About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

"Wait...wait, Orson, leave me be, they're not ordinary people!"

What Bai Jin worried about still happened. She yelled at Orson, hoping that the young man would not fight with the two Qingjin masters, otherwise he would surely die.

"This is the first time I've seen you so flustered, Shirogane. You're finally willing to reveal your hidden emotions to me. In that case, let me also show another side of myself—"

Orson smiled at Bai Jin, then untied the scarf that had been tied around his neck.

"Let's fight in peace."

79. Move forward and boost your favorability

The number of members of the "League Without Helmet", which was formed as a bargaining chip for the Commercial Association to counter the Knight Class, has never been accurately recognized by the outside world.

Most people, including the Knight Killers who belong to the No-Horn Alliance, do not know how many people there are in their organization and how big it is. But there is one thing that everyone knows: there are a total of six "Great Positions" in the No-Horn Alliance.

One is platinum, two are lapis lazuli, and three are black iron.

Among them, "Platinum" is generally responsible for assassinating those who are detrimental to the Commercial Association, while "Black Iron" is more responsible for handling the operation of the Wuzhou Alliance and is a position that is more inclined towards management.

As for the [Lapis Lazuli], they are responsible for executing traitors and those who are considered "unbeatable knights".

After the 'Glorious Knight' Margaret Linguang won the Knight Arena Championship and disappeared, she was succeeded by a woman from Leithnia named 'Black Knight'.

The "Black Knight" won the knight competition championship for three consecutive times, and she was once called "the unbeatable black".

However, this knight who was considered undefeated by everyone was hunted down by the Helmetless Alliance because he disobeyed the order of the Chamber of Commerce and refused to hand over the championship. He even almost died in Casimir.

At the end of the turmoil, the "Black Knight" was bought by a young entrepreneur from Kjerag. The entrepreneur promised not to let the "Black Knight" set foot on Casimir again. Only then was the female knight from Leithnia saved from being hunted down by the Helmless Alliance.

At that time, the "Knight Killer" who forced the "Black Knight" into a desperate situation and almost killed him was none other than the [Blue Gold Throne].

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Keng! !

"Well--!"

Almost the same as when Black Snake was assassinated, Orson could not sense the process of one of the Qingjin Great Ones "firing the crossbow" at all. He could only rely on frequency feedback to capture the trajectory of the crossbow arrow shot at him in less than a second, and control the pause to cut it off.

"Stupid, ridiculous, and foolish."

"——!?"

Every crossbow arrow that attacked him carried the power to tear steel. In order to intercept them, Orson had to increase the hardness of the rest, but this also caused the flexibility of the rest itself to decrease.

After cutting down the crossbow arrow of a Qingjin Great One, before the pause was reset, another Qingjin had already rushed in front of Orson, and stabbed Orson's heart with the dagger in his hand without hesitation.

【FEVER】

Orson attached most of the rest to his arms, and swung his forcibly amplified left hand towards the dagger.

A teeth-grinding sound of metal tearing roared out from Orson's arm and the dagger of the Great Lord of Blue Gold.

Orson twisted his left arm to the side to absorb most of the impact, but the crossbow arrow of the Blue Gold Lord in the distance once again accurately avoided the "Number One Blue Gold" in front of Orson at an extremely strange angle and aimed directly at Orson's forehead.

At the critical moment, Orson twisted his head to avoid the crossbow attack, and at the same time, he turned the "throttle" of the greatsword with his right wrist. The Red Queen instantly burst out with heat energy and roared and slashed at the enemy in front of him.

Boom buzz buzz!!!!

There was no feeling of being hit. The other Qingjin leader who was standing in front of him and waving a dagger a second ago disappeared in an instant, and appeared next to the Qingjin leader who was wielding a crossbow the next moment.

"That's all" and "Nothing to be afraid of"

Two Qingjins stood side by side in front of the only exit, with two crossbows pointed at Orson, and they spoke with unknown expressions under their gas masks.

"interesting."

