From a terminal Soldier to Monarch

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The advantage of riding around in a wagon was that it had a space to carry things and a tool to make shade whenever I wanted.

I had no other choice because I had a companion who was struggling with the long journey.

“Nice day. ”

It was still the weather in which warm air came first before cold air.

“Winter comes late here. ”

During a short break, Grafe replied to me. He usually takes a breath of air outside of the wagon, except for the time he spent caring for his elderly.

“Aren't you going to lunch? ”

I don't know if Royce is right. He'll eat anything when he gets a chance.

“Did you get caught?”

“Too bad you missed it. ”

You're right. Besides, Grafe's aunt was too weak to endure a long journey without a bite.

Grape was pretty sturdy for being persecuted and eating poorly. The good horseman noticed that he knew the graffiti, but he didn't care if the graffiti was sitting next to the horse rack.

If there was no destination, it was a trip that was slow enough to tell me to just hang out.

“There's no robbery coming. ”

Lois mutters something like this with a steady hand.

“You want that? ”

“No, not that I want to, but it's a boring trip. ”

Lois was more serious than I had ever known in my past life, but it was a change in time.

Lois has been a little more adventurous.

“Then why are you circling around like this? ”

Walking next to the horse by the grafe on the carriage seat, he asks.

“You're going around? ”

“If the destination is near the Bagbon Mountains and the South, it should be just south of the Palm Gate and the Walls, wouldn't it be this way? ”

He was right. I was taking the detour north. I listened to Grafe and asked him out of curiosity.

“Do you have a map? ”

A map is an expensive item. It means you can't even see it unless you are a noble with power.

It's okay to say that I have the ability to make my own maps, but it was hard to see that Grape had such a skill.

A combination of a pass finder, a map maker, and at least the two to make a map from town to the back mountain.

“I happen to have seen maps of eastern and western Sercado. ”

“You saw it once? ”

“Yes."

This guy knows what he's talking about.

Given Grafe's position, there wouldn't be much time to observe. No, even if you had time to observe, just one look and you remember it?

I've heard a lot about Phimchu Sage, but I've never heard of this ability before. Well, he wasn't really who I knew, so how much do you know about him?

“I remember most of what I've seen or heard. ”

Most of the time, I never forget what I saw. I actually proved it with what I'm saying now.

“…… I have a place to stop. ”

A monster's memory.

“Oh, right. ”

That's what Grape asked me, and I didn't say any more. It was less than a month's ride to Fraunmoont territory.

If I take the wagon now to the route I drew, it would take me three months.

I opened my cloak because the wind was getting colder every day. As winter approaches, I forge a route through the village so that when I get dizzy, I won't be homeless.

How's the rock salt mine going? ’

The streak is not as smart as you think it is, but since he is a man of principle, he won't cause any big problems.

With Lynd, it wouldn't matter if something big happened. Digo and Jenryd had no idea it would be helpful to run the territory.

How's Murdock and the others training going? ’

Tequila would have been a great ranger and herbalist if she hadn't run away from training.

It doesn't change what they do because they're trained to do it.

I hope you and your wife are getting along. ’

Jelly reminds me. He leads the southerner with steel determination. His leg was incurable, but it was healed beyond compare.

It was a hard treatment because it needed to be attached and fixed after breaking the leg bones clean again, but the gummy bears endured it with a few moans.

‘He's a tough guy. ’

The same goes for Jenryd, but she reminds me of a hard stone that doesn't break when she looks at it.

I've been contemplating the history of what's to come. I couldn't remember everything because I wasn't a graft. I'd like to compliment my head for remembering that Grafe would be here at this time.

The wise man was originally persecuted by the Grand Duke Zigzag, so he might have treated the land much.

I thought that one sentence that was close to Yasa might be good luck.

‘Hurricanes, civil wars, monsters. ’

Many things have changed by my intervention. I tried to avoid it rather than stand at the center of it.

But I couldn't avoid everything, and now when I see it, I'm not avoiding the change, I'm walking out in front of it.

‘A lot has already changed. ’

That's why I knew I couldn't use everything I knew.

Of course, there were still things that remained the same. I walked through the dry ground and entered the barn where I could see all the straw piles.

There was a fairly large and fertile grain cellar in Sercado, so the landscape was opened before my eyes.

“Lois.”

After a dry wheat field called winter, I stopped the wagon and called Lois.

“You wanted to see me?”

“Boring, aren't you?”

“No, I'm not.”

I said no, but I saw him swing his sword by himself many times because he was frustrated. Dalian was quick, but not as violent as before.

Grafe's old lady is frightened at the sight of a flying weapon. I had to take care of her.

“Let's go out. ”

“Where are you going? ”

“I'll let you fight all you want. ”

Royse blinks. He replied carefully.

“I'm not a berserker. ”

You'll be my squire, my knight in shining armor.

“But you want to fight, right? ”

Can't a knight have combat instincts? It's dignified in a yard where I die of stubbornness.

Lois was a born man. Although he appeared to be badly damaged at times, he was usually the most suitable man to say that he was a nobleman's disciple.

In front of everyone else, even if I change the relationship between my master and Squire.

“Go alone if you don't want to. ”

“I follow your Squire everywhere. ”

That's an excuse.

He takes his sword and wears a pair of hard leather gloves. He puts leather armor on his clothes. Grafe naturally tugs on the leather strap on his armor.

“You're good.”

“I've done it before. ”

Royse's voice echoes Grafe's reply. He's a crazy son of a bitch who never forgets.

“Are you waiting here? ”

The horse asked with an anxious look in his eyes. This is the northern border of Sergado, and above the northern border, I must say.

