Chapter 63 – Caren

Benedict looked at Arin while drinking tea.

After Ed left with Ban and Emilia, he continued to be so restless. He kept smiling.

It was a long time ago that Benedict met both Aron and Arin. They were children who were sacrificed to the group Crosel created by the demon followers who were popular at the time.

Druid Dread, one of the three heroes, rescued them.

Seeing the children who seemed to be broken somewhere, Benedict felt fate. And he could see why Crosel was aiming for these children.

Both of them had great power.

They could have been the next leader of Crosel if they hadn’t been rescued.

Aron may have become their ring leader and Arin may have been in charge of their army.

Both Aron and Arin were almost broken at the time, but Benedict brought took them in, washed, and cared for them every day. So they are really like his grandchildren.

As they grew older, he knew that the two had different tendencies.

Aron, who liked to read the Bible and study doctrines, became the youngest principal priest and went to Berne. He gained experience there and returned to the headquarters.

On the contrary to Aron, Arin was very active and liked to fight. When she was broken, she used to bite Benedict’s arm all the time.

After Arin came to her senses, she left to meet Master Paladin, who raised her. There, she built up her mentality and became an outstanding holy knight.

Benedict was slightly worried when e heard that she was the only one who could come out of the altar and chase for blood stones according to the prophecy. He was worried that this might have been because she almost became a sacrifice for Crosel when she was young. But she exceeded his expectations.

To Benedict, whom she hadn’t met in a long time, she talked nonstop. It was fun at first because he felt like e was watching his granddaughter.

But all she talked about was Ed! Ed! Ed!

It made him feel like he had lost his granddaughter. Benedict, who has access to the eyes of Astron church, has heard countless information about Ed.

After he joined Arin, he was more interested, but he didn’t know she would only talk about him.

When she learned how to use swords and doctrines under Master Paladine, she was called an example of a holy knight, but he was worried about how this happened.

He was worried that she was just falling for a crazy man that hunts demons. but Ed, who he met in person, was more useful than he thought.

He knows how to be sensible. And he was a person who believes in himself.

He was a good guy.

Benedict said something to Arin.

“Don’t you trust him?”

“What? Of course, I trust him.”

“But what are you so worried about?”

Arin bowed her head and grumbled at the words. It was also his first time seeing that, so Benedict said with a happy smile.

“He’ll come back smiling. Just trust him.”

“Whoo. Okay.”

Arin blew the tea, took a sip, and looked at Benedict.

“Why do I feel like you know Ed better than me?”

Benedict burst into laughter.

“My my. I’ve lived long, you know? And he’s also my friend now.”

Arin shook her head at Benedict’s joke and looked out the window. Thinking of Ed somewhere under the night sky of the royal road, Arin drank tea.

Those who couldn’t be identified. They don’t know who they are and why they are helping Caren. But their location has been identified.

Ed, who was running on a horse, slowed down the horse’s speed. Emilia and Ban slowed down together while following.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s not far from here. But if we ride the horses, our enemies are more likely to notice, so we’ll have to walk from here.”

When Emilia tried to get off the horse, Ed shook his head.

“If the Astron Church were not been able to figure out who they are, they will be very dangerous. It’s dangerous to go to their base, so if you wait here with the guardian, I’ll get Caren’s neck.”

Emilia stared at Ed and asked.

“Are you going to go in alone?”

“Yes.”

“Will you be okay?”

Ed smiled at the words.

“You think it will as dangerous as Caren’s house?”

Only then did Emilia recall the history of this man. He went into the house of Caren, killed the witchcraft man, and rescued his colleague. In the midst of that, he attacked Caren.

He even infiltrated the Colosseum that belonged to Walter, the slave merchant, to rescue another colleague.

She visited him because of vague expectations that he would surely be able to catch or kill Caren.

Emilia bowed.

“Please take care.”

Ed smiled and jumped onto the wall next to him. As soon as he got off the wall, Emilia muttered when she saw Ed flying away with a cape.

“I don’t know if I can ask him to do this.”

She was born into a royal family, but she never got the chance to enjoy her royalty. Then, when she graduated from the academy, she had solved everything by herself.

She didn’t trust anyone easily and didn’t expect anything from anyone else.

But she was leaning on it as if she were possessed by something now. And she believed in the man who disappeared from sight in an instant.

Ed prepared an ice arrow. The ice arrow was so strengthened that it was incomparably stronger than before.

Ed expanded his senses while running on the wall.

Those who took Caren were not normal people.

