The Death Knight Became an Escort Knight for the Saintess

10. Diervan, City of Knights

10.

It was at dawn, when the citizens of Diervan were still asleep, that the figure approached what is simply called the ‘Closed Gate’ for lack of a better name.

The guards guarding the gate had been watching Inyoung for an hour before he arrived. It was because there was not much blocking the view in the vast northern plains extending from the Juurno plains. There are hills, but they are no obstacle. For the place where the guards were located was on the wall sixty cubits high.

Because of its location, the guards would often spot strays walking toward the city for hours in advance. They usually came from the south or east, and left again to the south or east, and rarely to the north.

But the figure was coming from the west – from the southwest to be exact. It was a direction the guards paid little attention to, inappropriate for the reason they were posted here, so they didn’t spot the figure until it was an hour’s drive away.

The guards thought that In-yeong must have gone astray and found the light just before passing through the city. Having judged that, the guard stared blankly at In-Young slowly but steadily reducing the remaining distance to the city. Occasionally he turned his bored head to look in a different direction, but the other wayman was nowhere to be seen.

As the hazy twilight became clear, the size of the human figure also became clear. The guard, who judged that In-young would arrive in about 15 minutes, moved his body to prepare at least a blanket.

Suddenly, something strange caught the guard’s eyes.

The guard tilted his head and examined the figure carefully. As if Inyoung was wearing his cloak tightly, the shape of it swayed wildly depending on the direction the wind was blowing. Wearing a cape in the windy north was not particularly noteworthy, but the guards inspected the figure even more carefully because of that. Obviously, the wind was blowing from the right side according to the guards, and from the left side according to the figures.

Then, the direction the cloak moved would be to the right side of the figure, but the stronger the movement of the cloak was to the left, the opposite direction. Even the movement was random, not consistent with the direction of the wind. It wasn’t until the figure reached a distance of about 8 minutes that the guards could figure out why the cloak was moving against the direction of the wind.

And the guards could understand why the human figure was approaching the city so slowly.

It was a young girl wrapped in a cloak until the figure slowed down its movement.

–

“Gwa, are you okay?”

The guard tucked a blanket into his waist and hurriedly ran toward the figures. He was out of breath from coming down the rampart, but he couldn’t afford to care about that.

When he asked about In-young’s condition, In-young immediately covered the area where the girl was with her left kite shield. At the same time, she grabbed the Partisan with her right hand. Facing In-yeong, the guards had to hold their breath.

The guards had never seen a man like that before.

As well as a huge body that could easily exceed 4 cubits, it had sharp eyes and bloody eyes. The ears were pointy like those of the elves, but not triangular like theirs, but overall shaped like drops of water. It was neat as if it had been shaved, but the dark blue beard traces continued from the sideburns to the nose and chin, making it look like a dwarf. His skin was as soft as a human’s.

The guard, who had been watching him quietly, decided to stop worrying about the bloody eyes glaring at him. He himself was from the north, and he had never crossed Le Badaim Forest, so he had never seen demons, but he had heard from a passerby that the demons living in the south of the central continent looked different from those in the north. The guard guessed that this was probably the case with men as well.

Also, now is not the time when the life-and-death war was taking place, so it was difficult to completely distinguish the races based on their appearance. For the guard, the man in front of him was more important than that. The moment he stepped forward to approach the man, the guard had to hold his breath again.

“Don’t come any closer. Are you unarmed?”

The man’s voice was thicker and lower than anything the guards had heard.

–

Zer Pied glared at the troll woman standing still with her kite shield wrapped around her Esilia. A few minutes passed, but the troll woman stood still, unresponsive. Jer Pied turned her partisan blade slightly from her skies to her, then asked again.

“Are you unarmed?”

The ponytailed troll woman then flinched and responded.

“Yes… ? Ah yes! Unarmed… Oh no! Armed! Armed!”

As soon as those words were uttered, the Partisans turned completely towards the troll woman. At the same time as she freaked out, she wondered if the person asking the question had changed. She was a member of the city guard, and it was only natural that the guards were armed.

