Berserk

"What makes you think that both of us are traitors in the first place? We're at the same place protecting Prince William yesterday."

Arnold blurted out. Looking around the surroundings, his eyes stopped after reaching the other knights direction.

He looked at them as if hoping that they would believe what he said, but... All of them turned their heads aside, ignoring his gaze.

When I saw that his expression grimaced, I chuckled. He then glared at me hearing this, but I deliberately ignored this before speaking.

"Can't you understand your situation here? You guys are already cornered." Taking out photos from my pocket, I threw them up in the air, as one fell on top of Arnold's face.

Angrily taking the picture off from his face, he was shocked after he saw what was it about.

The picture contained him giving a folder full of informations to the guy that has a snake tattoo.

"H-how...?" He asked, folding the picture in his hands angrily.

***

It was yesterday when I decided to inform King Adam about this 'traitor thingy' to ask for his help to further increase the possibility of my plan to work.

According to the novel, it was said that it was because of a certain person why William turned evil. But, that person's name wasn't mentioned so naturally, this made my mission more harder than I thought it would be.

Since it was only mentioned that the person's occupations was a knight that was supposed to protect William, it must've mean that there is a high possibility that he was somehow connected to the bandit attack, and has been with us fighting, while also observing at the same time.

"I see..." King Adam place his fingers under his chin before continuing, "So you're saying that there is a traitor among the knight that was with William yesterday?"

"Yes." I answered firmly.

When he heard my reply, his expression turned serious as he then excluded a strong pressure that was enough for my body to almost loose it's balance. Thankfully, he managed to calm himself down after a few seconds, and he quickly apologized to me after realizing his mistake.

Letting out a deep breath, he continued, "Do you know who they are? If so, could you tell me?" while looking at me with domineering expression.

"The two traitor was... Arnold and Jack."

"Those two?"

"Yes."

"... I say, what do you want me to do?"

"Since we don't have any definite proof that they're traitors, we'll use this." Smiling inside my mask, I took out an artifact that works like a camera, and gave it to him.

At first he tilted his head in confusion when he saw my gesture, but after giving him a time to understand what I meant, it didn't take long for him to finally understood what I was talking about.

***

After thirty minutes of explanation, Arnold finally understood how they were caught. He then dropped his head, looking a bit devastated.

It was then...

"Y-you... Sir Blanc, you knew what they were planning?" Prince Ryan finally spoke, while giving me a look of surprised, with a slight astonished expression.

"No... I 'understood' them." I corrected. Fixing my clothes properly, I decided to cast them a backward glance. It wasn't long for me to notice King Adam, who suddenly stood up from his throne, walking forward to our direction.

"This... I've been framed! Your Majesty, I've been framed by that-- Pu!"

Before he could even finish his mid-sentence, the King slapped his cheeks hard that made him bit his tongue by accident.

Seeing this, a laugh was threatened to appear on my mouth. But thankfully, I managed to stop myself as I looked at the other direction. Though, this wasn't the case for the two children beside me, William and Persia.

""Hahaha!"" They both laughed in unison.

Unlike earlier, after I showed them the evidence about Arnold meeting one of the organization, they finally understood what was happening and decided to go at my side.

Because to this, Arnold grinded his teeth in anger as he glared at the two children's direction.

"You brat!" He roared in anger, glaring hatefully at the two.

The two traitors, Arnold and Jack, was then led to the dungeon, where they would be tortured and asked everything they know about the organization...

Or so was the plan...

"You brat!!"

Not long after Arnold said that, he bit something inside his mouth. After he did this, I noticed some changes happening in his body.

Veins began to popped out from his forehead, the handcuffs and chains that was placed on his foot got ripped apart, making every pieces fall on the ground.

He then dashed forward the two in high speed almost like teleporting in front of them.

Thankfully, I managed to summon five-layers of barrier that shielded them from his fist on time.

I'm not sure why I summoned five-layers instead of only three or two. Though, It must've been because I instinctively felt that something was wrong.

Shit, that was close!... Is what I thought, while enhancing the hardness of the barrier even more.

But...

-Creak!

It seems like my decision was no doubt correct.

Before could I even let out a sigh of relief, the first barrier I summoned earlier began cracking, then breaking into pieces.

It was also the same for the second, third and fourth. They all broke before disappearing into thin air.

Right where the fifth-layer of my barrier was about to be destroyed, I immediately took out my sword from my pocket ring, and dashed forward, pushing the two of them aside.

-Clang!

A metallic sound was heard after his fist and my sword collided. It seems like his bones was furthermore enhanced after swallowing a pill, that was hidden inside his mouth earlier.

"Haah!!" Wrapping my whole arm and foot with mana, I forced my way through his body.

Thankfully, I managed to succeeded. His body was thrown away up on the air, and landed on the ground, causing a small crater to appear.

While panting heavily, I took a deep breath to make all my nerves calm down.

Berserk?... I muttered inwardly. Seeing that his strength drastically changed into inhumane, this confirmed something in my mind.

The pill he swallowed was berserk pill.

Berserk pill, a pill that can be used to strengthen all of the person's muscle into something inhumane, making them withstand strong attacks from a rank higher than them. Though, this pill was deemed illegal in every country because it uses the own user's life force to strengthen their body. After the time runs out which is about 5 minutes, or if the user used all of his remaining life force, he will immediately die.

"I should properly end this now." I took a deep breath and thrust my sword in front of me. Using two of my fingers, I stroked across the length of the blade, and poured half of my mana on this strike.

My sword began to light up after I did that. Focusing my attention back to Arnold, I then decided to use the skill I managed to learn a few weeks ago.

[Black Cross]

The light from my sword suddenly turned black, fluttering like a black flame that also covered both of my hands.

"Haa...." Taking a deep breath, I took a step, leaving a small crater on the ground, and appearing in front of Arnold.

[Flicker]

Unlike the [Ghastly Step] I used frequently when training with my mother, [Flicker] is a bit different because it needs muscle training to be used in fighting instead of just mana.

The skill [Flicker] was just a copied skill of my mother used that was called [Shift].

Since I couldn't afford to waste my mana in real battle between life or death, I decided to copy her skill because there is a possibility that I might used up all my mana in important battle like this one.

Stabbing every weak points of his body, my sword left a small black flames to where I had stabbed him.

[Consecutive Needle]

While I continuously stabbed his weak points, blood began to come out from his mouth that slowly fell down.

Even though I noticed this, I didn't stop myself from attacking continuously until his body fall on the ground.

After a few minutes, Arnold's body couldn't take it any longer before falling flat on his face to the ground.... Lifeless.

From now on, there's no doubt that I'm now part of this world...