Dragonslayer’s Class Regression Chapter 186

Chapter 186

After the continental war in the previous life, the identity of the Knight Killers remained undiscovered. People could only speculate that they might be wizards.

Even when I had met the Knight Killers in the bird tribe’s ghetto area before, I had only thought they were wizards using targeting magic mixed with magi.

But in reality, Zeke’s guess was completely wrong.

He couldn’t have even imagined that the Knight Killers were knights using magic guns to fire bullets containing magi.

‘No matter how much I investigate, nothing comes out about the Empire’s wizard bastards. They weren’t wizards, but specially trained assassins.’

Zeke decided to use the dragon’s sense while contemplating what to do with the unconscious Aaron.

‘Before waking him up and interrogating him, I should investigate who’s backing him.’

Zeke ordered Richmond and the dragon warriors to be on guard and reached out to the fallen Aaron.

BUZZ! BUZZ!

Aaron’s memories rushed into Zeke’s mind.

SSSS!

Fragmented memories quickly flashed by. Zeke carefully examined the memory fragments.

During this, Zeke discovered a memory of Aaron’s training period.

‘Here it is.’

Zeke touched the fragment of the training memory and delved into it.

In a training ground built in the forest, young boys and girls with shaved heads were lined up with poisonous eyes.

The children, appearing to be around fifteen to sixteen years old, looked like wild animals with fierce expressions.

Their bodies were covered in wounds, and they held deformed swords between the length of an arming sword and a dagger.

Someone in a mask approached the children and shouted:

“Among those who came here, only you remain! The rest died because they were weak! The blood of weak ones is on the swords you’re holding! If you’re weak, you die! Never forget that fact!”

The children’s eyes became even more fierce at the instructor’s cry.

Zeke gritted his teeth listening to the instructor’s words.

‘Crazy bastards. They trained children and then ordered them to kill each other.’

Zeke’s gaze burned coldly.

He had also received training in this manner.

This was the method of raising hitmen in cartels of the southern continent.

In his previous life, when Zeke was formally training as a hitman, he had to personally kill his training colleagues to survive.

At first, one cannot easily swing the sword. But when someone begins to kill the weakest colleague, when the colleagues you trusted start pointing their knives at you, that’s when hell begins.

Zeke also killed colleagues who tried to kill him in order to survive.

Zeke, who looked weak, became a target first. But in the end, he was the one who survived.

When the massacre began, Zeke swung his sword without hesitation and made sure to confirm the kill, no matter how weak the opponent.

Zeke realized that the Knight Killers were also trained through such cruel methods.

He searched through the memories further.

Aaron surprisingly entered the Draker Academy after graduating from the training facility with top grades.

There, he received ordinary knight training alongside other training facility colleagues.

Zeke was surprised seeing that memory.

‘Did they intentionally provide knight training? What are these guys up to?’

Those who graduated from the academy were again called and secretly received special training.

While receiving assassin training, Aaron performed well and was selected to be part of the magic battalion, where he learned to handle magic guns.

Zeke understood that the Knight Killers were a group created with enormous time and cost.

‘The Empire wouldn’t train like this… This is much more systematic and secretive.’

Until now, he had thought the Knight Killers were affiliated with the Empire, but seeing Aaron’s memories, he began to doubt that.

Then, a scene of Aaron receiving his uniform and decoration after completing Night Killer training appeared.

Zeke looked into that memory.

Surprisingly, an entirely unexpected person appeared in Aaron’s memory.

‘Cain?’

Cain, who had died by Zeke’s hand in the southern continent’s dungeon, was in Aaron’s memory.

Cain personally pinned the decorations on the Knight Killers’ uniforms and shook each of their hands.

The Knight Killers in uniform saluted Cain.

“Hail! Jiemens!”

At that moment.

BUZZ BUZZ!

Aaron’s memories began to shatter and tangle as he tried to wake up.

There seemed to be a difference in using the dragon’s sense between being awake and being unconscious.

Zeke quickly escaped from Aaron’s memories.

WHOOSH!

Zeke opened his eyes.

He realized where the Knight Killers, including Aaron, were trained.

“Those damn Jiemens bastards.”

They were a secret weapon raised by Jiemens, not the Empire.

In the continental war of the previous life, Draker and most of Draker’s blood-allied families had switched to the Empire.

Thus, Jiemens’ secret assassination squad seemed to have been deployed on the Empire’s side.

‘Was Cain originally a knight from Jiemens?’

Cain’s identity remained shrouded in mystery.

Previously, when he tried to read the memories remaining in Hershion of Teia, there were no memories of Cain, possibly due to the defense function of the ancient artifact.

Zeke contemplated while looking at the fallen Aaron.

“Can I find out by interrogating this guy?”

Suddenly, Aaron’s eyes snapped open. As soon as he raised himself, he swung a hand strike at Zeke.

SWISH!

Zeke easily dodged Aaron’s attack and stepped back.

When the attack failed, Aaron rolled on the ground to create distance.

He realized all his weapons were gone and took a martial arts stance.

Zeke made a surprised expression looking at Aaron.

‘The knight training wasn’t for nothing.’

Aaron recognized Zeke as the target in front of him and waited for a chance to eliminate him.

Then Zeke spoke to Aaron.

“Aaron Dominic.”

Aaron flinched and was taken aback when Zeke called his name accurately.

