Translated by Wook
Edited by Wook
The knight fell once more with a bang.
“Damn!”
No one could even count how many times it was already.
Once again, the Southern knight, who had gone out miserably, could not resist his anger and slammed the floor.
“Pay attention.”
A calm voice could be heard over the knight’s, who was still struggling as he lay down, head.
At the voice, the knight got up again, and at the tip of his fiery gaze, Rena said.
“One must be punished if they lack discipline.”
At Rena’s provocation, the knight screamed and rushed towards her. This too, had repeated countless times in the past few minutes.
.
.
.
It took less than ten minutes for Rena and the Southern knight to reach this point.
The knight had insulted Rena first, and Rena countered him with provocation.
It was also the knight who had attacked first. He had rushed first to grab Rena, who seemed as if she had been waiting for it.
Even then, he didn’t know. He thought they’d be rolling down fighting on the floor from the impact, however, Rena turned her body slightly to avoid his touch and stretched her leg to make him trip, making the knight fall in a grand way.
After that, the same thing repeated several times.
Many times, the knight who was lying down, got up again and screamed.
It was just crazy. He looks like he could shatter even a bone if he just caught Rena, but Rena kept evading him nimbly like a sparrow.
“Knowing when to apologize is also an act of courage.”
At Rena’s provocation, the knight clenched his teeth and stood up again.
He was just barely standing when he felt an unfamiliar pain in his knee. He looked down and saw blood seeping into his white uniform pants. The flesh that had been pounded on the marble floor over and over again seemed to have been broken.
The other knights noticed the blood.
“Oh god…”
The knight became even more agitated. At the same time, there was a rustling sound.
“H- Hey!”
The knights who were watching shouted in shock.
However, the knight who had pulled out his sword rushed towards Rena without paying any attention.
“You are dead!”
***
Lynn was sitting at his desk, contemplating.
The paper in front of him was dotted with drops of black ink. A sign of long agony.
‘What do we do?’
The Eastern Duke’s face was full of concern when he returned from examining the tomb.
Lynn wiggled the pen in his hand as he recalled what had happened hours before, at the Doom Palace.
-You just got in. How far did you go inside?
When Lynn returned from the Tomb, Clavis greeted him with this sentence.
It was a pretty awkward greeting. Lynn soon calmed down and asked an Eastern Knight.
-How long have I been in?
-About 15 minutes.
The knight answered faithfully. But from Lynn’s point of view, this was also a nonsensical answer.
Lynn crossed the rift and directly checked the black land and castle within the Tomb. In the meantime, the dead suddenly poured out, and because of it, he could not return directly and had to detour for a while.
It should have been about 3 to 4 hours before he came out. So, when they said only 15 minutes had passed…
Lynn nodded his head. Beyond the open ceiling, the sky was still bright blue as if rebuking Lynn’s suspicions.
‘So, it is true that the passage of time is different?’
Clavis said that time doesn’t flow in that rift.
It was true. And the Eastern Duke, who had directly confirmed it, had no choice but to worry.
‘I can’t do it the usual way.’
The usual way. Drag the enemy until they break down before looting the gates.
Lynn mumbled involuntarily, feeling unsure with himself. He was thinking about how to occupy the enemy camp.
But he had neither the right to veto nor the time to fall into sentimentality.
‘The army of the dead won’t move.’
Lynn regained his composure and contemplated.
The crack in the Doom Palace was about the size of a small gate. Everyone needs to make a long line to pass through, and if the time difference between inside and outside is not controlled, those who enter first may be left in the Tomb.
In the meantime, if the dead launch an attack or they run out of supplies first, it will be like walking into their death on their own feet.
‘Should I go with a small number of elite forces?’
He reluctantly looked for an alternative, but that wasn’t the answer either.
There are no doors in the castle of the dead. It was impossible to destroy that high wall with a small number of elites.
No matter how much he thought about it, there was no point.
When Lynn was tormented alone in front of a series of difficulties…
“Your Grace, Cardinal Clavis has invited you to dinner.”
‘What the hell is up again?’ Upon hearing the news from his secretary, Deca, Lynn swallowed the complaints that had risen to his throat.
“Who are the participants?”
“Only three: the Eastern Duke, Prince Rubid, and the Southern Representative, Sir Lena.”
“So, only those who had gone personally to the Tomb were called.”
‘That means he has something to discuss.’
‘Seriously, what the hell is this?’
