The Strongest Knight's

Ch. 108 - Zero District

"Holy power, the light of demon destruction: Clypeus refulgens."

The shield held by Arthur glowed, the bright light made the demons in front of him close their eyes and suddenly their bodies blistered and exploded due to being exposed to the light that was shining so bright. Light shield is a new technique of strength that has been increased from Arthur because of receiving a seal from the Parthe the holy witch.

The attack also ended the resistance of the demons who attacked a fortress in the northern region of the Celestial kingdom. Degan City was more precisely, a city that had survived for an entire year from the attacks and incursions of the Demon clan.

And today was the day that the city of Degan managed to break free from the shadow of defeat as the holy knights managed to defeat the entire demon army attacking them. Just 3 days since the holy knights came to this place, the demons who built the fortress in the forest were completely defeated.

"Yyeeyyyyy.."

"We won!!"

"Live holy knight!!!"

"Arthurian.. Arthur!"

The cheers of victory rang out in the middle of the fortress that the demons were making to defend. Now the fortress is seen collapsed because it was attacked by troops of knights and soldiers of the Celestial kingdom who settled and protected the city of Degan.

They shouted in excitement shortly after Arthur had defeated the enemy leader who was a parademon-class demon numbering 10 demons at once.

And because of that too.. His name echoed amidst the crowd at the Celestial kingdom warriors who had survived for a year from the onslaught of the demon clan.

"Arthurian.. Arthur!!

"Life knight lux"

Everyone mentions and praises Arthur..

Not only Arthur, but Diana, Rinto and Leo also helped their victory this time, but because Arthur has an important role as well as directly attacking the leader of the demons, only Arthur is currently on the helm like a hero. He was lifted up, then thrown into the air by several people as a sign of gratitude and euphoria the victory they had just achieved.

"Look at him.. It's very spirit." Diana muttered at the laughing expression on Arthur's face.

"He deserved it.. If it wasn't for him choosing the path maybe we wouldn't have reached this place." Leo smiled, he admired Arthur.

"Yes... Arthur is great, he's far more developed than any of us." Rinto also praised, which he rarely did, but if Rinto said that, Arthur was worthy of praise.

Arthur laughs.. He was very happy to help the knights defeat the demons. He received a lot of praise even this was the third city that was successfully freed from the demonic attack. A feat that surpassed his predecessor, because in just one month alone Arthur and the 3 holy knights he led managed to defeat 3 demon troops who wanted to seize a city.

After hearing the story about Iuron, his predecessor. Arthur is indeed very motivated what else with the leadership and toughness of Iuron. He is eager to continue the story of Iuron's success, even he wants to surpass Iuron who failed to defeat the demon king. Arthur is very sure of that, what else with his abilities now. He would definitely be able to defeat the demon king, especially if the knight ignis was dead so Arthur no longer had to worry about betrayal. Recalling the earlier holy knights failed due to the betrayal of the Ignis knights.

If at this time Arthur and the knights and soldiers who were with him were having fun with the victory they got, it was different from the knights who had been considered dead by all of them.

Richard.. The knight ignis.

It is currently located in the suburb of Lister, the kingdom of Inggram. He walked towards the city center to get information about the Gres mainland or the Olympic mountain where the gods lived according to the book he read in Ifrit castle.

The suburb of Lister is a slum, located in the western region of the city close to the forest. This suburb looks pretty shabby, though, there are only hut buildings as far as the eye can see if there is a building made of brick then the building must have been damaged and abandoned even though there are still people living in the building.

This slum is called the zero district, where the law does not apply. It was said like that because it was very rare for any knight or soldier to patrol this place because this place was indeed very dirty and a lot of trash was scattered.

The stench of the dead bodies of the living creatures in district zero because those who die will be left abandoned to rot until the bones remain due to the absence of the cost of family members to take care of the bodies.

That made the knights and soldiers reluctant to patrol this place even though the king's order ordered all the kingdom to get protection from soldiers and knights. What's more this region also often deposits taxes to the kingdom and is entitled to protection from the kingdom.

Richard is still walking.. He just looked straight ahead, though, his little heart was filled when he passed and saw the condition of this zero district but there was nothing he could do because actually Richard was no one and he also did not want to interfere with the problem of poverty he is watching at this moment. Basically this was a royal matter and Richard did not want to look for trouble with any kingdom, even though he had been involved in a few incidents with the royal knights and warriors.

"Master.. Mister, wait! Wait for me.." The voice of a shout calling out to Richard sounded from behind. But Richard didn't care because he wasn't a knight and didn't have any title now, he didn't feel himself to be the 'master' of others.

The one who chased Richard staggeringly was Woli who also managed to escape from the soldiers and knights who caught him and battered him after Richard managed to make them all fall down.

He ran withstanding the pain he could still feel and he was by Richard's side. "Sir.. I found you.." He laughed with joy.

Richard saw Woli, he ignored Woli because he did not understand and did not know who Woli was. He also did not chase and hit Woli because he felt that Woli did not mean evil to him.

"Hey.. Mister, come.. You must remember who I am, right? It's me.." Woli still continued to talk while walking beside Richard who had ignored her earlier.

"What's wrong with these werewolves? Who her? Does he know me?" Richard muttered while glancing at him.

"Well.. But I didn't expect it to turn out to be true that master is still alive.." Despite the pain but he still forced himself to walk beside Richard, he also relaxed beside Richard as if they were close friends while Richard was silent and did not touch Woli at all. "Even though master has changed a lot but I still recognize you.. Mr Richard!" Woli continued, rebuked by saying his name, Richard stopped walking.

"God! Mr Richard!" Woli was shocked as Richard stopped and kept silent while looking at her.

