Death of the Black Knight

Author: Green Knight Lines

Under the blood-colored night sky, a knight in black armor walked between a section of ruins, and a tall war horse beside him followed closely behind the knight like a guard, and a faint black mist could be seen emanating from the gap between the horse and the vest.

There was a dead silence all around, and the cries and cries for help that had just resounded all around were no longer audible, except for the occasional crackling sound of the houses that had not yet burned out.

"Ridiculous humans, do you think you can stop the Dark Knight's assault by lighting a fire? It's not the cannon fodder army led by that guy Gurob! "The knight stopped and looked at his battle with satisfaction, and among the corpses that had fallen to the ground, there were men with swords and armor, women with ploughs, and even old human beings and children, but all the corpses had one thing in common - only one wound." It is worthy of the black knight who was personally selected and trained by himself and Commander Taze, and has been screened by more than a dozen battles, and it is a bit wasteful to use 'fangs' in this kind of place! ”

"Likurud?" With the sound of footsteps behind him, the knight did not look back, and asked directly, his voice a little hoarse and low.

"Yes, General Lines." A black knight with a blood-colored rose embroidered on his shoulder armor stepped out of the darkness and replied.

"How's the battle going?"

"This time, the number of 'fangs' participating in the battle was 30, and 324 enemies were killed, including 37 combatants, and our side lost 0."

"Very well, what about the direction of Luxembourg?"

"There is no sign of sending troops for the time being."

"Then let the team in charge of the ambush retreat, worthy of the 'Valkyrie' is really calm."

"What about that?"

"According to the general's orders, the west and the north are each released, but the general, why do you have to keep your mouth alive, let Lord Intaron know, and then punish the general?"

"He won't."

"But ......"

"What is our goal, O Likurud?" The low voice as usual revealed a majesty at this time, and Likulut knew that the deputy head of the regiment was a little angry.

"Take Luxembourg and cut off the supply of Brando's department!" In order to counteract the pressure he was feeling, Likurud walked up to the deputy head of the regiment and said excitedly.

"It's good to understand." Hearing a satisfactory answer, Lines continued, "Now the remnants of Luxembourg's army are all sustained by the personal prestige of the Valkyrie. As long as she continues to ignore our actions, humanity will lose faith in the brilliance of the Valkyrie, and it will be easy to take Luxembourg again." ”

"But there's no need to deliberately leave a living mouth, like this, our 'fangs' record and evaluation......" Likurud was still a little puzzled.

"Records and evaluations?" Lines swept his gaze at the corpses around him, "If it is a record of a record to completely destroy such a village with no combat power at all, don't do it." As for the evaluation, as long as Luxembourg is taken before the next full moon rises, are you afraid of what the other generals will say? ”

"So fast?" Likurud said with some surprise.

"Is that because someone will help us poison Luxembourg?"

"Poisoned? How is it possible, and poisoning isn't it the general, don't you dislike the guys who play with bones the most? ”

"The poison called 'panic' and 'rumors'." Lines looked at the blood moon in the sky and continued, "The information brought by scouts is often not well known to the soldiers at the grassroots level due to the control at the top, and the narrative of the fugitive population is easier to spread among the soldiers at the bottom, and will spread panic and rumors. Once the soldiers of Luxembourg lost their morale and lost faith in the 'Valkyrie'......"

"Morale, human beings are really wonderful, worthy of the deputy commander...... Ahh

"Don't worry, Likulut." Lines's tone was still as calm as it was.

Before the title "Fang", he was always called "Blemishe", and Lines laughed self-deprecatingly when he thought of this.

Unlike other Dark Knights, who were thoroughly baptized by the power of darkness, retaining only knowledge and memories, and forgetting other memories of when he was born as a human, and becoming the darling of the Calamity Dragon, Raines still retains some memories of his time as a human, but these memories are still very vague and have no connection with each other.

Perhaps it was the Blessing of the Calamity Dragon, or perhaps some of the bigwigs at the top who maintained some interest in the flaw of Lines, but he was not disposed of at the time, but was incorporated into the army of Taze at the same time as him, starting as a low-level soldier and becoming a part of the expansion of Madara.

