Volume 1 Chapter 3 (1/2)

The Legend of Sun Knight Voluinal novel in Chinese by: 御我 (Yu Wo)

Third Rule of Sun Knights: ”Even in the Face of Death, One Must Die Gracefully” - translated by Erialis

I rushed onto the streets like a coer needed the knight-apprentice as a guide, for that towering aura of death was simply impossible to miss I had never encountered such an intense aura of death in the city before…

(Don't tell her undead creature has really been answered? That can't be! I heard from my teacher that because the Church pays very little, the necromancer would, at the veryvarious limbs for me to play with)

There's a house with a flat roof ahead… I stepped on the wall and used it to propelwhere the holy knights had gathered on the ground, I leapt toward the out in mid-air, ”Undead creature which defieth the laws of nature, tainted andof the darkness, by the authority of the God of Light, I, the Sun Knight, in the na in the skies, shalt utterly annihilate thy existence frolory of the beauty of the light!”

”Sun, you're here at last!” Beneath ht turned his head to look at me, a relieved expression on his face

With hi a few knights from their respective platoons I quickly saw that there were a total of twenty-sohts present; as far as my memory serves me, this seee scale But then again, I can probably guess at the reason for such a large operation; after all, a death knight isn't the kind of undead creature you would see often… Hold on a second! A death knight?

Why would such a creature of the darkness - with a success rate of su so low that a necromancer would rather take care of an enemy with his or her own hands in order to save time and effort - show up here?

Don't tell me it lost its way?

shi+t!

As the shock was too great, the th This led to it bending at the wrong angle and kicking into the , which in turn caused the angle of ht knee to be incorrect and rendered it unable to direct h to h it all sounds terribly complicated, simply put, this situation can be summarized as—

I tripped

And I tripped in h both ”reasonable training” and ”unreasonable drilling” It's not that I want to brag, but thanks to those two types of special training for falling down, I can guarantee that even the God of Light can't fall h now that I think about it, it's iht to ever fall down, so there's no e can test that out

I bent forward reflexively My arraceful arcs like a ballerina's to form a circle and I executed two complete forward somersaults, followed by a sideist… And I land! Lastly, I raised both arms over s - to rest at ained raceful stance

Clap clap clap! A round of applause rose fro on his shi+eld with his sword, shouting, ”Encore! Encore! Fall down once more!”

Screw your ”fall down once ht sent this idiot to the God of Light to be re-educated?

”Ten points!” Leaf, being the nice guy that he is, immediately awardedwasn't steady enough when he landed” That daainst ht points; the fall in front of the queen was raceful” Storm… Fine, at least you're honest

I adrace myself in front of the queen that tiained by surviving for ten years under the guidance ofa warped personality” (whether my personality has become warped or not, I will never aded) in order to fall gracefully…and fell down the full three hundred and twenty three steps of the staircase

Since that tiher than that of Earth Knight into kill people by building such a long staircase?!

If not for the fact that there were several hundred clerics at the foot of the te thousands of spells onht to die frouys before about ht were to fall down, he raceful fashi+on”?

When I was old enough to be sent on practice rave and well-, ”Child, you are finally going out to carry out missions As your teacher, I am extreive you before I can truly be at ease”

”I will definitely be careful, teacher” I felt extremely moved; my teacher is truly very concerned about me!

”Yes, child, you ht ardless of time and place”

I nodded my head obediently ”Teacher, I will coone through a lifestyle involving lots of falling down for several e, I would have to look for a cleric once every three days to cast a high level healing spell on me to cure the wounds I receive from a particularly nasty fall)

My teacher shook his head and said, ”Child, coracefully is but the basics”

”Then what's more advanced than that?”

”Child, you must remember, when you have failed your mission and are near death, at that tiht?”

”No, you must contemplate what sort of pose you will die in, and if that pose will be accompanied by a serene expression or a heroic one Still more ile thrust to the heart from your enemy or if you will slit your own throat, and so on and so forth Only after all of the i your death have been planned out and arranged perfectly can you pass away in as graceful a position as possible!

”Even in the face of death, a Sun Knight racefully!”

”…”

As such, if I were to die with the cause of death being soant as ”a fall”, it is entirely possible thatnecroht and then use the holy spells of the God of Light to let raceful ht is pretty strong Be careful,” said Leaf Knight He then retreated several steps, together with Stor an area in the center for ht

”Isn't it too risky to leave that undead creature to Knight-Captain Sun to handle alone?” sohts at the back exclaimed worriedly

”Relax, my best friend definitely wouldn't lose to an undead creature,” Earth Knight said in a ”loyal” and ”honest” tone

”Yeah, whenever Sun encounters undead creatures - which he hates the uys had better not interfere and steal his prey, or else he'll get angry,” Leaf Knight - being the good guy that he is - explained to the knights, and even gave me a smile that said, ”Don't worry, I won't let anyone interrupt your fight”

But hold on a second! That's because the undead creatures that I dealt with in the past were all paid for by the Church and sudepression!

Just then, the sword in the death knight's hand suddenly burst into black flames that reached for several ht opened its half-rotten ood! Perhaps I can begin to contemplate what pose I should die in and what expression I should have to go along with it, as well as choose racefully return to the coinwhat pose to die in when the death knight actually swung its sword - which was spitting black fla around with me! How can I possibly die before I've properly considered what pose and expression to die with and racefully as possible!

