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                   Location: D'kman Barony, Camps at the Outskirts                                                                            Year: 1068 AD

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(POV : John - Sergent - Arnold Lookalike)

 

 

 

 

*Robe tightening sounds*

 

Pulling the string as much as I can, I tied the Direboar's bone piece on the tip of wooden pole, turning it into a bone spear,

 

I made sure that it's straight, after finishing the piece, I set it aside along with other bone spears and continuing to make the next one,

 

I am sitting next to a bag full of bone pieces, it has a variety of parts like backbones, limb, its ass, and even a few broken parts of the skull of the Beast, but not all of them would be suitable to make spears, smaller ones will be sent to Eddie for them to turn it into arrowheads if possible, the rest splinters and dust will be gathered into a pile and further crushed into dust, Master said that it could be used as fertilizers, I'm not sure how that would work out,

I also do have steel spear caps but I prefer not to squander the gold spent on them, These bone spears do the same job but with virtually no cost as both of them are gathered locally, wood from forest and bones from Beast King's prey, since it doesn't eat bones,

 

In truth, I do not need to do this at all but I am doing this because it helps me to calm my mind whenever I feel astray, I recalled the reason why I'm doing this,

 

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- A few months ago, At a Village outskirts

- Returning to Barony after visiting the 'Violent Sea'

 

*Metal Clashing*

 

"AAAARGH!" shouting, I charged towards the Knight swinging my battleaxe horizontally,

 

The Royal Knight who made a swift escape making my axe miss the target,

 

With a decent distance away from each other we breathed heavily while looking at each other's eye, while I have trouble opening one of my eyes,

 

We are doing this from the very morning to the point that I am drenched in my own sweat few drops enter my eyes or mouth every now and then, he was in a similar situation but handles it better than me,

 

The Royal Knights agreed to train me in return for not exposing Master's kidnapping Incident, So far I've been makig the best use of it,

 

He looked at me with a smile,  since both of us are on the verge of collapsing from exhaustion, we had only a little bit of energy left, one last clash to determine the final victor,

 

Slowly I walked towards him step by step with my burning muscles, he did the same coming towards me,

 

This time he was the one who charged towards me with a battle cry with his sword straight as a Lance, he was so fast that I didn't have the time to raise the battle axe to swing towards him,

 

*Metal cling*

 

With the steel song resonated, I barely had the time to block with the flat surface of my axe, only to be thrown back and fall on my own ass, the force made me lose grip on my Battle axe, throwing it away while I was thrown back

 

"It was my loss..." waking from the fall, I accepted since it was nothing new to me,

 

Before I started training with them, I was overconfident about the fact that I could obliterate a Direboar's skull by launching a spear at it with just my raw strength, but when we started training, I realized how sluggish I am when fighting a Royal Knight, I looked like a clumsy kid infront of them, 

 

It was not the strength I was lacking, infact most of them are weaker than me in strength but they're fast and disciplined, easily tiring me out with dodges or knocking me out with concentrated attacks like this one, What I was lacking was speed, tactics and very basic aspects of a disciplined Knight, what I was lacking was a proper Knight training instead of the berserker Knight training taught at the Barony, the latter was not bad but it was good for me as a beginner,

 

But after three months of their training, I've improved and beaten most of the Royal Knights except this Knight who continuously wins against me and Knight-Captain who I never sparred with,

 

"Congratulations lad... You lasted longer than I expected," the Knight said before collapsing flat at the ground on the same spot where he said, 

 

"He's saying the truth, you've improved better than the last time..." I turned to look at the Royal Knight-Captain who said that,

 

The Captain is resting on a tree without his Helm(Goblin Slayer Helm), He is a middle-aged man with brown hair, having an ugly scar on his lower chin,

 

"You're learning fast, your strength is also growing really fast, And perfectly you're at the right age to learn this," he said with determination,

 

"Learn what?" I asked him, 

 

"To control your Strength" saying that he stood up,

 

"Everyone who becomes a Knight will have a raw strength within them, but most of the time they will be left dormant, unused, only those who control them will be able to reach higher positions like Knight Captain, Knight Commander or even Great Knight, And luckily you're at the right time to learn this," saying that he punched the air aiming towards the tree,

 

*Wooden thud*

 

The bark of the tree has a dent on it, similar to actually getting punched by a Knight of his level, despite the clear gap between his arms and the tree, yet he somehow did it,

 

"This is warrior energy, the controlled form of raw strength, Most people don't know or heard this because they haven't seen it used publically,

