People in this chapter: (Edward Hallengoth), (Rutgers Hallengoth), (Galahad Cohen), (Owen Haan), (Gareth Diman), (Ramsey), (Arya), (Lanned). ≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡

Chapter 036: (Brave Knight)

Edward rushed to the edge of the woods with the girl in his arms, away from the camp wrapped in blood and consumed by fire.

They were safe, but only temporarily. Those Rhodok mercenaries in leather armor couldn't resist the Black Hawk Knight in steel armor.

The immediate priority now is to escape from this chaotic camp as soon as possible, and escape into the dense woods in the dark of night, perhaps they can still survive by chance.

Ranned, armed with a crossbow, ran out of the dark woods. Although he had many questions at the moment, he knew that this was not the time to seek answers. "Your Excellency," he cried anxiously. "Let's run!"

Edward thought about running away with the girl, but Arya's father was still besieged in the camp. When he looked at the sad and painful look of the girl beside him, he seemed to see the girl begging him to save her father.

Edward wasn't sure if he would be able to save the girl's father from the swords of Sir 'Swiftsword' Owen and 'Bittersteel' Galahad, but he couldn't just run away with the girl full of despair and grief.

The girl has lost her brother, and is she still losing her only father? There is no greater pain in the world than life and death, and it is necessary for a weak and helpless girl to endure this kind of painful pain twice in one night...... Edward couldn't have imagined.

Even if they made it out alive, he doubted that Arya would be able to emerge from the excruciating pain. "Ranid, you take her and run away first," he determined. "I went to rescue Arya's father. ”

"Your Excellency, you're going to die. Lenid grabbed him by the arm, trying to stop him from doing this crazy thing.

"You forget, I am a child of the forest, a descendant of the goddess Soraka," Edward replied slowly. "Believe me, I won't die so easily. He didn't know if he was comforting the other party, or the girl, or maybe he was comforting himself?

"But you don't have the abilities that the Children of the Forest have. Ranid objected. "You don't have green vision, you can't take beast form, you can't use magic, you can't even drive beasts in the woods. ”

At this moment, how Edward wished he could have these abilities, so that he could save the girl's father from the sword of the mighty Sir Owen and Ser Galahad, and even take back his own sword and honor from his Rutgers.

Even without these extraordinary abilities, Edward had already made up his mind. For the sake of the girl in front of him, and for the justice buried deep in his heart, he decided to regain his knightly honor.

"Lenid, I've already decided, I must rescue Arya's father," Edward's expression was solemn and serious. "Escape into the woods with Arya!"

The girl's eyes filled with tears of sorrow and pain, and she didn't know what to say to Edward. Arya doesn't want to lose the man she loves, but she also doesn't want to lose her only father. She was so scared that she would never see the two men she loved again.

"My lord, in which direction shall we flee?" Ranid was a little flustered, and before the other man could speak, he added, "If you rescue Arya's father, where are we going to find you?"

Edward thought for a moment and then told the other party, "Lenid, take Arya all the way south, and then return to Marasburg on the top of the hill," he said deliberately at the end. "It's only safe there. ”

Lenid looked at the other party in surprise, his eyes were a little confused, he shook his head in a daze and panic, and defended repeatedly: "My lord, if I go back, Count Richson will definitely cut off my head with his own hands." ”

He originally thought that after escaping from [Marasburg], he would be able to follow the knight in front of him back to the kingdom of Svadia, to his hometown [Azgod], and to the beautiful town next to the sea. But the other party asked him to return to the starting point again.

Ranid Greer did not want to return to Marasburg, let alone meet his people within the walls of the hilltop. But where could he flee with the girl? The Svadian knights had already taken over the entire northern plains, encompassing Estinina.

Maybe I should have left the girl alone and ran for my life, her life or death had nothing to do with me. Ranid thought to himself. I should have fled from Marasburg alone, but perhaps I would have fled to the kingdom of Svadia, and I had already fled this war-torn land.

But he had now been canonized by Edward as a knight. It was the ideal he had always dreamed of. He would even be a member of the Order of Sanctions, the title of Knight of the Black Hawk, what an honor that was. But now they are riding on war horses and rushing at me with swords.

"Believe me, there's no safer place than there. Edward woke up Ranned, who had fallen into contemplation and contradiction, and he said it categorically. "When I return to Marasburg, please tell Count Ritzson and Uncle Hecarim, and I will definitely go back. ”

"My lord, I hope we can see each other again!"

Edward said apologetically, "Yes!

