Chapter 1020

Episode 1020. Hiding in the woods for three days?

The first person in Alpha Company to discover Elio and Fabian was Cale, a knight from the 1st Platoon.

When something stepped out of the crack, he hurriedly blew the whistle for a signal, and the whistle fell from his mouth.

“Fabian?”

What came out of the rift were Fabian and Elio, who had entered the rift three days ago.

“Sir Fabian! Sir Elio!”

Cale screamed like a madman and ran to the crack.

The soldiers of Alpha Company, who had been resting in the absence of the beast, gathered one by one at the entrance of the crack as if being led.

Soon, cheers erupted from the mouths of the soldiers and knights who saw Elio and Fabian alive and well.

When Viscount Oscar Avid and Baron Dennis Robin approached belatedly, the men of Alpha Company hurriedly returned to their positions.

Upon discovering Viscount Oscar Avid, Elio and Fabian bowed their heads.

“Chief.”

“Goodbye. Have you just returned from reconnaissance of Tameyon?”

Viscount Oscar Avid said ‘Tameion’ with force.

If he had been scouting elsewhere, he had given him a chance to correct himself.

“yes.”

“Both of you?”

Viscount Oscar Avid’s gaze turned to Fabian this time.

“That’s right.”

Fabian did not deny it either.

Alpha Company saw that he fell into the rift, so he couldn’t deny it.

“You’ve had a hard time. company commander.”

At the Viscount’s call, Baron Dennis Robin stepped forward.

“yes.”

“Immediately isolate these two separately. I will have the interrogator investigate the reconnaissance.”

His staff, Viscount Oscar Avid, was thinking of entrusting it to a professional interrogator given the seriousness of the matter.

For a moment, Fabian looked at Elio without realizing it.

However, Elio had an indifferent face as if it were someone else’s business.

Eventually, Elio and Fabian, who returned safely from Tamion, were moved to different locations by Baron Dennis Robin.

***

Baron Carl Dane, the interrogator of Marquis Bernardo’s family, was called the messenger of the estate twenty years ago.

A commoner (Ramus) of noble origin, he became a baron thanks to his merits at that time, and now works as an interrogator for the marquis.

Baron Carl Dane stared intently at Elio.

Baron Carl Dane, who had been reading the documents for about 15 minutes without saying anything, asked abruptly.

“From the ‘mountain tribe’?”

“yes.”

“How strange. Sir’s mastery of swordsmanship would have been famous among the savage tribes... No one knew Sir’s name. What do you think about this?”

“Is there any advantage to living if you call yourself a savage?”

“He is too. get to the point Did you go over to Tamion?”

“If beyond the rift is Tameion, then it is correct that it passed.”

“How was it there? Was it really a dark and desolate place like the rumors say?”

“I didn’t go deep into it, so I have nothing to say about that part. As for the area near the ice wall, it was similar to the Hirhera area.”

“At what point?”

“The topography and climate of the snowfields are similar. It seemed that the great snowfield had been completely blocked by an ice wall. They weren’t completely different from each other.”

“I will note that it is limited to the vicinity of the ice wall. And don’t make such remarks anywhere. If you don’t want to be accused of heresy and die.”

“Heretic?”

“If Tameion, the world of demons, is similar to our Rodina continent, do you think you would stay still in the temple? At that time, you will face the Heretic Inquisitor, not me.”

Still, Baron Carl Dane, who was from the same Marquis Bernardo family, gave advice instead of accusation.

Certainly, the aura was stronger than the internal strength.

To be honest, when I returned to the present world, I wondered if Namgung-yeon and Shimtong’s aura were sealed.

If Aiki and Mana are related like that, I think there will be no answer unless Mana is awakened.

‘Yes, let’s awaken the manna.’

It won’t be difficult to awaken mana like it was when you learned aura.

He slowly fell asleep while imagining that he was awakening his mana and surprising the people around him.

***

Next morning.

Baron Cal Dane found Fabian, who was sequestered in a makeshift barracks.

Baron Carl Dane’s eyes narrowed when he saw Fabian, who was sitting with a tense face unlike Elio, who was calm.

‘Maybe things will work out.’

Both were in their twenties, but compared to Helio, Fabian was like a child.

“Fabian Cloud. Although he is the eldest son of Baron Silas Cloud, he is unfortunately a commoner because he is a single winner. Am I right?”

“yes.”

“I have looked closely at your records. You awakened Mana at the age of 16 and earned the title of ‘Kluton’s Genius Knight’?”

“It is an undeserved title.”

“By the way, there is a record of him missing from his first duty station, Pontiac Company in the Montanosa Mountains. What happened?”

“I was chasing the mortally wounded Beast... and got lost.”

“Pontiac Company is a famous Ranger unit... are you saying it got lost?”

“Because it was my first assignment, the terrain was dark.”

“I heard that new recruits in the Ranger unit are supposed to go through basic training, but did you mean that?”

“...yes. I was so embarrassed...”

Fabian couldn’t even lift his face in shame when the baron revealed his dark history.

“Which is more dangerous, the Montanosa Mountains or the Tamion?”

“Of course it is Tamion.”

“Then you must have been more embarrassed in Tamion.”

“yes.”

“Then why did you set out to guide Sir Elio to Tameyon? Sir’s mission was to bring Sir Elio back to Alpha Company.”

“I was a little relieved that I didn’t see a demon beast around the ice wall. So, ‘Wouldn’t it be all right if I scouted that Tameion came in?’ I thought.”

“I heard that he was relieved to be with Sir Elio, is that correct?”

“There is no such thing.”

“A man who panicked and lost his way in the Montanosa Mountains was relieved in the more heinous Tamion? It’s fun.”

“...”

Fabian seemed to have made a mistake, but he was not confident enough to correct it, so he remained silent.

“I don’t deny it. I got it. Then tell Dennis Robin what happened after you volunteered to bring Sir Elio to the company commander.”

Baron Caldane skillfully led the conversation.

“What I saw right after entering Tamion was a fight between an Ice Ogre and Lord Elio, who fled after being mortally wounded by Alpha Company’s attack. I met Sir Elio shortly after he took the last breath of the half-dead Ice Ogre. Perhaps because of the Ice Ogre, I couldn’t see any other monsters near the ice wall. You pointed out my mission a little while ago, but since there was no danger, I decided to patrol the area with Sir Elio.”

Fabian, who spoke like an excuse, looked at Baron Chaldean’s complexion.

Baron Caldean didn’t react much, just wrote it down.

Relieved by that appearance, Fabian continued to speak more comfortably.

“It’s called patrol, but in reality, it was all about hiding in the frozen forest and looking over the snowfields. As you know, there’s nothing two knights can do in Tamion. Then I saw six warlocks standing in a circle around a stake and casting spells. As the warlocks sacrificed people, the stake melted away under the snowfield as if it had been dipped in water. And the six warlocks made a huge teleport formation and disappeared. After waiting for three days, the warlocks did not reappear. Sir Elio and I hid in the woods and returned right away.”

“You hid in the woods for three days?”

“yes.”

“In the vicinity of the spot where there are no Ice Ogres and six corpses killed by warlocks remain?”

“yes.”

“Did you know that monsters can smell blood from 10 kilometers away?”

“It was a bit far from the forest.”

“Humans smell better. Even the ice forest is a home for some demons. To think that he returned safely after spending three days in the Witchbeast’s nest. If Sir Elio was a sword master, wouldn’t he know? That’s impossible.”