Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 17 – SECRET ALICE (bags. 1)
[POV Zero/Alice Gloria Fallenstone]
“Basic useless!”
“Cih, what kind of hero is he who can not in the least hurt the enemy?”
“Make what useless people seem to still receive money from taxes that are painstakingly collected from the sweat of citizens?”
Caci-makian like that already seems to be a normal everyday that I receive from the people around me.
It all started when I was 12.
Even though I was young back then, all my teachers and seniors at the academy recognized my talent and brilliant skill in swordmanship.
In a short period of time, I managed to be recognized as one of the talented sword knight candidates among the students of the academy even from the first year I enrolled in the academy.
Then I quickly climbed up and continued to rise again afterwards.
In each sword tournament held each week at the imperial academy, I managed to defeat my seniors and in the end, I managed to obtain a knight badge, he said, a proof that I had also been recognized by the empire as one of the capable swordsman knights, the imperial protector candidate, whom even I was able to obtain in less than two months from the time I entered the academy.
With that badge, I was finally able to formally present a challenge to the official knights of the empire. The various official challenges then I presented to some official imperial knights whom I valued as worthy of my mark.
Every challenge was accepted and in every challenge I won. I have never lost a single time in every challenge I have faced. Each individual imperial knight bowed before me, I was 12 years old.
The copper badge changed silver, then from silver to gold. I got everything in just 6 months.
I was also crowned the official knight of the empire at the age of 12 years.
I come from a fallen noble family, Fallenstone. We are basically nobles with the title of count, but since Father's death and no official male successor in our family has been able to replace Father since I as his only child was a woman, the title of count was also suspended from our family.
But since I was able to achieve the position of an official imperial knight not only at my age of 12, but also even though I am a woman, she said, the title was returned to our family and became me as the new head of the family with the title of Countess Alice Gloria Fallenstone. The title Gloria in my middle name was specifically pinned by the emperor to me.
Be me as the youngest elevated noble in the history of the empire. No, not even the heir to his father's noble title could inherit it when they were 20 years old.
The emperor has really treated me with a special that strangely the decision has not gained any opposition from any nobles.
Later I learned that it happened for the sake of political stability alone which was threatened by some nobles who were apparently interested in our former territory even to the point of fighting to fight over it when the political situation was not the Kingdom of Meglovia.
Not only that, I was elevated to one among the 12 imperial sun knights, the most elite title among the elites for all knights in the imperial sphere.
However, just two months later I was with my mother enjoying that happiness since our status and honor were restored and even I obtained that honorary title, the demon attack from the western continent arrived.
However, thanks to the tenacious struggle of the twelve imperial sun knights, the four demons were successfully annihilated despite having to sacrifice the lives of 8 of the 12 imperial sun knights. Four people managed to survive which I was lucky to be one of them.
Although I actually survived in that place because I was protected by others since I was considered a child and did not deserve to die for that time since I still have a long future.
The four sun knights who survived the demon attack were also crowned as imperial heroes who were later recorded in history.
I thought there would be no more trouble in my family, but the orders of the emperor came to a few chosen knights, and apparently, the emperor, I as the representative of the imperial sun knight belong to one of them since the other three imperial sun knights who are also still alive like me are still in a wounded condition.
Command to explore the monster forest. That was the order that His Majesty the Emperor had decreed.
I, who was ten years younger than now, did not expect that this was the beginning of the destruction of my life.
I led about thirty elite imperial knights back then to explore into the territory of the monster forest. I can be the team leader even though I am still arguably a child, especially I am a woman, everything is possible since I am one of the members of the imperial sun knight.
Bad luck also happened to my expedition team that entrusted a little boy as its leader. The monsters in the interior of the monster forest turned out to be much stronger than we had expected, even much stronger than the usual ones storming into the limits of the imperial territory.
All of my team members were then annihilated and I was the only one who could survive.
I immediately fled cowardly from that place in fear of death.
But then, one of the monsters that was almost human-like except with many fangs suddenly attacked from my blind spot by shooting a beam of black light at me.
I was hit by that attack. But at first, I had absolutely no idea what the attack meant other than it felt like a normal light electric shock, no impact at all on my body.
I hid my cowardly actions to the emperor by saying that I had tried my best on the battlefield, but because the monsters were too strong, the thirty soldiers died where only I survived after fighting with all my might.
But the truth is that I used the thirty knights I led as shields of flesh and fled alone in fear.
As strong as my fighting ability, apparently I who was a child at that time, still have a very weak mentality. I feared death when the situation worsened and fled in battle.
Long after the incident took place, slowly, I began to feel a strangeness in my body. Each swing of my sword was no longer able to hit my target and every presence of myself around monsters, the monsters became crazy so that the formation of the troops became messy.
I suddenly became useless in battle.
After I remember back, maybe this is some kind of curse that came from that human-like monster.
No, basically, this must be the punishment of the soldiers who entrusted their lives to me, but I betrayed their trust by leaving them alone to face the cold and alone death there.