Hai Na shook her head, somewhat bewildered.
As a bona fide knight of the Knight's Country, she actually had no idea why they were called that—was it simply because they rode camels?
Shouldn't they be called cavalry?
Just like Avalon's "Sky Knights."
At this, "Encyclopedia" Prodino sighed.
He said to Hai Na, "Because the first Slave Knight was a knight of the Path of Strength. He was a human knight captured and taken to Anxi in the Age of Giants, a minor noble from the Herasul Empire."
"...And then?"
Hai Na did not know much about the Age of Giants.
"Then—of course, he didn't want to remain a slave. But what could he do? So he said to the slave trader, 'Please let me join you.'
"That slave trader was also very surprised. He had seen slaves cry and beg for mercy. He had seen slaves try to escape or resist... but this was the first time he'd seen one who wanted to join his team. He did need more people, after all. Having one extra person was always better than one fewer when it came to tying people up, and slave traders also clashed with one another, inevitably suffering casualties.
"But of course, he wasn't going to trust the other man easily—what if it was a ruse? Perhaps he only wanted to reclaim his armor and weapons, then suddenly escape or launch an attack."
"...That is true."
Hai Na nodded.
She felt that if she were in a similar situation, she might pretend to submit as well, then look for an opportunity to strike back. That was a kind of strategy, too.
"So the slave trader ordered him to commit the seven deadly sins—including killing an unarmed old man, eating an infant, violating a woman, and trampling on the