Albrecht's Chronicles

Since this was an era, the territories lived only the same life, unless there was a special event like war or plague. Albrecht also continued his routine.

Two weeks after Nicholas left, Zigmunt sent another man. Albrecht was a familiar man this time, a knight who he led from the right side of the war.

After a brief afternoon, he briefly stated the purpose of his visit, unlike Nicholas. It was about the engagement again. Albrecht just smiled bitterly and politely refused again.

When marriage came to mind in Albrecht's head, I had more poisonous thoughts. I wasn't usually much of a talker, but I was less of a talker than before. When the colonists greet you, you smile and make peace with your gestures.

When I woke up at dawn, I saw Randolph and Hermann leaving the castle, and I received a report from Thomas about what to do today, and then I ate and left the castle.

The girls came into the castle with milk, cheese, eggs and bread. Because I couldn't afford to hire my own maids, the village girls took turns cleaning and laundry.

They step out of the way and pay their respects to their master. Albrecht nods lightly to express his frustration and immediately goes to look around.

There were fewer people staying in places outside the village. With security locked down, many returned to their original village and began repairing it. The rest of the people were just on the level of continuing their farming.

I went to the place where cattle and goats were slaughtered, and the livestock were grazing and grazing, and the caretakers were sitting there staring at the landscape.

When I saw Albrecht, I gave him an example from afar, and Albrecht also simply replied with a gesture.

I turned my horse again and headed to the place where the 'White Mountains’ are well visible. Nowadays, there has been a lot of time to see the 'White Mountains'. Where should I go? If you don't want to sit here, what should we do here?

He holds the unanswered problem and returns to the castle after seeing the location of the sun.

As I approached the castle, I saw a group of merchants in front of the castle from afar. Five wagons, a lot of people. Valentina's men have arrived. You see the merchants spreading out and resting.

Albrecht approaches on his horse, and someone shouts.

“Albrecht!”

Albrecht saw someone calling out his name.

Who are you, half of me? Huh? "

“Diego!”

Diego was too different from what Albrecht had remembered. He bursts his confident smile and takes a swift step forward.

“Hahaha! Amigo! In a few months? You've become more of a monster than you've ever been! And your face, and your reputation! ”

Albrecht looks at Diego with the face mentioned above.

When I first saw him straightening his head and beard, I was a bit surprised that he looked more like a soldier than I expected. But now, it feels like a full-blown warrior.

While he was learning martial arts, he had a decent figure, but he was still fabulous. He was now a much stronger and more resilient bodyguard than any of the other bake-table mercenaries.

Albrecht steps off his horse and hugs him.

“Ugh! You're still so strong! I can't take it anymore! ”

Diego thought he was stronger than anyone else, but Albrecht hugged him tightly and couldn't move. However, I soon smiled.

Albrecht steps away from him and looks up and down with the expression above.

“How the hell have you been! This guy!”

Diego just smiles. The smile was a relaxed smile that was unique to the person who overcame all kinds of trials.

“Are you going to leave it outside like this? ”

Albrecht smiles joyfully.

“Of course I'm going in. Hey! Open the gate! It's a guest!”

The two of them shoulder to shoulder and came together to the gate.

* * *

I left the banquet waiting tables on the first floor and let them bring out the food. Nobles and lords, but not chefs, just cheese, milk, and bread. I just summoned more people from the town, slaughtered cows and chickens, and brought out liquor.

The merchants laughed at the feast for a long time, and Albrecht sat down and looked at Diego sitting next to him. The two looked at each other and smiled.

“Diego, I heard you took a boat to Lucretia in the winter. What happened? Not in the spring? ”

Diego smiled and said as if it were nothing.

“It's like a youthful curiosity. I've been thinking a lot since you left. ”

“Haha, you think? But did you have to go through all this trouble to buy it? ”

“It's a funny expression. ”

Albrecht used the Earth's phrase of tolerance without his knowledge. Diego was silent for a moment, as if to savor it.

“It's just, there's a lot going on. From the day you left Lucretia to the Kingdom of Anglia. It may be a short time for someone, but it sure made me feel a lot in my life. ”

From the time Diego bought jewels and was attacked by the lords, he lived in solitary confinement by mercenaries, and went through the urban war with Lloyd Beckshiro.

It was too much for one person to endure at once. But some are drowned in trials and broken, or some are overcome and become heroes.

It wasn't just luck for him to meet Albrecht. It was more than just saving lives.

Touching the hard bread, Diego opens his mouth again, briefly silent.