Orson wiped the blood from the wound on his forehead that had just been torn by the wind pressure, and stared coldly at the two Qingjin in front of him.

They are not the so-called "one focuses on ranged combat and the other focuses on melee combat". There is almost no difference in the fighting styles of these two people.

Weird, fast, deadly, and merciless, this reminded Orson of the "Inner Guards" he had encountered in the North.

But the difference is that these two guys are more difficult to deal with than the interior guards.

A large number of inner guards died at Orson's hands, so Orson was well aware of the difference between the Blue Gold Throne and the Emperor's Blade.

If he didn't possess the "Frequency Exploration" ability, which indiscriminately captured the changes in his surroundings, he would have been pinned to the wall by a crossbow bolt. Thanks to the perception afforded by this tuning, Orson was able to withstand the attacks of the two Blue Gold Lords.

"Run, Orson... Don't worry about me. You have other things to do. There's no need to do stupid things for a guy like me..."

Bai Jin, who was protected behind her, yelled at Orson. She struggled to get up, but her entire left leg did not respond at all, as if it had been cut off from the root.

Even so, Platinum still wanted to escape from the position of being "protected", even if it meant blocking a crossbow arrow for Orson.

"You're not 'that kind of guy'. Maybe to those two guys in gas masks, to those who don't understand the situation, or even to yourself, you feel like a 'prop' that no one needs—but to me, you're just a naive pony with a bit of a mean streak and who doesn't like to express emotions."

"Childish..."

Bai Jin's eyes widened. She never thought she would be described like this.

From the beginning to the end, others have always viewed Platinum as a "silent weapon" and a "loose killer". Almost no one would regard her as a "human being", let alone as a "girl who is ignorant of the world".

"I only ask you one thing, Platinum—"

Orson placed the Red Queen in front of him and tuned her, injecting the heat energy completely into the sword.

"Do you want to maintain your current lifestyle, or do you want to move forward with me? I can't guarantee what lies ahead, but I can promise that I will protect you until you make up your mind."

The Red Queen growled, waiting to release the heat stored inside in one breath. Orson's arms were constantly seeping with blood due to the side effects of FEVER, and this blood was evaporated by the heat of the hilt, forming a thin layer of red mist.

"lifestyle……"

Platinum recalled what the previous Platinum said to him when he died at his hands.

This is not a "lifestyle", it's just an escape. Because you have never received care from others, you actively isolate yourself from the world.

He had always survived like this, but... after witnessing the path chosen by that boy, Platinum's heart began to waver.

I……

I hope……

"I hope to find my true 'goal'."

Bai Jin swept away all the confusion, worry and bewilderment in his heart, leaving only the voice buried deepest in his heart.

"I have received your will. Thank you for choosing to trust me and yourself."

After hearing Bai Jin's decision, Orson smiled. He pulled the Scarlet Queen out of the ground and rushed towards the two Qing Jins.

Platinum's worries were correct. Perhaps one Qingjin Orson could barely win, but if two Qingjins fought at the same time, there would be no chance of Orson surviving no matter what.

The "Lapis Lazuli Throne" not only possesses terrifying combat capabilities and experience, but the most terrifying thing is that they have the Originium skill that can "rewrite physics" like cheating for a short period of time.

Platinum had only seen Qing Jin use Originium skills once, and the result was that the Sarkaz infected people who were trying to resist didn't even have the energy to know what was happening, and could only watch their bodies break in half.

But the only thing that Platinum didn't take into account was that Orson had no intention of "fighting" at all.

No matter what Originium skill it is, if it cannot be used, it is useless.

"Die" "It's a meaningless struggle."

After the two Qingjin noticed that Orson was desperately charging towards them, they just spoke in a low voice while using their own Originium skills.

"Finally I found my chance—[Curtain Call]"

Jinsheng had no intention of fighting. All he had to do was "wait", waiting for the moment when the two Qingjin used the Originium technique at the same time.

……

……! ??

From disdain to panic, the inner melody of the two Qingjin changed in just a moment.