"Who is this guy? Why would he know my identity." Richard who tried to ignore Woli earlier, now even be wary.

Then.. Just one blink of Richard's eye moved very quickly. "Lohs.. How come, Mr Richard!" Just one blink of an eye, Woli now lost Richard when Richard had just been right next to him.

About 1 km from the previous location, Richard was seen standing on a tree, he moved quickly to escape from Woli because he felt strange and wary of Woli. How not, Woli knew Richard's true identity.

"Wire, the werewolf knows about me. Should I just kill him or.." Richard was worried because he felt that Woli was harmless.

In the midst of that worry, from under the tree. "Mr Richard.. What are you doing up there!" Woli shouted from under the tree.

"Who..! I'm caught." Richard Mumbled.

Then Richard quickly descended and leaned the Woli onto the tree trunk holding tightly onto the Woli's shoulder to keep the Woli from moving. "Who are you really? Why did you call me by that name?" Richard threatened by sticking a knife into Woli's neck.

"Ah.. Sir, my shoulder hurts.. Ah oh." Seeing the Woli in pain, Richard spontaneously took off the Woli. "Ah, sorry.." Her speech.

Richard kept his knife back, he couldn't do that to a man who didn't have the strength to fight. What else Woli did not have any ill intentions, Richard could feel that thanks to his senses that had greatly increased.

"alright.. Who are you really? I don't know you, so why do you call me Richard?" Ask Richard who is curious about Woli.

"I'm Woli.. I'm your slave." Resolute Woli.

"Huh!?" Richard was dumb and could not say anything. "Look... I don't have slaves and I don't want to have slaves." Richard turned and walked away, completely not understanding what Woli was saying.

"Wait.. Ever.. You once bought me. No. gabe.. More precisely you set me free and gave me independence. It happened 1 year ago." Woli told me about their first meeting, how Richard treated him so well.

Woli tells Richard about it, telling him about their brief relationship and how Woli traveled to look for Richard's whereabouts all along. "Hem. okay, but I'm sorry I don't remember, I'm not Richard anyway." Say it flat.

"You better not be looking for that guy Richard, that guy's a bad guy." Richard said again.

"No.. Mr. Richard is not bad, he is very good. I know it.. And I'm not going to look for Mr. Richard anymore because I've found him.. You, you're the one!" Woli was very firm this time, he was convinced by his sharp gaze.

Richard turned around again, then looked Woli in the eyes. Richard opened the mouthpiece and the hood he was wearing to cover his head. He showed his face to Woli. " Do I look like the person you know?" Ask Richard.

"No.. Your face is different but.. But I recognize you by the smell of your body. You have the exact same smell as Mr. Richard, it's not wrong anymore.." Woli still insisted that Richard was the one whom Woli had been looking for.

"You huh!? It might just be a coincidence."

"No, no.. Werewolves have one ability, a very keen sense of smell. Once we recognize the smell, we will never forget it.. So I'm sure you're, you're Mr. Richard!" Woli's tears are now dripping because he is venting his emotions, he really wants to meet again with Richard but unfortunately he feels sad because Richard does not recognize him.

Woli was sure, very sure because indeed he recognized Richard from Richard's body odor, not because of his face. His extremely sharp kiss confirmed that even when they first met inside the forest when Woli was battered in the crackles by the knights and warriors.

Meanwhile Richard.. He clearly knows who Woli is after Woli told at length about the incident 1 year ago. Thanks to the story, Richard recalled a moment where he had spent his gold coins to buy a small slave of the shed race who had the genes of a cat, but Richard mistakenly thought it turned out that the Woli he bought and he was independent would have the wolf gene instead of the cat.

"Huh.. No cry. You're a big boy now anyway.. But too bad I'm not the Richard you know." Richard is still evasive, he does not want to be tied to any relationship with someone because his main goal right now is to return to his home world.

Hearing that Woli became increasingly sad, her eyes glazed over as she felt disowned by Richard. " Wolf is never wrong in recognizing smells." A word that came out of the mouth of Woli, a word he heard from his mother when he was a child.

"Huh.. All right, I'll go first. I'm sorry to disappoint you but there's something I have to do." Just as Richard was about to leave, his attention was suddenly distracted by a shouting and crying voice from the front.

"Please.. Justjust please.. Nghe.. Help me!" Shouted a little boy who ran towards where the two of them were.

"Sister Woli please.. Please.." The little boy ran while crying, he knew Woli and it turned out that Woli also knew him.

Woli was surprised, he quickly ran towards the little boy and hugged him. "Belle.. What's up?" Tanya Woli who was squatting hugged the shed race child who had the rabbit gene.

Richard stood watching the two of them.

"My sister.. My sister.." Little Belle sobbed in the arms of Woli.

"Irishis.. Wh why? What happened to Irish?"

"My brother got kidnapped, he got kidnapped!"

"What's!? Irish got kidnapped.." Wiliam was surprised, he knew that the kidnapper who carried out the kidnapping in zero district was a slave hunter.

Slave hunters are people who commit crimes by capturing humans, sheds or creatures of any race for sale to slave auction sites. Generally, slave hunters do the action in a group way, they do a lot of action in places that lack law enforcement such as this slum.

The impact of the absence of patrols from the royal side both soldiers and knights is a crime in district zero to be very high. Especially the level of abduction crimes committed by groups of slave hunters.

Their target was beautiful children or women who would then be put into the slave auction in downtown Lister. They target children and women because in general children and women are very easy to kidnap because of the lack of resistance that makes lara abduction or slave hunters can freely do the action.

Meanwhile..

In the forest not far from the zero district of Lister city.

"What's this about? Why do you all look battered?" Eros Lopnika saw his subordinate soldiers and knights fall down in wounds.

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