I Became the First Prince

After a short mourning for the warriors, he went straight to his next destination.

It was hard for the enforcement forces to move after the battle without getting excited. No one complained.

However, this did not mean that fatigue was not built-up, so I stopped moving and ordered a break in time for the excitement to sink.

Jaw.

I look at the soldiers lying in the middle of nowhere, and I hear footsteps.

Lying down, he snaps his head back and rolls his eyeballs.

A woman who had just taken off her helmet and had her sweaty head stuck to her cheeks and forehead, but even her appearance was as beautiful as a picture.

Arwen Kirgayen is looking down at me.

“Your Majesty."

When I could see myself without a word, she called me.

But the voice remained firm without knowing where it was.

Caught a beeping torso.

Seeing this, her face was definitely different from usual.

Even a delicately stiff face, but even a depressed eye did not fit her normally.

“I think I have something to say. ”

He sat down and waited for her to open her mouth.

“That's all I had to do. ”

After a long hesitation, she opened her mouth.

“What's wrong?”

“Those who gave up the resistance. who were willing to throw away their swords and spears and sacrifice their lives. ”

It was too penetrating to be called Hillan, and too dry to be called compassion.

That was closer to self-help.

“I can understand cutting his throat to hold the defeated elders accountable, but it wasn't too much to give such an intolerant death to soldiers who just followed. ”

Somehow, I didn't say anything else, so I've been chewing on the battles all this time.

“As a winner, I think it would have been better if I had been a little more tolerant. ”

I sighed in the words of the intruder.

If she could not unleash the enemy of resistance by herself, she would have been in trouble no matter how much Arwen was carrying her backpack.

But I knew she fought with the best of her ability. I even saw myself stabbing a knife in the back of an enemy who was fleeing to keep my command.

Her suffering deserved respect.

I looked at her face quietly.

His eyes were as dry as the stars. The black eyes were filled with guilt and skepticism.

If you leave it as it is, it will develop into a physi-symma.

"Tsk."

I kicked my tongue without knowing.

Arwen squeezed into my gaze.

It wasn't a battle, it was already a massacre.

I woke up and looked at her face.

“Arwen.”

“Yes, Your Majesty. ”

“The victor's tolerance, you say it like you've already won the war. ”

She shook her body with a scratch.

“Four triumphs made you feel big. They must have felt like weaklings when they cut down the Nazarenes. I felt compassion when I saw the people begging for my life. ”

Arwen didn't deny me.

“So they were really weak. ”

And he didn't even answer my question.

“Until now, we have won. I hope it will continue to be the same now. But I can't think of anything like today. Maybe the day will come when you drink the bitter cup of defeat. ”

I didn't wait for an answer either.

“We are different from the Empire. Only one defeat will put the country in jeopardy. This is because this war is a battle between those who want to keep it and those who want to trample it, and because we are weak. ”

She chews her lips.

“Tolerance is what the strong give to the weak, and tolerance to the weak is nothing more than once. ”

“I'm not talking about knights and commanders. I'm just talking about the treatment of powerless soldiers. ”

“Powerless soldiers...”

I smiled coldly at her words.

“Then I'll ask you. Are the soldiers of the powerless empire stronger than the people of the kingdom? ”

Arwen asks questions again before answering them.

“What should I do if I tolerate them? Consider it enough to take away swords and spears, and will you be satisfied if you release them? Or would he be satisfied if he took his life as a prisoner? ”

If you release them, they will be absorbed by other legions, pointing spears and swords at the kingdom again, and if they capture prisoners, they will slow down their feet and make their shoulders heavy.

“Do you think we have the power to do that? ”

Either way, it was an unbearable burden for the present kingdom.

“My benevolence, your generosity, someone's unquestionable knighthood can bring them to the kingdom. And do they believe that they will be grateful for the forgiveness we have given them and will have mercy on their allies and the people of the kingdom? ”

I've seen countless fortresses and citadels that the Imperial Army took down in the past. I could not help but notice what the territories and villages were like.

The vigorous soldier Arwen spoke of was not there. There was only a plunderer and a destroyer drunk in madness. And there was only the lamentation of those who were trampled and slain.

“Remember, Arwen. ”

I grabbed Arwen's cheek, avoiding her gaze, and made her see me.

“Our fight is a desperate struggle of those at the end of the thunderbolt, like a dangerous step of a loner. ”

I said a few times, staring straight at the shaking pupil who lost his way.

Look at me. Look at me.

The eyes that lost light came close and found their place.

“If only we could win this war. ”

Looking straight at that pupil, I said,

“I will gladly be the devil. ”

I looked around, letting Arwen go.

One day, knights and soldiers listened to Arwen's conversation with me.

Some of them are thinking like Arwen.

Why are there so many straightforward people in a country that thought it was rotten as it was rotten?

“So you will only be according to my command. If someone is hurting you, just follow the Devil's orders. ”

If someone comes to pay for their sins and blood today, that person will be me.

It will be but a handful of blood on the many karma I have accumulated while I was living with the sword.

No one opened their mouth. There was only silence in Sook Young Ji.

I parted with Arwen and the knights and lay down again.

Then he covers his fur and asks for sleep, and the voice of the caravan digs his ears.

“I'll be a demon, too. ”

It was the Black Spear Soldier's Captain Queon.

