Dragonslayer’s Class Regression Chapter 177

Chapter 177

“D-Death Knight? Damn, is this a hallucination too?”

Calito drew his sword in surprise.

Like his armor, the sword was also a rare artifact bought at a high price.

He swung his sword straight at the Death Knight. The sword cut through the air as it flew towards the Death Knight.

BOOM!

A massive explosion occurred around the Death Knight.

Calito smiled with satisfaction.

“HA! Damn monster!”

However, the Death Knight slowly walked out through the dust cloud. Calito’s face turned ashen.

“N-No, how!”

As he was surprised, black energy surged from the Death Knight’s drawn sword.

Calito panicked and tried to swing his magic sword again.

“Lord Calito!”

Just then, the man in the suit came running breathlessly towards Calito while sweating profusely.

Just as the Death Knight’s sword was about to swing down, the suited man’s body flashed and instantly appeared where Calito was.

He raised his hand to create a small portal that the Death Knight’s sword passed through.

CRACK!

The sword that passed through the portal emerged behind the Death Knight’s back and stabbed itself.

Calito’s eyes widened seeing the suited man’s ability.

Red light flickered in the eyes of the Death Knight who was stabbed in the back by its own sword.

In that moment, the suited man grabbed Calito and disappeared into a portal he created behind them.

The Death Knight stared at where the two had disappeared for a while.

After confirming no one was around, Zeke removed his cloak and returned to his original form. He made a perplexed expression thinking about the disappeared Calito and suited man.

“Spatial movement. What a bizarre ability.”

Even among Nirvana’s mages, only high-level magicians of 7th circle or above could use teleport.

So being able to use spatial movement ability without any time lag like that was incredible.

“Is that also a blood lineage ability.”

He seemed to be one of the special blood lineage users of the family called Six.

Zeke frowned while sheathing his sword.

“It’s disappointing to let the commander escape… but it’s not a complete loss since we discovered there’s a spatial movement user.”

While blood lineage abilities were highly effective powers, there wasn’t much problem in countering them if you knew their true nature.

Now that he knew about the spatial movement ability, he could prepare plenty of ways to deal with him.

Zeke turned his head to look at Jiemens’ warships deployed on the river.

With Nahuel attacking from the riverbed, continuous hallucination attacks from above, and the onslaught of dragon warriors and undead, it would be difficult to hold even with magicians and knights.

Looking at the burning ships, Zeke signaled Richmond.

Upon receiving the signal, Richmond detonated the magic bombs that were pre-installed on the ship disguised as a ghost ship.

BOOM!

Along with a massive explosion, the ship shattered to pieces and at the same time, Jiemens’ warships also began to sink unable to hold on.

Richmond in the form of a magical beast carrying Visco could be seen flying up into the sky.

Zeke activated his stealth skill and concealed himself in the bushes.

* * *

A week later, Zeke and Visco were able to safely return to Agamemnon Castle.

“Sir Zeke!”

The first to greet him was none other than Arina.

“Lady Arina.”

He entered the castle together with Arina who came out to welcome him.

Zeke felt something strange about the atmosphere of the Rose Knights in Agamemnon Castle, including Arina.

“Everyone seems on edge. Did something happen?”

“Actually…”

He understood why the Rose Knights were in such a mood after hearing Arina’s answer.

“You’re saying Dario revealed the location of the monastery where the Lubern bloodline is imprisoned?”

Arina nodded.

“Yes. As you said Sir Zeke, Dario’s organization was kidnapping Lubern’s bloodline and handing them over to the Holy Kingdom.”

While Zeke and Visco were eliminating Jiemens’ pursuers, Boris safely brought Dario to Agamemnon Castle.

As befitting an executive of the Nostra family, Dario maintained a stiff attitude despite being captured in the enemy’s stronghold.

Then Arina who was watching stepped forward saying she would take charge of the interrogation.

At first, looking at Arina’s pure appearance, Boris doubted whether she could properly conduct an interrogation.

