Chapter 196: 199

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POV: New Recruit Elvis

Chapter 199 - A Young Man with a Dream

"Hey, would you like to go to Barca with me?"

　It was when we were paying the tax of wheat to the knight.

　My friend said this while looking at the small amount of wheat that was left.

　I wondered if he was thinking the same thing.

　Recently, there has been a lot of talk about this in every village.

　It sounds like a lie, but there is a man who rose from a peasant to a knight with territory in the span of one generation.

　The story goes that he is a very strong man.

　When he fights, he wins battle after battle.

　I heard that he destroyed the Uruk calvary by himself.

　But that wasn't what was most important to us.

　If we went to Barca, we would have no trouble finding food.

　To be honest, I'm at the end of my rope living here, not knowing when I'll starve to death.

　If that's the case, why don't I just go to Barca?

　Normally it is difficult for a farmer to become a knight, but perhaps because the head of Barca himself was a farmer, many other farmers are being trained to become knights.

　I want to be a knight.

　I want to marry the woman I want and have children without having to worry about food or financial needs.

　Okay, let's go to Barca, find a job there and make ourselves useful.

　Then I'll bring her to Barca and marry her.

　That nagging woman that I've known since we were little couldn't possibly find anyone else to take her.

"All right, let's go. I'll go to Barca and become a knight myself."

　And with that, I left the village where I was born and headed for Barca with my acquaintance.

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"Oh, I need to join the army to live in Barca? Is that a law?"

"Yes, it is. There are a lot of squatters coming to Barcania these days. In order to live in Barca, you have to join the army and undergo training for at least a few years. After your military service is over, you are officially allowed to live in Barca."

"...... I see. I have a question, I heard that you can become a knight if you join the army and are active, is that true?"

"You too? That's what everyone who comes here asks. But it's not that easy to become a knight. However, if you do well and are acknowledged by Barca-sama, you will have a high chance."

"I understand. I will join the Barcan army."

"Well, can you write your name? Sign here and get in line over there. Also, if you join the army, you'll get food. You won't starve to death while you're training, so don't worry. Good luck."

"Yes, sir! Thank you very much!"

　My friend and I walked from the village to Barca. There was a road that the family head of Barca had made.

　It was difficult to walk around our village, but this road was very easy to walk on.

　Moreover, the closer we got to the territory, the more crowded it became.

　And that's not all. It was not uncommon to see large Familiars carrying carts of goods, food, and even money.

　I wondered how many people were coming and going to this area.

　As we continued to walk around, we came upon a castle.

　At first, I thought it was the rumored Barcan Castle, but it seemed to be different.

　It was the first battle-castle built by Barca-sama, and was protected by a river, but the Lord was not there.

　I was told that there is an even more impressive castle in Barcania, further away from here.

　However, we were stranded there.

　There were many people queuing up.

　When I finally got my turn in line, a soldier from the castle said to me, "If you want to live in Barca, you must join the army."

　If you didn't want to, you wouldn't be given the right to live in Barca.

　No, apparently that is not the case if you're rich, smart, or talented.

　It seems that if you have something that is recognized by Barca-sama, you are allowed to live there automatically.

　But I'm just a simple farmer with no special skills, and now that I've left the land of my birth, I'm technically not even a farmer anymore.

　As such, I and my friend, who came with me, had no choice.

　We joined the Barcan army to take up residence in Barca.

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"Listen. The most important thing in this army is to follow military discipline. Those who fail to follow the rules of the army will end up like the ones you see now. Do you understand? There are no exceptions. Those who fail to follow the regulations will be severely punished. You must remember that!"

　I joined the Barca army.

　I think I've come to the wrong place.

　I've never been in the military before, but I've heard stories about it from my father and other people around me.

　But the stories I had heard and the Barca army in front of me were completely different.

　Barca was frighteningly strict about military discipline.

　You have to absolutely obey the commander who is leading you or is in a higher position than you.

　I understand the importance of that, of course.

　But will I be killed just for being late...?

　My friend who came with me to Barca died.

　It's not that he didn't show up for the meeting, it's just that he had a stomach ache and decided to take a shit.

　Because of that, he finally came to the meeting place sometime after everyone had gathered.

　For that alone, he was executed for violating military regulations.

