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Twenty years ago, Enki's father was a declining nobleman in the kingdom of Svadia, and twenty years ago, as the son of a declining aristocratic family, was born in this world, and only one house remained in his family, which still stands in the countryside of Azgod, recording their lost glory. It is ironic that this house, which had been used by their extravagant ancestors as a place of recreation outside of Paraven, was now the only refuge for their descendants.

Enqi was the eldest son in the family, and he was followed by a younger sister and a younger brother, and their family had almost nothing but the so-called noble blood, which was of no value to them, and what they now possessed was not even as good as that of the ordinary peasants in the village of Azgod. Like many of the lower classes, his family lived in poverty, but even though life was difficult, Enqi's family insisted on giving him a good education and training him in strict manners from childhood.

When Enqi was 12 years old, he was sent by his parents to foster care in a wealthy but not prestigious aristocratic family in the town of Palaubun. In order to help Enqi fight for such an opportunity, Enqi's father pleaded with this aristocratic family, which was considered a distant relative, many times, and only after almost bankrupting the family did he pay enough dinars for Enqi as demanded by the other party. In this aristocratic family, Enqi grew up like any other boy, where he learned a lesson called "humility" while waiting for the master and his wife, and in the games with them, in gossip, and even in the praise of great deeds and noble love, he quickly learned the battles and rivalries of the adult world, and he also learned the way of the swords of the other children from their savage games, in which they used wooden clubs instead of swords......

After five years as a squire in the family, the seventeen-year-old Enqi, thanks to his excellent performance and the recommendation of the master of the family, became a servant of the Svadia knight and was allowed to move into a Swadia knight's home. The Svadian knight's family was a very prestigious and very wealthy aristocratic family, and the Swadian knight named Glesler, as the eldest son of this family, was like the pride of the heavens, arrogant and arrogant, and of course he would not take Enqi in his eyes.

Despite such a disparity in status, Enqi still gradually became a man under the guidance of a certain force. As the appointed bodyguard of this high-ranking nobleman, Enqi practiced various weapons for a long time, learned how to attack and defend, and especially put in the most effort in riding a horse and wielding a gun. Enqi was taught to be loyal to his master and responsible to those who might become his subordinates in the future, and while learning the chivalric ideals, he also learned the less glorious side in the stories of the veterans—brutal power politics, betrayal and usurpation, and the unscrupulous means to the end.

While living in this aristocratic family, Enqi fell in love with a maid named Arelle in the family. A year younger than Enqi, Ms. Arelle is beautiful, lively, innocent and lovely, and versatile. She took good care of Enqi's diet and daily life from the very beginning, and often accompanied him not far away when he was training, playing beautiful tunes for him with the lute in her hand. Or when he returned from the battle, she excitedly went to greet him, and if he was wounded, she always carefully and patiently washed his blood, tended to his wounds, and chanted in his ear some psalms in praise of heroes.

Enqi gradually fell in love with this cheerful and gentle girl, and from the day he lived in this aristocratic family, Arelle's lively figure was everywhere in his world, and when he fell in love with her, she lived in his heart, and since then he has been full of his thoughts.

And Enqi has already won the heart of Arelle. After one of the battles, Enki tells Arelly that he killed a Green Forest bandit, and then he can't take it anymore and cries in front of Arelle. It was the first time he had killed someone, and he was terrified and excited about it, and his over-agitated emotions made him almost collapse at a young age. Arelle saw a fiery and fragile heart hidden beneath his cold, arrogant exterior, and she allowed him to subconsciously hold her tightly in his arms, making him like a child to rely on her as some kind of temporary dependence, and constantly comforting and encouraging him in his ear. From then on, Enqi became the person that Arelly was determined to take care of with all her might.

The love between the two was born separately, then confirmed each other, and then deepened into integration, everything went on quietly and beautifully. Enki only hoped that in another two or three years, when he would become a Swadian knight from a knight, he would marry Arelli immediately.

However, tragedy suddenly struck between the two of them. The eldest son of this aristocratic family, Glesler, won the championship at the athletic tournament held in Paraven by virtue of his outstanding skills. Then, in ecstasy, the Svadian knight fell into indulgence. That night, after drinking, he took advantage of the wine, in full view of everyone, to hold Areilly, kissed her on the face with his mouth, touched her with his hands, and indecently indecent to Areley, who had actually coveted her beauty for a long time. If it weren't for the fact that there were still many people present at the time, and Arelle broke free from his clutches in time, he might have been even more presumptuous. The next day, Enqi learned of this in the midst of Arely's grief-stricken recounting, and immediately went to Glesler to settle the score.