Lynn was terribly fed up with everything Clavis had, but he didn’t decline the invitation. He couldn’t miss this opportunity even though he was often isolated from information.
Thus, he waved his hand to signify that he knew, but Deca didn’t go out immediately and hesitated. Then he added cautiously, as if he had decided something.
“I also have separate news.”
“About what?”
“It is said that a Southern knight pointed a sword at Sir Rena.”
Lynn’s tired eyes suddenly widened. Deca looked at Lynn, who rarely had a look of astonishment, and spoke calmly.
“There was a small argument at the first meeting, but then a knight started a riot… It is said that someone was seriously injured in the process.”
“Was it the Southern Representative?”
“Uh, no…”
Lynn, who asked him in a haste, furrowed his eyebrows. Deca soon replied to him with a trace of awkwardness.
“The knight who pointed a sword at Sir Rena was brutally beaten by Sir Rena and is now in critical condition.
“Brutally beaten…?”
“Yes, Your Grace. Brutally Beaten.”
Lynn repeated the word ‘brutally beaten’ with a blank face.
‘No way… But, seriously?’
Lynn couldn’t readily believe what Deca said.
Of course, Rena Ruber is a lady with the power to half-kill someone. He had witnessed this side of her personally, but at the same time, he also knew that she was someone with common sense and… kindness.
But now they were saying that in the first meeting, she assaulted her knight so harshly that he fell into serious condition?
The Rena that Lynn knew was not such a foolish person.
“Where did you hear that news?”
“It was circling among the court servants.”
“Is it authentic?”
“It has not been confirmed yet, but it is true that the atmosphere in the meeting was not good and that one person was carried away from the meeting place.”
So it’s not really a rumor.
‘The knights have been anxious since yesterday.’
Lynn clicked his tongue involuntarily. Then looked out his window as usual.
‘I’ve already done a lot of work today, but the sky is still so bright.’
‘Had to wait longer for night to come.’
***
At the same time, Rena was being teased.
“So, is this the beginning of a reign of terror?”
“A reign of terror…”
“I heard my lady broke down the Southern knight. After that guy scampered in the dirt in a cowardly manner, you started beating him using blunt force!”
“Ehm…”
Rena smiled embarrassedly at Uni, who was imitating punches.
Having messed up the meeting, Rena returned to her room. And Uni, who had picked up the rumors, greeted Rena like that.
Uni’s eyes were twinkling while telling a story that didn’t even exist, which made Rena think it’s kind of silly.
“It seems that rumors brew as fast as words spread in the Imperial Palace.”
“Is it just a rumor?”
“Yes. First of all, there was no dirt because it was indoors, and I do not prefer using blunt force.”
“Yeah, usually you prefer the cutlery side.”
“Uni. Sshh.”
“Okay. Sshh.”
Uni, who was excited and chattering, quietly shut her mouth.
But she only shut her mouth. Her eyes were still sparkling with curiosity.
So Rena sighed and explained,
“The knights hated me from the start, and one of them rushed at me. So all I did was trip his feet.”
The meeting was a huge failure. The Southern Knights did not welcome Rena as much as the socialites of the Imperial Palace.
Besides, just like there was a Rubid in the ballroom, there were also very rude men in the Knights Order.
Although that one guy was a rare asshole, Rena did not hit, beat, or kick her opponent recklessly.
She kept her duty as acting commander, and only induced him to fall on the floor on his own.
It was the same even after he pulled out his sword, she merely let him trip, but in conclusion, as the knight had run out as wildly as he could, his fall caused a concussion. And he fainted. After all that fuss, that was it.
At Rena’s confession, Uni closed her eyes with a puzzled expression.
“I thought my lady was really upset and going on a rampage.”
“Is that even possible…”
“The rumors are too frightening to be true.”
“It’s too fast.”
“Someone must have done something.”
Rena laughed bitterly at Uni’s words. The things that happened were strange, but she personally did not think someone had taken part in this.
“The old man will nag you about this again.”
“I know, really. If only he has the slightest bit of sense of humor.”
“The old man doesn’t have such a thing.”
Rena burst into laughter at Uni’s vulgar evaluation. It seems that Yuni was having fun harassing the Southern Duke.
Rena, who was feeling refreshed, said in a light voice,
“Then I will have to find a way to make friends with the knights before I hear the nagging.”
“Good idea. But before that, you have work to do, my lady.”
“What kind of work?”
“The cardinal invited you to dinner. It’s tonight.”
