Return of The Unrivaled Spear Knight

>“The enemy! The enemy is attacking us from behind!”

Gehog scowled.
“The enemy?”

“We should take a look.”

“I thought you said they only have a hundred people.”

“It appears they also have a hundred knights behind us,” Wright, an A-Class Knight, noted.

“Hired knights?” Gehog frowned.
“Nobody said anything about this.”

“They may not be working for the Pontiers.”

“Then what the hell are they doing here? Helping the Pontiers when they’re on the brink of defeat? Is this a joke?”

“Whoever they might be…” Wright murmured.

“I hope I see some headless bodies… soon.”

“I hear and obey.”

“Don’t worry about it too much.” Gehog smirked.
“Just send two units.” He then fed mana into his voice.
“Army! Advance!”

“I hear and obey.” Wright bowed his head and turned his horse around.

Two units of knights—about 300 men—followed him, three times as many as the group that had struck from behind.

A Crombell knight approached Wright and bowed.

“Is that them?”

“Affirmative, Commander!”

“I’ve never seen that coat of arms in the Empire before.
That pattern…” Wright examined the hammers and arches embossed on the black armor and scowled.
Their heraldry was not the only problem—each and every one of them was highly skilled.
Their blades cut the opposing knights like a scythe through grain.

Uncertainty crept onto Wright’s face as he kept looking.
There was a man at the front of the pack, youthful and attractive.
He definitely recognized that face.

“…Duke Agnus?”

They’d cut ties years ago, but everyone in the Avalon Empire would recognize the similarities between their faces4.

“Hmm… I see now.
That’s Joshua von Agnus—Joshua Sanders, the greatest talent of all time.” Wright rubbed his chin.
The corner of his mouth couldn’t help but curl upward as he admired Joshua.
He thought the rumors had been exaggerated, but apparently, he was wrong.
Joshua’s skills alone were a feat worthy of the history books.

“Hah.” Wright abruptly stopped and turned toward Joshua.
The three hundred knights following him gave him an odd look, but that was just how he liked to do things.

Joshua and Wright locked eyes.

“I am a knight in the service of Marquis Crombell.
My name is Viscount Wright seon Nagari.
I’ve heard the rumors, Joshua Sanders, but I never expected to meet you like this.” Wright’s smile continued to grow.
“To throw in with the losing team—you must be a fool.”

The Crombell knights jeered.

“Are you worried about your men? Or… do you feel guilty for abandoning them?”

Joshua responded by wresting his crimson spear from the fabric of space and leveling its blazing tip at Wright.

“You talk too much.”

“Boy, don’t you know how scary heaven is?” Wright drew his sword.
“I’ll chop off your head, my men will chop off your limbs, and then I’ll feed you to the dogs.”

The young Baron stared darkly at him.

“No excuses—you pointed your weapon at me first.” Wright’s blade shimmered with Aura.
Mana danced on its edge like fire, subtly denser than that of a fresh A-Class Knight.

Leo de Grans noticed the danger and began to advance cautiously.

They were interrupted by a soft pop.

“Ugghhh—” Wright lowered his head and stared at the spear running through his heart.
“When—When did you—?”

The light faded from his eyes quickly.
All that was left behind was his bewildered expression.

It was an astonishingly pointless conclusion for an A-Class Knight.

The Wilhelm Knights stared in awed silence while the Crombell knights were crushed by the incomprehensible reality.

“Proud Wilhelm Knights, hear me!” Joshua brandished his spear.

“Speak!” Leo de Grans trembled, but in a different way from Wright.
He dropped to his knee, quickly followed by the other black-clad knights.

“Eliminate these nuisances, quickly.”

“Your will is our command!”

The Wilhelm Knights brayed like rabid dogs straining at the leash.
What was there to fear when they were led by a man like this? Numbers meant nothing to them anymore.

“Slay anyone who dares stand before our king!”

“WOOOOOH!”

A feast of blood began as their mad howl pierced the heavens.

TLN: That must be a beautiful pair of eyes… Manhwa, don’t fail us! ↩️

EDN: Cain often used “-nim” when referring to Icarus and I’ve tried to make him sound more formal when it comes out.
Maybe I’ve done a shit job, but you’re stuck with me until the rest of the team figures out that I have no idea what I’m doing. ↩️

TLN: 동생 같아서— No pronouns again, I see… I now feel so bad for asserting that Icarus is a girl when the story itself lacked pronouns -_- ↩️

TLN: huh? I guess here, but manhwa… nuh-uh ↩️