Reidy Gezeizidorf
Attendant
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| Power | Combat Empress | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| Three Star Bronze Rank | 45 | |
| Two Star Iron Rank | Three Star Iron Rank | 161 |
| One Star Silver Rank | Two Star Silver Rank | 191 |
| Three Star Steel Rank | One Star Gold Rank | xxx |
| One Star Gold Rank |
Two Star Iron rank
| Stage | Chapter | Combat Prowess |
|---|---|---|
| Bright Stage | 261 | Gold Rank 1 Star |
| 352 | Quasi-Blademaster | |
| Dark Stage | 512 | Rank 2 Blademaster |
Personality[]
He has a hard working attitude and abundance of energy.
He lived all his life in the rural village and played around in the forest a lot. Coupled with his carefree parents, he developed a stubborn and wild personality and will not stop after he set his mind on something.
While he is wild and stubborn, he’s not that bad and gives it his best when he works.
Appearance[]
Reidy has a rather nice physique. He was only 16 and yet he looks so well-built and tall. Most would have thought that he was 20 if they weren’t told of his age beforehand. Blonde hair, straight nose and clear eyes, his looks are actually pretty decent.
Background[]
Back when the mercenary group disbanded, a Silver ranked member who was a good pal of Charlando prepared to return to his homeland in the Romon Empire. Before he left, he expressed his hope that the descendants of his comrades would one day take up the banner of the mercenary group again.
After returning to his rural village, that Silver Swordsman joined the garrison there and settled down two years later and birthed a son, Reidy.
Reidy used to play around in the mountains and forests a lot when he was small. One time when he accidentally knocked on a bees’ nest and naturally, they started swarming around him. He was so scared and started swinging a branch around and managed to kill quite a few of them, but he got stung by many more and had sores all over my body and only managed to recover after a month. Because of that incident, he had developed a phobia of sorts.
Just two years before the start of the storyline, an epidemic broke out in the village and Reidy's mother passed away, followed by his father who held on for half a year. At his deathbed, he instructed his son to go to find Charlando in Morante City to join the mercenary group.
While it would only take less than half a month to go to Morante City from his village by way of a carriage, the son wasn’t aware of it and traveled for half a year on foot all the way and begged when he ran out of money for food and slept outdoors in the wilderness for the whole of the journey. It was already quite a feat that he wasn’t captured by slave traders for the whole time.
Story[]
Charlando met a beggar from the Romon Empire who revealed that he was the son of that comrade from the Romon Empire, Reidy. Upon further questioning, Charlando got to know about the death of his comrade just the year before. Having heard the arduous journey that the child of his comrade had experienced, Charlando let out a stream of tears and treated him with utmost care and even told Els to regard him as his own brother. After learning that the mercenary group would no longer be formed, however, Reidy flipped out and refused to join Els’s group. Troubled, Charlando could only send that child to school only to receive a notice that he had been expelled as a result of beating up all his classmates.
He was expelled from three elementary academies. Sadly, Charlando and Els hoped that he would be able to apply for a place at Dawn Academy after a year of the elementary course. Charlando asked him what he would like to study. He only said that he wanted to learn the ways of the sword and become a mercenary one day to venture about on the continent.
Els requested that Lorist let Reidy follow him around and teach him some moves whenever he could. Treating him as his personal attendant if he liked.
The main reason he had came to Morante City was to join a mercenary group. But for some reason, it had morphed into a syndicate instead and he have no intention of hanging with the likes of them. He already have no other relatives so he was free to go wherever he wanted, including following Lorist along, so other people’s objections didn't matter.
Both Els and Jim who led the guard brigade had gone on vacation to break through to the gold rank, so Lorist had Reidy take over as the leader of the guard brigade temporarily and accompany Hansk on his trip to the imperial capital.
Reidy reach the Two Star Iron rank while in Delamock Province. Lorist hoped that he would be able to break through to the Silver rank in another two years.
