Chapter 48: Dark Night, Imperial Forest (Three Watches Tonight)

  Xia Ya looked at the guy in front of him, and the other party's gaze seemed to be spitting fire. The hatred that was carved into his bones made Xia Ya feel a chill run down his spine. Looking at this guy's eyes, it seemed as if he would lose control and pounce on himself at any moment.

  Uh, Xia Ya suddenly remembered that the last time he met this guy, they ended up fighting each other, but this guy's martial arts were quite strange. He performed a set of moves, but every single move and style was exactly the same as the chopping wood and stabbing coal techniques he had learned.

  Could it be... this guy also learned from the old man?

  "Cut the crap, I won't put down my weapons." Xia Ya rolled her eyes: "I'm not a fool, with this attitude, do I have any other choice besides betting on Bo?"

  Xim sneered.

  He's now very confident that everyone in his small team is here, well-equipped and strong, and has this little guy completely surrounded. This time, even if he grows wings, it'll be hard for him to fly away!

  Xim held up the long spear in his hand, his eyes full of murderous intent: "Very good, just use your blood to wash away my shame!"

  Xim stared at the wild kid in front of him, his eyes full of murderous intent - God as witness, Xim had every reason to chop this kid into seven or eight pieces and feed them to dogs!

  As a proud member of the illustrious "Osgiliath's Glory" Knights, Shim can't recall when he was last this humiliated.

  Osgiliath - a glorious name, a name of glory! Throughout the continent, there is only one family that dares to use this name as a prefix for their knightly order! For "Osgiliath" is the name of the imperial capital city of the Byzantine Empire!

  Directly loyal to the imperial family, only accepting the command of His Majesty the Great Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, possessing countless glorious traditions written in iron and blood, and only this one knight order has the qualification to use the glorious name "Osgeilia".

  In fact, the Os'Gillian Glory Knights also have another unofficial name: Dark Night Imperial Guard. Because this knightly order only belongs to the imperial family and is only loyal to the imperial family. However, unlike ordinary royal city guards, this knightly order is a private force directly under the emperor's command, not subject to the supervision of the Imperial Military Commission and the Council of Elders, and even military pay and expenses are paid from the imperial treasury.

  So, in order to distinguish this Knights Order from the regular Imperial Army's Imperial Guard, people habitually refer to these guys as "Dark Night Imperial Guards", because they don't have the regular army's organization, but are exceptionally fierce and brave, and these guys are accustomed to wearing black iron armor, coming and going like the wind, like death messengers in the dark of night.

  Those who can enter the Osgerian Glory Vanguard Knights are all carefully selected from the army, especially with absolutely clean personal and family backgrounds, and absolute loyalty to the royal family. Even if it's an exaggeration to say that these people's loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor far surpasses their loyalty to the Empire.

  In the history of the Byzantine Empire, there was indeed a precedent for this. More than 100 years ago, during an internal turmoil in the empire, the emperor at the time was overthrown, and the new emperor who took power could not command this Dark Night Imperial Guard. As a result, 200 Dark Night Imperial Guardsmen escorted the deposed emperor to fight bloody battles, almost killing their way out of the Osigilia Royal City amidst heavy encirclement. In the end, when there was no way out and the deposed emperor took his own life, none of these Dark Knights were willing to surrender. Half of them died in battle, while the other half launched a suicidal charge, resulting in almost all of them dying in battle, with only a few breaking through the encirclement. However, those Dark Night Imperial Guardsmen who broke through refused to surrender to the Byzantine Empire's recruitment because they believed that their loyalty was to the former emperor himself, not to this country.

  A small number of knights later became rebels and bandits in the border areas of the empire, and it took the empire a whole year to put down these rebellions.

  Later on, the new emperor decided to rebuild the Dark Night Imperial Knights, this move was opposed by almost all the senior officials of the empire, but His Majesty insisted on doing so.

  "In the words of Emperor Sevandar I of the Byzantine Empire at that time: 'Which emperor in the world would not want to have such a batch of brave warriors who are willing to die for him unconditionally?'"

  Due to such strict selection, the number of Darknight Guardians, this specially formed Imperial Guard cavalry regiment, has always been very scarce. Even at its largest scale in history, there were never more than five hundred formally enlisted Darknight Guardians within the regiment.

  Any member who can join the Dark Night Lin is a carefully selected elite warrior, with no problem in terms of will or loyalty. Moreover, the Knights of the Dark Night Lin have a high status within the Byzantine Empire, and even when facing the Imperial Palace Guard, which is also known as the Royal Forest Army, they have a higher status.

  Xim joined the Darkranger Corps many years ago and became a Knight three years ago, which was the highest achievement in his life. Although he was just a small Knight, nominally commanding only twenty people, the Knights of the Darkranger Corps were not ordinary people to compare with.

  In the Dark Night Imperial Forest, there were only a dozen or so small cavalrymen like him. And yet, as a small cavalryman, he didn't even need to salute ordinary generals in everyday life, but rather exchanged equal greetings with them. It can be imagined how arrogant the Dark Night Imperial Forest was!

