Empire History July 27, 1023.

The bright and shining sun rising from the eastern sky illuminates the horizon with a sunset by leaning to the west.

The black book will soon be grated and the night will be the time to rule the ground.

One dragon runs through a desert with such hot winds.

He is gracefully and sometimes toughly walking through the wind without getting his feet tangled in the sand.

It's one boy - Bilu - riding that back.

He can't even ride a pony, but somehow he could cross the "dragon dragon" and manipulate it without being shaken down.

I've always wanted to be on it, but I also need to rest when I think about the dragon.

"There must have been a village around here…………"

Pompong and one hand gently slapped the "dragon's neck. It slows down and turns into a walk like a reply.

Then I take a piece of paper out of my chest pocket - a map of the Principality of Richter.

Biru found a small shadow floating on the horizon as he made his gaze go far.

"Will you just try harder?

"The dragon ran out again, his head lowered as he nodded.

The shadow gradually grew larger, and it eventually became a visual distance from where the soil houses were being built.

Biru immediately detects the anomaly. No, you must have noticed something wrong with the little village, even if it wasn't Biru.

"Jumping off the dragon, Biru steps into the village as he asks what's going on around him.

Only the strange tranquility filled the village and all the people looked anxious.

Bilu made a hood in the hope of "Princess Kurotsubaki," wearing it deep in his eyes.

"Um, excuse me. Is something wrong?

Bilu speaks to the farmer who was nearby.

Then the farmer opened his mouth with a look that seeped through his vigilance somewhere, throwing a slight glance at Biru's appearance and then worthy of it.

"…… Are you a traveler?

"Yep. Just now -"

If I told you I had entered the country from the Grants Great Empire, it wouldn't be hard to imagine how I would react.

So Biru named himself a traveler from the Republic of Steisen, a neighbour of the Principality of Liechtenstein.

Originally, the Principality of Liechtenstein was part of neighboring Steisen until 200 years ago.

I don't know because of that, but it fades slightly from the farmer's expression.

"You did......... I've come a long way to such a remote place.

But you've come to a rough time. "

I guess you're saying what the Grants Great Empire has been attacking.

There is another possibility...... but Biru decided to listen because he also wanted to get the information.

"Looks like the Grand Empire is attacking."

"That's not all. Slaves are rampant in the south.

The Duke led the soldiers to the crusade, but they lost.

Because of that, even the survival of the country is at stake. "

"... Your Duke's army lost?

"But Carl from the Duke's house stood up. These guys are totally handy because they started collecting soldiers again to crusade the bandits.

A bandit is rampaged there. That's not all, even the monsters started to flock.

I came all the way to the Imperial Army… what will happen to this country? "

The pessimistic farmer turns again to Biru when he holds his head.

"You'd better leave this country alone."

"Don't you guys run away?

I thought it was a stupid question but I couldn't help but ask.

"What happens when you abandon your family and you run away?

I don't have any storage. Waiting for you where you fled is starving to death.

Besides, when the war is over, the soldiers will return. "

The farmer shrugs his shoulder when he picks up the rusty sword under his feet.

"Other countries say slave states, barren lands.

Still, it's the land where I was born and raised.

No matter what kind of predicament you put yourself in, let them endure it until the soldiers return. "

Strong attitude, but if you look down, you can see your knees trembling.

The aristocrats would have to flee to another country with their fattened private bellies.

But there can't even be room for them like that.

Only a handful can live well away from the land where they were born and raised.

When Billu tried to open his mouth in an attempt to give such healthy farmers advice.

One villager shouted at me from the entrance.

"Oh my god! There's a bunch of bandits coming this way!

The tip the man points at - the dust is spreading to the side and rising.

It was gradually packing the distance and the villagers became noisy.

"Aren't they the ones who've attacked this place before?

"Goddamn it, you son of a bitch... I'm gonna pay you back!

"Right! I'm ready to fight this time, too! This is your chance to take back the captured child!

Bilu listened to the villagers and then called out to the farmer in front of him.

"Ever been attacked before?

"Oh. The Duke has invaded the Grants Empire. Look at that gap. There's a bandit.

If the guards won't rush to the bandits (those guys), then what a dressed feeding ground the village is.

All villages are similar, and many women and children have been captured. "

My kids too...... and a remorseful look on his face, but when he slapped his cheek with both hands, the farmer tightened his expression.

"Women and children evacuate to my house! Man, take a weapon! Don't make them like it any more!

The farmer looks ready after he has raised his voice.

"You get away with it."

Bilu shakes his head beside him a few times and refuses.

