All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 221

221. Rather Bend Than –

‘Are these guys crazy?!’

How is it that anything involving Ian always goes beyond expectations?

Swan barked at the shouting knight.

“What are you doing?!!”

“If you are an imperial, join us now!!”

“What crime did Count Ian commit that you are trying to arrest him?!!”

Only after she shouted did the knight falter.

However, the guards and knights were already swarming in.

“Seize him immediately!!”

“No, tell me the crime!! You morons!! Also, Count Ian is from the Scarlet Kingdom! You can’t arrest him without a serious crime!!”

When she shouted again, the students of the Imperial Academy around her also raised their weapons.

In any case, Ian was the benefactor who saved them.

They didn’t know what crime he had committed, but it was natural to protect him.

The knights hesitated as they stepped forward.

They knew the position of the Imperial Academy students.

Amidst those pointing weapons at each other, Ian smiled and took a step forward.

“What’s the reason for trying to arrest me?”

“You will know the reason when you get there!”

“So, there’s no particular reason.”

It was a completely different reason from when they stopped him at the border.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

But this was neither law nor anything else, just an act to check and suppress him.

If so, it didn’t matter whether the target was the Emperor or the Iron-Blooded Duke.

“Blocking my path means you’re prepared to die.”

-Swish!

“Co, Count!!”

Ian, who smiled coldly, drew his sword.

Swan and the Imperial Academy students tried to stop him when they saw it.

But the sword, already raised into the air, was being swung down.

It was impossible to stop now.

-Kwaaaang!!

The soldiers and knights caught in the sword pressure were thrown back, and the surrounding knights who heard it moved urgently.

“What is this commotion!!”

“Seize him immediately!!”

Hundreds of soldiers and knights began to rush in.

Swan was startled when she saw their uniforms.

The Golden Lion Knights, one of the knight orders guarding the capital.

Why were they here now of all times?

“Count! Stop it!! There’s no point in fighting the Golden Lion Knights!”

“What’s the point of not being good?”

The Imperial Academy students shuddered at the blunt voice.

They had forgotten for a moment because he had saved them and moved calmly at the gate.

That boy holding the sword.

That he was one of the four strongest on the continent.

-Kwaaaang!! Bang!!

“Ughhhh!!”

“Call for more support!! Support!!”

“We can’t stop him!!”

“Bring Lord Twelve!! Quickly!!”

“Ughhhh!!”

Was this what a lion in a rabbit herd looked like?

Each time the boy, who wasn’t even wearing proper armor and even had a cat on his shoulder, lightly swung his sword, a dozen or so burly knights and soldiers fell.

“Aaaagh!!”

“Ru, Run away!”

“Don’t run away!! Fight back!”

You’d have to be pretty strong to even think about fighting back.

Everyone was being knocked down like that with one strike from Ian’s sword, so how could they charge at him?

But the knights didn’t stop.

They encouraged the fleeing soldiers, and if that didn’t work, they beheaded them to make them fight.

An arrow flew towards Ian, who was fighting against the rushing enemies.

“Hmph.”

It was an arrow aimed at the moment he swung his sword.

It was a subtle attack that a normal swordsman would have been hit by, but Ian simply caught it.

However, the knight who shot the arrow smiled faintly.

-Kwaaaang!!

Light poured out from the enchantment engraved on the arrow shaft.

At the same time, a powerful explosion erupted, and the knights and soldiers who had only been taking hits were delighted.

“Did we get him?!”

The red-haired knight holding a bow on horseback swallowed hard.

The dust from the aftermath of the explosion settled.

“Huk……!”

In the center of the explosion stood Ian, a boy without a single scratch.

He stared at Twelve with an indifferent expression.

Twelve, who made eye contact with him, trembled unknowingly with the hand holding the bow.

At this rate, he would die.

He had to do something.

“Eiiiitt!!”

So he grabbed the arrow again.

He quickly strung the arrow with the explosion enchantment on the bowstring, pulled it back, and shot it.

But.

-Slice.

Ian simply swung his sword down on the flying arrow.

“Haha! That arrow explodes even if you cut it…….”

It didn’t explode.

The arrow was cut into two pieces and fell to the floor.

“Th, This is ridiculous…….”

“It’s not hard to cut off magic power.”

-Slice!!

As Ian’s sword slashed through the air, Twelve’s head fell.

It was the end of the strong knight 자랑하는 [boasting] from the Golden Lion Knights.

The knights and soldiers who saw it screamed.

“Mo, Monster!!”

“Run away!! Run away!!”

The encirclement was broken.

As those who had lost their morale stepped back, Ian pointed his sword at those who were completely terrified.

“Those knights said it earlier. Don’t run away, fight back. Show me your resistance.”

When Ian, smiling as if he was truly enjoying it, raised his sword.

A blue beam of light flew towards Ian.

“What is this?!!”

It was a wizard wearing the robes of the Magic Tower.