As for "Silence", who is good at "making the most of a small investment" and "winning by surprise", he has walked on the edge of death countless times just to be able to accurately grasp this moment.

Hiss! ! !

The Lord of Blue Gold, who was slightly in front, blocked the crossbow arrow in front of his body, but the crossbow arrow only temporarily stopped the Scarlet Queen's first attack. Silently twisted the hilt of the sword again, and the roaring heat wave directly connected to the sharp blade and pierced through the crossbow arrow and the upper body of the Lord of Blue Gold.

"Wha, what!?"

Another Qingjin who was standing a little behind had his eyes almost popping out from behind his gas mask.

[Sapphire Throne], this being that could easily kill 9% of the knights in the competition, and with a little planning, could even easily kill the knight competition champion—

Just like a worthless bamboo mat, it was split into two halves by the short infected person.

Keng! !

"How…how is this possible—what did you do!?"

The other Blue Gold Lord frantically pulled the trigger at Shi Sheng, but without the support of Originium skills, Shi Sheng easily dodged the crossbow arrow by simply turning sideways.

"..."

The other party did not respond. The young man just looked at him and shook off the blood on the knight's sword in his hand.

"That's your Originium technique? No... wait, what's going on!?"

Qing Jin tried to activate the Originium technique on Shi Sheng, but still nothing happened. Instead, he acted like a clown, stretching his arm forward very abruptly.

According to his experience of so many assassinations, the next scene should clearly be that the kid's waist was cut off by an invisible blow, and then his upper body struggled to crawl towards him, and died in extreme pain as his intestines and internal organs were scattered.

But nothing happened, or rather, the only thing that happened was that Yan Sheng continued to rush towards him - with the sharp sword in his hand.

brake!

This time, Silence didn't even use the Scarlet Queen's explosive attack. He simply swung it once and cut off the arm of the Blue Gold Lord.

“%@##￥*——!!”

An untranslatable scream of extreme pain came from behind the gas mask.

“Uh ...

Qing Jin used his remaining arm to pull out a dagger and swung it at Silence, but because he had lost the pain sensation in his arm and was panicked about not being able to use his Originium skills, Qing Jin's attack was no longer as deadly as it was at the beginning. It seemed more like a random swing driven by fear.

"..."

There was still no response from the silent man. The young man easily snatched the dagger away and then stabbed it directly into the leg of the Qingjin Lord.

“——!?!?”

The severe pain in his leg made Qing Jin fall to the ground. He raised his head and saw the same silent, expressionless, but death-like face of the young man.

“Uhhhh… Wait, wait a minute… Let me go, let me go—I will make sure you can escape from Casimir…!”

Qing Jin endured the severe pain and squeezed out a beg for mercy, trying to use this method to buy a chance to survive.

At this moment, Silence finally made a sound - although his throat did not move at all.

"That's a good suggestion, but there are two things you misunderstood."

He silently pulled out the dagger and stabbed it into Qingjin's other leg.

“Ahhhhhhhh!?!”

"First, I have no intention of [leaving Casimir]. Rather, now is the time to officially begin the war."

"Secondly, I told you, [Try touching her]."

He spoke quietly, and Qingjin's face gradually turned pale.

He knew very well that the young man had no hesitation at all, and his goal from the beginning to the end was to kill himself and the other Qingjin Great One.

The two Qingjins' initial assessment of this young man was that he had the ability to win the knight competition championship and had a calm and gentle personality.

They didn't know Silence's true trump card, didn't know how much importance Silence attached to platinum, and didn't know how many life-and-death battles Silence had fought on his way from the North to Chernobyl.

Because I don’t know anything, I have become like this now.

"In that case——"

The moment he knew he was going to die, Qing Jin used up his last bit of strength to pull out the dagger from his thigh and inserted it into his gas mask along with his brain.

"..."

He was about to breathe a sigh of relief as he looked at the corpse in front of him, but the next second, the exhaust system of the entire building suddenly spewed out brown-green gas.

“Is this what you’re doing…?”