Armed Summoners - Black Spears and the Brave Men of the Other World

January 5, 5006, continental calendar.

On that day, three days after the Battle of the Stra Fortress, Benoa, the capital of Benoagard, was returning to a flat routine, ending the festivities of the good examples of the new year. But it was with a sense of reality that the peace was what the Knights chief Osfeld Zan-Ward did not wait for, and it was to be a joy to finally celebrate such a new year, the third year since the “Great Destruction”.

But I am well aware that this is not a situation where I can just be so happy. Just because I was able to accomplish the annual event, I'm not talking about everything going well with it.

Two days ago, an early horse arrived in Benoa from the Stra Fortress and reports came in that the Stra Fortress had been raided by Nea Benoagard forces and had developed into combat. To Ozfeld, the thirteenth knight, what a conjecture, but in fact, through his eyes in the report, he was able to know the full extent of the Stra fortress defense battle.

The only thing Osfeld and Luveris were aware of was Shivula's death. Only his death could be known by the bond of the thirteenth knight. I didn't even know why he died, but he must have lost his life by fighting the Knights. There's no other reason to think about it. Shivula was at Hulberto's. Apparently he was the lead knight of Nair Benoagard. It was even inevitable that Hulberto, who became king, would use him heavily, and that's not a big deal. So much for Shivula. It wouldn't mean he'd be dispatched to the battlefield by Darkless Arrow Cod, and even if he went to the battlefield, he didn't normally think he'd take the delay against his opponents. Whether dozens or hundreds of armed summoners are opponents, the story may be different, but it was never thought that the former thirteenth knight who drives the true body would die of that extent.

If it were to drive through the true body and could still die, it would be about when it came to hitting the same true body user or fighting Setuna-Kamiya.

The report proved that Ozfeld and Luveris were right in their thoughts. On January 2nd, when Shivula left, everyone appeared true body extensions on a quiet night, and Sid responded to this and succeeded in destroying it at all costs of an all-round effort, he said. It appears that at the end of last year, an assault using the army of Nea Benoagard, defeated by troops led by Bain Belbail Zan-Lanacourt, was attempting to devastate the Stra Fortress and strike a heavy blow to the Knights. But due to the activity of Setuna, Rem, Bain and others, Nea Benoagard's army was repelled, and the casualties on the Knights' side were kept too low by two hundred. Of these, there are about fifty dead, so there is no other great achievement. According to reports, the Nea Benoagard army has freed the Divine Man to battlefield. If as many as ten divine men appeared and were able to contain the dead to no more than fifty on a rampant battlefield, they could do well. There was nothing to say.

And today, January 5th, the body of Shivula, who lost his life in the battle with Sid, was brought to the headquarters of the Knights of Castle Benoa.

Face to face with Shivula's remains in the morgue beneath the Knights headquarters, Ozfeld was just silent on some satisfying look on the part of a man who was a respected predecessor knight and a comrade with bitterness. We know from Sid's report why Shivula's body hasn't been scratched one. The battle between the true bodies was settled. Even if the True Body is destroyed, the flesh of the person who manifested the True Body will not be hurt.

The fact that the body is not corrupt in any way and is in good condition of preservation is not reason because it is winter. Preservation methods that utilize the properties of magic crystal stones can greatly reduce the rate of decay of corpses. Incidentally, the nature of Demon Crystal Stone, which reduces the rate of corrosion of organisms, is mainly used for the preservation of foodstuffs and medicines, sometimes Demon Crystal Stone can be used for both lighting and food preservation, not to mention a necessity of life. It was so much about not being able to live a human life without Demonic Crystal Stone that it had to be for the general public. Especially in the period of chaos since the “Great Destruction", there was a tendency to lack Demonic Crystal Stone, so much so that disturbances arose over Demonic Crystal Stone.

For that reason, it was said that if there was a demonic crystal stone mineral vein, it would be able to build only one fortune, which was actually true. There are also countries that are moisturizing the national treasury by exporting Demonic Crystal Stone out of the country, and Maldia, known as the country of gems, is one of those countries.

So much so that it has sometimes risen to speculation among the Ozfeldts that Nair Benoagard was the first to plot an invasion of Maldia territory and actually took control of Cyclahim by mastering the Maldia's Demonic Crystal Mine and intending to be a source of funding.

Anyway, the wreckage of Shivula, preserved by the Demonic Crystal Stone, although it is the complexion that fades blue, showed little different than it was in its lifetime, and I couldn't help but feel sad and vain for Ozfeld about it.

In Ozfeld, Shivula was one of the beautiful ones.

This beauty is not about appearance. I'm talking about the inside. Nevertheless, Shivula has been known for her brilliant appearance since she was young, and there are stories of making a scene about a Benoan woman at one time. Golden hair blended beautifully into white skin like snow characteristic of the Northerners. Having grown old and withheld forty to the present, he definitely looked good when it came to beauty, although he changed dramatically from what he was whispered to be a beauty.

It is in his interior like that that that there is true beauty.

