Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 90

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Your base is under attack!

Each time Rishikida’s sword danced, the monsters that rushed in were sliced to pieces.

While ordinary spears and swords could be blocked by their tough skin, before a knight who wielded mana, even that tough skin was nothing more than easily cut flesh.

Moreover, Rishikida was a high-ranking knight, considered the best among such knights.

She was not one to be pushed back by mere monsters.

“Hoo.”

Rishikida, having single-handedly annihilated the monster horde that even included trolls, lightly caught her breath and looked around.

She recalled the scene of those that should have been dwelling in the mountains rushing down as if someone were forcibly pushing them towards the castle.

“You’ve worked hard, Rishi.”

“Thank you, Lady Lucia.”

“Ugh, so formal.

I told you, you can just call me Lucia, you know?”

“Th-that’s something I’ll consider a bit more.”

Lilith and Lucia freely called her Rishi, but Rishikida was still slightly hesitant to treat them casually.

It wasn’t because she saw them as rivals in love with the same man, or anything like that.

It was simply that, having shared a secret with them, she naturally knew that they were important women to Zion, and since she still considered herself Zion’s knight, her knightly instincts were telling her to treat them as people of the same standing as Zion.

“If you’re so stiff, Zion might not like it.”

“Eh, eh? Ah, or is it?

Perhaps showing this side of you and then revealing your cute side when you’re alone with him could be a fatal charm.

Wow, Rishi, you’re clever, aren’t you?”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about!”

Listening to Lucia’s words, Rishikida remembered Zion saying that she could become a woman by his side, and her face flushed, her heart raced, and she felt a tickling sensation between her legs.

Even though she was trying her best to restrain and control herself, the moment she thought of that man’s face, the temptation to throw away her loyalty, glory, and honor as a knight and simply throw herself into his arms became intense.

‘C-calm down!

This is a battlefield.

Thoughts of Master can wait!’

Rishikida suddenly shook her head wildly, and even lightly slapped her own cheeks.

Thanks to that, Lucia couldn’t help but be taken aback, asking, “What’s wrong?”

“Ah.”

Suddenly, a light flashed in Rishikida’s eyes as she looked towards the entrance of the mountain.

She re-gripped the sword she had sheathed and signaled to Lucia, who was standing next to her, with a nod, and Lucia, as if understanding, began to prepare her magic once more.

“It’s strange.

The soldiers of the castle said that the monsters always attack at regular intervals.”

“…It seems that, as Master said, the true mastermind behind this has completely revised their plan.”

Karrrreuk!

Kuwoooo!

As soon as the two women finished speaking, a group of monsters burst out from the vegetation in the mountain.

As before, they seemed quite hurried and terrified.

As if someone was chasing them to kill them, they clearly had the energy of fleeing chaotically rather than invading human territory.

“I’ll ask for your help once again, Lady Lucia.”

“I told you to call me Lucia. Rishi, you’re really persistent.”

“I-I’ll definitely do so later.

For now…”

“I understand.

All I have to do is use magic to threaten them so that the monsters don’t leak out to other places, right?”

With those words, Lucia lightly cast fire magic and scattered flames around to ensure that the monsters would rush straight towards Rishikida.

Naturally, the monsters, who had been fleeing 정신없이 [frantically] for days due to the fairies, were even more panicked and began to run straight towards Rishikida to avoid the flames.

Sreureung!

Along with the clear sound of the sword being drawn, light bounced off the blade, emitting a flash.

It didn’t take long for Rishikida’s sword to display a beautiful sword dance, with the blood and screams of monsters rampant.

These were merely creatures who had lost their homes and been driven out by another enemy.

They were simply beings struggling to survive.

However, Rishikida did not hesitate or feel guilt.

She was merely a sword that her master wished to wield, an existence that would be swung at enemies.

Rather, she was grateful to her master for not forgetting her and continuing to wield her.

As she was cutting down monsters for a while, Rishikida felt a strange energy once again.

Unlike the vibrations felt when the previous monsters rushed in, she could faintly sense a presence in the air.

“Rishi!

There!”

Lucia, who was acting as her eyes because she had to concentrate on the battle, shouted.

As she cut down a troll that was rushing towards her, Rishikida turned her head in the direction Lucia was pointing, and soon understood why she was so flustered.

“A griffin?”

It was still young and had a rather small body, but it was definitely a griffin.

They were monsters rarely seen near human territories, nesting on cliffs deep in the mountains, but they were one of the most dangerous monsters to humans.

