Chapter 304: 304’s Scenic Funeral
"Boom..."
This was the sound of someone falling to the ground.
With the sound, the one-sided massacre in Kain Village square officially drew to a close.
One by one, fully-armed knights either lay fallen around Reiger or at a distance with their backs to him, making it evident what actions they had taken before their defeat.
The knights fallen around Reiger had clearly put up some resistance.
Those who lay at a distance with their backs turned were obviously attempting to flee.
But in the end, their fates were indistinct; all were struck by lightning and charred to a crisp, lifeless on the ground.
The last to fall was Lundes.
Realizing the battle was lost, he didn’t choose to flee but instead charged forward with a roar, attempting one final, valiant counterattack before his death.
All the knights had shown moments of retreat.
All had thought to flee.
Only this man, even upon recognizing the youth before him as a hero beyond the realm of mortals, still drew his sword to charge.
It wasn’t that he didn’t wish to escape, but that he knew escape was futile.
Since he couldn’t escape, he chose to resist to the end, to fight to the last; that was Lundes’s decision.
Therefore...
"Though your deeds displease me, for you I shall draw my sword begrudgingly," said Reiger.
Reiger didn’t use magic to dispose of the brave knight but for the first time drew the blade at his waist.
It was not until this moment that Lundes realized the youth was not only a Magic Singer capable of fifth tier magic but also an exceedingly strong warrior.
The proof was that he hadn’t even seen the youth draw his sword; he noticed only a flash of cold steel before his own sword and armor were both sliced apart.
Only then did Lundes realize he had been cut.
But by then it was too late.
His chest was cleaved open, his heart and lungs both split apart, and in an instant, blood gushed out, staining his entire body red.
Feeling his life ebbing away, Lundes stared at Reiger for a while before finally uttering one word.
"Monster..."
A monster who had not even reached twenty, yet had achieved the status of hero in both realms of warriors and Magic Singers.
The thought that this monster might here receive his homeland’s subsequent deployment filled Lundes with despair and rage as he fell to the ground, dead.
At this point, the troop of Disguised Knights sent by the Slian religious state on a secret mission was completely annihilated.
No, there was still one person who, because from beginning to end had neither charged at Reiger nor fled, just stood stiffly in place, had luckily lived until the end.
Reiger flicked the long knife in his hand, flinging the blood off the blade, before finally turning his gaze towards the last one.
"Eek!"
Belius was already scared out of his wits, trembling ceaselessly atop his horse, and now, seeing Reiger look at him, he let out a strange cry and tumbled from his mount.
"Don’t, don’t kill me!"
He screamed shrilly.
"I’m not the same as these guys! I’m not someone who should die here! You can’t kill me!"
This was an utterly pitiful plea for mercy.
Reiger looked impassively at the man who had tears and snot running down his face and slowly raised one hand.
"No!"
Belius immediately shrieked in extreme terror.
"I’ll give you money! Lots and lots of money!"
"Two hundred Gold Coins! No... five hundred Gold Coins!"
"Even if you want a thousand Gold Coins, I can give it to you, just spare my life!"
A thousand Gold Coins was indeed a huge sum in this world.
Without being wasteful, it was generally said that ten Gold Coins could sustain an ordinary family of three for a year. A figure like a thousand Gold Coins was something the common folk, even if they strove all their lives for a hundred years, could never earn.
Even nobles would be tempted by such a large sum, and the villagers of Kain had never heard of anyone utter such a number, each of them staring wide-eyed.
Unfortunately, Belius had approached the wrong person.
Not to mention that Reiger was someone from another world who could create gold nuggets with a flick of his hand; even if he wasn’t, he would not feel the slightest bit tempted by this so-called thousand Gold Coins.
"Let your family use this money to give you a more elaborate funeral," Reiger said coldly.
With those words, a raging dragon-shaped lightning bolt erupted from Reiger’s hand and surged towards Belius.
"Boom!"
In the thunderous sound, lightning struck Belius’s body, and in a short while, amid a horrific scream, he was reduced to a charred corpse and fell to the ground.
A group of knights, guilty of slaughtering countless villages and countless innocents, met their fates, entirely wiped out.
......
By the time the sun was about to set, Kain Village had finally finished clearing the corpses from the village.
The villagers went from house to house, looking for friends and relatives, which lead to intermittent bursts of crying.
