Life Limit

"It was actually Lord Flar. Now this really is..."

Looking at the imposing middle-aged knight in the distance, Dier wore a strange expression.

Arthur beside him wore the same expression. "Indeed, now this..."

He looked at the middle-aged knight's cold face in the distance, his own expression equally strange.

Arthur remembered that knight. He was the Guard Officer of Count Polia's castle, commanding the castle's most elite Guard Army and responsible for its protection. Even though the war at the front had reached such a fierce stage, this knight had never been transferred away.

Moreover, among Count Polia's many knights, he was among the very best. It was said that during the early wars with the Kingdom of Bode, he had personally slain three enemy knights and earned great merit. That was why Count Polia valued him enough to entrust him with the safety of his castle.

However, if Arthur remembered correctly, Knight Flar's only son seemed to have been the Knight Apprentice who had led a group out some time ago. In the end, not even his body had been found. He had likely been eaten by wild beasts by the roadside.

With his only child's remains nowhere to be found, it was no wonder the knight wore such a cold expression and had even left the castle he had always guarded to personally lead a group here.

This area is about to become lively, Arthur sighed inwardly.

The border had already been chaotic lately. All kinds of Bandit Groups and Savage Tribes kept emerging, and there were even faint signs of Orcs.

With the situation already so chaotic, the arrival of another top-tier knight made it difficult to say what the final situation would become.

Thinking of this, Arthur shook his head. Watching the knight's figure gradually recede into the distance, he followed Dier into the camp.

No matter what, the power a knight brought was obvious.

After Knight Flar arrived, the camp's previous panic quickly settled down.

This was the result of the power and prestige of a knight.

In this dangerous world, there could be no peace without strength. A knight's power could easily suppress an entire territory and maintain stability across a region. To everyone, knights were symbols of strength.

Especially in such a dangerous situation, the arrival of a powerful knight was enough to steady the wavering hearts of the people and disperse the spreading panic.

After arriving, Knight Flar first summoned the person in charge of the camp and had him report in detail on everything that had happened in the area recently, using it to analyze the current situation. Only then did he arrange the people he had brought and settle them together in the southern part of the camp.

After doing all that, he kept a cold face as he walked under the guidance of several people to the bodies laid out in the center of the camp, seemingly intending to examine them.

The weather had been scorching lately, with the sun hanging high all day. More than ten days had passed since these corpses had died and been placed here, and they had begun to rot and stink. The bodies had already been torn apart by wild beasts, and now that they were putrefying, they looked even more horrifying. Even Arthur, who had come along to watch, could not help frowning.

Flar showed no particular reaction. With a cold face, he looked over the miserable, rotting corpses and even touched the wounds with his own hands, showing no disgust at all.

There was not much left to see on the decaying corpses. Even the large wounds on them had become unrecognizable after being gnawed by beasts and ravaged by decay.

Flar and several others examined the area for some time. In the end, when they truly found nothing, he left with a cold face.

"Chip, display the other party's physical data."

Only after the knight had left did Arthur walk to one side and speak to the Chip in his mind.

"Name: Flar. Strength: 4.7. Agility: 4.4. Constitution: 4.5."

"Ding! This lifeform poses extreme danger. In the event of conflict, the host's survival rate is below 8.7%. Recommendation: keep away!"

The data sent by the Chip made Arthur suck in a breath, his mind greatly shaken.

"How is that possible? Physical attributes like these have already broken the human physiological limit!"

His heart trembled as he stared at the knight gradually walking away in the distance, shock appearing on his face.

As a Life Scientist in his previous life, he knew that every form of life had limits.

Humans, as intelligent lifeforms, were no exception.

Such limits were limits of physiological structure and of genes. Under natural conditions, they could not be broken unless one underwent countless years of effective evolution.

In Arthur's previous world, where technology had been extraordinarily advanced, genetic modifications like this existed. By improving human genes, they could artificially break genetic limits and create genetic warriors who surpassed the limits of the human body.

But although this backward world was mysterious, it obviously could not possess the methods of his previous life. Or rather, even if it did, they could not possibly appear in such a remote and undeveloped place.

"Is this the effect of activating a Life Seed? Breaking the natural genetic limit of the human body, allowing physical strength that had reached its limit to rise once more, causing life itself to undergo a qualitative transformation and sublimation."

"Rather than breaking a limit, this is more like a unique form of evolution."

At that thought, intense excitement appeared in Arthur's eyes, and he could not help looking at the knight with burning interest.

"Unfortunately, I don't have the conditions to conduct research. If I had the corpse of a knight who had activated a Life Seed for dissection and analysis, I should be able to uncover some of the mysteries."

The professional instincts from his previous life made Arthur instinctively feel the urge to conduct research.

He shook his head, temporarily dismissing those impractical thoughts, and walked toward a quiet place nearby, intending to train alone for a while.

That night, under Knight Flar's orders, the corpses that had been laid out in the camp were dragged away and cremated.

Blazing flames burned fiercely in the center. The firelight reflected countless silent faces and cast their shadows upon the ground.

Over the following period, the influence Knight Flar had brought began to show.

Compared to the camp's original leader, this knight was clearly far more aggressive and much stronger.

After several days of initial investigation, he personally led men to ruthlessly sweep through several Savage Tribes causing trouble in the area. He cut off their heads and hung them before the camp gates to intimidate the surrounding enemies.

Such cruel methods were common in this world, and they were quite effective.

In a short time, nearly all the troublemakers in the surrounding area learned that a knight had arrived. The region fell silent for a while, and the originally chaotic situation even showed signs of being brought under control.