With powerful claws and beaks, and above all, the ability to fly, they were creatures worthy of being called apex predators.

Combined with their rather fierce temperament, once they appeared in human territory, they often harmed livestock, people, and even trained soldiers.

‘Why is a griffin here?’

Lucia was surprised in her own way.

According to the books she had read, most of Hispania’s griffins lived on the cliffs of the mountains near the north.

The fact that griffins, who usually didn’t leave their territory, and even sub-adults who still needed their parents’ help, had appeared in Clausen’s territory in such a frightened and agitated state was a direct contradiction to academic hypotheses.

‘As Zion said, an unidentified force must be involved!

Otherwise, there’s no way to explain this!

There’s no way these griffin sub-adults, who never leave the deep mountains, would appear like this, and attack with such agitation!’

Meanwhile, the griffin sub-adults, who seemed to have been attacked by something and were very agitated, discovered Rishikida and her party and began to charge, making ferocious noises.

Rishikida didn’t know why, but to the griffins, the ‘fairies’ who had knocked them out of their nests and driven them here while their parents were out hunting looked similar to humans, so they recognized them as enemies and immediately charged.

“Tch!”

No matter how high-ranking a knight she was, she was still fundamentally a terrestrial animal, a human, who lived with her feet on the ground.

Even the flight magic that mages cast was more accurately called levitation magic, and humans had not yet conquered even a part of the sky.

Rishikida, having finished off the monsters, took a stance and looked at the griffin diving towards her, gripping her sword and shifting her gaze to its wings.

‘If I aim for its neck or heart, I might get caught by its claws.

Since it’s a flying monster anyway, aiming for its wings is as good as killing it.’

The griffin, which had looked smaller than her pinky fingernail just a moment ago, was instantly flying right in front of her.

Being able to rush in and deliver a fatal blow to the opponent in the blink of an eye was the privilege and strength of flying monsters.

However, Rishikida didn’t panic at all and slightly twisted her body, strongly slashing her sword upwards.

Even if she only injured its wings, the griffin sub-adults would fall immediately anyway.

Kkieeeeek!

‘Huh?’

At that moment, the griffin suddenly flapped its huge wings and quickly slowed down.

Thanks to that, Rishikida’s sword missed its target and cut through the air, and the griffin, which had been diving towards her, narrowly avoided the attack and leaped back into the air.

‘What?’

As she was thinking that, Rishikida suddenly felt a chill down her spine and instinctively bent over.

Almost simultaneously, another griffin’s claw, like a blade, grazed her back.

“…Ha!”

As expected of apex predators, they were also adept at deceiving their opponents and launching coordinated attacks.

Rishikida gritted her teeth, thinking that she had been tricked by a monster, not even a fellow knight or human, and had almost fallen for the enemy’s plan.

There was also the issue of her pride as a knight, but more than anything, the one she absolutely didn’t want to show her mistakes to was standing right behind her.

‘…I’ll just kill them all.’

The determination to only aim for their wings and prevent them from flying was gone, and what filled its place was a fierce animosity and murderous intent towards the enemy who had left her with shame and humiliation.

The mana in her body fluctuated rapidly, and her sword, receiving the concentrated energy, emitted a resonating sound.

Kkieeek!

Kkiek!

The griffins were diving towards her again.

They were now emitting a ferocious aura, as if they had completely recognized Rishikida as an enemy.

As Rishikida was about to swing her sword at the griffins, she heard a man’s voice from behind.

“Rishi.

Don’t kill those monsters.

And do what you did just now.

Act like you’re struggling quite a bit.”

“Ah, yes.

Understood.

Master.”

Any other knight would have at least questioned, “Huh?”, but Rishikida didn’t even do that.

She immediately agreed and subtly withdrew her mana, launching the same attack to aim for their wings as before, and the griffins also continued to change their flight paths to attack her, in order to deceive her.

Sabak―.

Watching her from afar, there were those who were secretly nocking arrows.

They were Novashi and Duria, and eight fairies.

Except for the two essential personnel for communication, they were all gathered to snipe Rishikida.

“Listen carefully.

Don’t force yourselves to shoot with the intention of killing them.

It’s okay to just wound them, so just focus on hitting their bodies.

It would be a disaster if we gave them time to defend and exposed our location.”

If they were just shooting arrows, their location wouldn’t be exposed.

