Chapter 11: The Scout Cavalry Knight Charging Toward the King's Flag!

My heart was pounding fiercely, the whooshing wind at my ears couldn't drown out this roaring engine,

I cannot describe the emotion welling up endlessly from deep within my heart at this moment,

Indescribable!

Ineffable!

Even unobservable!

Su Ya wondered if he was afraid? No, it felt more like excitement than fear, and beyond excitement, like blood boiling, and even more like the impulse he felt as a child when he first grabbed that branch he'd picked up from the roadside.

The complex emotions drowned out the screech in his ears and all other sounds,

Finally——

turning into monotonous and bleak lines,

Deep inside, only one emotion remained,

Greed.

Su Ya wanted to live!

He wanted more,

More and more!

For nineteen years, he had deep inside always yearned for a stage, yearned for a world where this roadside wildflower that only knows how to follow in others' footsteps, learning to walk like Handan, could also bloom with brilliance,

Such an innate bodily talent should not be buried in countless dull and monotonous daily calculations and endless social obligations and forced smiles!

The ability this body possesses—to see through and quickly replicate an identical motion in an extremely short time—is practically a talent display as if born to become a peerless counterfeit,

【See Through】!

【Copy】!

【Surpass】!

Then,

Let the world go wild in awe of his astonishing deeds!

By common sense, Su Ya should have followed Mei Li's advice,

But,

No matter what,

Life is one's own; Su Ya cannot stake his life on this Mei Li who seems harmless on the surface but is actually a walking idea-king—this birdbrain who just slaps his head and wants to bet his life on an action whose reliability he doesn't even know.

The key is she doesn't care about her life, but Su Ya does!

Su Ya is someone who values his life greatly; valuing life needs no justification or excuse—it's simply not wanting to die, and this feeling alone can unleash a powerful strength one isn't even aware of——

In just five measures of chanting time,

Su Ya observed with his eyes, saw through, and noted the marching routes of each unit of the ten-thousand-strong army before him.

The main forces—the Macedonian phalanx legion, the light infantry regiment, the companion cavalry—had straightforward marching routes that need not be elaborated,

What matters is,

Within the observable range, there were a total of 116 Macedonian scout cavalry units, each operating as three‑person teams or temporarily split into 1‑ or 2‑unit formations for reconnaissance,

Su Ya committed them all to memory.

This information unfolded in his mind like a blooming flower, forming an intricate pattern where each line is the marching route of a scout cavalryman.

Thus,

He compared and found the marching route of this scout cavalry squad he was disguised as——

From the central army king's flag, splitting at the midpoint and spreading out in a Y‑shape, one detachment heads to the hilltop of the trench where Su Ya is, another extends to the right.

Furthermore, he calculated the time it would take for two Macedonian scout cavalry to ignore him, reach the hilltop, and kill two scout cavalry.

Now,

The captain of this scout cavalry squad has already returned to the midpoint, sensed something amiss, and changed course to the left,

and the time it takes him to get there——

"5."

"4."

"3."

"Not, what are you chanting ah ah ah ah ah!?" Mei Li glared with her gem‑like rose‑red big eyes and let out a ground‑squirrel‑like wail, somewhat collapsing.

Su Ya yanked the reins with one hand, halted the horse, while lightly gripping the horse's belly and pulling the reins to the right; at the same time, his other hand, which held Mei Li's hair, shoved that strand into her mouth to gag her.

"Mmmph!"

The horse immediately turned right sideways,

"1!"

The final number fell.

Su Ya rode forward along the other route, where two petals overlapped.

Ahead, below,

A man clad in black tight‑fitting clothes, wearing leather armor, with red long hair and a sinister appearance, thundered past Su Ya on horseback at a distance of less than three meters!

In his peripheral vision he saw Su Ya turn his head to look another way, a profile, then his back,

He saw the relatively clean back of Su Ya's leather armor,

He saw the white rose bouquet held in Su Ya's hands,

He saw the other path Su Ya was riding toward, completely different from his own, presumably the reconnaissance route of the 42nd Squad.

He felt somewhat confused, this person's silhouette giving him a sense of familiarity,

but he didn't think too much,

After all, this person's direction of advance belonged to another squad; there were many people of similar build in the army, and as a temporary worker he couldn't possibly know everyone.

As for why he was holding a bouquet?

It might have been picked on the spot; perhaps he intended to give it to some girl in the logistics unit following the conquering king's army after the war.

In less than a second,

Su Ya brushed past this professional assassin.

Soon,

A man with red long hair and a sinister visage charged up the slope on horseback,

The surroundings were eerily quiet,

There was no sound of the scout rookie soldiers teasing each other with farts, nor the hoofbeats of the warhorse Benz.

Only the faint whinny of two horses could be heard.

The man named Xiu Gu sensed something was wrong.

He continued forward,

The professional assassin's heightened senses let him discern from tens of meters away the bloody smell mixed with horse dung and grass roots in the air — not from one person, but three.

And the direction from which the smell came matched the bloody scent on the knight who had just brushed past him from behind,

exactly the same!

Several seconds later, he reached the trench and saw the three corpses inside.

Two of the corpses were his own two rookie subordinates.

Last night, they had respectfully brought him a plate of homemade wood saka, hoping to learn from him the use of the 【Swift Step】 combat technique, saying this strange step resembled their hometown dance and the girls would surely like it.

Xiu Gu's expression turned completely cold.

He thought of,

The blooming period of roses is in May–June and September–October,

and now——

it is August.

Not even buds have sprouted!

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"Giddy-up!"

Su Ya exerted all his strength, fiercely gripping the horse's belly with his legs, roaring and trembling as he pulled the reins leftward,

Mei Li pried open his shaking, sieve-like hand,

and finally fear appeared on her face,

but deep down she wasn't sure whether it was fear or pleasure,

When she wickedly placed Su Ya in this one-in-nine-death Russian roulette gamble, the temporary companion Su Ya nevertheless grabbed her,

and hauled her back onto this ten-death-no-life mad gamble abyss!

Now,

Even if she overexerts her magic, she cannot possibly escape alone,

Because Su Ya once again turned the path,

He is charging madly toward the Macedonian royal banner!

She has completely fallen within the formation of the Macedonian army; under the formation's innate suppression of magic, her magical power and reserves are already insufficient to sustain an illusion spell for the entire duration of the war.

And now,

they are about to confront the knights guarding the central army's path!

"Who are you!?"

The two knights guarding the outer flank of the central army frowned as they looked at Su Ya, who came galloping madly on horseback holding flowers; as the distance closed and they saw his face, their expressions shifted slightly,

"Knight, what happened to you!?"

"I have urgent military intelligence to report to the general!"

"It concerns the son of King Yuse, the future ruler of all Britannia, Arthur Pendragon's whereabouts!"

"I won't live long!"

"Get out of the way!"

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