Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 98

The sword was deflected at a strange angle.

Logan looked up. Aslan’s face was pale, but he was smiling, a chilling, confident smile that didn’t match the blood on his armor.

Logan, the red-haired enemy, stood before him. Aslan stared. His sword, Lux, was buried deep in Logan’s stomach, right through the armor. It should have been a killing blow. But Logan was standing, unharmed. Aslan’s eyes widened. “Y-you… how?” he gasped, breath catching in his throat.

Then, with a slow, creaking sound of metal on metal, Logan pulled Lux free. Aslan’s shock turned to horror. In Logan’s hand was not his own sword, but Velocitas – Aslan’s sword!

Logan grinned, a cruel, confident smile. “My turn,” he said, his voice low and dangerous.

Aslan’s face tightened at Logan’s harsh words.

In Logan’s hand was Velocitas, Aslan’s own sword. It was the artifact that had earned him the name ‘Knight of Swiftness.’

A red aura flickered around Logan’s body. Aslan knew what that meant.

The counterattack must have been possible because of Velocitas’s power.

Aslan’s face went white.

‘This artifact still doesn’t feel right.’

Logan pulled the red sword from his stomach with one hand and glared at Aslan.

Using Lux, which fit his body perfectly, and then using another sword felt strange.

But there were advantages.

Whirr!

As soon as he put Force into the sword, a strange power, mana, spread through his body.

He felt the mana stimulating his nerves and making his mind faster.

“Yooouu… hoooow… caaan….”

Aslan’s words seemed slow, as if time itself was moving slower around him.

It was an artifact that made his mind and thinking skills much faster, instead of making his body stronger like the Boots of the Wind.

‘So this is the power that made Aslan the Knight of Swiftness.’

He understood why Aslan had seemed so much faster and stronger than Plantz.

And now that power was his.

“Let’s end this!”

He still felt pain in his stomach, which he had barely healed with the Bracelet of Rebirth, but he moved without stopping.

Aslan was in even worse shape than he was.

The Bracelet of Rebirth was working. It was a royal gift, with strong healing magic.

Logan had gotten it from the king before. It was a risk, but it was paying off.

Clang!

Wham!

Scritch.

In just three moves, he cut open the side where he had stabbed Lux. Aslan’s twisted face was easy to see.

Using the fast sword felt strange. It was like his body was moving too quickly for his mind to catch up. He stumbled slightly, but the speed was still amazing.

“Unnnbelievable….”

Thwack!

He had aimed for the heart, but hit the other side instead.

It was a mistake because he wasn’t used to the feeling yet.

But it was only a matter of time.

‘I have to get him this time!’

Golden Force flickered above the red blade, aiming for Aslan’s weak spot as he stumbled.

No matter how well the Bracelet of Rebirth worked, it couldn’t fully heal a stab wound in an instant.

Logan wasn’t in perfect shape either, but this was a good chance to defeat Aslan, their best fighter. He kept attacking, even though it hurt.

Clang!

He saw Lux, which had been in Aslan’s hand, fly into the air. It seemed like he would finally win.

However…

“Aaasslaan Niiim!”

“Wherreee!”

“Maaaga!”

The area became noisy, even in the slowed time.

The Vifrost soldiers, who hadn’t dared to step in during the fight, started to rush in.

Perhaps the slowed time effect was fading, making their normal speed seem slower.

He slowly saw the enemy knights rushing toward him and Eileen, covered in blood, blocking them.

Even the knights on the other side that Eileen couldn’t block.

‘Damn it!’

He was so close to killing him.

A sword flew toward the back of his head.

‘Damn it! Damn it!’

One risk was enough.

He couldn’t die with Aslan just to kill him.

The Bracelet of Rebirth wouldn’t work for a few days now.

Logan’s sword, which had been aiming for Aslan’s heart, changed direction and went toward the knights charging at him.

Scritch.

Crack.

“Aaaargh!”

“Kraaah!”

Even with his tired and wounded body, he used the power of the artifact to cut down three knights in a row.

But in that moment, he saw the other knights taking the fallen Aslan away.