However, to penetrate the defense of a high-ranking knight and inflict a wound, they had to use mana to enhance the arrows, and if they did, the opposing mage could trace the flow of mana to identify their location.

“You four shoot first, then you four next.

Finally, Duria and I will aim for an opening to finish them off.

Everyone knows where to meet, right?”

The fairies nodded at Novashi’s words.

Then, almost simultaneously, they slowly drew their bows and began to aim at Rishikida, who was entangled with the griffins in the distance.

Tuwoong!

Toong!

Tuwoong!

The arrows of the four fairies who were targeting Rishikida first flew.

Then, Rishikida, who had been fending off the griffins, was seen desperately twisting her body.

Immediately after, the next four attacks followed.

It was a strike aimed precisely at the spot Rishikida had dodged, so she seemed to have judged that she was too late to dodge and hurriedly began to deflect the arrows flying towards her with her sword.

‘Not bad for a human.

To be able to block the arrows of a fairy like that.

But.’

Tuwoong!

Toong!

Novashi and Duria’s arrows cut through the wind, aiming for Rishikida’s thigh and shoulder, which were exposed due to her moving her body and swinging her sword.

Rishikida, who had just deflected the arrows, also seemed to instinctively sense the arrows flying towards her again, but she had already moved her arm to block the arrows, so there was woefully insufficient time to block them again.

‘Got it!’

It was the moment Novashi was inwardly cheering, looking at the arrow flying straight towards Rishikida’s shoulder.

A man who had been fending off the griffins from behind flew in front of Rishikida with incredible agility that he had never shown before.

Jjeojeojeok!

Then, he lightly raised his sword and, as if cutting flowing water, very lightly split the arrows flying towards the woman in half, from the tip to the feathers.

‘What?’

It was a ranged attack from the fairies that even the high-ranking knight had struggled with quite a bit.

But the man who had suddenly appeared split the arrows in half so coolly, as if he didn’t care about whatever they were.

‘C-could that man also be a high-ranking knight?

But there was no report that such an old human was a high-ranking knight!’

As Novashi was panicking in great confusion, the man untied the strings of the hood he was wearing.

And inside, instead of the plate mail or even chainmail that knights wear.

There was a very neat black butler’s uniform.

“…Thank you.

Sebastian.”

“It was nothing.

More importantly, Lady Lucia.

Have you found their location?”

“Yes!

The mana tracing results indicate they’re near the forest entrance!”

Lucia pointed to the forest where Novashi and the fairies were hiding.

Then, a beautiful young man, who had ordered Rishikida not to kill the griffins a little while ago, gave a bright smile and opened his mouth.

“Catch them.”

I tricked all the kids for now.

Kill them, you bastards!

You sons of bitches!

―

When the attack failed absurdly and their location was exposed, Novashi decided to retreat.

He immediately broke the cumbersome bow and threw it away, and was about to enter the forest after discarding all the arrows.

“Keureureuk….”

Duria, who had been shooting arrows next to him until just now, foamed at the mouth and slowly collapsed to the floor.

And behind her, a young man who had been among the high-ranking knight’s party until just now appeared.

“Keueuk…!”

It was a truly unfair part for Novashi.

The fact that he had been living in the mountains and had no choice but to receive the news too late.

As a result, he had failed to realize that there was an even more terrifying monster than a high-ranking knight lurking in the Clausen territory.

Sabak, Sabak―.

“….”

Kim Yu-hyun, covered in fairy blood, slowly raised his sword, emitting a gleaming light in his eyes.

Looking at that figure, Novashi finally realized that everything had gone wrong.

While uttering a hollow laugh, as if this plan had been completely ruined, literally.

‘Just where, where did it go wrong….’

While muttering that, Novashi closed his eyes and calmly accepted his end.

“Keukyakyakyakya!”

At that time, the one who had coolly 말아 드신 [utterly ruined/devoured] the fairies’ great work in a hot 국밥 [gukbap – Korean rice soup] was.

He was giggling as he looked at the griffins who had injured their wings and were struggling on the ground.

―――――――Author’s Note―――――――

Thanks to the interest and support of the readers, even though my work is still lacking, we are about to reach 9,000 선작 [seonjak – favorite registrations/bookmarks]…!

To be honest, my goal was to exceed 5,000 before passing 100 chapters…!

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All I can do is consistently upload chapters and occasionally surprise you with 연참 [yeoncham – consecutive chapters] ㅠ

I will continue to work hard in the future…!