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Albrecht thumps as if his heart were about to burst. You rush to the acidic fortress, frozen. As soon as the gate to the castle opens, you rush in.
“Randolph! Where are you?! Randolph! Gunnar!”
Albrecht's voice trembles, and there is no thunder as usual. He looked like he was going to cry soon. You wait for Randolph and Hrolph, restless, and then run to the castle.
The automatic gate came down, but I felt it coming down too slowly. After the gate came down for some time, I jumped over it without holding back.
“Rose! Get your armor ready! ”
Rosamund, who was working in the room, suddenly wondered what was going on. However, after seeing Albrecht's serious expression, she also became heavier.
“What's going on? ”
“Goh, my hometown is under attack. We have to hurry. ”
Albrecht wore armor from the ground up with his trembling hands. Rosamund hurries to help you put on your armor. After wearing all my armor, I left the castle again without looking back. Rosamund hurries after you.
“Herman! Give me the axe! ”
Herman gave me the axe with a deaf look on his face. He is loyal only to Albrecht, but he has no knowledge of Albrecht's deep interior. I just wanted something bad to happen.
On your way down to the fortress, you see Randolph, Hrrolf and Gunnar.
“Get all the troops ready to march now! We're going to Calteren!”
Randolph, Hrrolf and Gunnar, who received instructions, felt something strange was happening. It was the first time Albrecht, their master, had ever seen anything like it.
However, preparing for the mission didn't mean everything was done just because I gave the order. No matter how quickly I prepared, it took time.
Albrecht was agitated by the urgency. I left the castle to see if I could not. I didn't think I should go alone first.
“Albert! Come with me! ”
You hear Rosamund calling from behind.
“Rose! You're protecting the city! ”
“No! You're more important to me! ”
Albrecht looks at his wife with the expression described above. She was also the expression mentioned above.
“Hermann! Protect Rose! ”
After just saying that, I left the mountain without looking back. You pass through the fields beneath the mountain, behind Halstadt and head for Calteren.
A cold breeze blows through Albrecht's face, but I feel nothing. I just ran. Albrecht's heart still thumps and spits hot blood.
Halstadt and Calteren were three days away. This meant running on one horse, resting while resting, and sleeping at night.
After Albrecht has been out of his mind and running at full speed for a long time, Schwarz is quickly exhausted. The sun had already been in the middle for a long time, and it seemed like it was going to be dark soon.
Albrecht ties Schwarz to a nearby tree for his followers to take care of himself and runs with both feet to his hometown. A large red cloak flew violently.
The sun went down and the moon rose. Stars stare down at Albrecht, breathing heavily. Albrecht raises his eyesight and keeps on running.
I wonder how long it took. I can see the inn from a distance. It was the first inn where he and Diego met. It was also where the battle with the Thief Guild began when I met Benchel.
Albrecht almost bursts into tears as he thinks he's almost home. No matter how much I wandered around the world with no place to go. For what purpose did you leave Oberburn, the Holy Land, and Anglia without settling down?
Albrecht continues to run north past the inn. After a long run, the dawn brightens. I wondered if the light was gradually blending into the world of Zachman, and I began to have a bluish glow.
Then came the path of the reed field. In the familiar landscape of home, Albrecht couldn't help but shed hot tears. How much I missed you, how much I missed you.
Tears ran in front of me, stealing tears with an elongated palm. Then you see two soldiers guarding the road from afar.
One of them is dozing off because of the dawn, and the other is just sitting there, looking at Albrecht and frozen. Oh, my God, what is that? Gold armor?
“Hey, hey! Wait!”
Albrecht clenches his fist with his gauntlet hand and pops the soldier's head without wielding an axe. The sleeping soldier steps on his head and bursts. Eyes, brains, and blood burst out and defiled the ground. And then I just kept running.
You pass through the forest, which is the boundary of the territory, and the river Selve flows to your side. About the time the morning sun came up, after running for a long time, I finally saw the timber camp. The timber camp was burned to the ground. Albrecht seems to have collapsed.
When I reached the Lumbering Camp, I saw Mount Hoen-Caltern, which I had dreamed of. A little castle appeared at the top. Albrecht shed tears without pity.
You see a village burned to the ground beneath the mountain. And about five, 60, less than 100 troops were surrounded under the mountain.
Albrecht was filled with resentment and indignation when his hometown was desecrated by such trivials. Rage runs roughly towards the enemy, taking control of his entire body.
Soldiers sitting around in the ruins of the village, laughing and joking, are puzzled to see a light coming this way from a distance. Taking a closer look, it was a man with light all over his body and a red cloak flying. What the hell is that?
Albrecht runs at full speed. You get close to the hostiles, but you get too excited and swing the axe, but you lose the point of impact and run them over.
The soldiers' bones crumble and their intestines burst and die instantly. The axe killed him, but he was miserable in one way or another.
Albrecht throws his axe on the ground and rushes at the soldiers. I swung, grabbed, squeezed, and ripped my head off or smashed it.
You pick people up alive, throw them at your enemies, and run them back at full speed. It was not the way humans fought, and it seemed like a golden beast had struck the soldiers.
