Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 25

“Ugh!”

When his sword hit the big sword, Ronian felt like his hand would break.

Ronian didn’t have time to think about the pain. He quickly rolled away.

Whoosh.

The knight with the big sword had just swung it where Ronian was standing. He missed and yelled angrily.

“You dodge well, you little brat!”

This knight was huge. The greatsword looked small in his hands, almost like a normal sword. He glared at Ronian and raised his sword again.

“Grill! Hurry! Something is wrong here!”

Just then, another knight from Tesron, who was fighting a McLaine knight with his friend, yelled from the side.

“What? Do you think I’m playing around? This kid is no joke!”

“I’m not kidding! Look behind you!”

“What are you talking about?”

Huff. Huff.

‘What’s that sound?’

Ronian didn’t understand what the enemy knight was saying. But they stopped attacking for a moment, so Ronian used this chance to catch his breath. He was breathing hard.

He had been too busy running from the big knight. Ronian knew he wasn’t a great knight yet. He was still new to fighting.

‘But I can’t lose! I can’t fall here!’

– You have to take on your brother’s role as well.

Ronian remembered his father’s words before the war.

Even without those words, they were losing the battle. Ronian knew he had to fight hard as a knight if they wanted to win.

Ronian tried to ignore the sharp pain in his hand. He watched the big knight, Grill, carefully.

‘Huh?’

Suddenly, the enemy knight turned his back and swung his big sword.

This was the biggest chance Ronian had had in the whole fight.

If Ronian had been calmer, he might have thought it was a trap. But he had been only defending himself the whole time. He moved without thinking, not wanting to miss this chance.

Swish!

The knight’s head flew off before he could even scream.

The person who swung the sword looked surprised. Grill’s head, with a look of shock on his face, rolled on the ground. Then, arrows flew in and hit his body.

Pat pat.

“…Arrows?”

Ronian saw the arrows were short and strange. He turned his head.

More arrows flew towards the other knights nearby.

“Eeeek!”

“What is this!”

“Everyone, watch your backs!”

The arrows were only hitting the Tesron knights.

No other McLaine knight had turned the fight around like Ronian. But now, the McLaine knights who had been losing all breathed sighs of relief.

Suddenly, the McLaine side felt hopeful again. Before, it had seemed like they would lose.

Ronian knew right away that this was because of the soldiers on horses coming towards them in the distance.

Then he saw someone familiar leading the horse soldiers at the front.

“B-Brother?”

Ronian was surprised, happy, and confused all at once. He stared at the person. But then a loud, desperate shout made him focus again.

“Young Master! Wake up! We need to fight together!”

The fight with the enemy was still happening behind him.

The sounds of metal hitting metal and loud shouts showed that this was the middle of the battle.

“Y-Yes!”

He held his sword tighter again. He felt a sharp pain in his hand. It was finally bleeding.

Strangely, it didn’t hurt that much.

* * *

“Tch. I guess this is all I can do.”

Logan looked at his crossbow. He breathed in, feeling a little disappointed.

His power, which had become stronger with the 2-star core,

Now, he could make his weapons much stronger. He could make his crossbow shoot further and harder.

He had hoped it would work against knights. But it didn’t work as well as he wanted.

At first, the enemy knights looked surprised. But then they quickly blocked the crossbow bolts.

He realized again that unless there were many, many crossbows, they couldn’t hurt knights with arrows.

‘But at least I helped Ronian.’

Logan sighed, watching the knights go to protect Ronian.

But that wasn’t enough for him.

Ronian wasn’t the only one he needed to protect.

‘I’ll go myself.’

Logan looked at the middle of the battlefield, his eyes shining. He shouted to Kai behind him.

“Kai! Take command!”

“Yes?!”

The battle was still very loud and chaotic.

Kai wasn’t sure he heard right. But Logan didn’t answer. He just ran forward by himself.

“Hyah!”

“Lord Logan!”

Kai shouted, surprised by what Logan did.

