Episode 221
Rosht, the Southern Knight.
He once served as the vice-captain of the Golden Lion Knights in the South, and after being defeated in the war, he is a high-ranking knight who was entrusted with Lorraine von Luedren’s assistant.
Due to the aftermath of frequent battles and wars, his face looks older than his actual age and he has many scars, but he is more loyal than any knight in the south.
Rosht was currently protesting.
“It is an order! Come back to the castle!”
“I’m sorry, but I can’t!”
The soles of Rosht’s feet, carrying the boy on his back, were hot as if they were on fire.
He couldn’t even fathom how many days he had already run.
But running nonetheless.
It was because of the master who was shedding tears hotter than the soles of his feet.
“Tala hyung-nim… Hehehe.”
“sorry. I’m sorry…”
He rode on, but only for a moment. Thinking of the chase, it was decided that it would be better to leave the horse and go into the forest to erase the traces.
The captain’s knight’s physical ability was not too slow compared to the horse’s speed, and his endurance was rather superior, so Rosht’s judgment was quite appropriate.
But it can’t run forever.
I couldn’t even eat properly and just ran one after another.
At the same speed as now, it would be possible to reach the capital in the next three days, but now it is slowly reaching its limit.
My head is dizzy from drowsiness and hunger due to the fatigue from the war.
“If you’ve come this far, you’ll be safe. It would be good to rest here for a while and then start again.”
“…This place.”
Looking around, Lauren could see only one collapsed mansion.
“This is the mansion where the Arpen family was destroyed by Count Zervan. It is said that it was a family that sucked the blood of the people, so it was destroyed and the people of the territory destroyed the mansion. It is now a half-ruined mansion.”
Count Zervan once condemned corrupt nobles.
Arpen was also one of those nobles.
Arpen was destroyed and the territory was transferred to someone else, but this mansion was abandoned without being reused.
It was ominous because it was an extinct family, and the king even gave an order to set it as an example.
“I have heard of it too. I remember what my father said.”
After wiping away her tears, Lauren started looking around Arpen’s mansion as if she had calmed down a bit. It reminded me of the memories that Luen had enjoyed talking about him.
It was Lauren’s hope that any memory of her father came to mind.
“Calius von Zervan. My father also enjoyed talking about him.”
A story that has now become a faded memory.
Lauren thought about the story of Arpen and remembered one thing.
“There is an heirloom in Arpen, but it seems like it was said that no one could use it for a while because it was so huge, is that true?”
“yes. It is said that the Count bestowed the sword on his knight. His name… must have been Sir Aaron.”
“I have heard of it. One of the most famous knights in the North. They say they’re doing a great job blocking the imperial army in the west…”
“Yes. Please come this way.”
Climbing up the pile of collapsed ruins and entering the mansion, Lauren felt a chill in the back of her neck at the dark and bleak aura.
“Are you afraid?”
“The age of being afraid of ghosts that don’t exist has passed.”
However, I was surprised to see that he was still a child. Roshit, his master, was pitiful and pitiful.
But I can’t help it.
Lauren didn’t hear, but Rosht had already talked to Tala.
He expected that Lutheon was targeting Lauren, and Rosht agreed with that opinion. The man who killed my brother and father will not let my nephew live.
ha.
Taking a short sigh, Rosht looked around and gave a brief impression.
“I must have been quite hated.”
On the walls of the mansion, there were scribbles of people who could not fully relieve their anger.
Most of them were obscene language.
I didn’t like having to put my master down in a place like this, but I couldn’t help it.
“I’m going to get you something to eat. I was in a hurry so I couldn’t get enough food. sorry.”
Rochet handed his water bag to Lauren and even held the sword at his waist.
“Together…”
“It won’t take long. According to my memory, there is a well nearby, and if you look for food, you will find it.”
People have already fled to the capital.
There will be food left over that you haven’t packed yet.
If not, you would have to catch, roast, and eat wild animals.
We need to rest for a while, fill our stomachs and start again. Unless you go to the royal capital, you can’t be at ease.
“I’m coming.”
“Roshit.”
“yes. please tell me Is there anything else you need?”
“Can I live?”
“…”
Roshit walked slowly and knelt down.
“It’s all my negligence.”
“Roshit did nothing wrong.”
“no. I was the leader at that time. No… I wouldn’t have gone so vain if I had been with the family head.”
“My father’s death is inevitable. It is also our family business.”
“I am also a knight of Ruidren.”
“…I’m sorry, Rosht. Yes, you are also from our family.”
“Even if I die, I will die for Ludren and die for my lord!”
so.
“Please don’t say things like, ‘Is it okay to live?’”
“…”
“You must buy it. Absolutely survive! You must avenge your family. Why is Count Valentine…”
Rosht bit his lip.
He also seemed to be in tears.
His face was grim, but surprisingly, he had a lot of tears.
“Earl Valentine treated his master like a younger brother and cared for him. If you think of their hard work, you should never say such a thing.”
