Ludwig laughed and said.
“Here, I'll close my eyes if you like, because the city is the city. ”
Ludwig misunderstood. Perhaps Albrecht was mistaken for trying to rob a village by himself.
“That's not what you think. Just let them go. ”
Ludwig looks at you and says, "What is this nonsense?"
“Do you just walk away from gold coins when they fall off the road? Besides, we have work to do. ”
Albrecht sighs. I thought I sighed a lot today. I couldn't complain to those poor children. Besides, I can't just walk away from it because it involves Eric.
“Given the reasons, it's useless. Let's settle this with a duel. Your families love fighting. ”
Ludwig shakes his head with a smile.
“Our fallen old man has lost his temper, but not everyone in the family has lost their temper. Especially me. ”
Albrecht frowned and said.
“I've made up my mind. If you want to mess with those kids, use any fighter or soldier you want. ”
As Albrecht speaks, Ludwig smiles and looks at Albrecht. Then, he bit his finger into his mouth, whistled and blew, turning his hand to the sky and turning his wrist.
The soldiers look at Ludwig's call sign and try to surround Albrecht with spears.
Albrecht draws his axe and slashes off a single head before the soldiers surround him.
Albrecht has become much more skillful in his combat skills since he left Calternes, especially in Lloyd Beck City.
You used to be nervous about 20 soldiers when you confronted Ernst, but now you're thinking about how to kill them.
Over a dozen battle drawings were drawn on his head. You even killed the soldiers to keep the blood from spilling on you.
If you push the spear to the side with your shield and approach, the soldiers panic and do nothing. You can't even react to Albrecht's thunder-like movements.
Albrecht slaughters the soldiers so skillfully and quickly, and Ludwig, stunned, whistles again to bite them back.
However, as he inhales and whistles, the last soldier falls and has an axe in his chest. The void whistle echoes through the ruined void of Penbach.
Ludwig frowns, smiling as if it were absurd.
“Ha, haha, hahaha, what's this? Rumors. Collapsed. Vertical cutter.”
Albrecht pulls out the axe from the chest of the last soldier and throws it into the air twice to drain the blood. Then he turned his shoulders as if stretching, turned his head and approached Ludwig.
“Well, I've been better than that. ”
Ludwig watches Albrecht as he looks at the ground and takes a big breath and lets out. Then he draws his sword and straightens his shield. It was the same position as Michael.
‘I'm on my way out, but I don't know. ’
If the average person could see it, he would not feel the difference, but Albrecht could see it clearly. Much more obscene than Michael.
Albrecht swings his axe to the ground and draws Michael's sword. And I took the same position.
Ludwig opens his eyes wide as he looks at Albrecht in his posture.
You bastard!
He was always relaxed, but slightly feverish.
Albrecht approaches, feverish or not, as Ludwig crosses his shield, imitating Michael's technique.
Michael was surprised at how fast and accurate they were. The user quickly dodges its head to the side and raises its shield to block it. I didn't even have a chance to react in a hurry.
Ludwig shakes his eyes over his shield.
“Who the hell are you? ”
“Just, well, trying to emulate the old man you were. ”
Ludwig is now displeased and his tears are gone. The ‘Shield Crossing’, a technique unique to the Banhenheim family, was never an easy one. The user's shield freezes just a little lower. If the user crosses the shield, the target cannot be reached, or the user's posture collapses first.
Swift, precise, from bottom to top, piercing through shields. If you are a member of your family, you have trained this skill your whole life. So did I.
Suddenly, I remembered the old days. Fuckin 'family. From childhood, the men of the family resolved everything with a duel. Except for the sugar, I had to set the order and keep it thoroughly as a duel.
Starting with eating, to take away the toys that brothers have, or to thrash and beat the duel, to defend themselves, it was all a duel. Michael, who was teaching them, was a duel nut. I always talked to myself like a habit.
“That's all you're good at if you lose a duel. Who do you blame?”
The way the Banhenheim family became stronger was through inferiority. I admire the strong and, at the same time, hate the strong and try to transcend him by reducing his time of sleep.
If it was weak and low in sequence, it was completely ignored. I'm sick of it. I was less talented than my brothers. I went crazy trying not to be ignored, no, to survive.
But one of Albrecht's just outsmarted himself. I cried because it was unfair.
The difference in level with Albrecht was not at all appreciable. Eventually, Albrecht crosses Ludwig's legs and Ludwig falls back. Albrecht misses Ludwig's sword. The shield-wearing arm can barely move.
Albrecht glances down at Ludwig with a sword to his throat.
“I'm disappointed, Ludwig. ”
Ludwig finally shed a tear.