The plan for the mercenaries was to attack from far away, where the enemy couldn’t reach them.

But now, their leader was running right into the middle of the enemy, which was the opposite of their plan.

Kai thought Logan was trying to kill himself just when they were about to win.

“Damn it! Why?!”

Kai knew Logan used the Force. But Logan was still young. Kai thought it would be hard for him to fight strong knights.

But Logan had already run off. Kai knew he had to fix this.

“Everyone, protect Lord Logan!”

‘We’ve almost won.’

The mercenaries had done a great job. They had done everything they were asked to do.

But there was still a big problem that winning the battle wouldn’t fix.

‘Father!’

He had to save his father. In his past life, his father had become very sick and stayed inside all the time.

Why had he gone back in time?

He had gone back to save his family. Really, he wanted to save each person in his family.

Winning the war wouldn’t matter if his family died. That would be pointless.

‘Faster!’

Logan focused his power. His horse, made faster by the Force, ran across the battlefield like the wind.

He quickly got closer to the enemy soldiers. He saw them panicking because Logan was charging at them so fast.

Even though the enemy soldiers were falling apart because of the mercenaries’ crossbows, some of them were still desperate to fight.

“That’s the leader!”

“Let’s get him!”

One of the enemy soldiers, who had been attacked by the mercenaries’ crossbows, ran forward to fight Logan.

The Tesron archers were very angry. They all aimed their arrows at Logan and started shooting.

“Ha!”

Logan saw the arrows coming. He shouted loudly and swung his sword. A faint light of Force appeared around him.

He used the Force to make a thin shield in front of him.

It wasn’t as strong as the magic shields he had seen before. But it was enough to block most of the arrows from normal archers.

Logan wasn’t afraid. He ran forward, blocking the few arrows that got past his shield.

In a moment, he was at the front of the enemy soldiers. He swung his sword.

Swish!

“Aaargh!”

The soldiers around them screamed. Four soldiers’ heads had just been cut off.

“I’ll kill you all!”

When Logan shouted, everyone in the middle of the battlefield heard him and became scared.

“I-It’s a monster!”

“Everyone, run!”

“Aaargh!”

It was like another deadly figure had come to the Tesron side. They were already in chaos because of the mercenaries’ crossbows.

‘Faster! Faster, faster!’

“Aaargh!”

Logan kept cutting down soldiers easily. Then, he finally reached the knights’ fighting area.

CRACK! BOOM! BANG! The air shook with loud explosions. Knights in shining armor moved like blurs, their swords crashing together with a sound like angry thunder.

In the early stages of the war, knights charging towards each other had mostly left their horses behind and continued fighting on foot.

On this messy battlefield, horses were not very helpful for the knights fighting.

In fact, they often got in the way, making it harder to move and creating a weakness.

A Force User knight could move faster and more easily than a horse over short distances.

Logan gritted his teeth, looking at the still huge number of Tesron knights.

‘Here I go!’

There was no time to fully test the power of his 2-star core.

But he knew he could unleash a level of power he had never felt before.

So, Logan moved without hesitating.

“Ha!”

Neigh!

Logan jumped from his horse with a surge of golden Force, as if he was flying.

He charged straight into the knights who were fighting fiercely.

Four enemy knights were putting a lot of pressure on two Maclane knights.

The Tesron knight closest to the sound of the horse behind him turned around right away.

“Who the…”

Whoosh.

Before he could finish speaking, his head was cut off and flew into the air. Blood sprayed from the neck like a fountain. The dying knight saw the shocked face of his friend.

“Look out—”

“What?!”

Two enemy soldiers noticed the change and reacted at the same time, but the golden greatsword swung without stopping, cutting them both down in one strike.

Crack!

Splash!

Blood poured like a waterfall from the body of one knight that was cut in half, and blood spurted from the mouth of another, whose chest was cut deeply.

“Wh-Who…?”

The knight who spat blood only had questions in his eyes.

But those eyes went dark before he could hear an answer.

Quickly, Logan also stabbed the last Tesron knight in the heart.

