Riding and Slashing

Chapter 1 Prologue
In the dimly lit room, only the large monitor flickered brightly.

On a dull night in midsummer, the low background sound is intertwined with the chirping of cicadas outside the house, but it feels strangely quiet.

Lines of text quietly emerged on the monitor, like inscriptions burned into the soul.

You once lived in Buckley, a far-flung continent southwest of Pendor.your father was...

[A knight. 】

When you were a kid, you had a good life.Your father was a weapons master, so he was often hired.

He has extraordinary martial arts, and patiently taught you all the skills, you become a master with sword and lance.

Your father was rude, cruel but just.

Your mother, a minor nobleman of Pendor, hardly ever speaks of her past, but she does reveal the circumstances of her first encounter with your father, who rescued her from kidnapping.

Your father only mentioned once when he was a member of the Knights, and that was when he was drunk, and once he said that the Knights were exiled by the Sarleon King.

But he refused to answer any questions about the order, or even its name.

He said he would rather never mention it again.

During your teenage years, you had very little free time because your father...

[Being outside all year round, you have to live alone. 】

As a boy who grew up on the street, no matter what he did, he wanted to survive.

You beg, steal and work for gangs to survive day in and day out in a violent world, often just one step away from legal boundaries and malicious people.

In a life that seems to be static, you have ushered in new changes.You have the opportunity to be...

[A bounty hunter. 】

Things don't stay the same, you grow into a man under the guidance of a certain force, and the whole world around you seems to change.

Instead of toiling around like everyone else for petty gain, you fend for yourself in those hidden corners, earning your fortune stealthily outside the damn laws.

You rely on your own skills to do some less legal transactions, and occasionally do some stealing or robbery... These dangerous industries make you very profitable.

But as fate would have it, everything has suddenly changed, and you must leave Buckley for Pendor because...

[You have received news of your parents' death. 】

Their deaths were so sudden and violent that the identity of the killer is unknown.

And countless enemies also wanted to put you to death, and the lord even issued a warrant for your arrest, so you had to leave Buckley and go to Pendor, in order not to be found by those villains.

You took your father's saber—an heirloom that is enough to protect your body and become famous, you booked a boat ticket to Pendor Continent, and left your familiar hometown alone.

Based on some of the rumors you've heard about Pendor, you decide...

[Go to Fog Cage City on a merchant ship of Filtzway. 】

……

The monitor in front of him began to blur, and his consciousness quickly fell into the darkness.

In a daze, Li Ang seemed to hear someone calling his name, but the call was fleeting with the sound of cicadas.

He persisted in moving his fingers, and an option was selected on the monitor.

Then, at the moment when the interface was switched, he fell into a long darkness.

The option that was selected was...

[Facing life directly, unable to save or exit! 】

……

　Hey, any lads here looking for a future in the war?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)