ushernet Chapter 312
Chapter 312
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Chapter 312: I Had a Heart Like This, Too
“Royal Guard Grand Commander.”
“Speak.”
Ivan spoke to Casimir Montera, the greatest martial artist in the Kingdom of Litvaleur and the very man who had betrayed his lord.
“As you know, one of us must leave the castle.”
The reason was simple.
“Your brother, Duke Montera, is in danger of falling for the strategy laid out by the two young masters of Grunewald. Now that Allenvert’s side has succeeded in their flanking landing and has even dealt with Sir Walter’s pursuit…”
Ivan frankly shared the latest intelligence they had acquired, mixing it with clever rhetoric to push his own agenda.
“It would be better for us to strike first and aim for Allenvert’s rear. After Duke Montera’s army is annihilated, there will be no point in holding out here.”
“!”
Allenvert and Verdzig’s strategy was predicated on the assumption that the Third Prince’s faction would realize this fact too late.
Therefore, Ivan’s proposal struck a very sharp point.
“…I suppose so.”
It wasn’t difficult to convince the Grand Commander. He was a rational man.
“Should I be the one to go? Or you?”
“It would be best if you went.”
The answer was exactly what Ivan had expected.
“Why is that?”
“Because if I leave, there will be no one left to protect His Highness the Third Prince.”
“Protect him? From whom?”
Ivan asked, feigning ignorance.
Casimir did not hide his distrust.
“From the Black Society.”
“Hahaha! I thought as much.”o burn away their aged body for one last time, to regain a power close to their peak for a single moment.
‘…That detestable man.’
If he could turn back the mercilessly flowing years, and thus stop this crisis with his own hands, what was so regrettable about shortening his remaining days by a little?
‘This body should have grown old and died long ago anyway. I’ve lived long enough.’
Glorious memories flashed through the old man’s mind.
Once, it had been their era, and he had been the bastion that protected Valkenhain’s name against the two monsters of Grunewald.
‘…My friends, it seems I will be leaving first.’
As the old man drank the potion, the withered flame within his body began to blaze.
Thump! Thump!
It felt as if a dead heart was beginning to beat again.
A great ember was burning in the old master’s chest.
‘Once this fire goes out, there is no coming back.’
But that was what he wanted.
“Come, you minions of the Black Society!”
Heinz Valkenhain swung his sword.
…And in its wake, the building that stood behind the trajectory, a wyvern and its rider, and a small rocky hill were all split cleanly in two.
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