Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 131

“Who are those men…?” someone whispered. They pointed towards a group of about two hundred soldiers. They wore shiny, silver armor that reflected the morning sun. But drawn crudely on the chest of each armor was a picture of scales. People nearby started to laugh. It looked silly for serious knights.

“Are they a knight order that fights for money?” another soldier asked, surprised. “Are *they* the first to attack? Has the First Prince lost his mind?”

Usually, even if important nobles were careful, they would still send strong soldiers to be the vanguard. The vanguard is the most dangerous place, the first to meet the enemy. You need your best fighters there. But these knights… they looked like a joke.

“For Kairos to be in the vanguard made no sense,” the first soldier said. “He is not strong enough for such an important job.” He knew the rumors about the Kairos Knights. The Kairos family did not train these knights themselves. Instead, they had quickly gathered knights who were not working for anyone, and strong fighters called ‘Force users’ who were like top-level soldiers from all over the kingdom. Maybe even from other countries. They were knights you could hire.

Simon Kairos had become important by working hard himself. Because of this, he had to make this knight order quickly. But people looked down on them. They were seen as knights who just fought for money. They were called ‘Golden Knights,’ meaning knights you could buy. And another problem was that even their leader was only an average fighter. This was not good for such a big group. It was a weakness they were born with, and couldn’t easily fix.

And now, the expression on that captain, Allen, was completely distorted.

Allen remembered what Simon Kairos had said earlier, without explaining why: ‘Our knight order must go first to show we are not traitors.’

Allen was shocked and confused. He wanted to ask why, but he knew his boss, Simon Kairos, would not explain anything nicely to someone like him.

‘The start of a big war, and we are the first to attack… Does he think I am some kind of amazing hero?’

If his family wasn’t living in Kairos lands, Allen would have run away immediately.

“Don’t worry about your family. I will look after them forever.”

The wizards from the Ice Magic Tower were using some helpful magic on him and his knights. But Allen still felt scared.

Allen thought about a special item his leader had given him before they left. He knew it would only delay his death, not stop it.

‘Bastards,’ Allen thought. He was glad his helmet hid his face as he waited for the signal to attack. He felt like he was waiting to die.

A loud horn blew – Poooouuuuuu.

At the sound of the horn that rang out with the shout, he listlessly raised his lance.

“Kairos Knights. Charge…!”

He didn’t even think about if anyone could hear his voice.

Allen just hoped his knights, who were probably as scared as he was, would still charge forward. He tried hard to feel brave.

‘Maybe I won’t die! If I can just do this one thing and run away quickly…’ But it seemed like fate was making fun of his small hope.

A knight from the enemy army charged at him. Allen saw red energy glowing brightly at the tip of the enemy’s spear. He knew this meant the enemy knight was very strong.

Allen felt complete despair. Even inside his helmet, his eyes showed he had lost all hope.

On the other side of the battlefield, McLaine was also surprised to see the Kairos Knights.

“Kairos?” McLaine said, surprised. “Why are *they* here?” His father looked at him, equally confused. Neither of them knew the answer.

“Has Baron Simon Kairos gone mad?” Logan said. He emphasized the name: “Baron *Simon* Kairos. The noble.”

Hearing his father say ‘Baron Simon Kairos,’ Logan stopped worrying about something else. He now focused on the Kairos Knights.

The order to attack was shouted, though Logan could barely hear it. The McLaine army started moving towards the enemy lines, towards where the Second Prince was leading his forces.

The deployment of forces showed a completely different position compared to two weeks ago.

Logan watched from his position as the Kairos Knights were quickly defeated. He clicked his tongue, showing he wasn’t surprised.

It was exactly what everyone thought would happen. But then, something completely unexpected happened right after.

Kwaaaang! A huge explosion happened. Suddenly, freezing cold air rushed over the front lines of the knights fighting with the Kairos Knights.

The cold air came from where the Kairos Knights had fallen after their attack.

Waves of freezing air spread out from the fallen Kairos Knights. It covered a large area, about a hundred meters wide. The cold air hit everyone, friends and enemies, without caring who they were.

