Chapter 11 – Academy’s 1st Instructor (2)
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Santander was a port city located on the northern coast of Liberia’s elven country.
Like Valencia, located in the east, it is a place where wealth has been accumulated through trade with other countries. The Santander family, which governs this city, had a shorter history and tradition than the Valencian family, but they were a new aristocrat that was chasing after the old aristocrats at a rapid pace of growth.
“Leader!”
“As expected, Captain, you are alive!”
“I knew the captain would be safe!”
The subordinates came running in a hurry.
After parting at the Pamplona auction house,
They were reunited again as human slaves of the Elves of Liberia, not as soldiers of the Kingdom of Valois.
“I will come to see Sir Santander.”
Ardena turned her back.
After sending a notification to the Santander family, Yushin arrived at Santander at once using a long-distance warp gate with Ardena.
She went to her office to talk to Vilen Santander. Thanks to this, Yushin was able to talk freely with her subordinates in her reception room. First, she asked her subordinates how they were treated at the Santander family.
“The Santander family has entrusted us with training soldiers and subjugating monsters that occasionally come up from the south.”
Isana said.
At that, Yushin nodded his head.
“Well, there’s no way I bought you guys at an auction house for no reason.”
Yushin’s subordinates are the kingdom’s elite soldiers.
He fought against the barbarians in the north and was dispatched as a reinforcement of the Holy Empire during the war against the demon army.
Her soldiers were one of the few soldiers in the kingdom of Valois, and her career was brilliant. Not only did he defeat countless monsters until now, but he also worked hand-in-hand when Gillard of the Restoration defeated the Dragon of the Demon Lord Army.
“Leader…”
“Shh.”
When Isana tries to open her mouth,
Yushin sent out a hand signal and silenced his men.
Someone might be eavesdropping. Yushin continued the conversation only after confirming that there was no one around the drawing room and that there were no eavesdropping magic or magic tools.
“How far did you tell Santander?”
“I didn’t tell anyone about the most important things.”
Hecardi, a sharp-looking man, said with a serious expression.
The most important story.
A secret to hide from the elves.
Crucially, it was the work that served as the culprit of Gilead, who was ostracized from the royal family of Valois. His subordinates thought that the secret that only the Valois royal family and the upper classes knew should never be leaked to the elven country of Liberia.
“Good job. Because there is nothing good about being caught.”
“Yes.”
“Keep it a secret. But you never know when or where the elves will notice. Elves have great intuition, so they’ll sniff even the smallest things. Talk about it thoroughly.”
“All right.”
Isana, Hecardi, Tucker and more.
Looking at the 20 or so men, Yushin nodded and was relieved that they were safe.
Rather, his expression seemed brighter.
Her complexion looks better than when she was in the kingdom of Valois.
It seems that they are treated well in the Santander Forest. Although they fell into the status of slaves, they were not abused in coal mines like other human slaves or treated harshly like livestock.
“It looks like you’re using a beauty world to somehow tie it up.”
“Beauty world?”
Yushin asked back at Hecardi’s words.
Are you a beauty? Is it a trick using the beauties of the elves?
“Elf beauties come in every night.”
“I was enjoying a leisurely bath in the bathtub, and he even attacked me by offering me a back push.”
These fuckers
He seems to be getting along much better than the captain. What I’ve been worried about until now is like an illness.
Even those who had no experience in sex seemed to like it, saying that their virginity was stolen by elven beauties. On the surface, she was venting her anger about being raped forcibly, but the corners of her mouth were raised considerably.
“If I return to my country now, I may take responsibility for the defeat and be referred to a military tribunal…”
Gareth said.
He was a child soldier, and was a low-level soldier in charge of procurement of weapons and transportation of goods.
“Gareth!”
Adjutant Isana shouted.
At his restraint, Gareth shrugged his shoulders and shut his mouth.
Yushin opened his mouth.
“Isana, you are not wrong. There is some truth in what Gareth said. Because the kingdom of Valois threw us all away as if we were expendables.”
At Yushin’s words, Isana silently nodded her head with a firm expression.
The kingdom of Valois was a nation with an aristocratic system centered on lineage.
Commoners are not allowed to enter the country.
Only nobles can become officers.
So even though Yushin was a strong man who reached the level of Six Amber, he did not rise to the ranks of a military corps commander. This is because it is stipulated in national law that soldiers who can be appointed as commanders of corps must be of noble origin.
“I have no patriotism in the kingdom either. All the fights so far have been for the sake of the citizens, not for the sake of the top. So I want to ask you guys. Do you want to return to your home country? If there are people who want to go back, I will return them to their homeland no matter what.”
He asked his men.
Do you want to return to your home country?
To that question, his subordinates looked at each other and hesitated to answer. It was the same with Isana and Hecardi. The low-end soldier, Gareth, was also silent.
“Then… What will the captain do?”
“Me?”
Isana asked.
Yushin shrugged his shoulders at the question.
“There is someone I need to meet in the kingdom. But there’s no way the country of elves would leave me alone. Valencia’s warrior chief bought me for a large sum of money, so there’s no way he’ll release me quietly.”
“Then, Captain, do you really want to go back to your home country…?”