If one able to control properly, it can be used in a variety of ways such as projecting the force as I did or concentrating on weapons so as to strengthen them with one's own raw power to prevent them from breaking and also to sharpen it many times,

The Great Knights use such methods to slay a King Beast if one were to terrorize the Kingdom since normal steel would shatter like an earthen pot against such a mighty being,

It is the extent of controlling this Strength that determines which higher Grade of Knight one can become,

But if one were to not control they will simply stuck being Knight for the rest of their lives which is the Majority, I was lucky enough to barely control my strength to become a Knight Captain, So try controlling your strength or just be a Knight for the rest of your life," he said while walking away, 

 

I was shocked for a moment knowing all this,

 

"But... how do I control it?" I asked him making him halt,

 

" *Chuckles* that's the beauty, one has to sort it out by himself, It's either you learn it or you won't, but don't worry being a Knight for rest of your life is not that bad, I mean you just lost to one so don't think about it too much," he said walking away, leaving me in a frantic state,

 

 

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'What if I'm that Idiot who ends up just a Knight without being able to control the said power? It's frustrating knowing something like that exists yet no possible way of learning it, I can't even sleep peacefully!' I wiped the sweat beads formed on thought,

 

'I'll be fine, I can control it, I can control it' I consoled and cheered myself while focussing on making the spears,

 

"Sergent John!" someone interrupted making me let slip of the bone fragment I was holding,

 

"What now?!" I shouted at him with my frustration,

 

"Sergeant!, Young Master has arrived!" he said,

 

Outside the Camp Master is standing, Other than Young Master, there is also a group behind him,

 

I rushed to the spot, "Umm...Master, who are they?",

 

"They are from the Church, meet Sir Boshman, One of Knight of the Holy Kingdom"

 

"It is an honour to meet your...-" "Just call me Sir" I greeted him but he corrected me midway,

 

'Turns out the people from Church wants some lumber from Forest for some renovation, so they are asking us to guide them around the forest, Eddie is also coming along with us, I haven't seen Kolin since yesterday, I wonder where she is?' with that though we entered the Forest

 

 

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(POV : Kyrill Marianne)

 

 

"It's just a small walk through this path to get here, To be honest, it doesn't need any guiding to reach there," the Baron's son said to the Knight while walking ahead through the dense forest,

 

'No Guiding needed? There is not even a grass path to know which is the right way!' I said in mind, it feels like walking randomly since everything looks the same but we can tell that he knows about this place better than us,

 

Our group consisting of people in slave disguise and the escorting men, Now following behind the boy and his few henchmen whilst carrying our axes,

 

The people in slave disguise exhibited a depressing aura since their slave disguise makes them feel too cold making them already shiver, But to me, the cold is negated by my excited blood rushing through my body, I simply could not wait to get there,

 

How could I not, it is Yesterday night when I have awoken my ability, Most people of my age find it very hard to awaken the Abilities of their Family Bloodline, especially our Marianne Family's bloodline, it will take several encounters with witches such as one that my sister is assigned to, not even she has awakened her ability,

 

I rushed to Sir Boshman about the news, he at first didn't believe it but after me warning him continuously, he finally got serious, realizing that I wasn't joking, and we devised the plan,

 

The morning he visited the Baron's Castle to gain permission for chopping lumber in the Forest for the so-called renovation, which is a cover-up for our to be grounds for the large scale manhunt or witch hunt to be exact,

 

I'm planning to catch them alive if possible, but first, we need to find them, with blood boiling, we continued walking for a while,

 

Finally, we arrived at a verdant thicket, I could even see some people in distance,

 

"Sir Boshman, This is where we herd our Rabbits, it is a safe spot for chopping woods and You see these thickets right?..." he pointed at the Bushes infront of us,

 

Like a river going through a forest, these bushes and shrubs cut through the tall towering woods of the forest, "...they go long way on both sides, I advise you all not to stay farther from the group, but if you ever do get lost, just follow these thickets and you'll meet either my men or rabbit herders" he advised,

 

"AAYMAR!" a loud girlish voice sounded just when he finished,

 

It was a black-haired girl running towards him, she stopped next to him to catch her breath,

 

" *panting* Aymar! you didn't make Cookies last night! you broke the promise and you even left early before I. could.. awake..." the girl complained with an angry pout but her angry face disappeared and her voice weakened when she finally noticed our group of men,

 

Looking at us strangers, the girl quickly got behind the boy despite her being the eldest and tallest, the boy whispered something in her ears, after hearing that, she left the place excitedly hopping away like a jackalope,

