Border Guardian Hal Akircius

Silentium South Castle Gate

Maple and two shady men are sitting in a chair in a soldier's jar near the castle gate looking to free up.

Maple is here today because the news of the arrival of the shadows from their hometown group islands was a transmission stone communication, so the castle gate has no waiting area, so we decided to ask the familiar soldier to wait at the end of the filling.

Shortly before the battle on the banks of the Ineon River began, Maple was sending a letter requesting the dispatch of shady men to the group islands.

It was not long after I learned that I had received a response because I immediately traveled north to gather information.

Those shady people, but it's been a long time since the scheduled morning, but I still can't see them.

Maple was bought by the shady at the Blue Sky Market, eating roasted confectionery with honey in the barley flour, getting water from the soldiers and waiting to drink it, but still had time to spare.

Carriages and people carrying loads from the empire, merchants, imperial migrants, and carriages and people leaving from Cilentium to the empire flourish through the castle gates, but I don't see anyone looking for them.

"... I don't know yet..."

When the maple said to the hand-held bump with a cheek cane on his desk, one of the shadows stood up and spoke to the maple.

"Princess..."

"Yeah?... Oh, here we are?

"Yes... but it seems a little overcrowded..."

"Huh?"

When the maple rose out of its chair and did his gaze in the direction the shadows saw, there were clearly more than 300 group islanders there.

They are all dressed in plain colored feathers, tightened with black bands, and braided fitted with a short knife on their hips.

Each of them carries an inflated travel belt (luggage compartment) on his or her breasts again.

The man in the middle meat who walks at the head is the head of the shady one who also knows the maple.

The chief looked at the maples surprised with an ironic grin on his mouth.

The movement of the soldiers of the Castle Gate Guard becomes hasty as a different group of people of that phase wind atmosphere approach the South Castle Gate.

The captain of the guard issued an alert order.

"So, it's okay. Okay, because that's who I know!

That's what he told the soldiers nearby in a hurry, and Maple, who got nothing, jumped outside the castle gate with the two shady men he had brought with him.

The shadows, who stopped acknowledging the figure of the maple, knelt in unison and the head of the lead politely greeted them.

"It's been a while since I've sat down."

"Hey, hey, come here"

Maple leads the shadows to the square by the castle gate in a hurry.

The different winds of the walking shadows and the number of them caused the citizens and merchants of Cilentium to stop and see nearby.

"Duh, duh, what's wrong with this!?

Though not enough to block the traffic on the streets, when Maple overheartedly hears that he can't help but worry about the shadows that are blocking him, he answers in a tone that just says the head is out of his mind.

"There is no such thing as a princess of the Autumn Rukiah family introducing me to a good place to serve, so it depends on how I raise my home and treat her."

"Uh-huh?

He did ask the chief to send some shady people using transmission stone communications, and he remembered that the pay would be held in Cilentium.

Sure, it didn't explicitly indicate the number of people to dispatch, but the maple still raises a bare voice, thinking it would be about ten or twenty.

The shady township from which the letter was received was immediately brought by the chief with more than 300 shady men.

If you look at it, there are people who are carrying babies and holding their children's hands, who are migrating upwards.

With a surprising maple to spare, the chief began to talk.

"The reign of the empire has begun to be good... no more wars and skirmishes, and the strategic strategies and politics between the great masters have completely lurked, as we have no place to work, our incomes have been cut off, and farming has been difficult in a mountainous town, no, it helps."

"I'm not listening, okay? I can't believe all these people are coming!

"There was no number of people in the princess's letter, and that's the guy who said," All in one thought. "As soon as we run out of money, we'll have to hire you here to keep moving."

Maple's protest also answered with a cool face, and Maple held his head in the long half threatening that there was no way back.

"Ugh... what shall I explain to Brother Hal..."

"The Empire is shaken in politics to see and hear on the journey, and even in this land, Master Tsingyi will be hard pressed, but the northern land is still unstable. If this is the time, we can help you, right?

"I know that..."

Since the employment and recruitment of the shady is left to Maple, Hal probably won't get angry, but these 300 people have to be taken care of by Maple.

Assessment of salaries for the arrangement of clothing and accommodation, and other allowances are also maple bearing.

"That's a long way to go without making a lot of noise in this big area..."

Leaving room for a maple bored with its head in unexpected circumstances, the length finally raised its mouth angle when the shady man with the maple said so.

"Are you frightened? We are shady... we walk freely on roadless roads and nights without light... we all joined together in the soldiers' quarters just before that, until then, we all went to pieces."

"... I've seen it"

Maple finally screamed as the shady and the chief were in conversation.

"Good job, even if you think about it, it's ginger nye! We can work this out!

"... hasn't the princess changed?

"Ha."

He was an unmistakable shady man returning a bitter laugh to the chief's words.

Outside Cilentium, Field Training Grounds

"No! No, the spear parallel the gap in the shield from the top!

Quintus' reprimanding voice sounds.

In a field training ground set up on the outskirts of Cilentium, Northern Legion soldiers and auxiliary spear soldiers were rigorously trained under Quintus' command.

The Northern Legion soldiers, who had achieved more than enough for their barbarian opponents in what should also be called their first actual battle in the North, were found to have problems defending against cavalry and attacking methods, as well as weaknesses in how slow they were to deal with sudden events.