The Anli sisters, too, found their parents near their home’s entrance, wailing uncontrollably.
Unfortunately, their parents still died in the end, unable to survive.
The entire Kain Village was instantly shrouded in a thick atmosphere of sorrow, compounded by bloodstains scattered in every corner, making the scene exceedingly desolate.
But Reiger wasn’t treated with negligence.
Afterward, someone who appeared to be the village chief, along with several robust men representing the whole village, offered their most sincere gratitude to Reiger.
Through Anli, they had learned that Reiger had been invited by them to rescue the village, and thus they could not thank Reiger enough.
Reiger wasn’t really concerned, but seeing each of them prostrating themselves before him with boundless gratitude, he felt somewhat moved.
"I remember, the original protagonist didn’t receive such treatment after saving Kain Village, right?"
Helpless to change his situation, who asked him to disguise his skeletal appearance so suspiciously?
The people of Kain Village had just suffered an unreasonable massacre, so it was natural for them to be cautious around someone so suspiciously sprung up.
In the original story, Momonga directly summoned a Death Knight to slay those knights, which in the eyes of ordinary people, was yet another cause for suspicion, right?
A Magic Singer who commanded such terrifying creatures and dressed particularly unusually could not be considered anything but a villain.
Reiger, on the other hand, was authentically human and never used any evil forces throughout; rather, he flew, unleashed lightning with a flick of his hand, and presented an image that couldn’t be more positive.
Plus, he was actually quite handsome, which made a completely different first impression, and he quickly earned the trust of the simple villagers of Kain Village.
However, when they indicated they wanted to offer him a gift in appreciation, Reiger still declined.
"I am not lacking in money. This time, I merely could not stand by and wanted to intervene. You really don’t need to worry about it."
To prove his wealth, Reiger even took out a bag of gold nuggets and showed them off, the gleaming gold luster almost blinding the village chief and others.
Only then did the village chief and the others give up and stopped mentioning the matter of gratitude.
However, the incident was far from over.
"You must have heard what I said in front of those knights, right?"
Inside the village chief’s house, Reiger addressed the representatives of Kain Village in front of him.
"This incident is not a simple war or act of violence, but a confrontation between the upper echelons of two countries causing it."
"Before long, Kain Village may once again become a battlefield."
"What you need to do now is not to settle down but to urgently find a place of refuge to avoid being affected again."
With these words from Reiger, the village chief and the rest became alarmed.
"It hasn’t ended yet?"
"Why should such things happen to us?"
"We just want to live on in our village!"
Several of the strong men were close to shedding tears.
The village chief also wore a worried expression, looking at Reiger, opened his mouth to speak, but not knowing how to proceed.
Clearly, he hoped that this powerful young man would help Kain Village once more.
If it was him, would he have a way to overcome this difficulty?
The village chief knew nothing of the Heroic Domain or fifth-tier magic, nor how strong Reiger truly was, but seeing him effortlessly defeat so many tall and strong knights, he couldn’t help but hold out hope that Reiger could handle the current crisis.
Reiger naturally noticed the village chief’s hesitation.
Motivated to see his good deeds through to the end, Reiger smiled faintly and gave the village chief a promise.
"Don’t worry, I’m not sure how things will unfold, but I should be able to save the lives of everyone in this village."
Upon hearing this, the village chief finally felt relieved.
And at that moment, the event Reiger mentioned arrived.
"Village chief!"
A villager ran in frantically and called out.
"Outside the village, a large group of people riding horses and wielding weapons are approaching!"
......
Kain Village, village entrance.
When a billowing cloud of dust approached, all the villagers of Kain Village had already hidden in their homes under the village chief’s instruction and did not come out again.
Reiger stood with the village chief and several strong men, coming to this spot to face what was ahead.
The village chief and his companions seemed nervous and uneasy, but when they saw Reiger standing casually beside them, they felt somewhat reassured.
Reiger gazed toward the direction of the rolling dust, contemplating to himself.
"I wonder what the strength of this person is like?"
Reiger knew that those approaching were not enemies but allies.
Among these people was an important figure targeted by the Sylvian nation this time.
Reiger was quite interested in him.
Because he knew that the other party’s strength was recognized as the strongest among the natives of this world.
This made him curious – just how strong was this so-called strongest?
What sort of character was this Heroic Domain?
"Let me have a good look."