The question just now was definitely what the guardsman should have said to the man. However, seeing the Partizan who were viciously targeting her, she did not dare to make such a claim. So the guard desperately protested why she had to be armed.

“Hey, I’m Paydo Charana, a guard from Diervan City! Weren’t you coming to the city of Diervan? I’m here to help!”

However, despite Peydo’s desperate pleas, the Partisans were not taken. She cursed herself inwardly at her colleague who had gone to the toilet while she herself was in this situation. In order to use the toilet, you had to go all the way down the wall, and on top of that, according to Peydo’s claim, that Damn Companion had a Disgusting< /i> Indeed Dirty Took a long time.

I seriously wondered if Faido’s association with the forest was in fact a different expression of the fact that he ran naked through the forest and urinated anywhere.

Faydo finally waved the blanket like a white flag.

“Look! I’m here to give you this blanket! Damn it! There are women too! I mean, I’m really here to help!!”

Her words were mixed with tears. Fay-do was about to become like the ancestors of her comrades in her thoughts, when she was earnestly unfolding to her alone that she herself, a member of her guard, was being interrogated by her wayman, and it was a single voice that saved her.

“Paydo!”

Zerpied and Faydo simultaneously looked in the direction the voice came from. An elf male came running, panting. An arming sword was held in one of his arms. This was the first time Faydo wanted to kiss that face.

“Heo Eok… ! Shit! What are you doing here! Why are you coming down alone and doing this! That, and you, get your weapons right now! I am Zittenleef Marlinmog, a guard from Diervan City! If you don’t stop your behavior right away, the city of Diervan will define you as an enemy!”

It was a very dignified, stern warning, but Zittenliff’s legs were trembling pitifully. Faydo wondered if she should kiss his face after first blocking his Vulgar Hole with her own arming sword.

Of course, all of those concerns were valid if you could survive right here. Despite Zittenliff’s stern warnings, the Partisan blade did not change direction. As if the tremors were contagious, they spread beyond Zettenleaf’s lower body to the hand holding the arming sword.

Paydo thought it must be contagious to tremors. Her legs were trembling like her companions. Now was the moment on the verge of truly becoming like the ancestors of his imaginary companions.

“…… Driver, I think it’s clear that these people are Diervan’s guards.”

A soft voice came from behind the kite shield. A girl with nice eyes, soft to match her voice, showed her face from behind her shield.

“I told you not to come out until I tell you.”

“But, knight, do they have the coat of arms of the city of Diervan on their shields?”

At Esilia’s words, Zerpied carefully examined their Parma. Parma, which was brown, had white dots all over it. It was a hexagonal snow crystal made up of white dots. Seeing the snow crystals, he moved his gaze toward the high walls. However, nothing resembling snow crystals could be found there.

Zerpied frowned. As his already sharp eyes grew even sharper, the hands holding the arming swords of the two guards stiffened with tension.

“Are you sure?”

“I’m sure. Diervan is the only place to use a hexagonal snow crystal on a brown background as a crest. I saw it in a book.”

Zerpied lazily turned the blade of the Partisan he was holding to the sky. Even at that moment, he did not take his eyes off the two of them. After equipping the Partisan on his back, he bowed his head.

“Sorry for the misunderstanding. There were circumstances that made it impossible.”

The two guards were finally able to cure the unknown disease that made the body tremble, an incurable disease.

–

“I… Are you a knight?”

Zer Pied nodded slowly and carefully. Even though I knew that the troll woman’s words simply contained the meaning of knighthood, I couldn’t help but feel a little strange whenever I heard the word I hadn’t heard in a long time. Moreover, she, like Esilia, was not even on her own as an escort.

Faydo saw the nodding man and considered it the best thing she had ever done in not swinging her arming sword at him.

He was a real knight. He could not pretend to be a knight unless he wanted to know what would happen if his neck and body were separated, and he could not deny that he was a knight according to chivalry. And she knew very well that if she attacked the knight, she would be the one who wanted to explore what would happen after the neck and body were separated.

Zetenleef asked a question the moment he saw Zerpied nod. There was excitement in his voice.

