Chapter 316 (1/2)

The men were sitting down with the scarlet sunset behind their backs. Kerenos was in the front row and he had already been meditating for two hours with his top off. Behind him, the other knights were also meditating with their tops off. Kerenos focused his mind while casually listening to the knights who groaned as their legs shook.

“......”

Kerenos was looking back on his fight with Belphegor. It was very helpful for his development to look back on himself and the battle. Kerenos often encouraged the other knights to meditate like this and now they were all practicing it together.

“Umm...”

“Ugh. My legs...”

“There is no blood flow...”

The knights behind him continued to groan. Kerenos spoke as if to ignore the pain of those knights, “Put up with it. This is also part of training.”

“Umm...”

“Ugh. Shit...”

Behind him, disgruntled groans continued to emerge. Becker, the deputy captain sitting right behind Kerenos, slowly opened his mouth. “...Captain, this is a harsh act.”

“No.”

“I am now 40.”

“I’m also in my mid-30s.”

“I’m four years older than the captain.”

“So you want to quit alone?”

Becker flinched. He slowly turned his head and looked back. The other knights were sending him a stinging look. Becker realized he had been tricked by Kerenos and swallowed down the curses. “No. How can that be? Cough.”

Thus, Becker focused on meditation again like nothing happened. Kerenos laughed as he blocked the accusations. He was happy to see Becker stuck after this person tried to escape.

‘I need more power.’

In the last first, Kerenos had used the Storm Spear 3rd style, Typhoon. Windia might now be restored, but it was a technique that once blew up nearly half of Windia. However, Belphegor didn’t stop at all after being struck. It came as a great shock for Kerenos. He never dreamt there wouldn’t even be one scratch.

‘In the future, stronger enemies will appear. Was I too complacent?’

Kerenos looked back on the storm style and thought of his teacher, Mugen. Mugen was a longtime acquaintance of his mother, Flora. He was a high elf like his mother. He was particularly eccentric among the elves and it was said he used the spear alone when no one was sold on the idea of using spears. Then he learned the Storm Spear and was called the Spear God on the continent.

Kerenos was only able to see it now that he was closer to his teacher’s body. From now on, he should develop his own Storm Spear, not his teacher’s one. Maybe it would take a really long time. Mugen was a high elf, so he was able to focus on the spear for a long time. Kerenos was a human, so he didn’t have this time. Perhaps that was why he was even more impatient.

It happened as Kerenos was recalling the face of his teacher, Mugen...

Suddenly, a strong gust of wind struck him and he felt himself being strangled.

“Keuk!”

His feet left the ground. Kerenos raised his eyes when he felt a floating sensation and realized he had risen in the sky.

“W-Who? Keuk!”

“Shut up, this guy.”

There was the familiar painful feeling from his ass being kicked. In this way, Kerenos was kidnapped by an unknown person.

Becker and the other Sylphid Knights blinked as they stared blankly at the sudden wind and Kerenos’ empty seat. The first one to stand up was Becker. “Let’s go for a meal. He seems to have been caught by the old man.”

The knights all nodded. No one was interested in what happened with Kerenos.

* * *

A short time later, I took Kerenos back to the tower of the wind. As expected, Kerenos was very annoyed by the sudden abduction. Punghee saw Kerenos and screamed, “Kyaaak!”

Ah, it turned out this guy had taken off his top. Still, I didn’t know why Punghee was screaming when she wasn’t human. Well, this wasn’t important.

“I have one leather armor top left. Put it on.”

Kerenos wore the leather armor I gave him and once again complained. Punghee was covering her face with her hands, but I noticed she was peeping through her fingers.

In any case.

“No, old man. Aren’t you too much? How can you suddenly kidnap someone like this?”

“Where did I do that?”

“...Hah, there is no point talking.”

Kerenos knew it was useless for him to argue with me and gave up with a sigh. I patted his drooping shoulders.

“Why are you suddenly pretending to be close to me?”