“Blizzard!” someone shouted. “Fifth level magic, used so many times so fast?!” “Magic scrolls!” another yelled. Someone explained, “Those are fifth level magic scrolls! Only very powerful wizards, level six or higher, can make them!”

The materials to make these scrolls were incredibly rare and expensive. It looked like almost five scrolls, each as powerful as a magical artifact, had exploded one after another.

“Huh?!” Logan said, feeling nervous as he saw how powerful it was.

These scrolls were special weapons. The most powerful wizard in Grandia had spent his whole life making them.

Logan remembered that in his past life, weapons like these had helped defeat the Second Prince in a big war. And now, they were here.

‘Blizzard Scroll,’ Logan thought. ‘Looking at how surprised everyone is, it seems like they are using these for the first time. Huan Douglas probably has many more of these scrolls hidden away.’

Luckily, these fifth level magic scrolls were not easy to use. Everyone knew that only a trained wizard could control their power and where they went.

Wizards couldn’t be on the front lines of battle easily. So, using a Blizzard Scroll was like using a weapon that could hurt yourself too.

‘Well, it seems they didn’t even know that,’ Logan thought. He clicked his tongue as he watched knights falling and struggling in the freezing area around where the Kairos Knights had attacked.

Very few knights survived in the area about 300 meters wide where the cold air was strongest.

By using the ‘weak’ Kairos Knights as bait, they had destroyed three groups of important knights who fought directly for the Tartan Frontier Lord.

It was a significant loss that could never be ignored.

The first collision could be said to be a victory for the First Prince’s faction.

“Huan, you bastard! Are you trying to kill us all here?!” A furious shout came from the command area.

Flags waved quickly as the shout was yelled. The main soldiers of the Second Prince’s army started moving forward much faster.

“We should go too.”

“Yes.”

Hearing the shouts erupting from here and there, McLaine also began to advance.

Logan looked closely at a giant man running from the middle of the enemy army. He was moving so fast, it was almost unbelievable.

‘Aura User. Half Giant, Luther Kyle,’ Logan thought. ‘Half Giant.’ He knew the stories about giants, a powerful race from ancient times who were even said to have fought dragons. Luther Kyle was one of them.

He ran across the battlefield faster than a horse could gallop. You could feel his power just by looking at him. He was as strong as the legends said giants were.

A small figure moved as fast as a storm. He was much smaller than the large man facing him, almost like a dwarf.

“Alright, let’s end this today, you lump!”

“I’m the one who’s going to crush you! You walking skeleton!”

Luther Kyle’s massive war hammer, as large as he was, glowed with a bright red light as it shot out to crush the small figure.

‘Aura!’

Logan was witnessing the power of destruction for the first time since entering this life.

It was a power his master had never shown him, saying that if someone with insufficient skill faced Aura, their very mind would be shattered.

Its power was vividly felt even from far behind.

Before such overwhelming might, Wicken Kaliah quietly drew his pointed rapier.

The pure white mana flowing visibly made it clear that it was no ordinary artifact, but it seemed far too small and fragile compared to the threat looming before them.

However, the moment Wicken Kaliah, the Storm Blade, brandished his cherished sword…

That thought was about to change completely.

Kwakwakwakwack.

Because he saw a whirlwind of white light, four to five meters in size, rise up and swallow the charging giant whole.

And.

Kwaaaang-!!

Soon, a tremendous explosion erupted, capturing everyone’s attention at the center of the battlefield.

Kwakwackwa.

Kwaaang!

“That tenacious life of yours, I’ll end it here!”

“Who’s talking!”

Logan tried to watch the fight between the two powerful warriors. Even with his good senses, it was hard to follow. Maybe they were too far away, or maybe he just wasn’t strong enough to see it clearly.

However, even just watching the fight between two transcendents, each extremely specialized in ‘body’ and ‘attribute’ respectively, was rewarding.

‘Over there, like that, oh….’

Considering how he had tried to get away without looking back whenever transcendents fought in his past life, this was an unimaginable improvement.

That memory from his past life made him focus even more on the transcendents’ battle.

But sadly, this was not a situation where he could comfortably focus solely on that fight.

“Logan!”

“Yes, I know!”

Logan, hearing his father’s voice, turned his gaze from the fierce battle in the center.