“okay. it should be ‘Cause I’ve got to take revenge Because I have to kill Lutheon.”
even your own blood.
Because he was the enemy of the Luidren family who had to be killed.
“I’ll get you something to eat, so stay with me for a while.”
“Roshit.”
“Don’t worry. This is Rosht. One per hundred knight Rosht! Don’t worry too much, even if you get spotted by the pursuers, they won’t be my match. But in case you don’t know this…”
“What is this?”
“If someone comes while I am away, please hide here.”
What he handed over was a large wooden box.
It was an empty box.
* * *
Fallen Castle.
There was a man looking at the horrors of Ballantine’s Castle collapsed.
There is nothing that can be called a memory, but if this is also a memory, there is a memory that can be called a memory.
“Keep off.”
A knight caught by the neck was lifted into the air and struggled.
“Luteon went with a chase team.”
“That’s right…”
Pudeuk!!
With a broken neck, the knight’s body sagged like a puppet with a thread cut off.
The air force surrounding him trembled in fear.
He surrounded the man who suddenly appeared, but he was a legionnaire who would become the master and sire of the principality.
The commander-in-chief of the army and the master of the mace in charge of the armed forces of the principality.
Regibang died in vain.
The appearance of an overwhelming force.
That alone made the 30,000-strong army tremble in fear.
“A total of 100,000 came, but only 30,000. where is the rest Did Lutheon drag you?”
No one was in a hurry to open their mouths.
“Those who answer will be spared.”
“Sir Lou Luteon led it!”
one of the soldiers shouted.
He looked like he was trembling in extreme fear.
Most of the soldiers cursed him inwardly, but no one said it.
hooked!
His forehead was pierced by a dagger thrown by the man.
“They say they’ll save me…”
“It’s not worth believing the words of someone you don’t know.”
furthermore.
“I hate traitors.”
Soon, the bottom of his feet turned black.
immediately.
Swords and spears pierced the soldiers from under their feet.
“Ahh!”
“My feet! foot!”
The gray army that appeared at the same time as the ankle was cut off began to slaughter the air force.
Led by Niol and Garcia, the general-level knights, Vlady and Agato.
And troll generals and elven knights began wiping out the air force in an instant.
“Oh the devil! The devil has appeared!”
“It’s gray! It is the gray demon king!”
“Run away! If you die here, it’s dog death!”
It is only natural for an army that has lost its commander to be divided.
It was literally an instant for thirty thousand troops to be killed.
A battlefield that turns into an abyss.
Their master who walks the path opened by the Ashen Legion in the center of the place.
Callius was devastated when he saw the collapsed castle of Valentine.
This castle is old.
This is the place where Colius subdued the lunatic growth gid along with the golden lion Ruen.
And it was also the place where he made a connection with Count Tala de Valentine, who wanted to grow up.
“Are you both gone now?”
While flying to Carpe, Callius anticipated the dragon’s pursuit and disappeared.
Because ironclad dragons are too conspicuous.
So he sent the dragons to be used as bait elsewhere and headed south.
It was also because he expected that the war with the principality would not end anyway.
However, the situation in the South was more dire than Colius thought.
The fall of the Confederate army.
Many have died.
The family head of Ruidren, who was the shield of the South.
The golden lion, Luen, was attacked.
It was also to Lutheon, Luidren’s blood relative.
Upon learning of this fact, Colius could not control his boiling anger.
And I ran right away, but I was a step late.
Tala is dead.
The immature young man became an adult and became a lord in charge of Valentine’s estate, fulfilling his duties as a noble until right before his death.
“Sorry.”
later. He said he had made a great sword and was looking forward to the day it would come to him.
Unable to hide his bitter heart, Callius let out a sigh, leaving behind the slaughtered Air Force soldiers.
Death comes so suddenly.
It won’t be any different no matter how much power you acquire.
Unless you become a god.
Because not all deaths can be prevented.
Without hiding a bitter expression.
Callius summoned an ironclad dragon and mounted it on his head.
“Niel.”
[yes! Lord!]
“Do not save even one.”
The mace is nobody.
You won’t be able to survive here.
Whoa!
Riding the dragon flapping its wings and taking flight, Callius headed for the royal capital.
“I regret that I left behind you because I was helped.”
It’s a tough and long-standing bad relationship.
Now is the time to end that relationship.
“Luteon.”
* * *
Knock knock.
Lauren was taken aback by the presence of people walking into the collapsed mansion.
Soon, he covered himself with an old wooden box and held his breath.
I looked through the hole in the wooden box in the prone position.
The iron shoes of the bloody foot knight were visible.
It wasn’t Rochet.
Lauren’s body trembled.
The smell of blood stung the tip of his nose.
and soon.
puck.
A dull noise hit the ground.
I could even feel the vibration.
It sounded like a bit of hard meat thrown to the ground.
I opened my tightly closed eyes.
It can be seen through the gap in the wooden box.
“are you there?”
It was Rosht’s severed head.
