Roaring Heroes Battle the Overlord (Ainz) - Part 1 (Chapters 1 to 200)

Chapter 78: Sudden Change

Knights uphold loyalty, honor, and justice. The knightly spirit is a faith that reveres personal honor as its sacred object, embodying the positive elements of humanity's warrior ethos.

The so-called eight knightly virtues refer to Humility, Honor, Sacrifice, Valor, Compassion, Honesty, Justice, and Spirituality. If someone were to ask what the opposite of a knight is, there's no doubt it's the freewheeling adventurer.

Grand Knight Wade Bolton had always believed that the most restless and lawless bunch in the Re-Estize were the adventurers. Princess Renner hiring the Last Defender of the Way adventurer team to guard her safety was truly a desperate move.

In his eyes, EeDechi might look all righteous and stern, but she always wore that stone-cold poker face, dressed in somber black clothes, and slung a creepy giant sword over her back. One look at her, and she screamed head nun of some shady heretical cult.

Barrett, on the other hand, was the type he despised most. This sly old fox, who'd been scraping by in the adventurer game for twenty years, was like those trendy fluffy fried churros—dunked and fried crisp in the boiling oil of adventuring, soaked through and through with every "virtue" adventurers had to offer: carefree laziness, zero reliability, rule-breaking, thumbing his nose at the law, dollar signs in his eyes...

But when actual monsters struck, you couldn't get by without these adventurers. Knights were only good for defending the Re-Estize and the princess in pitched battles. Against unknown fiends and beasts, the Re-Estize's army was utterly clueless, reduced to lining up for suicidal charges just to plug the gaps with their bodies. In the end, you still had to call in the seasoned pros—the veteran adventurers. That's why he hated guys like Barrett so damn much!

Of course, in the Grand Knight's mind, this adventuring party wasn't a total lost cause. Aside from EeDechi and Barrett, the only two people Wade could stand to look at were Sean and Stella, the young man and woman.

They looked like a good lad and lass forced by life into the wrong path of adventuring, not yet dyed in the wool by the big vat of the adventurer world.

Wade also noticed that during the morning's journey, Sean and Stella always kept their distance from the team, seeming very unwilling to get close to EeDechi. It seemed they too realized the captain was a suspicious character.

In Sean, Wade seemed to see a shadow of his younger self. When he was young, he was just a squire knight, gifted in martial arts, recommended by his lord, came to the capital, wandered alone, honed his martial arts, and finally joined the glorious Royal Knight Order.

But Sean and Stella kept silent and gloomy, so Wade decided to take the initiative and approach them, try to learn the details of the Last Defender of the Way team. Maybe he could, as an elder, guide them gently and correct their life path from becoming sly old adventurer foxes.

"Where is your hometown?" Wade asked, with a warm smile on his face.

Starting with asking about hometown location helps build rapport and doesn't seem abrupt. Wade was quite proud of his emotional intelligence and eloquence.

Sean and Stella's faces turned pale in an instant, the two shrank in their chairs, looking terrified, not daring to speak.

This Grand Knight with a mysteriously unpredictable smile likely discovered something amiss, so he came specifically to ask. Although most countries and tribes on the continent speak a "common language," the accents of the common language in different regions and countries are completely different.

If they opened their mouths again, letting the knight hear the clue, probably the knight would WHOOSH pull out a lance from his spatial ring and skewer them through.