Chapter 1: The Fallen Knight
Where there is light, there is shadow, and where there is good, there is sin. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info No one is free from this influence, no one is absolutely good, and no one is absolutely evil.
In the continent of Shusyare, a considerable number of people believe in the Holy See, and they serve the god of light among the twenty-four gods. Although the Holy Church is not large, it has a large number of believers, covering almost half of the continent.
Knights have been a symbol of loyalty and bravery since ancient times. Being a knight should be proud of that. As a knight, for the sake of the knightly code, for the sake of one's own glory and the safety of the country, sometimes it is not hesitating to sacrifice one's life. At least that's what the father in front of him thinks, but I'm afraid the boy in front of him, who is estimated to be in his early tens, doesn't think so.
Within the territory of the Holy Patriarchate, there is a small village called Mino. The village is an immigrant village, and almost all of them are believers in the god of light. For the sake of their faith, they gave up their families or moved their families here. Among them was a down-and-out aristocrat. Celt Harvey is the head of the family. That is, the middle-aged man in front of him who can barely be called a knight. Perhaps he was more like a farmer without his almost torn armor. The little boy who sat on the ground in front of him was named Bert Harvey, and like most of the children in this village, he was born in this village. But unlike most children, he was a motherless child.
Bert's mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to him. Bert heard from the elders of the village that Bert's mother had been in poor health since she came to Mino, because the Holy Church was located in a temperate zone and the disease spread very quickly. Bert's mother was sick almost every day, and she couldn't even do anything about the village sacrifices. Bert's father once persuaded his mother to move again, but because of Celtic's low title, there was almost no money left after the state paid for the discharge of the army, and then Bert's mother fell ill and went to the doctor everywhere to buy all kinds of medicines, and she was already in debt, and she had no money to move again. Later, when she became pregnant with Bert, his wife's health gradually improved, and she was not suitable for long-distance travel, so Celtic did not mention moving. It wasn't until later when she gave birth that Bert's mother's health was no longer good, and at her insistence, she exchanged her life for little Bert.
Little Bert didn't dare to mention his mother in front of his father, as long as he mentioned it, his originally gentle and casual father would become very lonely, and then return to his room without saying a word. So Bert never even knew his mother's name. I guess my father didn't dare to mention that name in his life. Bert learned from the village elders that his mother was a very gentle person, treating everyone like his own relatives, and although the family was poor, he would always give his neighbors some hometown specialties made during the Chinese New Year. So after the death of Bert's mother, the people in the village took great care of little Bert and treated him as if he were their own child.
Maybe it's because of my father's downcast appearance after being discharged from the army, or maybe it's because I felt the pain of not having a mother since I was a child. As a knight's child, although little Bert has experienced his father's knightly education since he was a child, he does not think of his belief in knights, he feels that life is the most important thing in life, and there is nothing left when he dies.
"As a knight, dignity and faith are the most important things, and if you run away in order to survive, you are not worthy of being a knight at all. In the face of his father's endless stories of how heroic he was on the battlefield, the ten-year-old Bert had already fallen asleep. But he didn't dare to interrupt his father's memories, because that would stimulate his father's competitive spirit, and he must prove to him his strength, that is, to enter the afternoon weapons training course early.
For knights, the main weapon is the knight's gun, the knight's gun is two meters long, the top is pointed and the bottom is thick, the bottom is supported, there is no blade on both sides, the main attack path is the thorn, and the high-speed charge of the mount can even penetrate the pure steel armor in one fell swoop. Because of the speed at which the knight charged, it was rare for the knight gun to be used again after a single hit, either broken or bent. Therefore, after a charge, the knight will switch to the knight's sword, which is a triangle of 70 cm to 80 cm, holding the sword in one hand, and the attack path is also mainly assassination. At the same time, a shield will be equipped in knightly combat, so the knight's spear with a shield and the knight's sword with a shield have become little Bert's training tasks every afternoon.
The knight's spear was too large for a child in his early teens, so it had not yet been implemented, and Bert now got up at four or five o'clock in the morning, first to train physically, carrying a basket of crops from his father through a primeval forest near the village to another town called Stauffen. It usually happens to be 6 o'clock in the morning, and then my father's so-called mental training, that is, rushing to the market to sell vegetables. The town of Staufen is a well-known winemaking town, where the aroma of wine fills the air. So for Bert, another task was to buy a bottle of wine for his father to go back. Then I went home and the morning training was to help my father with farming, after all, he had to make a living, otherwise even the noblest knight would starve to death...... After that, it was lunch time, which was also the time for cultural lessons, when his father would brainwash Bert into indoctrination with the so-called knightly code and some "glorious" old things. In the afternoon, Bert's most hated weapon training session was the knight's sword and shield battle.
For a ten-year-old child, it was quite laborious to pick up a pure steel sword that was longer than half his body in one hand and a wooden shield in the other. Of course, these are just the basics, because I still have to fight against my father. And his father never showed mercy to his men, in his words, the kindness to him now is the cruelty to him after he goes to war in the future. So basically every afternoon there would be a little boy screaming over the village.
Each evening is devoted to a number of history and politics lessons, focusing on the countries and ethnicities of the continent of Theses and their distribution. The continent of Shusari is now divided into four countries, the strongest is the northern military state Oslan Empire, the Oslan Empire is famous for its cavalry, and has many of the continent's strongest combat fighting force Dragoons and tens of thousands of magicians. The second is the Satya Empire that has been at war with the Otlans Empire for many years, the Satya Empire is dominated by crossbowmen, although the strength is slightly weaker than the Oslan Empire, but because the crossbowmen restrain the cavalry in the troops, plus the Satya Empire has its own magic archers, so there has been no substantial progress on both sides in the years of war with the Oslan Empire.
In addition to the two large empires, there were two smaller empires, a desert federation empire called Carthage, and an economic power in the extreme south called Songhai, which was mainly based on maritime trade. There are also countries like the Holy See, which are united in religion and some small dependent states.
On the continent of Shusari, humans occupy most of the area, but in some remote areas, there are all kinds of creatures, such as the dwarf tribes in the mountains, the elves in the forest, the dwarf tribes in the underground, and the dragon race, etc., forming a huge magical world.