Unnamed Memory

The soldiers of Luxa, who currently seal off King Noydia's capital, are estimated to be some 30,000 strong.

That is calculated by adding to the number of private soldiers he himself owns the number under the command of a few generals who gave him, but the strength held by the Southern Fort is about fifty thousand and exceeds that.

In fact, it is possible to loosely cross the ranks of the southern fort if all the forces of the king's capital are lifted, but it seems that the king's capital has not yet reached every corner of Luxa's reign. Many generals and ministers were imprisoned for rebelling against him, and the remaining soldiers said they were unable to hold their heads and move by the generals under Luxa's command, without knowing the situation and under pressure again.

"So if you can free the king's capital, you can move those soldiers, too."

Ruth looked around and grinned bitterly at his men as they looked up from the paperwork.

They gather every horse on the streets within Noydia, in a place facing the woods, and they check the map again.

They left Willidis Castle to cover the recapture of the King's capital, and they are stopping marching on the streets, not because they have lost anything.

This is because the vast streets created through the woods and their destinations are currently beyond normal reach.

Lanoma looked disgruntled from the start without even looking at the map, but when the story of the place goes through a paragraph, she throws up the truth she has spoken so many times before.

"I don't like shelling weapons at all."

"I know how you feel, but you have to do something about it."

The point where they first encountered the enemy as they were going up the street towards the king's capital was near the place where the inquisition had been placed.

Probably got information from the battle at Stone Gate and was careful. Noydia's horseback rider appeared in his hands and became a light battle.

Ruth pushed the enemy back on the spot without risk, but I just think he's inviting something to see how the defeating enemy is doing.

But as you avoid it, the street is unfortunately the main road. Willidis' army, who can't even step into the woods, dared to advance on the invitation - they found a shelling weapon lined up ahead.

Horsemen are easier to cope with artillery weapons than infantry by their mobility, but that is also a story in a wide area.

If you are attacked by a long-range weapon on a mountain path with both sides being forests, and a straight stretch of road, there is just not one.

Since we were moving forward with caution at that time, we didn't have to do any damage, but we wouldn't be able to make it to the Wang Capital like this.

Ruth, who temporarily retreated the army, folded the map with a troublesome look and handed it to Vernon.

"I guess that's inevitable no matter how much horsemanship you use. Even if you avoid everything and reach the artillery weapon, there's a horseman behind it"

"Can't you shoot the gunner with a bow?"

"The other side has a longer range. I guess I wish I had a shelling weapon for anti-artillery... well, no. I don't have it."

"Do you want to go in yet? Someone will be able to kill the gunner even if there are some dead people out there."

"No."

Ruth shook his head, although it was abusive and reasonable.

This outing is inherently a matter for another country, as well as his own.

For Willidis Castle humans, it also makes sense to join the fight, because if Ruth leaves the castle, their lives may be in danger as well.

But they should have had a safer option: "Leave the castle and find another place."

It would have been trusting Ruth to follow me. He didn't want to take any measures to sacrifice his men like that to prison.

But you can't be stuck here forever if you don't.

Ruth, thinking a little, confirmed the enemy formation to the scouts.

"Most of the other enemies were cavalry, right?

"Sounds like it. That's roughly 200."

"Infantry will be hard to use to lure this one into range. - But then we can do a little small work."

When he makes a decision lightly, he makes his men reveal and prepare the measures.

That's how Ruth, who attacked again, successfully eliminated his enemies and moved forward without any problems this time.

The cavalry brought by Ruth from Willidis Castle is less than about two thousand horsemen.

That's not the maximum force in the castle, but you can't even leave your house empty while you're on an expedition to Noydia.

In fact, there are supply problems, and it's only possible to move them at present. This is the limit, but he was getting closer to Noydia's king's capital by maximizing its numbers.

Ruth confirms contact from Noydia's main unit as the streets camp on a relatively sleek slope, one over the mountain.

"Sounds like you're about to collide with Luxa's main unit. In the meantime, it depends on the circumstances, whether this is the king's capital or the enemy's back."

"Would you like to shoot even with a shelling weapon? I know how to use it."

"No shells, so don't."

After a realistic response, Sheride laughed dullly. Sitting in front of an incendiary fire, she looks back at the back end of getting expensive weapons.

"It's something you're not surprisingly careful about. Is it because of the preconceived notion that the army at Willidis Castle is full of cavalry?"

"I think we should be careful. I can't do anything else."

At that time, he was targeted by artillery weapons in a battlefield separated by a forest, which he secretly bypassed as he lowered part of his army from his horse.