“Son of a bitch.”
Last words. Ludwig died vomiting blood with a sword to his throat.
Albrecht wiped the end of the blood from Ludwig's Circuit without shearing his blade and put it in the black. Then I searched Ludwig's arms, packed a bag of money, and even a sword. There are three swords hanging from Albrecht's waist.
‘I should have sold Michael's sword at the outpost. ’
Merchants following the military bought what they could afford at almost a day's notice. I didn't just sell it because I didn't want to dispose of it like that. But can it be any different now? I have to wear three.
I looked around and saw dozens of soldiers lying dead. And I saw the supplies that the soldiers commanded.
I turned around and went to the children. However, unexpectedly, the children looked at Albrecht with the gaze of admiration, rather than being afraid.
‘This is not good. ’
Especially Randolph.
“How far is it from here to the village? ”
Randolph replies quickly, otherwise.
“Hannah, it's going to take all day. ”
“Then we'll have to bring the villagers in to move them all...... Let's see, if we do well, we can move them all within the day......”
Albrecht was so quick to wrap things up that time hasn't passed yet. If the kids ran and came back early, we could move them all within the day. It was not good to leave these things alone for long.
“You said Randolph, right? You go into town and get the grown-ups. We need to get there as soon as possible. Do not pass the day. Can you do that? ”
“Yes!”
Randolph nods with a hard nod, which should only be done once.
Albrecht took off Ludwig's armor and the soldiers' armor and put them on the wagon. He and Albrecht gather the bodies and place them in one corner.
It was easy to see people passing by if they were lying on the street like that, not burying them. I couldn't bury it, but I liked to be found as late as possible.
You straightened up the supplies so that you could get to the wagon and over the rough mountain.
After clearing out the litter, the sun was heading toward the middle sky. The boys sat down and rested, mimicking Albrecht's struggle.
I went to the wagon and took out salted meat, bread, cheese, etc. and had lunch. They were really happy whether it was a long time ago or the first time they had eaten.
A few hours after the sun has risen over the Mediterranean, you see Randolph leading the way with adults from the mountains.
* * *
What Randolph meant was that it took a day for a person to cross the steep mountain tax in the shortest path. Eventually, animals like wagons and cows couldn't go, so they decided to go around the valley and into town.
It was not something Albrecht could pull, push or do. It was a problem that could break a horse or cow's ankle. Eventually, one day, I camped in the valley.
You light a campfire and take out your own covering. The problem is that Randolph doesn't want to fall around Albrecht. Every time Albrecht moves, he says, "I'll do it! I said, 'I didn't have to do anything, but it bothered me. Kids follow Randolph and say," I'll do it!’ I was begging.
This is why the leader of the group of children became attached to Albrecht. The boys are still staring at Albrecht with their own eyes, and they feel cooler than the hero in the myth after robbing him of his soldiers' supplies.
Albrecht nods at Randolph, looking at him.
“Will you teach me the sword? ”
Randolph opens his eyes wide and nods earnestly.
“I'll teach you when I get to town. So stay away from me. ”
Randolph hurries away.
Albrecht turns his eyes to see the elders of the village. I was looking at Albrecht with an uneasy glance. I haven't talked to them yet while moving the supplies, but they're still wondering if they can take Albrecht back to town.
But for the villagers, the enormous supplies Albrecht had stolen could be the town's greatest treasure in the years to come, if they cared for the animals and gave birth to their young. It was an irresistible temptation.
Albrecht didn't care what they thought of him. When I get to town, I'll just watch my own business. With the cloak fastened and the hood pressed down, Albrecht looks to sleep leaning against the rock wall.
The group departs again the next morning. Albrecht felt it on his way, but the valley wasn't the only valley.
You bend and break, climbing up the low slope and down the valley again. If you are not familiar with the geography here, you will surely wander through the mountains - or in the forest –.
Walking all the way from morning to morning, the sun came to the middle sky, had lunch, and traveled again. At sunset, I saw the lake at the end of the valley.
As I left the valley, the picturesque landscape unfolded. It was surrounded by steep mountains around the lake, but it was so beautiful that there was no other way to explain it than ‘picturesque.’
The town lies on a narrow plain beneath a mountain. The landscape was so beautiful that even the shabby houses looked beautiful.
At sunset, the glowing golden lake and the serene scenery of the town made me feel like a romantic fit for this wretched world.
As the group approaches the town along the narrow path beneath the mountain, all the villagers meet with me. The number of people seemed to be about thirty or so.
When they saw Albrecht, they all took off their coils or caps, put their hands on their chests, and bent at the waist. And seeing the subsequent massive quantities of supplies, it turns a little pale on your face.
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