“It's hard to buy. I paid the price. And after all I've been through, I've become stronger. Being strong isn't just about fighting. After you left, I was able to look back on my life. And I swore I would never waste my life again. That's why I couldn't wait till spring. And I had a feeling that if I survived the winter voyage, I would gain the ability to do anything. Youthful curiosity at last. Haha.”

Albrecht nods. It was not specific and detailed, but I felt something about what I was saying.

The rower was never comfortable. Working as a rower, especially in the winter sea, was gambling with his life. But Diego won the bet.

“You weren't the only rower, were you? How did you get people together? Were there people who were willing to do it? ”

Albrecht asks, Diego smiles slowly.

“They're like brothers to me, like you. They were originally Lurkers. ”

Albrecht was surprised with his eyes wide open.

“Rooger?”

“Yes. Most of them fled the war, but the people they captured were going to be sold to other cities as slaves. They volunteered to sail the winter seas in the wind. ”

Winter sailing was not an option, because winter sailing to the south would eventually be sold as a slave.

Whether to live as a slave or to test your destiny at the risk of death.

After one hard training day of military service in Earth's memory, I remembered that I had a brotherly relationship with my predecessors and comrades for some reason.

Those who sailed together in the winter must have come to have steel unity.

Of course, I was worried about their past history, but I thought it was not as good as it is now because Diego knew it well.

‘Well, technically there's no one clean past but Randolph, including me. ’

Diego was a thief when he was isolated. I didn't really want to ask, and I didn't want to ask, what I had done.

“You said Vivar was the lord. Hahaha! Lord Diego! What's going on? ”

Albrecht exaggerates, raising Diego.

Diego looks at the wine stuffed in a bronze glass with shyness.

“It's not that great. There's no castle in Vivar. It's just my hometown. It's just that since I left when I was a kid, there's been no lord and literally no law. I just drove them out with my brothers and freed the people of my hometown who lived like slaves. It was the Lord himself who declared to protect them. If I'm going to be a lord like you, I'm going to spend the rest of my life working for you. ”

For Albrecht, the bandits seemed like they could wipe it out on their own after the war. But for Diego, it must have been a matter of fighting for his life.

In the winter voyage of our lives, we risk our lives again and fight to liberate our homeland. If Diego succeeds in settling down there and building a family, it will remain a legendary march of ancestors for posterity.

Albrecht wishes him well. I really wanted to be able to settle down successfully.

He was so busy and busy, but he seemed to be here for a while after hearing the news from his girlfriend.

Albrecht talks with him without wasting his time.

After Diego broke up with Michael, there were scars from the process, Penbach, and war, Zigmunt, and all day to this day, there was not much to talk about.

Diego also worked as a vigilante in Lucretia, and there were many stories about sailing to and from Lucretia and Vivar, continuing to subdue thieves, and gathering people to fight armed.

One evening, Diego and I were talking about the recent wedding issue after having a few drinks and chatting in the soufflé kitchen on the second floor.

“I think it's a good thing you said no. And I don't know what's going on here, but I don't think Zigmund's trying to pressure me. Maybe he's looking further away. ”

“Far?”

“Amigo, you have no family, no brothers, no relatives. That way, if you make a great human being, your family will eat up even if it looks good on the outside. ”

Hearing Diego's words, Albrecht suddenly gives me the creeps.

"Sigmund, you scared the shit out of me! ’

If he only had a daughter, or if he had a son, without relatives, the family could soon be cut off. Leaving the problem of territory being absorbed or family disappearance, the Heldenburg family has only inherited their lineage.

I remembered what Sigmund said about making himself king. Are you so obsessed with yourself? Am I overreacting? It just occurred to me that Zigmunt might. I shivered.

Diego, who was watching Albrecht, said.

“Amigo, what do you want to do? How's your doctor? ”

Albrecht has been thinking a lot about this. I've decided to tell a friend about my anxiety that I haven't been able to share with Randolph or Hermann.

I turned the glass around for no reason, and looked at the drink dancing inside.

“I don't know. My mind is always on the north side. My hometown, Calteren. Honestly, if it wasn't for my father, I could leave everything behind right now. But I can't. I'm worried that I won't be able to return home after my father's death. Your menstruation is too severe. Over time, if Oberburn heals war damage and returns safely, I just want to give someone their territory and leave. ”

Diego looks at his friend without a word.

“The thing is, amigo, there's nothing I can advise you about. I just want you to do what your heart tells you. No regrets, just one life. I'm not just saying that. The truth. I just want you to know this. ”

Albrecht glances at his friend, smiling at his sincere concerns and advice. Diego smiled. They gazed at the flames for a while and tasted the silence.

