground.

“Bro, brother. Please spare , please. If, if you spare

just this once, I'll give up the succession, I'll give up everything. Please!”

He began to show a completely different, servile attitude from when he was shouting just before.

That complete change of attitude, rather, gave the onlookers the creeps.

“That, that, I'll, I'll keep my mouth shut about you joining hands with the Black Knight. You can kill all those guys over there. Just, just spare . Huh?”

The very pinnacle of servility.

Zayd had a face that said he had a lot to say.

“Let's finish this quickly, shall we? How long are you going to drag this out?”

“That's right. I woke up from my sleep because of this.”

The master of this place was not him.

‘Those monsters…….’

One thing he knew for sure.

That assassin nad Rauel had literally massacred Freddie's closest aides, including a 4-Star-level knight.

The Black Knight was also known to be 4-Star.

‘Judging by that woman's attitude, he must be a monster beyond that.’

They were the very top predators, the kind that seed to be only a match for monsters like the Lightning Blade Sword or the fla burst user lurking in the family.

So, he had no choice.

“Let's make this short, Freddie. If you just answer, I'll spare you.”

“A-anything!”

“I asked you before, didn't I? About what you believed in to cause this incident.”

Zayd tried to continue speaking as calmly as possible.

But.

“The conversation seems to be getting unnecessarily long.”

The mont the helted Black Knight showed a sign of displeasure, he had no choice but to shout as if making an excuse.

“That's the most important thing!”

So scared that he ended up raising his voice without realizing it.

It was sothing the usual Zayd would despise, but the current him was not even aware of it.