Dear Eddert - Chapter 35
Chapter 35
Translator: effe
“It’s difficult to be specific.”
“The reason is?”
Walter answered calmly.
“Because what you do as the Emperor’s shadow has no boundaries or limits.”
Long before Walter was mature, he always had to memorize words like a prayer since he was young, when he didn’t know exactly what he was saying.
“It is true.”
Nodding his head with a solemn expression, the Lord, Valtri began preaching again with a satisfied expression.
“The fact that we, Sernotti, who were nothing more than wandering mercenaries without a root, were able to fulfill the glorious mission of the Klawe Empire from generation to generation….”
Eden did her best to hold back her drowsiness, pinching her thigh painfully. After Valtri’s long preach was over, she was able to have dinner. Today was the day when trainees to become Sernotti’s elite knights gathered together to forge solidarity and swear allegiance to the empire.
The total number of knights training swords in the Sernotti land was over 300, but the number of those in this place was about 20. All of them had passed the rigorous tests from Valtri, the head of Sernotti, and were receiving intense training every day.
It wasn’t just horseback riding and swordsmanship that they had to learn. Running, fighting, and wrestling were the basics. The training varied from tree climbing and tightrope walking, to digging, stealth, and poison making.
In the summer, they swung their sword until they were exhausted, and in the winter when it snowed, there was a time where they survived for a month just hunting alone without any other food in the mountain.
They were different from the Imperial Guard, and they also differed from the knights who received the title of nobility and were at the forefront of the war. Even a mercenary could become a hero if they played a role in the war, but they always had to move without revealing their identity.
Another name for the Sernotti Elite Knights is ‘Guardian of the Falcon’.
Also called the Emperor’s Shadow, their unofficial mission was to assassinate. As the Empire grew in size, it was natural for the power of the local nobles to increase. A hundred years ago, Klawe IV had organized several assassin groups for a powerful imperial power. They secretly worked to sow the seeds of rebellion and executed nobles plotting treason.
Sernotti was a family that was born like that.
‘Ah…. I’m so sleepy….’
But to Eden, who was barely holding back her yawn, wars and assassinations all sounded like tales from a distant land. It was not only for her, but also for everyone in the presence. All of the young knights were training intensively, but no one could easily predict whether they would have a chance to demonstrate the skills they honed for the sake of the Empire.
The Emperor’s shadow could not move on its own without the Emperor’s orders. After the death of the previous emperor Klawe VII, the Sernotti family had been living in silence without leaving the castle for 12 years.
Due to the characteristics of the assassin group that does not appear all the time, it was impossible to know who of the assassin family had the most power at present. It was only natural that Sernotti was not the assassin to help Crown Prince Christian, who would soon be formally crowned. Unless Christian summoned them to the palace, they might not be given a chance to wield a sword until they die.
But Sernotti’s head, Valtri, has acted like a man risking his life to create an elite knighthood for the past 12 years.
“Lord, is there anything we can do in this peaceful world?”
It was the first question Eden asked when she was first selected as a candidate for the Elite Knights and heard of their mission.
“Why don’t we go to war instead? Then Crown Prince Christian might give us a big prize! His Majesty’s favorite thing is war! Then we will receive a lot of loot, and the people of the territory will no longer have to be hungry, right?”
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