ALL NOVEL C2
Chapter 2 – Heir to the Light of the Holy King (2)
“Plunder! Plunder!”
“Strip them! Strip them all!”
“The hatchet is mine!”
“Oh, he’s got a pouch around his waist!”
“Do they have money?”
“Hmph, look, he’s got a dagger too.”
The serfs were excitedly rummaging through the bodies of the dead kobolds.
No, they were just stripping them naked and grabbing whatever they could.
Fantasy Monarch strived for realism while still being a game, the serf troops often looted, but the game’s oversight meant that they were only labeled as “looted!” or something like that.
But when I realized that the looting was directed at humanoid monsters, I couldn’t help but feel a bit dazed.
“That, stop! Everybody stop!”
As I watched in stunned disbelief, a large man stopped the serfs, dazed and alarmed.
“Uh, that……ah! We took the loot for the knight. Hehe.”
The man who had retrieved the various items from the serfs like water from a stream said as he bowed to Yoo-seong.
The pockets he held out were filled with coins, rings, necklaces, and other small items.
‘Is this the captain?’
Jimmy, the leader of the serf troop, is the leader of the ten-man troop.
The reason I knew his name and status was simple.
Just like in Fantasy Monarch, the bright green text “Ten-Man Captain Jimmy” hovered clearly above Jimmy’s head.
Yoo-seong, who was faced with Jimmy’s awkwardly smiling face, simply nodded and took the pouch instead of telling him to hand over the spear and hatchet he had brought.
Again, the reason was simple: the overall combat power of the serf troops had increased thanks to the new armament.
“Hmph, we’ll take our leave then.”
The entire serf army, including Jimmy, who bowed his head, immediately followed suit.
There was a blur of light, just as there had been when they appeared, and then the entire army of serfs vanished like a lie.
It was truly an astonishing sight, but perhaps because the events that had already happened were happening in reverse, or perhaps because the situation was dire, Yoo-seong continued to think rationally and calmly instead of being startled.
‘Is this a summoned troop concept that can be summoned during battle?’
If so, that would be a very tactical use.
An army that suddenly appears before the enemy’s eyes.
What better ambush could there be in the world?
‘They can grow.’
Changing their armament increased their combat power.
If it was like in Fantasy Monarch, the combat power of each troop would increase as their combat proficiency increased.
The Black Lance Cavalry, the main force of the Black Wolves, started out as a serf army.
Yoo-seong wanted to start researching the stats and skills in earnest, but he stopped thinking about it and looked around.
The first thing he saw were three mangled kobold corpses and a girl with purple hair, staggering to her feet not far away.
Yoo-seong hurried over to her.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Haa……haa……ugh…….”
The girl stumbled and landed on her ass, barely able to raise her head to look at Yoo-seong.
“Inheritance……?”
The language the girl spoke was not Korean.
But Yoo-sung could understand what she was saying.
‘The heir. Heir to the light?’
Chivalry, the name he’d seen in the status window earlier.
Once Yoo-seong nodded, the girl, who had been watching for his reaction, breathed a deep sigh of relief and smiled, albeit faintly.
“My name is Rene, Rene Baltois.”
She must have been in her late teens now.
Again, she was a very beautiful girl.
“Uh……I’m Yoo-seong.”
Yoo-seong’s response-or rather, the girl’s satisfaction at the alien name-made her smile.
“Ha, ha, ha……wasn’t a dream after all…….”
That was it.
The girl was so relieved that the tension in her body seemed to dissipate, and she collapsed and closed her eyes.
In a panic, Yoo-seong quickly put his hand to the girl’s nose, and from the way she was breathing, she must have passed out from exhaustion.
‘Of course, exhaustion isn’t really a word to describe it.’
Anyway, he woke up in a fantasy Monarch-like world, fighting a kobold, and now there was a fainted girl in front of him.
Still perplexed, Yoo-seong took a deep breath and came to his senses.
‘Let’s take her and hide.’
Given that she had called Yoo-seong the heir, and mentioned something about a nonsensical dream right before passing out, it was highly likely that Rene knew something about the current situation.
She was the one who suggested calling out the status window.
‘Maybe she’s an angel or fairy or something from the beginning of the game.’
Or a princess who summoned a hero.
Holding Rene in his arms, Yoo-seong glanced at the fallen horse.
Sadly, it seemed to have already died.
It was the first horse he’d ever seen, but he gave it a brief moment of silence, then moved about two hundred meters away and laid Rene down in a dense bush.
‘Alright, back to skills.’
Regardless of his reasons for coming to this world, what he needed most was the strength to defend himself now that the monsters were real.
And the means to become stronger was right in front of him.
“Status window.”
[Name: Cheon Yoo-seong]
[Gender: Male]
[Occupation: Apprentice Knight]
[Level: 2]
[Status: Beginner Commander]
[Specialties: Heir to the Holy King (???), Master of the Legion (the stronger the legion’s combat power, the stronger the owner’s combat power), Heir to the Round Table (???), Heart of the Dragon (???)]
