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Note

This chapter is only focusing on the first OC that I spoiled the previous chapter and you get a more or less glimpse of his past as a holy knight. However, you will see his first POV. I might have to warn you that my grammar is really bad

If you spot any spelling or Grammer errors, I tried to improve it possibly.

Summary

A fellow dark knight decided to talk with a traveler in the traveling carriage to wait until arriving at the next destination. However, after the conversation, he recalled his former life as being trained to become a holy knight.

Traveling with a group of people can be deceiving. You cannot know what kind of people they are because they somehow kept their true self by pretending to be what they were not supposed to be. For example, among the people, any of them could be an adventurer, knight, merchants, or but a worst-case scenario, a bandit who disguised as a people, waiting for the right opportunity to signal a group of bandit in many ways to rob or kill the people including me. Fortunately, a carriage was accompanied by three or four people including me who were sitting to wait for our destination.

Staring at my feet, I was both honestly boarded and impatient that the traveling in a carriage took longer than a half an hour to reach the town due to the disturbance news that causes every traveler to be afraid and cautious. It was said that some of them were killed while their belongings and goods were stolen by an anonymous group of bandits during the traveling for the past three months. Nobody knew how they were able to coordinate. I was pretty irritated to think that but I cannot blame the driver's fear of being robbed or killed. While my eyes staring at my feet, affecting my mind to be in a blank state, a voice called me.

"You bored?"

I looked up to see an elderly man who called me. At the same time, I examined that he was human in his sixties and he might be a merchant from other towns that the carriage was originally from. However, I could not bother with it since I'm bored so I decided to relax and started a conversation with him.

"Yes."

"Heh, I cannot blame you to be bored since the ongoing incident making every carriage that the people are cautious during traveling."

"I'm aware of the incident but I hope the group of bandits will be caught soon or later."

"I'm not sure about it because they're able to pull off to rob and kill everyone without being careless."

"Maybe they have a smart leader to follow?"

"Possibly."

It was a great start to start a conversation with the elderly merchant for me to be awakened but at the same time, I forgot that a Draph mother and her daughter were sitting beside me. Her scared daughter shivered in fear by our conversation about the situation involving bandit and killing. The mother glared at us angrily for a cause that we made and we became guilty by it. We quickly decided to change the topic that involved no killing and other dangerous things.

"What are you here for from traveling, mister?" I asked with a smile

"I'm going to visit my sister in my family's hometown to talk about my fourteen years old grandnephew wanting to be a knight," The elderly merchant replied with a heavy sigh.

"A knight? Is that any problem with that?"

"Yes, my sister is against him becoming a knight because of how dangerous the knight can be," The elderly man explained his situation.

I would not deny that the knight can be both dangerous and foolish that they could end up being killed in a battlefield or anywhere. They can die at their earliest age in the first battle without proper training. However, I think it benefits them to wield a sword to protect themselves and the people from either monster, bandit, enemy, or worst, primal beast, with good teaching. I cannot blame the elderly merchant's sister for being worried about her grandson's safety. Judging his face and voice, he was not sure to side with either his sister or grandson. Maybe I should give my possibly good advice, hoping it would work.

"I think that you should convince your sister to allow your grandnephew to persuade his dream but before that, you need to listen to his reason why he wanted to become a knight so that you can understand and decided to allow or not," I advised with confident towards the elderly merchant not as a man but once a knight.

The elderly merchant became quiet after giving my advice to him. I waited patiently for his answer but surprisingly, it took him a minute to reply to my advice.

"Hearing from you, I think I should accept your advice and follow it so thank you," The elderly merchant thanked me with a smile.

"Your welcome," I smiled back. I was glad that my advice had impacted the elderly merchant's mindset and he took it as a guarantee to tell his grandnephew when he was going to arrive at his hometown. It reminded me of his former life as a knight of Lumiel Order of Holy Knight.

"By any chance, are you perhaps a knight because the way you talked with your own experience like you're a knight?" The elderly merchant asked with his curiously.

"Yes, I am, but serve my own accord."

"Ah, a wandering knight."

"You could say that." I smiled.

9 Years Ago

Hearing my loud breathing, I almost passed out from a long-distance running while wearing heavy plate armor along with peers. I always thought the order's military drill was way tougher than the normal one but this was way too much for me to handle. It was lucky that there was no sun in the sky because otherwise, I might pass out halfway through in the run. As my exhaustion was no more, I watched the group of tired peers who were either lying dead, sitting, or drinking a gallon of water.

Unfortunately, our resting was immediately interrupted by our drill's shout.

"Time's up! Go back to your training!"

I turned around to see our Instructor who was a human woman, barking at us to do the next exercise which was sword sparring. I could not take a look at her face closely from the position that I am in. Some of us groaned in annoyance, mixed with tiredness and irritation but we have to follow our drill no matter because any of us will get kicked out if we defy the drill or broke the rule. As we immediately went to sword sparring, I partnered up with an Erune male rookie knight.

"Are you ready?" The rookie asked me with confidence.