“Are you a real knight?! It’s an honor to meet you! Are you a member of the Knights Templar? Mid-continent? Or another continent?”

Zer Pied shook her head. He cast a gentle gaze toward Escelia beside him. Seeing his gaze, Zitten Leaf nodded his head and said yes.

“Are you a free driver?”

“Yes.”

“May I ask for your name?”

“My… postposition.”

Zerpied turned his gaze away from what he was trying to look back on and quickly cast his gaze at Ecilia once more. His lady was sweeping his chest. What he did was correct. After returning her gaze to Zetten Reef with the same speed with which he had been looking at her, Jer Peed thought Lady’s short stature to be an advantage this time. The footage of Ecilia sighing in relief and sweeping her chest was hidden from view by the two guards, covered by a kite shield.

“Jehuchi?”

“My name is Hooch, who serves Lady Gemini.”

The male guard quickly reinforced his explanation before becoming more suspicious. After hearing the explanation, Zettenlip smiled broadly and held out his hand to Zerfied.

“It is such a pleasure to meet you! Lady Gemini’s Night Hooch! Let me introduce you once again! I am Zittenleef Marlinmog, a guard from Diervan City! This is my colleague Faydo Charana!”

“Nice to meet you.”

Faydo couldn’t tell whether her comrades, who could shake hands with such vigor over someone who had just nearly killed them, were great or stupid. She sighed and bowed her head in greeting. Finally, she was able to focus on her duties as a guard.

“It is an honor to meet you, Lady Gemini and Sir Hooch. As you may have already been introduced, I am Faydo Charana, a guard from Diervan City. For what purpose did you two visit the city of Diervan?”

“I want to take the entrance exam.”

“… You must have gone the wrong way too. The entrance door is on the other side, so why did you come this way? Can I check your entry permit?”

“…… An entry permit?”

He looked at the lady, his eyes slightly frowning at the first information he heard. However, the saintess shook her head at her escort knight with a puzzled expression. Ecilia watched her escort knight with trembling eyes, and finally she came out from behind the kite shield and questioned Faydo.

“Well, do you really need a permit to enter the city of Diervan?”

“Uh… In most cases, permits are issued from the three villages of Rash, Picerin, and Emply, which have trade protection treaties with the city, but… Do you not have an entry permit?”

–

Diervan, located in the northernmost of all the cities of the Central Continent, has many unique characteristics as well as its unique geography, which has helped Diervan to have several nicknames. Looking at the massive 60 cubit western wall spread out in front of her eyes, Escelia was able to understand why Di Ervan had the nickname ‘City of Shields’.

And why there are no patterns on the western wall? Why would it take anything else to prove that the Western Wall itself was Dierban?

Of course, it wasn’t just the west. As if the fortress had been made into a city, a circular wall surrounded the city.

Although it does not reach the grandeur of the west, the size of the northern wall also boasted a majestic size of 40 cubits, and the southern and eastern walls also had a considerable length of 30 cubits each. She lifted her head and looked at the castle wall until her waist fell backwards, but Celia turned her head again and began to focus on the words of Zetten Leaf.

“… Did you really come through the West? No, how the hell can I get through the west?!”

“Stop it, you idiot! You already said so!”

Faydo was slightly nervous and pressed the elf’s head firmly. The task was not very difficult for her, as she was taller than her elves, given the average troll nature.

“No, it’s because I can’t believe it! Griffins and ogresOgre Will be teeming with things like that, so how do you get through?!”

Faydo said the same thing, but she couldn’t believe it for sure. As her colleague said, the west was teeming with dangerous creatures like griffins and ogres. That is why closed gates are called “Closed gates.”

We had no choice but to block the gates to the west, where such things frequently appeared, and build high walls. Diervan, which faces and blocks such creatures before other cities, deserves to be called the city of shields.

“As for the griffin, I’ve met her before. She ate the creature… “

“… She almost got eaten!”

Ecilia continued her words, showing off her tiny body. Appropriately passing her most startling moment since the town of Charcot, she went on with her voice quivering at what was about to happen. She began to recall eagerly the image of her griffin she ate.

