Chapter 85 – Encounter in Alvern
There are about 5,000 different races across the border between the Great Forest, the territory of the Alberium Kingdom, and the Bregern Empire. There was one city where I lived.
The name of this city is ‘Albern’, and anyone who hears the name of the city will surely come up with this idea.
“Isn’t it made from the Alberium Kingdom and the Bregern Empire?”
Of course, the name Alvern was derived from the names of the Alberium Kingdom and the Bregern Empire, as people think.
Because, as mentioned earlier, this city is located in an exquisite location between the Great Forest and the border of the Bregern Empire.
So, of course, there was no choice but to take the names of the Alberium Kingdom and the Bregern Empire.
Someone might say that it was a very insincere name, but when it came to naming the city of Albern, one would be surprised to learn that the Empire of Bregern decided to take a step back and put their own name after it. It was the placenta.
The reason is that the name of a city is something that does not change over time, and in most cases, the name once decided remains the same.
In addition, the name Albern was the name of the Alberium Kingdom coming forward and the Bregern Empire going backward, so seeing the proud Bregern Empire step back like this, it is clear that the Bregern Empire at the time this city was built I could guess from the way he treated the forest elves.
Anyway, in Albern, which has now grown into a small and medium-sized city with a population of over 5,000, a group of spiritists and guards dispatched from the Great Forest met and exchanged greetings with the Imperial Knights of the Bregern Empire.
In the drawing room on the 1st floor of Alvern City Hall, Seluna Emeraldia, the representative of the Kingdom of Alberium, was shaking hands with Anna Lyudmila Semiltern, the representative of the Bregern Empire.
“Nice to meet you. The shield and sword that protect the highest place of the Bregern Empire.”
“It is an honor to meet you. Shield and sword that guard the highest point of the Great Grove.”
As the two belonged to each other, they were using expressions that raised each other.
Seluna Emeraldia was the vice-captain of the escort guarding Queen Rumio, and Anna Lyudvila Semiterne was the vice-captain of the imperial knights guarding Emperor Antonio.
Someone might ask how Anna, a low-ranking sword expert, became the vice-captain of the imperial knights, but the position of vice-captain, which had to be buried in a pile of papers with her captain, was the most avoided position in the imperial knights.
So, she couldn’t entrust the job of vice-captain to a new knight with no career or experience, and to leave it to her senior officer, she avoided everything and ran away, so Anna had no choice but to assume the position of her vice-captain. .
“This time, I will escort the elemental lord who is dispatched to the Bregern Empire. Hopefully, until the day she returns after completing her mission, please take good care of her.”
“We will provide you with maximum convenience so that there is no shortage until the day you return home after completing the mission.”
Contrary to Serementio’s worries, Seluna was politely sharing her story with Anna.
To Serementio, who is 312 years old this year, it was only natural that the 153-year-old Seluna looked like a child.
However, Seluna had been out of the great forest several times under Queen Rumio’s orders, so her experience of the outside world was second to none of Serementio’s.
No, Seluna would rather have experienced more outside the Great Forest than Serementio, the captain of the escort that had to protect her queen.
So, it was only natural that Queen Rumio chose Seluna.
“Oh, we prepared the documents to be submitted in Albern first, so you can just check the number of people and leave.”
“Is that so? Thank you so much. Paperwork isn’t usually hard work.”
At Anna’s words, Seluna looked quite surprised.
Because, contrary to their appearance, most of the elves were people who had no talent for paperwork.
So, if the elf and the human started working on the paperwork at the same time, the elf could only finish 2 pages in the time it took the human to complete 10 sheets.
I don’t know if it’s because they’ve lived for a long time, but most of the elves weren’t good at paperwork.
On rare occasions, a blessed elf with an excellent talent for paperwork is born.
So. It was natural for Seluna, an elf from the Alberium Kingdom, to be surprised by Anna’s words.
She was also not very good at paperwork.
“As the vice-captain of the Imperial Knights, this amount of paperwork can be completed in an hour.”
The amount of paperwork Anna handled must have been a terrifying amount for elves, but she said it was an amount that Anna could finish with just a couple of hours of concentration.
A knight of the Imperial Knights is said to have seen Anna doing her paperwork and she said,
“Vice-captain Anna won’t worry if she gets fired from the Imperial Knights. With that level of skill, I think I could be an administrator instead of a knight.”
Well, anyway, since Anna had finished all the necessary paperwork, the elves dispatched from the Kingdom of Alberium only had to move their bodies.
However, Seluna seemed that she had no intention of leaving Albert yet.
“Before we move, I think we need to know specifically what we elemental spirits want us to do, what happened to the area, and what they are calling us for… Could you please explain?”
Because, she had been told by Queen Rumio to take the elven spirits and bodyguards to Alvern to meet the people of the Bregern Empire, but she didn’t know what to do to go there and meet people.
So, as she leads the elves in the Great Forest, of course she had to know what they had to do to leave the Great Forest.
“Good. It will be easier for you and us to get down to business if we explain what happened before we set off on our journey.”
Anna nodded at Seluna’s words and spoke carefully.
All the people and elves gathered here were participants in this incident, so there was no problem even if they knew the truth about this incident.
“We have to go back in time to explain how this happened. Its beginning must be traced back to the entrance ceremony of the Royal Academy.”
Anna began to explain to the elves from the Great Forest the reason for what had happened, slowly, but at a moderate pace, neither slow nor fast.
A story about a person named Alberto who stood out at the Royal Academy Entrance Ceremony.
The story of Alberto’s duel of honor due to an argument that occurred during class.
After that, what happened at the freshman welcome banquet and the surprise incident that occurred.
A dispute between commoner students after the surprise incident.
And the story of the spread of bad rumors about Alberto, which seems to have started from a commoner student.
Lastly, the story of Alberto killing a commoner student who insulted him and ambushing him, prosecuting an aristocrat who framed him in court, and the convoy escorting two criminals being sent to prison as a result of the trial were attacked talked
“Hmm… ….”
After hearing all the stories, Seluna’s eyes were filled with curiosity.
Listening to the story from a third person’s point of view, the person named Alberto seemed suspicious.
Because he became an intermediate level sword expert at a young age, and the way he used honorific words regardless of gender and age.
There was nothing that wasn’t suspicious.
“Can I tell you my honest opinion?”
“What are you thinking?”
“To me, that cadet named Alberto looks the most suspicious.”
At Seluna’s words, a fearsome killing spewed out from Anna for a moment, but it was soon captured again.
“Why do you think that?”
“Isn’t that strange? Why does it only happen around the cadet?”
Seluna’s point was extremely reasonable and valid.
Why does such a thing happen around that cadet named Alberto?
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Is it really because they want to be hostile to Alberto?
On the contrary, didn’t that Alberto make it all up?
From the perspective of Seluna, a third party, Alberto was the most suspicious person.
She couldn’t figure out why, but her gut was telling her that Alberto was suspicious.
As if everything revolves around Alberto, doesn’t it?
There was even a saying that Alberto was the one who solved the epidemic that was prevalent in the world.
Although this was something that Seluna had heard from the spiritist she was close with.
Anyway, a man named Alberto was involved in all the big things.
At this point, Alberto was the most suspicious person.
“This is what I think, but what about Sir Anna?”
“Um… ….”
Anna didn’t think everything she said was right because there were things she couldn’t say to Seluna.
However, a tiny seed of doubt began to grow in her mind.
In the future, without knowing what kind of tragedy that seed of doubt will lead to.