Then Herman enters the castle, shouting loudly.

“My lord! I'm back! ”

You hear Randolph scream in the background.

“I'll go first! I was the first one in town! ”

Randolph's words, Blitz, are breathing heavily. I felt like I was running a little too hard.

“Losing is losing! You're the most ignorant of us all! ”

Randolph shouts in a hurry.

“We have to get to the lord. We're really here! ”

Diego opens his eyes and looks at Albrecht as he hears from the outside. Albrecht shakes his head with a shiver.

The two knights swoop down from the horse and rush into the abyss. And when I saw the merchants on the first floor, I was a little confused, but I ran back down to the second floor where the lord was.

The two of them come through the door almost simultaneously.

Randolph shouts.

“I won! ”

“What elf nonsense! My feet were fast! Didn't you see that? ”

“How come your feet are faster when you came in with my shoulders open!? ”

Diego looks at them with a silly look. Albrecht closes his eyes on his forehead.

Soon after they saw someone else in the lord's kitchen, they stared straight at Diego.

“Who are you?”

“Who?”

Almost simultaneously, the two of them looked at each other again. Albrecht points at the glass with a raised hand, his forehead resting on his head, not looking at it.

“Greetings. This is my friend and lord of Vivar, Diego Reines de Vivar. This is my knights, Randolph and Herman. ”

Diego gets up, smiling a little.

“Nice to meet you. Diego Lines, lord of Vivar. ”

Randolph and Hermann simply look at Diego. There's no way the lord has friends of his own.

Randolph smiles and asks for a handshake first.

“Nice to meet you. I'm Knight Randolph.”

Diego shakes his hand with a smile. Herman, who was looking at it, said.

“Hermann. I don't need a handshake. ”

Since then, there have been no words for four people in the room. Albrecht said when he thought it was a little awkward.

“They're good fighters, though. You guys sit down. If you want a drink, follow it. ”

Randolph and Hermann climb into the glass and sit in a golden chair. I felt awkward seeing someone else. Four men sat by the fireplace and remained silent for another moment.

Diego breaks the silence first.

“Albrecht, did you hear the news? News of the East Continent.”

“I'm not supposed to be in the north. I have to be somewhere to know. ”

Diego said with a slightly stiff expression.

“Apparently, a man named Amas waged a unified war on the interior of the Eastern Continent. I heard the League of Merchants is having a hard time lately. ”

Albrecht didn't know what he was talking about, but it was amazing to hear the world news like this because the Internet doesn't have a phone. Whatever this world was, merchants were the fastest at getting information.

“What about the League of Merchants? Why are they worried about the Eastern Continent? ”

Despite Albrecht's ignorant voice, Diego smiles and says without giving him a pint.

“The Confederacy of Southern Merchants. An alliance made mainly by merchants who trade with the Eastern Continent. All the big families are in the coalition. Contarini, Michele, Gianni, Moronini, and many other families from the North have joined. ”

Since the big cities of the North are concentrated in the South, the famous Merchant Gate in the South was the largest Merchant Gate in the North.

Albrecht was curious about something like that.

“Aren't merchants usually busy fighting for what they're called? How could they have formed an alliance? ”

Diego smiles at Albrecht.

“Haha, you're right. Merchants are always busy fighting each other. However, the East Continent is somewhat risky to cross, and even if you cross it, you have to unite to protect the cities there. It looks like a place off the street, so it's not worth it for a big family. Almost as hostile as each other, we work together at least on the Eastern Continent. ”

Many cities on the east coast of the continent were occupied by the Confederacy of Southern Merchants. In fact, it was more of a management than an occupation.

The cities didn't know the origins of when they were founded, and they had no particular authority, but as a key point of trade, the Federation is now secure.

Albrecht just thought that no matter how bad things got, there were periods that worked together.

Diego continued:

“And among those cities is the shrine, the Xylaxel. You know the sanctuary, right? ”

Albrecht went to the weekend service as a child and stumbled upon the memory he had heard.

“I'm not talking about Zairex. A place where the Aeonza Zairex ascended. ”

“Yes, but that means the cities are being threatened by a man named Amazon. ”

Albrecht thought the story itself was interesting, but it had nothing to do with him.

Diego continued:

“When I first joined the Sylvio family as a child, I went there once, and it's a great city. There's nothing there. All sorts of people. But there is no ruler. It's the least I can do in the League of Merchants. ”

Diego continued to talk about international politics. Even Albrecht, Randolph and Hermann listen to Diego.