The method against cavalry is an imperial-style method of warfare that deals with the mass firing of projectile weapons, but Hal thought that it was not enough in the northern periphery, where arrowballs were not freely replenished unlike the imperial mainland.

Hal decided to attach spear-equipped units to the legion's aid and also train Northern legion soldiers to long spears, as well as convert the equipment of some Northern legion soldiers into spears.

This should stop him from being made a cavalry unit like no other.

In addition, he also decided to improve his cavalry unit.

Until now, only the tribal warriors of Cliffonam, who were good at riding horses, had been hired as light cavalry, but decided to equip them with imperial-style heavy cavalry.

Of course, the basics were the Northern Legion soldiers, and training for the newly created cavalry was carried out exclusively by Hal.

Hal decided to add a new soldier to his regiment in Cilentium.

In addition, Hull introduced allied tribal cavalry from the Saura tribe, which belongs to the eastern tribes of the Cliffonams, who became allied tribes in this Northern peace.

The Cliffonam warriors are generally not good at riding extra horses with infantry warriors in the basics.

Although it can be ridden as a warrior's preference, horseback riding is not surprisingly familiar to the Cliffonams living in the forest, and as a means of travel, there are not many horseback riders, nor horns.

Except that even the Cliffonams have experienced exchanges and wars with Finns, neighboring nomadic horseback riding nations, with their warriors wearing horseback fighting, only the eastern nations living in areas that change from forest to meadow zones.

Finn warriors are lightweight horse riding warriors who specialize in riding bowshooting, while Cliffonams are dominated by horse riding warriors equipped with double-handed spears wearing relatively heavy equipment, with excellent breakthroughs.

Hal actively hired Freedom Warriors as well as calling on Eastern nations to join the Alliance in order to gain this Horse Rider.

"Assault begins!

The cavalry thrust forward the spear with cheer and earthsmoke at Hull's decree and storm it harshly.

The simultaneous assault of heavily loaded cavalry and allied tribal cavalry, predominantly Eastern tribal warriors, was quite powerful and powerful and satisfied Hull, who was in charge of training, from the outset.

While it is common to wear imperial-style iron armor helmets, the Allied Tribal Cavalry holds a spear with both hands, while the heavy-duty cavalry braided in Cilentium on the other holds a round shield of Cliffonam heritage on a single-handed spear.

The shield was painted blue with the city crest of Cilentium, the same as that of the soldiers of the Northern Legion.

Hull initially tried to pick up a rectangular imperial cavalry shield from an armored trader, as it is naturally inconvenient to pick it up on horseback in the infantry giant.

However, because it took too long and too much time, I was worried about my head, and I decided to use the colour applied to Cliffonam's shield in Belius's proposal.

Cavalry units are not actively utilized in the Empire, by the way, and cavalry equipment is expensive and thin.

As a result, we were unable to align immediately.

But it should also be called the merit of the injury, because of which Belius' suggestion was followed, and as a result the cavalry was able to acquire lighter, more hands-on, and more familiar equipment.

The cavalry trains on the breadth of the queue, slope raids and siege attacks while checking the timing with the decree and working with each unit in several assaults.

"The training is over!

It was a long time after noon and the training was finally over.

A smile climbs on the faces of the cavalry, who until then had a harsh look at Hull's decree.

The birth of the Silentium Cavalry Regiment is imminent.

Cilentium Administration Building, Hal's Room

"Um... el?

"Oh, you can't move..."

"No, you know what?

"... no"

"Yes..."

After a day of work and waiting for Hull, who had pulled up to his room, was Erlacia, who kept waiting for his return with thoughts of a thousand autumns.

Hal, who was just caught at the entrance, is taken out to a chair that is kept on the veranda of the room as it is when he is hugged and given a thick mouthfeel.

Sometimes since returning from the battle of the north, Ellesia has been in her room all the time, waiting for Hal every day, except for morning and evening prayers.

It is usually a chair and table prepared for a lunch snack or a coffee break, but now Ellesia leaned on Hull, sitting on a larger chair, with her head on its chest.

Trying to strain her big stomach, Ellesia had to sit in a chair in an impossible position, and Ellesia snorted in dissatisfaction whenever Hull managed to wander around trying to make her position easier.

After doing so for a while, you can hear slight noise on the boulevard and the wind shaking the periphery of the street trees, and the wind that has crossed wraps two people and disappears into heaven.

The water supply was as small as ever as it cared not to disturb the two encounters with the rolling sound of clean water.

At last, Hal makes a slightly chopped voice in spite of his good posture.

"Elle, isn't sleeping better? You just have to roll over..."

"No, sir."

"... why?

Erlacia dyes her face red as soon as she asks, whispering with a small voice in Hal's ear.

"... because... I can't stand it anymore..."

"... it is..."

When Ellesia, who grabbed her neck, leaned bright red on her face and put her strength into her arms even harder, Hal also put his hand on Ellesia's back without being able to say any more.

Then he mouthed it on its forehead, kissed Ellesia, who raised his face, and whispered back to its ear.

"... I wonder if I can stand it either..."

"Huh... ah?

Shortly after Ellesia was surprised, Hal said as he fluttered up his body and carried Ellesia to the room.

"But the body is more important, so let's take it slow on the sleeping table"

"... Yes"

Erlacia said as she wrapped her arms around Hal's neck, and Hal smiled into the room and lay Erlacia down on the bunk.