“What the fuck! ”
“Help me! ”
Soon, the soldiers are confused and agitated. Everyone struggles to get away from Albrecht.
A nearby knight falls into a deep slump. Albrecht leaps up like a tiger and attacks the knight on horseback. The knight tangles with Albrecht and rolls his horse to the ground.
Albrecht chews a handful off the knight's neck, and spits on the floor.
I couldn't let go, so I punched him in the head and blew his head off. The head was already blown off, but I kept hitting it. The soldiers around you freeze before the overwhelming violence. Blood, flesh and briquettes splash across the golden armor, losing their light.
Albrecht seems to have lost his mind in grief, grief, and anger. I raised my head and vomited the fluttering emotions looking up at the sky.
“Shhhhh!”
It was not the battle cry Albrecht used to shout in battle. It was the cry of the fallen. The Devil faints into the burning flames of Elongated Albrecht's heart.
Albrecht looks back at the soldiers. A flash of light flashed around his eyes and mouth, like a vampire encountered while climbing the stairs to catch a dragon.
The soldiers tremble like ashes when they meet the eyes of a non-human. Some of them peed on the dog. Please, I wish my legs could move, but I didn't know frozen legs could. Eventually, the Devil rushed to his doom.
The troops that surrounded Mount Hoen-Carltern, there were few on the steep side and were mostly surrounded by the mountain's entrance. Albrecht goes mad and instinctively runs back to the other side.
After hearing the news, the commander of the army jumps to his senses as he sees a golden demon in a suit. The Devil has risen from hell!
Given the situation, it was not a matter of repairing the troops. The demon is closing in on you, blowing away the soldiers.
“Don't, stop! What are you doing? Stop that demon! ”
The two accompanying knights are frozen in terror, but what can I do? The soldiers are already scattered and fleeing, and as soon as the commander tries to escape, Albrecht approaches and grabs them and drags them down.
Then he stepped on it and blew his head off. However, he tramples on the corpse several times to make a goose, and then continues to trample it on the corpse.
One of the knights is frightened and out, and the other one wields his sword bravely, but breaks as soon as he touches the armor. Albrecht turns his head, pulls the knight down, puts him in the ground, and kicks him in the head. My head snapped and flew like a ball.
Albrecht turns his head to look for someone to kill again, and everyone walks away to rescue him.
I can see the axe you threw on the ground earlier. He walks out and tries to kill one more, but he hears a call from behind.
“Hey, boss! ”
Albrecht looks back. You can see a man wearing a coat of broken chain armor with the Hoen-Carltern crest on it. From the look on his face, it was a Jurgen.
There was a little scar on his face. It was a young man who still had his tea.
Even after leaving my hometown, I felt a little bit happy while I was crazy because of the different person I sometimes thought of.
The Devil's Shadow fades from Albrecht's blue eyes. The demon whispers in an urgent voice behind a stone wall in the nearby ruins.
‘If it weren't for him, he wouldn't have left home, and none of this would have happened. Kill him.'
Albrecht shakes his head vigorously. But I didn't feel the Devil slipping away. I felt like I had to talk first and get my mind off things. Albrecht barely speaks, breathing heavily.
“What about you? What happened to you? ”
With trembling eyes, Yurgen sees the captain as a child. Beauty and cruelty coexisted in an unacceptable artistic golden armor, covered in blood.
And most of all, that face. I saw the commander who had been waiting so long.
“The lord is seriously injured. He's in danger. ”
Albrecht wept again. On the face covered in blood, a tear line was drawn.
I hurried past the Urgen and climbed the mountain. When I couldn't breathe properly with her neck, I ran almost 24 hours without resting, and fatigue came from the fight.
I stumbled and continued up the mountain. If going up the stairs to catch a dragon was the way out of hell, now I feel like I'm going up to heaven.
But if there is no heaven at the end, he will surely fall into hell.
I barely moved my legs and climbed the mountain for a long time, and the familiar binder caught my attention. I was the most humble castle I had ever seen floating around the world. I can't cry anymore. I'm just crying on my face.
As I walked into the castle, I looked at the wretched successor who had been driven from the castle with frightened eyes.
When they heard his reputation echoing down the world, they were happy, but they were not people who were fighting under the mountain. It was the devil himself.
Everyone was familiar with Albrecht's eyes. In the crowd, you see blacksmith Arnold and bishop Peter. They look older than ever.
And they looked at Albrecht with their eyes mixed with emotion and fear, complex emotions they didn't even know existed.
Albrecht continues on his feeble pace toward the castle. After the first floor, he climbs a familiar staircase and heads for the lord's chambers.
He lay unconscious in bed, his face pale and his cheeks flat.
Albrecht felt an uncontrollable sadness. And the guilt surged over him like Tidal Wave. I felt like I was going to collapse if someone didn't catch me.
“Albert!"
Then I noticed my mother by the bed. Mother looked at her child with unbelievable eyes. Albrecht stumbles on his knees and holds her in his arms. Mother's clothes were stained with blood.
“I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Mother, I was wrong. ”
And I cried without fail. The mother of the strongest man in the world wiped the blood off his child's face with tears.