The old man with blue hair and a blue beard was dumbfounded as he looked at the surrounding carnage.

“This is the heart and capital of the Empire!! No matter how powerful and strong you are, do you think this will just pass by?!”

“Who are you……?”

“I am Rondal Britten, an advisor to the Imperial Defense Forces and a 7-circle mage!!”

“Ah. You’re a wizard.”

“Yes! You are……. Huh?”

Rondal stared intently at Ian.

Somehow, his face was familiar.

Rondal, who was looking at him, was startled.

“Aren’t you Count Ian?! Why are you doing this here?!”

Rondal was flustered and looked around.

He had received a call from the Magic Tower a while ago.

Ian, who had made Fredon Academy his territory, was coming to the Empire to participate in the Academy exchange event.

He didn’t know how happy he was to hear that news.

Ian had not only obtained the legacy of the Magic Kingdom but also created items that overturned the existing standards.

Moreover, since he was also a top-notch enchanter and alchemist, how much benefit would he get just by sharing stories related to him?

That’s why he was so excited, but he couldn’t understand why this was happening.

“What is it?! What is it?!”

When he shouted, the knights and soldiers couldn’t say anything.

Taking advantage of the gap, Swan shouted urgently.

“Wizard Rondal!! They are suddenly trying to arrest Count Ian!”

“What is that? I haven’t heard anything about that?”

Rondal was dumbfounded and approached a knight.

“What’s going on!!”

“Th, that’s…… over there. Captain Calbiratz told us to arrest him unconditionally…….”

“Why is Captain Calbiratz arresting Count Ian?!”

He didn’t know the reason.

He was just following orders.

“……Count Ian. It may be a bit much to say this at our first meeting. But would you please step back for a moment, at least for my sake? I will meet Captain Calbiratz once.”

Ian smiled when he said seriously.

“Is there a need for that? Let’s go together.”

“No, if we go together…….”

Something was bound to happen.

But he had to step back here.

He sighed, nodded, and shouted to the capital guards.

“Go back immediately!!”

“But, Advisor!”

“I’ll talk to Captain Calbiratz!! Go!!”

He was quite annoyed because all the plans he had made had gone awry.

Eventually, when they stepped back, Ian returned his sword.

‘He did this to look good to the Iron-Blooded Duke? I don’t think there’s much benefit in catching me.’

The Sword Saint didn’t particularly like the Emperor, but she respected him.

That’s why she followed his arrest order, and because of that, the perception that the Emperor was stronger than the Sword Saint spread in the Empire.

Ian is a powerhouse treated as equal to the Sword Saint, the Emperor, and the Forest Keeper.

However, the Iron-Blooded Duke seemed to have judged that he could be suppressed with power and authority since he was also an academy student.

He could do what the Emperor did.

In doing so, he was trying to ignore the Emperor, who had designated Osnen as his successor, by undermining the Emperor’s authority and increasing his own.

‘The Iron-Blooded Duke is more foolish than I thought. I’ve done so much so far.’

There are people who can be influenced by such methods and people who can’t.

Unlike the Sword Saint, who thought that good was good, Ian even destroyed the gate and walls of the Scarlet Kingdom because they blocked his way.

Would he be arrested willingly?

As he snorted, Circe said calmly.

If Ian had cooperated appropriately, he would have tried to give him separate rewards and compensation.

But from the beginning, everything was already twisted.

‘If he wanted to use such a scheme, he should have contacted me first.’

Because he was the Iron-Blooded Duke.

Because he was the only duke in the Empire.

No matter how much Ian was called the strongest on the continent, so what?

That must have been his naive thought.

‘I doubt he can maintain his power for long with that.’

“Count Ian. I will apologize on his behalf.”

“The person who made the mistake should apologize. Now. Let’s go.”

Rondal was apologetic and escorted Ian himself, and when he arrived in front of the gate, he was embarrassed.

Was it because of the commotion earlier?

The gate was tightly closed.

“Open the gate!!”

He shouted, but the gate did not open, and only a man appeared on the wall.

“Ian Brandon!! I will not forgive you for daring to attack the capital guards and kill a knight of the Golden Lion Knights!”

“Is that Calbiratz?”

Ian, who was looking up at him, smiled.

“The Forest of the Warriors, the Empire, and the Great Plains. This trip is very enjoyable.”

After finishing speaking, Ian drew his sword.

A huge energy gathers on his sword.

“Huk!”

Swan and the Imperial Academy students noticed.

That the sword strike was the swordsmanship that had destroyed the thick wooden fence in the Red Fang Orc tribe in one go.

“Co, Count Ian!! Are you thinking of fighting the Empire?! This is the capital!! The heart of the Empire!! If you attack this place, it’s war! War!!”

Calbiratz shouted in a trembling tone.

Without even looking at him, Ian opened his mouth.

“Rather than resist and bend.”

And he pointed the sword with the black energy swirling towards the gate.

“It’s better to have a war.”