The soldiers of Luxa, who thought that the enemy should not come into the woods, which were sloping because they were cavalry, were shot dead by all the enemy soldiers who came round to the woods beside them. And in the gap where the artillery weapon stopped moving, Ruth quickly moved the main unit, draining the troops that were blocking the streets.

Having obtained the artillery weapon almost intact as a loot, he is somewhat hospitable with those treatments that are difficult to carry.

If you pull a number of very heavy weapons, you will lose your march speed.

But Sheride has been pointing to a point on the map about whether he guessed it with his expression. A place not so far from its present location is apparently a settlement in the east of Wang Du.

"You can take this far and leave it here for now"

"What is this place? Village?"

"This is the territory where my clan lives"

Ruth was mildly surprised when her lover smiled and replied.

The territory of the Shelaide clan - I guess that is the land inhabited by those associated with the priesthood.

She adds the story to her gaze requesting more information.

"Alta Ditiata herself lives in the king's capital, but most of the clan is here. It's just that we were still being raided in this coup, and the army is still stationed there, isn't it? So, there's an old underground prison where some of the humans who were captured in the Wang capital were imprisoned."

"What used to old prison be used for?

"Please don't ask me there"

Ruth tried to throw a cold eye at a woman out of sight, but it had nothing to do with this story. At the heart will be the present.

He threw a dry twig into the fire. A small explosion sounds and a red splash rises into the night sky.

"Have you heard of any of the humans captured in the King's capital?

"I heard that. There is one famous general. You grew up like sisters and brothers, and you have a strong influence on the army."

Shelaide's term "Your Majesty" does not refer to the man who is currently on the throne. Ruth laughed understanding her intentions.

"Then let's free that prison first. It will be much easier if your general moves the soldiers that remain in the king's capital."

"Regards"

Only during the night can I talk to her.

Ruth ordered his men to tell him the summary story and took a breather as he confirmed other concerns.

The woman beside him remains staring at the fire. The woman's face lit by the red fire looked like a crop again, unlike her usual bluishness.

Ruth speaks to her caring when she confirms her time.

"Sheryde, if you're sleepy, go to sleep."

"I'm not sleepy."

"Then come here. Noydia is cold."

We've already crossed one mountain, and the temperature is very different from the wilderness.

Many of the soldiers drink and warm up, and Ruth had just re-arranged replenishment based on them.

Sheride turns behind a man and hugs him on that back when he laughs out like a child.

"Why are you behind this?

"'Cause there's fire before, isn't there? Cold back, isn't it?

"I did get chilly... but it feels crazy. I feel like I'm carrying a big kid."

"If I fall asleep, slip away."

"Don't sleep like that."

I've tried to be careful, but she doesn't seem to mind.

When Ruth gave up and weaved a thick cloth for each shellade, he put her next to him, where he eventually fell asleep, for a rest between the bundles.

The newly destined territory was a tight town surrounded by thin forests.

It seems that the man who formerly became the first Alta Ditiata set up a hall here, and the people who admire him gathered to make it. "You look like you," laughed Sheride about the man who was later given the title of clergy to save the crisis in the country with that power, but Ruth merely clasped his shoulders.

The settlement contained Luxa's army to keep an eye on those captured rather than against external enemies, but Ruth freed the territory that was ruled to give it no problem. Shortly after, accompanied by his men, he stepped inside the town and remembers something bitter in sight of the tragedy as expected.

Dozens of houses destroyed and burned down.

From the window of the house, which barely leaves the building in shape, the children who made moles on their faces held fright in their eyes and watched the newly arrived horseman cavalry.

Ruth scouts the town ahead of time. When he hears the location of the underground prison from his men, he instead orders a separate arrangement to visit it.

The black leopard sitting behind him looked around with sad dark eyes, but followed Ruth all the way to prison without detachment.

Dark, damp stone prison. Ruth releases the humans trapped in each room after confirming their name and identity.

One of the freed men, an old man with a great ancient wound on his face, smiled invincibly as he stood before him, named after him.

"Oh man. I didn't think I'd be able to get out again alive. Let's thank you."

"Are you saying you were the general of the king's capital?

"Sometimes it was. I'm just a helpless old man now. I never thought Luxa would make it this far."

Out of the way, the man's eyes have not lost their sharpness.

Instead, strong remorse and hegemony could be seen, and Ruth found out that this old general was still fully active.

Then, as he had decided, he offered his hand to the old man.

"Then I'm afraid I just got out of jail, but I want to borrow your hand. We have manpower to get Wang Du back."

"Don't be funny, brother of the king of Lisai. You think I can still help?

"Of course I do. We need that power to move the remaining forces in the king's capital."

To be clear, the old general turned his eyes round and then laughed out loudly. Take Ruth's hand with thick palms and shake it back forcefully.