 

"If you need any help, ask John or Eddie right away, they'll be stationed here, Your men can chop around the area but just don't wander far from this place, The Forest is vast, if you chose the wrong direction, there is a chance that we might not meet again" saying that he left immediately,

 

Thankfully, he didn't make his men follow our men and kept their distance away from our men,

 

After making sure that we are away from Barony men, Sir Boshman turned to us,

 

"Everyone! spread out and search, and Kirill!, if you find anything, warn us immediately" he commanded,

 

With that, we started our hunt,

 

 

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(POV : Aymar)

 

 

 

'Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!' I screamed in my mind while running in a long route around, towards the Cavern so as to not meet the Churchmen,

 

I turned around every now and then, Its almost as if someone is following me, even though literally no one is following,

 

Why the fuck is everything bad happening so fast?, First the Choir girls came without knocking, then I knocked Kolin out of consciousness and now the Church has sent their people, literally to my doorstep,

 

'And what the hell is my Intelligence(spy network) even doing?, Didn't I told them to notify me of everything that transpires?, or did they started slacking because of me not caring about them? I didn't know that carts load of churchmen arrived at the Barony until they actually visited me at my fucking home and were flirting with my mom!,

 

Wait a minute, The [System] notified that I recruited all of them as my henchmen, I thought I still left a few,

 

In anycase, Earlier this morning mom asked me to greet this Knight of the Church, I remembered the Choir girls warned me that the Churchmen will come, I truly thought that they were here to catch me, I even thought of escaping but changed my mind last minute,

 

That was the most nervous moments I've experienced, I was sweating the entire time until I realized that he merely put me in the eye and was actually gawking at my mom during the whole conversation, only looking away when my mom notices, I simply wanted to crush his balls by dropping an anvil on it but I restrained my emotions once more,

 

At first, he started to trash talk after which he stated their true intention, he said that they wanted to chop some wood from the Ferocious Beast Forest for renovation and mom asked me to lead them, I can tell that what he said is all BS, they are actually trying to reach the Cavern in the Forest where those choir girls that are in my captivity, those Choir girls must have something with them that gives away their location, I need to strip it off of them, I don't know if any magic tracker exists or not, but that is the best possible theory I could make of with the lack of knowledge,' with these thoughts I arrived at the Cavern,

 

Entering inside the Cavern, I went straight to see Kolin's condition,

 

On a tent near a campfire, she was sleeping with the company of one of my slaves,

 

I've already issued them a command so that atleast one girl keeps observing Kolin's condition and notify me if something is off,

 

I could see Kolin at the same state as I saw her last night, her temperature has dropped to that of any normal person instead of a feverish hot Northerner,

 

As much as I don't want to believe it, it was because of me that she is in this state, I should have learned if there's any problem when a Northerner and non-northerner coupling, but its too late now,

 

Last night after we did the deed, she exploded her power into a huge avalanche before falling unconscious, she's still in this Coma-like state where she simply sleeps, Her blood has lost its heat,

 

"Did she wake up in between?" I asked one of the girls, "No master" I nodded for that and continued looking at her,

 

"Ho the mighty have fallen~" I frowned my brows at the remark, turning towards the person who made it, It was Claire with a mocking smirk on her face,

 

"Relax, It's not like she's dying or anything, maybe she's just adapting to be one of us" she commented when facing my serious gaze,

 

I shouldn't have said this explicitly, especially before this Rogue!(Redhood),

 

Last night when I brought Kolin back to Cavern, I was freaking out, I was in the dark with no idea of what the hell is happening with Kolin, I can't even discern whether she's in a life-threatening predicament or just suffering a temporary illness, so I asked every slave girl of mine on whether there is any taboo on mating with Northerners or any known illness similar to her conditions exist, I asked everyone including her(Claire Redhood),

 

Result : Nothing useful plus blushing stares towards me,

 

It seems that even the very question of mating between Northerner and non-northerner is not something heard of and not a subject taught by Church(Since all my slave girls are from Church),

 

But the worst reaction I got was from Claire who can't wipe off that sly smirk on her face, "Can't even handle a kid huh?, I wish I had personally seen her getting broken or atleast wish for her to wake up so that I could ask it to my heart's content but alas she's sleeping like this" she was saying things like that, It was clear that she wanted to rejoice in Kolin's suffering, So I shunned her after hearing that last night, 

 

Now she's trying to make fun of Kolin again, I wonder what kind of training did Kolin do for her to be this angry at her,

 

