Themis, The Flower of Justice
Chapter 31 — Magic Knights(8)
[Kingdom of Medeia, Selena Residence]
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“”HAAP!””
“”HIYAT!””
On a peaceful morning at Selena's residence, it appeared that the soldiers were training vigorously in the hot sun. Some of the soldiers were practicing his sword swing, some were practicing a match, they were all very excited after seeing Luminas who looked extremely strong in the duel one month ago.
Especially Dorothy, she looked very excited about practicing swinging her large wooden sword. When he saw the Luminas duel with Scott, Dorothy became very motivated to become stronger. He did not expect that the princess he served was very strong and talented. To protect her and keep her from harm, Dorothy was determined to become stronger so as not to become her burden either.
On the other side of the field, there were some people who were fighting intensely on the side of the field. It was Luminas, he was practicing a match with three aura knights at once.
“AGH!”
*PRACTICE!
Someone swung his wooden sword towards Luminas' hand which caused Luminas to lose grip on his sword. The luminas fall down as a result of losing their balance.
“Aduh... Sir Scott, don't you think it's too much to have three magic knights gang up on a little girl?”
Luminas grumbled as he rubbed his sore hands and buttocks.
“What do you mean overdo it? Isn't that natural? You have already defeated me who is the strongest knight in this residence, of course there is no opponent for you,”
Scott ignored Luminas' complaint and returned to give Luminas his wooden sword.
“What do you mean beat you? It was just pure coincidence! Even in the past month, I have always lost when dueling with you again!”
Luminas got up from his seat and took out the sword thrust by Scott.
“Whatever you say, lose still lose. It proves that I still have to further hone myself again,”
“Then what does this hell training have to do?! I feel like the last week of training has been a little unreasonable!”
Luminas continued to complain and grumble to Scott.
“It to make you stronger quickly. Aren't you very excited when you say you want to surpass Her Majesty the Queen? He is very strong, you have to try much harder if you want to be like him,”
Scott still dismissed all complaints from Luminas
“I know! But what the hell is this crazy training schedule?! Morning duel with you, then afternoon I have to duel with three aura knights? During the day I also have to do physical exercise? It's really torture! Is there no such thing as a child protection commission in this world?!”
“Commission of protection—what? Sometimes I don't understand what you're saying. But I did it all for the sake of honing you. Not only great in duels, but you also have to get used to the fight against many people at once,”
Luminas' forehead shriveled as he could not refute Scott's remarks anymore.
“But I'm not a soldier... Besides training, I still have to study again... Learn ethics, art, knowledge, and others... Really sucks!”
Luminas shouts into the air when he finds out he can't argue with Scott.
“Please be patient Your Majesty... By the way since you are stalling a lot of time today, I'll add a portion of your workout as much as 15 minutes more,”
Scott said that with his flat expression.
“What?! No!!!”
Luminas yelled in frustration, as this would further cut his break, and again he was even more annoyed when he saw Scott giving additional training with his flat face.
‘Uh... Mothers... Pl-please... Sir Scott is crazy.’.
Somehow in times like Luminas even think and miss his mother. He thought if his mother were here that he would not experience this kind of torturous exercise.
‘Uh... This exercise is really torturous... It evokes my bad memories when it was still the subject of the perfect human experiment first.’.
Luminas recalls his old life, when he was a nameless boy who had just entered the perfect human training camp, which was really a nightmare for him so he erased the emotions and memories about it.
He became more grateful for the birth of himself in this world, he lived comfortably and got great affection from his mother. The change in Luminas personality not only lies in the differences in gender and also her young age, but Selena's affection has changed Luminas completely.
As Luminas was deep in thought, Scott resuscitated Luminas by hitting him on the head with a wooden sword.
“Ouch! Sir Scott! What are you doing?”
Luminas was shocked by Scott's sudden blow.
“Wah, it looks like you are dreaming in broad daylight? Does the heat make you fantasize? We are still in training! So it's best to keep your concentration and stay focused!”
