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The snow-covered winter forest reveals its skin in the footsteps of the fire-fighting soldiers.
Albrecht steps off the wayward battlefield and follows the path for a long time.
Then finally, he reaches a place where no one can reach him, leaving his first footstep.
Einhardt follows behind Albrecht with a golden helmet, followed by a Jurgen with an axe.
Trees that were taller than human height were showing off their modest bodies to survive this winter, whereas trees that were thick and tall were in winter wearing pointy, dense blue fur.
Albrecht stops by a small pond with thin ice. However, some came first.
A girl wears a black dress, with a white veil around her face, and a black cloth on top of her again. It was a nun.
A nun of such age, who was about to have just had an adult ceremony, had big, clear brown eyes, and clear and clean skin.
I stared straight through Albrecht like a rabbit who froze over a pond and met a beast.
“I didn't know there was a convent here. ”
The nun was stunned when Albrecht took off her mouth, but she was still frozen. Albrecht simply looks at the nun and says again.
“There's nothing to be afraid of. I won't harm you, so finish what you started. ”
The cold water made my hands red, so I felt sorry for the stranger.
Nevertheless, Albrecht deliberately kept his distance from the fast-paced.
Albrecht just sits by the pond and looks back, and the young nun begins to carefully draw water again.
Einhart and Yurgen simply observe the sheep of the nun, and the nun shudders at unexpected intruders.
No matter how ignorant the people of this world were, they did not plunder the monastery. Among them, pillaging the convent was one of the most sinful acts.
Of course, there were some dying beasts among them, so I couldn't relieve myself of 100% of anything.
The nuns were still frightened, but they began to be a little curious, not knowing if they were still young.
He looks at Albrecht with a large eye and draws water, and a rip rises from the pond and approaches Albrecht.
“Excuse me, are you an apostle? ”
Apparently, the Apostle of Albrecht reached all the way to this wallpaper. In the words of the nun, Albrecht smiles and asks again.
“What does it look like to you? ”
“I don't know. But the armor is really cool. Like they say, it's like the armor God gave me. ”
Albrecht thought it was a good idea to meet a strange girl and talk to her while looking for a place to meditate.
“This was not made by God. A Dwarf made it. So it's wrong to believe I'm an apostle when I see armor. ”
The girl asked again, because she had the purity to accept Albrecht's words as they were.
“So what do you think is the right idea? ”
Albrecht thought, looking at the frenzied pond for a moment.
“You can think based on the innocence you have now. But keeping innocence is hard work. In time, your innocence will be tested naturally. Courage will protect it, so use honesty as a virtue. Then you will have courage. ”
The young nun calmly listens to Albrecht, and now she blows her hand to make sure he's relaxed. Then, thinking carefully, he said,
“Well, then, I don't have the courage. I'm a sinner and a liar. ”
“What crime have you committed? ”
“I stole the Prelate's cookies. A friend of mine was framed and attacked. I couldn't say it because I was scared. Can the Apostle forgive me for my sins? ”
Albrecht, who had lived with so much blood on his hands, could not have deserved it or had the strength. Albrecht just said it for the girl.
“It is God's work to forgive sins. To receive the forgiveness of sins, we must first repent. Repentance must be done after you have made things right. Tell the Prelate what's right and ask for his friend's forgiveness. Be sweet if you punish me. It will be frightening for you right now, but in doing so, you will be saved. ”
About the time the apostle was ready, the young nun smiled brightly, knowing that she would be able to forgive sins at once.
Albrecht calls the girl to see if she can't.
“Come here for a second. ”
Then the girl fearlessly stood up and approached Albrecht. Albrecht grabs the girl's hand and leads her. Her cold hands cover the warmth of Albrecht.
Then he took off the ring that was on his index finger and gave it to the girl. It was just a plain gold ring with a diagonal star.
I wanted to give it to a girl for some reason, just a precious ring that my father passed away and inherited.
“This is a talisman of courage. If you pray to God for courage on this ring, He will surely give it to you. Fear is the same for everyone. However, God gives courage to those who are willing to overcome. Remember."
The girl looks at the ring, palms outstretched, and nods at Albrecht.
“Susanne! Susanne! What's wrong with him......! Hiic!”
An adult in a nun's uniform came back for the young nun with Albrecht.
And when he saw her with Albrecht, he was frightened, putting his hands to his chest.
Albrecht pushed Susanne away.
“Time to part ways. Go.”
At that age, the girl grabbed two heavy canisters and skillfully placed them on her shoulders and approached an adult nun. It was hard to center, but I walked well.
The adult nun quickly snatches the bucket and walks away with Susanne. As she turns around, Susanne looks at Albrecht.
Having lost sight of the two nuns, Albrecht simply lowers his head slightly and thinks.
The courage seemed a bit strange, thanks to the virtues of the nun. Because brave people are hated and die early. Like a wig.
But I thought the girl would live longer than the Wig, because she would never go into battle.
And Albrecht envied the girl. While her sins had to live with her for a lifetime, she had a chance to make things right.
Albrecht savors an unexpected little connection and is lost in thought. The pond, which was filled with serene ripples, had calmed down like a mirror.
Albrecht kills the wig, placing Velez completely at peace.
Randolph and Hermann come to Albrecht, hesitating, but Albrecht says nothing but his own faults.
I simply ordered the burial of the warriors and paid compensation to the families.
First, I returned to Ile de Velez and declared war on him. Prince Alfred returns to Anglia with Harold and the Rangers.
“Thank you for everything. I've learned so much from you. You'll never forget it. ”
Albrecht strokes the prince's head, saying good-bye with a gentle smile.
By your side, Rosamund reaches out and touches Prince Alfred's cheek. She has a bad look on her face.