　What should I do?

　I want to run away from this place right now.

　But I don't have the courage to do that.

　If I tried to leave the Barcan army without permission, I would be considered a fugitive.

　Running away from the army is a violation of military regulations.

　If I'm found out, I'll be killed, too.

　Oh my God.

　I don't know why I came to this hell-hole.

　I can't even begin to regret it.

　I ended up spending the night crying.

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　Since joining the army, the moon has gone through several phases.

　I think I've finally gotten used to my life now.

　I have some influence now, as well.

　I'm even taking care of some of the newcomers.

　I've come to have a certain amount of popularity among the trainees.

　This is because the number of people who joined the army at the same time as me has decreased considerably from when we had begun.

　The Barca army has really strict military regulations.

　Moreover, those regulations are very detailed.

　If you violate any of them, you will be severely punished.

　Even light punishments become stricter if the person has had a history of them.

　At first, I thought it was impossible to survive it all. I even thought that the Lord of Barca was forcing the immigrants to join the army in order to kill them all.

　But now I see that it's a little different.

　If they don't go this far, us new troops probably won't be well organized.

　People from other regions with different ways of thinking will be gathered in one place.

　If they don't crack down on us with strict military regulations, we won't be able to settle down our differences.

　The military regulations are detailed but not absurd.

　Basically, the rules state the obvious: listen to your superiors and don't use force against others without permission.

　Once you get used to it, it's not difficult to stay within the military code itself.

　It was just that the punishments for breaking them were severe.

　Well, that had its advantages for us, too.

　The rules also applied to my superiors.

　The person who had told me to obey the ordinances, who had punished my friend who came with me, was also punished for violating the military code.

　Many of our superiors are scary people, but even so, if they break military regulations, they will die.

　Perhaps that's why, surprisingly, the Barca army was easy to live with once you got used to living with these strict laws.

　As long as you follow the rules and train hard, you won't have any trouble finding food.

　In a few more years, I will be able to obtain the right to live here.

　Until then, all I had to do was live my life diligently.

　That's what I was thinking.

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　The war began.

　Apparently, there was a dispute with a neighboring territory.

　I don't know the details, but it seems that a knight of the Garnes family insulted the head of the Barca family, Ars-sama, and our Lord immediately issued an order.

"Let us move out, army of Barca!"

　That's what Ars-sama said.

　Immediately, we prepared for battle and marched into the battlefield.

　None of us trainee soldiers were left behind because of our slowness.

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　We followed with all our might as Ars-sama began to charge on his Valkyrie, an extremely beautiful, furry Familiar.

　From there, it was lightning fast.

　Ars-sama and Baito-sama charged into the Garnes family's knight's mansion and immediately broke through the defenses.

　We, the Barcan army, followed suit and occupied the mansion and seized the villages in the Garnes Knight Territory.

　We also defeated the hoards of knights that came towards us.

　That's when the soldiers of Barca's army realized that we were strong.

　The knights' army over there was not an army at all.

　They were so disorganized that they couldn't even line up properly in this sudden situation.

　They were no match for our troops, which worked in unison under the command of our superiors.

　Moreover, the peasant soldiers on the other side immediately ran away and scattered as soon as the situation turned bad.

　Seeing this, I thought it was inconceivable.

　If it was us, the Barcan army, we would never run away.

　If our leaders found out that we ran away, we'd be dead anyway.

　So we would fight until we died on the battlefield.

　If we fight well, we won't die in vain.

　If I die in a battle, a large sum of money will be sent to my family back home, which was stated in the contract when I joined the army.

　I'm afraid of dying, but now that I'm here, I'll fight until I drop dead.

　All the other soldiers in Barca's army had the same ideals.

 

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"The head of the House of Arbalest has been defeated!"

　The sound of thunder deafened my ears.

　Even I was terrified when I heard the sound.

　However, that fear soon disappeared.

　The reason for the thunderclap that had spread apart and wasn't concentrated was that the Head of the Arbalest family had been killed.

　Of course, it was Ars-sama, who was the leader of our army, who took him down.

　While we were holed up in the new castle we built between the rivers, we soldiers talked about Lord Ars a lot.

　One after another, we were receiving information that he was destroying knightly families in the Arbalest territory.

