On the shores of Lake Avalon, Kay watched as his sleeping father added some wood to the campfire.

The forests at night are undoubtedly dangerous, but the martial arts that Kai has honed since he was a child are not ordinary beasts to be enemies.

Staring at the firelight, Kai gradually recalled the scene when he swore allegiance to Artoria some time ago.

"What, now that I think about it, I recognized the other party as the king in a daze."

It's not that he regrets his decision that day, Kai just regrets that he didn't have a grand oath ceremony. Anyway, it's the first time in a knight's career that he handed it over like this, which always feels a little sloppy.

"But now, after taking the oath, there is no room for regret." The words were full of thoughts of her reckless decision, but it was Artoria who worried Kay more than the pledge of allegiance.

Can that naïve guy really be a qualified king?

Doubts like this have surfaced in Kai's mind more than once, and he who grew up with Artoria really imagined that the other party who could not be kind and innocent would one day grow into a "king" like a ruthless existence.

Artoria, who constantly harvests the heads of her enemies on the battlefield......

"No, this kind of weird scene is completely unimaginable."

Rubbing his hair constantly, Kai seemed to shake all the distractions out of his mind. The future is not something that can be speculated, life is only a journey of setting distant goals and then taking one step at a time.

Since ancient times, it has been difficult to stay alone at night. Especially in this ancient era when there was a lack of entertainment, if you want to keep vigil, in addition to holding a basket of distracting thoughts, you can only stare at the burning fire in a daze.

Vigil is not a pleasant thing, especially beside the dark forest, where the bottomless darkness of the woods is like a passage to the abyss, and no one knows what incomprehensible things will appear in that unknown darkness.

Kai, who couldn't find time to kill the firewood, was so bored that he counted the stars shining in the night sky.

However, the sound of night birds flying from far away in the dense forest alerted Kai. Just wanted to wake up his father, but the other party woke up from his sleep before him.

"Kai, put out the fire."

The brief instructions were enough to show the tip of the iceberg of Ekto's veteran skills, which had been cultivated over decades of training, and in any case could not be matched by Kai, who had not yet been tempered by blood and fire.

Following Daddy's instructions, Kai doused the fire with a bucket of water beside him, and then kicked the soil next to him to bury the burning pyre.

While this behavior can't hide clues from the real stalker, it's okay to just add a little trouble.

"Do you want to use that?" Kai asked, looking at Ektor.

"Use it! It was something that His Excellency Qi Wuce had specially made, and it was precisely in response to the current situation. ”

Pulling out a blue crystal called [Moonhide Candy] from his pocket, Kai wondered if he could eat it. According to Qi Wuce, it can temporarily eliminate the sound and breath after biting, and Kai is not sure if this thing is really that effective.

Glaring at Kai, who was still hesitating, Actor took the first step to put the blue crystal in his mouth and bite it hard.

A cool feeling enveloped his body, and he even vaguely felt that the distance between him and the full moon in the night sky was a little closer, which was what Actor felt after biting the hidden candy of the moon.

If the previous Ektor was a person with a substance, then the Ektor after biting the Hidden Candy of the Moon was more like an illusory shadow. Under the cover of night, if it weren't for the fact that Actor had been standing there before, Kai wouldn't even be able to confirm that the illusory shadow was actually a person.

The sound of horses' hooves in the forest came a little closer, and Actor slapped his son on the head because he couldn't help but continue in a daze.

It's not that Ektor is loyal to violence, but because of the sound-canceling effect of Moonhide Candy, he can't convey what he wants to say, so he has to remind the other party.

Hit by his father, Kai also knows that now is not the time to think about it. Quickly putting the moon candy in his mouth and chewing it, Kai followed in close steps of Ektor and hid in the dense forest not far from the open area of the lake.

There wasn't much luggage, so there was no way to leave anything to be missed by haste to dodge, and if there was any clue that the pursuers were able to catch, it was the traces left by cooking on the fire during the day.

The next moment when Ektor and Kai hid behind the dense forest trees, dozens of knights rode out of the dark jungle on their horses.

"Lord Barnett, the trail of those remnants has been cut off here, but judging by the traces of the fire on the lakeside, it is very likely that those people are still near Lake Avalon." The trackers in the pursuers' team reported to Barnett, the leader, after scouting the lake's edge.

"Take ten people and search! Before dawn I need to know where the rats are. Barnett's scarlet eyes were chilling, and he had become even colder than ever since he had received the gift from Votigane.

Barnett dismounted and ordered the reformed knights to make a fire and camp on the spot, after all, they had been on the road for several days without sleep, and even the tool men needed to rest to recover the attrition.

Because he had ordered dozens of knights, Barnett's voice was louder in the silent lakeside night, and even Kai and Actor who were hiding behind the trees could hear it clearly.

"Daddy, what should I do?"

It wasn't a verbal exchange, Kai just spread his hands to show what he meant.

Ektor had a serious face, the current situation was undoubtedly extremely unfavorable for them. The pursuers were to be stationed on the shores of the lake, but they had no means to get in touch with Artoria and the others in Avalon.

It would have been nice if Artoria and the others had to stay in Avalon for a few days, but it wouldn't have been a good situation if it took less than a night.

"Wouldn't it? Daddy shouldn't be trying to lure all these knights away, right? ”

Kai looked at his father's brows that gradually soothed, even though he knew that the voice could not reach the other party's ears, Kai couldn't help but shout.

It is true that the body that has been trained for many years can surpass the speed of a war horse in a short period of time with the blessing of magic power, but how can human endurance compare to that of an animal like a horse, which is born to run?

Ichtor's idea was so dangerous that Kai couldn't agree to the risky approach anyway.

Ektor knew what Kai was thinking, but there really wasn't a better way to do it right now. Rather than wait for Artoria and the others to collide head-on with the pursuers stationed on the shore of the lake in a low-win battle, he should lure all the enemies away now.