"Claire! I want you to keep an eye on the Church people, If they try to get close to Cavern, make your Wolf howl from a distance to scare them away" I ordered her before she really gets on my nerves, Once she left I turned my attention to some important thing,

 

"Everyone else! Go and check the choir girls, make sure that they are not hiding anything, check their mouth, and even 'other' places, spare Nothing!" I tasked my slaves to inspect the choir girls before walking towards another big Tent,

 

We got choir girls' bags in this tent, I should also check them just incase whether we missed something, 

 

Dry meat, Clothes, parchment, a firestarter, and a dagger, all required for basic survival, I thew all the contents into the Campfire since I don't know which one could be magic tracker, while doing that, I could hear the choir girls' bickering from inside of Cavern,

 

'That must mean that my girls are doing a good job' I presumed before returning back into Kolin's tent to check on her while my girls are inspecting choir girls,

 

"What is happening to you?" I muttered in a low voice while watching Kolin,

 

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- Meanwhile in the Forest where Kiril and his Captain searching for Cultists' trails,

 

 

The Church people were searching for the Cultists/Witches, by spreading as far as they could while Church Knight Boshman and Kirill climbed the snow mound, this snow mound is made by Kolin's Avalanche attack last night, It is so long that spans almost a half-mile, These men are searching for clues of any evil activity by cultists, but they have no idea that they are just literally standing on top of it,

 

The entire avalanche has solidified overnight and combined with random leaves covering them, it almost looks as if it is completely natural part of the landscape, A Local can easily find this place being weird or unnatural but these men are from the distant Holy Kingdom from the West,  they have little knowledge and understood that this place is not like their home, so for the snow mound, they assumed that it is normal for a large amount of snow to be a typical feature of this place like how snow is buildsup on large trees and some mountain tops,

 

"You sure that you can't feel anything?" the Knight asked the blonde young man, "No, I only felt it for a moment during last night, But now I feel nothing, I'm just pointing in a rough direction where I felt" Kyrill replied, he lost his initial anticipation due to lack of any evidence of cultists, the entire group is searching through the forest because of his insight, and if this turns out to be untrue, he will be really pissed,

 

A distance away from their place, Claire is hiding behind a tree, her wolf is hiding even far back behind giant trees, she tries to eavesdrop but they are on top of the snow mound made by stupid Kolin, getting any closer would mean to exposing herself so she holds onto her position,

 

*Tongue clicks*

 

Shortly after she lost her patience and moved onto spying other churchmen who can be approached closer without being detected, since they are spread out sparsely like a thin net searching for an insect in the vast forest, its easy to go past their backs, so she got behind their line with her wolf and trying to eavesdrop on their conversation, Not many talked and only focussed on their works but she finally found a chattering duo,

 

"...he just kept repeating until Captain agreed with no other choice", "here I thought that he's being humble" , "No! He's just a spoiled kid who wants all the attention he can get..." two guys kept bantering back and forth until one of them finally brought that certain topic,

 

"...Seriously what the hell are those Cultists doing in some fucking cold forest?", "I don't know but I can say nothing good comes from them..."  "Who even let those Northerner infidels into our Church?", "Maybe they were admitted as slaves, isn't it what Choir girls become?..." they moved on to a different topic but Claire learned something important that she didn't expect, So she quickly got away from the place, riding her wolf, she swiftly rushed towards Cavern,

 

But unbeknownst to her, there was a hooded person gazing at Claire riding her Direwolf, running into the distance, It was the same hooded person that escaped inspection while entering the Barony, with an inhuman speed he started to follow her,

 

 

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(POV : Aymar) 

 

 

After some time, my slaves who were inspecting the choir girls returned, 

 

"They have nothing?" "Yes Master we couldn't find anything" my slave replied,

 

*Sigh*

 

I looked back at Kolin,

 

She hasn't eaten anything in this state for almost a day, and Medieval times is the worst time for anyone to be in coma, you can't artificially inject food into them, you don't have the tools or knowledge either, it's impossible to make them swallow solids or fluids, since forcing liquid in this state might prevent their breathing, She might simply die because of starvation,

 

"Bring them here" I ordered,

 

I no longer care about whether they got magic trackers with them or not, I first need to know what exactly is going on with Kolin and how to cure it, and the closest thing I could find the answer for what is going on with a Northerner is from another Northerner,

 

Both of the silver-haired choir girls arrived with their hands tied, their faces have a light blush and their dresses are a bit disheveled, showing the intensity of my slaves' inspection process,

 