Scott lunged towards Luminas once more and attacked him with a wooden sword. But as Luminas realizes his attack, he can evade a series of attacks from Scott.
“Ah, sorry... I just suddenly thought about my mom... Because it's been over a month since he left here,”
“Ah, so you miss your mother huh... I think you're an abnormal child, it turns out there's still a little bit of normal stuff about you, yeah,”
Scott stopped attacking, he crossed his arms while nodding his head.
“Do you mock me?”
“No, I'm just happy with the fact that you're still a normal little kid who misses his parents,”
“What have you considered me all this time?”
“A terrible boy? Hahahaha!”
Scott laughed at Luminas' reaction. But what Scott said was not a lie, he said the truth about how terrible the little boy named Luminas was. From the outside he looks like a child, but in some conditions he shows intelligence and concentration in an extreme level that is not appropriate for his age.
Hearing Luminas who missed her mother, she felt a little relieved because Luminas was still a little child who could miss her parents.
After a while Scott stopped his laughter and cleared his throat.
“Ehem! Sorry, I got carried away with my momentary feeling. Oh, you don't have to worry about Her Majesty Queen Selena, she must be fine. Her Majesty the Queen is very strong, she is the strongest person I know, of course nothing will happen to her. In fact I was worried about what happened to his enemy given the nature of Her Majesty the Queen,”
Luminas laughed at the joke about her mother. But if deeper thought of what Scott said was indeed true, Luminas became a little pity for his enemies.
“Ah, another week is your birthday huh? Karen That's why you're sad because you're going to celebrate your birthday without the presence of your mother for the first time”
Luminas nodded with Scott's response even though it wasn't entirely true, he had to agree with Scott's opinion if he didn't want to be nicknamed the creepy little boy again.
“Don't worry, even though Her Majesty the Queen is not around, we will celebrate your birthday festively! Ah, stop putting on that sour face, Her Majesty the Queen will be fine, so stop worrying!”
Luminas smiled warmly hearing Scott's sincere concern.
‘I think I've changed just because of the gender difference and also the physical age difference... But mother's affection also changed me completely.... Thank you so much mom, you have helped me a lot....
.... Therefore I hope that you are fine there.’
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Currently the city of Arland is in a tense atmosphere, although they have the advantage of still controlling the city of Arland which is an important point. Since the city of Arland could connect the Chronos army with the capital that could send supplies and reinforcements from Chronos, but despite the control of important points and the flow of warfare, the atmosphere in the city was not good.
Not enough with the shape of the city that has become rubble, but now the atmosphere of the city feels worse.
The atmosphere in the city was getting worse due to the tension caused by the Medea army doing nothing for the past month. They learned from Chronos' intel that Medea was preparing a large army to invade the city of Arland.
The news certainly makes the Chronos officials panic. After losing their elite soldiers, hearing the news of a large army preparing in Medeia made the Chronos warlords panic.
Plus because the city of Arland is directly adjacent to the Green Dragon Great Forest, often monsters come to attack the Chronos army. From weak monsters to strong ones, it makes Chronos' army more anxious because attacks can come at any time and from anywhere. The threat from the monsters and the pressure exerted by the Medea army made the morale of the Chronos army slowly collapse.
The Chronos soldiers are always in terror with attacks from monsters that can come at any time, leaving the Chronos army in a bad condition. The impromptu attacks from the monsters made Chronos' army mentally and physically exhausted.
Above the walls of the fortress of Arland, two men were standing while looking at the scenery outside the city of Arland. They are Jack Crimson and his advisor, Julius.
“Master, it has been a month since the destruction of the Farmith army, and Medeia has still not done anything,”
Hearing the words of Julius, Jack kept staring blankly at the vast meadow, in front of the meadow stood a sturdy fortress that could not be conquered by the Chronos army, Windsor.
“.... Was Farmith's army completely wiped out without a remnant? Is there no one left and see what happens?”