“Speak well to Eliza, by the way. He said he was going back, and here we are. I really want to go back to Elijah. ”
“Haha, don't say that. Your father's tyranny will fall. Hahaha.”
Alfred smiled as well.
“Well, goodbye. See you at the wedding. I'll see you then. God bless you both. ”
The prince greeted the emperor and the emperor with an elegant gesture, and came up to the horse. Albrecht and Rosamund felt bad just seeing Alfred leave.
The couple escort Prince Alfred off the horizon until he clears his face, then turn around and head for Ile de Velez.
Despite the declaration of war, Albrecht did not immediately disband the army, but deployed himself to wipe out the monsters.
Randolph, Herman and Wilhelm have been appointed as sort of commanders, each with a separate unit. Then he designated a district, borrowed the lord's troops, and wiped out the monsters.
Lorraine's army in the Lowlands has been disbanded. I fought bravely in this war, so it was the price of blood for him.
I couldn't believe it just because I surrendered. But once he proved his loyalty on the battlefield, at least he had to pay for it.
I told you to focus on pushing the monsters into the forest, not going too deep into the forest, as there may be heavy troop damage.
Albrecht himself remained in Ile de Velez, encompassing the entire continent with reports coming from all over the North.
Monster by-products and marble were fine because they were in orbit, and Albrecht was most concerned about vampires mixed into the city.
In fact, once vampires decided to join the human society, they couldn't weed it out.
It was not a world with CCTV or social security systems, so we couldn't investigate everything until the vagrant or beggar disappeared.
How many vampires there were, how smart they were, what they were weak to, and what habits they had were hidden in the veil.
As the sun changed over time, the fifth news came from Grossburg in May. She was my daughter again, and I decided to name her Cristina.
Albrecht wrote to Maria about his current situation and his love and a letter of encouragement.
Zigmunt was reported in June to capture vampires, torture them, and conduct biological experiments.
Albrecht rushed to the scene, and even that albrecht was tormented by torture to make his eyes frown.
My whole body was ragged and burned, but I was surprised to be alive. Zigmunt doesn't seem to be willing to kill easily.
Vampire weaknesses were silver. The skin seems to support the skin with pharynx, producing a sound of teeth when silver is placed on the skin.
Illudia and Vervantos were also deadly to vampires, but since there were no parties who made the sword, we don't know what they were for.
Silver is also a valuable piece of information, but more surprisingly, there is a Vampire society.
Most vampires were extremely personal, so they didn't know much about each other either. However, there were those who lived as a family.
Vampire origins are said to originate from the blessing of blood from a dragon named Baal Zebul.
The first vampires were called the Barbarians, and they didn't even know where they lived, how they lived, or what organization they had.
However, there were several members of the Barbarian family, one of whom was Dragustine, a family of Janos that Albrecht had killed in the past.
The vampire, who was captured by Zigmunt, falls blind in his basement and bows his head in silver shackles.
Albrecht, Sigmund, and a few of the knights were watching the vampires, and Einhardt, on the one hand, was covering his mouth and almost crying.
Even adults couldn't cope mentally, vampires were in terrible condition.
“What is that place over time? ”
Albrecht asks, as if dead, the stilled vampire simply mutters.
“Time and space twist, perpetual chaos boils constantly. In burning clouds, the shadow of giants dances, and in volcanoes, a star's waterfall spirals back and forth toward the sky. A world with all its ugliness and brilliance shining a single light. There we were, just shadows. ”
It was completely incomprehensible. Albrecht asked me something else.
“Can't you live without eating humans? Can't you eat animal blood or meat? ”
“Heheheh...... We just wanted to live gracefully. Can't you mortals live without cruelty? Man's constant greed and twisted desire are the most terrifying things in the world. Why are you so afraid of us? What a funny thing......”
Albrecht stomps on the ground and blows his head off.
I was already suffering, but my head exploded and I didn't scatter more debris than I thought.
Sigmund glances down at the cold-headed vampire. Albrecht turns away from the cellar, and Einhardt hurries after the Emperor.
Since Sigmund captured the vampires, the paladins of Carpen have been armed with silver plated swords. And it spread all over the world and started hunting vampires.
There were other kinds of vampires besides vampires. There was a Necrosarbunt that was unreasonable, rational, but vicious, and also turned into bats.
We didn't know if their origins were different or if they were transformed from one another. Monsters that have emerged since the world's veil was up still had a lot to learn.
Over time again, the sun changed, and by March, when the spring flowers began to blossom, Albrecht was 36 years old. And then again on the 12th of May, Rosamund turned 32.
The fierce war in eastern Tarantus is coming to an end, and I've heard that Ragnar is killing people and burning cities to the ground.
Hestein appears to have brutally murdered Gisela by storming Ragnar's garrison while pretending to leave the castle and flee.
Ragnar had a newborn son among Giselas, who was fortunate to have survived, but Ragnar had already lost his mind. He declared that he would kill everyone in the east without covering up men and women.
Albrecht did his best to keep the world in order, but he was not perfect. But this was the reality.
As the monster cleanup in Velez nears completion, Albrecht thinks he should return to Slightgen and pay attention to the east.
In the southern architect, however, people began to flee to Velez on a large scale. The Orc King is gathering Orcs and pushing them north.
Since 10,000 troops were disbanded and returned to their territory, Albrecht led 20,000 troops down with Randolph and Herman, Zigmunt, Wilhelm, Jurgen and Harolph. Richard left it in Velez for supplies.
Aquitaine is wider than Velez and has a wider forest area than flat terrain.
Since there have been many wildlings, there has been more wild and barbaric habits than anywhere else on the North Continent.
I wanted to leave Rosamund behind this time, but she followed me.
It was in mid-August when the hot summer started to fade away and the winds started to cool.
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