The culprit is in the Principality of Richter, but the Grants Empire, which has attacked him, will also cause it.

We must not harm the people of other countries without darkness.

Even if it is not direct, it must be fought against because it is responsible for one end of the cause.

"……… I want you to leave it to me."

"Oh, man. What are you..."

At the same time as receiving the peasant's voice, Bilu summoned the "Emperor".

The farmer, with his eyes narrowed to the dazzling light, drops off Bilu's back in a glimpse.

Bilu, who slowly started walking, headed outside the village.

Three bandits spanned the camel.

The man in the center - the head of the bandit, unlike his surroundings, is wearing a silver armor that stands out for a moment and shines in the wake of the sunset.

The gear of the two men pinching left and right is inferior, but it costs money compared to the men running around trying to surround them.

A total of 26 bandits. Their purpose naturally lies in attacking the village.

"The defense team came back last time in a good place. Today is the day I'm gonna take everything away from you!

The head raised his voice in pleasure, and the men on the left and right joyfully distorted their faces.

"Hehe, when I attacked you before, I missed the woman I was looking for."

"This time, they'll be on their guard. If the men in the village resist, isn't that a hassle?

I smiled at my men's anxiety before my head looked forward.

"It's a peasant. The only thing I can think of is swinging a quail or digging a well! I'm not scared of being resisted!

Heh! And the followers returned with their voices together.

She has axes, swords, spears and bows in her hand.

"Don't kill women and children. It's an important product!

"Head! Something's wrong with you."

"Am I right? What the..."

A man in black stood in the desert.

The surprising head stopped by the boy as he cleverly manipulated the camel's reins.

"Are you a representative from the village?

Sometimes. Some people beg me not to attack the village because I give them food.

Some bandits attack without hesitation, mostly because they take it all away, but sometimes there are villages that hire mercenaries, and then they give up depending on the negotiations.

It is rare for poor villages to hire mercenaries, and there is no way that villages attacking them are storing so much wealth from now on.

In the first place, the head of this bandit regiment was cautious.

I've sent a few of my men out on purpose to look it up again and again, and the village in front of me has been investigated.

I brought my men in because I decided it was safe. Pull out your hips sword and your head tells you.

"We don't negotiate. Let me take nothing from your village."

And the head says, then he realizes.

I didn't know it by the hood or eyelid, but if you look closely, he has a young face.

The boss thought it was going to sell for a high price to the people who have that hobby of hands.

"Kid. Be quiet. If you don't resist, I won't let you get hurt. Hey, tie this guy up."

The head instructs his men to catch the boy.

- The boy was invincible.

Bilu smiles after looking around at the bandits surrounding him.

"I stabbed the Emperor in the ground and spread my arms.

The wind swept through the hem of the black coat.

"Come on, who do you want to die from?

I got more and more laughter from the bandits around me after that word.

"You're gonna say something funny about the kid!

"I think I heard the biggest joke of the year."

"Wait, it could be a novice bargaining technique. Hey, kid! I'll die first..."

There was a man with a belly and tears in front of him.

From the men's point of view, it did not look like Bilu had moved.

I can't even hear the wind, and the silver sword remains pierced to the ground.

Even so, the man who approached Biru lost his neck and the blood splash dyed the sky more red than the sunset.

"Ah?"

…………

"What the hell……………."

Even with the blood of his companions, the men could not feel the anomaly of things.

Bleeding still scattered across the rays dyed the desert to a vermilion, and the body of the man who lost his neck rolled up the dust and fell.

And again, Biru said ruthlessly with his arms wide open, in the same position as earlier.

"Who wants to die next?

"Hih..."

A screaming voice from the back of his throat, it was a weak bandit in the rear.

He turned his back as he retreated. but its neck rolls over the sand.

When I heard the falling of the wreckage, everyone's gaze turned to you.

"Next. Who wants to die?

Biru, whose spine gave a soothing voice. The bandits draw their faces.

A storm strikes. Involve sand to cover everyone's sight.

That was a little while ago.

When the dust cleared, the hood fell off from Biru's head, revealing dark hair and dark eyes.

Tensions run between the bandits with their black jewel-like eyes pointed at them.

When they saw the dark hair in the wind, they breathed in unison.

"Ahhhhh!!"

A bandit on a camel breaking the silence shouts a silent scream and waves up his sword.

Without his arms swinging down, this bandit also lost his top from his neck.

But - Bilu hasn't done anything. That's what the bandits look like.

"……… Shall we begin the hunt?"