I nodded in reply and we began to run to each other with our swords ready. Our blade clashed. The rookie kept swinging his sword left and right at me but I blocked as I read his attack pattern easily. I then swung my sword to knock him out of his hand and as his sword flew out and I pointed at his neck. Even though he was a rookie, he was too sloppy and easily let his opening reveal for his opponent.

The rookie became agitated at the pointing blade of my sword at his neck. He sighed, blinking his eyes and smiled with bitterness. I lowered my sword, allowing him to relax.

"That was impressive that you managed to defeat me," The rookie praised me.

"You don't have to praise me. We have a long road ahead to become a holy knight."

"You're right. What's your name?"

"Edward," I introduced my first name to the rookie.

"Since you introduced your first name, then I also introduced my first name too; Toby."

I chuckled at the rookie, Toby, as I think I find his introduction was funny. Toby walked to his landed sword to pick up. While he was walking, I heard his cry out of his thought, "Ouch. Edward is really strong enough to crush my hand if he decided not to hold back. How the hell he was so strong?"

I felt guilty thanks to Toby's word but I was not sure whether I was too strong or Toby was too weak. After picking up his sword, he walked towards me and asked with a smile, "Do you want to go another round?"

I felt a faint of Toby's determination as he wanted to improve his skill to become a holy knight. There was no point in rejecting his request for another round of sword sparring which made me smile a bit. I liked his determination even though I think I hurt his hand. He reminded me of the person that I know of who was trying to become a mage. As I was about to accept, a loud commotion paused me. We both turned our heads around to see a Draph rookie knight arguing with the Instructor angrily. This could turn ugly at any moment and I cannot shake the feeling. I began to move towards the argument with my sword while Toby was oblivious to me as his eyes still averted on the argument.

While walking, my eyes were focusing closely on the Draph knight's action. The knight was slowly moving his hand to the grip of the sword without being noticed. He then took his sword out of the sheath and raised it to strike at the Instructor. I began to run towards her but my feet said otherwise. They dragged me to slow my running movement down. I then quickly used my strength in my arm to throw my sword. My hand released the grip of my sword and sent it flying up, spinning itself in mid-air while I shouted at the drill, "Lady, catch!"

The Instructor turned to my attention to see a flying sword in the air and she quickly decided to do without thinking. As my spinning sword flew towards her and the Draph, she successfully caught it by its grip and countered the angry knight's strike. She then hit his face with a pommel of my sword with full force to knock him out. Seeing his face being crushed made me flinched at the display. I felt a little sympathetic for him to be knocked by her but I am glad to prevent the incident like that from happening.

The Draph's body fell with a loud thud, laying his face-first on the ground. All of us gaped in awe or shock at the drill's display. I sighed in relief for the Instructor's safety but as for him, I hoped that he would be disciplined to learn his lesson if he was given a second chance. I almost forgot to pry for his face to be recovered back to normal even though he was in the wrong. I quickly turned around to walk away to join Toby with my tiring leg to try not to get any of rookie and veteran's attention on me, but it was too late. I failed to realize that everyone was focusing on me but I was not bothered because I was too tired and I honestly hate this training for making me too tired.

After the disaster training, Many recruits either went back to their barrack or to buy tons of food and water to recharge their energy. Either way, they can rest in their way. However, my main worry was the rumor about me would spread sooner or later. I honestly hate their attention for no reason but it does make me awkward. Hoping that no one would come up to me to ask about me but unfortunately, a familiar loud female voice startled me. "Hey, you there!"

Cursed my word. I turned around to see the Instructor walking towards me. She was a beautiful woman with a slender body. Both blonde hair and azure blue eyes suit her beauty. She stopped in front of me and asked, "Are you the recruit at the training site?"

There was no point in denying the question from a higher rank knight or instructor when you were just a recruit. This could be my worst luck. I had to reply, "Yes, Instructor."

"Heh, the way you threw your sword to pass over to me was quite amazing even though I got this under the control," The Instructor praised me with a laugh.

Huh, I never knew the Instructor praised my sword skill with her compliment because I thought every Instructor would not praise the recruit only until they became a full-fledged knight. I guess I should be proud of her praise.

"However, there's still a long way to go to master your sword skill as you would get killed by an enemy if you haven't mastered it. Not only that, your technique on wielding a sword is good, but not good enough because of your current skill."

I spoke too soon. I have no idea what the instructor was trying to say about my skill? Mine was good enough to both defeat my opponent and defend myself from them. I was honestly upset by her criticism. As I was about to reply, she continued, "You may be a proficient swordsman but do you realize that your strength had almost hurt every recruit when you're sparring with them for the past three weeks since you arrived."

I never thought about it. I guess I was too dense to realize my strength that can imminently hurt someone else. My upset feeling towards her was slightly no more but still, she should not criticize my skill harshly. However, I am glad that our conversation would not turn out to be a disaster. "I understand, madam."

"Sheesh, what does everyone call me madam or dril? It pissed me off," The instructor cursed irrationally. She sighed and tried to remain professional in front of me after cursing. "Anyway, Recruit, what's your name?"

"Edward. Edward Blackwood."