“No sir, Farmith's army is wiped out without a remnant. Although the Farmith army contained thousands of high-level aura Knight soldiers, they were still wiped out. Not only that, in the Farmith army we also smuggled in five unregistered aura masters including Farmith itself,”
“... Despite all that, they still perished without leaving any clue?”
“That's right Sir, even with all that Farmith's army perished without leaving the slightest hint,”
Jack daydreamed for a moment before answering Julius' statement.
“Although they know we have lost an elite army, they still do not want to attack us?”
“True sir, that's what makes the atmosphere in this place runyam. Because we don't know when they will attack,”
Jack squinted his eyes and let out a hint of killing aura that even a top-tier aura knight like Julius was overwhelmed.
“What about the letter we delivered to the capital? Is there a reply?”
“No sir, they should have been back since three days ago, but there is no news at this time about it. There may be a problem that causes him trouble from the capital to here,”
Jack thought for a moment before asking a question.
“What about our scouts we place around Windsor Castle?”
“!!! No news since three days ago... Which means...
Julius's eyes widened, he seemed to have realized something shocking.
“Yes, we are too preoccupied with the tension caused by the Medeian army. They get our minds sidetracked with their tactics,”
“Then, were the attacks from the monsters all along their tactics?”
“Yes, maybe they want our army to be busy dealing with the monsters and make me keep watch with the existence of ‘Green Dragon', they make me often leave the command of the headquarters,”
Hearing Jack's explanation, Julius grew even more astonished. He was embarrassed by the Chronos title of strategist but fell to be played by Medeia. Julius immediately knelt down and apologized to Jack for being an incompetent subordinate.
“Sir! Please pass the punishment on this incompetent subordinate!
Jack only slightly glanced at Julius and looked back at the meadow ahead.
“Because we are at war, I forgive you for now... I'll determine your punishment once this war is over and we get to the capital,”
“Oh! Thank you for your generosity, My Lord!”
“Build,”
Julius was once again very grateful to Jack before he woke up from his kneeling state.
“Then, milord... What is their goal?”
“They...”.
Before Jack could answer, Jack felt something that made his body slightly jerk. Shortly after that a soldier ran and gave a very surprising news.
“Report, sir! Medeia's army is attacking the middle gate!”
“”!!!!””
Hearing the notice, Julius gasped. He could not believe that Medeia had attacked them when their army was in a state of decline.
Ignoring the surprised Julius, Jack jumped straight from the wall onto his horse and walked up to the soldier.
“How about their quantity?”
Jack asked the soldier.
“Their numbers are huge! It seemed like the entire army of Medea was there! Even the entire battle commander Medeia had come forward to the frontlines!”
“All teams?”
“Ya!!”
Hearing the words of the entire army, Jack sank into his mind once more.
‘.... Whole army? Impossible..’
Jack thinks that they killed the spies as well as the palace messengers as they aim to blind the chronos army.
If they managed to do so, then Medea could freely mobilize their own troops without being discovered by Chronos' army. Jack thought that perhaps Medeia would employ a tactic by creating an elite army that would encircle the Chronos warriors.
But his guess was wrong, Medeia instead gathered all her troops on the front lines, even putting all her commanders there as if she was provoking Chronos by calling for direct war.
‘Although so this strategy is arguably quite brilliant. Their plan made the morale of the chronos soldiers slowly crumble and also lowered their physical condition. So the direct fight will hurt Chronos.’.
“July! Go to headquarters! Redeem your mistake by handling this situation!”
Jack shouted towards Yulius who was still shocked. But he quickly got up and nodded. After getting an order from Jack, Julius immediately took his horse parked under the wall and headed to the headquarters
Jack smiled as he managed to guess the complicated strategy used by his enemy. He immediately drove his horse straight to the front line at full speed.
‘Medeia dammit.... This time they really played me.... But I won't let them do as they please!’
At the time, Jack and Chronos' army have no idea that Selena's planned plans will lead them to doom.