True King's Ecstasy

Norman was not feeling good at all after the previous battle because he didn't expect to experience a crushing defeat like that even with the army of the kingdom.

Even though, he was able to hold off Remi, that didn't serve any purpose since they had to retreat.

He wasn't sure about why Mason gave them such an absurd order but, he could guess why he did that. Noterritorybles are people who value their reputation more than anything, so if the word goes out that, Duke got defeated by a rebel army it will affect his future.

Norman wasn't against the idea of regrouping in attacking but, after seeing the condition of their army, he had no high hopes for them.

"Do you think Duke abandoned us?" One of the commanders asks while sipping a glass of wine. They had enough food because more than half of their army didn't make it back here.

"He would never do that, don't you know how nobles are, even if they do tons of illegal stuff they won't do it in public, they care about their reputation, so if the duke abandoned us here, it would bring a bad name to him," Norman answered him to which he nodded his head.

"You're very knowledgeable, aren't you?" They were not expecting an attack at this time of the day, Norman and other commanders were happily talking until they saw a shadow outside of their tent.

"What's that?" They freaked out for a minute thinking it was a monster because they were near the forest.

All of them quickly took their swords to attack but, the attack never came, the shadow didn't move from its spot.

One of the commanders opened the tent to see what it was but, suddenly his head fell to the ground without any sounds.

All the others freaked out except Norman because he was the only one who was able to see the sword which attacked.

"Calm down, it's an enemy attack, get ready to fight back," Norman shouted bringing some sense to the others.

"Come out! Norman and others,"

They heard a male voice outside the tent, Norman and other commanders left the tent fully armed but, the visual outside made them lose their will to fight.

Ten people were surrounding them from different sides while a silver-haired boy stood in the middle with a blood-stained sword.

"Keller!" Norman shouted in anger seeing Velian.

"Is that the leader of rebels? But how did they find us? Duke really abounded us, I told you," Other commanders were babbling among themselves.

"I will let your soldiers live, but you people are out of the question, you guys are too smart and powerful to be left alive, especially you," Velian said while pointing at Norman.

"You already managed to escape from me once, the same thing won't happen again,"

Norman felt hopeless seeing all the soldiers surrounding them, he knew Velian was powerful enough to beat him one didn't want to fight with him.

"Kill those people, Naomi," Velian ordered looking at the trembling commanders.

"No, wait! Please let us live! We won't come, here again, it was our fault to attack you," They were begging for their lives but, Naomi had no compassion for them.

Norman quickly blocked the sword of Naomi, looking all serious,

"I won't let you kill them," Norman rolled her sword but, Naomi wasn't the one to give up.

She quickly threw a dagger at him but, he was able to dodge it with his quick reflexes. Norman didn't see that Velian was behind him as he got punched in his face by Velian,

"Norman, you had good records, it's really unfortunate you had to die like this because of your sister," Velian said at Norman, who was lying on the floor touching his bloody cheeks.

"You won't understand, even I didn't want this to happen, I can't ignore her death, you killed her, even if I hated her from the core she was still my sister," Norman quickly got up and tried to attack Velian but, he got kicked again.

Naomi went back to killing the commanders, they were almost on the verge of fainting seeing all this happen in front of them.

"Stop! Stop! Don't kill me, I have a family," They were shouting almost hysterically.

"We have our own families too you know, you people attacked us and you except to beg like this," One of the soldiers on Velian side shouted before Naomi beheaded them.

Norman saw his comrades getting beheaded but, he felt nothing seen it because he never considered them friends, to begin with, he just wanted to be a good guild master to the people of the Cantrell territory.

Even though Anna and Norman were siblings, they were the complete opposite of each other. Anna wanted something more than what she wanted so she did a lot of illegal things even when she was young, she envied people in her teens and she straight up bullied some other noble ladies but, Norman wanted nothing more than to have a peaceful life.

"I can understand you Norman, if my sister had to go through something like that, I would help her too even if she's wrong, it looks like we have a lot of similar things," Velian said while waving his sword.

Norman took all his heavy blows but, he couldn't hold it any longer as his sword snapped into two pieces,

"Tsk~ how are you this strong? You're not even half of my age,"

Just like Ivan, Norman also envied those who had talent, he became the guild master of Cantrell territory but, he couldn't rise any further because of his lack of power and skill.

"Anna, at least I tried to fulfil my promise to you," He thought before getting slashed by Velian's sword.

Norman was lucky because Velian used only a normal sword he picked up from the inventory before coming here,

*Cough

"World is really unfair, why do I have to die? I just wanted to become a good guild master,"

"Anna, this is your fault but it's okay, I can at least say that I'm not a liar like you," Norman thought while coughing a lot of blood.

Velian saw him dying so he got ready to leave but, Norman quickly grabbed his leg.

"Boy, promise me not to hurt Hannah, please accept this as a dying wish of a fool," Norman had no family because he wasn't married but, he loved Hannah from the deepest part of her heart.

"I will consider it," Velian said before killing him by slashing him again deeper than last time.

Naomi also killed her targets so, she looked at Velian to get the next orders,

"Let's just go back, Naomi,"

"Take everyone we tied as prisoners, don't let anyone escape," Velian ordered before going back to meet Juno with Naomi.