Chapter 128: Bane of the Northern Front (3) (1/2)

Chapter 128: Bane of the Northern Front (3)

Startled, the people around the little lord flinched at his sudden shout

“……”

Only McCarthy reet of this animosity

The little lord continued

“Fine A practice sword is too easy for you now, eh? Oi, you there – pass me a real blade”

The little lord was all too aware that McCarthy was looking down on him from above He did not realize it at first, but his practice du the way And the more they sparred with each other and trained in the art of swordsmanshi+p, the more the Learson child could not deny that their roles had been reversed and he had become the toy

His pride as the successor of a noble County was in shambles; and he felt that he needed to break McCarthy in equal measure

That hy he drew a real sword

“Now then, let’s see how long you last against a real blade”

“My lord! We cannot”

“Silence! I’ll cut down anyone who interrupts as well!”

The little lord threatened as he gripped the sword and stood in front of McCarthy

It just so happened that there was no knight that was guiding them at present The other attendants could not stop the little lord It was the perfect situation

The little lord resolved to kill McCarthy here and now

‘What should I do?’

McCarthy thought as he watched his opponent with a co expression

In any event, it seeer was not an option He had predicted that a day like this would coh it had come a little faster than he had expected

Whatever the case was, the present issue was that the little lord planned to kill him If he tried to suber subsided or whatnot, he could very well leave this estate as a corpse

‘I can’t be dying to an asshole like this after all’

McCarthy made his resolve

“Die!”

The little lord ca McCarthy’s head McCarthy sly sithe little lord’s clumsy attack, McCarthy drove his wooden practice sword directly into his opponent’s neck

“URGH…”

A clean and calculated blow

Though McCarthy had no intentions of killing him, it was said that he would wonder in later days whether attacking him with an honest heart would haverun

Whatever the case may have been, the fact was that House Learson’s one and only successor died by this single blow

With his neck broken, the little lord collapsed with a pale face and ceased breathing shortly after

“AAAAAAAH!!”

“Y-… Young Master! Young Master!”

It was only expected that there would be an uproar

Being alerted to the death of the little lord, the knights of the house tried to subdue McCarthy; but to their shock, they found great difficulty in capturing hihts collapsed to McCarthy and his wooden sword The only Expert knight retained by the Learson family was the one to capture him in the end – and just barely

And so McCarthy failed in his escape and was arrested

Of course, Count Learson was enraged His son had died in an unthinkable place, in an unthinkable way

Losing all sense of reason to his wrath, Count Learson flogged McCarthy until his energy was spent

Then to condemn him to the most wretched of deaths, the Count sent him off to the battlefield He was sent not to any battlefield, but as a penal soldier to the most ruthless of warzones

That would prove to be a fatal error It was as if a caged tiger had finally been released into the wild

Despite being deployed to the harshest of warfronts, McCarthy did not die Nocrisis befell him in this brutal war, he survived Even as the penal unit he was assigned to was annihilated, he steadfastly survived the ordeal on his lonesoer as he overcame one life-or-death situation at a tiht tooth and nail to survive on the battlefield for 10 years No – in fact, the name of McCarthy O’Brian now struck fear into the enee of thirty, his blade was enveloped with a blindingly brilliant aura sword

The third Master of the Strabus Kingdo and pain on the warfront had only netted hie of a Viscount, but he was elevated to a Duke the moment he reached the level of Master With that, he becadohest echelons of noble society, McCarthy despised it all Fro abandoned by his parents as a child, to the abuse and exploitation at the hands of House Learson, all the way to his ordeals as a bottom-feeder on the battlefields – he had seen far too much of the filth that was the world of nobility He refused to join hands with any one political faction and distanced himself from the nobles

And as for the nobles that he found unsightly, he disposed of the these was the Learson County

As soon as he was elevated to the position of Duke, McCarthy O’Brian slaughtered the entirety of the Learson kin without leaving so much in the way of a branch bloodline alive

Even after that,Duke O’Brian, enticed by the possibility of retaining the power of a Master for themselves – but most of their heads flew at the hands of the Duke

McCarthy maintained his distance with the nobles, and instead surrounded hihts frorounds who he truly considered as his own circle Just as the nobles discriainst those of lower classes, Duke O’Brian conversely ostracized the privileged The ht order were solely chosen for their skill, and they were doh he steadfastly accumulated his oer, that power never bent to the will of any faction

That hy fro assessment about hido that was not to be disturbed

It was a rather harsh assessment for the Duke of a nation, but it was the clear truth If anything, it was a wise assess that there had even been an occasion at a banquet when he challenged a lower-class noble to a duel for trying to butter up to him, and promptly lopped off his head

As such, the name of McCarthy O’Brian sent off alardom

Viscount Rossman, who knew of Duke O’Brian’s notorious dispositions, hesitated at the mention of his na about, it certainly won’t be strange if he decided to move his men independently’

Ultimately, Viscount Rossman decided to be wary of this very real possibility instead of abiding by the set rules

“Very well In turn, I ask that you do not make needless comments to the Duke, so to say”

“As you wish”

With that, Marquis Johannes and his supply unit made their way to the position of Duke O’Brian at the very frontline