Episode. 30 Plague of Calgos (1)
“Poetry, poetry… … .”
Hans, a soldier dispatched from the royal family, leaned against the wall.
The swearing that he uttered on his own expressed his grievous feelings well.
It must have been about three months since he was dispatched to Rio Castle.
Hans still hasn’t adjusted to Magi.
Just a while ago, pushed by the coalition’s stronghold, he was rolling around in the front yard of the castle and shouting Horror, but the scary thing was still scary.
I bent my tired neck and looked up at the sky.
On one side of the sky, I could see some kind of black fog.
The black mist was looking for an opportunity to invade Rio Castle.
A sight I’ve seen enough to see in the past three months. What was not natural was becoming the natural.
Maybe his eyes are weird, Hans rubbed his eyes.
“It is.”
“Asshole, will that change if you rub your eyes?”
My colleague James came over and sat down next to Hans.
James’s rough mouth was the same, and a thick curse was heard.
Hans chuckled.
I didn’t laugh because it was funny.
They were now mere soldiers, too.
The fact that the damned plague would appear soon.
“okay. Rubbing my eyes won’t change anything.”
“Why is the whining bastard so calm?”
When Hans calmly agreed, James opened his eyes wide.
“But what would change if we were here?”
“Ehh, then it is.”
“Damn it! why… … !”
Even without listening to Hans’ back story, he could understand it as he buried his head between his knees.
That’s because I’ve already had a scab in my ear.
In a castle where chivalry is dying one after another, what can soldiers do?
James shook his head at the automatic lament in his ear.
“All the soldiers here feel the same way. But I won’t cry like you.”
“under! don’t you? It’s the wagon of the bastards who suck every night! How long ago did you… … !”
“It’s because the atmosphere on your fictional day is blurry!’
The morale of the soldiers was at its worst.
If I had to pick the culprit, I could definitely say Hans, but even without him the situation wouldn’t have changed much.
Rio Castle’s troops totaled 3,300.
Among them, there are 2,000 soldiers.
There were 1,300 knights and 2,000 soldiers, a very strange distribution.
In fact, the situation in the kingdom was not good, so the minimum force was dispatched to Rio Castle first.
However, from the standpoint of the soldiers who were involved, it only made them feel great pressure like David caught between Goliaths.
“It’s clear they’re trying to use us as meat shields.”
“Noisy! The son of a b*tch made an ominous noise and fell asleep.”
Hans fell silent at his colleague’s criticism, and looked at the flag hanging on the top of the Rio Fortress.
There were seven flags in total.
The five families that formed the alliance of Mu, the flag of the kingdom of Baren, and even the cross-patterned flag.
What caught Hans’ attention was the cross-shaped flag.
Did you say it was the insignia of the Hoor religion that protected Rio Castle?
“Hey, James.”
“why.”
“Do you believe in God too?”
“In our current situation, we have no choice but to believe, right?”
The soldier’s daily routine was hard indeed.
In the morning, he worked on the extension of the castle, and in the afternoon, he was kicked out of the castle and had to run over the ground covered with demons.
The feeling that the whole body was about to rot was so terrible.
It was a sensation that I couldn’t get used to to the extent that the meaning of training was overshadowed.
“Without that light, we’d be crazy long ago.”
James pointed to the collar of the Horgyo with his chin.
A cluster of lights twinkled as it fluttered in the wind.
It wasn’t just the insignia, but the light from the flags hung everywhere was protecting Rio Castle from Magi.
That’s Hor’s protection.
What the heck Hor was, the men of the Union urged all knights and soldiers of the royal family to believe in Hor.
I even taught a certain song, so I’m done talking.
Thanks to this, the reinforcements from the royal family were forced to shout Hor.
There was a time when one of the soldiers lamented that the only thing he could rely on when he was in extreme fear was a horn or a nabal.
But not for Hans.
“I think that’s not enough… … .”
No matter how much he looked at the light, no matter how much he shouted Hor, his anxiety did not subside.
Richard met on the way to be dispatched to Rio Castle.
He thought that only the person with grandiose heroic stories would be able to soothe his heart.
“Damn it, I couldn’t believe we were withdrawing when we met. If there is a god, there’s no way this could happen to me.”
◈ ◈ ◈
That’s how hard days continued in Rio Castle.
Margie, who had grown thicker day by day, was so aggressive that she couldn’t even train anymore.
The lord of Rio Castle, Count Ord, declared this to be a sign of an outbreak of plague.
In the end, the soldiers stopped training without even getting used to the magi, and put their energy into the castle.
Pooh, pooh-
Then a strange thing happened.
No, it would be more accurate to say that a miracle happened to Hans.
“This, this energy… … !”
Count Ord’s startled voice echoed over the castle walls.