The smile disappeared from Rena’s face at the unexpected news.
“What were the exact words in the invitation?”
“To the heroes who will conquer the Tomb, I have an urgent message for you, so please attend.”
“I wasn’t the only one invited.”
Rena muttered in a slightly relieved voice. With a strange feeling, Uni looked at her eyes.
“So what?”
Rena pondered to herself without answering, and then muttered as if in a monologue,
“It took a really long time to get here. All sorts of things had happened, and every moment was a crisis.”
It was a harsh world for an abandoned girl. Rena was thrown into such a world without any preparation, and she came this far through her life and death.
“I barely came back like that, and the man who pushed me into the Tomb is staring at me with such curiosity. Would this be a good thing?”
Rena mumbled and laughed. She was cynical towards Clavis.
A lot of time has passed, but Rena still remembered how he had treated her as young and powerless.
Rena, who had touched this subject without preparation, was displeased. So she was silent for a while to control the fluctuations in her heart.
Uni watched her in silence, and when Rena sighed, she gave serious advice.
“Just kill him, my lady.”
“Do you think so?”
“Instead, just plan carefully, because your opponent is a cardinal.”
“You’re right.”
Rena burst into laughter once more at the vicious temptation. Then Uni, the one little adviser, laughed along with her. As expected, Rena couldn’t beat Uni. As Rena smiled lightly, Uni asked again,
“Then what are you going to do with the dinner invitation?”
“I have to go. I’ll go and hear what he has to say.”
Rena said so and smiled brightly as usual.
***
Rena’s smile continued at the dinner.
However, the smile on her face was completely different from what she did in front of Uni.
“What if the South takes the lead in the first expedition?”
Clavis said before the meal. It was said lightly, as if suggesting a play.
“Lead the North and East from the front, Sir Rena.”
‘It sounds like a request, but in fact it was a command.’
Someone must have done something.
Suddenly, Rena remembered what Uni had said. So, she bit her lip and she smiled silently.
There was no way the cardinal could not have known about the rebellion of the Southern Knights, which even the servants knew.
He must have known that it would be difficult to go out on the expedition, let alone being the vanguard.
So, the purpose of calling her here and telling her this sentence was obvious.
This proposal was clearly a trap aimed at Rena.
Translated by Wook
Edited by Wook
The knight fell once more with a bang.
“Damn!”
No one could even count how many times it was already.
Once again, the Southern knight, who had gone out miserably, could not resist his anger and slammed the floor.
“Pay attention.”
A calm voice could be heard over the knight’s, who was still struggling as he lay down, head.
At the voice, the knight got up again, and at the tip of his fiery gaze, Rena said.
“One must be punished if they lack discipline.”
At Rena’s provocation, the knight screamed and rushed towards her. This too, had repeated countless times in the past few minutes.
.
.
.
It took less than ten minutes for Rena and the Southern knight to reach this point.
The knight had insulted Rena first, and Rena countered him with provocation.
It was also the knight who had attacked first. He had rushed first to grab Rena, who seemed as if she had been waiting for it.
Even then, he didn’t know. He thought they’d be rolling down fighting on the floor from the impact, however, Rena turned her body slightly to avoid his touch and stretched her leg to make him trip, making the knight fall in a grand way.
After that, the same thing repeated several times.
Many times, the knight who was lying down, got up again and screamed.
It was just crazy. He looks like he could shatter even a bone if he just caught Rena, but Rena kept evading him nimbly like a sparrow.
“Knowing when to apologize is also an act of courage.”
At Rena’s provocation, the knight clenched his teeth and stood up again.
He was just barely standing when he felt an unfamiliar pain in his knee. He looked down and saw blood seeping into his white uniform pants. The flesh that had been pounded on the marble floor over and over again seemed to have been broken.
The other knights noticed the blood.
“Oh god…”
The knight became even more agitated. At the same time, there was a rustling sound.
“H- Hey!”
The knights who were watching shouted in shock.
However, the knight who had pulled out his sword rushed towards Rena without paying any attention.
“You are dead!”
***
Lynn was sitting at his desk, contemplating.
The paper in front of him was dotted with drops of black ink. A sign of long agony.
‘What do we do?’
The Eastern Duke’s face was full of concern when he returned from examining the tomb.
Lynn wiggled the pen in his hand as he recalled what had happened hours before, at the Doom Palace.
-You just got in. How far did you go inside?
When Lynn returned from the Tomb, Clavis greeted him with this sentence.