Reidy had improved at an incredible speed in one year. After he began his training in the hall at the back of Firmrock castle's mountain, Reidy did nothing else for a long time. Not only had he broken through the third stage of the dan ocean ki-refining technique, thus reaching the bright stage, his swordsmanship had also improved by leaps and bounds.
In fact, Lorist had expressed more than a couple of times that his disciple was more talented in training than he was, having only taken around five years to break through the bottleneck that was the third level of the technique and approaching the fourth. Reidy was already near the fourth level and, according to Lorist, was already beyond the abilities of gold-ranked swordsmen. However, he was still a little shy of the level of blademasters. This was Reidy's true talent. Lorist himself had taken more than ten years to reach the level of blademasters after a dozen years of struggling and his fair share of near-death experiences, but Reidy only used five years to catch up.
However, breaking through to the fourth level required understanding and insight. At first, Lorist had wanted Reidy to go adventuring on his own to expand his horizons. Unfortunately, almost all the house's knights went into secluded training at once, including Lorist's personal guard, Jim, so Reidy was left with no choice but to take up the position of Leader of the Guard until Pak could come and relieve him. By the time Els broke through to become a gold-ranked knight, Duke Fisablen's knighthood tournament was just around the corner. Reidy participated in the swordsmanship section and managed to win.
Finally, after the bulk of things stabilized, Reidy could travel the continent. He had planned to travel by land all the way to Morante before going to the Romon Empire where his hometown was. The whole journey was estimated to take around two years. When Tarkel found out about it, he had Reidy go to the four central duchies to help solve some troubles Furybear agents were having due to the local criminal syndicates.
Reidy had seen much during his time as the guard captain and knew that the unit carried out many covert operations. For instance, he helped Tarkel wipe out a few underground syndicates when they were in Windbury. Reidy agreed without contest to help him once more. While most of his objectives in Handra and Farkel were completed without issue, he ran into trouble in Handra's capital when he tried to deal with a crime boss.
The boss ran a large inn and was also a relative of one of the duchy's counts -- a complete weakling. The count's wife had an affair with Duke Handra himself. While it wasn't spoken about in public, it was not much of a secret either. The crime boss was the count's elder cousin and profited the count's adulterous wife quite a bit. He collected protection money, threatened merchants, and ran brothels and scams in the capital, Nawulis.
Tarkel attempted to infiltrate a couple in their fifties as his informants. They were locals and had two sons who helped with the family leather trade. During the civil war, they escaped when the first prince attacked and ended up heading to The Northlands with the northbound convoy when they passed through the Andinaq kingdom. Their two sons joined the Norton forces. The eldest was now a squad leader and would soon be promoted to a household knight. The couple, having started to miss home, wanted to visit it, but their two sons were reluctant to accompany them. When Tarkel found out about it, he had someone act as the younger son to accompany the couple back home.
However, when they made it to their hometown, they realized their home had been occupied by the local crime boss. When they confronted him, they were told their whole family were considered deserters who had abandoned the duchy in times of trouble. The couple left with a beating in the place of their house and all their belongings were taken. The moment word got back, Tarkel fumed with rage and issued an assassination order on the one responsible. He asked Reidy to uproot the whole syndicate.
Thus, Reidy began on his path of bloodshed across the taverns and brothels owned by the crime boss. By the time he was mostly done with the minions, he began to seek out the man himself.
Unfortunately, he encountered the noble envoy of Duke Fisablen who was lodging at the inn belonging to the crime boss. The envoy was a very close nephew of the duke himself who recognized Reidy as one of the victors from the knighthood tournament and knew he was a member of House Norton.
If Reidy had stuck to killing the crime boss and jumping out the inn's window to escape, that would be the end of it. However, due to his constant stream of victories over the last two years, Reidy developed a sense of arrogance that prompted him to leave at his own pace after slaughtering the crime boss in broad daylight. He bumped into the Envoy.
The envoy was stunned and asked why Reidy was there before he assumed he was there to spy on him. As he was there to represent House Fisablen to negotiate a trade deal with the duchy, he was under the impression that his mission was a grave one and jumped to the conclusion that Reidy was, in fact, tailing him. He ordered Reidy's capture without a second thought, accusing him of being a spy in the process.
