Chapter 33: Territory War (3) (2/2)

Milton whipped his sword in a flash and easily deflected the arrow

!

And the moment he deflected it…

“HUH?!”

Milton’s eyes widened in shock

He had definitely struck down the arrow

Yet…

I the exact same trajectory was another arrow – that Milton could have sas the same arrohich had been hidden behind the first

After the first shot, the archer had let a second shot fly at a blindingly fast speed before the first one even hit his enemy – and at an identical trajectory at that

It was a superb technique worthy of being called mastery

‘I need to-… it’s impossibl-’

Without time to even think properly, Milton cocked his head to the side best as he could

Pow!

“My Lord!”

“Viscount!”

Milton was struck by the arrow and knocked off his horse Astonished, the surrounding probationary knights immediately clustered around him

“Protect the Viscount!”

“Raise your shi+elds Cover his body so no arrow can find itsback to their hts ap and shuffled into retreat whilethat formation

“Boss, we did it”

“You made a sweet catch as usual”

“That’s our boss for ya!”

All around the fiery-haired mercenary, his fellow s of praise They had properly witnessed the spectacle of their boss felling the enemy with his o Yet the subject of the festivity himself wore a rather sour expression

“What’s troubling you, boss?”

“It see he got one of your arrows straight to his skull and he’s still fine?”

“Well, he wouldn’t be htly around ahe’s still breathing?”

“That may very well be”

At his words, his subordinates readied their weapons as if they were prepared to jump in immediately to finish the job They could not afford to let a caught fish slip out of their grasp But the red-hairedoff …

“My liege!!”

One of the knights as fiercely ravaging their ar towards thelanced at the rapidly advancing knight as he pondered

ht flank In terer than Mr Viscount over here, isn’t he?’

The archer shook his head as he watched Jero havoc

“There’s no need to overdo it We’ve saved our es are”

“Yes sir!”

With that, the fiery-haired mercenary and his subordinates made a leisurely retreat

“Gah!”

“Ugh!”

“Aaaaah!”

To sing like a bird was perhaps a saying that wascorporal punishment from one’s superior…

Po!

At this point, the scene waspu end did not dare to let out so much as a squeak of complaint, because…

“You incohts, and you were right beside our lord – and yet you et injured?”

The officer as dishi+ng out the punishhts, Jeroht to be sassy with hih that they the hit

Though they were still in training, a knight was still a knight The greatest priority was always protecting their liege A knight who lost his liege but was able to keep his own life would not only be et of contempt and spite Even if it ht’s code mandated they protect the lord they had sworn loyalty to

Yet despite being right at Milton’s side, there was not a thing they could do while he was being hit by the arrows – though they had at least succeeded in protecting Milton after he was knocked off his horse and retreated safely

If they could not at least do that much, Jerome may have very well exercised military law to deal with them

“The Lord has awoken”

What finally prohts was Toh… Tommy”

“Yes, Captain”

“I’ll pass on the task of flogging theht state of mind fro warti… yes Understood!”

Tohts, but he conceded the lint in Jerome’s eyes

‘What else can I do? I want to make it out alive as well’</ehts

“Alright, let’s go for a jog first Don’t push yourselves too hard – just enough to cough up sohts were looking increasingly defeated

“My Lord, is your body in a good state?”

When Jerome entered the barracks, he was e

“Hah… thankfully, yes”

Milton laughed bitterly

He , but Milton still broke out in a cold shen he recalled that moment The enemy’s arrow caed to dodge a head-on i his head to the side, the arrow still struck his te to the side froht eye would for my face didn’t look half-bad – at least corumbled on the inside with a dry snort Anyhow, he had survived He reconcentrated and turned his attention back to the matters at hand

“How’s the present situation?”

“My Lord, the enemy undertook a mass retreat into their county’s castle and are now in theto hold it”

“Tsk, I wished to see an end to this in today’s battle so we do not have to engage in a siege”

Milton clucked his tongue in disappointment