It was a pretty awkward greeting. Lynn soon calmed down and asked an Eastern Knight.
-How long have I been in?
-About 15 minutes.
The knight answered faithfully. But from Lynn’s point of view, this was also a nonsensical answer.
Lynn crossed the rift and directly checked the black land and castle within the Tomb. In the meantime, the dead suddenly poured out, and because of it, he could not return directly and had to detour for a while.
It should have been about 3 to 4 hours before he came out. So, when they said only 15 minutes had passed…
Lynn nodded his head. Beyond the open ceiling, the sky was still bright blue as if rebuking Lynn’s suspicions.
‘So, it is true that the passage of time is different?’
Clavis said that time doesn’t flow in that rift.
It was true. And the Eastern Duke, who had directly confirmed it, had no choice but to worry.
‘I can’t do it the usual way.’
The usual way. Drag the enemy until they break down before looting the gates.
Lynn mumbled involuntarily, feeling unsure with himself. He was thinking about how to occupy the enemy camp.
But he had neither the right to veto nor the time to fall into sentimentality.
‘The army of the dead won’t move.’
Lynn regained his composure and contemplated.
The crack in the Doom Palace was about the size of a small gate. Everyone needs to make a long line to pass through, and if the time difference between inside and outside is not controlled, those who enter first may be left in the Tomb.
In the meantime, if the dead launch an attack or they run out of supplies first, it will be like walking into their death on their own feet.
‘Should I go with a small number of elite forces?’
He reluctantly looked for an alternative, but that wasn’t the answer either.
There are no doors in the castle of the dead. It was impossible to destroy that high wall with a small number of elites.
No matter how much he thought about it, there was no point.
When Lynn was tormented alone in front of a series of difficulties…
“Your Grace, Cardinal Clavis has invited you to dinner.”
‘What the hell is up again?’ Upon hearing the news from his secretary, Deca, Lynn swallowed the complaints that had risen to his throat.
“Who are the participants?”
“Only three: the Eastern Duke, Prince Rubid, and the Southern Representative, Sir Lena.”
“So, only those who had gone personally to the Tomb were called.”
‘That means he has something to discuss.’
‘Seriously, what the hell is this?’
Lynn was terribly fed up with everything Clavis had, but he didn’t decline the invitation. He couldn’t miss this opportunity even though he was often isolated from information.
Thus, he waved his hand to signify that he knew, but Deca didn’t go out immediately and hesitated. Then he added cautiously, as if he had decided something.
“I also have separate news.”
“About what?”
“It is said that a Southern knight pointed a sword at Sir Rena.”
Lynn’s tired eyes suddenly widened. Deca looked at Lynn, who rarely had a look of astonishment, and spoke calmly.
“There was a small argument at the first meeting, but then a knight started a riot… It is said that someone was seriously injured in the process.”
“Was it the Southern Representative?”
“Uh, no…”
Lynn, who asked him in a haste, furrowed his eyebrows. Deca soon replied to him with a trace of awkwardness.
“The knight who pointed a sword at Sir Rena was brutally beaten by Sir Rena and is now in critical condition.
“Brutally beaten…?”
“Yes, Your Grace. Brutally Beaten.”
Lynn repeated the word ‘brutally beaten’ with a blank face.
‘No way… But, seriously?’
Lynn couldn’t readily believe what Deca said.
Of course, Rena Ruber is a lady with the power to half-kill someone. He had witnessed this side of her personally, but at the same time, he also knew that she was someone with common sense and… kindness.
But now they were saying that in the first meeting, she assaulted her knight so harshly that he fell into serious condition?
The Rena that Lynn knew was not such a foolish person.
“Where did you hear that news?”
“It was circling among the court servants.”
“Is it authentic?”
“It has not been confirmed yet, but it is true that the atmosphere in the meeting was not good and that one person was carried away from the meeting place.”
So it’s not really a rumor.
‘The knights have been anxious since yesterday.’
Lynn clicked his tongue involuntarily. Then looked out his window as usual.
‘I’ve already done a lot of work today, but the sky is still so bright.’
‘Had to wait longer for night to come.’
***
At the same time, Rena was being teased.
“So, is this the beginning of a reign of terror?”
“A reign of terror…”
“I heard my lady broke down the Southern knight. After that guy scampered in the dirt in a cowardly manner, you started beating him using blunt force!”
“Ehm…”
Rena smiled embarrassedly at Uni, who was imitating punches.
