When he intercepted the soldier who had rushed into the forest, Aegie realized that things were not what he had imagined.

The Soldier is a soldier of the Kenos Empire, and his suit bears the coat of arms of the Kenos Empire. It was an eagle with sharp eyes and wings. The eagle has a resounding name, the eagle that never falls. The eagle that does not fall symbolizes the eternal strength of the world. When the Kenos Empire was founded, it was one of the greatest nations in the Eastern Continent. The ambitious former king had arrogantly declared that the Kenos Empire would never decay and would become the overlord of the empire.

But now these statements of his have been ridiculed by reality.

Flying out, knocking the incoming soldier to the ground from his horse, Edge pounced on him and grabbed the soldier's neck, subduing him completely.

The soldier was easily subdued, and Ageie felt strange. When he took a closer look, he realized that the soldier was unconscious. There were multiple wounds on his body, the most shocking of which was that a sharp arrow pierced his back through the chest in the front.

"He's being hunted down!"

Edge reacted immediately. Putting down the soldier, he jumped onto a large tree next to him and looked outside. After looking at it for a while, as he expected, a group of robed soldiers on war horses appeared on a slope outside. No, exactly, it was not a soldier, but a robber!

Robbers! Bandits! Agey recognized that it was these bandits who had plundered the village three years ago. Unexpectedly, they have not left in the past three years, entrenched in the village outside! Before that, I should have been bold enough to go out and kill them one by one, so as to avenge the villagers who died that year!

Unable to bear the resentment in his heart, Agey immediately jumped from the tree and ran outside, intending to kill the bandits to vent his hatred. But at this time, the disabled Uncle Tek suddenly appeared in front of him, stopped him, and told him not to be impulsive.

But he was still very emotional, and shouted at Uncle Turk: "Uncle Turk, it's them, it's them! It's the robbers who plundered the village three years ago! I'm going to kill them!"

Teck was also involved in the fight against the bandits, and although he was disabled, he had retired from the army and had no experience with the villagers. He came up with the plan to dig a pit and divert attention. Unfortunately, because he was physically disabled and could not participate in the actual battle.

As a retired soldier, although three years have passed, he has not reduced the ability of a soldier. On the contrary, his determination for the army continued unabated. Both of his sons died on the battlefield, and he thought that he should also die on the battlefield, otherwise his life would have no meaning.

Because his heart is still in the army, he often tells Anne and Edge stories about the outside world, most of which are about the life of the army and the conquests. Edge learned a lot about the wider world from him, including the skills and the use of them in the army.

"Age, don't be impulsive. If the bandits had been out there, there would have been time to eliminate them. Dealing with this soldier is the most important thing now, if you don't pay attention, you may provoke the army. Turk said to him after stopping Edge.

Edge's responsibility to protect the village had already taken place, and after hearing Uncle Tex's words, he did not impulsively run out of the forest, but rescued the soldiers who had fallen to the ground and were seriously injured. He then returned to the village with his soldiers and Turk. The robbers who had been chasing the soldiers did not chase after them, and they were still afraid of the Forest of Aurus, known as the "Land of the Dead".

Bringing the wounded soldier back to the village, the villagers began to talk. Most of them expressed some concern, is it the army attacking?

Like the villagers' reactions, Anne expressed great concern.

In addition to the army's attack, her worry was that Edge would leave. She knew everything about Aiji best, and there was a chill in his heart after the robbers swept through the village. Usually, he often asks Giroud to take him into the sky to overlook the earth. I'm afraid his heart has never been at peace, and he wants to go outside and do what he should do at his age.

Spur your horses, raise your sword, flutter your robes, and stain the wilderness with blood!

Men should dedicate their strength to fight in all directions to protect this country!

Anne was reluctant to let Ageie leave. Whenever she saw Ageie working hard to learn the magic dragon combat technique, she vaguely saw the back of Age's departure. If it weren't for guarding the village, he would have run to the outside world, becoming an iron-blooded man, fighting on the battlefield.

Now the soldier's intrusion made Anne feel uneasy, as if the soldier was going to take Edge.

And some things are precisely that the more you don't want it to happen, the more it will happen.

At night, the badly wounded soldier woke up from a coma. He tells everyone that he is the captain of a squad of the Imperial Border Guards, who has come to investigate the situation on the border.

