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From the stiff castle on the mountain, knights pour out of the fortress at the entrance as the king's command comes.
Riders bearing the flag of the sword eagle, symbolic of Calterns, scattered horns throughout the north, and several knights followed them.
“Make way! ”
The climbers travel the paved roads first. Riders gallop forward with their king's banners at their feet without slowing down.
People step aside to the path of Ur and look at the knights with the expression described above.
If you are not a distracted person, you can quickly see that the war is coming.
The merchants hurriedly sent people to the city where the main store was located, and the heralds went home and took out the equipment and trimmed it quietly.
My wife, children, and family just stopped looking at my father like that.
As blood gushed from the beating heart flows through the blood vessels, the knights scattered to the north as they ran along the road.
The duc and the change bag, however instructed, again summoned the subordinate lords, and the subordinate lords again summoned the subordinate lords and the knights of the officer.
The knights began recruiting strong adult men to join the Lord's call.
Most of them were veterans in the North Unification War, but many were recruits. Those who participated in the Northern War were all rich and honorable in their own neighborhoods.
Many of the boys who admired it and became adults volunteered to join the military.
After a short, long, two-year break, the veterans were called back to fight.
Knights from Calteren, as commanded by the king, jog relentlessly through the outpost or at the station.
It took months to arrive in Gattingen, Wilhelm's territory, from Calteren, just to the northeast.
As the stars gather, the men of the North begin to gather at Hamelstrom, equipped and summoned by the king.
The whole world looked up to the north, dead of breath.
Albrecht took the liberty of wearing golden armor. Mother, Carpen, his staff, and many of the servants of the castle came out to escort them out.
A little bit of dirty sunshine was coming down, but it made the wind on the mountain feel cool and pleasant.
The knight retrieves the Lindehorn from the stable and colonizes it in front of Albrecht. Albrecht looks up at the horse, and someone familiar looks him in the eye and turns his head. The blacksmith was Arnold.
Arnold used to support himself every time he had an accident during his childhood. I remember giving him a lot of salary, but his clothes were still shabby.
New performances New employees, servants, articles. Arnold was strangely alien to everything around him.
I was only considerate of the paperwork, but I wasn't able to take it in person because I was busy working on the war or not.
Albrecht simply glances at him with a bold look, and Arnold looks at him with a glimpse of time.
Was he disappointed when I killed Eric? Do you think he ever regretted taking his side? Did he think he was an irredeemable piece of shit? ’
He used to sit on Albrecht's lap when he was a kid, and tell rather unsettling and irritating stories for the kids to hear. Every time, Albrecht laughed, saying that it was funny.
I just dared to walk up to him. One was wearing the world's most magnificent armor and wearing a red cape, the monarch's symbol.
The other one looked humbled in his old shabby outfit, with a wrinkled face.
Their gazes were temporarily intertwined in the air. Guntram died, Peter aided Rosamund, and Chamberlain Hans died of old age.
Albrecht thought Arnold was too indifferent. I tried to hide my sorry heart, smiled bitterly and said.
“Do you remember? Arnold. You always said I'd be king. I never cared if I was a king or not, but the world called me a great king. What do you think? Am I a king to you, too? ”
At Albrecht's words, Arnold smiles as brightly as the weather. One of the front teeth was still missing. He looked around at the completely different castle of Hoen-Carltern and said,
“You were always more than a king to me. For old times' sake.”
‘Young Master.'
Albrecht lowers his head slightly and smiles a little, riding on the horse the knight dragged in, looking down at Arnold.
“For me, you are still the blacksmith of our family. I'll give you some money to get you some clothes. ”
Arnold just smiles. Albrecht smiled as well. Then he ran out of the castle with the knights.
I stepped into the resistance, lowered my legs and ran to the outer city. As he began to climb down the mountain in earnest, familiar and at the same time unfamiliar trees passed by him. I felt an emotion that I felt when I was a child. Then I was sad.
Changes and things that don't change. There are few things that remain unchanged for Albrecht. More was about to change.
Old things will be swept away by the winds of a new age, and many things will fall. No memories, no self, no Arnold. And the whole world.
Albrecht leads the Knights, Warriors and Soldiers south to Sternmark. After joining Yurgen's forces, you race back to the south of Hamelstrom.
Herman has already set up camp, and Randolph and Wilhelm are here first. It was August, six months after the summons were issued.
Rosamund followed his husband again. And then, somehow, Carpen followed.
I needed someone to take over the territory, but now I'm sure it's stable and I think I should leave it to Mother.
It was raining recently, and the weather was cool, and the wind was blowing from the north, pushing the clouds away. Through the cracked clouds, several spears of the sun are inserted into the earth.
