Chapter 6 (1/2)

As an earth knight, Marcus was very sensitive of magic and combat aura. His warning couldn’t be wrong.

Liszt immediately grew nervous.

The squires hurried to pack the tableware. As ordinary people who hadn’t grasped combat aura yet, they would be committing suicide if they were to fight monsters.

Marcus was already on the horse. “Ignore the tableware. Help the baron get on the horse and prepare for battle!”

The squires then hurried to help Liszt.

However, Liszt was a beginner knight with basic combat aura, after all. Holding back his anxiety, he got on the horse. Young and inexperienced, his horse was as nervous as him. Liszt had to soothe it by stroking its neck.

Encouraged by its master, Fire Dragon relaxed slightly. As the earl’s birthday present, it had a remarkable bloodline and was quite adaptive.

Within a few breaths, the monster that Marcus sensed emerged from the woods.

It was a huge gray wolf, with two vague blue stripes on its back.

“It’s a Wind Blade Wolf! An inferior monster! Step back, let me deal with it!” Marcus raised his spear, longer than a person was tall.

After that, he suddenly shouted, “Heya!”

The intermediate combat aura echoed and exploded inside his mouth. All the leaves were sent rustling under his roar.

He hoped that the Wind Blade Wolf could be scared off.

The Wind Blade Wolf slightly crouched as if it were retreating, but it was only a disguise for an attack. Marcus spurred his horse and pressed forward.

The wolf also pranced toward Marcus. In the meantime, a few blue whirlwinds appeared out of nowhere and spun toward Marcus.

The tip of the spear shivered, launching a stream of ivory light that hit the whirlwinds and shattered them. Then, Marcus waved the spear at his back and pierced from the other side, hitting the jumping wolf precisely.

The Wind Blade Wolf jerked and evaded the spear, but the ivory light from the spear still cut a wound on it.

When it landed, another few whirlwinds were released.

Marcus dodged the whirlwinds narrowly. At this point, he was already far away from the Wind Blade Wolf. He charged again for a melee battle, but the Wind Blade Wolf was smart enough to keep a distance from him and drain him with whirlwinds—another quality that distinguished monsters from common beasts was their cleverness.

Such a war of attrition was not a big deal for monsters, which could recover quickly, but knights’ combat auras couldn’t last.

However, Marcus proved himself worthy of nobility and knighthood. He simply put the spear on his back and pulled the bow. In the blink of an eye, two arrows were shot at lightspeed with his combat aura.

The Wind Blade Wolf scorned him. It could easily dodge the arrows.

However, the Wind Blade Wolf’s disdain turned into fear the next moment.

The two arrows knocked against each other in midair. Their trajectories changed, and they stabbed into the Wind Blade Wolf’s back brutally.

“What great archery!” Liszt was amazed as he watched the battle, his anxiety gone.

Under the protection of such an earth knight, he could totally enjoy the battle, at ease.

The life of a lord was truly great. He had servants to serve him in daily life and knights to serve him on the battlefield.