Dragonslayer’s Class Regression Chapter 129

Chapter 129

Zeke headed to his homeland with Felix.

As Felix said, it wasn’t far from Zeke’s territory, so they could arrive in half a day.

“Whew, the village has changed a lot.”

Felix also returned after 10 years since his grandfather died.

When the knight leading the warhorse entered the village, the village head ran out in surprise.

“Si-Sir Knights, what brings you to this humble place…?”

Then Felix recognized the village head and shouted.

“Ah! Uncle Thomas!”

Thomas, the village head, was startled to see Felix.

“Huh? Could you be Old Fab’s grandson Felix?”

Felix jumped down from his horse and stood in front of the village head.

“That’s right, Felix. Have you been well? I didn’t know Uncle Thomas became the village head.”

Thomas was shocked to see Felix, who used to be mischievous, return as a proud knight.

“Oh my, when you ran away to the city saying you’d become a knight, the village was in chaos. Did you really become a knight?”

Village head Thomas lowered his voice slightly as he asked, looking at Zeke who was slowly dismounting.

Felix shook his head at the question.

“No. I’m still a knight-in-training. This is Sir Zeke Draker whom I serve, uncle.”

Zeke greeted Thomas.

“Pleased to meet you. I am Zeke Draker.”

Only then did Thomas notice the gloves Zeke was wearing.

“Pu-Pure-blooded Draker! I-I’m sorry! I didn’t recognize such an honorable person!”

Zeke calmed down the panicking village head and said.

“No need to be tense. I just came to look around since Felix’s hometown was nearby.”

The village head couldn’t believe that a pure-blooded Draker would visit such a remote village.

Felix approached the village head and whispered secretly.

“Uncle, My lord doesn’t want too much attention , So please don’t tell others.”

The village head nodded vigorously.

Zeke followed Felix to his previous home.

“Whew!”

Felix’s old house that he visited after 10 years was covered in dust.

Felix was momentarily lost in old memories with his grandfather while looking at the house.

Then he opened the door and went inside.

“Oh my.”

It was hard to breathe properly as dust flew when the door opened.

Felix said to Zeke.

“My lord, this is the place but I don’t think there’s anything here.”

Zeke activated his dragon eyes and examined every corner of the house.

There were only ordinary household items scattered around, with nothing suspicious to be found.

‘Did he really leave nothing behind.’

Zeke thoroughly checked both the first and second floors, even tapping on the floorboards to search for traces.

But he couldn’t find any special clues anywhere in the house.

“It must be Felix’s grandfather…”

As Zeke muttered to himself and got up to look around, Felix was nowhere to be seen. When there was no response even after calling out, Zeke went outside.

When he went out to the backyard, Felix was standing in front of three tombstones placed in a row.

“Felix.”

Felix was silent while looking at the tombstones.

The tombstones had the names of his grandfather Fab Valencia and two people presumed to be Felix’s parents.

Felix slowly opened his mouth.

“Grandfather said it was a carriage accident.”

Zeke had never heard Felix talk about his parents.

He only guessed there must have been some circumstances since he heard Felix grew up under his grandfather’s care from childhood.

Felix stroked his parents’ tombstones.

“I was about three years old. The carriage overturned and they said only I survived. After that, I lived with grandfather all along.”

Zeke asked Felix.

“Do you remember your parents’ faces?”

Felix shook his head.

“No. I have vague memories that come and go. But I can’t remember well.”

Since Zeke also didn’t know his mother’s face or even her name, he understood how Felix felt.

He silently patted Felix’s shoulder.

It seemed like he needed to give him some time.

That’s when.

“Huh?”

Felix, who seemed to be immersed in sadness, made a puzzled sound. He found something strange around the tombstones.

“My lord, please look at this for a moment.”

Zeke looked where Felix was pointing.

“What do you mean?”

“Around the tombstones. Isn’t it too clean?”

Zeke examined around the tombstones after hearing Felix’s words.

While the house and front were overgrown with grass and dust, only the tombstone area was uniquely clean.

‘Could it be?’

Zeke activated his dragon eyes and examined around the tombstones.

And he discovered an entrance cleverly hidden behind the tombstones.

Zeke said to Felix.

“Step back.”

He spread his golden force field to enhance his strength and dug his fingers into the dirt floor behind the tombstone.

Then he lifted the heavy stone slab as it was.

RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

A secret space that had been hidden for decades was revealed.

Felix was shocked to see the entrance leading underground.

“Go-Good heavens, to think something like this was in our backyard…”

THUD!

After fully opening the entrance, Zeke asked Felix.

“Did your grandfather ever tell you about this place?”

Felix nodded.

Zeke went down the underground stairs with Felix.

The stairs extended deeper underground than expected.

Looking at the underground structure built stone by stone, Zeke was impressed.

‘This wasn’t built overnight but completed over decades.’

It looked just like a catacomb he had seen in his previous life.

He had seen catacombs built like this under temples to entomb remains.

Zeke couldn’t believe Felix’s grandfather had created this massive catacomb alone.

As they walked through the underground catacomb in amazement, a huge hall appeared inside.

Zeke discovered an emblem hanging on the front of the hall.

‘Is that…?’

It was none other than the sun emblem.

It was similar to the sun crest symbolizing paladins but had a more complex pattern.

Zeke remembered seeing this emblem.

‘Agamemnon’s Mask’

He immediately took out Agamemnon’s Mask from his inventory.

