How a Two-Life Scoundrel Lives - Chapter 58
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【Chapter 58】
A little while ago.
– This place was the biggest battlefield in this entire area until about 50 years ago. The magic stone deposits were enormous, weren’t they?
It was when Begman was casually telling old stories about this region.
[Alert: Traces left by The Dead in the world have been detected.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts remain somewhere nearby.]
[Alert: Traces left by The Dead in the world have been detected.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts remain somewhere nearby.]
[Alert: Traces left by The Dead in the world have been detected.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts remain somewhere nearby.]
[Alert: Traces left by The Dead in the world have been detected.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts remain somewhere nearby.]
[Alert: Traces left by The Dead in the world have been detected.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts remain somewhere nearby.]
‘Huh?’
Carlisle looked around after seeing the notification window that appeared before his eyes, then discovered a rusty sword stuck in the ground.
The sword had chips missing in several places, was half-broken, and was so heavily rusted it looked like it would crumble at any moment.
It was clearly a sword abandoned during the dozens, hundreds of battles that had taken place here.
And lingering thoughts of The Dead dwelled within that sword.
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been discovered.]
[Alert: Reading the traces left by The Dead in the world.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been discovered.]
[Alert: Reading the traces left by The Dead in the world.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been discovered.]
[Alert: Reading the traces left by The Dead in the world.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been discovered.]
[Alert: Reading the traces left by The Dead in the world.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been discovered.]
[Alert: Reading the traces left by The Dead in the world.]
The memories of The Dead, their final moments, unfolded before Carlisle’s eyes.
‘Die!’
‘Kuhuhuh! These weak continental bastards! I’ll slaughter them all!’
The Barbarian Warriors were numerous.
In contrast, the Decaron Army’s numbers were woefully insufficient.
It was a situation no different from Carlisle’s group’s current predicament.
‘I’ll stop them.’
A single Knight stood alone to block the enemies.
‘N-no! You must come with us!’
‘Hurry!’
The Knight shouted to his subordinates who followed him.
‘Go, quickly. Don’t stop walking, don’t look back. That is my final order.’
Having said that, the Knight drew upon all the power he possessed.
It was the Knight’s last resort.
Not only did he explosively release all his mana at once, but he even drew upon his life force to use it.
‘My back shall face my allies, while my sword shall face the enemies. Here I shall burn myself with all my might.’
With the Knight’s final words and the charging Barbarian Warriors, the vision disappeared.
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been read.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts can be absorbed.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been read.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts can be absorbed.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been read.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts can be absorbed.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been read.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts can be absorbed.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been read.]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts can be absorbed.]
Swoosh, Carlisle’s hand touched the rusted and broken sword hilt.
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been absorbed!]
[Alert: 【One Against a Thousand】 skill has been acquired!]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been absorbed!]
[Alert: 【One Against a Thousand】 skill has been acquired!]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been absorbed!]
[Alert: 【One Against a Thousand】 skill has been acquired!]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been absorbed!]
[Alert: 【One Against a Thousand】 skill has been acquired!]
[Alert: Lingering thoughts have been absorbed!]
[Alert: 【One Against a Thousand】 skill has been acquired!]
Swoooosh!
A new power settled into Carlisle’s body.
It was the noble and honorable will of the Knight who had once stood alone against enemies to protect his subordinates who followed him.
[One Against a Thousand]
[One Against a Thousand]
None shall surpass me.
Effect:
– When facing multiple enemies alone, all stats +200%
[One Against a Thousand]
None shall surpass me.
Effect:
– When facing multiple enemies alone, all stats +200%
[One Against a Thousand]
None shall surpass me.
Effect:
– When facing multiple enemies alone, all stats +200%
[One Against a Thousand]
None shall surpass me.
Effect:
– When facing multiple enemies alone, all stats +200%
[One Against a Thousand]
No one shall surpass me.
Effect:
– When facing multiple enemies alone, all stats +200%
“Everyone go ahead! I’ll hold them off here!”
Carlisle’s shout echoed thunderously across the battlefield.
“You crazy bastard! What are you saying!”
“Nonsense!”
“Just because you die doesn’t mean we’ll all live!”
The scout members shouted as if it was absurd.
Only one person.
“Hmm.”