In battle after battle, Lines survived, relying on his own strength to gradually accumulate combat exploits, and then promoted, and finally won the recognition of the upper echelons, as a dark knight, became the deputy leader of the "Night Rattlesnake" warband, and his identity as a flawed product was gradually forgotten. But there are always some people who are not convinced by the "flawed" Rains and provoke him, and he has reduced these challengers to the original dark force in public and private duels.

When did he first become known as "fangs"? Just as Lines was in the middle of his thoughts, suddenly countless images and information entered his mind, "Damn, here it is again!" "Although I am used to this sudden feeling of vertigo, I still feel very uncomfortable, and unlike usual, this time the picture is very coherent and the information is very clear.

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The pungent stench of rancid and bloody blood brought the dying Lines to his senses, just as he tried to understand what had happened.

"Lord Gulob, there are two human cavalry alive here!" A hollow voice rang in my ears.

"Poof, where...... Well, yes, yes, this one is good, the injury is not critical, poof, and it has the potential to become a dark knight...... Somilion, it looks like I'm going to reward you when I go back, and where is the other one? Lead the way," another shrill voice sounded in the distance

"Over here, Lord Gulob," said the hollow voice.

"Well, this one is not bad...... Bastard, isn't this guy dying? Suddenly, a shrill voice shouted

[Huh? Am I still alive? Are you dying? Let this unusually shrill voice make a noise, Lines was finally able to sort out the information [Eh, my whole body hurts, where is this, and who am I?] Alive? Did I go through anything? …… Ah, my head hurts! 】

"I'm very sorry, Master Gulob, this man has been injured too much, and the most severe wound is in the chest, if it weren't for the sudden beating of this person's fire of life, it would have transformed him. Are you going to kill him? ”

[Kill? Ah, kill me quickly, you won't feel the sting pain in your whole body when you die, right? 】

"No, no, no, don't kill him just yet. Such an interesting thing can be let go of so much" The shrill voice hurriedly said, "Hormilion, what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and prepare for the dark ritual, the highest kind, I want to turn this person into a dark knight!" ”

"But this person's body can't withstand the baptism of the power of darkness, so I think it's better to convert him into an undead knight, right?"

"I don't need your opinion, you just need to get ready! If it succeeds, how will things develop in the future? Poof, it's so exciting......"

With this last laugh, Lines's consciousness faded away

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"Damn, it's that guy who loves to play with bones and souls! See if I don't chop him to dust the next time I see him! Lines, who had finally recovered from his past memories, couldn't help but scold. And, before that, who was I before that? Who is that figure that always appears in my consciousness? Damn, there's not enough information. ”

"General, what's wrong with you?" Looking at the deputy head of the regiment who suddenly fell into silence, he suddenly became excited, and he scolded Likulut and couldn't help asking, this is the first time he has seen the deputy head of the regiment scolding when he enters the "fangs", what happened to the deputy head in the past, either he fought with reason, or he spoke with a sword, and he had never scolded like now.

"It's nothing, I thought that the quality of the soldiers provided by Ancient Lob to our corps is too inferior. Go down and gather your men and get ready to go to the next place. This sentence completely made Likulud dumbfounded, the last time Gulob provided troops, when did it happen? 5 years ago? But now that the order has been issued, it still has to be carried out, and in the "Night Rattlesnake", not obeying the orders of the army is not a joke.

After his subordinates left, Lines calmed down his chaotic mind and prepared to leave, but he heard a faint cry, and at first he thought he had heard it wrong, but he sensed it in the direction of the cry, and sure enough, he could feel the faint fire of life.

"Dead humans? But it is impossible for his own subordinates to make such a mistake. Lines thought as he poked in the direction of the fire of life, and sure enough, he found a baby wrapped in cloth under the corpse of a woman, perhaps this woman also wanted to protect her child before she died.

"Human babies? It's no wonder that the subordinates didn't notice that the fire of life emitted by this life was too weak. Lines muttered as he drew his saber from his waist.

Raising the sword, it was like a blood-colored long sword that had sucked blood, glowing with a strange light under the night sky of the half moon

The downward stab, the tip of the sword that should have pierced through the baby's neck, stopped before some of the skin that was slightly pale from the cold!

