Chapter 1: The Beginning of an Apprentice Knight

“Dean Ken, congratulations on becoming an Apprentice Knight!”

The man sitting behind the desk was serious and rigid; even when reaching sideways to take a rolled-up parchment from the drawer, his movements maintained a single rhythm, just like a clockwork robot.

Pausing for a moment, the man in military uniform pointed at the rolled-up parchment: “Also, this is the appointment letter to the Ferrchelen Knight Order! I wish you a bright future!”

The man’s expressionless blessing showed no sincerity whatsoever; similarly, Dean’s expressionless response showed no respect, and even carried a trace of distraction; and such distraction, in the middle-aged man’s view, was undoubtedly slighting him; therefore, he drove Dean away mercilessly in annoyance.

“Now, Knight Dean Ken, you need to leave the Central Knight Order immediately and report to the Ferrchelen Knight Order within thirty days; if you are late…”

The man did not finish his words, but the threat was self-evident; moreover, a gloating smile had already surfaced on his expressionless cheeks; in his view, this ignorant kid in front of him, whether late or not, would definitely be taught a lesson by the people of the Ferrchelen Knight Order in the distant Tier Territory, and a harsh lesson at that.

After all, this was the instruction of Bokorz Bola, the Vice Regiment Commander of the Central Knight Order; a mere local Knight Order naturally knew what to do.

Standing straight but looking distracted, Dean instinctively extended his right hand and silently gave a standard military salute to the man in front of him; then, picking up the appointment letter and the letter on the table, he turned and walked out—without the imagined hesitation, he was even very decisive, which was so unexpected that Bokorz, who was already somewhat annoyed, became even angrier.

Smack!

His extended palm lightly slapped the table, and immediately, a sergeant walked out from the adjacent room.

“Go, spread the news that Dean Ken has been expelled from the Central Knight Order and sent to the border!”

Bokorz gave this order, and then, watching the sergeant turn and leave, the Vice Regiment Commander of the Central Knight Order could not help but sneer: “He actually dares to ignore me! I originally wanted to let you live a few more days, but since it’s like this, then go die for me… you lowborn who doesn’t know what’s good for you, you swine!”

Thinking of the scene where this lowborn, swine-like fellow would be beaten to death by a group, Bokorz could not help but laugh low.

As for the one who would do it?

‘Bat’ Sally was undoubtedly a ruthless fellow; facing Dean, who had ruined several of his transactions, he certainly would not show any mercy; if not for Dean’s identity in the Central Knight Order, he would probably have been thrown into the Emerald Lake long ago, with no remains left.

However, this was definitely news, very good news for him.

Therefore, Bokorz’s laughter became even louder.

…

Leaving the room, Dean’s daze continued until he stood in front of the main gate of the Central Knight Order camp, and then he reacted a little; he lowered his head to look at the military uniform on his body, and then picked up the backpack to look at the appointment letter inside, especially the date at the bottom, which he looked at countless times.

It was now October 1501!

Before the Blood Moon War!

The place I am in is—the Capital of Emerald!

Dean’s laughter, laughter full of joy, just burst out like that, and such behavior made the pity on the faces of the members of the Central Knight Order who had been watching him even more intense.

“Insane! Truly insane!”

“Anyone would go crazy encountering such a thing!”

“It’s really a pity, Dean’s Sword Technique was still quite good!”

“Hush, do you want to be thrown to a rural place like the Tier Territory by the Vice Regiment Commander too?”

The last sentence seemed to have magic power , causing the members of the Central Knight Order, who were originally discussing animatedly, to shut their mouths one after another; they all continued to drill without looking sideways, and only the corner of their eyes was still glancing at that peer who originally had a bright future but was now going to die in a foreign land.

The Tier Territory was a territory adjacent to the Snowplains Dense Forest and close to the Extreme North, a desolate place of bitter cold far from prosperity; even the suburbs of the Capital of Emerald were a hundred times more prosperous than there; moreover, it was said that the wind there in winter was like a knife, capable of penetrating the hardest Armor and cutting through human flesh and bone.

Going to that place, in the view of these Central Knight Order members mostly composed of the rich and Nobles, was naturally no different from death.

However, this definitely did not include Dean, or rather, the current Dean!

The moment the explosion sounded, he lost consciousness; Dean knew he was dead for sure; the amount of Explosive Crystal, especially one he made himself, no one knew better than him how great the power was; even if a Gold-rank powerhouse came, they would only end up dead with regrets.

Therefore, when he felt his body again, the surprise was incredibly intense, even more surprising than when he first woke up in Goedz; if not for the several years serving as an Assassin which trained him to have a calm state of mind facing any shocking events, he would have cried out in alarm long ago—after that, Dean silently collected information about his surroundings, and that information really made him feel ecstatic!

Because, all the evidence showed that he had returned to when he was eighteen years old—

That memory, which had long been forgotten by him but was now instantly incomparably clear, began to surface before his eyes.

Scenes of memories were like film reels, sliding through his mind, making him close his eyes and clench his fists—in the previous life, he had too many regrets, too much grief, and he could not be at peace even when he died; and now, with the chance to do it all over again, what he had to do was to cherish it!

He wanted to smooth out his grief and refuse the original regrets!

System!

Dean took a deep breath, he tried silently reciting in his heart the words that only he could understand, and then, data that only he could see appeared before his eyes—

Name: Dean Ken

Age: 18 (Human Male)

Title: Apprentice Knight

Character Level: 1

Class: Warrior Lv1

XP: 0

Health: 16 (Constitution X 10)

The familiar panel caused Dean’s breathing to change rapidly, and then another set of data appeared in his field of vision:

[Attributes: Strength: 1.5 Agility: 1.6 Constitution: 1.6 Perception: 1.5 Will: 2]

(Normal adult, all attributes are: 1)

Sure enough, it really is!

Even the calm state of mind cultivated through his Assassin career was completely messed up at this moment—even though he was still just an Apprentice Knight in name only, even though he couldn’t scrape together a single Gold Pulton with everything he had, this System, which he considered his life-saving straw, was still there.

Moreover, the time he was in now—before the Blood Moon War!

All the disadvantages didn’t matter anymore.

Because, his memory was still there, his experience was still there, about how to fight, how to mix Potions, set traps… and assassination, he remembered it all clearly!

“I’m back, back with endless unwillingness…”

Muttering in a low voice, Dean suddenly raised his head, his eyes cold as knives: “City, Goth, Divine Church? I’m back! This time, I will give you a huge surprise! I guarantee you’ll never forget it!”

Standing at the entrance of the Central Knight Order, Dean made such a vow in his heart, then picked up his backpack and quickly walked towards the North City Gate of the Capital of Emerald—that was the direction to the Tier Territory, and there, someone was waiting for him.

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