Chapter 77 Southern Training Center (3)
Henry grabbed his cheek.
tingling shock.
Henry looked up at Viscount Bale with a shocked expression and wide eyes.
“… uncle?”
in Henry’s memory.
Viscount Bale was a benevolent maternal uncle.
Ever since he was a child, he watched Henry grow up by his side and did whatever Henry asked for.
So there was a time when I liked my uncle more than my parents.
He was so important to Henry that he couldn’t even imagine being slapped on the cheek by him.
Tears flowed.
It was harder to mentally accept the fact that my uncle hit me than the shock that came from my cheek.
Even Henry’s reaction like that.
Viscount Bale looked at Roman without giving a glance and smiled awkwardly.
“I am really sorry about this. I had to be sure of my nephew’s mental education, but I think he made a mistake because he grew up so immature from a young age. make me apologize Even if you see my face, please turn a blind eye to this incident.”
Opponent is Roman Dmitri.
later.
An existence that does not know how much it will develop.
In addition, since he was favored by Marquis Benedict, Viscount Bale decided to apologize quickly.
It was a very reasonable decision.
Although he was a nephew whom he cherished on a daily basis, it was not affection enough to trade with his future path.
Seriously, this would have blown Henry’s cheeks, even for Henry’s parents.
The situation was sorted out.
Henry is shocked and Viscount Vale asks for forgiveness.
There was no need to escalate the problem.
Henry’s behavior was like child’s play to be classified as hostility in Roman’s world.
of course.
Had it not been for the wise judgment of Viscount Bale.
Things may not have ended so easily.
“I will just move on after seeing Viscount Bale. Then let’s go.”
“Thank you.”
Viscount Bale, who smiles with effort.
As Roman stepped back, he opened his ax eye and looked at Henry.
“Henry, do you know what the hell you did?”
“… Still, how could my uncle hit me?”
“What a fool! Roman Dmitri is a talent that Marquis Benedict is keeping an eye on. I would do anything to recruit Roman, but what kind of gain would I get from losing pretending to be such a talented person?! It’s Henry. When are you going to grow up? If you act like you have the whole world, there will be no problem in the Albert family, but if you act the same here, we won’t be able to protect you like the family does.”
It was a cold reality.
If the Albert family was a really great family.
Rather than being assigned to the southern front in the first place, Henry would have been somehow relieved of his military duty.
that was the reality.
ambiguous power.
Henry didn’t know reality and couldn’t recognize the rising power.
Then all of a sudden
Viscount Bale had a good idea.
“Because of today’s events, Roman Dmitry may have feelings for us. So Henry. From now on, starting with training, you will be assigned to Roman for all of the reserve units, so somehow create a close relationship with Roman Dmitri. keep in mind If you don’t follow my uncle’s advice, I’ll send you to the Western Front, even if I have to hear from your mother. got it?”
at that point.
Henry had a hunch.
It is said that a comfortable military life is completely over with one mistake.
* * *
The fuss is over.
Roman headed home.
Accommodation was randomly assigned by the Southern Training Center, and as soon as we arrived at the accommodation, we could see what kind of special treatment we received.
‘Viscount Vale tried hard.’
on the way here.
I saw other nobles unpacking in a dilapidated building.
It was an understandable scene considering the circumstances of the southern training center, but the building assigned to Roman’s accommodation was a very clean and new building.
A one-story building designed to accommodate only one team.
It was a look that showed how great Viscount Bale’s ambition for power was.
‘It’s easy to deal with people who openly reveal their ambitions. Life at the Southern Training Center won’t be too bad.’
Like Viscount Bale’s request.
Roman will not elevate him to the central government.
but.
We needed to make full use of the fact that we still had mutual interests.
Sigh.
I opened the door of the inn.
Inside, the soldiers had mostly packed their belongings.
Upon discovering Roman and trying to salute them, Roman lightly rang the bell hanging at the end of the door.
daughter and daughter.
Moment.
All actions of the soldiers ceased.
meaning of drops.
In the last few months of training, a command has been imprinted on their brains.
“This is an emergency!”
“Everyone prepare for battle!”
It was an instant for a well-organized space to become a mess.
Soldiers spilled their things on the floor.
Then, he stuffed the items into the small military equipment, and the spectacle of 30 soldiers moving at the same time unfolded.
Roman came out.
After dropping a nuclear bomb on the house.
He gazed at the door with a relaxed expression, as if it had nothing to do with him.
how much time has passed
Soldiers began pouring out of the quarters.
Tadadak.
clinging on.
They lined up in this row in front of Roman in the order they appeared.
A quick and orderly look.
Out of breath, they stood upright to keep their angle.
Roman said.
“2 minutes and 39 seconds. Even though it was in the middle of organizing the accommodation, it was too slow to spend more than 2 minutes preparing for battle. I’ve been telling you guys The enemy doesn’t consider us to prepare perfectly. In a situation where we don’t know when, where and who will attack us, we must make the best preparations in a short time to survive in a war that will never end. If the next emergency signal takes more than two minutes, then prepare for the appropriate punishment.”
