Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 70

Power, like a strong wind, flowed. It wasn’t going to the armor they looked at before. Instead, it went to a pile of other things.

Logan followed the power and looked closer. He saw it came from grey metal boots. They didn’t look special, and he didn’t know what they were made of.

Logan picked them up. “These are…?” he wondered.

The boots had very little magic. Logan wasn’t even sure if they were a magic item.

But when he touched them, his fingers felt a small shake. Logan felt something strange.

“…Like something is blocked?” Logan thought. He could just barely feel the boots taking in the small amount of power. He could also feel the shaking. Only someone with his special senses could notice this.

Maybe… “Jackpot!” Logan thought. He felt excited and quickly put power into the boots. It was like the boots were waiting for this. They started to take in his power.

Whirr! At first, Logan got even more excited. The power was going into the boots like a waterfall. But then, it didn’t stop. It got stronger and stronger. Logan’s smile disappeared.

“Oh no!” Logan thought. He tried to stop the power going out, like water going back to the sea. But the boots were too strong. If he forced it to stop, he might hurt himself inside.

He thought he had hit the jackpot, but it seemed he had stumbled upon a trap.

“Eek!” Logan shouted. He was angry now. “I’ll show you!” He put all his power into the boots. He wanted to break them.

Logan’s face went pale. He felt like he was going to faint. Bzzzt! Then, with a sound like something snapping in his head, the boots gave back all the power they had taken.

It felt like drinking a magic drink that gives you life, just when you were about to fall down tired. Logan felt the power come back. He looked at the boots, completely surprised.

“What are these…?” Logan whispered. He felt like he had been tricked. But then he felt the strong power coming from the boots. It made him less angry.

There was no need to hesitate. Logan immediately put on the boots.

‘A little big?’ As he thought this… Whirr! The boots absorbed Logan’s Force and instantly shrunk to fit his feet perfectly.

“Huh…” Despite their heavy metal appearance, he felt no weight at all.

Right then, Logan just knew what the boots could do. They made him faster and react quicker. He could jump three times in the air. He could climb anything. They changed size to fit him. And they could fix themselves if broken.

It was like his own power, now in the boots and back in him, told him what they could do. This was probably another kind of magic he didn’t know.

If that’s true… “At least a Class 4 magic item,” he thought. These boots were better than any other magic item here.

“Huh… What a find…” Just as he was about to burst into cheers… “Ten minutes remaining,” came the knight’s warning from outside the passage.

Logan suppressed his laughter and hurriedly left the vault.

“Those shoes… are they?” the knight asked. “Yes,” Logan said. “Hmm. They look like Class 1… or even worse? Really? Are you sure you want these?” The knight looked at Logan like he was crazy. But Logan just smiled. “Please tell the Count I am very thankful for his kindness,” Logan said, smiling sincerely.

“Just some strong metal boots, huh? At least he knows he’s not worth much,” Roger Vifrost said with a small smile when he heard the knight’s report.

“No. He still needs to be punished for playing games with me.” Roger’s small smile turned cold. He was thinking about Logan, even though he wasn’t there. Roger Vifrost would not forgive him, no matter how much Logan tried to be friendly.

“That sneaky person…” Roger thought. The Sword Master, who never talked to him, gave a nice speech at his birthday party. And the Sword Master’s student was there too. Roger thought about it again and again. He was sure it was a trick. He had been fooled.

“Sir, but he says he’s leaving now. Should we do something now?” “What? Heh heh, he really wants to make me look stupid. That man…” Roger was getting angrier. The party still had three days left. And the person who made him look bad from the start was taking the magic item and leaving?

Roger didn’t even care about the rumors anymore. He just felt very, very angry and insulted. “Tell them clearly,” he said. “Don’t kill him. But hurt him badly so he can’t fight back. And take back his sword and the magic item.”

“Is someone talking about me?” Logan muttered, feeling a sudden tickle in one ear. Half a day had passed since he had ridden like mad after leaving Vifrost.

Tomorrow, he would reach the land of Maclane. It used to be Silvan territory. “Even if someone is chasing me, they probably won’t come this far,” Logan thought. “They wouldn’t think a guest they said goodbye to would run away so fast.”

Therefore, Logan was able to relax, spread out some leaves under a small campfire, and examine the boots he had obtained.

“What are these things?” Logan wondered. “How could they be hidden there? Why didn’t Roger Vifrost find out what they could do?” He had so many questions. But no matter how hard he looked at the boots, they wouldn’t talk to him.

“Wow…” Size change, making him stronger and faster, jumping in the air, even climbing. Even if it was just a magic item with four simple spells, it would be a good magic item, Class 3.

But the boots could do even more. They were definitely a treasure, maybe even Class 5 or 6. “Heh heh. I really found something amazing.” It felt like luck just came and found him.