Glesler was already arrogant and had no one in his sights, and now that he has won the Parabun championship, it is even more arrogant. Of course, he didn't take Enqi in his eyes, and he didn't bother to take any responsibility for a maid who had been insulted by him on a whim, he treated it as if nothing had happened, but scolded Enqi fiercely for making a fuss. In Greisler's eyes, it was a matter of course for Arelie, as his maid, to satisfy his desires, and even a great honor for Arele.

Enki asks him to apologize to Arrily and make up for her loss, but the Svadia knight will certainly not do what Enqi says, and Enki is furious and tries to attack him, but Arelle rushes in time and desperately stops him.

Enqi will never forget the scene in which Arelli sobbed in his arms, begging him to forget about it and not to jeopardize his own future in order to help her. Enqi listened to her bitter advice, and finally agreed to her sadly, and did not pursue the matter anymore.

That night, Enqi stayed awake all night, and before dawn the next day, he went to the room where Arelie was early to check on her. While still some distance from Arelly's room, Enqi saw a figure sneaking out of her room, and Enqi recognized it as Glesler at a glance.

Enqi immediately rushed over, but Glesler's figure was long gone. Later, Enqi rushed into Arelle's room, only to find Arelle lying naked on the bed, her hands and feet bound with hemp rope, and a ball of cloth in her mouth. In addition, there were many large and small wounds all over her body, and blood was sprinkled all around her body. Enqi immediately rushed over, first took away the cloth ball from Arely's mouth, then quickly cut the hemp rope that bound Areley's hands and feet with the dagger he carried, and then held Arelie in his arms in a pool of blood. And the dying Arelli, after taking a deep look at Enqi, said the only and last sentence to Enqi: "Forget me, forget Glesler, don't do stupid things, you must live well!"

Arelly is ravaged to death by Glesler, which makes Enqi completely lose his mind. After Arelli's death, he dressed her corpse and immediately went to Glesler to avenge her, but before he could see Glesler, a bunch of guards stopped him and beat him, and he fought back, alone with a group of people.

Hatred drove Enqi mad and multiplied his strength, but there were too many people on the other side, and while he knocked one person down, more people attacked him, and if this continued, he would sooner or later die under the fists and feet of these guards. Fortunately, there were a few guards who usually had a good relationship with him, and deliberately kept leaving gaps for him, so that he finally broke out of the encirclement.

After escaping Glesler's home, the flame of revenge will not be extinguished. He came to his senses and understood that Glesler's rape and murder of his maid would be locked up within their family and would not be spread. Glesler's family, who were powerful and wealthy in Palaubun, knew they would not get justice from someone like the sheriff. To avenge Arelle's hatred, he had to rely on himself.

He quickly made a decision to challenge Glesler to fight him, and spread the word through the streets that he was going to fight the knight. Glesler had just won the Parabun Athletic Tournament and was now a focal point in Parabun, and Enqi's audacity to declare a duel with him everywhere immediately aroused the eagerness of the crowd.

Eventually, under pressure from the masses and out of his own irritation at Enqi, Glesler accepted Enqi's challenge, but he never took Enqi seriously. As for the ravageing of Arelie to death, he only regarded it as a matter of his own pleasure, without the slightest guilt or repentance.

In the arena of Parabun, Enqi and Glesler each rode a horse, held a practice riding spear, and prepared to start a duel.

"From this moment on, as long as I hold the spear, I will always sprint in the name of Arelle!" Enqi shouted the declaration, raising the spear in his hand. Although the surrounding audience could not grasp the meaning of his declaration, they were all infected by his shout and his action of raising his gun, and suddenly, cheers and shouts resounded throughout the arena. Then the duel officially began.

Grysler had thought that he could easily defeat Enqi, after all, Enqi was only a knight's servant, and he had never heard of a knight who could defeat his subordinate knight. But he didn't expect that Enqi turned out to be the most terrible opponent he had encountered in his life, and it was also his last opponent.