　However, even this happy news was not enough to last after the castle at the rivers was attacked by the main army of Arbalest, the ones that appeared after the secondary troops.

　We just had to endure, putting up a desperate resistance.

　Finally, the battle came to an end.

　Lord Ars, who had been moving westward through the Arbalest territory, turned back and quickly destroyed the main camp, including the isolated Head of the family.

　To be honest, I never thought that we would win against an army that had the Head of a noble family.

　I had always been told by my father.

　"A knight is not a human, he is a superhuman creature."

　"And if you are the Head of a noble family, you are almost a god."

　My father told me to never think that someone below the rank of Head could defeat another Head.

　But Ars-sama won.

　And we were the ones who contributed to that victory.

　I never thought that I would be involved in such a victorious battle.

　I stood shoulder to shoulder with my fellow soldiers who had survived and we rejoiced together.

 

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"All right, you guys. You must fight till the end for me here, okay? We're going to abandon this camp and launch an attack to defeat the next head of House Uruk, Pessi de Uruk. While my brother Batio, Leon, and I are fighting, you must hold off the Uruk knights, even if it kills you. Understood?"

「「「「「「「「「「 Yessir! 」」」」」」」」」」

　What a mess.

　The first battle against the Uruk forces was fought in the east.

　It was also an overwhelming victory for us.

　We took them by surprise and trapped them.

　By doing so, we defeated many knights and soldiers of the Uruk army.

　But that was just the beginning of the hard part.

　While we were building our position, the army with the soon-to-be Uruk Head arrived.

　We holed up in our camp and fought back, but more and more people were dying every day.

　I thought it was the end for us.

　But then a miracle happened.

　I was made a knight.

　I really don't know what I'm talking about though, because I don't even know if I'm actually a knight.

　But I was named by Baito-sama and given magic.

　The naming ceremony was performed by Ars-sama himself.

　Ah, this is the first time I've gotten this close to Ars-sama.

　He's still a child.

　But he wasn't a normal child.

　He looked me in the eye, and that eye got me.

　I guess it's true that even Baito-sama is no match for him.

　He lives on a different level than I do.

　That's what I thought.

　That Ars-sama said in front of everyone.

　He said, "Fight till the end."

　"If you do that, I will defeat Pessi de Uruk."

　My heart trembled.

　Ars-sama would do it.

　No matter who the opponent is, he will definitely win.

　Yes, we can definitely win if we just listen to Ars-sama.

　That's what I thought.

　I'm not afraid of dying.

　I'll do it.

　I've become the knight I've always wanted to be.

　I no longer have any regrets about my life.

　I'll tell my dead friends in the afterlife that I became a knight.

 

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　We won.

　We won!

　We defeated the Uruk army from that desperate situation.

　Ars-sama really defeated Pessi.

　He did what he said he would do.

　He faced his opponent and defeated him in the blink of an eye.

　And that's not all.

　After that, he didn't take a step back even though he was surrounded by the vengeful Uruk army.

　Ars-sama, Baito-sama, and Leon-sama stood in front of us and defeated many Uruk knights.

　It was amazing.

　We had been fighting all morning and hadn't taken a single step back.

　Until Carlos came to the rescue.

"Good job, Elvis."

　He called out to me.

　Ars-sama said, "Good work."

　I'm sure he's the most tired out of all of us, but he's talking to me.

　Rather, you know my name?

　I felt like crying.

　No, I was crying.

　It wasn't just me.

　Everyone was crying.

　After the battle was over, everyone in the Barcan army was crying and laughing.

　Let's stay with this army.

　After the battle with the Uruk army was over, I thought to myself.

　I think I'll fight to help Ars-sama while being under Baito-sama.

　Maybe I'm not the only one who thinks that way.

　I'm sure everyone here is thinking that way.

　This is how I truly became a member of Barca at that moment.

CadmarLegend Ooooh! Long chapter! Especially near the 200 chapters mark! Thank you to those who have been reading this long! Oh, and it's official. I will indeed be going AFK for a while. Just a little bit. Some personal matters. But chapters will be released on schedule, so don't worry! I don't know if future me will already have put the notice on previous chapters. Current me is a bit of a wreck right now in the sense of being able to plan ahead... (/ω＼)

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