However, less than an hour after she went in, Dario began spilling everything he knew while trembling like a leaf.

That included information about Lubern’s bloodline.

Arina said to Zeke.

“Sir Zeke, we plan to go to the monastery and rescue Lubern’s bloodline.”

“Is that possible when it’s right in the middle of the Holy Kingdom?”

Then Arina smiled quietly as usual and said.

“We’ll have to make it possible.”

Arina’s determination to succeed no matter the situation was evident.

Zeke nodded at Arina’s words.

“Understood. Let’s do that. Ah, and there’s one thing I’d like to request.”

“Tell me anything.”

“Please take Felix along and give him a chance to fulfill Lord Fab’s mission. Though still lacking, he’ll certainly do his part.”

Arina smiled and answered.

“Having Felix with us would be a great help.”

She slowly rose from her seat, took Zeke’s hand and said.

“Thank you, Sir Zeke. You’re truly a great benefactor to Lubern.”

Zeke made an embarrassed expression at Arina’s words. Then suddenly remembering something, he asked her.

“By the way, how are Jason and Arin who I asked you to train?”

At those words, Arina smiled brightly and said.

“I actually wanted to thank you for entrusting me with such interesting children. The Lubern children learning magic with them like them very much too.”

They seemed to be adapting better than expected. Thinking he should see their faces while on the topic, he got up with Arina.

Zeke went to the magic training room together with Arina.

But strange sounds could be heard from inside the training room.

“Urghh. Kids, uncle will give you candy if you flip this over…”

It was definitely Jason’s voice.

Opening the door with curiosity, an amazing sight unfolded inside.

‘What is this?’

Jason was inside a huge barrel filled with soil and rocks with only his head sticking out.

The problem was that the soil and rocks in the barrel were slowly rising, about to cover Jason’s face completely.

The Lubern children gathered around Jason were watching him with interested expressions.

Just then, one of the Lubern children spotted Zeke and ran towards him.

“Black-eyed God!”

They recognized Zeke who had saved them. Zeke smiled and patted the head of the girl who approached him with sparkling eyes.

“It’s been a while. Have you been well?”

“Yes! Thanks to you, we have a home now and are learning magic from the beautiful princess!”

At the words ‘beautiful princess’, Arina smiled shyly and became embarrassed.

“Oh my, Alice. Beautiful princess, really. This child.”

Learning that the girl’s name was Alice, Zeke called her name.

“Alice. That’s a pretty name. My name is Zeke.”

“Gods have names too?”

“I have a name because I’m not a god.”

“Then I’ll call you Lord Zeke!”

Alice answered energetically and moved her tiny hands to form a magic seal.

Soon, a bright light burst from Alice’s hands.

Alice said to Zeke with twinkling eyes.

“This is the magic the princess taught me! Isn’t the sparkle pretty?”

Zeke was surprised seeing the light Alice created.

‘Healing?’

He knew she could learn light magic being of Lubern bloodline, but he hadn’t expected Alice, who seemed about ten years old, to be able to use magic right away.

‘Amazing talent.’

Just then, Jason, who was about to be completely buried in soil, made a pitiful sound.

“Lo-Lord Zeke! UWAAH! P-Please get me out!”

Zeke picked up the girl and asked Arina.

“Lady Arina. Is this also magic training?”

Arina nodded with a smile.

“Yes. Jason has excellent talent. But his willpower is a bit weak. So he uses a few big spells and collapses from exhaustion.”

Arina gave a frank assessment of Jason’s magic abilities.

Her eyes sparkled as she said.

“If Jason directly confronts and realizes the will of the earth through his body, he’ll surely become an excellent mage.”

Hearing Arina’s words, Zeke nodded.

“That makes sense.”

Hearing their conversation, Jason shouted urgently while being buried in the dirt pile.

“Arghh! Lord Zeke! UWAH! Soil is getting in my mouth!”

He must have been completely buried as Jason’s voice could no longer be heard after a moment.