After a fierce battle, Glesler's horse under his crotch was poked down by Enqi with a quick and accurate return pistol, and then, Glesler, who fell to the ground, quickly got up from the ground, but Enqi did not wait for him to stand firm, he had already mounted his horse and speared, and rushed towards him from not far away, and obviously wanted to charge him with a spear. Glesler dodged, but the practice lance in Enqi's hand eventually stabbed him in the body impartially. If Enqi had had been riding a different spear instead of practicing riding, Glesler would have died a long time ago.

Glesler was hit by Enqi's spear and sprinted, and he was immediately seriously injured and fell to the ground. The duel was decided, and Enqi immediately jumped off his horse, and to the cheers of the audience, walked quickly to Grysler's side, and at the same time took out a hidden dagger from his body.

In front of Glesler's terrified expression, and in the tragic cry that followed, Enqi did not hesitate to plunge the dagger in his hand through Glesler's throat, and immediately ended his life.

Then, before the others could react, Enqi immediately fled the arena. He fled aimlessly, seeking only as far away from Parabun as possible.

In the years that followed, he traveled through the boundless deserts of the Salander Sultanate, galloped through the boundless steppes of the Kugit Khanate, fought desert bandits, killed steppe horses, and forgot the past in the continuous baptism of sweat and blood. He did not linger much in these places, and then he entered the Vicia Snowfield.

Eventually, he arrives in Kulau, where he meets the upcoming athletic convention, and by this time, there is not much dinar left in him. He knew that the rewards for a champion were huge, so he decided to participate in the tournament to earn himself a large amount of dinars.

Before each round, Enqi bets on himself. He was lucky, and in the first round he was assigned a horse and a practice riding gun. He single-handedly rushed left and right in the big melee of the first round of the game, as if he was in a no-man's land. A total of sixty-four people participated in this big melee, and in this big melee, Enqi knocked down more than a dozen contestants by himself, and no one could stop him, and he simply dominated that round.

He also made a name for himself with his performance in this game and became the focus of the audience. The name Enqi immediately became loud in the town of Kulau. In the next few rounds, Enqi made the cut, and he was almost omnipotent, and he was proficient in all kinds of weapons, so no matter what weapon he was assigned to, he could eventually defeat his opponent with them.

In the final of this athletic tournament, he met an opponent named Xie Ruina. The weapon he was assigned was a one-handed sword and a shield, while the weapon that Xie Rena was assigned was a two-handed sword. Both men had no horses and had to fight on foot.

Enqi was full of confidence in himself before the final, and the sword and shield combination was his second best attack mode after the gun and shield combination, but in the end, it was Xie Rena who won the championship of this competitive tournament, and Enqi could not resist Xie Ruina's strong attack and unfortunately lost.

It was only later that Enqi learned that the two-handed sword was actually Xie Ruina's best weapon, and in her past record, Xie Ruina, who was holding a two-handed sword, had a winning rate of more than 90% in the finals of the athletic competition. In the finals of this athletic conference, Xie Rena is the strongest Xie Rena, but Enqi is not the strongest Enqi. If Enqi could ride a horse and fight with his best mounted spear, perhaps the outcome might have been different.

After being defeated, Enqi left the arena in frustration, and the only money he had left was used to bet on himself, but he did not win the championship, and as the runner-up, he got nothing, just like the other losers. Enqi began to live on the streets, it doesn't matter if the money is gone, with his ability, it is not difficult to make money at all, the key is that Enqi suffered a big blow in this failure, which made him collapse.

And just when he was about to become a beggar on the streets, an iron merchant named Beluga took him back to his home and gave him good food and shelter. Beruga tells him that his family needs a skilled protector and asks him if he would like to be their guardian. Enqi hesitated, but in the end he chose to stay at Mr. Beruga's house.

What made him decide to stay here was not Mr. Beruga's sincere request, nor the high reward he had given, but because of Mr. Beruga's daughter, Ms. Jamila. Enqi saw the shadow of Arelly in Jamila, who was also beautiful and lively, innocent and lovely girl, and there were indeed many similarities between Jamila and Arelly.

Looking at Jamila, Enqi would naturally think of Arelle, which made his heart flutter and gave him the courage to get back together. So he decided to stay in the house of Mr. Belluga and Ms. Jamila as a bodyguard.