The moment the few nobles and guards following the envoy heard his command, they roared and drew their weapons. In a fit of rage, Reidy killed everyone, which included half of the group the envoy came with. When he saw the envoy attempt to escape, he leaped and drove his sword through him before leaving nonchalantly. The whole duchy was in a state of panic as a result.
Having one's envoy killed was no small slight on a noble's reputation. Additionally, the man was the duke's nephew, not just some disposable noble, so the very least the Handra authorities could do was capture the murderer. Duke Handra raged and sealed the borders before launching an extensive search.
At first, the ones sent to confront Reidy were mostly local garrison soldiers. Every time he intended to resupply at a town, he would be entangled by its guards, not that he minded much. However, when one of the gold-ranked knights fell at his sword, the Handra duchy began to deploy military personnel before ordering all towns and villages to forbid all lone travelers from entering. At the same time, they sent a rank 1 blademaster out as well.
Reidy's journey began to go south. While garrison soldiers were easy to deal with, he couldn't do much against them if he wasn't even allowed to enter. The moment anyone got close enough, the guards on the walls would order them to stop and send a few archers over to investigate. They were only allowed to enter once it was confirmed they weren't Reidy. There were many times he held a few of the ones sent to investigate hostage but the guards on the walls still fired their arrows without hesitation.
Reidy was finally suffering the consequences of his actions, and it only worsened when the blademaster caught wind of him. Just as Lorist expected, Reidy was still far from being able to deal with a blademaster. Even though he wouldn't be as disadvantaged as a gold-ranked swordsman, he still found it hard to fight on the same level. Fortunately, he was still able to escape when he wanted, so Reidy changed his original route and planned to go through the Shabaj duchy to reach the province of Messen, which used to be the Melein duchy's territory. He would then head to Egret Lake and reach the Andinaq kingdom before taking a huge detour to Morante.
What he didn't expect was that the four duchies were in it together. Duke Handra's messenger arrived at Shabaj first, and they also began to hunt him. He had only managed to relax for two days before he was forced to run for his life again.
His anger grew ever worse and more intense, along with it grew his cruelty. When two of the Shabaj duchy's gold-ranked knights were killed, Duke Shabaj also sent out the duchy's blademaster and swore to see Reidy's corpse torn to a thousand pieces.
Being the target of two blademasters caused Reidy endless trouble. Fortunately, while he couldn’t handle the blademasters themselves, he was able to defeat their minions easily. The high-up blademasters normally wouldn't act until they got a definitive lead on where Reidy was. This gave him the opportunity to kill off his weaker pursuers before he continued his escape. The small fry became terrified of him, they didn't dare to leave the blademasters' sides.
Reidy was finally able to take a short breather. His swordsmanship had been honed quite substantially during his escapade, especially during his confrontations with the blademasters. Having familiarized himself with the first blademaster's moves, he was even able to gain a slight advantage during the fights. When the second blademaster made his way there, he made his escape with a hearty laugh.
It was too bad that pleasant situation didn't last long. Having not heard anything about the capture of the one that murdered his nephew, Duke Fisablen finally decided to send his lover, rank 2 Blademaster Xanthi, to join the hunt. In only a single clash, Reidy suffered three wounds. Luckily, he made his escape quickly and jumped into a nearby river, if not, he would not have been able to get away.
The last time Reidy was spotted was near Egret Lake. So far, his pursuers were on their way there as well. Even the four duchies' combined army. stationed at Centerlake Island, were alerted. Many search parties were deployed to scour the lake.
Abilities[]
Before, he used to learn swordsmanship from his father. When he came over to Morante City, he also got some lessons from Charlando. When he was only practicing normal sword moves, he would perform without a problem. However, when he start sparring with someone, the moment he see the flash of a sword, he would unconsciously be reminded of the shiny tails of the bees that have given me so much grief and uncontrollably close his eyes and swing my sword around randomly. At that point, he had already forgotten all the techniques he knew. His father and Charlando both came to the conclusion that he wasn’t swordsman material.