Ozfeld was seven years younger than Shivula, and when he joined the Knights at the age of fourteen and was baptized by his squire, Shivula was already on the throne of the Orthodox Knights. Orthodox knights are the highest knights in the Knights. If the Knights were king in a country called the Knights and the executives were regarded as royalty, the Orthodox Knights were in a position that could be described as aristocratic. In the Knights, which were forming a kind of independent state within the corrupt Benoagard, their class was absolute, and for a freshly entered subordinate knight, a true knight was no more than a heavenly man.

But Shivula, I guess its heart was straight past it. Even in the position of an Orthodox Knight, he was often cold-treated along with Fairling Zan-Kluth and others. Burning his life just to push straight against his chivalry, his appearance must have been unpleasant and extreme for the Knights executives of the time, pervaded by corruption and corruption. That could be a failing ring, and it was for that reason that Ozfeld tipped into failing.

Their appearance, ready to martyr in their own righteousness and continuing to practice their readiness, moves the hearts and minds of the young obedient knights and later becomes the driving force of the revolution, no matter what, they did not even think about it at the time. No one and he were young and blue. I believed that if we believed in justice and acted, one day we could change the Knights themselves. And if I could change the Knights, even the country could move - it was only twenty years old that I truly believed in dreams like those of a child, Fairling, Shivula.

The chivalry master for Ozfeld is undoubtedly a failing ring, but he was equally respectful of Shivula, and from time to time he wished for a professor and received doctrine. Ozfeldt inherits, so to speak, both Fairling and Shivula, blood.

There's something extraordinary about failing to ring, and it can be said that it's floating away, but Shivula is a man with feet on the ground, and that, for the rest of his life, was no different. Perhaps, until the end, he was human. He fought and scattered as a human being.

"Are you still here?"

It was the voice of Luveris that inadvertently echoed the morgue. Luveris Zan-Finwright. He was a newcomer, so to speak, who had joined the Knights since the revolution and did not know when he was a young man in Fairling or Shivula. That's not why there was no interaction at all with Shivula, he rather interacted better with Shivula and Hulberto than with Ozfeld and others, who sometimes bragged about it to Ozfeld. I was envious, but I couldn't do anything about it before I was in the role of deputy commander.

That he was pouring the cold air of the morgue's gaze into Ozfeld. His figure, dressed in his own modified Knights uniform, is that of an aged woman herself. The revolution forced him to inherit the house, and that was the gateway to his depressed thoughts that closed the artist's path. I do something to deceive by dressing myself, by dressing myself up. If I didn't, it wouldn't have been something that knights or anything else could have done. That's just a hobby now, so I can't help but think that one is different.

Which means he's proud to be a knight in the Knights.

That's what he said.

"Shivula betrayed the Knights, and you must be the big sinner on Nea Benoagard, right?

"Oh."

"Then why did you welcome the remains to the Knights headquarters?"

His doubts were the best, but Ozfeld just sounded disgusted.

"Ask what you know"

"If you don't tell me, I don't know"

"... he said he was a knight till the end"

"Sir Rufaus's letter?

"Yes."

Affirms, recalls the text of the letter.

The letter, which arrived before Shivula's remains, contained as it stood what Sid had heard and felt from Shivula himself. And it was accompanied by his desire to bury Shivula's remains in the cemetery of the Knights.

"He was martyred in his chivalry. Like Terius. Like His Excellency the former head of the Failing Corps and everyone else."

"But you can't forgive me for what I did."

Luveris' thrusting voice echoes Ozfeld's chest as if it were cold water. Luveris is by no means a light person, although he tends to be mistaken for his soft, well-deserved words and deeds. A realist who can determine the situation with extreme caution. There was no need to condone those who betrayed the Knights, not through them - that was his opinion. On that point, Ozfeld was in agreement, and among the Knights executives, there would be nothing against his.

There was no way I could have been a Knights executive, such as tolerating Shivula, who belonged to Nair Benoagard, who had once had to have a knight-like relationship with the Knights and had totally turned his will against the Knights. Nair Benoagard can be an obstacle to salvation. What has become an adversary is not forgiven because it is dead.

That's what Leveris wants.

"I know. Still, he's a great knight to me."

"My lord the captain said you don't mind moving the Knights on your own, do you?

"Only this time I am. Forgive me."

"There is no forgiveness or forgiveness, my Lord Commander. We Knights Knights only follow His Excellency's orders. Except if that's against the philosophy of salvation..."

Luveris continued, peeking into Shivula's dead face. The voice was feverish.

"It wouldn't be such a nasty thing to shake about welcoming the remains of your former compatriots"

"Oh... you're right"

Ozfeld wondered if Ruvelis also had something to feel about Shivula as a knight, and changed his sight. Luveris may not interact for meaningless friendship because he is a realist but no realist. Shivula and Hulberto were often invited to the mansion to present their new costumes and works of art, which must have been because they respected and trusted them as knights.

So, I guess.

The eyes of Luveris staring at Shivula's death were full of mercy.