Where his gaze went, a group of people were riding on horses.
“hahahaha… … .”
“I am! If you are coming, give me a message!”
The men who had flocked to the north gate of the castle burst into laughter at the sudden visitor.
His smile was full of joy and happiness.
“Who the hell is coming?”
An impatient royal knight asked.
“The hero is on his way.”
“hero… … ? Are you referring to Richard Battenberg by any chance?”
“exactly. This sacred energy is his!”
suck-
Hans, who had deliberately listened, drew in a breath.
who’s coming now?
As soon as I heard the name, a sweet scent seemed to linger in this place that was filled with only the rotten smell of magi.
Should I call it the scent of light?
It was when Hans shut his mouth and let out a silent clamor.
Before anyone knew it, Richard and the others had arrived right in front of the North Gate.
“Hey, do the gods seem clear?”
Richard, who was in the lead, spoke in a playful way.
It was a voice full of joy, just like the Union.
“What are you doing! Hurry up and open the door!”
“Since there was no word that reinforcements were coming, they couldn’t come in without a thorough inspection. I am sorry for this.”
“Oh yeah? Then I just want to go back. Be well!”
At the joke of Richard and Count Ord, the men lined up on the castle wall giggled.
“Come in first.”
Soon the castle gate opened and Richard’s party rushed in.
Hans went down the steps of the castle wall with hasty steps to avoid being late.
Thanks to jumping down two or three steps, I was able to see Richard at close range.
“We now have Battenberg… … .”
“yes? what the heck… … .”
The head of the castle, including Count Ord, and Richard were having a lively conversation.
Seeing this, Hans had to feel his heart beating with his whole body.
“beautiful… … .”
How about the light that radiates naturally, and how about the sacredness mixed with the husky voice?
He said he was a saint, but Hans realized again that he was not wrong.
A handful on this flag, a handful on that flag, not tantalizing bits of light like that, but a real source of light.
Richard was the light itself.
Hans raised his hands and put on a thrilled expression.
“You are back! You didn’t abandon me!”
“Hey, calm down. He doesn’t know you.”
James stopped Hans from getting excited as if he was going to run to Richard at any moment.
Even he couldn’t take his eyes off Richard.
lantern in the dark.
Richard, who came to Rio Castle, looked exactly like that.
Even the knights of the Union, who had been fierce as tigers, were full of trust when they faced Richard, so in the eyes of the soldiers, they looked like heroes.
“It’s nice to be back as well.”
“Huh, what do you like about this musty castle?”
“That’s not what the lord of the castle would say.”
At the place where everyone’s eyes gathered like that, Richard had just finished talking to the Count.
“Wow!”
The Knights of the Union rushed at Richard.
From noble mtl dot com
The smiles on their faces showed how happy they were.
Questions like how this happened, how are you doing, etc., were so many people pouring out their words at once that it was hard to even answer one by one.
To Richard, the Knights of Battenberg, and the men of the Alliance, who were expected to leave and never return, they meant more than just reliable reinforcements.
“Saint! If you’re coming again, did you tell me before you go! You didn’t say anything when you left!”
Abalt threw a tantrum, distorting his handsome face.
Judging by the frantic tone and the flinching eyes, it seemed that he was pretending to be angry.
“Yeah, if you’re happy, just say you’re happy. Where are you Antal?”
Richard made fun of Abalt, pretending to vomit.
We fought together for only a few months and were apart for only a few months, but Richard’s voice was very excited as to why it was so good to be back.
The first thing he saw as he turned his head around to see how much Rio Castle had changed was a soldier.
“What else is he?”
“… … Hick!”
Even if the eyes are hot, they are too hot to be simply distracted by the light.
Hans met Richard’s eyes and averted his gaze in surprise.
The hand that gripped his chest trembled.
Richard tilted his head and looked around.
The soldiers who accounted for more than half of the castle’s troops were usually showing similar reactions.
“Tsk… … .”
Richard knew why they were looking at them like this.
It was not pleasant to see such dependent eyes from those who would soon have to go out and fight with a spear knife.
“Aren’t you training the kids?”
The lord of the castle expressed disapproval when he said that he had no time to play around with such precious soldiers.
“Training has been suspended because Magi has become very ugly.”
“It’s better to be a little scary. It is better than dying from the bite of a pestilence.”
Thanks to watching with God’s eye in his spare time, Richard was well aware of the fear of the soldiers.
The hard-hearted royal knights were able to get used to magic, but the soldiers still had a long way to go.
How was the saint at the time of the undead war, how was Hor?
The knights of the alliance tried to plant faith, but the praise without the person in front would have been nothing more than a rumor to the timid.
As long as he wasn’t here.
“I am here now. You won’t become a Mine, so roll it as much as you want.”