Reidy was already a Two Star Bronze fighter at the age of sixteen and has a really large build that made him look almost twenty. He had was pretty well built and rather good stamina. Given his innate strength, you’d think that he would be a talent worth cultivating. But in actuality, he was pretty slow and would forget a move he was taught within ten minutes. The way he swings his sword around was like a crazed barbarian.
When he first started to train with Lorist, he discovered that bad habit of Reidy's and asked him patiently about the reason that made him develop that habit. He told Lorist about the incident with the bees and Lorist said that it has caused a phobia to develop within his psyche which causes him to unconsciously close my eyes every time he felt like he was in danger. He said it was an ‘ostrich mentality.'
He was treated by Lorist using a hollow rotor and spinning chair. Lorist had someone make the hollow rotor and the spinning chair. All his life he had never experienced something that dreadful. It took him almost two whole months to be able to get used to the sensation. After that, Lorist said he was successfully treated and put some honey all over my body before releasing a couple of bees for him to strike down with his sword. At first, he was horrified at the notion. But when the bees came at me that time, he suddenly noticed that they approached very slowly. He could even see every flap of their wings clearly and managed to easily kill each and every one of them.
The ability he developed was called dynamic vision which allowed him to perceive fast moving objects at a slowed rate when he focused. He could now see each and every one of his opponent's sword strikes clearly and could parry every single one of them without breaking much of a sweat, thus allowing a Bronze rank like me to match up to a Three Star Iron rank like Patt.
Reidy training regimen includes the eight-fundamental sword moves.
Reidy killed a Silver ranked mercenary on the battlefield. It's was his first time defeating someone of a higher rank.
Reidy reach the Two Star Iron rank while in Delamock Province. Lorist hoped that he would be able to break through to the Silver rank in another two years.
Reidy had improved at an incredible speed in one year. After he began his training in the hall at the back of Firmrock castle's mountain, Reidy did nothing else for a long time. Not only had he broken through the third stage of the dan ocean ki-refining technique, thus reaching the bright stage, his swordsmanship had also improved by leaps and bounds.
Reidy had to start stabilizing your power at the third stage before traveling to get some experience. Breaking through to the fourth rank in the dan ocean ki-refining technique requires actual insight, not just mindless training. Perhaps, one might even have to experience a few a life-threatening situation first. During normal combat situations, one needs to be far more clear-headed and maintain a calm demeanor, one must not be enraged easily.
Reidy used a heavy greatsword. Even though he wielded it with only one arm, his sword easily weighed two times a normal two-handed greatsword. Thanks to Reidy's unnaturally great strength, he could use a heavy sword like that as deftly as he would a delicate needle.
In fact, Lorist had expressed more than a couple of times that his disciple was more talented in training than he was, having only taken around five years to break through the bottleneck that was the third level of the technique and approaching the fourth.
As the Dan Ocean Ki-Refining Technique was an internal technique passed down in Lorist's family of his previous life, it was the only one that non-family-related disciples could learn. It was easy to start and hard to master. The first two stages were rather fast on the pickup for most. But only very few manage to reach the third level and approach the peak of the Bright Stage. Breaking through to the fourth level signified one's arrival at the Dark Stage. As for the fifth, Lorist had heard his grandfather mention that only one disciple had ever managed to reach it, at the end of the Qing dynasty, and became a grandmaster. However, they had lost all contact with him after he joined a resistance movement against foreign invaders. He was never heard from again.
Reidy was already near the fourth level and, according to Lorist, was already beyond the abilities of gold-ranked swordsmen. However, he was still a little shy of the level of blademasters. This was Reidy's true talent. Lorist himself had taken more than ten years to reach the level of blademasters after a dozen years of struggling and his fair share of near-death experiences, but Reidy only used five years to catch up.
However, breaking through to the fourth level required understanding and insight. At first, Lorist had wanted Reidy to go adventuring on his own to expand his horizons.