“…… The fearsome creature spread its wings and charged at the knight. He tried to rip it off with his dagger-like claws erect! Claws collide with shields, and I thought it was thunder…… !”

Her fortunately quivering voice gave persuasiveness to her improvised adventure. Her experience of reading in her library was enough to make her a great storyteller.

And Faydo decided to correct the pitiful attitude of her colleague, who had now become Esilia’s complete audience, walking down the street and not looking at her at all. I grabbed Gitten Reef with all my might, who was almost tripped by her stone roots.

“You idiot! If you want to talk about adventures like that, why don’t you just become a knight, why are you working as a security guard with me-?!”

She was a slender woman, but due to her tall stature beyond that of her elves and her belonging to the Guard, the source of her slenderness was mostly her muscles. And all the poor elf who had been caught in the troll’s muscle could do was beat her arm vigorously to surrender.

“Khehe… ! Keck… ! If I had the skills to swear an oath of arms, I would have done it a long time ago… !”

Seeing the trolls and elves like that, Celia finally burst out laughing.

“Are you two really good?”

“…… What is good? No one gets along with him, so I’m just being kind like this.”

“… Hey, even if Fei-do said this, he was full of kindness inside. He said he was worried about this ugly childhood friend who applied for a security guard because he didn’t have the skills to become a knight, and when he saw that he also applied for a security guard… Khehe… !! Alas, surrender! Surrender!!”

“When did I worry about you! It would be the worst thing in the history of the guard if you, who were less successful, were accepted into the guard, so I just thought I had to stop that!”

Esilia had to laugh again as she looked at Faydo, who blushed and retorted her eagerly. What broke the atmosphere of laughter was Zerfied’s low voice.

“That….”

All three turned their heads to where the words had been heard. A person was being carried on a stretcher by guards. The white cloth covered was red everywhere. Gittenreef replied in an uncharacteristic melancholy voice. His long, light-green hair hung limply.

“…… Looks like someone else got hit while on patrol. It’s common. The West is the most dangerous, but Rephaim Forest is dangerous enough, and it’s not like it doesn’t appear anywhere else.”

It was only then that Zerfied realized why they were so friendly, even though he was armed and had no entry permits and his identity was unknown. In this place, where people are often killed by dangerous creatures, skilled armed men would be valuable recruitment targets. But he could also see that they didn’t let him in without thinking.

This road under the castle wall seemed to be full after two slightly taller people stood side by side. Of course, since it was under the castle wall, it was a street corner mainly used by the guards, and as proof of this, most of the people they encountered were guards. All of them went in the form of a pair of two, and were wearing weapons.

A pretty polite threat, he thought. It was clearly implied that if they caused even the slightest trouble, they would immediately subdue them. And Zer Pied had no intention of killing all the guards to draw attention to her and embarrass her saintess, so he silently followed their suggestion. Of course, one of the reasons was that they were friendly.

While he was thinking that, they passed several twists and turns and turned a corner in a stone wall. A huge plaza spread out before the eyes of the saintess and the Death Knight. A simple but spacious and magnificent plaza built around a large statue. Numerous people crowded around and sharing their stories and lives. Seeing the scenery of a big city for the first time outside of the capital city, the saintess stared blankly at it.

Then, Faydo smiled softly at her saintess, exposing her pointed teeth.

“I’m a bit late to say this, but… Welcome to Diervan City. You two haven’t been issued a pass yet, so some shops and restaurants will be restricted… And unfortunately, it seems that it will take some time until it is issued. The knights are returning today, so there will be a festival for several days.”

“The Knights… ? No way….”

“Yes, it must be the Knights that Miss Gemini knows. Oh, it’s coming just in time.”

As soon as Faydo finished speaking, a white horse with pristine white fur came running from the center of the main street opposite her statue. The saintess could see. She saw a knight in gleaming plate armor riding on a white horse. She and she could recall.

The most famous nickname of Diervan in the book, ‘City of Knights’, which contributed the most to making it have that nickname. The Knights of the Full Snow.