It was I who dragged him into this quagmire and I hid my true situation from him. He said to himself. If I had told him all in the first place, maybe he wouldn't have risked saving me, and he wouldn't have been in a dilemma.

Rannie took the girl's hand and fled into the dark and gloomy woods in front of her, and although the girl kept looking back, and even nearly broke free from Lenid's grasp several times, their footsteps were still fading away.

When Arya and Lenid disappeared into the dark woods, Edward turned around and looked into the blazing camp, only to see Rutgers, holding the Pale Justice, fighting a Swadian knight.

Edward recognized the Swadian knight as the brave Sir Gareth Diman. But why did he want to do this? Didn't he always stand by Rutgers? Justice, maybe there was still a trace of justice in his heart.

"Gareth, get out of the way!" Rutgers, holding Pale Justice, yelled angrily. "Do you want to go with the wild?"

"Rutgers, you've gone too far," replied the brave Gareth in a deep voice. "You've changed, you've not been like you, you've become honorless, you've become unsympathetic!"

Rutgers tried to hide his anger as much as he could, and said in a slightly calmer tone, "That's why you pointed your sword at me, and did you want to kill me with the sword in your hand?"

"No," Ser Gareth replied firmly. "I just don't want to be as insidious, cold-blooded, and evil as you!"

Rutgers's face changed drastically, and he roared in anger and urgency: "Gareth, you stupid and arrogant fellow, I'm going to kill you." He couldn't stand the betrayal of the other party, let alone the other party's sharp words.

He raised the sword in his hand and slashed at the opponent's chest, and the brave Gareth fearlessly raised his sword to block. He may not be Rutgers' opponent, but he is braver than anyone else.

Gareth's sword was not as good as the "Pale Justice" that Rutgers wielded, but his bravery, boldness, and determination were worthy of the sophistication of the weapon. Bravery conquers all, and it can even add strength to flesh and blood.

The clash of steel, the battle of strength, Gareth and Rutgers is like a duel between good and evil.

Gareth, who showed bravery, slashed the sword in his hand and forced Rutgers to retreat, "Pale Justice" seemed to want to break free from his palm, and Rutgers's insult to those who could not make him apologize was itself a sign of cowardice.

Whoever fears in this battle will be tormented and already tormented by his fear. Fear and bravery are close at hand, and they coexist with each other - they know the truth best at this moment.

A man of courage is a man who does not panic, a man of courage is a man who does not flinch from the consideration of danger, a man who retains his courage in the face of danger is a brave man, a rash man is reckless, and he dares to take risks because he does not know the dangers of the road.

Gareth was one such warrior who dared to take risks and did not think about danger, but bravely rushed forward and constantly attacked his enemies. But his strength has never been on the same level as Rutgers.

The cold light in Rutgers's hand flashed, and he gracefully picked up a spear on the ground, and the spear that was slowly stuck in the air flipped and drew a bright arc, and then accurately inserted / into Gareth's right lower leg.

"If you don't want to die, get out of the way!" Luo Shi's tone suddenly mixed with ruthless killing intent.

Gareth, do you have the courage to sacrifice when you have to pay the price to do the best for the majority? Maybe it's material gain, maybe it's life. You have to have the courage and courage to be a good knight.

The brave Gareth remembered what Sir Austin William had said to him in the year he had made him a knight. He endured the pain in his right leg and severed the spear from his thigh with his sword, leaving only the tip of the spear to pierce into the flesh. "Never!

Gareth's retort was interrupted by a crisp thud at that moment. A sharp sword struck at him, finally freezing on his hard helmet, the cacophony of metal grinding disrupting the killing intent lurking in the moonlight, and the sword sliced a visible fine mark in his helmet.

Gareth, who was hiding under his helmet, was a little dizzy, and he shook his head from the hard blow, trying to keep himself awake. Before he could react, a second sword swung at him, this time at a neck that was peeking out from beneath the steel helmet.

Gareth narrowly dodged the fatal blow, the sharp blade leaving only a thin blood mark on his neck. "Do what you do, Rutgers!" the roar seemed to announce his position to everyone in the camp.

At the other end of the camp, Sir Owen and Ser Galahad, who were fighting the one-armed man, heard his roar, as did Edward, as did the rest of the Svadian knights, as well as the Rhodok mercenaries who were still fighting.

Edward had already rushed to the side of the one-armed man, and the precipitous situation of one against two turned into a fair battle between two against two in an instant. Edward faced Owen 'Swift Sword', and the tall one-armed man was up against Garahad 'Bittersteel' who was about his size.