The proclamation of Bilu. "Grasp the pattern of the Emperor and twist his body.

Black clothes spread in front of the bandits. The pitch black - make it a symbol of fear and a testament to darkness.

Everyone was flattered by the sight and stiffened their bodies.

In an instant, one bandit is slashed down, and his neighbor is flashly pierced and kicked.

Right after that. As Biru, who was in the center of the bandits, disappeared, the silver line easily passed through the bandits' bodies.

Something like not wearing armor or anything. As the silk is torn, the bandits are slaughtered with ease.

Everyone was sucking blood out of the desert when they put out the lights of life in a flash.

"Uhhhhh!

The bandits panicked when they saw their people going to despair.

I don't even know what kind of attack I'm under, so I can't help it.

Those who flee; those who stand firm. Those who cannot move off the spot because of fear.

It was a bandit group with various reactions, but those who turned their backs were torso severed, those who stood up were decapitated, and those who could not move were extinguished with a ferocity blade.

"……… What is this!?

I can't think of any other words. That's what the head's expression says.

"Yu, are you even dreaming..."

I look at the many bodies whose heads had lives until earlier.

A pale man approached him.

"I wonder! This guy is a monster - WHAT!?

I couldn't finish saying it until the end, and I let him bury himself in the sand so that he could dedicate himself.

The screams of the bandits propagate into a quiet space, and fear dominates the scene.

"Goddamn it, let's get out of here!

The head of the bandit tried to leave by circling the neck of the camel.

Biru kicks the ground and grabs the head's neck just because he has to let him get away.

"Ugh!?

Drag down from the back of the camel as hard as you can and wave your fists down on the face of your head.

"Up, Higu!? Whoa!?"

He shook his fist down many times before finally slapping his head in the face with his leg and smothering it.

Biru cleverly rotates the pattern of the "Emperor" held backwards and stands perfectly horizontal.

A bandit pointed at the tip of that sword let go of his weapon and wept in his eyes.

It is an outfit that has failed to be slashed from behind.

"Yu, let go of me! Only life... I will never attack a village again!

"I don't mind."

"Ho, really!?

"If only I could get away with it."

"Ehhhhhhh!?

Helpful - the man who made his face shine in hope. Stick a blade through its neck and make it desperate.

At the same time as a man falls down with a lot of blood overflowing from his mouth. The bandits abandon their weapons and run away scattered on all sides.

Biru, looking cold at its back, flashed silver and disappeared.

The villagers who watched the situation were caught suddenly.

There were more than 20 bandits instantly devastated without attacking the village.

That fact was taking away words from the villagers.

There, Biru grabs his head's neck and approaches it.

Biru threw his head off his limbs and lost his mind, at the feet of the villagers.

Bilu and the leader - the villagers alternate their gaze.

"He's the leader of the people who looted your village. I'll take care of it."

Bilu turns his back on the confused villagers and approaches the "dragon dragon" resting in the shadows.

The power that sets us apart from ordinary people.

If they show it differently in front of you, you will have repentance, no matter how many benefactors have saved the village.

Yes, Biru thought.

"Wait a minute. Where are you going?"

The first farmer I met stopped Biru.

Looking back, Biru floats a question mark.

"You don't have to tell me anyway, but it's gonna be cold in the desert nights. Where are you staying, Ate?

"I don't …… look for it in the rocks as appropriate…"

"Then you can stay at our place. Don't play desert night.

I just checked your stuff. I don't have a blanket or anything like that. "

"No, but..."

The villagers behind the farmer look at Bilu with a complicated face.

They fear that the power that devastated the bandits might be directed at them.

More importantly, the ominous presence of dark hair and dark eyes forced the villagers to step on their feet.

Farmers can't possibly not figure that out either...... A farmer slapped me on the shoulder in a bewildered biru.

"Don't worry about it. Even the villagers are grateful.

I'm just not keeping up with much of the change. "

The farmer who turned around said, "That's true, isn't it?".

The villagers nodded, with a complicated expression.

"That's why. We're not as nice as welcoming people, but we're more comfortable than spending the night in the desert."

The farmer told the villagers, "Find out where they are," and then slapped him on the back and urged him to walk.

"Oh, and I'm the village chief in this village. So don't expect me to cook. I can't give you a big deal."

As for Bilu, I can only smile bitterly if he says something troubling about the reaction.

Nevertheless, the fact that he was a village chief is to convince me of the reaction of the villagers earlier.

You don't want to be involved with a boy you don't know how to handle, but if the village chief wants to, he can't refuse.

- I wonder if that's all they admire from the villagers.