Only Kudo with his [squinting eyes] carefully observed Carlisle, seeming to believe his words.
“Captain! Let’s just go!”
“What?”
“Private Carlisle seems to have some plan, so I think we should go ahead!”
“This bastard really! Why are you like this too! Ugh! We’re all about to die anyway and in this situation you’re spouting such nonsense…”
“It’s Sigmund! Sigmund! Don’t you know that saying! You don’t worry about Sigmund!”
Kudo shouted while cutting down a charging Barbarian Warrior.
Indeed, there was such a saying in the Northern Region.
You don’t worry about Sigmund.
You don’t worry about Sigmund.
Only another Sigmund can worry about a Sigmund.
Only another Sigmund can worry about a Sigmund.
This saying must have emerged because those with Sigmund blood had shown unparalleled monstrous strength for hundreds of years.
How extreme must it have been for people to say they were a different species altogether.
Kudo’s words were decisive.
‘It’s like a mouse worrying about a cat.’
‘Come to think of it, that guy is a Sigmund.’
‘Right. Who’s worrying about whom?’
Carlisle was undoubtedly someone who inherited the bloodline of House Sigmund.
And among them, wasn’t he a direct descendant, the purest of pure blood?
“I’m going ahead!”
Kudo took the engineers and fled the battlefield, running toward Bowden Fortress.
“Sh-should we go?”
“Hmm.”
Starting with Kudo’s retreat, the scout members also began slipping away to the rear.
“W-will you be okay?”
“I’ll be fine, so hurry up and go. You’re getting in the way.”
“G-getting in the way?”
“Yes, in the way.”
“R-right. Got it. I’ll go ahead, so come quickly. Don’t you dare die. We’re not abandoning you, we’re going because we trust you…”
“Oh, come on.”
“Right! I’m going, going!”
Begman limped away, leaving Carlisle behind.
As the scout members and engineers left the battlefield one by one, Carlisle was left alone.
Just like the knights of old who died gloriously fighting enemies alone to save their allies.
* * *
The Barbarian Warriors, the Raging Hoof Cavalry, did not pursue the retreating Decaron Army.
They simply sneered.
“Puhahaha!”
“What a bunch of clowns!”
“Do they really think that one scrawny brat can stop us?”
The reason the Raging Hoof Cavalry let the Decaron Army go was their confidence that they could catch them again anytime.
If they chased on their boars, they could catch up in the blink of an eye, so they felt no need to hurry.
“You there.”
Orca, the captain of the Raging Hoof Cavalry, spoke casually.
“You, is it true that you’re a Sigmund?”
“Maybe I am, maybe I’m not.”
“What does that mean?”
“Figure it out yourself.”
“Insolent bastard.”
Orca frowned.
“I was going to go easy on you because your act was cute, but you’re just a rude bastard who doesn’t even know a warrior’s honor. Don’t you know it’s proper etiquette for warriors to exchange names?”
“Bullshit.”
Carlisle said curtly.
“What’s the point of knowing that when we’re going to kill each other.”
“What?”
“I don’t want to know the names of the bastards I’m going to kill.”
“Kuk!”
Orca laughed, showing his yellow teeth.
“Are you saying you can take us all on by yourself right now? Really?”
“Of course.”
“Did you all hear that? This brat says he’s going to kill us all!”
“Puhahahaha!”
The Barbarian Warriors burst into laughter.
“What a complete lunatic! Kuk kuk! Kuk kuk kuk!”
“Hey! Brat! Go drink some more of mommy’s milk! Keuhat hat hat!”
The Barbarian Warriors thoroughly ignored and mocked Carlisle.
From the barbarians’ perspective, Carlisle was nothing but a weakling.
He was tall, but he wasn’t particularly bulky, was he?
His appearance also had no scars on his face and wasn’t fierce-looking.
Moreover, the military uniform he wore was shabby beyond measure, and his rank insignia was that of a lowly private.
So it was natural for the Barbarian Warriors to find Carlisle amusing.
The reason the Raging Hoof Cavalry didn’t pursue the Decaron Army in the first place was because they planned to toy with and torment Carlisle before killing him…
“You bastard.”
Orca suddenly made a frightening expression.
“I thought you were a brave puppy, but it turns out you’re just an idiot who doesn’t know his place. I would have thought more highly of you if you had at least shown fear and trembling.”