The one-armed man was able to stand up to two battle-hardened Black Hawk Knights on his own without defeat, and his strength was evidently strong. In a one-on-one situation, Ramsey is even more unlikely to be defeated by the opponent, but can defeat the opponent with the giant sword in his hand.

Edward and Sir 'Swift Sword' Owen had fought more than once in the martial arts school arena at Harlan Gosburg, and each time the winner was Edward. Owen's sword speed was not a terrible move for Edward, who was good at defense and observation.

With the exception of Rutgers, who had never fought him, and Sir Austin William, the previous commander whom he could not defeat, no one in the entire Second Banner Battalion was a match for Edward when he fought alone.

Knowing that he was no match for Edward, Owen chose to take the initiative to defend and waited for the other Knights to reinforce him. Edward also had his own plans, and he didn't want to kill his former brother. He hopes that the other party can regain his honor like Gareth.

"Owen, have you abandoned your honor?" said Edward as he swung his sword. "Have you forgotten your true mission, or have you betrayed the object of your allegiance?"

"Honor," Owen repeated self-deprecatingly, his expression frozen. "Isn't my honor here, and my mission is to fight in this land, and to whom I am allegiated?" his sword swayed slightly. "Do you mean you?"

"It is your honor to kill these innocent Rhodoks, and it is your mission to rob them of their belongings?" Edward's azure pupils were now radiating fiercely. "As the commander of the Second Banner Battalion, shouldn't you follow my orders?"

"Wild/Seed, you don't have to tell me these high-sounding truths," Owen's voice paused deliberately, and observed the other party's expression. "The so-called honor and mission are nothing but the vanity given to us by the nobles, in order to make us die for them to wield the sword. ”

Sir Owen had seen all of this through, and that was why he chose to join Rutgers. He would rather live for himself, for gold, than for the vanity and worthless titles bestowed upon him by kings and nobles. "I know you've always looked down on me, just because I'm an illegitimate child, a wild seed," Edward replied word for word. "But bastard children are also merciful, know how to be humble, and treat everyone fairly, and are more eager for honor to wash away the stain!"

"You don't have to bother," Owen said in an attacking stance again, as several knights were already approaching him. "I'm not Gareth and I'm not going to change my position like he did. ”

"Really?" said Edward, pointedly. "And what about your previous position? Did you intend to collude with Rutgers in the first place, to plunder and kill the innocent Rhodoks like a robber?"

"What is the ultimate purpose of war?" said Owen, in the exact opposite tone. Edward was speechless, he knew exactly what the ultimate purpose of the war was.

"It's plunder!" Owen's wry smile was full of helplessness and realization. "It's just that the plundered goods and land have been divided among the kings and noble lords, and we, the warriors who have paid the price with our blood and lives, can only receive an empty honor. ”

The one-armed man swung his sword suddenly, knocking the Swadia knight to the ground in an instant, and the armor on his chest was already visibly dented. Owen, who was knocked to the ground, couldn't get up for a while, and now he was like a weak ant.

Just as Ramsey swung his greatsword again and slashed at it, Edward stopped him. The one-armed man wants to avenge Timo, he wants to kill the murderer of his son, and even Edward can't stop his angry and bitter hatred.

But he had missed the perfect opportunity, and Sir Galahad, who had been struck down by him, and several other knights had already shielded Sir Owen, and more knights were rushing towards them. The Rhodoc mercenaries who resisted had either fled, or had fallen.

"We must get out of here," Edward said with all his might, holding the one-armed man's sword-gripping hand to stop his madness, and finally he said. "For Arya's. ”

When the man with the broken arm heard Arya's name, he turned his head to look at Edward in front of him, and he asked anxiously and loudly, "I saw that you saved her, where did your soldiers take her?"

"Let's get out of here, and if we do, you'll see your daughter again. Edward assured him.

Ramsey's expression was filled with disgust, and he lowered his sword and fled into the woods opposite with the Swadia knight who had deceived him.

Edward and the one-armed man fled into the dark woods, and Ser Owen and Ser Galahad did not lead the other knights to chase them, and even if they did, Owen and Gala and Hader were not sure that they would be able to kill them.

The brave Gareth fell, and the "Pale Justice" pierced his body directly from the armor on his chest, and even the hard steel armor could not stop the sharp sword. The sinister and cold-blooded Rutgers was never merciful to those who betrayed him.

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