As he remembered, the crest attached to Agamemnon’s Mask matched the shape exactly.

At first he thought this pattern was the same as the Holy Kingdom’s symbol, but upon closer inspection there were subtle differences.

However, the pattern in the catacomb made by Felix’s grandfather matched perfectly with the pattern on Agamemnon’s Mask.

‘Is there some connection between Agamemnon’s Mask and this place?’

Zeke put the mask in his chest, activated his dragon eyes, and examined the surroundings.

Then Zeke realized something he hadn’t known until now.

‘It really was a tomb.’

There were dozens of tombs hidden behind walls built with stone.

While examining the tombs in the walls, Zeke was shocked to discover faintly written names.

“Lubern?”

An unexpected name appeared.

Zeke checked all the tombs.

While some weren’t, most had the name Lubern.

Zeke realized the identity of this catacomb.

‘The bloodline of the Lubern Dynasty that was cut off in the Holy Empire. Fab Valencia smuggled them away.’

Arch Paladins are the main force of the Holy Kingdom.

It had been questionable all along since it made no sense to disband the only force that could counter the Black Knights. But now, he seemed to understand somewhat what happened.

For the Holy Kingdom composed of the Papal faction, the bloodline of the Lubern Dynasty was practically a weakness that could shake papal authority.

Felix’s grandfather Fab had clearly defied the Holy Kingdom’s orders despite being an Arch Paladin and smuggled the Lubern Dynasty’s bloodline to the Principality of Troy.

‘It was more serious than political strife.’

If Arch Paladin Fab Valencia had joined forces attempting to drive out the corrupt Papal faction and establish a new Holy Kingdom centered on the Lubern Dynasty, it must have been serious enough to potentially bring down the entire Order.

Zeke felt empty looking at the tombs of the Lubern Dynasty’s bloodline he had been trying to find because of the quest.

‘Perhaps there are no more of the Lubern bloodline.’

That’s when.

Something new was caught in Zeke’s dragon eyes.

There was an empty space behind the sun crest hanging at the front of the hall.

Zeke stepped on the wall and jumped up.

Then he split the sun crest with the side of his hand.

Thud!

When the crest fell to the floor, the hidden space was revealed.

Zeke reached in to take out what was in the space and landed on the floor.

What Zeke brought out was a long box wrapped in cloth.

“What could this be, my lord?”

“We’ll know when we open it.”

When Zeke unwrapped the cloth, an old box appeared.

After tearing off the locked padlock and opening the box, there was a sword in an old scabbard, a book, and a letter.

Felix was shocked to see the handwriting on the letter.

“Huh? This is grandfather’s writing.”

Zeke unfolded the letter left by Fab Valencia.

Then he quickly scanned the contents.

‘My prediction was right. Fab Valencia tried to save the Lubern bloodline.’

He had rescued the Lubern bloodline imprisoned deep in the Holy Kingdom’s Main Order and fled to the Principality of Troy.

Even after hiding, he traveled across the continent searching for scattered members of the Lubern bloodline since the Holy Empire.

During this time, he adopted a child he happened to form a bond with, and that child married a village maiden and had a child.

That child was Felix.

Sadly, Felix’s parents didn’t die in a carriage accident.

The Holy Kingdom’s secret organization tracking Fab killed Felix’s parents as an example.

Since they couldn’t kill Arch Paladin Fab, it was a warning that they would forgive his crimes if he returned to the Holy Kingdom now.

But Fab Valencia steadfastly searched for the Lubern bloodline while raising young Felix like his own grandson.

Then before dying of illness, he passed down even his Aura through Aura Transmission.

However, since he didn’t want to pass on his mission to Felix, he kept this fact hidden and quietly buried it.

Zeke read the words written at the end of the letter.

-The Order feared the Lubern bloodline going out into the world but also feared their lineage being cut off. Perhaps it was because of the blood ability possessed by the Lubern bloodline. The Lubern bloodline has the ability to create ‘miracles’.

-I believed it was my mission given by God to save those who were imprisoned and exploited for their abilities solely for the Order’s benefit.

The letter ended there.

After contemplation, Zeke handed the letter to Felix.

How to judge the secret his grandfather had hidden was Felix’s decision, not his.

While Felix read the letter, Zeke examined the sword and book Fab left behind.

He drew the sword from its scabbard and realized its identity.

“An Orichalcon sword…”

It seemed to be the Orichalcon hammer that Golin had reforged into a sword.

Zeke felt familiar with the soft glow rising from the Orichalcon sword.

It felt similar to the Lubern crown that Richmond had presented to Zeke as a treasure.

“That crown wasn’t Orichalcon. Strange.”

It seemed the feeling of power contained within was similar, rather than the material itself.

Zeke checked the sword’s information with his dragon eyes.

―Sword Information―

Description: An Orichalcon sword made with great care by a skilled craftsman

Unique Abilities: Light’s Punishment (effect applies only on hit), Light’s Veil, Light’s Arrow

Special Characteristics: Deals triple damage to undead and demon races.

Like the crown, light skills were engraved in its unique abilities.

These seemed to be abilities it had possessed since before being reforged from a hammer into a sword.

‘Different abilities from Light’s Mace and Light’s Shield. Shall I test it?’

Zeke held up the sword and shouted.

“Light’s Veil.”

Instantly, a massive aura of light rose around Zeke’s body.