  Xim's personality is severe and unyielding, executing orders decisively and firmly, while being extremely strict with his subordinates. His martial skills are also exceptionally strong. Among the more than ten riders in the Dark Night Forest, he had already shown signs of standing out. When the team leader of the Dark Night Forest said that they would be promoting two young new deputy team leaders, Xim had been secretly hoping for it all along.

  This time the task to be carried out is a handwritten decree by His Majesty himself, and Shim hopes to complete it with excellence and add another stroke to his own record.

  But unexpectedly, the other day, I clearly found the target, but let the opponent slip away under my nose!

  Three of them took on a wild kid, but the result was one death and two injuries! One warrior died, and as the cavalry captain, he was defeated by this kid in a fair fight.

  How could Shim endure such humiliation?! These days, he has been single-mindedly hoping to find the little one again and restore his reputation with blood, as for that bit of pity in his heart before, it had long been thrown away.

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  Kill him! Must kill him! Must defeat him in the public eye, kill him! In order to restore his reputation! Otherwise, as a glorious Dark Night Forest Ranger officer, he would actually lose to a wild child, and when he returned, he wouldn't even think about being promoted to deputy captain, directly applying to quit the Dark Night Forest Rangers would be fine!

  Him wasn't a fool, and as an officer in the elite Dark Night Forest, he was naturally not someone who wouldn't use his brain. After calming down from their previous defeat, he had done a careful analysis of why they lost, and there were two reasons: first, the opponent had unexpectedly blocked his strongest sword technique - that sword technique was Him's trump card, a skill he had learned with great difficulty from a senior military officer in the past.

  This point Shimu was puzzled, but apart from swordsmanship, Shimu's marksmanship was also very confident.

  And the second reason for the previous defeat was that he was at a disadvantage in terms of weapons. The black weapon of that kid, I don't know what material it is made of, is surprisingly sharp and last time his own weapon was cut off. This time he specially chose a heavy cross spear. Although this cross spear is originally suitable for cavalry battles, for Shim with high martial arts skills, infantry can also exert its power. More importantly, this cross spear has a heavy body and a large weight, Shim made up his mind to use brute force to break through!

  Even if that wild kid's sword (let's just consider the fire spear as a sword) is sharp, it's not easy to cut off a thick and heavy war spear!

  Xim didn't waste any words with Xiaya, holding up his war spear and taking big strides forward. With a loud shout, the tip of the cross-shaped war spear burst out with a grey aura, swooshing down towards Xiaya with great force!

  As a mid-second-class warrior, Xi Mu's aura was unleashed, and before the spear even arrived, Xia Ya felt the oppressive force of the incoming gale, as if the spearhead had stirred up a whirlpool that tore through the air!

  Xia Ya puffed out his chest, grasping the fire fork with both arms as he charged forward. The black fire fork emitted a black arc... Bang! Bang! Bang!!

  Three consecutive collisions, the long spear clashed with the fire fork, bursting out sparks, Shim's war gun struck three times, and Shaya retreated three steps.

  It has to be said that the mid-tier warrior's aura was quite impressive, and even Xia Ya, with his robust physique, found it somewhat overwhelming. His arms were numbed from the shock, and the aura contained explosive vibrations that made his skin tingle. Although he managed to block the spearhead with his fire fork, the aura burst forth, causing his outer garment to rip apart. The gust of wind also stung his eyes, making them water, and his vision blurry, forcing him to retreat repeatedly.

  Xim let out a loud roar, suddenly turned his body around and swung the rifle butt back, the rifle butt was like a giant python, Xia Ya's eyes widened as he was about to be swept off at the waist! Just then, a dull thud was heard.

  Xia Ya was swept away and flew horizontally, retreating more than a dozen steps. The clothes on his waist had already been torn apart, and the fragments of cloth were blown up by the Dou Qi.

  Heim's blow was successful, and he felt a great sense of relief. He knew the power of his own strength, and just now he had used all his internal energy. To say nothing of a person, even if it were a horse that was hit, its bones would be broken! The waistbone of this little guy must have been shattered...

  He was slightly surprised in his heart, last time this guy sealed all the moves of his swordsmanship, but this time he seemed to have no resistance to his own gun skills? Was he really not good at martial arts?

  Alas, he's just a reckless and arrogant young fool.

  Just as he thought of this, Shim put away his war spear and stood up straight, just about to speak, but suddenly widened his eyes.

  Xia Ya got up from the ground, angrily patted his clothes, and pieces of broken cloth flew around, revealing the "fish scale vest" he was wearing underneath.

  He moved his waist a bit and felt some slight soreness in his lower back, but it was nothing serious.

  As expected, after applying the dragon's blood, my body's resistance to physical attacks is incredibly strong! At least that last hit from that guy just now, Xia Ya was very clear that if it were before, she would have at least broken two bones. Now, her waist only hurts a little and that's all.

  Xim's eyeballs almost popped out!

  The Darknight Knights beside him, who had been expressionless until now, all showed surprised expressions. Everyone saw the power of the Knight Commander's attack just now, and this kid was hit solidly, but he just patted his butt and it was fine?!

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