My teacher often said, ”It's okay if you don't have the talent for it; theis to practice, practice, and practice Child, if you continue to fall down for yet another racefully!”

Hence, if I do not die gracefully, ain, until I've died over and over again for an entire racefully; only then will he allow ood…

As such, I definitely cannot die before I've coracefully as possible or before I've instructed hly after I die, so as to make it ih!” I roared as I unsheathedweapon with a loud, steely clang

”As expected of the Sun Knight; such a powerful, forceful blow, it's definitely so for the undead creature to reckon with,” breathed the holy knights atching ad your Divine Sun Sith you?” Leaf Knight exclaimed in alarm

Are you nuts?! The Divine Sun Sword is an antique that's worth enough ht now its blade is still incoht break?

It doesn'tas it doesn't break in my hands! Otherwise I will never be able to compensate the Church for it, even if I were to hand thes froht that I was just co hands and feet, for the purpose of warding off depression Is there anybody out there would kill a chicken with an enor cows? In the same way, is there anybody out there ould, in order to avoid getting depression, bring along an antique that he or she is constantly worried about, fearing that it would be stolen or, worse still, si, you say?

Fine! Let's set aside the question of whether the sill break or not

A sword - doesn't matter if it is the Divine Sun Sword, the XX Holy Sword, the OO De as it's a weapon - will beco stuff for a while When that happens, you'll have to bring it to the smith to sharpen it

It costs at ular sword, and that's already considered very pricey However, ordinary s like the Divine Sun Sword that's worth a city's ransom Consequently, to find a smith who dares to touch this antique, I will have to look for the most famous smith in the entire city, which old ducat at the very h for row thinner as you sharpen theold ducat to sharpen the Divine Sun Sword, it will cause the blade to grow thinner, thus increasing the odds of it breaking… I would rather use my teeth to bite eneht's graceful iold ducat with quite a bit of heartache and purchased a sword to replace the Divine Sun Sword After all, it is sito myself in ht and I have already exchanged over ten blows There see of our swords as they clashed together tiain Each fresh sound of h it was about to break The clashi+ng of swords is a terrifying business; unless one's weapon is greatly superior to the opponent's in tere As a sword develops more and more nicks, it must be taken to the smith to be repaired, and repairs cost money as well…

I was sorely tempted to simply use my body to take the blows, and I would have done so were it not for the fact that the death knight's sas blazing with black fire and looked positively ht is practically packed to the rafters with clerics who can easily dispense lots of free healing!

I couldn't help but feel that so was a little odd, however Is it just ht that's super-duper difficult to suined it to be?

Or it could be that I'd so it… Scrap that! I really shouldn't delude o, I was defeated in three ht, so even the death knight with its decootten stronger!

Or could it be that what I'ht” that had been, coincidentally enough, resurrected by the necroood look at this death knight…whoa! Its body has decayed so badly that it's practically in tatters, and its swordsot to say, foroff all over the place, and still be able to gain the upper hand, the level of swordsmanshi+p can only be described with the word ”rotten”…ahereat”

(Don't be ridiculous; if I say that its swordsmanshi+p is rotten, that would obviously mean that my swordsmanshi+p is rotten as well! I'll adreat, but I would absolutely never admit that my swordsmanshi+p is rotten!)

As such, this undead creature which has not-that-great swordsht

Forget it! It doesn't ht, I only know that if I don't hurry up and render this fellow utterly and irrevocably dead and unable to swing a sword around soon, I will definitely end up having to spenda neeapon, which in turn will lead to excessive heartache, and finally, an ungraceful death

While reat, I ahts specialize in! I can guarantee that one spell froht to its eternal rest As for why I'd just spent this much time in a protracted battle with it, it is entirely because…

My teacher often said, ”Child, even if you encounter the most powerful undead creature ever, you must still remember to have a protracted battle with it before you send it to its eternal rest using your holy ?” the young ly

”Think for a moment, child When the common folk encounter awhich people would get killed, in order to demonstrate hoerful the monster is Afterward, they will spend another tenin panic, followed by yet another tenfor their lives, and finally, the knights will arrive to save the the monster to its eternal rest and then turn to leave, do you think that would be fair to the audience who spent thirtyfor your arrival?”

”…Then teacher, how ht a monster, so as to be fair to the coazed into the distance with a profound look in his eyes as he said, ”Fighting is just like a poem, and you are like a bard Not only does the battle need to have an introduction, develop point, and a conclusion, you must also create tension in the atmosphere from time to time in order to entertain the audience It would be best if you could let the villain thrash you to the point where you're gracefully lying on the ground If the opponent is a villain of some standard, he will, at this point, mock, taunt, and throw insults at you in order to show off his oer After that, you will ignite and set ablaze your inner universe…”

”…Inner universe?”

”…Errr, ignite your potential and set ablaze your holy racefully thrash your opponent until he's lying on the floor, and then send him to his eternal rest Now that would be a flawlessly executed battle”

…That just sounds like a very tiring battle

From that time onward, I harbored an inco, since the amount of effort they required was coht of stairs with over three hundred steps Consequently, unless it's an undead creature that I had specially ordered fro depression, I would routinely toss the uy usually needs just one blow to cleanly finish off the enehts don't usually have

Suddenly, all the people present bellowed, ”Sun, be careful!”

”Eh?”