“There are people I just want to meet, but I don’t want to go back to that damn kingdom. Life is pretty good right now. I am teaching the second daughter of the Valencian family. He’s a pure-blooded high elf, but he’s a strange guy who can’t use mana. But his qualities weren’t bad. There was a taste of teaching next to her.”
Yushin was very bright when he talked about his daily life in Valencia.
Although he fell into slavery, he is somewhat satisfied with his life as a slave in the Elf country of Liberia.
Yushin and his men were very lucky.
If he was an incompetent slave with no ability or experience, he would have been sent to a labor field where he could only come out after dying. Elves do not hesitate to deal with their slaves. Because it is very natural for elves to squeeze labor from slaves.
“But why did the elven warrior chief hide that the captain was another one?”
“I guess I wanted to buy it as cheaply as possible.”
To Isana’s words, Yushin responded.
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By the time Yushin was sharing the joy of reunion with his men, Ardena was talking to Santander’s head, Vilen Santander.
Valencia and Santander.
The two families are famous for fighting each other while tossing and turning. It was also one of the reasons why Alone and Leticia couldn’t eat each other at Bria Academy.
Billen asked a visitor to the Santander Forest.
“So, are human slaves worth 5 billion aether?”
It’s a thorny question.
Ardena answered that question.
“I have never wasted money.”
Ardena was an elf very far from her material greed.
As long as you have money,
Be content with what you don’t have.
He only devoted his allegiance to the elven nation. Loyalty requires no price. Ardena Valencia is a soldier willing to give her life for the Liberia elves. She used the teachings she received from her former warrior chief as her spiritual pillars.
“Yushin Gilead. She is a member of the Kingdom’s Seven Swords and an indispensable force in the Kingdom of Valua. It is fortunate for the Elf country to have obtained that power as a prisoner.”
The Kingdom of Valois and the Elves of Liberia have been fierce enemies from the past.
The kingdom of Valois is the descendent of the group of humans who persecuted the elves who lived on the continent. On the other hand, the Valois kingdom treated the elves who invaded its borders and hunted ‘humans’ at every opportunity as barbarians, and regarded them as a tribe no different from demons.
The seven kingdom swords that protect the kingdom of Valois.
With one of them in hand, the Elf nation gained great power.
“So, what is the reason you desperately bought that human named Gilead from the Pamplona auction house? Oh, don’t get me wrong. Because he doesn’t resent you. This is my personal curiosity.”
Ardena said.
“Right now Yushin Gilead is teaching my and her sister, Alone.”
“Alone Valencia…?”
“You should know that my sister is not able to handle mana as skillfully as other elves.”
“Well.”
Her stories about Alone Valencia, who couldn’t handle her mana, sounded like a scab in her ears.
There might be a reason why she is a classmate with her daughter, but the aristocrats had a vicious trait of being busy looking down on others regardless of race. The nobles who were jealous of the Valencian family used to laugh at Alone Valencia, calling her a failure.
“I’m thinking of inheriting the mana breathing method of humans.”
“Yes that’s right.”
Vilen Santander, a seasoned politician, understood Ardena’s purpose at once.
The Seven Swords of the Kingdom’s mana breathing method.
Inherit the human mana breathing method to the elves.
There was no problem.
The elves learned how to breathe mana from the knights of the Kingdom of Valois they had captured in the past. Most elves didn’t know it, but the mana breathing method elves are using now was also derived from human technology.
“Then leticia too…”
“Hasn’t Lady Leticia already learned how to breathe the elves’ mana? She was told that she would be able to pass the graduation exam without difficulty.”
Ardena drew her line.
At that, Vilen stepped back without overdoing it.
The opponent is a warrior. There is nothing good to touch the planting. If Santander and Valencia started a war of nerves because of one slave, they would only become good prey for other nobles.
“Forget about it now. I was too greedy.”
“I think I overreacted too.”
“Please, I hope that Lady Alone will work hard and become a great talent. As the number of talented people increases, the national power of the Elf country will be further strengthened.”
“Yes, it will definitely happen.”
After resting for a while,
Vilen asked Ardena a question.
“How do you think the war with the kingdom of Valois will lead? Yusin Gilead is captured as a prisoner of war. The members of the Seven Swords of the Kingdom cannot stand still. Besides, our Yetzirah councilors are going to reject even the negotiations proposed by the kingdom of Valois. I’m sure the kingdom will be very angry with us elves.”
“If humans cross the Aquitaine Mountains… It will only mean their death.”
The Aquitaine Mountains are a rugged mountainous terrain.
Elves used the terrain to lay dangerous traps and pitfalls.
And every peak of the mountain range has an elven outpost, and there is a beacon to signal an emergency. If the kingdom of Valois waged another war, then the mountains of Aquitaine would be dyed red with their blood and flesh.
“Now the students will go back to the academy. Holiday ends tomorrow.”
Vilen told Ardena that he would wish Alone to safely pass her graduation exam.
Graduation exams are the most important.
It was the first stage to test the qualities of the heirs of the High Elf family.
All of the famous characters in the Elves of Liberia are graduates of the academy. From politicians and warriors of the elven country. The high elves had one thing in common: they graduated from Bria Academy with excellent grades.
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