The other Lubern children poked the barrel with sparkling eyes.

That’s when it happened.

RUMBLE!

The barrel shook violently and soil and rocks overflowed as they shot upward.

Shortly after, Jason jumped out from inside.

“PUHA!”

Jason had barely escaped from the barrel just before running out of breath.

He crawled out of the barrel, pale as a ghost.

Seeing Jason like that, Arina smiled.

“Oh my, he really succeeded!”

Arina had an innocent expression as if she hadn’t expected him to actually succeed.

As she flicked her finger, the erupted dirt pile returned into the barrel.

Watching Arina, Zeke realized she had mastered not only light magic but other types of magic as well.

‘6th circle? No, maybe 7th circle or higher.’

A 7th circle mage wielded power comparable to a red knight.

Zeke thought Arina might be the strongest person in their forces besides himself.

As Arina contemplated what training to give next while looking at the pale Jason, Zeke carefully asked.

“Miss Arina. But where is Arin?”

Then Arina responded with her characteristic bright smile.

“Ah, Arin is… well… that’s a secret.”

‘A secret? What on earth did you ask Arin to do?.’

Though curious, Zeke opted to simply pray for Arin’s safety instead of asking further questions.

Zeke headed towards the knight training grounds, leaving behind Jason who was begging to be taken along.

An unexpected scene was unfolding there.

“Good! One more!”

Jeffrik was doing basic strength training together with Farrell.

THUD!

Jeffrik, who had just put down Agamemnon’s special heavy barbell, had grown noticeably bigger in physique.

Upon spotting Zeke, Farrell and Jeffrik stopped what they were doing and stood at attention.

“Salute to our lord!”

Jeffrik saluted along with Farrell’s command.

Zeke shook his head and gestured for them to be at ease.

“I don’t see the others around.”

“Sister Clonne took everyone out to hunt monsters in the area to maintain their combat instincts.”

According to the explanation that followed, thanks to their subjugation efforts under the guise of training, no monsters, outlaws, or bandits could be found around Mycenae.

As a result, Clonne’s group often went on expedition training beyond the city.

‘I made the right choice leaving it to Clonne.’

Zeke nodded and turned his attention to Jeffrik, picking up a wooden sword that had fallen to the ground.

Then he immediately swung it at Jeffrik.

SWOOSH!

Despite the sudden attack, Jeffrik immediately rolled and dodged Zeke’s strike. Zeke continued swinging the wooden sword at Jeffrik without pause.

Jeffrik maintained his balance while dodging the sword, paying no mind to his body getting covered in dirt.

After observing Jeffrik’s movements for a while, Zeke withdrew his sword.

“You’ve improved much since before.”

Jeffrik’s eyes sparkled as he bowed his head.

“Thank you, my lord! I realized how much of a frog in a well I was!”

Having grown up under the pressure of his excellent brother’s shadow, Jeffrik had never truly focused his mind on training before.

Though he went to Valhalla seeking stimulation, he had failed to find his focus there as well.

However, he was quite shocked to see others his age here training intensely, breaking through their limits and growing stronger with each passing day.

This led Jeffrik to accept Farrell’s advice and start over from the most basic strength exercises and reflex training.

Though the training was repetitive to the point of tedium, its effects were clearly visible.

Cracks began to form in his skills that had long remained stagnant.

Looking at his body that had developed balanced musculature through strength training, Zeke could immediately see that Farrell’s training method had worked perfectly.

‘I look forward to his future growth.’

Jeffrik Solma was also one of the Five-Star Knights who had shown outstanding achievements in his previous life.

His potential was no less than that of others.

After checking on his companions’ situations, Zeke finally headed to the basement of Agamemnon Castle.

Opening the door to the deepest dungeon, he found a man with prematurely white hair and a haggard face crouching in the corner.

Zeke was shocked at how different Dario looked compared to when he had interrogated him.

‘He’s changed so much.’

Suddenly, Dario jerked his head up towards Zeke.