If the story is correct they were holy knights that sold their knight order pride for money, they had no loyalty from the start, served a piece of scum and they know that "noble" is one, no honor whatsoever.
Magic enchantement, it makes something better, on MC body it means more defense and power, on a sword it makes it more durable and able to cut above its level, and as MC levelled himself to the max it means that even a simple soldier sword can break orichalcum, normal in this kind of stories.
The noble was unable to use magic, so his armor was just a lump or rare metal, pearls to swines.
MC already changed the plot just by existing in it, through his actions the demon didn't destroy the district but escaped outside and almost killed a main character, so now he is trying to check if other things in the story are deviating or not.
Maybe the noble had died in the attack in the orignal story, or after a big loss of personeel the order decided to go for stricter controls for quality of soldiers, so he couldn't buy his way in.
This kind of things weren't even background info in the original plot, MC is doing waves and seeing behind the scenes that no one knew.
isekai is like trash food, you are not really losing anything by dropping it.
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Even if there was no honor, if the noble discovers them, he might execute them, or at least fire them. They win nothing by doing it. If they wanted to stop him so badly then confessing to a random is not the answer either.
Magic enchantment making something "better" is dull. Why? How can you determine what "better" is? Can't I make the sword sturdier? Lower it's sharpness? Maybe extending it? How does it work, and why? It's a shallow system. I don't mean that the author should dedicate a whole arc on how magic works, but at least put some rules and logic into it. If not it feels more like this is for me, a check list.
Even if the noble can't use magic, metal is metal. If anything, this chapter tells me that equipment quality means nothing, and mana is the one and only real measure of strenght. A problem, considering we didn't get an explanation on how magic works (yet at least).
MC said he wanted to change history the absolute least possible. Cutting the noble's armor is not exactly low profile. Sure, the noble MIGHT have died or something, but it wasn't by MC's hand. If it didn't appear in the original story, it probably wasn't that important either, so he could just do nothing. I get he does it cause he was ordered to by the female knight tho.
I know it's trash food, but it just feels bad, you know? Why take the time to write something just to make a soulless copy of something else? I'm not mad about it being an isekai of swords and magic, I'm sad at the fact that characters don't have personality, plot moves just cause yes, systems are there cause tropes, and it feels like you're reading the same BAD story with different reskins.
Anyways, thanks for reading, man. Have a good day/night!