"Heh, since you introduced me with your full name, so I will do the same. I'm Elizabeth Windsor, Captain of Lumiel Order of Holy Knights, and I'm your temporary dril."

I was shocked to learn that my instructor, Elizabeth, was a captain but not surprised that she was acting as an instructor to all recruits because I heard that there was a powerful primal beast near the order's location so they have to dispatch some best knights to handle it. I may have been suspicious that I already saw her right before joining the order but I also might be wrong that she could be the one who saved the kidnapped children in my home village. I shrugged my thoughts away and waited for her to finish her word.

"I reassured you that you're not stupid to swing a sword randomly, Edward. You have the potential to become a knight if I or others will correctly teach you, but you have to train your body and control your strength."

Elizabeth's compliment word may be blunt to my abilities but it was efficient for me to know about my strengths and weaknesses. I wondered how many recruits would take Elizabeth's word as both rude and offensive to their both pride and abilities. I can picture their furious reaction face.

Present

The carriage suddenly stopped at its track, staggering everyone including me inside while the driver shrieked at the front. It snapped me back to reality. I could not help myself but check what was going on outside before grabbing both my greatsword by its handle to put on my back and helmet with my hand on the floor. As I hopped off the back of the carriage, I walked hastily to check the driver but eventually found the male driver who was covering his flesh wound on his right shoulder. He was shot. I turned my head around and backward to see three bandits at the front and two bandits at the back. The situation was dire.

"Give up your goods and money so that you can leave alive but if not, you all will be dead!" The bandit shouted with his devilish smile. It made me vomit out.

I removed my cloak to reveal myself. From head to toe, I dressed in black scary demonic-looking armor sets with a blue lower tabard covering around my lower body except for the font. I put my knight helmet over my head and unsheathed my greatsword to be in my fighting stance. I gave off a terrifying intimate to all the bandits, seeing the bandit covering with fear while the weapons on their hands shaking uncontrollably. I turned back to the driver who was looking in pain instead of fear. I asked to see if he was alright.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, mister."

"Good, because I need to ask a favor; I need you to move your carriage as fast as possible to escape when I make an opening at the font. Are you alright with that despite your injuries?"

"Yeah, and my injuries would not bother me down as my passages' life is in stake."

"Good."

I began to charge at the font and jumped in mid-air while lifting my greatsword upward. As I landed on the ground, I strike down, crashing on the ground to create a shockwave to blow the bandits to the ground. It created an open path for the driver to move the carriage. The carriage began to move quickly to escape but the two bandits began to fire their firearm. I ran back behind the moving carriage to shield from the shot with my greatsword. While shielding, I turned around to see the carriage further away from my sight until no more.

"DAMNIT! Kill that fool!" The bandit shouted angrily when he and others stood up.

I abandoned shielding and dodged to the right. I ran towards the firing bullet from the firearm-wielding bandits and when I reached near them, I swung it to strike both down for the kill.

As the two lifeless bandits fell to the ground, the remaining three charged at me with their furious roars. I turned around to face them and held my greatsword to my face. My blue eyes closed for a second and opened to reveal my changing color eyes: Violet Purple. My blade was engulfed in a mixture of three colors flame: Black, Purple, and Red. As the charging bandits came near me, I swung it to the right at the charging bandits with a roar. They screamed in pain with a slash on their upper body and scattered across on the ground. Hearing their scream in pain was not pleasant, but it was the only way to kill them when in any worst situation.

I lowered my greatsword and looked at the lifeless bandits on the ground. No movement. I swung mine to clean off the blood on the blade until it was clean. I unsheathed it on my back and began to walk away from them. I glad that the bandits were killed while I was hoping them to be a culprit for their robbing and killing for the past three months. I would not take any valuable belonging from their dead body because I could not be bothered by it.

After an hour, I arrived at the town and found out that the carriage was safe by looking at it. The driver ran towards me with a bandage covering his wounded right shoulder and began to thank me.

"Thank you so much for saving me and others. How could I ever repay your chivalry action?"

"Don't need it but I need to know if my bag remained in the back of the carriage?"

"Yes, and no one did not take yours."

"Thanks."

My tabard was suddenly tucked down and I looked down to see the same daughter who was with her mother in the same carriage. She was looking at me in awe. I felt relieved that she was afraid of my appearance because otherwise, she would run off with her petrified crying. This would make me look in a bad spotlight around the people. I kneed down to look at her. I was not sure what action she made but I do think that neither she nor her action was malice. I waited for her to talk and she did it.

"Mister Knight, thank you for saving us."

"No problem, kids. Did you stay brave?" I asked with a smile.

The daughter nodded in reply.

"Good. Go back to your mummy because you don't want her to be worried or scared."

"Okie."

The daughter ran back to her mother. I both sighed in relief and smiled happily that I did save them. No one was hurt even though the driver was lightly injured but not killed. Since today was tiring, I should find the inn to rest so that I can travel to another island the next day. I let my thought to say with a smile

"Where should I go next?"

Extra Notes

My writing on the first POV of this chapter is hard but manageable. I hope that I could improve when it's come to the first POV.

So, What do you think?

See you next time.