[Chivalry]
[Heir to the Light]
[Knight Skills]
[Kingdom Sword Technique Lv1 / Imperial Sword Technique Lv1 / Dragon King Heart Technique Lv1]
[Legion Management]
After quickly glancing at the status and skill windows that he hadn’t looked at properly in his haste earlier, Yoo-seong couldn’t help but smile.
Most of them were familiar from Fantasy Monarch, but there were some that were completely new to him.
‘First, the Kingdom Sword Technique and the Imperial Sword Technique.’
This one was familiar.
When it came to the most common swordsmanship in Fantasy Monarch, there were two main competing styles.
They were the Kingdom Swordsmanship taught by the Kingdom and the Imperial Swordsmanship taught by the Empire.
Even Yoo Seong’s character, Black Knight 09, used the Kingdom Sword Technique and the Imperial Sword Technique most often before he learned his unique sword technique, the Black Lightning Eclipse.
‘So, I’m learning both the Kingdom’s swordsmanship and the Empire’s swordsmanship, huh.’
Thinking about it, even though Yoo-seong was the strongest knight in Fantasy Monarch, it was only thanks to the Kingdom Sword Technique that he was able to kill a kobold by surprise in a sudden encounter since his level had been reset.
The moment he swung the sword, he felt a familiarity, as if he was using a skill that had been carved into his body.
Nodding, Yoo-seong turned his gaze to something he had never seen before.
‘Dragon King Heart Technique.’
Fantasy Monarch wasn’t called a ‘fantasy’ monarch for nothing.
The knights of Fantasy Monarch were not merely those who trained their bodies, but those who transcended humanity through magic.
Chivalry was not just a physical discipline, but a magical discipline.
In any case, knights were superhuman, and it was magic that made them superhuman.
And the technique for cultivating that magic was called the Heart Technique.
‘The Technique of the Holy King.’
The hero of the Arthurian legend, King Arthur, was said to have dragon blood.
After all, his name was Arthur ‘Pendragon’.
The Dragon King’s Secret Technique.
The Dragon King’s magical power.
And a dragon’s heart, which seemed to be extraordinary.
If both of them were ranked, wouldn’t it be at least S and at most EX?
‘Yeah, I gave up the Black Wolves to choose this profession, so this is what I deserve.’
Of course, it might not be something he’s planning to use in a situation like this—
‘No, this is the time to do it.’
Each of these skills saved Yoo-seong’s life.
‘Knightly skills seem to be something I have to train myself.’
Even in Fantasy Monarch, there was virtually no way to level up sword and spear skills other than to use them a lot and improve their proficiency.
However, managing legions was a different story.
You could use your commander points to strengthen the units in your legion.
‘Plus, the stronger the Legion, the stronger my combat power, right?’
One of the oddities is the effect of Master of the Legion.
I hadn’t seen this ability before in Fantasy Monarch, but the description was enough to give me an idea of what it was.
It seemed likely that it was a compensation effect that would increase Yoo-seong’s own combat power in proportion to the combat power of the legion.
‘Alright, then let’s take a look at Legion Management.’
[Legion Management]
[Increase Jimmy’s serf troops by 5, 1 pt]
[Add a rider to Jimmy’s serf army, 2pts]
[Add Hans’ serf army, 5pts]
I only had 2 points and so many things I wanted to do.
But this time, Yoo-sung didn’t think twice about it and spent the points to add a rider to Jimmy’s serf army.
‘I need to stop them from fleeing.’
This time, he was able to wreak havoc on the enemy with his sudden attack, but there was no guarantee it would work in the future.
If not for tactical purposes, what use is there for a unit that flees upon encountering the enemy?
In Fantasy Monarch, adding a rider to a unit has different effects depending on the unit, but for serf troops, it increases their morale and makes them less likely to run away when faced with an enemy.
‘I’m tempted to call him out.’
It wasn’t just the rider; he was also curious about the flag.
Of course, it was a serf army, so it was likely to be a crudely drawn flag on a plain cloth, but he was still curious.
“Is the last one the virtue score?”
It was a concept I hadn’t seen before in Fantasy Monarch.
But just the name of it, and the circumstances under which it was earned, gave me a rough idea.
‘I saved the girl, and they gave me merit points.’
It was clear that it was something that could be earned for every good deed.
‘I don’t know the exact criteria for earning virtue points yet……but if there are numbers, there must be a place for them.’
Of course, he didn’t save the girl for the sake of earning merit points, but it would be nice to earn points for doing good deeds.
So, where can I use these merit points?
As I manipulated the status window, I found a relevant phrase.
[The Holy King is the protector of the human world.]
[The more Virtue is accumulated by protecting humans, the stronger the Holy King’s power and destiny.]
“Oh.”
I’d have to do a little more research to find out exactly how to become stronger, but it was a fairly intuitive system that I liked.
‘Does this mean that the correction effect will be multiplied if the Legion Master is taken into account?’
His already enhanced combat power would be enhanced once more.
‘If this was in Fantasy Monarch, it would be a real scam class.’
He inherited the power of King Arthur, the very foundation of Fantasy Monarch.
It was a performance worthy of the class name, Heir of the Holy King.
But then it happened.
“Ugh…….”
With a small groan, Rene opened her eyes.