Having messed up the meeting, Rena returned to her room. And Uni, who had picked up the rumors, greeted Rena like that.
Uni’s eyes were twinkling while telling a story that didn’t even exist, which made Rena think it’s kind of silly.
“It seems that rumors brew as fast as words spread in the Imperial Palace.”
“Is it just a rumor?”
“Yes. First of all, there was no dirt because it was indoors, and I do not prefer using blunt force.”
“Yeah, usually you prefer the cutlery side.”
“Uni. Sshh.”
“Okay. Sshh.”
Uni, who was excited and chattering, quietly shut her mouth.
But she only shut her mouth. Her eyes were still sparkling with curiosity.
So Rena sighed and explained,
“The knights hated me from the start, and one of them rushed at me. So all I did was trip his feet.”
The meeting was a huge failure. The Southern Knights did not welcome Rena as much as the socialites of the Imperial Palace.
Besides, just like there was a Rubid in the ballroom, there were also very rude men in the Knights Order.
Although that one guy was a rare asshole, Rena did not hit, beat, or kick her opponent recklessly.
She kept her duty as acting commander, and only induced him to fall on the floor on his own.
It was the same even after he pulled out his sword, she merely let him trip, but in conclusion, as the knight had run out as wildly as he could, his fall caused a concussion. And he fainted. After all that fuss, that was it.
At Rena’s confession, Uni closed her eyes with a puzzled expression.
“I thought my lady was really upset and going on a rampage.”
“Is that even possible…”
“The rumors are too frightening to be true.”
“It’s too fast.”
“Someone must have done something.”
Rena laughed bitterly at Uni’s words. The things that happened were strange, but she personally did not think someone had taken part in this.
“The old man will nag you about this again.”
“I know, really. If only he has the slightest bit of sense of humor.”
“The old man doesn’t have such a thing.”
Rena burst into laughter at Uni’s vulgar evaluation. It seems that Yuni was having fun harassing the Southern Duke.
Rena, who was feeling refreshed, said in a light voice,
“Then I will have to find a way to make friends with the knights before I hear the nagging.”
“Good idea. But before that, you have work to do, my lady.”
“What kind of work?”
“The cardinal invited you to dinner. It’s tonight.”
The smile disappeared from Rena’s face at the unexpected news.
“What were the exact words in the invitation?”
“To the heroes who will conquer the Tomb, I have an urgent message for you, so please attend.”
“I wasn’t the only one invited.”
Rena muttered in a slightly relieved voice. With a strange feeling, Uni looked at her eyes.
“So what?”
Rena pondered to herself without answering, and then muttered as if in a monologue,
“It took a really long time to get here. All sorts of things had happened, and every moment was a crisis.”
It was a harsh world for an abandoned girl. Rena was thrown into such a world without any preparation, and she came this far through her life and death.
“I barely came back like that, and the man who pushed me into the Tomb is staring at me with such curiosity. Would this be a good thing?”
Rena mumbled and laughed. She was cynical towards Clavis.
A lot of time has passed, but Rena still remembered how he had treated her as young and powerless.
Rena, who had touched this subject without preparation, was displeased. So she was silent for a while to control the fluctuations in her heart.
Uni watched her in silence, and when Rena sighed, she gave serious advice.
“Just kill him, my lady.”
“Do you think so?”
“Instead, just plan carefully, because your opponent is a cardinal.”
“You’re right.”
Rena burst into laughter once more at the vicious temptation. Then Uni, the one little adviser, laughed along with her. As expected, Rena couldn’t beat Uni. As Rena smiled lightly, Uni asked again,
“Then what are you going to do with the dinner invitation?”
“I have to go. I’ll go and hear what he has to say.”
Rena said so and smiled brightly as usual.
***
Rena’s smile continued at the dinner.
However, the smile on her face was completely different from what she did in front of Uni.
“What if the South takes the lead in the first expedition?”
Clavis said before the meal. It was said lightly, as if suggesting a play.
“Lead the North and East from the front, Sir Rena.”
‘It sounds like a request, but in fact it was a command.’
Someone must have done something.
Suddenly, Rena remembered what Uni had said. So, she bit her lip and she smiled silently.
There was no way the cardinal could not have known about the rebellion of the Southern Knights, which even the servants knew.
He must have known that it would be difficult to go out on the expedition, let alone being the vanguard.
So, the purpose of calling her here and telling her this sentence was obvious.
This proposal was clearly a trap aimed at Rena.
