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Yurgen looks at the emperor and the empress looking at each other and says with a kind expression.
“Wigg has resigned his troops and is leading his troops to the Hermann Ball. Perhaps to join the forces of the lords of Picardi or to collaborate on the Hermann ball from both sides. ”
Albrecht looks at Rosamund and asks as he looks at Eugene.
“How many troops? ”
“The latest scout reports close to 10,000. ”
It was either Velez or a massive force. The rumors of the Lemmings battle spread, even though the lords were uncooperative.
If I had lost one battle, there would have been more hostiles and the situation would have been unsettling.
In fact, even though the central force could be chosen, Albrecht deliberately organized the troops for optimal efficiency, totaling around 30,000 troops.
10,000 led by Albrecht, 10,000 by Randolph, Hermann, and Wilhelm's northern army, 10,000 by Zigmunt.
Sigmund has not joined the current captive management, due to stabilization of eastern and southern Veles.
Albrecht touches his hand with the chest of Sloane Rosamund and grabs the back of his hand. A lost hand grabs the beard.
Then, this time, I looked at Hrrolf, who was in charge of the city's security.
“Has everything been going well in the city? ”
“Goblins crawled up the sewers. He was wandering like a lost child, so he slapped him lightly. I went down to the bottom of the sewers, and I was going to wipe it out, but there was no big income because it was so complicated. ”
Albrecht frowns slightly on Hrowl's report.
“He showed up in the city? ”
“Yes.”
“Did anything happen in the forests around the city? ”
“Orcs were roaming around, though. Two, three of them were walking around, and I caught them with harpoons and nets. But then the warriors started getting one-on-one, and the casualties were pretty good. ”
Albrecht's impression is more frowned. As Albrecht focuses on the conversation, Rosamund tries to get out of his husband's arms, but no.
“What do you mean, one-on-one? ”
“Perhaps the spirit of the warrior who lived and forgot to farm for a long time was stimulated. ”
Not all Northmen were the same Northmen. For example, the aggressive and cruel nature of the Northmen was no different from that of the wildlings.
However, there were active interactions with the North or Central as they boarded the ship, the talks were mutual, and the deals were honest. I'm used to people, so I just don't get called a savage.
To put it bluntly, there were many wildlings who formed and lived their own cultures. They also had their own religion and unique clothing and lifestyles.
Only, Albrecht had a savage habit that remained unbearable, so it disappeared into the back roads of history.
The Northmen were braver explorers than any other nation. I was also not reluctant to leave my hometown and settle in a new place, because it is so cold and barren.
Northmen living in Albrecht's territory were satisfied with their settlement while farming, but at the same time they were thirsty for exploration and adventure. Like Gunnar.
Northmen may have been innately imprinted, or in their genes, on the walls of wanderers and warriors.
Warriors should not fight Orcs one-on-one, but Albrecht has agreed to respect them.
Nordic warriors were also elite reserves, and they needed to respect their pride and culture because they were a special breed.
Albrecht finishes his thoughts and looks at Jurgen and Hrohl.
“I see. I'm tired, too. I need to rest today." Tomorrow, I will look around the city and give instructions. ”
Then he stands on the throne, holding the great Rosamund in his arms.
“Ugh! You're crazy! ”
Then he ran out of the hall and into the bathtub. Yurgen and Hrrolf look back at Albrecht from the hall, and they also leave the castle. I still have something to report.
The next morning Albrecht awoke vigorously. Rosamund was tired last night and was restless.
Albrecht felt somewhat satiated, kissing her on the forehead and leaving the bed.
I washed roughly the laundry water my servants had brought, and I wore black cotton pants and boots.
A dark blue tunic with a gold and silver embroidered hem, with a sod belt around the waist and two blades.
Leaving the room, the cold air, which is clearly different from the cozy air in the room, greets Albrecht. It was November.
I feel more cool on my face that I wiped with a towel, but still has moisture, so my mind seems to clear up.
Outside the room, Yurgen is standing with an axe, talking to Einhardt, Prince Alfred.
“You coughed.”
Prince Alfred greets you in the morning. Yurgen thought for a moment what "coughed" meant.
Yurgen grew up in the countryside of Calteren and grew up outside the world, so he didn't know his way around a war.
Albrecht smiles and greets you.
“Good morning, everyone. ”
“Yeah, I was, like, sucking on my honey. ”
Urgen, a military slang, replies. Albrecht laughs and walks out of the hall.
He climbs up the Linderhorn, where the near-death man brings him, as well as Yurgen, riding on his horse.
“I didn't report it yesterday, but the bandits came. ”
“Thief?”
