Chapter 1003

Episode 1003. Are you really a ‘mountain tribe’?

Kingdom of Escatos.

Bellum Castle.

color palace.

around noon.

Escatos IV and the main nobles gathered at the Palace of Color, the official residence of the king.

As the disaster at Campodeneb was not yet known, the nobles were already whispering their schedule with the person next to them.

At that time, Marquis Bernardo, one of the three great northern lords, stood before the king with a hard face.

The nobles who saw his spleen expression belatedly paid attention to him.

“Your Highness Escatos IV. Three months ago, last year, on November 20, SR (Settling in Rodina) 4421, a crack in the ice wall was discovered in the Countship of Codrantes.”

Escatos IV asked with a surprised face.

“Ice walls? You mean the Scutum shield of that creator god?”

“That’s right.”

For a moment, the nobles murmured.

Scutum has never had a problem in the past 4,000 years of history since humans settled on the continent of Rodina.

“How big is the crack?”

“The crack in the Hirhera area was 1 meter wide and 2 meters long when first discovered.... As of January, it has expanded to 2 meters wide and 3 meters long.”

“Didn’t you repair the crack?”

“For two months since last December, the three northern territories have been jointly carrying out repair work. I have also posted an urgent report on repair work to the palace.”

Marquis Bernardo looked at the king with eyes asking if he had read it.

Then Escatos IV pointed to the pile of papers on the table with a frown on his face and said,

“As you can see, the year-end reports have piled up, so I haven’t checked them yet.”

A light sigh escaped Marquis Bernardo’s mouth.

The year-end report would have been an excuse and there would have been no time to read it because of holding a party.

The busiest time in the royal palace is the end of the year and New Year, but I want to do it too much.

However, the Marquis just brushed it off thinking that even if the king knew, he wouldn’t have changed the outcome.

Escatos IV quickly changed the subject.

“Great response. But didn’t you just say that the rift got bigger?”

“The reason I set aside ten days to come up to the capital is to tell you about that matter. Three days ago, 1,000 soldiers and 100 knights from the three territories were wiped out while repairing the rift. The only survivors are Count Codrantes and one soldier from the Territory Army.”

Escatos IV looked at Marquis Bernardo with devastated eyes.

I was surprised at the crack for a while, but I thought it was because of the restoration, but it was wiped out.

“Why didn’t you come with Count Codrantes?”

“He and the Yeongji Army soldier are seriously injured and unable to move. Currently, Count Codrantes is being treated at the count’s castle, and a soldier from the Territory Army is being treated at Enarche.”

Enarche is a village belonging to the Marquis of Bernardo.

So, it was said that the Marquis took the surviving soldiers of the Yeongji Army.

Marquis Bernardo secretly studied the faces of the king and nobles.

Fortunately, Escatos IV and the nobles did not show much interest in the surviving soldiers of the Territory Army.

It was because the safety of the Sword Master was much more important than the luck of a soldier from the Territory Army who survived.

It was the same with Marquis Bernardo.

However, the Marquis gathered soldiers in order to hear more about what happened in the Hirhera Rift.

When Marquis Bernardo was about to put an end to the soldier’s affairs, Duke Stauros Escatos, called the ‘guardian sword of the royal family’, asked a question.

“Sir Bernardo, what is the extent of the injuries of that Territorial Army soldier?”

“He too is as badly injured as Count Codrantes.”

The Marquis responded respectfully to Duke Stauros, a member of the royal family and a sword master.

“There is no way that Count Codrantes and the gnostic soldier went back to the Count’s castle and Enarche on their own feet, and the people of the Marquis rescued them?”

“That’s right. This is a fact I learned about when Baron Bernardo, who had left to repair the rift, lost contact and dispatched the knights.”

“Then I would have checked the scene as well. What is the cause of the massacre of the sword master and a thousand soldiers?”

Escatos IV, who had been leading the conversation so far, took a step back when his uncle, the Duke of Stauros, stepped forward.

I was going to leave it to my uncle who is a sword master anyway, but since he took care of it, he secretly passed it on.

No one interrupted the conversation between Marquis Bernardo and Duke Stauros, as if the other nobles had also read the trend.

***

Northern area of Escatos Kingdom.

Marquis of Bernardo.

Enarche.

When the water touched his dry lips, the serial enemy who had instinctively swallowed it ‘knock-knock-knock’ slowly opened his eyes.

A young woman’s face entered her unfocused eyes.

“...sister?”

He thought that Namgoong-yeon supported his head and gave him water.

the woman cried out loud.

It was only then that he realized that the girl he was dating was not Namgoongyeon.

If it was Namgoong-yeon’s words, there was no way he couldn’t understand them.

I forced myself to blink a few times, and the woman’s face was clearly visible.

It was a blonde woman in her early twenties.

Her appearance reminds me of the Elyos female warriors I saw in ‘Heaven of Kings’.

When the young man came to his senses, Amber gently put down his head.

What’s the point of holding the head of a man who has come to his senses?

Hearing her cry, Illyana, the healer, quickly approached.

Illyana stared into the young man’s eyes and asked.

“Are you feeling better now?”

“...”

“Which territory are you from?”

“....”

Amber, who had been watching, interjected as Yeonjeok-ha, unable to understand his words, blinked.

“A little while ago, he said something strange that I couldn’t understand.”

“Weird words?”

“Your ‘Zeze’...”

“Didn’t you misunderstand the sound of your moaning, not your words?”

“I guess it’s because I can’t speak. My head hurt badly, so I can’t speak? Jackson also suffered a head injury and was like that for a while, right?”

“It could be. Or maybe they don’t understand our language.”

“to? You don’t understand?”

“I heard that they also recruited from the ‘Mountain Tribe’ when recruiting gnostic soldiers in the County of Putokoa. look. your hair is black If this person belongs to the County of Putokoa and is from the ‘mountain tribe’... he may not understand our language.”

Suddenly, Amber’s eyes widened.

“The ‘mountain tribe’ that this man lives with the beastmen?”

Amber patted the hand that had supported the young man’s head. brushed

To think that the black-haired young man might have been hanging out with the beast tribe women made him very unclean.

Eventually, she asked the young man with a hard face.

“Hey. Are you really a ‘mountain tribe’?”

While the two were talking in incomprehensible terms, Yeon Jeok-ha, who was checking his body, looked away.

‘what?’

The woman who had been friendly a moment ago was staring at me with a displeased face.

‘Damn it. Can you tell what he’s talking about?’

“What did you say?”

Amber jumped up from her seat at Yeonjeokha’s question.

“Right right! The therapist also heard something strange, right? strong? That’s ‘mountain tribe’ right?”

“I don’t know. I’ve never met ‘The Tribe of the Mountain’ either. Besides, the savages speak a little differently from tribe to tribe...”

“Oh my God! Does each tribe speak different words? How many savages are there?”

Amber looked down at the young man like a savage.

Emotions can be expressed without words.

He shook his head at the sudden change in attitude of the woman who fed him.

‘Do whatever you want.’