I must draw my sword immediately!

Chapter 112 The Knight of the Red Dragon

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The massive clock tower standing within the second ring road of the capital city emits a ticking mechanical sound, and on the clock face, the hour, minute, and second hands all point to the 12 o'clock position.

As the night grew increasingly somber, Winchester, the British capital that had buried countless secrets, finally saw the moment when its truth would be revealed.

Midnight
The day after Sua entered the city, according to Gerry Freyt, the so-called "Day of Power" in the New Testament quietly arrived.

"Hey~ young man, why are you looking at me like that? Want to buy me a drink? Just say so!"

"Hey, you can't be so stingy with even this little bit of money, can you?"

"Then I'll go?"

The tavern street, resounding with the sounds of non-stop revelry,
Suya frowned deeply, looking at the unshaven, tall, but utterly pathetic knight who exuded an aura of utter uselessness when he stood up.

The knight had a sword wrapped in strips of cloth at his waist, messy long black hair, and wore a black and gray armor that looked extremely out of place on him.

Rather than calling the other person a knight, it's more like a loser middle-aged man who just came out of some arcade after losing all his game coins, standing on the curb, spitting out his cigarette butt with a sigh.

Suya instinctively sensed that something was wrong.

Just as my buddy was thinking about having money but nowhere to spend it, a guy with a very unique art style who looked like an important NPC popped up and said in a serious tone, "I'm going to teach you how to spend money!"
So they're not even going to act anymore?
Suya stared at the dejected knight with the look of a middle-aged man snatching a child's lollipop, and asked cautiously:
"who are you?"

"Ugh—this is really a headache. You even forgot about me. So this was part of your plan? No wonder you didn't come looking for me when I was lying outside Hero's Drink all day."

Hearing Suya's question, the down-on-his-luck knight scratched his head, let out a helpless sigh, then raised his head and stared straight at Suya, revealing an extremely innocent and pitiful expression:

"Then I'll just say it directly—"

"Red Dragon King, isn't it time to pay our wages? You don't expect me to work for free, do you?"

"The Red Dragon King!?"

Upon hearing this, Suya's pupils constricted sharply, but she immediately pretended to know nothing about it and took a step to try and pass the other person.

"What red dragon? Where is there a red dragon? You're talking complete nonsense! I'm clearly a human!"

Snapped!
Just as Suya was about to flee and sever all ties with that name, a large hand firmly gripped Suya's shoulder. He turned his head and saw the disheveled knight before him revealing a row of white teeth in the night, chuckling softly:

"I'll only stop you this once, if you truly accept your fate, have no desire for power, and only want to live as a human in this messed-up world."

"Then, I'll take your divinely created weapons and sell them."

Suya wanted to immediately retort loudly, swearing to the heavens that he had definitely mistaken her for someone else, but after hearing the last sentence, she suddenly stopped in her tracks and her eyes widened slightly:

"What did you just say? Say it again?"

I'll only stop you this once.

"No, last sentence."

"Isn't it time to pay salaries?"

Suya nodded and asked seriously, "How many do you want?"

The down-on-his-luck knight chuckled.
"I'll take as much as you have."

Upon hearing these arrogant words, Suya's expression hardened slightly. He then took a deep breath, looked at the knight before him with a serious expression, and asked:

"Then, I'll ask you one more time, who are you?"

"The Red Dragon King's retinue, the knight, Baling."

Upon hearing this name, Suya's expression immediately sharpened, and a trace of doubt lessened in her mind regarding the other party's words. Knight Baring,

He was not a Knight of the Round Table. In Arthurian legend, he was one of the earliest knights to follow King Arthur, even before King Arthur married Guinevere and received the Round Table that could seat 150 people from his father-in-law, King Leod.

Even before Gawain and Lancelot became famous, this man was already one of the world's top knights.

The sword in his hand was Galahad's later sword, and his feats were even more exaggerated. This man could not only snatch Galahad's sword 'Meriaduk' from the Lake Nymph, but also casually kill the Lake Nymph who came to pursue him. He could even draw and use the Spear of Longinus, which crucified Jesus, at will.

And this incredibly powerful knight is actually a member of the Red Dragon King's retinue in this world?
Sua wasn't quite sure who the Red Dragon King was, but he wasn't stupid. After Galahad's persistent questioning, Meryl's indirect probing, and now the direct question from the Baring Knight, he figured it out.

He vaguely guessed that his predecessor might be the red dragon that revived in the underground of the royal capital Winchester fifteen years ago!

After all, humans traveling through other humans, and red dragons traveling through other red dragons, is quite a beaver-like phenomenon.

However, if he were that red dragon, he would be far too weak. After all, according to Meryl, that red dragon was capable of easily defeating the legendary King Uther and burning down half of the capital.

Suya was quite certain that she was not that strong, and that all her improvements along the way were the result of her own hard work and practice.

At this time,

He took a deep breath, looked solemnly at the dejected knight Baling who claimed to be one of his own, and asked earnestly:
"Then what are you here for?"

Hearing Suya's deliberately affected, imposing tone, like that of a mature red dragon, Baling was both amused and exasperated. He immediately grabbed Suya's shoulder and pulled him into a nearby tavern.
"Hey boss, can we not be so serious? Don't worry, I'm not interested in slaying dragons."

"I've been lying on this street all day and I'm starving. Please, let's go get a drink first."

Suya tentatively asked, "What about the divinely created weapons you mentioned?"

Hearing this, and confirming once again that Suya had indeed forgotten even this most crucial matter, Baring frowned slightly. However, he quickly smiled and reassured him:
"Don't worry, something that big can't escape."

"Instead of asking this, shouldn't you be asking something else?"

Suya looked at the other person curiously, "What is that?"

Baring looked intently at Suya and smiled:
"For example, what you entrusted to me—"

"The fifth approach."

Upon hearing this, Suya suddenly tilted her head back, her pupils instantly turning crimson and trembling slightly.

Despite the sweltering summer heat, my back was completely soaked with cold sweat at that moment.

way,

This was undoubtedly the deepest secret that Suya had kept hidden, and one that she had never told anyone.

So far, a total of four have been passively triggered.

Fake Destiny (Ex)

Master of Dark Medicine (C++)

The end of the deadly battle (A), and the king (Ex).

Through these four methods, Suya repeatedly created miracles in such a desperate environment, deceiving everyone with one performance after another, and gathering everyone around him at this time.

The panel previously indicated that upgrading would unlock more pathways, but since Suya upgraded from Attendant to Advanced Swordsman, none of these new pathways have been triggered.
He initially thought this was because the triggering conditions hadn't been met, which was why neither the subtitles nor the panel were displaying anything.
But at this moment,

He actually learned from this red dragon knight something that no one else should have known—

Information from the fifth source?
(End of this chapter)