The Max Level Hero Strikes Back!

be wasting his time.
So he decided that his best option was to get rid of them now, so that they wouldn’t end up slowing him down.

Davey applied an explosive force to his left foot, and he put pressure on the ground.
His sword flashed in the air as he used the rebound from his foot to jump up.
‘They were all ‘Expert’? I think the assassins I met while traveling to the Felicity Territory were stronger than this.’

* * *

“Kyaa!! W—Wait! Wait, stop…!” The knight who screamed and crawled on the floor…was beheaded.
His head flew up in the air.

Davey slashed multiple knights as he quickly moved through them.
They were all positioned strategically to hold him up for as long as they could.
He could practically feel their malicious intent.
Davey thought that he would have had a hard time with them if he was just some mediocre ‘Master’.

-Why did they target Yulis and Winley?

“Probably an excuse.”

“Shriek! P—Please!”

Splatter! Davey was in a quiet forest; he unhesitantly beheaded the knight, since he had nothing to watch out for.

“There are only two council members, so some of them should listen to Baron Gorneo, right?” After pondering for a moment, Davey realized that they were all subordinates of Count Lington.

-Excuses?

“It’s kind of funny because I honestly just thought of it, but they can’t just kill us and act like nothing happened.
There’s still rank to think about.”

Davey had placed a protection spell on Winley, but it was too draining to keep it up.
Because he could only use magic at about the 5th circle, he had switched the protection spell to a tracking spell, which he could maintain for longer.
But now this had happened.
Well, a protection spell was probably useless if the opponent was a ‘Swordmaster’.

“Yulis is an elder of the Red Tower, and Winley and I are royal members of the Rowane Kingdom.”

-Right.

As he walked past the cold bodies on the ground, Davey approached an ajar iron door that was under a gigantic tree.
Someone had arrived before he did, and the only person he could think of was Yulis.

“If we died, the Orden Territory would be examined to determine what happened.
The best excuse would be us being attacked by barbarians or monsters, and both cases are possible in the Ordem Territory.
What could the royal palace or the Red Tower do if they just said that we died while defending the territory from invaders?”

-What does that have to do with kidnapping Winley?

“Um… I don’t know for sure, but it seems to just be an excuse for later on.” After speaking calmly, Davey quickly headed underground, one that was carefully made to be rather sturdy.
However, he cut through all the walls blocking him with Red Ribbon and marched on.
“Winley went missing.
So, the Knights of Destruction, Count Colio, the captain of the order, left the territory to find her.
Then, there was an attack.”

‘This would be enough for them to avoid responsibility.’

“A—An intrud… Keugh!” One of the Knights of Destruction shouted upon noticing Davey’s presence.

Davey pierced his fingers into the knight’s neck, causing a sharp stab into the flesh.
He kicked the fallen knight who was spewing blood, then slashed the wall once more to reveal a large space.

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The area was too big for a thorough search, but Davey was unfazed.
He already knew of Winley’s approximate location.
If the path was blocked by a tough wall, Davey was going to break it with Red Ribbon.
If there were someone getting in the way, he would simply slash them.

-But then, did they really have to do that to Winley… They could’ve just said that it happened…

Davey could hear Perserque’s confused mumbling, but he just focused on the bottom of the void.
The situation was so unspeakably atrocious that it couldn’t be described in any other way.

-Oh my…

Davey and Perserque could see hundreds of people, who were tied to a bed with strange cells transplanted to them.

“Did the knights try to capture me alive?”

Perserque thought about it for a second, then nodded.

-The only possibility is that they were trying to obtain a high-level mage or a person with stigmata, since these people are hard to come by.

‘How dare they.’

* * *

“What is…” Gorneo, left behind at the treatment center, was still in panic.
He couldn’t comprehend just what had happened in front of his eyes.

“What are you doing?”

But then, Gorneo heard a manly, emotionless voice that snapped him out of it.
When he turned around, he saw a man wearing a black uniform with a black mask covering his entire face.

“You are…”

“I will make sure to carry out my part of the deal.
You do your job.”

Baron Gorneo flinched.
“You are fine with this situation?!”

“So what if I am not?” Gorneo’s eyes opened wide as Jack continued, “Are you going to abandon the patients in front of you because the knights caused a problem?”

“O—Of course not!”

“Then why are you stopping? You should do your job if Prince Davey trusted you to.”

“B—But if the entire Knights of Destruction! And if it is true that Count Colio’s involved in this matter!”

“If it is?”

“Isn’t Prince Davey also in danger?! Do you not have to help?!”

Gorneo’s concerns were valid; all of the knights in Knights of Destruction were above the ‘Expert’ level, and their captain, Count Colio, was once a famous ‘Swordmaster’.
However, Davey was left alone and without a weapon to face enemies as powerful as these.
It was true that Davey had some strange, unexpected power, but Gorneo didn’t think that it was a magic bullet.

However, Jack didn’t seem to agree with Gorneo.
He asked, “Who is worrying about who right now?”

“What?” Gorneo asked.

“You’re worrying about Prince Davey? Ha…”

For the first time, Gorneo could feel emotion from Jack: bafflement.

“Frankly, there’s nothing more useless in the world than worrying about him,” Jack stated as though it was the most obvious fact in the world.

“…”