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Now I've said what needs to be said, Lekan thought. But Edda didn't seem to, adding the words.
"Mr. Zepus knew what life Mr. Norma's mother lived in at the Marquis' and why it was."
"Right. I thought not."
He said it was the secret of the House of Lords or the secret of our house.
"Huh. He called my mother a servant. Oh, well. Am I among the servants of the house?"
"Prado asked Mr. Zepus if he found out anything about his temper. Mr. Zepps said it wasn't true, he protected it."
"Protection?"
"Yes." I said, "I protected the girl from the violent outlaws."
"Violent...... outlaw?
"I told you. Lecan said he was a gentleman. You accept the one you pushed, you protect me, you tell me. The magic of Recovery is what Lecan taught me. He said he loved Lecan."
"Did you?"
"You didn't even try to find out what happened to you, you deceived me, you stunned me, and you forced me into this mansion. Then Mr. Zepps said. You are being deceived by this outlaw. Give me this mansion, clean clothes, lots of money, everything I want."
"It's like"
"Yeah, I thought so."
What are you talking about?
"Knowing the power Mr. Norma's mother expressed and what happened at the Marquis' house, didn't Mr. Zepus think? It was supposed to be ours."
"... I see. If you ask me, I think that's how he thinks."
"We're talking about that. Also, Mr. Zeps was trying to kill Lekan by letting an assassin sneak into the back of the ceiling. When Lekan cleaned up the assassin, he shook his ass and told me to sell her for two big coins."
Norma sighed.
"Then Mr. Cannell, the butler, said. Just the" Dagger of Hurt "and the Sacred Hard Silver Sword that Lecan is wearing now is worth more than the assets of this House. It's an adventurer diving into the depths of a labyrinth like Lecan that makes it disposable at all costs."
Hearing Edda's story so far, Lekan suddenly remembered that it was there.
"That's right. At that time, Cannell said he needed to hire a similar adventurer or at least raise a labyrinth knight if he was going to fight me. Norma. What is a Labyrinth Knight?"
"Is that it? Where the hell are you from? You don't know too much about it. Yeah, knights have knights and knights and knights and knights of nobility. So far, okay?
"No, it's not good. Isn't the knight appointed king?"
"That's the official knight. In the great old days, only those who were told by the king were called knights. You're a knight. Eventually, nobles with titles and territories also began to recite their subordinations to knights. This is the Horsemen. Now the nobles also take the liberty of turning knights. A noble knight."
"I see. I understand."
"To kingdom law, you must be a knight to be a titled nobleman or lord, a certain. A knight in this case is a sworn knight. But this text is already formalized, and even if it has not been recited to the Knight, at the time of becoming a titled nobleman or lord, it is considered to have become the Knight in office."
"Hmm? Well, I'll leave it to you"
"I'll tell you just in case, don't call the Horsemen Knights face to face, and don't tell the Noble Knights that you must be noble knights. It's gonna be a duel."
"So what can I call it?
"You just have to call me a knight. What were you talking about? Yeah. Yeah. You were a labyrinth knight. Now, the Knights under the King's direct command are very strong. The selection is tough in the first place, and the equipment is first-class. Training is indispensable. It has become a dedicated training ground for the Knights of Kings Direct, such as a certain hierarchy of the Finkel Labyrinth, and we are also investigating the aid posture of the Labyrinth Exploration"
The Finkel Labyrinth was a labyrinth right next to the king's capital, Lekan recalled.
"But the strength of the Horsemen and Noble Knights varies. With some training and a lot of gear, it doesn't mean it's useless. But sometimes it's not strong enough."
I can see the story coming.
"I can't fathom an adventurer diving into the middle or deep of the labyrinth. When it comes to big bandits, there can be a mix of adventurer breakdowns among them, and adventurers don't really care about the rules of the world, so it happens again. How do I control it?"
"Hmm. Labyrinth."
"That's right. Train and gain strength in the labyrinth. That's the Labyrinth Knight. But labyrinth knights are usually not that strong."
"Yeah? Why?
"Ooh, ooh. I didn't expect you to ask me that. Look, don't knight the stronger ones. Strengthen those who become knights."
"Oh, you mean that. I see. That's right."
Suppose a thousand humans have begun exploring the labyrinth. A month later, a hundred people will die or be injured and unable to explore, and as many people will give up exploring. Every month, the number of departures will increase, and not a hundred will remain in a year's time. Moreover, the vast majority of those hundreds stay there finding a hierarchy where danger and reward go hand in hand. Alternatively, it only goes very slowly. Not a dozen continue to advance to a deeper hierarchy. A year from now, there will be two or three of us.
Labyrinth is such a harsh world. And the adventurers who explore the depths are the ones who have spent at least a decade through that harsh world.
Most of all, once you reach a certain stage, you will not die easily because you will be able and equipped to survive. I can also see things like you from labyrinth to labyrinth. Those who follow can also buy information from their ancestors. So the mortality rate drops.
Nevertheless, if you keep diving, death is always close. I don't know about this world, but even in the world where it was originally, there were more adventurers who kept staying in one labyrinth, and few strangers, like Lecan, tried one new labyrinth after another. However, the challenge to the labyrinth was feverish, because the world that had originally existed was about to enter a period of turmoil, and even outside the labyrinth, those with mighty power had many chances to rise.
Therefore, the Horsemen and Noble Knights will have been trained from the beginning and given good equipment, but on the contrary cannot be used in labyrinth training. Even if one of the hundred can be without a deep adventurer in ten years' time, there is no way they can sacrifice the remaining ninety nine, and there is no way they can tolerate a hundred knights leaving their mission and going to the labyrinth for ten years.
Therefore, the Horsemen and Noble Knights should be nothing but considerable, both in the period of diving into the labyrinth and in the hierarchy of diving. Naturally strength, too, is only quite something.
"Hmm. But there might be an exception."
"Exceptions?
"That's right. The Labyrinth Knight might have a strong one too."
Rekan looked at Zinger.
Zinger was quietly enjoying the smell of tea as he dropped his gaze.