Regressor of the Fallen Family novel Chapter 293

“Missed them?”

“They flew away on some strange disc-shaped object. Couldn’t do anything about it.”

As Lonian said this with a look of despair, Victor too sighed deeply.

“Old man Burdel managed to take down a few of their underlings with long-range sniping, but after that, it didn’t work anymore.”

The gaunt middle-aged man Lonian pointed to slightly frowned and nodded.

“I was shooting predictively from 2km away, but it seemed that they had figured out my position. If His Excellency Lonian hadn’t been chasing them on the rooftops, I would have been in danger.”

Burdel, who awakened his aura and acquired a range and accuracy beyond common sense, was probably now the continent’s best archer. His words heightened the sense of caution towards the enemy.

“…Scary old man. If you hadn’t come, I might have been in big trouble.”

“Well, of course. So always be grateful to this brother.”

“I’m older than you by birthdate.”

“Anyway.”

“Yeah, thanks! Are we good now!?”

Lonian looked better when he was playful rather than disheartened.

Victor chuckled at him, then Lonian forcefully summoned the skinny mage who had been crouching in the corner.

“And let’s thank Grik too, who ran into us after getting caught by some odd guys!”

“Embarrassing…”

Grik flinched and hung his head low, starting to draw in the dirt, but his ordeal didn’t end there.

“A good attempt to detour in front of the southern mountains to return via Macline. Thanks to that, we encountered the attackers later, and we met you as well.”

“Exactly. Thanks to Grik getting captured quickly without showing his true potential, we met right on time.”

Grik’s head, briefly lifted by Burdel’s defending words, dropped back down between his legs with Lonian’s teasing.

“Well, since I knew you had walked into the enemy’s trap, I ran like mad towards here.”

“It was an incredibly forced move. I’ve been running all day.”

“So now, I look like this…”

Grik added a comment in a gloomy tone, but his voice failed to capture anyone’s attention.

Instead,

“Thank you, Uncle Grik. Thanks to you, we survived.”

“Don’t… just don’t. Makes me feel more miserable.”

Victor spoke with earnest gratitude, and Grik looked like he was about to bury his face in the ground.

Watching him, Lonian let out a small sigh as if he recalled something.

“If it hadn’t been for that disc-shaped thing, we could have caught them!”

“Yeah. Of course.”

Encouraging his friend who seemed frustrated, Victor nodded.

It wasn’t just lip service.

Despite his newly awakened special trait causing his force to surge, Victor recognized that Lonian’s aura was just as formidable.

‘No, if we compare their purity, his might be even deeper. In that case…’

Victor was once again astonished by his friend’s remarkable growth when Lonian spoke up.

“Well, we’re not completely out of clues.”

“Huh?”

“One of the guys who died had this strange ring. Seems to react to force or mana, here…”

Lonian took out a plain-looking ring and infused it with force.

With a light vibration, the ring emitted a faint blue light, and soon a coiled black snake symbol appeared in the middle.

“A snake? Is that all?”

“Yeah. It must be an artifact indicating membership to some group. Is there any group with this symbol in the Empire? Just looking at it puts me in a bad mood.”

“I wouldn’t know. Maybe His Majesty does?”

Victor answered with a tilt of his head, and Lonian grimaced slightly before scratching his arm.

“Ahhhh, you mean my brother when you say His Majesty?”

“Obviously.”

“Oh, I can’t get used to it. It gives me goosebumps.”

Laughing at the absurdity, Victor was joined by a calm voice from beside him.

“You’ll have to get used to it now, Your Excellency Lonian.”

“Ugh, Your Excellency what! Just speak informally to me like he does! I don’t hold any titles…”

Seeing Lonian shiver, the tension from their mission seemed to somehow dissolve.

‘The mission is complete, and the goal is achieved.’

Although they had let the major enemy slip away, it was considered a success.

Victor patted Lonian’s shoulder and laughed.

“You’ll get used to it. Anyway, it’s good to have you back, congratulations.”

“Back? This isn’t even Macline… Huh? Congratulate me for what?”

“Because the honor of the youngest aura user on the continent, which His Majesty had, now goes to you.”

“Ah… haha, that. You’re the same age as me.”

“But I just awakened yesterday, whereas you’re obviously more than just awakened, right?”

“Sigh, that’s true. But only because I went through some real hard times. If I hadn’t discovered the relic of the Sword Saint, I would have almost died.”

The Sword Saint’s relic?

These were definitely significant words. Victor’s curiosity was piqued.

“Now that we’re on the subject, what did you do in the southern mountains to get so strong? And what about that swordsmanship?”

Although he hadn’t observed Lonian for long, his movements were clearly different from the Ironblood Sword’s mobilization technique.

The trace of the Ghost Shadow was evident, but the way he handled and attacked with his sword was quite unfamiliar. Especially the skill he used to create a barrier of aura to block the explosion was astonishing.

“Ah. That’s…”

Just as Lonian was about to share with a smile, a low humming sound filled the room as the communicator lit up with life.

It was the awaited contact.

* * *

“Lonian!?”

Logan, lost in thought, stared at the communicator as his eyes widened abruptly.

[Yes, brother. Long time no see.]

Surprised and bewildered by the sudden appearance of his brother, Logan was at a loss for words for a moment.

He soon unleashed a storm of complaints, no, scolding.

“You, rascal, you were safe! And you didn’t contact even once! Do you know how much mother has been worried!? Do you have any idea how much I’ve been harried to check regularly…”

“Cough, cough. Your Majesty, please preserve your dignity…”

Dwain, who had been watching the exchange, coughed and tried to intervene, and Damian stepped back with a look of confusion about where to look. It was only then that Logan calmed his excitement.

“Hmm. Right. Well, I of course thought you would be safe, but… the family was very worried.”

He tried to make it sound like an excuse, but Logan only felt the back of his head grow hotter, so he swiftly steered the conversation to the main point.

“So why are you there? Where’s Victor?”

[He’s right here. But this was his idea, suggesting that it might be better for me to communicate directly…]

“Never mind that. Tell me from the beginning what happened!”

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