“Yeah, maybe he stayed in the woods and ran away because of the monsters? The knights were killing along the way, so they just dropped their weapons and started coming in quietly. That's quite a number. ”
Albrecht thought it was the gunmen who were the first to show up and react to the monsters.
But when I thought about it, it also seemed like the bandits were mostly staying in the forest or in the mountains, so they fled from the monsters and came out of the forest.
In other words, it was difficult to distinguish between firefighters and thieves.
People used to steal money, and thieves couldn't just live on robbery or robbery, so they had to build a garden or farm in a barren area.
“Lead the way. I'll see for myself." ”
As always, Albrecht wanted to see it with his own eyes in the field.
Then Yurgen began to make his way, followed by Albrecht, Einhardt, Prince Alfred and Harald, who performed him. Nearby, there were dozens of security guards.
Yurgen leaves the main road and begins to enter the alleyways. Every time he crosses the road, people give Albrecht examples.
People put their heads out of the window, or gathered together to follow them. He was a great hero of taxation, and watched every day of those who reached the pinnacle of power, power and authority.
Following the Jurgen, the buildings start to crumble and stink. Unlike you, the shantytown came out.
There were numerous shanties on the shallow water that smelled like clogged rivers or pools. I felt like I was dumping my feces and other living sewage into it.
Bugs fly, filth floats in the water, algae by the water, and strange grass grows to the waist of men. Prince Alfred frowns and grabs his nose.
How can a human being be so filthy? People creep out of the shack and stare at the Emperor's procession.
After eating well and leaving, I was worried that this stench might cause harmful gases to the human body.
“Here you go.”
Yurgen said.
“Here?”
“A gathering of bandits. ”
Albrecht did not understand quickly.
“Why did you put them here? ”
“I have nowhere else to go. There were so many people, there was no place to put them, and this was the right place. All you have to do is protect the alley entrance. ”
Albrecht looks around, and he sees two or three Northern warriors standing guard at each corner.
In a northern helmet, fully armed, they stood up and talked amongst themselves. Then, seeing Albrecht, he lowers his head slightly, or grabs his helmet slightly and gestures.
Among them, you can see those who have Orc molars on their shoulders and decorating them, or making a necklace.
They were all looted from killing Orcs one-on-one, proving their bravery and pride. I thought it was a waste of manpower to keep those people in the shantytown.
Albrecht favors Northern warriors for security because they don't take bribes.
Northmen used to split the heads of bribe-givers, thinking they were selling their souls when they received a bribe. It was because I felt greatly humiliated.
The castle had a dungeon and a prison, but there was no room to accommodate all of them. I can't believe you beat up the whole Slum.
Albrecht lost his sight without even knowing it. I thought it was more painful here than the dungeon dungeon.
Albrecht has decided to gather all the people of the shantytown first.
“Summon them. ”
Albrecht did not frown at the vibrant smell of the slum, but boldly instructed the approximations.
Then the elite, the best, and the best knights got off their horses and wandered around the shack.
The emperor's orders have also led to a disgusting puddle of water. The knights have summoned the people, avoiding the threat of treason.
“Come out quickly! You worms! ”
“I'll shove my boots in your mouth if you come out late! ”
Despite the fierce threats of the approximations, the slums and bandits moved slowly. They were already hopeless and had no dreams of life, so they didn't seem to be too afraid to die.
Soup flowed all over my body, and people appeared, not clothed, as if they were wearing a cliff.
The woman holding the baby, the skinny adult men, and the children came out of the shack and were called to Albrecht.
There are few elderly people, probably because it is difficult to live in such an environment for long.
Prince Alfred looked shocked to see the poor children of his age.
Anglia was scarcely a city and mostly a farmhouse, because the children were healthy because they had eaten well running through the mountains and the fields.
Even at the battlefield where there was flesh and blood, Alfred seemed to find this even more shocking. Why do they live like that? Can we ever get out of that life? Why am I a prince?
A long time later, the people of the Slum gathered in front of Albrecht. I just bend my head, kneeling helplessly. He who had no hope in life was perhaps so poor and pitiful.
One thing I could not laugh at was that I could not distinguish between bandits and favelas.
He would be, too, just as the knights or soldiers of the world span one leg to robbers, mercenaries, and bandits, the bandits were firefighters. I had a family. I had a wife and a child.
Farming couldn't have worked well in the fire, but it was a wild beast that could only be eaten by others.
You look pitiful now, but you may have done all kinds of terrible things by ambushing people along the way. Nevertheless, Albrecht did not like to be condemned for his miserable appearance.
“Round up the bandits on the right. The people who used to live here gathered on the left. ”
Albrecht says, again, people move in a daze. Albrecht asked the bandits.