"What am I hesitating about?" Lines looked at his hands in amazement, "It's just a faint flame of life." ”

"The flame of life that is stronger with each other has also been extinguished by me? But now you can't do it? Lines kept asking himself.

"No kidding! I'm the rattlesnake's fangs! With this loud roar, Lines raised his sword again, this time with a slash.

"Damn it!" Watching his sword slash to the ground next to the baby, he scolded again!

"Isn't it just seeing some of your own human past? Can't kill humans anymore? Lines said as he repeated the process of raising his sword and slashing it down, but each sword was slashed at the baby's side by a fraction of a second.

"Hey...... Hey...... "Maybe it was because he saw the fun toys shaking around him, and the baby actually stopped crying and laughed.

"Even you laugh at me? Also, Rains Javier, known as the 'fang', can't even kill a baby! Weakly putting away his sword, Lines prepared to turn and step onto his horse to leave.

"Anyway, they were either eaten by wild dogs, or they died of cold and starvation." Again he looked back at the faint life on the ground

"Forget it" suddenly untied the spear from the saddle and stabbed it at the ground, and then provoked, and the cloth wrapped in the baby slashed through the air and fell steadily into the hand of the knight.

"What if this is for Gurob to see ......?" Lines didn't dare to think any further, so he casually removed a piece of cloth from the cloak behind him and tied the baby in his arms.

"Little one, let you go this time, send you to the human side, and become a knight in the future, and then I will tear off your head myself with these hands" As if determined, Lines clenched his hands tightly on the reins

"The old man is gone, and he is heading for Luxembourg!" Lines took a war horse under his crotch and headed in the direction of Luxembourg.

The eastern sky was already white, and in the distance, you could already see the Luxembourg fortress sitting on the banks of the Rhine. Lines reached into his arms with his unreined hand, and the baby seemed to sleep soundly, feeling a faint body temperature through the cold gauntlet.

"It's not like me." Just as Lines was laughing at himself, a crisp female voice sounded in his ears, "No, that's you, Lane." ”

"Who?" Although Lines was disturbed by what had just happened, being a high-level Dark Knight would never let people approach silently without noticing.

"Hehe, has Ryan forgotten about me? I'm sad, but it's no wonder, it's been 40 years! Now, Ryan, do you remember the agreement at that time? Just as Lines was looking around, the voice rang in his ears again

"Promise? What the hell is being said? ”

"Ah, I forgot about that incident, so come on, Ryan, open your heart, anthracite will remind you."

"Anthracene...... Ti, anthracene? Ah......h......h And you can see bursts of black gas spilling out of the armor and dissolving into the air

[Ryan, I heard about it, you have joined the garrison, congratulations! 】

Thank you, Anthrite. This is one step closer to revitalizing the Javier family! The next step is Jianxun, I heard that Madara is ......]

[The Javier family? 】

[What's wrong?] Anthracene. 】

[No, it's fine. By the way, come to my house for dinner today......]

[Ryan, what's going on, why does Uncle Madden want everyone to gather]

[Don't panic, it's just that the Madara side is invading the border as always, so let's just go to Riddenburg for a few days. 】

[But...... I can't rest easy.]

[It's okay, Anthrite, trust the uncle's judgment, and believe me, our Buchi garrison will definitely protect everyone! ] 】

[Ryan, why is this, didn't you say it's okay, why is everyone dead, the bearded uncle next door, the aunt in the bakery, and, also, why is this!] 】

【……】

[I'm sorry, Ryan, I was so excited just now]

[Anthrite, I'm going to patrol with Taze later, this is for you]

[Ah, isn't this the short sword of the Javier family? What's the matter, suddenly give this to me]

"Ha, haha, hahaha...... I see," as the intense pain faded away, the image of the memories was interrupted. "What have I done all these years...... I am inspired to become a knight, and I am the one who vows to protect everyone...... Damn it. ”

"At least, this kid ......" Lines, who had made up his mind, turned over and dismounted, patted the horse on the neck and said, "Let's go, old man!" From here on, let me walk on my own. "He has always obeyed his war horse, but at this time, he uncharacteristically violated his master's orders and stood motionless. As a last resort, Lines can only use his dark power to force his old partner to leave.

"Then it's my turn" Watching the horse go away, Lines turned and walked in the direction of Luxembourg.