The long lines of the great army around the central battlefield where transcendents clashed were now close enough to see their expressions.

Logan felt a pang of regret. He wanted to keep watching the amazing fight. But he couldn’t. He was part of this battle now, not just someone watching from the sidelines.

He and McLain had to make a definite impression on the Second Prince and Duke Jordan Valterheim in this battle.

“Victor!”

“Yes!”

As soon as Logan shouted, Victor and his 1,500 crossbow cavalrymen, who were already prepared, surged past them in an instant.

Doo-doo-doo-doo.

As was tradition, the knights were still the first to charge out from both sides.

Victor’s crossbow cavalrymen aimed their crossbows at the approaching enemy from within the gaps of their allied knightly order.

“If we can just block the crossbows, they’re nothing.”

The knights at the front of the enemy, the Zahid Knights, who had been watching McLain’s movements, raised their shields in unison.

The First Prince’s army already knew about McLain’s weapons. Information had spread quickly, and every knight had prepared for the cavalry’s attack in one way or another.

The Zahid knights smiled inwardly with satisfaction.

“Turn!”

The crossbow cavalrymen abruptly changed direction at a right angle and dashed to the right.

“What, what is it?”

Rommel, the commander of the Zahid Knights, wanted to chase after them, but another knightly order was already within striking distance, raising their lances at them.

‘Tch!’

They would crush the ones who had destroyed the Wolves.

He was disappointed, as he had been hoping for that honor.

But the knightly order in front of him was more important than the ones who had already moved away.

Kwaaang!

Rommel roughly pushed the body of the enemy knight off his lance.

He didn’t care about the knightly order of some baron who had interfered with his original target, McLain’s army.

‘I can do it!’

He was only thinking of quickly dealing with these guys and then taking care of his original target afterward.

“Charge! Pierce through the enemy lines!”

Rommel encouraged his proud subordinates, who had crushed one knightly order with a loss of only about 20 out of 250 men, and spurred his horse forward again.

In order to seize a bigger target than the scattered remnants.

But at that moment, a rain of quarrels covered his vision in darkness.

“Fire! Fire! Aim for the scattered gaps!”

Kaisolon’s voice echoed, and every time the direction of the flag changed, McLain’s soldiers accurately fired their crossbows.

Many of the soldiers were elite veterans who had survived several fierce battlefields, including the Battle of Tomodo Castle.

They knew that they could defeat knights, so they were not very afraid even with a knightly order in front of them.

And the well-trained soldiers, centered around those veterans, moved mechanically and fired their crossbows according to the chief instructor’s instructions.

The fact that the knightly order, which had stopped its charge, was only frantically deflecting arrows and showed no sign of advancing again, gave the soldiers more confidence.

And not long after.

Kwaaang!

The sight of those powerful men revealing their weaknesses and falling one after another due to the explosion that erupted among the enemy knightly order.

The mage throwing exploding weapons from behind looked scary, but now he seemed like the best ally they could have.

“Right flank, second row! There’s a gap! Focus fire!”

Following Kai’s instructions, a barrage of repeating crossbows targeted the knights who had been hit, and the knights of the Zahid Knightly Order began to fall one by one.

And seeing them, McLain’s knightly order began to move.

In McLain’s army, the traditional charge formation where the knightly order charged and the soldiers followed behind, with the mage supporting them, could not be found.

Victor’s crossbow cavalry, bypassing the knightly order and maneuvering to the side, were thoroughly targeting only the enemy ‘soldiers’ and firing their crossbows.

The charging enemy knightly order was being stopped by the ‘soldiers’.

And the mages were inflicting damage on the enemy knightly order as direct attackers, rather than supporting the soldiers.

The knightly order, the strongest force, was not even moving.

“Don’t think of it as cowardly, think of it as minimizing the sacrifice of our allies.”

“Who would think such a stupid thing?! There’s no such idiot here!”

Laughter erupted here and there at Heinkel’s playful answer, but the tension did not ease.

“We’re only taking the heads of the collapsing enemy knightly order! Is there anyone who can’t do this easy task!”

“No!”

“Good! All troops! Charge!”

With Heinkel’s shout, the McLain Knightly Order charged towards the gaps in the crumbling enemy Knightly Order.