The North's borders have many meanings, but only one thing everyone agrees with.

A line that must not be crossed.

Land of the Horseman.

A land called Glacier Hill.

“I have no intention of crossing the border and no intention of summoning the creature hidden within. ”

I reassured the horseman and took Lois on the move. Except for the path of the beast, it was a no-man's forest.

Occasionally, skilled hunters were the only forests that didn't fear the northern border.

I walked through it.

“The North Empire is further away? ”

Royse asks. I shake my head at it.

“No.”

A great nation united by Glacier Hill, the North. I smiled with all my heart because I knew what they were doing.

“You'll have to ride our wagon for three months to see the first city of the empire. ”

The North is vast. Nothing to go to right now, not even the humans there.

I'm busy ruling my territory right now. Royse follows me without asking any more questions.

I was curious, but I went ahead and told him.

“You want to know why I'm here? ”

“I thought you might want to go hunting. ”

Royse said around and I smiled. I was just about to cut a big branch into a bluish branch and move on. A hard branch falls on the plump ground.

“Hunting is hunting. ”

It's a treasure hunt.

It's a long way out. I wanted to go around and get everything I could, even if I could.

History, people, and me have changed a lot, but some things have not.

At least some of the treasures I knew would remain there.

The first was right where it was going. An object in the Unnamed Forest on the northern border of Sercado.

Grrrrrrr.

Soon, a violent cry rang in my ears. I looked at the path of the beasts and looked at their discharge.

I expected to see you around here, and that wasn't wrong.

“Lois.”

Grrr.

The back of Squire, who pulled out his sword and blocked my way, was solid.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

You hear the beast cry one more time, but you don't see them. It was a frightening cry just by listening.

“There are very unique people in this area. ”

That's why the crazy hunters in these woods can't come in. I was expecting this because I followed their trail.

“What's that? ”

Lois said in a nervous tone.

“These are the Black Hyenas. We must be careful. ”

An animal that uses the forest as a disguise and hunts anything in sight. There are ogres and Trolls in these woods, but this area was their land. Just by sticking to the area and defending it, I could see how ferocious the beast was.

“If you invade the realm, it will bite you unconditionally. Be careful. ”

Royce asked.

“Lord, it's as if I'm asking you to fight alone. ”

Royce said, changing the position of his feet and putting a thick tree behind his back. Royse was originally a little tougher.

But not now. He was the disciple of an extraordinary, noble.

I thought about what Lois lacks today, and I realized it was a real experience.

“Make a mistake and you'll die. ”

I warned him again and again. I wouldn't do this if I were just a nobleman's clever disciple.

He was Weiss Knight, my Squire, and a trained body of tequila.

He couldn't have died like this. No, if you die like this, you won't be able to survive.

“Do I do it alone? ”

“What about you two? ”

I jumped right into the thick branches of the tree next door with that horse. As you grab the branch with your bare hands, and raise your legs with a recoil, you see the serpent push his head right in front of you.

Shhh!

I'm going to pull the dagger out of my chest and peck my head vertically as if I knew there was one. It was a collective movement.

As you climb over the thick branches and look down, you see Lois' flock of hyenas leaping forward.

Knng!

Royse doesn't hesitate to draw his sword from below up, and one of his legs is cut off when he first runs into the strike.

Bang, bang!

Problem is, they're not. Royse is all alone. I couldn't help it.

I was going to be very busy now.

Way to go, Lois. Fight. Fight.

I sort of cheered my way into it, and I made fun of my feet. Those who jump up and over the trees take out their daggers and cut them down.

The black hyena had a very unique habit. Some call them half the garbage collection.

They have a habit of hiding everything shiny or unique in their nests.

Of course, there weren't any who guarded the nest. However, due to the nature of the Black Hyena, they gathered even more at centuries' notice.

Queek! Queek!

The laughter echoes. I didn't even have to look through my memories.

The Black Hyena who ruled this area did not hide her stronghold, and crying became a milestone.

It was evidence that Lois was fighting very well.

‘Well done, my Royce. ’

As I stared at the direction and stood against the wind, I saw a cave with a deep floor in front of me.

From afar, I could still hear the hyena cracking. Of course, it moved quite far from where Royse was fighting.

I made my way down the tunnel. There were only four or five hyenas left.

“Hello, doggies. ”

As you rush in with the bluish, they reflexively attack and the fight is over.

Looks like the hyena leader went to Royce, too.

That's easy.

I went into the cave thinking like that. I found the white thread, ignoring all the bony, hard stones they collected.

I look at the thread and carefully pull the leather out of my chest, wrap it around my back and tie it tightly around the opening.

Then I reacted with a jolt in my pocket. I picked up a silver worm, a silver caterpillar.

When a great treasure hunter caught this bug and explained its usefulness, many laughed at him.

But once he proved that, he could no longer be the object of ridicule.

I thought to myself, looking at the carefully packed silver worm.

Lynd must have taken good care of you. ’

* * *

Lind still had a lot of time left since Mathis came. Even though he was sometimes attracted to things like this, he carelessly went through the repetition every day.

“I'll make you do anything you want. ”

One of them was this. It was to feed the pet insect of the lord and his mouthy friend.

Carefully open the leather pouch and put some herbs and honey in it.

Lind only thinks she has a nasty hobby of friends because she knows there are spiders in it.

“When are you coming, Chris? I miss you so much. ”

Lynd mutters to himself. As soon as a friend reveals his teeth at the age of 6, Lynd thinks he's going to swing his sword with joy.