Kates was once a knight, the kind of noble man who would risk everything for his oath and glory, but now, his fallen life has corrupted his mind, and his filthy thoughts have made it impossible for him to face the glory he once had.

He buried his armor next to his wife's grave. It was his grave. Regardless of whether he could be buried there, his glory had gone with the person he loved most. And the armor followed him to death.

The sword that had killed countless thieves was inserted into the ice fields of the North and disappeared into the wind and snow. That was the place where he had fought so hard.

"You hate this world, let me out."

"You should stay in there honestly and don't try to manipulate me."

Kates punched a cold coffin, but his full blow had no other effect except making his fist red and swollen.

"Control you? If I had that ability, I would have come out long ago."

The one who was imprisoned in the ice coffin was of course Brand. Perhaps because his flames could not penetrate at all, he was not particularly violent.

"I will never underestimate anyone again, nor will I overestimate myself again. Even if you, a demon who has existed since ancient times, are least good at it, it is not something that a mortal like me can resist."

Kates knows what he is guarding. How high the reputation of Saint Ryze is in this world, and how awesome Brand is, the last disciple of Saint Ryze.

"Relax your guard, child. I am just a poor and helpless old man. I have not committed any crimes. All my crimes are just imposed on me by gangsters who have a glimpse of my strength. I am alone and no one will speak for me.

, their lies became the truth.”

Brand was sometimes irritable and sometimes depressed. He lamented his tragic experience and became angry about it.

"The truth turned from a lie is still the truth, and the truth will not be broken by mortals."

What happened in the ancient times? Archaeologists in the Deno Empire have different opinions. They only have a common view on Brand's sin and evil. Kates is just a knight. He has been training his body and honing his skills for many years.

His own sword blade, history, etc. have nothing to do with him.

This is why his superior appointed him as Brand's caretaker. He is a knight. Even if he once abandoned his comrades out of fear, he is still a knight and he will not disobey his superior's orders.

"Aren't you a knight? I have been treated so unfairly. Can't the knight have a little compassion?"

"There were many children's corpses under my sword. When my sword cut off their heads, I could only bury 'I'm sorry' in my heart."

"Does someone like you deserve the title of knight?"

"I...of course don't deserve it, and I have never wanted this title. In the winter of twenty years ago, I was just a soldier, following the general to conquer the barbarians in the north. The winter troop expedition did have a great impact on our logistics.

pressure, but that raid was undoubtedly a success."

"To attack the enemy by surprise, your general's strategy is quite good."

"……You do not understand."

Kates rarely communicates like this with others, because in front of others, he has always been the knight respected by people, an imperial hero who was personally awarded the title of knight by the late emperor for his merits. The heroic deeds of him and his comrades-in-arms

Still in school textbooks, many children regard these "frozen knights" as their idols.

"You can tell me, I'm just a devil. No matter what bad things you do or what ugly face you hide, if it is spread from my mouth, no one will believe it."

This is not the first time that Brand has explored the secrets in the hearts of those who guard him. To him, these secrets are just stories, spices in his long sealing career. If these secrets are revealed to others, it will make people feel uncomfortable.

He lost an important source of recreation.

"In the North, Freljord is the coldest zone. Even if the barbarians in the north have become accustomed to the severe cold, they will migrate south in winter because the elderly and children cannot bear the cold in the northern part of Freljord."

"According to what you said, there should be a large group of barbarians who will stay to take care of the children. Maybe the three major tribes will gather in the southern part of the Freljord, and your attack will be successful?"

Brand rarely goes to the Freljord. He hates that cold land. Although his predecessor was a Freljordian, his fragmented memories have been completely obliterated over time, and they are faint.

Yoyo still remembers that there are three large tribes in Freljord.

"...We killed all those children. Hundreds of thousands of seven or eight-year-old children in five camps fell under our swords."

Ketus was in great pain. Whenever he thought of this incident, the innocent eyes of those children would appear in front of his eyes, and their miserable screams would ring in his ears.

"Your general is really a butcher."

Brand is not good at thinking. He is a crazy, violent flame of revenge. Under normal circumstances, his flames will replace most of his words, but now he has been sealed in the ice for countless years. In order to avoid himself

His strength weakened rapidly and he had to calm down.

"It's just one camp. After all, who knows how there were so many children in that camp, but five camps... your general's idea after massacring those children was probably to capture

Please clear one more camp in a hurry. Don’t those camps have any escort troops? Don’t the barbarians arrange their children close to the border of the Deno Empire and don’t have enough guards?”

"Of course... no, after massacring those children, the general told us that the purpose of sending troops that time was to kill those children."

Kates is a knight. He swore to be loyal to his country. He swore to protect the people with his shield. He swore to kill the enemy with his sword... Those children will also be enemies in the future.

When the first knight used the weapon to defend his country and broke the commandment of not wielding a sword against the weak, the massacre could not stop. After cleaning up the children in the five camps as quickly as possible, under the helmets of the knights

There is already a layer of ice armor.