“Well, isn't it a compliment to the enemy to be called a demon? ”

Eli stumbles into it.

“That's very sophisticated. I'm the one who was called the Orcs' plague, the Devil of Winter Castle."

“It's a disaster for our allies, and they must have been called demons by their men. ”

“Shut up! Whatever you call it, you'll be called a demon! ”

Some Ranger squadrons and platoon commanders killed him.

Starting with this, Knights and Soldiers shout to the Empire Army that they will be willing to become demons.

“Then I too...”

Adelia seems timid.

“I think you've had enough. ”

I made fun of her looking at her like that.

As much as the battlefield, she was already a better demon than anyone else.

It's a bloody demon, and it's a war demon.

I was giggling with the old rangers and whites at a bird I didn't know.

The unique cheerfulness of the Ballerhard, which was not lost in winter castles where death and war were daily.

Central knights and soldiers, who were sympathetic to the atmosphere, were also taking off their heavy faces and just shouting.

A disaster for the Imperial Army. For the kingdom's sake, I'd be willing to be a demon.

“Isn't this our troop name? ”

“What?”

I frowned at Eli's stuffy words.

“What about the Demon Legion of Winter? I'm afraid it's an army of demons from the cold north...”

Other than me, I watched him roar with pride to see if it was worth it, and my running heart cooled.

I turned my back on him without delay.

“I am."

At that time, a weak voice dug out his earlobe so that he could not even hear if he didn't care.

It was Arwen.

“Your sword. ”

She said to me as if she were recalling the vow of the Body of God.

“If you are a demon, I am a sword. ”

Her eyes were no longer shaken.

She was so magnificent that she stole Simma's seeds in such a short time.

She knuckles her head in indifference, and bows her head with a reddish face.

Adelia, who didn't know when she would show up, was somewhat jealous of him, and Eli grabbed the palm of her hand with a slight reach.

I just smiled as I looked at the one and only thing different from the winter castle.

After that night, when the day was bright again, we ran to the enemy.

* *

It's been four days.

However, the Imperial Army, where the non-Dragon Knights were four days away, could not even see their noses.

So far, the information of the non-dragon knights has never been wrong, but the knights have been sullen.

“Rangers search the vicinity, the rest stand by in my place. ”

After a while, the rangers who had gone on the search returned and reported that a large army had found traces of imprisonment.

“The Imperial Army left for the North at least two days ago. ”

I frowned.

It was never a good sign that the Empire army was moving faster than expected.

“There's the non-dragon knight! ”

A bright-eyed ranger recognizes and cries out for a small spot that flies beyond the horizon.

As the Ranger said, the little dot in the sky grew in an instant, revealing the appearance of a non-dragon.

Heh heh.

The non-dragon knight, who landed in an intense dusty wind, shouted at me in haste without even getting off the non-dragon.

“Things have changed! The troops we were aiming for are fast on the north side, and half of the Empire troops that were widespread on the front lines have lost their cover! Currently, the entire Knights of Chang are scattered and searching for the Legion of the Missing Empire! ”

“Why all of a sudden? ”

“To date, the reason, the path and the purpose are all unknown! ”

He pressed down on the ominy and asked for the exact location of the enemy army. Fortunately, the non-dragon knights didn't even miss their race.

“The target troops are now three days away from here, and are advancing at a rapid pace. ”

The Rangers say the Imperial Army left here two days ago.

However, the fact that the Empire troops departed two days ago were three days away meant that their march speed was not common sense.

“There are very few fallen people. ”

Even though he is on the enforcement force at a crazy rate, there are not many fallouts.

It meant that they were real elites, unlike the Imperial Army that they had fought so far.

Things were not good.

Enemy elite troops are moving fast on a three-day street. It was not easy for them to catch up before they crossed the border, even though they were running hard from now on.

Even if they caught up before they crossed the border, they could not fight their enemies with less health at the end of the Enforcement Force.

He was an ally who went through four battles stirring up an enemy camp, so he had to save his strength.

"Mmm."

I briefly summarized the situation and measured the purpose of the Imperial Army.

When I confronted the heads of the cerebral ministers and spoke with each other, there was no answer.

The non-Dragon Knight asked me what I would do if I could fill in the missing information in two days to find out the purpose of the enemy.

The answer was set from the beginning.

“We will pursue our enemies like this. ”

Time was running out.

Until now, only the Empire army has been an enemy, but from now on, time has also been an enemy of our allies.

Before enemy elite troops attack the Fortress of the Silver Lion. Before the legions of the lost empire revealed themselves in the most vulnerable places of the kingdom.

They had to rush to the border before the kingdom was greatly damaged.

I asked the non-Dragon Knights to let me know the location of the missing Salvation Army or why the General Commander of the enemy suddenly increased the march speed.

After three days of barbee travel, I was able to sail not far from the border of the kingdom.

“The Empire had no intention of targeting its borders with a hole law from the beginning! Imperial troops entering the border line and moving Imperial troops were merely bait, and their goals were set aside! ”

It was around that time that the non-dragon knight came back.

“What they were after was the capital of their return from the beginning! ”

He finally learned the answer to the imperial army's sudden change, but he couldn't be happier at all.

“The capital of your return is now under siege by the Empire Army's Stars and Knights, and your lord has ordered your speedy return! ”

Because that was a few times more horrible than I expected.