This lucky find felt a bit heavy and weird. “No, no. Good luck is good,” Logan thought. He stopped thinking about why and just wanted to learn how to use the boots. He put them back on.

Whoosh! His body leaped into the air, changing direction three times, and his now lighter body cut through the forest like a gale.

“Wahahaha!” Logan laughed. The boots made him 30% faster. It wasn’t just adding power, it felt like he was a much better fighter now.

Filled with excitement, Logan drew Lux and swung it towards the sky.

Thus began his moonlit exercise.

The endless golden sword dance continued for several hours, even after Logan thought he had adapted to the boots’ effects.

“Great. Just great!” To obtain such a treasure right after acquiring Lux. He felt like luck was on his side.

‘Your name is now Boots of the Wind God.’

Logan cherished that pleasant feeling as he sat down and entered meditation.

He felt good because he got what he wanted, and even more. This helped him focus. His mind was calm, and his body quickly got better after training with the boots. He felt his mind go deep inside himself.

Meditation training in place of sleep. Now, it was truly no different from a comfortable rest.

But that peaceful time did not last long.

‘Hostility?!’ Feeling a chilling sensation, Logan instinctively jumped up and stared west.

‘Could it be pursuers already?’ Logan drew his sword, making as little noise as possible. Fortunately, Lux’s silver blade did not shine brightly under the dark night sky.

Logan’s senses were not as sharp as usual because he was still tired. But luckily, the enemy wasn’t trying to hide.

“You have good senses,” a voice said. Logan frowned. The voice sounded changed on purpose. Then, four people in masks came out of the bushes from the west.

Black leather armor, like that worn by stealthy mercenaries, and masks so complete that not a strand of hair was visible.

“Aren’t you hot in those masks?” Logan asked. “It must have been a long trip from Vifrost.” He was trying to get them to talk. But they didn’t answer.

“Don’t kill him.”

As soon as the masked figure in the back spoke, one of the figures in front charged towards Logan.

“This is too much trouble…” Logan said. He sounded a little angry. The masked person who seemed to be the leader changed his voice. But the other masked person didn’t care. Logan knew he had heard that voice before. But he didn’t have time to think about it.

The black blade that suddenly appeared before him was an ordinary longsword, commonly seen in bustling cities. However, the fierce energy contained within was anything but ordinary.

“A strong knight! So, they are chasing me,” Logan thought. He could feel the strong power from the enemy as he got closer. Logan frowned and swung his sword.

“Ugh?!” With a deafening sound, the opponent’s sword flew from their grasp and plunged into the ground.

Logan, who had followed the staggering masked figure, unhesitatingly swung his sword.

‘To chase me all the way here. I’ll kill them when I have the chance.’ If the first one to step forward was a high-ranking knight, then the others were at least stronger than him. He had to eliminate at least one of them while they were off guard.

“Ugh!” Unfortunately, his decisive strike failed to achieve its goal. The knight, having lost his balance as soon as the sword flew, had rolled backward.

Logan was annoyed that he missed. Just then, the enemy leader shouted, “Catch him together!” He knew this was serious. The other two masked people ran at Logan at the same time.

At that moment, a gust of wind swirled around Logan’s body.

Logan blocked the attacks from two strong knights, one after the other. Then he easily stopped the attack from the first masked person who had run at him. Usually, it would be very hard for him to fight three strong knights at once.

He was fighting them as equals. This was partly because the enemies were not trying to kill him. But it was also because he was moving much better now.

‘They’re definitely amazing.’ Even in this urgent situation, Logan couldn’t help but marvel at the Boots of the Wind God once again.

His senses were 30% sharper, and he moved 30% faster. Just with that, he was much stronger in a fight, more than one and a half times stronger.

Logan was already the best fighter of his level. Now, he was even stronger, beyond his level.

The knights fighting him could see this. “Let us kill him!” one shouted. “We can’t handle him with just three of us!” The masked people sounded scared and out of control. Their voices echoed in the quiet forest.

The leader wanted to watch and let his men fight. But he saw his men were having trouble. He got angry and moved.

The masked figure, who had seemed to be moving slowly, vanished in an instant and suddenly appeared behind the chaotic battlefield where the four figures were entangled.

Then, wielding a longsword that appeared ordinary but was surging with nearly 2 meters of pure white Force, he slashed horizontally at Logan’s rear.

Logan’s body was pushed back as he instinctively blocked the incoming strike from behind. Not missing the opportunity, the three knights lunged at Logan.

The attacks of the high-ranking knights struck only air as Logan changed direction repeatedly, leaping through the air.

Logan shook his wrist to relieve the impact and smirked at the enemy leader who had attacked him from behind.

“So, the Knight of the Moonlight got his name by attacking from behind, Sir Plantz?” Logan said, smirking. ‘Damn it, a really strong knight doing such cheap tricks,’ he thought. The silver sword of power in Sir Plantz’s hand shook a little because he was angry at Logan’s words.