In the evening, knights and warriors arrive in Calteren. They were all exhausted.
Those who went down to the castle to clean up the bodies and clean up the ruined villages were frightened when large knights and Northern Warriors appeared, but Randolph told them he was here for Albrecht.
Rosamund and others came to the castle, but Albrecht was unable to take care of them. After leaving Rosamund alone, I introduced her to my mother as my wife. Even though Rosamund was once a king, he treated his mother, one lord's wife, with great reluctance.
I wasn't greeted by my daughter-in-law in a warm atmosphere, but when Adelhyde saw his son's wife, it felt like she was washing up a little.
Albrecht only brushes his armor, but he sits by the bed and watches his dying father. I didn't know when he was going to die, so I didn't have time to change my clothes. I felt like I was going to lose my heart.
The crime that killed Erik was not just committed by Erik. It was also a sin against my parents and myself.
Yurgen told me that there was a war between kings and that my father had no choice but to join. Ever since Albrecht was a child, he knew that his father had been constantly forced to be loyal to the nearby king.
My father, who was the Lord of Independence, survived, and eventually went into the service. He was defeated and wounded during the recent wars of kings.
Those who win battles and get excited are out of control. The opposing king told them not to touch him, but in the end, several godless followers flocked to him and plundered him.
Regardless of the lining, Albrecht felt unbearable anger when he thought of them.
“Albert…? ”
Albrecht lowers his head and raises his head in his father's voice. Then I looked at my father with trembling eyes.
He barely opened his eyes and looked at Albrecht.
“Until I die, I told you not to come back..."
Albrecht bows his head because he has always been strong and strong. In the meantime, it's important that you break your oath.
He continued to catch his breath.
“What I expelled you from, from you, was to protect the land. ”
Albrecht is no more compassionate.
“Head up, listen up. Look at me."
Albrecht barely looked up at his father.
“Yes, I heard fame, but I didn't end it, so I could understand the weight of the oath. Now that this is broken, there will be no second time. Defend Calteren. Swear to yourself, not to me. ”
Albrecht gripped his father's hand, but said with a heavy grip.
“I swear to you, Father, if I have to kill all the people in the world to protect Calterns, I will. ”
Albrecht said something unknowingly dangerous. Burkhardt only looks at his son. I wanted to say something more, but time wouldn't allow it.
The last breath contained the soul that left the body, and spoke the final truth.
“Forgive me. Son......”
His hand relaxes, his head caves in, and his eyes go numb. The father who was always harsh in front of his son, at the end, begged his son for forgiveness.
Albrecht stares at his dead father, dazed. The feeling of struggle from head to toe sweeps through the whole body. Who killed my father?
Albrecht stares at his father's body for a long time and stands dumbfounded. I feel like one of the pillars supporting me has collapsed.
What I saw and heard and felt after leaving CalTerre passed through my mind. What caused all those wars?
The villages that were ravaged by the demonstration when they headed to Penbach, killing people with Philip's mistaken beliefs, and the Wild King and Hero King who invaded Anglia with personal desires and carried out numerous plunders.
Suddenly, my father passed away, leaving me in the middle of nowhere.
Albrecht feels tired of these constant wars over medium-grade heating without stopping.
Albrecht tightens his mouth and bites his molars tightly to stop crying. There was a calm flame in the snow. It was still, but it had a heat that seemed to set the whole world on fire. I went down the mountain.
“Randolph! Hrrolph! Gunnar! Assemble the troops! ”
In the middle of the night, there was a thunder rumbling all over Calteren. It was the knights and warriors who were helping the people around you, so even if it wasn't Randolph, Hrrolph, or Gunnar, you were startled and quickly gathered to hear Albrecht's cry. A large force holds the torch.
A shimmering, uneasy glow that resembles a torch cast shadows Albrecht's face. Albrecht sweeps his army and shouts.
“Listen to me carefully! It's time to wage a war to end this bloody war! And so I declare war on the world from this very spot! You will run with me through the world until you are all dead! Anybody going back, go back now! ”
Albrecht's words were simple, but the weight on them was unthinkable.
"War to End War" was a phrase representing the First World War in Earth history. Albrecht put a contradictory, arrogant phrase in his mouth that he had unknowingly shed a lot of blood.
Albrecht sweeps his army for a moment and heads up the mountain again. The knights and warriors gave me the creeps. They were familiar with Albrecht's legendary reputation.
So they had big or small expectations that if they fought underneath, they could decorate at least one legend. And declare war on the world.
I felt overwhelmed by the sound of them surpassing their imagination. It was not just the battle of the Great Territory, nor the war of the king and king, but the battle of the whole world from the beginning of the people who are here.
As Albrecht ascends the mountain, demons slaughter him from all over the darkness. Demons or whatever. First, I pledged that I would pay the price for those who killed my father.
The silent flame still burns in Albrecht's eyes as if the world were on fire. The stars in the night sky and the mountain pastures all over the world trembled, breathing heavily.
But for so long, whatever it was for,
Chapter 18 Ends the war to end the war.
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