His stomach was covered in blood, and he was spitting blood from his mouth.

An injury that would have killed a normal person, but a top knight wouldn’t die from that.

Enemy knights appeared, blocking his way.

Logan stopped, grinding his teeth in disappointment.

Whirr!

“Ugh!”

A dizzy feeling hit him suddenly.

His tired body was losing the Force he had put into the sword.

He knew it was because the speed power was going away, but swords were already flying from all directions.

Clang clang!

“Kuheup!”

Luckily, someone jumped in front of him and blocked the swords.

‘Eileen.’

Logan struggled to lift his head and saw Eileen, pale-faced and unsteady, blocking the attacks on Logan.

She seemed barely able to block the enemies’ attacks, but it was enough.

“Get lost!”

Logan’s dizziness didn’t last long, and even wounded, the strongest knight could easily beat three knights.

Clang!

With a shout, Logan stepped forward and blocked the enemies’ attacks with one strike.

Then, Eileen, who had been unsteady, leaped forward again and stabbed one of them in the heart.

Thwack!

“Keuheuk!”

Logan, moving like a ghost again, chopped off the heads of two knights with wide eyes.

Chwaaack!

“Well done!”

Logan blocked for Eileen, who collapsed from exhaustion, raised his sword, and shouted loudly.

“We have defeated the Knight of Swiftness!”

It seemed pointless and made him feel embarrassed, but it was necessary.

The voice quickly spread among the soldiers on the eastern wall, who had just been fighting.

The details were a bit different, but the main idea was the same.

The strongest of Vifrost has fallen!

This small change made the Vifrost troops hesitate, and the Maclane troops fight harder.

The change had a big effect on the battle.

The situation started to turn around not only on the eastern wall, which had been holding but starting to lose, but also on the western and northern walls, which had been losing badly since their strongest fighter disappeared.

The retreating front lines, which had been giving way constantly, had started to hold their ground a little.

As Logan began to help his father push the attack against Franz, the Knight of the Moonlight, the mood in the McLaine camp became more energetic.

“We are winning!”

The McLaine forces, who had been pushed back everywhere except the eastern wall, felt stronger because they believed they were winning.

On the other hand, the Bifrost army started to get worried.

Seeing one of the two swords that Bifrost had bragged about fall, and the other being pushed into a corner, made them forget for a moment that they were supposed to be stronger.

“Could it be that we are losing?”

Someone watching the battlefield from far away could clearly see how the battle had changed. Both armies were fooling themselves, and this changed everything.

“What is Aslan’s condition?”

“According to the knights’ signals, he is not in danger. But, Aslan used the strongest potion earlier today, so he can’t use any more in this battle…”

“Ha, that’s ridiculous. Those rats must be brewing poison. Forget it, don’t push too hard. Retreat!”

“Yes!”

“Hmph, I wonder how long they can last.”

The confident look on Roger Bifrost’s face disappeared a little, replaced by a hint of annoyance.

“They’re retreating!”

“Waaah!!”

The sound of the enemy retreating echoed from far away, making everyone nearby cheer.

Dead bodies were scattered under the torches that lit up the walls in the darkness, but the soldiers standing on the walls forced themselves to smile.

In the middle of all this, Logan looked at the rising moon, trying to calm his worried heart.

‘Still one day. It’s only a one-day difference.’

As the full moon from the day before got smaller, the worry in his heart grew.

But Logan couldn’t show his worry to the others.

“Everyone, rest! Treat the wounded, stay alert, and take turns resting!”

For now, they just had to keep going.

Logan shouted to his allies, thinking only of that.

The next day.

It was impossible to know when the enemy would attack again.

Although they took turns standing guard, most of the McLaine troops had stayed awake almost all night, and everyone was tired.

“More enemy troops are here! The flag… an eagle above a flame… Pereta! It’s the army from the Pereta Territory!”

The bad news arrived that enemy reinforcements had come.

They could have used the chance to attack McLaine territory while the main forces were away, but McLaine’s important people were all at Tomodo Castle anyway.