“I have no desire to get good reviews from bastards who are going to die anyway, so stop talking and just attack.”
“Hah! I’ll kill you as cruelly as possible. After I strip off your skin and hang you up, let’s see if you still spout such insolent words.”
As soon as Orca finished speaking, one rider charged toward Carlisle on his boar.
“Hiya, hiya!”
“Squeeeeek!”
“I’ll turn you into jerky! Keuhat hat!”
Thud thud thud!
The boar, wearing a helmet on its head and armor on both shoulders and chest, was like a tank.
With a body weight of several hundred kilograms combined with rapid speed, that destructive power would be more than enough to completely crush a person.
Carlisle did not dodge the charging boar.
Flash!
As Carlisle swung Grimgand, a black flash flickered.
And….
“…!”
The eyes of the watching Barbarian Warriors widened as if they would pop out at any moment.
Thud, thoom!
The boar that had been charging at Carlisle, or rather what had been a boar, was split in two and crashed into the ground.
Along with the Barbarian rider that had been mounted on it.
“I don’t know about other things….”
Carlisle slowly opened his mouth.
“Maybe it’s because I’ve been trampled to death once, but I refuse to be trampled to death again.”
“Wh-what are you talking about?”
“Don’t mind it. I’m just talking to myself.”
Carlisle shook off Grimgand with a flick and activated his newly acquired skill.
One Against a Thousand, activate.
Whoooosh!
An Auspicious Aura burst forth from Carlisle.
He looked as if he were enveloped in Sacred Flames.
“Who’s the predator, and who’s the prey?”
Carlisle launched his body toward the Barbarian Warriors.
* * *
“I-I knew we shouldn’t have just left him there!”
Begman, who had safely returned to the fortress, was stamping his feet and fidgeting restlessly with worry.
“Let’s go get him even now!”
“Captain.”
Kudo quietly spoke up as if he couldn’t stop him.
“What would change if we went to get him now?”
“But the youngest is all alone….”
“You keep forgetting, but Private Carlisle is also a Sigmund.”
“W-well, that’s true.”
“No matter how much of a scoundrel and troublemaker he may be, that bloodline won’t go anywhere. Let’s just wait quietly. Private Carlisle must have had something to rely on to send us ahead first.”
“Hmm.”
Begman seemed to agree with Kudo’s words, but still worried about Carlisle and gazed endlessly outside the fortress.
“Marder, you bastard! What happened to the youngest? Use that bird to check!”
“I’ve already told you four times that the trees are too thick to see anything.”
“I-is that so?”
“If you were going to be like this, you should have stayed too, Captain. You also ran away leaving the youngest behind.”
“What did you say, you bastard?!”
Begman glared at Marder.
“That’s because the youngest said we were in the way and told us to leave quickly!”
“So you just leave when he tells you to? When a lowly private says he’ll stay behind alone?”
“Ugh.”
“I understand you’re worried, but nothing changes by acting like this. Let’s trust the youngest and wait!”
There was another person worried about Carlisle.
‘Private Carlisle. Even if you’re unreliable, you are a Sigmund. If you’re a Sigmund, act like a Sigmund and please come back alive.’
Just as Helen was thinking of Carlisle and hoping for his safe return.
“L-look! Look over there!”
“…!”
Everyone’s gaze turned toward the direction Russell was pointing.
Outside the fortress.
A blood-soaked handsome man was trudging toward the fortress.
He was so covered in blood that bloody traces were left in a long trail behind the path he had taken.
“Open the gates, open the castle gates! Quickly!”
Helen shouted urgently.
Creak, thoom!
The gates opened, and he returned to Bowden Fortress.
Carlisle looked no different than usual.
Though his expression was more sullen than usual….
“Uhahahaha!”
Begman ran straight to Carlisle despite limping.
“You’re alive! You came back alive! You bastard! How on earth did you survive? Huh? How in that situation….”
“I killed them.”
“Huh?”
Begman was flustered by Carlisle’s answer.
“Y-you killed them?”
“Yes.”
“Don’t tell me all those Barbarians? By yourself?”
“Yes.”
“….”
Begman was left speechless.
He simply couldn’t imagine slaughtering nearly fifty Barbarian Warriors all by himself.
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