“What drove you out of the forest? ”
Then the bandits just stared at each other.
“You tell me. ”
Albrecht pointed out a man who looks at least nutritious.
“We lived in the Black Forest, and one day, a swarm of light flooded the sky and the spiders attacked us. It used to be more than 100 households, and most of them died and not many of them made it out. ”
More than 100 households were considerable in size. If we killed five brothers and sisters per household, it meant that there were almost 500 people.
“Spider?”
“Yes, it was a very big spider when it was just a child. I've never heard of it. Not a single one, dozens of them moving at extremely high speeds. There were already sticky, unbroken webs all over the forest. Once caught, you can't escape even if you die. ”
Most of what Albrecht saw while marching were Orcs, Goblins, and Werewolves.
By any chance, were they driven away from more powerful monsters deep in the forest and roamed the outskirts of the forest?
The world was not even aware that its own order or ecosystem was being captured in an invisible place. What happens when that order is finally caught?
The upheaval was not enough for the world to perish, but it was not negligible.
I remember Albrecht, when I went to hunt dragons, I saw Orcs working together to attack Trolls in the heavenly mountain dwarves' camp.
That is, Orcs are scattered now, but if they start to band together, there is something we can do to stop them.
Even if the energy of the dragon did not change fanatically, it was not a relief step.
The conversation twists and another thief raises his hand.
“Well, I, I saw a dragon. ”
Albrecht lowers his head slightly and thinks, his eyes wide open to a man's words.
“A dragon!? ”
Albrecht reacts violently, and the man who speaks flinches his neck. Albrecht clears his voice and asks again.
“Tell me more. ”
“I mean, it's a snake, but it's huge. It was this thick. ”
Then the man opens his arms wide. Albrecht felt that something wasn't a dragon.
The dragon looked like a reptile, but it wasn't a snake.
Above all, it was not the size that a person could express with their arms spread out.
The man couldn't cook because he couldn't learn and was ignorant. Albrecht asked again calmly.
“Did you have arms and legs? ”
“There were only two front legs. ”
“Wings?”
“No. Well, now that I think about it, his head was a big snake, but he didn't have two fangs as long as a snake. There were tons of sharp teeth coming in. We were fighting Orcs with violent movements, breaking down the trees around us, because of how big things were moving so fast. ”
“What happened to the Orcs? ”
“I couldn't see it all while I was running away. And I spit it out of my mouth, and it melted away with the bark of the orcs and the plants around it. ”
“I saw a dead body walking. ”
Someone else raises their hand and says, Albrecht turns his head toward you and brawls excitedly, unlike when he first died.
Since then, there have been all kinds of rumors about monsters. Orcs and Goblins, as well as werewolves, spiders, large snakes spraying mountains, irrational vampires, zombies, and all kinds of things. Some say they saw Griffin flying from the sky.
Albrecht raised his hand and quietly silenced those who were chattering like the market floor.
“I see. I hear you. First of all, let's start with this disgusting place in front of us. I will procure and send an architect, so tear this place apart with your own hands and rebuild it. I will pay you, and I will give you enough to eat. In the meantime, make a tent around it. Dispose of all this filthy water. ”
Then he turned to Einhardt and said,
“Get Einhardt, his assistants and staff to hear and record testimony about the monsters. ”
“I understand.”
“Yurgen, deliver my orders to the soldiers outside the castle immediately. Tell the soldiers to get some Timber and they'll pay for it. And hire an architect and a bricklayer. ”
“I understand.”
Then he looked down at the bandits again and said,
“You now have a second chance at a second life. Either you fled to the forest to escape the war, or you were captured by bandits. It is hard to confess your sins one by one, but since you cannot kill them all or cut your wrists, I am giving you a chance. The second life, live hard for yourselves and your families, and never sin again. As the apostle of God and emperor of heaven, if we sin in our second life, we will fall into hell. ”
Albrecht was a little unfamiliar when he said it, but people, including bandits, could see it with their eyes wide open and believe like iron.
Citizens of the nearby city used to draw the sign, and bandits used to draw the sign and bent over to Elder Albrecht.
Albrecht looks at the floating pool of dirt and mysterious dirt and leaves.
In a world where the cannibal wildlings still existed, the difference between monsters and humans was that they could only distinguish between monsters from monsters within, not from their appearance.
To confront a new enemy called monsters, I thought it was the first step towards removing human impurities and instilling humanity.
If it was hard to eat, my conscience would become impulsive, and if I got stuck, I would abandon my humanity.
As the saying goes, great achievements start with cleaning rooms, we had to change the environment first.
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