The lords and knights of each family took their helmets off their horses and opened their paths. Flags engraved with various family crests, including lions, tigers, bullheads, horses, eagles, swords, shields, and just colored.
Albrecht sweeps through them, and everyone seems to be well nourished and well-groomed.
The recruits tremble at the sight of the king. He's the greatest monarch in the world, the Great King in the North.
Not only knights and soldiers, but now landowners of a certain area, Randolph, Herman and Wilhelm, are outside the encampment.
Albrecht simply throws the axe to Herman, and Herman takes it lightly with one hand.
Albrecht steps off his horse and heads for the command barracks first. The barracks were large, but now they were small for the greatest lord's barracks in the world.
It was much smaller than Amas' barracks and smaller than Leopold's. Albrecht didn't like the outcropping at first, and he didn't care about it because he used to draw sticks on the ground and explain the operation if necessary.
The black clouds haven't fully cleared up yet, so the interior of the barracks is dark even during the day. Albrecht himself lit a lamp with a flint and transferred it to several pieces. None of the commanders said anything like "I'll do it."
Albrecht sits roughly on the table. Richard sits on a chair with the table in front of him, and the rest of you, like in their rooms, are comfortable everywhere.
Albrecht told Randolph that he was touching the weapons on one side of the armory.
“Randolph, you take a look. ”
Randolph seems to have lost his mind and replies slightly.
“There's nothing to see. Balthazar has now attracted more than 10,000, but it seems he has not yet appointed a General Commander. where the scouts just keep facing each other. ”
Richard listens to Randolph and adds:
“Rumor has it there are quite a few lords who oppose Balthazar. They're all in one lump, but they're already cracking. ”
Albrecht simply nods. I expected enough.
“Where are you? Where are you stationed? ”
Randolph replies again.
“The garrison is in Wrightingen territory, and troops are spread out across the river. I think it's preventing them from crossing the river......”
That was also what I expected. However, there were times when it was not as sharp as I expected. Now, the Buzzer River is not a river that can be swept away by its vast expanse.
Even if we muster the northern troops quickly, they are too spacious to muster their forces accordingly.
However, it was only a matter of time before Albrecht disbanded his forces once and took time for the enemy to unite. If we hadn't disbanded the troops, the crisis lords would have gathered around Balthazar.
“I've always been, but first I have to see it with my own eyes. The knights and soldiers must be tired from marching, so I'll head out in the morning. Randolph is in charge of the garrison. Just follow Herman, Richar and Eugene. ”
As soon as I arrived, I couldn't devise a plan. Operations always had to consider the situation and the terrain. There was a limit to what was just reported, and it was a good operation to see it with your own eyes and feel it as skin.
Albrecht received a report from Randolph and Richar about the Horseshoe and left the barracks to look around the encampment.
Outside the encampment, the infantry commanders' insults are being heard here. They take the equipment of their own soldiers and train them in a big way.
You get on the Linderhorn, and you run around the garrison, checking on the soldiers. Albrecht's soldiers had to be discharged after their 40s without any injuries, so there were many recruits present.
They were still naive, pure eyes. You may feel rough enough as a man through some harsh training, but if you go through practice and experience the boundaries of death and life, you will become a completely different person.
Albrecht spent a night in his tent with Rosamund. The next morning, Herman, Eugene, Richard, and dozens of knights left the garrison, as I told you.
On your way to the Buzzer River, you see enemy knights across the river. I felt like I was spying on the river, running around rarely.
They all stare at Albrecht's golden armor, frozen. Oh, my God! What is that?
I heard rumors that Albrecht received the armor of light from heaven, or that he made it all gold.
However, when I saw the knights of the enemy with my own eyes, I couldn't believe it. I didn't think such things would exist in the human world, but they seemed to be overloading their brains because they were right in front of them.
Albrecht runs along the river, ignoring them. The knights across the street ran after Albrecht.
No matter how fast Albrecht runs, there is no place where his power narrows. I skipped meals and ran along the river all afternoon, but I didn't see any bridges.
I have to cross through the ship. I've got nearly 20,000 troops combining the troops. Where would my ship suddenly come from with 20,000 ships? How long does it take to build? And even if I did, it would seem impossible to do so if the enemy stood in the way of the other side.
Albrecht was momentarily overwhelmed. The user seems to have underestimated the target. No, the opponent is worthy of underestimation. Nature did not, however.
What do I do? ’
I was confident that I would fight back against the enemy with force against anyone, but what should I do against the river?
It took days for the upstream force to narrow down, even if it took a horse to get there. Albrecht became more and more obstructed.
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