Tears could not stop their footsteps, inner repentance could not stop the massacre, and the only thing their compassion could do was make these knights search for those children carelessly.

"Are the barbarians crazy? The number of people that a place like the Freljord can support is very limited. With hundreds of thousands of seven or eight-year-old children, the population of the barbarians does not exceed ten million."

Among the secrets Brand had explored for thousands of years, none could shock him so much.

"Among the less than 10 million barbarians, about one-fifth are children under the age of fourteen, and we have massacred at least one-tenth of the children of the barbarians. This crime has given us supreme glory.

, but this glory shines on us, and it hurts."

False truth is also truth, and it cannot be broken by a mortal like him. In the school textbook, Ketus and his comrades are heroes who defeated the barbarian army of 150,000 Southern invaders with five thousand people, and with less than one

Thousands of people were sacrificed to annihilate the barbarian army, and the battle losses were as high as an incredible one to one hundred and fifty.

No matter how incredible this achievement is, when the national rewards are distributed to these soldiers, when their deeds are spread throughout the Denuo Empire in the form of memorials, when the common people are deducted from this year's taxes by the emperor because of this great victory.

After that, those who questioned could no longer speak.

Hundreds of millions of people are enjoying the "benefits" brought by the victory of those five thousand soldiers. To question their achievements is to go against hundreds of millions of people. Even the treacherous people in the government dare not make the truth of that year public.

"Did you get any information?"

"How did you know?"

"You said that your general said that the war was to kill those children, and your general knew that you could succeed."

"...I only learned this information after the fact. That year, the Freljord was colder than in previous years. The animals that could still survive in the northern part of the Freljord moved south one after another, and the sea of ​​ice was completely frozen.

Even if the ice is broken, it will freeze again within just ten minutes. The bear demons cannot obtain enough food, so they also went south.

But the unusually cold weather that year forced the animals that migrated south to move further south. The bear monsters had to encounter barbarians to obtain food, and the bear monsters had barbarians in their diet. At the same time,

, another ethnic group that had to face famine, the trolls, also launched an attack on the barbarians.

In order to cope with the southward plunder of the trolls and bear monsters, the barbarians had to gather most of the young men in the tribe to drive away the trolls and bear monsters. They did not have enough strength to defend themselves against the empire anymore."

Kates knew that he and his comrades had done nothing wrong. The barbarians invaded the south almost every year. Eliminating one-tenth of the children of the barbarians could greatly reduce the pressure on the Deno Empire to deal with the barbarians more than ten years later. Gang and the trolls

After a deadly battle with the bear monsters, the barbarians had to face famine. They lost at least 500,000 warriors and were unable to retaliate against the Deno Empire for five or six years.

In the Denor Empire, about 20,000 people died every year due to the barbarian invasion of the south, and about 15,000 soldiers died fighting to expel the barbarians from the south every year. In the twenty years after that war, the barbarians only

They committed five crimes in the South, and their criminal acts saved nearly 500,000 people and more than 200,000 families.

Therefore, they are heroes.

"Katus, you're chatting with that demon again."

"Gavin, why are you here?"

Kates was a little surprised by the appearance of the man in front of him.

"It's already dinner time. Seeing that you haven't gone to eat yet, sir, you asked me to bring you a meal. I really don't know what you and the devil have to talk about."

Gavin placed the lunch box on the ground and put the lunch box in through the gap in the cage.

In view of the danger level of Brand, in order to prevent the watcher from being controlled or bewitched by Brand and doing irreversible things, the watcher is also in a cage and can only get out when there is no magic attached to him.

.

"Sometimes I also feel that I am a devil. Maybe because of this, he and I have some common topics."

Guard Brand must be imprisoned in a cage. Even if the cage has no effect on the guard who is not controlled by magic, it is an insult to most people, so he is happy to guard Brand.

There are very few people, and even fewer of them are suitable to guard Brand.

But Kates is different. Since then, he has always believed that he is a devil, a devil who should be locked in a cage. The insult to others is a kind of psychological comfort to him.

"Okay, okay, noble knight, you can think whatever you like, I'll leave first."

Kates looked at Gavin's leaving figure without saying a word.

Some people think that they are all heroes, even those high-ranking officials who know the crimes they have committed also think that they are heroes. In this case, the guilt and pain of Kates and the Tundra Knights have never been understood.

…

"How is Kates's condition? Has she been bewitched by that demon? The next thing is very important, and the power of that demon is the key to completing the mission, so there can be no mistakes."

A man wearing a black robe, covering his whole body tightly, was asking Gavin in front of him.

"There's no big problem, Kates is still the same as usual, it's just that the devil is exploring the secrets of the watcher again."

Before Gavin handed the lunch box to Kates, he had been eavesdropping on the exchange between Kates and Brand outside the cage for a while, so that the food in the lunch box was a little cold. Because he never knew about the frozen knights back then.

Having done that kind of thing, he was so shocked that he was thirsty for knowledge. He had listened to it for too long.

"Notify me, we will set off from Qingzhu Peak in three days, and we must bring the jade sword to my lord."
To be continued...