Leaving after understanding it, television was a rare story for settlers in this era where books were also precious.

The story of Diego's world continued late into the night, and three knights were immersed in time without realizing it. The only firewood burning in the fireplace is chattering.

I was hoping to stay a while longer, but Diego and the merchants tried to leave the next day.

Since Diego followed the merchants and escorts to see Albrecht's face, the money was paid to the Contari merchants.

Even though I knew Diego had taken the time to get here while he was busy, Albrecht also felt sorry for him, but he didn't get into trouble.

They hug each other goodbye and just smile at each other.

If there was a car on a modern-day road, how far would it be from Vivar?

Albrecht could not leave the castle easily, and Diego could have spent his life trying to take his place. This era did not easily decline the meeting of the two. I just wanted to be able to see her again and again.

“Can you swing that thing right? ”

When you return to the castle, you hear Randolph speaking to Herman. Herman holds the great sword that he ordered, and it's almost as tall as a normal man.

Hermann said that he only saw the Great Sword in the inner courtyard of the castle. It wasn't that fast, but for a sword that size, it was fast.

I thought if Herman swings it properly, two or three people would just cut it off completely.

“You can use a sword like a girl. A man should wear one of these. ”

Randolph raises his sword at you with a twinkle in his eye again.

“Let's have a match. ”

“Hey, stop it. Stop hitting on me. I'm all shaken up. ”

Albrecht could not understand why the two of them were playing so childishly.

I wanted to get them to fight and order neatly, but they were both very talented, so I thought one could get really hurt.

Randolph and Hermann patrol late to say goodbye to the crowd.

As Randolph runs north, Hermann, who has been unarmed and unarmed, jogs west on his newly arrived horse.

Albrecht sees them on their way up to Schwarz to look around the grounds.

Over time, there was fruit in the territory, and the people of the town made a pie out of it.

Almost everyone from the outer village went back, and only a few left to finish farming near the castle.

Around the time of the first harvest after the war, we ran out of free rations for people.

The autumn harvest was flat, but thankful it wasn't a bad harvest.

Albrecht did not pay his taxes as promised. However, for the village on the Deot River, I received the rental fee for livestock or agricultural equipment that I had rented for farming. The livestock I lent you gave birth to babies sold for a cheap price.

I hear that Zigmunt hasn't been taxed this year in the new territory either. That was a little surprising.

Probably had a brilliant head, rather than pitying people, so the economy was better than other ignorant lords.

The merchants are beginning to pass by Oberburn and start taking tolls. From time to time, merchants would trade with the villagers in the castle, offering paper or parchment, oil, wine or olive oil.

I originally promised to patrol like my father, but I couldn't escape the castle because it was much older and larger than Calteren.

I could not get out of the castle because of various complaints or errands, merchants who visit from time to time, or outsiders passing by.

I didn't think I'd fall too hard just to leave my work to Thomas. If the other ignorant lords had seen Albrecht, they would have been curious as to why he bothered to ask if he could just squeeze it out with a knife.

As time passed, there was less and less time to look around the castle. Sometimes, when I had time, I went out at dawn and looked at the white mountains and just came back.

Every month, Zigmunt would send someone to break off his engagement like an event. If there was anything different, I brought various gifts with more pressure.

I've sent them expensive silk, cars, pottery and crockery that I've never seen before in this world. Whenever I did, I politely refused to accept any of them and sent them back. I felt sorry for Maria for no reason.

Albrecht feels like his eyes are starting to roll with work.

Albrecht inspected the treasure master Thomas had written and the taxes the villagers had to pay. At that time, I had Randolph stay in the castle and help Thomas at least with Gossaricon. I wanted to write anything if I could just read.

Fortunately, however, the territory quickly recovered from the wounds of war as Albrecht suffered.

In typical territories that have been at war, Asaza has dwindled the population, collected taxes without even considering their circumstances, and repeated vicious cycles in which there have been runaways and bandits.

Eventually, the village disappeared and the process of rebirth was a cycle of pain and blood. What was even sadder was that people's agony was an age that was not recorded.

By comparison, Oberburn has normalized its territory in almost a year. Albrecht tasted like death, but people became more and more hopeful in their everyday lives.

The snow fell from the sky, and the snow melted, so the buds bloomed, and again it was the season when people offered pie, and autumn came and walked taxes for the first time.

It snowed again, and Albrecht turned 18 when the flowers became pizza. A sudden spring breeze carries a strange relief from the east.

“God wants it! ”

Chapter seven. Back to the world.

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