They were are good at hiding themselves among ordinary people.

Now, Ed found their house. It was a mansion with a small garden. Looking at the mansion with all the lights off, Ed raised his senses to the limit.

Usually, there was no need to awaken this sense. However, when all senses were awakened, he could feel someone hiding on the roof of the mansion.

They are well-trained people.

Unlike Akalan, they were secretive.

Ed organized his thoughts while preparing an arrow on his bow. He can’t feel the others until he gets inside of the mansion, so he’ll deal with the three people outside first.

The first arrow was fired to the roof of the mansion, a visible location. The other two were caught by their senses, but they couldn’t confirm with their eyes, so they couldn’t avoid it.

As soon as the first arrow flew toward the person hiding on the roof of the mansion, Ed got two more arrows and fired them.

Controlling two arrows consumed a lot of mana, but it was inevitable to catch those who were out of sight.

As soon as an arrow hit the head of a person hiding on the roof, the other arrows also hit the other two that were hiding in the dark.

Those who were hiding in the branches were fixed to the tree, so they did not fall, and those who hid in the shadow of the wall also had their heads stuck in the wall.

Ed, who overpowered all three, ran silently into the mansion. All those who guarded the exterior of the mansion were overpowered.

Ed hid in the shadow of the wall and looked at the mansion. Ed, who quickly looked at the windows of the mansion, opened the window on the second floor and found that a person was looking outside.

He didn’t seem to have noticed any unexpected events outside yet.

It could have been because the arrows flew so quickly, so there was no other noise.

Ed also fired an arrow at him.

The arrow that flew through the open wooden window was directly embedded in the opponent’s head. Ed shot an arrow and ran straight into the window.

He heard a voice downstairs. Perhaps they heard the man collapse.

“Malton. What’s going on?”

Ed pulled out a sword and a dagger. While Ed, who had the dagger in his left hand, approached the stairs silently, he felt someone approaching the stairs.

There are at least six people in the mansion.

When Ed arrived at the stairs first and waited, he saw someone’s feet. Ed threw a dagger and kicked the ground before his face was revealed.

The person approaching the stairs reacted to the dagger, but he turned his body and avoided fatal injuries. Ed’s sword was embedded in the other man’s shoulder, and cut his neck.

Ed, who passed by before the neck hit the floor, ran straight toward the place where he could feel the other person.

The living room of the mansion is where he can feel the presence. Ed, who ran on the stairs, saw people who responded to the sounds of men collapsing.

Ed swung his sword three short times. The necks of those running after discovering Ed were all cut off.

Caren, who was sitting on the sofa, finally saw Ed while turning his head.

Vandes was running toward Ed like a shadow, but Vandes’ sword cut through the air in vain, and his head fell to the floor.

And Caren watched Ed empty the glass of alcohol on the table.

Even after seeing Ed empty his glass, Caren couldn’t move. Above all, he couldn’t believe this was happening.

Everyone died without screaming in the safe house guarded by the special forces of the Magelta Kingdom by an assassin.

Caren swallowed his dry saliva and opened his mouth.

“I’ll give you ten times more than what you were offered.”

Ed looked down at Caren when he said that. This man would somehow die at Kyle’s hands even if Ed didn’t kill him. For Kyle, Caren was an enemy to his family.

If Ed hadn’t rescued Kyle, wouldn’t Merjen eventually save Kyle in some way and later kill Caren?

When Ed said nothing, Caren pulled out the ring he had in his hand and held it out.

“This ring is meant to be a ring of regeneration. It’s good at recovering stamina and mana. You’ll be able to get 300 gold.”

The minister of the kingdom of Travia. If he hadn’t left in a hurry, he would have brought a lot of things with him. But that’s all he had right now.

Ed picked up the ring and asked.

“Who are these people?”

At Ed’s question, Caren hesitated for a moment. If he reveals their identity, everything will fall.

However, when he saw Ed’s indifferent eyes, he eventually confessed.

“They are the Kelberos, the special forces of the Magelta Kingdom.”

In order to plant his people in the southern nobility, he had sinned against Kyle’s family and the southern aristocrats. He was the main culprit of corruption.

“This is all I have now, but if you take me to the southern land, I’ll repay you dozens of times.”

Ed found out that the southern land had a deep bond with Caren. Ed swung his sword. But he was a little surprised when Caren’s head rolled on the floor.

Caren’s was not strong, but he gained the most experienced he ever received.

But isn’t experience accumulated by individual strength?