"Okay. This is more for the country than it was. Let me do what I can."

"Nice to meet you"

As Ruth looked next to herself, the black leopard was looking up at him with clear eyes. Tapping that head pounding, he returns from a dark underground prison to the ground.

Apparently, while he was in prison, the arrangements he was ordering were already over. One of my men has reported that he is "starting first aid to the injured and sick".

He was out of the building and pulling the tail of the leopard he would accompany, nodding as he returned to his true face.

"Right, good luck.... Oh, make sure you distribute a few days' worth of food from the food if it looks like it's being looted. This one has stable replenishment and is slightly adjustable."

It was the old general of Noydia who showed his surprise at the words.

Familiar with Ruth's character, his men laugh, but mouth a separate report, not an acknowledgement.

"On that matter, there was a man who wanted to say hello to His Highness..."

"Hmm?"

It's me, Your Highness.

What emerged from behind the soldiers was the head of the caravan who sold Ruth information the other day. Ruth rounded her eyes by seeing her unexpected face in an unexpected place.

"You didn't go to Wang Du?

"I'm here. We have done business properly, including the work your Highness gave us. If I just kept passing the rhino, I thought I'd miss the opportunity to do business, so I bought a bunch of things and turned around. We have all the food, medicines and so on, can you buy them?"

Ruth laughed uncomfortably when she gained understanding, smiling as a merchant, but at the length of her pranky eyes.

It is true that there is room for food and the supply route is in place, but it is a measure of urgency.

More supplies will be needed to restore the town. In that regard, the Director's offer is highly appreciated.

"Okay. I'll take everything. The price is even after we get back to the castle, okay? If it's okay to pay with a cannon, there are just a few."

"The cannon will certainly be too good a value, but please keep that for yourself. I don't mind the cost later, of course. Because you have credibility."

Saying so, the man offered Ruth a paper with an inventory of the items sold combined with the amount.

When he glances at its content, a much cheaper amount is noted there than it should be. Ruth turned out to be a surprise.

"Is the calculation wrong? I guess that's hardly the same as the purchase value."

"No, this is it, Your Highness. This is also my deal to sell you goods, but it's also my deal to buy future profits. If you become the lord of one nation, I want you to pay us this double amount. Can you buy it on these terms?

"What is that... was something blown into Lanoma?

I didn't think I could incinerate this kind of thing from anyone but my men.

To Ruth, who smiles thoughtlessly and bitterly, the chief smiles unchanged.

"We come and go all over the business pattern, but the more generous is the buying and selling of the people in the country where the Good King is. So I just wish there were more of them."

"You don't have to say that to me. You could lose it."

"I still feel confident in my eyes."

There was nothing itchy about being bought so far, but this favor is a story that I don't even wish for.

Ruth bought those items, adding, "If it stays the same after ten years, I'll pay the normal selling price."

A day that falls a little. You finally know you've been freed, a young child and his mother peering into his face, roughly through the door of the house.

He laughed and invited Ruth to notice that he was concerned about the black leopard, a child who was sure to peek at Ruth.

When a child in thin dirty clothes sees it, he slips his mother's hand out.

"Is this what you care about? This big cat."

"Become"

"You can touch it. Because it won't catch on."

The leopard swept from himself to a boy who could hardly get his hands on him even though he said so. The mother who followed him stretches her face hard and reaches out to hold the child.

But apart from her worries, the kid seems to have liked the black leopard. I let my eyes shine and stroked my lustrous back.

Ruth looked down at one and one of them turning around, but turning her gaze she asks her nasty mother.

"I'll let you distribute the food, so you should go get it. Anything else missing?

"Ah... a little bandage if you can..."

"I think maybe there is. If not, let's have it ready. Take the pills if you need them, too."

"Oh, thank you"

Deeply bowing her head, the mother disappeared across the street, thanking her well when she took the hand of her son, who never tried to leave the leopard.

The voices of the old general, who was much closer from earlier, are called to the remaining Ruth.

"O king brother of Lisai. I think I figured out a little bit about how people get together around you."

The smudged voice sounded as if she was surprised by something new or nostalgic about the passing.

Ruth is told that way about his nature, which can be profaned as "sweet," to show a little bitterness.

"I'm not going to do anything unusual."

"It is indescribable that those who are on top of people continue to do what they deserve. I see why Alta Ditiata chose you."

That's all the old general said, he turned his heel back. Are you going to rest your body or disappear into the dark.

The wind blowing from the slices of the forest was cold but fresh. It slowly pushes the air out of the town where it starved.

"Sheride, do you want to go? The sun's going down now."

The shadow leans silently against the man walking out.

An evening wrapped in silence.

That was a week before the liberation of Noydia's king capital.