But ignoring their condition, I told my slaves to untie their restraints, the short-haired choir girl, who was equipping a serious expression looked puzzled at my sudden change in attitude but quickly reverted back,

 

"So... have you finally decided to abide the will of the Holy Church and send her with us?" she asked snobbishly, ignoring her words I simply lead them to where Kolin is,

 

Once I showed them Kolin's condition, I asked them if they knew anything about her state or how dangerous of condition that she's in, looking at Kolin, I also told them that it happened when I was mating with her,

 

"You did What?!... I thought they were just rumors but..." the short-haired girl shouted at me, she was shocked with a slight blush on her face, the long-haired girl gave a pitying expression towards Kolin,

 

'I had nothing to say, actually I have but this is not the time I have to find a way to wake her up again and what rumors do they mean?', 

 

"Just tell me whether you know what is happening to her or not" I made my face serious making the short-haired girl stepped back subconsciously before nodding,

 

They observed Kolin, tried poking her,

 

*Slap* then the short-haired girl slapped Kolin,

 

"The Fuck are you doing?" I was furious, "Just making sure that she is not sleeping," she said as a matter of fact, I let it aside for this time,

 

After assessing her condition she turned to me with a grave look on her face,

 

"So you know what is happening to her?" I asked,

 

"Umm y-yes, You should let us take her back so our Holy Kingdom so that they can heal her," the short-haired girl said uncertainly, 'Ok she has no idea what is wrong with Kolin' I came to this conclusion,

 

At this point I don't have many options in my hand, I seriously want Kolin to get well soon from this, but I don't believe church at all, I feel like she's merely bluffing just so that she can bring Kolin with her,

 

"Bringing her to the Holy Kingdom will take months, she can't be fed in this condition, she would die before you even get there and most importantly I don't believe in you or the Church taking care of Witch, it is akin to giving a lamb to a wolf," I said expecting them to be offended by my comment, but they seem to understand my rationality and were stunted with nothing to say, 

 

At this time Claire who was waiting for us to finish talking came striding towards us with loud steps but stopped a distance away from the choir girls,

 

"What happened? are they closing in?" I asked her in low voice, to keep our conversation unheard by the choir girls, but Claire kept a Billie Eilish smug on her face without answering, enough to make me want to punch her face,

 

"Just say it already!" I had no time for her silly games,

 

"Don't worry, they won't be here anytime soon, not even close, in fact, you need to prepare your men to be ready, just in case that they get lost, but that's not important,... Did you know why the choir girls came here in the forest?" she asked me,

 

"To find Kolin and get her back to Church,... Listen, If you have something important to say, then say it!, I have very little patience within me right now!" I warned her,

 

"They were actually running away from the Church!..." That's when she told me about everything that she heard,

 

"They're Cultists! she exclaimed,

 

 

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Family List

- Annabelle D'kman (Mother)

- Payn D'kman (Father)

- Galeron D'kman (Brother)

 

Harem Members

- Pleu Von Raven (Princess of Ravaeyn Kingdom)

- Helen (Maid)

- Kolin

 

Sex Partners

- Grenade Amber (Marchioness)

- Strangers(??)

 

Lover

- Chelecsia - (Race : Shapeshifter)

- Kolin

 

Love Interests

- Annabelle D'kman

- Chloe Von Raven

 

Maids

- Gloria

- Dorothy

- Helen

 

Slaves

- Jill

- Talisa

- See (5) others

 

Personal Servants/Minions

- John

- Eddie

- Taylor

- Kolin

- See (55) 

 

Trained Animals

- Doggo - (White-Tailed Eagle)

 

Prisoners under Training

- Claire Redhood

- Direwolf

 

Captives

- Two silver-haired choir girls of the Church

 

Acquainted 

- Boris (merchant's Son)

- Chloe (Princess)

- White Kitty (Big Cat Beast)

 

House Servants

- Sauze (House keeper)

- Valter (head Butler) - {Race : Shapeshifter}

- See more house Servants

 

D'kman barony Townspeople

- See the List

 

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Warrior Grades (levels between Knight and a Great Knight)

 

Grade Able to slay Ferocious Beast  
Knight Direboar  
Knight-Captain Direwolf Slaying Nightmare Direwolf requires Knight-Captain to be faster or next strong personnel required
Knight-Commander Direbear  
Knight-General Stronger Beasts other than King Beast  
Great Knight King Beast  

 

Note :

  1. Able to slay means killing Ferocious Beast using weapons or projectiles,
  2. Any Warrior trained by Church or Crown of any Kingdom is always stronger than those who are trained by regular Nobles,

 

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