And the village chief stopped in front of the mansion when Biru thought about it.

Perhaps his house - its exterior can't be conspicuously clean with dirt and cracks and flattery.

However, its size preserves its majesty as the village chief's mansion.

Children and women who had been evacuated were seen on the doorstep.

Bilu strokes his chest down. I thought from the bottom of my heart it would be nice not to show that cruel sight to my child.

Biru, who missed the people returning to each house and stepped inside the mansion, was led to a wide area.

"It's our dining room."

It was just a primitive dining room with a wooden chair on the long desk.

When he was advised to sit in a chair and calmed his hips, it was the bread and warmed soup that appeared slightly in front of Biru.

"I'm sorry that I can only prepare this much for the benefactor who saved the village"

"No, that sounds... very delicious."

"It would help if you could say so. I'll have something delivered to your dragon.

"Thank you."

"No, no, I mean fine. Still, can you ride the dragon?

"I've had it since I was a little girl. It's like a brother. I was wondering if that's why I got on."

I lied to him. It wouldn't even give me a weird sense of vigilance.

It was an easy return, but he seemed convinced.

"Heh ~ That's amazing. I thought it was the Beasts who could ride such a temperamental dragon."

The village chief plays his voice with pleasure as he carries the bread to his mouth.

"I just saw it...... about 14? And yet I can't believe I destroyed the Bandits by myself. I still can't believe it. Could it be the ear clan? They don't make you feel old."

"- Yes, my ancestors had an ear clan... its blood seems to be thick, and even if it looks like this, it will be over 50 this year."

I could have corrected it, but just thinking about how long it would take him to convince me would make it easier.

If you can convince me by deceiving the descendants of the Ear Elders, I've never crossed that.

- You've been lying to me lately.

And, Bilu smiles in self-derision.

"I knew it. I hear there are many good people who are ear elders. I know you're one of them, but I can't believe you're a traveler."

After the village chief roared that he was unwell, he opened his mouth for a beat.

"I have a lot to ask, but I won't pry. If I lived long enough, there would be a lot of things."

"That would be more helpful"

Then he took a silent meal, around which his stomach had been satisfied, sipping a sip of soup before Bilu threw words at the village chief to talk to the public.

"Do you know where the Grants Great Empire went?

"I hear some fortifications have been dropped. They say the impetus of the bamboo is pushing them southwards to the capital. Well, right after the third convocation. The fort is as empty as the sky. What is the country thinking... it's a good nuisance for us"

"Is it in the capital…"

The emperor's life was supposed to be to hold the northern zone and then put the Duchy of Richter on the negotiating table.

Why are you doing something arbitrary and approaching the capital?

(Are you out of your mind?)

The role of the Fourth Imperial Army is to rule the northern oasis city in hand and then watch over the movements of other countries bordering the South.

The Grand Empire of Grants does not have as much time as it does in the Principality of Lichtein.

The emperor's eyes are now directed at the province of the genus Ferzen, and the central nobles are also searching their bellies for various rights.

If you report the destruction of the principality of Richter, where there is no taste, you will not be glad to be mourned.

(…… and what happens if you lose)

No matter how strong the Fourth Imperial Army may be, it is not easy.

The resistance of the opponent will intensify when the country is destroyed, threatening to prolong the war.

This means that the South will be exhausted, which will lead to a decline in national power.

Moreover, munitions are not free (for free), and there are limits to procurement in enemy countries.

(... I hope Liz hasn't collided with the commander)

Biru making a difficult face and sighing. So a villager entered through the entrance to the mansion.

"Mr. Kukri. The bandit's head is hard to crack.

The villagers are killing me. I'm going to beat you to death.

I can't stop it. Mr. Kukri, come with me. "

Called Kukri, the village chief stood up.

"Okay. I'll be there in a minute, so stop imitating me sooner."

The villagers went away, and the chief of Kukri threw his gaze at Biru.

"I'm going to the head I just caught, but what about you?

"I'll give you a break."

I've been trying to figure out if I should help, but the villagers are reacting like that.

It would only get in the way where I followed him.

"Sure… it might be better."

Turning his foot to the north side of the dining room, Mayor Kukri opened the wooden door.

"You should rest in this room. You can use it if you like."

Leaving behind that, Mayor Kukri rushed out of the mansion.

Biru, who dropped him off, rises out of his chair and heads to the room he was given.

I'm leaving here early tomorrow morning, and I have to think about the future and be sharp.

Throwing himself out into bed, Biru fell into a light, deep sleep because it had been a long time since he had slept properly.