After years of turmoil and a large number of foreign invasions, many of the imperial generals have realized that An's interior also needs to be invaded. If the borders continue to be occupied by aliens and allowed to develop, then the country will truly fall into an irretrievable situation.

This soldier captain is part of the army responsible for the reconstruction of the southern border, and his main mission is to fight against foreign enemy forces and sweep away bandits, recover lost territory on the border, and begin to consolidate accordingly.

Such border guards undoubtedly harm the interests of the bandits entrenched on the border. The captain of the soldier was injured and fled when he was attacked by the robbers on the way to investigate. He had heard rumors of the Forest of Aurus, but the bandits hated the army so much that they publicly offered bounties for the heads of its soldiers. If caught by them, the captain of the soldiers is absolutely killed.

The problem is that if they are killed by the robbers, they will hang the corpse in the public to demoralize the army. The Captain of the Soldiers didn't want this to happen to him, so he escaped even after hearing rumors about the Forest of Orus.

He never imagined that the Forest of Aurus was not only not as terrible as the rumors, but a group of kind people lived. However, he soon realized that most of the kind people living here were old and young, women and children. As a captain of soldiers, it was easy for him to guess that these people were living in the Forest of Aurus to escape the war.

"Age, do you want to leave?" A few days later, before the Captain of the Soldier was about to leave, Turk stayed with Edge, and he asked Edge, a little heavily.

Edge doesn't deny what's going on in his heart. The moment he fled into the Forest of Aurus three years ago in order to survive, he was already very determined, and if he survived, he would go out into the outside world, and in his way, leave his mark on this land.

Driving justice? No, I don't know. There is no justice in war. There is just a firm fact: some people must be killed, some must be expelled, some things must be corrected, some things must be changed.

For those born in this land, it may be understood as patriotism.

"Yes, I want to leave. "I was an adult three years ago, and I would have been a soldier if it hadn't been for the robbers who plundered the village." ”

"A lot of men like me in the empire go to war, and sometimes it's a fate that can't be chosen, maybe I'm not an exception, I'm just a few years late. Aegie said very naturally.

Turk knew from the time Edge liked to listen to him tell stories about the outside world, and Edge's heart was not here, and Edge's answer was also expected by him. However, considering the villagers and Anne, he said solemnly: "Age, you don't need to go down such a path, you can think about the villagers, think about Anne. ”

Edge fell silent.

Turk's words are the reason why he has been in the Forest of Orus for three years. The villagers and Anne were his bonds, and in order to protect them, even though he had made a contract with the dragon, he had not set foot in the Forest of Orus for three years. Originally, he still had the terms of the deal he had reached with Aurus to complete, but he didn't.

In fact, the conditions promised to Aurus, dealing with the four great light dragons, are also the reason why his mind is not here.

"I decided to leave anyway. After a moment of silence, Aegie said resolutely.

"Sometimes, if you don't want to give up anything, you won't change anything. Now that the war has spread to the Forest of Aurus, the Forest of Aurus can remain stable for the time being, but if nothing is done and the war breaks out, I am afraid that when the field outside is soaked in blood, the villains will no longer pay attention to the so-called place of death. Because death is everywhere, why is the Forest of Orus an exception?"

"At that point, I am afraid that even if I wanted to, I would not be able to do anything about it. So from now on I must do something to keep the flames of war out of the wilderness outside, so that blood cannot flow into the Forest of Aurus. ”

"That's the best way for me to protect my village!"

Seeing that Edge was so resolute, Turk stopped trying to persuade anything. Since it was the path that Aiji chose by himself, as a relative, he should support him. Then he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Age, you can go with confidence." While it's a shame that I can't go back to battle, I know that protecting my village can also make the rest of my life meaningful. ”

"Now that the children are growing up, I will teach them some skills and let them protect the village. Anne is a smart child, and if I could, I would have found a way to get some martial arts for her to learn. She also has a strong heart, and she can be relied on by the villagers. ”

"So, you can leave with confidence. You can join that Soldier Captain's army, and being in the army will allow you to grow, but remember, you must live. If you die, there's nothing. ”

Edge listened quietly to Teck's words, and when Teke finished speaking, he began to feel a great sense of sadness. is about to embark on the road to a distant expedition, is this the sadness of parting?

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