But as a specially trained agent, he quickly regained his composure and looked for an opportunity to attack Zeke.

Seeing this, Zeke clicked his tongue.

Knight Killers were killing machines trained since childhood through brainwashing, prioritizing target elimination.

Zeke said to Aaron.

“Listen, Aaron. You’ve been brainwashed by Jiemens.”

SWISH!

Without responding, Aaron moved at high speed towards Zeke.

SWOOSH!

He launched a kick at Zeke with movements similar to Ishtar’s wizards.

THUD!

Zeke blocked the kick with his hand and stepped back.

‘Talking won’t work.’

He decided to face Aaron in martial arts without using his sword, under the same conditions.

Zeke took the infinite circular connection stance and deployed the strong wave vibration he learned from Arataso.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Vibrations spread from Zeke’s center. Aaron ignored this and ran along the wall towards Zeke.

Zeke launched a kick infused with strong wave vibration towards Aaron.

BOOM BOOM BOOM!

The power of strong wave vibration engulfed the charging Aaron.

“UGH!”

The mana vibration made Aaron’s aura boil.

He collapsed and began to retch.

“URGH!”

His head was spinning, and he was so dizzy he couldn’t even stand.

Zeke was surprised by the effect of strong wave vibration he had used in actual combat for the first time.

‘This is no joke.’

While he was unsure if it would work on a blue knight who could freely handle aura, it was a formidable weapon that could suppress knights below that level in one blow.

‘I should continue training diligently.’

Zeke approached Aaron, who was trying to get up by rolling on the floor.

Aaron glared at Zeke and tried to compose himself.

“UGH.”

Unable to move his body, Aaron tried to commit suicide as he was trained.

CLICK!

He tried to bite the poison hidden behind his molars, but something was wrong.

“If you were planning to eat poison, you’re too late. I’ve already removed it.”

In his previous life, he had caught Knight Killers before.

But when these tough guys were captured, they would immediately eat poison and detonate a bomb hidden in their body, leaving no evidence behind.

Aaron, unable to commit suicide, glared at Zeke as if intent on killing him, still trying to move his body.

Zeke clicked his tongue looking at Aaron.

“What did Jiemens do to make you so loyal? Stupid fool.”

He kicked Aaron’s chin with a foot strike. Aaron collapsed, bleeding.

Zeke called Richmond.

“Richmond, take this guy upstairs. After I finish here, I’ll interrogate him separately, so make sure he doesn’t escape.”

“Yes, master.”

Richmond summoned a skeleton and took Aaron upstairs.

After confirming this, Zeke drew Bahamut and wandered through the maze.

“I wonder if those who set up traps were really killed by the ghosts.”

He hadn’t expected such an absurd thing to actually happen.

Through Aaron’s memories, Zeke learned that those targeting him were massacred by the ghosts here, and he clicked his tongue.

The Knight Killers sent by Jiemens, black magicians, and specially dispatched knights were likely highly skilled.

Yet they were all inexplicably massacred without a trace by the ghosts.

“What kind of ghosts are these?”

If they possessed such power, it was likely an ancient curse spanning a thousand years.

Zeke intended to investigate the type of ghost before attempting to absorb it through gluttony.

Suddenly, a dragon warriors sent for reconnaissance signaled a discovery.

Zeke quickly ran over.

What seemed like an ordinary mansion had an underground space as vast as a dungeon.

Strangely, while Aaron’s memories showed the underground as an incomprehensibly complex maze, Zeke saw it clearly.

‘Is this because of the dragon’s eye?’

Zeke ran along the clearly visible path and soon reached the dragon soldier.

A blurry, ghost-like shadow stood ahead.

Zeke drew Bahamut and pointed it at the ghost.

“Whatever ghost you are, let’s see what you can do.”

Oddly, the ghost didn’t move upon seeing Zeke.

‘What? Why isn’t it attacking?’

It had been aggressive towards Aaron and his group earlier.

Then the ghost turned and began moving somewhere.

Zeke quickly pursued with his sword and launched a light mace strike.

The light mace struck the ghost, which dispersed like mist but quickly reformed and continued its path.

Zeke looked bewildered.

‘Is that even a ghost?’

Light skills were typically fatal to cursed ghosts or entities with magi.

Zeke summoned sacred flames, but the ghost passed through them unaffected.

Zeke had to admit this wasn’t a ghost, undead, demon, or golem.

As far as he knew, such an entity didn’t exist.

Confused, Zeke decided to follow the suspicious entity.

After traveling for a while, the entity suddenly stopped and turned towards Zeke, pointing at a wall.

Zeke looked at the wall with his dragon eye.

‘A secret place?’

The entity instantly vanished like smoke, seemingly having guided Zeke to the wall.

When Zeke touched the wall, a message appeared:

[Connecting to management system security]

[Confirming title: Dragon Being]

[Security code released]

[Opening door]

The wall automatically opened.

Zeke alternately stared at the message and the open door, bewildered.

‘Is this more than just a cursed place?’

With the security system disabled, there seemed to be no immediate threat.

Zeke entered and found a spiral staircase leading underground.

After descending for a while, he reached a massive cavern.

To his surprise, about ten ghost-like entities stood in formation.

Seeing them waiting as if for orders, something flashed through Zeke’s mind.

A similar entity emerged in his thoughts.

“Dragon warriors…?”

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