The Regressor Is The Villain
Chapter 54 - 2 Years Later (1)

Chapter 54: 2 Years Later (1)

In one place, a carriage protected by several Knights was seen traveling.

"Uncle, isn’t this too strange?"

One of the youngest knights asked curiously to the old-looking knight beside him. That knight was the uncle of the young knight.

"Fool, don’t call me uncle this time. Call me Chief for now."

"Sorry!"

The young knight seemed to realize his mistake and decided to apologize.

"It’s alright, you’re still new to the game so it’s only natural that you’re not used to it yet. But make sure not to make the same mistake."

"I understand!"

"Good, about the previous question. What do you mean?"

"Isn’t this forest we’re passing through famous for having a lot of monsters, but so far there have been no monster appearances anywhere. Is there perhaps something anomalous going on?"

The young knight looked around with a wary gaze. Seeing the young knight’s wary expression, the old knight immediately laughed.

"Ahaha!"

"Did I say something funny?"

"No, that’s definitely a normal reaction."

"?"

"You must not have read the news last week, right?"

"Eh? Why do you know?"

"Of course I know, if someone who didn’t read the news last week would have the same reaction."

"What news is there?"

The old knight then pointed to a place, then the young knight looked at the direction pointed.

A large crater was visible and the entire forest there was destroyed by the burning and was split apart very neatly by the wind, there was even a remnant of ice still left.

"That place is the death place of the Alpha Monster, Tiger Blow."

"What! An Alpha Monster!"

Hearing the shocking news, the young knight immediately shouted in surprise.

"Last week, an Alpha monster appeared with the dangerous behavior of the Earl class."

"Earl-class! Wouldn’t that be able to destroy several cities easily?"

"Yes, but fortunately at that time the Wolfled family was on their way home from the Yangnam Kingdom."

"!! What does that mean?"

"Yes, the Alpha monster and the led monster are also dead. Moreover, at that time the Knights who were guarding had all been defeated and only the Wolfled family was left in the carriage.

"Wow..."

The young knight was immediately amazed as soon as he heard the old knight’s story, for the young knight who had just joined. Fighting the Alpha monster was already a terror, but Aamon was able to kill the Alpha monster.

"As expected of Lord Aamon, being able to overcome waves of monsters alone."

"Wait, I never said-"

The old knight realized that the young knight seemed to have misunderstood the story the old knight was telling.

Realizing there was a misunderstanding, the old knight tried to clear up the misunderstanding but they were stopped by the noise in front of them.

"Alert!"

The old knight immediately shouted the order to be on alert, then all the knights were on alert.

A moment after that, from behind a bush emerged a monster with a hard body like a rhinoceros.

"Five-horned rhino!"

The monster that appeared in front of them was the Five-horned Rhino. A rhino with five horns with 5 elements in each horn capable of creating magic from its horns.

Five-horned Rhino is an A- rank monster with the Earl danger level. This monster is also known as the natural enemy of the Knights thanks to its five horns capable of creating magic, besides that its hard body is difficult to penetrate by ordinary swords.

Upon realizing the appearance of the dangerous monster, the old knight immediately shouted to all the other knights.

"Start forming up!"

(Tsk, it looks like there are still monsters that managed to escape Lord Aamon’s supervision.)

The old knight realized that the monster was the one that managed to hide when the Wolfled family slaughtered Alpha’s monster army the week before.

"Attack!"

Then the knights began to surround the monster and began their fight.

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After that several tens of minutes passed but the battle was still not over, even now the Knights were cornered with many wounds all over their armor.

"Chief, this monster is too strong. Besides, it’s reading our movements."

The young knight looked puzzled by the monster’s seemingly intelligent way of fighting. To ordinary people, it might be strange but to people who were used to fighting Alpha monster armies, it was normal.

"Alpha monsters are not only able to lead an army of different types of monsters but are also able to make the monsters intelligent."

"Become intelligent? Is that possible?"

"It’s possible. That’s why monsters that previously moved based on instinct, when encountering Alpha monsters will definitely be able to fight with better thinking."

That’s why Alpha Monsters were so feared, and Wolfled Territory was the territory that fought Alpha Monsters the most on this continent.

"Tsk, how dare you make me wait so long..."

Then during the chaotic situation, the voice of a teenage boy came from inside the carriage.

Appearing a teenage boy with a height of approximately 145cm, the teenage boy had black hair and bloodshot eyes.

The teenage boy had a sharp gaze and looked annoyed, the teenage boy’s eyes then pointed at the exhausted Knights.

When all the Knights saw the appearance of the teenage boy, they immediately showed their heads.