If they lost this battle, it would be the end of McLaine, so they decided to send troops here to impress Bifrost.

From then on, the attacks became slightly different and constant.

“Young Master! They’re attacking the east again!”

“Those damned bastards!”

Logan gritted his teeth, but he had to move.

As he ran across the wall, he saw Bifrost’s knights, who were about to climb the wall, jump back down.

‘Again!’

Those guys were just pretending to climb the wall and then retreating.

Franz, the Knight of the Moonlight, was even among them.

He grinned and disappeared as their eyes met.

How many times had this happened? Logan was on edge because of these prank-like attacks that had been going on for three days.

The army from the Pereta Territory, which had arrived after the first two big attacks, rushed in without knowing what was happening, got hit by repeating crossbows, and retreated.

After that, they didn’t launch a full-scale battle, but just poked around from all sides, testing the waters.

The problem was that the McLaine army, with Logan in charge, had to respond.

There were no more deaths, but it was still not a good situation.

The stress was tiring them out, but…

“Young Master, we’re running out of ammunition. If this keeps up, in a day or two…”

The ammunition and other supplies they had brought instead of food were running out after only five days of battle.

“The food in the castle is also running out. Those guys didn’t leave much food behind after the harvest!”

The knight was angry about the food situation, and it was a serious problem.

And the biggest problem of all.

‘It’s been four days longer than expected. What went wrong?’

The thing that worried Logan the most was not the enemy, but the fact that he hadn’t heard news of the king’s death.

Tap. Tap.

“Loyal! Ty!”

“You’ve worked hard.”

“It’s nothing, Young Master! I know you haven’t been sleeping at all…”

“That’s enough. Don’t waste your energy talking, just rest.”

Logan stopped the soldier from being too polite, since he was already having a hard time, and looked out of the castle, which was dark even with the burning torches.

They had been attacked at night once a day, so they would probably pretend to attack again today.

He couldn’t let his guard down.

If they were careless, the entire enemy force would attack immediately.

Looking up at the sky, he saw the moon, which was now so small it could barely be called a full moon.

‘What has changed…?’

Was it a mistake to rely only on his memories from his past life?

He felt uneasy.

“Will a bandage be enough? You were hit by an arrow?”

“What else can I do? I should be glad it wasn’t my leg.”

“I wish I had been seriously injured instead…”

“Don’t say that! You’ll be gone in a flash. You can’t even lie down with a small injury right now. You know how much the knights complain.”

One of the soldiers on guard duty lowered his voice and scolded another soldier.

“But my crossbow string is loose, and I don’t have any ammunition. If this keeps up…”

“Just keep going, I’m telling you to keep going. Grab a spear and stab them. Do you think anyone is doing well?”

“Will we survive…?”

“……”

“That’s right. The situation is…”

“……The Grand Duke started this. He must have a plan.”

But the soldier’s face looked worried as he said that.

“This? Does this look like there’s a plan?”

“What do you want me to do, you idiot! At this point!”

“Why did the Grand Duke even start this war in the first place…?”

“Don’t say such awful things! The mood is already bad, so shut up!”

The conversation between the soldiers on night duty made Logan’s heart feel heavier.

‘Damn it.’

He hated his enhanced senses at times like this.

Unable to go near them, he stood silently on the wall.

“Logan, let’s talk for a bit.”

He heard a familiar but tired voice.

“Father…”

“As you know, we can’t last much longer like this. I want to know what the plan is.”

His father’s tired face and sunken eyes stared at him.

He felt guilty, but he couldn’t show his worries.

“Just a few more days, if we can hold out for a few more days. It’s too early to tell you…”

He repeated the same words he had said before, and he couldn’t look his father in the eye.

There was a long silence.

“…I see. I understand. Then we’ll have to try harder.”

His father nodded at his weak excuse.

The hand patting his shoulder felt heavy.

‘I’ll keep going somehow. If we can just hold out…’

He tried to brainwash himself and hold on to the hope.

Two days later, the food in the castle and the ammunition for the repeating crossbows were completely gone.