With the end of a series of events in the Dagger Forest, Finn and his party joined Leah, a new companion, and after bidding farewell to the young doctor Sheen and the adventurers of the Sideburns Adventure Band, they officially walked out of the wooded area through the exit of the northern part of the jungle and came to the northern border of the kingdom, the southernmost point of the East Golantian Plain.

From here, the young people only need to continue straight north, all the way to the Lawrence River, which flows west of Perades and east of St. Fren's Sea, to Orran, the richest city in the northern part of the kingdom, and they are basically halfway through Finn's plan to go to the northern part of the kingdom. Further north, with an inn in Orlan as a temporary base for the recuperation procession, the Scorpion Valley, surrounded by mountains for three weeks to the northwest and east, was close at hand, and the distance on the road was no longer a matter of concern.

However, after Finn took a lot of time to explain the fact that the Moonlight Greatsword was not the Holy Avenger to Leah and the adventurers of the Sideburns Adventure Troupe, the young paladin found a new problem and followed him at all times.

That is—his fellow paladin, Leah, who was as beautiful as a woman, had hardly stopped his mouth as if he could never finish asking why, since he had solved the misunderstanding of the Moonlight Greatsword and had made up his mind to follow him to the north.

So on the way to Orlan after leaving the Dagger Forest, Finn soon found that in addition to sometimes teaching Lilith more common sense like a tour guide, he also had to give reasonable answers to Leah's strange questions.

For example—"Finn, why aren't you saying the Moonlight Greatsword is a Holy Avenger?" "Now, Finn, where did you learn your swordsmanship? What's the trick here? "Fainfein, I suddenly think the wildflowers in Gorantia seem to be more beautiful than in other places, do you think it has something to do with the climate in the north?" "Wow, Finn, look over there, I seem to see the lighthouse in White Harbor through the clouds in the distance, do you know any interesting allusions to that lighthouse?" ……

The beautiful young man with a maroon braid on one side of his hair was like an active sparrow, chattering with Finn so much that several times along the way Finn felt as if his head was bigger than before.

For this reason, after the first two days of the trip, Finn thought of a way to deal with Leah perfectly, which was to take the initiative to tell Leah a long story, leave some suspense to Leah to think about after telling part of the story that day, and continue the story the next day, so that he finally "escaped" from Leah's never-ending curiosity and enthusiasm.

The story he chose for Leah is a legend of the Pact of the Immortals, which dates back to the time when King Atrik, the Violet Ancestor, led an army to conquer the land on the west coast of St. Fren's Sea.

Legend has it that before the kingdom was founded, when the lands on the west coast of the San Flen Sea were owned by orcs, orcs, lizardmen, and human barbarians, the future king of Violet Atrikshan, was only a minor nobleman at the western foot of the Gangcasso Mountains, befriending a templar priest named Varneo.

At that time, the Templar Empire, the largest country of faith, was in the midst of a war to expel the elves from the coast of the St. Flon Sea, and the civilized world of mankind was constantly on guard against invasions and raids from the northern barbarians, and the Templar Pope Cortorius IV needed a volunteer nobleman to lead an army to conquer the barbarian land.

Thus, the wise priest Varneo, one of the most famous war priests in the history of the Templars, set out for the magnificent Basilica of St. Anthony, where he appealed to Corterius IV on behalf of Atrik and obtained a perfect casus belli: the Holy Invasion.

After assuming the holy name of religion as a pretext for war, Atrik recruited two armies from among the mountains of Gangazo and some of the foreign mercenaries who had been exiled to the periphery of his territory, and boarded his future homeland on a malet warship financed by the Holy See.

As later generations know, Atrik and his warriors succeeded in conquering the land, and then, with further support from the Pope, established the nascent kingdom of Violet with the Templar as the dominant faith. Of course, it is not surprising that this conquest launched by civilization to barbarians was recorded in the annals of human history, and this great battle was named "Violet Conquest".

After the conquest, King Atrik kept the lands in and around Perades under his direct control, and divided the rest of the lands among the other nobles who followed him, and soon after assembled a professional engineering team to build the famous Fortress of Thorns in the plain of the valley between the Loewen and Britton Ranges to defend against the military threat from the many orc tribes of the Western Wasteland.

With the completion of the Thorn Fortress, the king of Violet finally breathed a sigh of relief for the border security of his country, and then organized the human soldiers who conquered the royal land with him during the war into a new army stationed in the Thorn Fortress all the year round, and left the group of foreign mercenaries who followed him to form another new army as the royal guard's Janissaries to stay in Perades, and let his friend Varneo lead the paladins and priests to Hurengel to start the project of building the Cathedral of Tiamagos, In return for the favor of Pope Corterius IV of the Templar.

After the completion of the Cathedral of Tiamagos, the priest Varneo, who was stationed in the church at the behest of the Pope, finally became the official local priest, and Hurengel, as the first land on the west coast of St. Flen with King Atrik's army, was rightfully regarded as a new religious shrine by the monks of the Church.

"Oh, I see. Although I have made a pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Tiamagos in Hurengel before, this is only now known to you. On the fifth day of the journey, in the procession that had already crossed the Lawrence River, Leah looked at Finn with adoring eyes and nodded, feeling that this colleague of hers was really knowledgeable, as if he knew everything, "But, Finn, you haven't told me what happened to the two armies that had been reorganized by King Atrik. ”

"It's still the same as yesterday." As he walked forward, Finn glanced sideways at him with a sly smile on his face, "Leave this suspense to your own guess, and I'll tell you the rest of the story tomorrow." ”

"No, I feel like this story is coming to an end, don't you hang my appetite, okay?" This time, Leah finally couldn't resist the temptation of the story and raised his fist in protest, looking at the expression on his face that looked like a little girl had been wronged, as if Finn had bullied him, "I beg you, Finn, for the sake of the god of justice, Gazteth, you can tell me the rest." You said at the beginning that this story was about the Heroic Covenant, but after all that, it's not a point. ”

Seeing Leah looking at his appearance, Finn couldn't resist the eyes of this young man who was almost as beautiful as a girl, and estimated in his heart that the time of arriving in Orran should not be far from now, and then he shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and told him: "The army sent to the Thorn Fortress by King Atrik is what we know now as the [Black and Gold Lion Legion]. This legion, which features a lion on a black background and a gold body as the pattern of the flag and coat of arms, has been stationed in the fortress of Thorns since the time of the first king, serving the Violet Kingdom. ”

"What about the other one? What happened to that army of foreign mercenaries? ”

"Another army was named by the king as the [Legion of Thorn Vines], and the members of this legion are said to have all become Heroic Spirits after the death of the King and settled in a Heroic Spirit Contract, and that Heroic Spirit Contract was unfortunately lost, so that it is unknown whether this legion still exists in Ferdia today."

"That's the end of their story?"

"That's it. If you haven't heard enough of the stories of the Ivy Legion, you can also talk to the bards who are keen to study these past events. ”

"But where do I go to find the bard in this wilderness?" Leah felt that Finn was perfunctory again, and immediately shook his fist at Finn in dissatisfaction, but Finn held his head with his hand, and then saw the latter point forward, and said to him:

"Go to Orlan." "You see," said Finn, "at the end of our field of vision, the outline of that city is Orran. We're almost there. ”

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Let's scrutinize the outline to be used recently.,Today, let's first update a pseudo-3k word chapter to keep it updated.。

The map of the Violet Kingdom will be posted in the [work-related] volume in a moment.,If you're interested, you can take a look.。 (To be continued.) )