Chapter 249 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Name?”

“Rien.”

“Native place?”

“Grey Tree Village, Rye Town in the Northwest.”

“Are you a member of the Association of Thieves?”

“Yes, I belong to the Association of Thieves in Rye Town.”

“What’s your level of strength?”

“If I’m in direct combat with somebody, I can probably fight with mid-ranked warriors. After all, I’m just a thief, and I’m good at things like sneaking around, hiding, stealing and identifying…”

“I see, then I assign you to the Scout Team, and you need to take this document to the big barracks in the north of the city to find Demmons. Lord Rel, you can ask the assistants of the Scout Camp for details.”

Leon who was under the pseudonym of “Rien,” nodded and took the filled out paper and headed for the north of Eagle Wing City.

Although he hadn’t come back for more than thirty years, he still remembered every inch of the city. He was walking around and felt that everything was familiar to him. However, when he looked carefully, he found that things were not the way they had been before. There were, in fact, quite different from what he remembered.

For example, for one of his favorite restaurants in his youth, the owner was a middle sorcerer. He was good at cooking, and he introduced dozens of delicate and delicious cold drinks with different tastes every summer. Now the restaurant was still there while the owner was no longer there. Looking at the present shopkeeper who resembled the old owner, Leon thought he must be the previous owner’s child.

Another example was his favorite weapon store; there were two bosses in this store. One was an old dwarf with rich experiences in forging, and the other was a retired adventurer, tall and strong, whose muscles were sturdy enough to be used as armor. But this store had disappeared, and instead, a hotel had been built on the site. With close observation, it could be inferred that the walls had been built later. Maybe the two bosses were killed in Woods’ Cleansing.

There was a tavern where the palace guards often gathered, and the owner of which was also a retired palace guard. It was in this tavern that Leon had drunk alcohol for the very first time. When he passed by, he saw the tavern was still there with the old signboard. He thought back and realized that among those who had followed Woods to rebel were many palace guards.

Leon walked and looked at the roadside, his face full of curiosity and his heart filled with reminiscences and mixed feelings.

For a legendary master, thirty years was not a long time, while for a god, it was just a blink of an eye. But for a country, a city, and even for the civilians living in the cities, it was more than a lifetime of one generation.

The Eagle Wing City where he had been born and grew up had changed a lot.

He walked slowly, stopping his from time to time. Sometimes he would stop at a unique landscape or building and take a look at them before moving on. It seemed that he was not in a hurry to finish his task but rather came to visit.

As he was walking along the street in the north of the city, he suddenly felt the ground shaking slightly. Then he heard the sound of horses’ hooves coming from behind. So he went to the side of the road, looked back, and saw a group of armed knights riding horses towards the city gates.

Their armor was so shiny that they could be used as mirrors, and their horse-riding postures looked proficient. It was evident that they had been trained for a long time. They could certainly fight bravely on the battlefields because their faces were full of exuberance and high morale.

But… Leon sighed inwardly.

These knights’ faces looked too immature. They were not veterans who had experienced many battles but a group of children.

On their armor, he saw the Holy Emblem of the God of Knights. There was no doubt that they were members of the God of Knights’ Regiment of Knights.

“It’s so strange that these knights from the Church of the God of Knights also join in the battle. Why is that?” He pretended to be a curious passerby and asked a soldier who was patrolling.

However, the soldier was also confused and said that he didn’t know why. But then he said with a big smile, “The Groundbreaking Knight was the earliest patron saint for us humans, and the knights in his Regiment of Knights were both powerful and honest guardians. With their help, we will be able to defeat the brutal Orcs and protect our homeland!”

Leon nodded with a smile; then he quickened his pace towards the barracks outside of the north city gate.

He was really curious.

The Church of the God of Knights still had a great influence on the Eagle Kingdom because the kingdom was the only country that still believed in the God of Knights in the Dominant Continent. For a long time, this country had undergone despicable rebellions and bloody cleansings, and even the grand “Knights’ Tournament” had been held intermittently. But the God of Knights still kept the very strong Regiment of Knights in this country due to their long-term accumulation.

However, the Regiment of Knights had never launched an attack in the past years. It was said that the God of Knights had made this promise not to fight for the heirs of rebels, and this rebel had been the ancestor of Eagle Kingdom—the God of Eagle who had competed with the God of Light for the seat of the God of Human Beings.

But… why did the Regiment of Knights of the God of Knights start off this time?

Did this god who had been silent in recent years finally decide to rise up and show his great power?