"Forgive us for making you wait so long, young lord Zend."

The old knight immediately tried to give an apology to Zend who looked annoyed.

But Zend didn’t look at the old knight and walked past him.

"Tsk, I’ll take care of this..."

With those words, Zend walked towards the angry-looking Five-horned Rhino monster.

"Wait, young master-"

Seeing Zend heading towards the monster, the young knight thought of stopping Zend but the old knight’s hand stopped him.

"No need."

"Eh? What do you mean! The young master will be killed by that monster if we let him."

The young knight looked angry at the old knight. Seeing the young knight’s actions, the old knight started talking again.

"You think that the one who destroyed Alpha’s monster army was Lord Aamon alone?"

"What is uncle talking about at a time like this! Move aside, I have to-"

"Shut up and listen to me!"

The old knight shouted to the young knight, finally the young knight’s attention was focused on the old knight.

"I should have said before, it wasn’t Lord Aamon who destroyed Alpha’s monster army, but the Wolfled family."

"What?"

"At that time, the Wolfled family carriage contained the entire Wolfled family members."

"So what..."

The young knight finally understood the old knight’s meaning, so the young knight’s gaze returned to Zend.

Zend took out a red-colored sword from its sheath and stared at the monster.

"Come forward..."

In a mocking tone, Zend told the monster to advance on him.

"Gruuuhh!!!"

Although the monster didn’t understand Zend’s words, it understood that it was currently being taunted by Zend.

In anger, the monster lunged at Zend while casting fire magic from its horns.

"Fool..."

As the monster’s horn was about to crash into Zend, Zend blocked the collision with his red sword.

"How dare you think of fighting me with the fire element, get a grip."

Instantly the flames enveloping the monster’s horns began to move to Zend and became Zend’s own and turned to attack the monster.

"Groooh!"

Although the monster had a strong resistance to physical, but the monster’s resistance to magic was very fragile.

In pain, the monster retreated. While retreating, the monster used water magic to attack Zend from a distance that Zend’s sword could not reach.

"You think such weak magic can defeat my fire."

With an arrogant tone, Zend raised a wall of fire. The monster’s water magic then instantly dissipated into vapor.

"Let me show you what magic is."

Zend then snapped his fingers. Instantly the temperature in that place became very hot.

Then a fire spear appeared behind Zend.

"Without casting!"

The young knight looked surprised by Zend who performed magic without chanting. Moreover, the magic Zend was using was [Fire Lance], a mid-level magic.

Zend’s fire magic then shot quickly towards the monster. Seeing the deadly magic aimed at it, the monster immediately used water magic to create a barrier, but Zend’s magic was too strong and fast.

The monster’s water magic even instantly evaporated when it met Zend’s magic, then the magic crashed into the monster.

*Boom*

With a loud explosion sound, Zend’s fire magic exploded.

"What? It’s not [Fire Lance]?"

The young knight looked confused because the [Fire Lance] magic would not explode once it hit the target let alone have a very hot temperature.

As the smoke from the explosion subsided, all the Knights looked surprised because even though the explosion just now could even smash the ground around into ashes but it seemed that the monster was not dead yet.

"Heh, at least you’re tough compared to your boss."

Zend then began to set up a stance, while the monster was also preparing to lunge at Zend once again.

Then, a second later they lunged at each other and a second later the fight ended.

*Fall*

Five-horned Rhino’s body fell to the ground with its five horns and head neatly cut off from each other.

"Is it over?"

The young knights looked at the scene in amazement and confusion. The monster that gave them trouble was defeated so easily by Zend Wolfled, the son of the Wolfled family who was famous for being an evil teenager with a weak body.

(Where’s the weakness...)

The young knight decided that from this day on he would never believe in rumors again.

After finishing the battle, Zend was seen cleaning the blood off his red sword and walked towards the Knights.

"Making your master do your duty, how pathetic are you as a Knight."

"..."

Zend then mocked the rest of the Knights, but they could not answer anything. The young knight also felt guilty for not being able to be of much use in the mission this time.

"Tsk, next time work more useful."

While snickering no, Zend passed by them to return to the carriage.

(Did young master Zend just entertain us?)

Then the young knight immediately shook his head.

(No no no...)

Zend’s feet then stopped and started talking again.

"I don’t need the corpse, so use or sell the monster’s corpse to upgrade your abilities or equipment. It’ll at least help a little with how pathetic you are."

With that, Zend returned to his carriage and the young knight looked at Zend’s disappearing figure with a puzzled expression.

(Are we pitied? Is this good or bad?)