The enemy knights weren’t the only ones frozen by what Logan did.

“H-Highness?”

“How…?”

It was a strike of incredible power, stronger than any normal knight could manage.

Their eyes widened and their mouths opened as if they had seen a ghost.

But their bodies were frozen, which wasn’t good for the battlefield.

Logan shouted when he saw this.

“Get a grip!”

Logan’s shout woke them up.

The knights then raised their swords again and looked around.

Just as the two knights were about to find their friends in danger and help them, Logan was already charging towards the center of the battlefield.

“Ugh!”

“Kuh-ugh!”

“Watch out behind…!”

He didn’t need to kill them as surely as he had at first.

He knew that the power of the 2-star Force Core was definitely stronger than that of a normal knight.

Once he got used to his power, Logan focused on moving faster instead of always killing the enemy.

Even so, the Maclane knights gained an advantage just by Logan passing by and hurting the enemy, which slowed them down.

“H-Highness?”

Logan was getting annoyed by everyone’s surprise. He kept running forward, only helping Maclane knights who were in danger.

At the center of the battlefield, there were six knights who had started fighting first. They were moving faster than anyone else, attacking and defending without stopping.

It was their own space, and no one else dared to get close.

Finally, Logan got closer to them.

Logan’s body, shining with golden light, closed the distance even faster.

Patrick saw Logan appear, but he couldn’t focus on what was behind him.

Even for Patrick, it was hard to fight against one strong knight and four normal knights at the same time.

So, he was confused when the enemy suddenly attacked faster and harder.

“Hurry!”

At the same time as the Tesron knight shouted, his face changed, and the enemies attacked even more fiercely.

They had been trying to defeat Patrick without taking too much damage, but now they attacked as if they didn’t care what happened to themselves.

‘Damn it!’

Patrick moved more quickly.

Clang!

Patrick’s sword moved quickly, hitting the spears and greatswords that were coming at him from all directions.

Patrick moved his sword quickly. He used just enough force to change direction and block another sword. This was the skill of a truly great knight.

Also, he tilted his head to avoid the attack of the long spear, which was an amazing move, even if it was mostly luck.

But even this amazing move could only help him for so long.

Scratch!

Another longsword cut his arm, creating a shallow but long wound.

While Patrick flinched, the enemies moved closer, and he put as much Force as he could into his sword strike.

Wham!

“Gasp!”

The enemies were pushed back, but it gave him time.

That’s what he thought.

‘Ugh!?’

One enemy, bleeding from his mouth, grabbed Patrick’s arms tightly.

It was the enemy knight who had been bothering Patrick from the start.

The knight’s face was easy to see, and it was growing paler, showing that it was a desperate move.

“Take this!”

“Ha!”

They both shouted at the same time, and their swords stabbed into each other, hitting almost the same spot.

Thwack.

“Y-You crazy!”

“Cough. Heh heh.”

The swords went through each other’s left side.

But one person’s face was twisted in pain, and the other laughed.

‘Why so far?!’

Then, a greatsword and a long spear flew towards Patrick, who looked shocked.

“Eek!”

Splash!

Clang!

He pulled out the sword and quickly moved back, but the Tesron knight also moved his sword.

Slash.

“Kuh-ugh!”

As Patrick stumbled, holding his cut side, the longsword and spear aimed for his back.

“Gasp!”

It was the worst moment since the battle started.

While he swung his sword, blocking the attack from behind, another knight jumped over his head and raised a greatsword.

Also, the remaining knight was holding a long spear with both hands pulled back as far as possible.

Right behind him, the knight could be seen charging while spitting blood.

Their attacks left Patrick’s body open to attack. It was like they didn’t care what happened to themselves.

They were taking a risk, even risking the lives of their friends, even though they had the advantage.

Patrick had never expected this.

‘Damn it!’

He gritted his teeth and swung his sword.

A golden light appeared between the six knights.

Wham!

The biggest explosion since the war began echoed across the battlefield.