“All right!”
“I will keep that in mind!”
The soldiers answered with blood vessels around their necks.
It was a truly unique sight.
Among all the soldiers who entered the southern training center, none were as disciplined as those who followed Roman.
A resort for aristocrats.
The southern training center is far from military discipline.
By the way, Roman is also giving orders.
Soldiers following orders.
He accepted the current situation as if it were natural.
* * *
That time.
McBurney, the general instructor of the Southern Training Center, could not hold back the sighs that burst out in the process of preparing for training.
“I’m preparing for training like this.”
onetime.
He was a veteran warrior active on the Western Front.
He volunteered for the Western Front out of loyalty to his country and defended the Kingdom of Cairo through numerous battles for about ten years.
In recognition of his performance at that time, he rose to the position of Baekjangjang.
He started out as a commoner and rose to a great position of commanding a hundred people, but it was only for a moment that he fell into abyss.
3 years ago.
There was a time when the Kronos Empire decided to cross the border.
They attacked the kingdom of Cairo as a warning, and many soldiers defending the western front lost their lives.
McBurney was no different.
After a grueling battle, the Western Front was prevented from falling, but on that day McBurney lost his right arm to use a sword.
More than the pain of burning arms. In that moment, McBurney knew his life as a warrior was completely over.
It was as expected.
There was no room for cripples on the battlefield.
MacBurney was stripped of his position as centurion, but luckily the Kingdom of Cairo did not completely abandon him.
“McBurney. I’m thinking of appointing you as a drill instructor at the Southern Training Center as a way of acknowledging the achievements you’ve shown on the battlefield. Even if you decide to leave the battlefield, I hope you will work for the Kingdom of Cairo.”
McBurney’s reality has changed.
Even then.
He thought he still had work to do for Cairo.
But the reality was grim.
Unlike the Western Front, the perception of war on the Southern Front fell to the bottom, and most of those entering the Southern Training Center did not really prepare for war, but showed the purpose of spending time in moderation and returning home.
As a result, the training system at the Southern Training Center was a total mess.
Usually, in the western training center, even nobles are trained the same as soldiers, but in the southern training center, nobles were excluded from training at all.
while training in the scorching sun.
Nobles took a nap under the shade.
The commander of the southern training center also passed that much, so only the instructor preparing for training rotted inside.
“What the hell does this mean?”
with a sad face.
I looked down at my training schedule.
The training system was tightly planned, starting with three weeks of basic physical training, but it didn’t mean much if the nobles who commanded the soldiers didn’t get training anyway.
War is, after all, a battle of heads.
Commanders do not simply exist as commanding officers, but must also have the stamina to grasp the level of the soldiers and move according to their breathing.
People who have never experienced war do not know such a fact.
Most of them were trash who thought that simply giving orders would lead to a war.
“Whoa.”
A sigh came out.
It’s already been 3 years at the southern training center.
My motivation fell to the bottom, but I still couldn’t turn away from reality.
“… You should do the bare minimum.”
It will be the same this time too.
While the nobles were leisurely, McBurney intended to teach the soldiers properly.
on a fierce battlefield.
He keenly experienced the fear of the word ‘if’.
* * *
As expected.
next day.
The nobles who arrived at the training ground gathered in the shade created by the giant tree before the training even started.
“Is that true?”
“Because it is. If you visit our estate once, I’ll show you what pleasure is.”
“You promised. I will trust you and go find you!”
“A visit from my younger brother is always welcome!”
They have already finished their voiceovers.
With a link called comrades performing the duty of national defense together, they chatted excitedly like old friends.
against him
Soldiers waited for training in the scorching sun.
Unlike the enlisted soldiers brought by Roman, they were soldiers assigned by the family for the duty of national defense.
In the first place, the word elite soldiers was far from it.
Each aristocratic family had no reason to care about the level of troops that would be meaninglessly tied up on the southern front for two years, and for that reason they filled their numbers with conscripts who had virtually no military training.
Soldiers who couldn’t line up properly.
McBurney didn’t look good from the start at the sight of them taking off their arms loosely while sweating profusely.
‘also.’
always.
I hoped it might be different this time.
As on the Western Front, if you lead a soldier with strong loyalty, you will be proud of yourself, but as always, in McBurney’s eyes, you can see people who are ashamed of the name ‘soldier’.
What if those ragtags were defending the Western Front? I’m sure you won’t last a single day and your defenses will collapse.
‘How can they be so different even though they’re the same warring country?’
I suppressed my emotions.
As the general instructor of the Southern Training Center.
I had to be faithful to the role assigned to me.
With the loss of an arm, even if it diminishes one’s professional pride, one’s past life is also gone.
It was then.
‘… ?!’
The soldiers lined up in their respective factions.
But among them.
Unlike the other cluttered soldiers, there were forces lined up in line.
And that wasn’t all.
at their fore.
I saw Roman Dmitri standing with the soldiers despite the scorching sun shining down from the sky.
McBurney’s prediction was wrong.
this year.
Dmitri’s mutation, which is different from the trash he’s seen so far, entered the Southern Training Center.
