Hannoic War
Beautiful (part 11)

"When does a war end? That's when a side wins"

- Lelouch vi Britannia

Exquisitely

"We are here!," the cheers of Vespasian's army sounded delighted.

In front of them was the town of Ballerius that was near.

Some of them took their friends and joked about the brothel they were going to visit.

They were happy because they had finished the long journey without rest and the terrible fight they had been through for months.

From far away, the walls of the city of Ballerius are quite large which has a mountain as a natural defense around it.

For some people who have never visited Ballerius City, the walls carry a strong and impenetrable impression.

The walls and the core of the city have not been replaced for hundreds of years since the city was founded.

The woman wearing the medical clothes could only feel happy to witness how happy the troops felt to be able to take a break from their fight.

"Have we reached the buk?" said a dying soldier lying on a chariot.

He asked the medically dressed woman with a slight sense of pleasure.

The dying soldier was seen wrapped in bandages all over his body. Her legs look like there's only one.

"Yes we'll get some rest" said the woman, holding the dying soldier's shoulder, cheering him on with a smile.

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"Gan harar" , call Toran to a Knight

Enter the knight he called into his room.

"Yes sir?" said the Knight named Gan Harar while bowing respectfully to Toran.

Toran then stood up from his desk which was filled with letters and paper.

He then walked toward the pile of paper he put behind the closet.

After taking a piece of the paper, Toran walked towards Gan Harar while carrying the paper in his hand.

"Give this letter to Olivvar to deliver it to my son Vesius" Toran said, giving the letter to Gan Harar.

"Okay sir" said Gan Harar, taking the letter and walking out of Toran's room.

"The boy..what was he thinking when he led the hunt for bandits directly?" Toran said with annoyance piled up on him.

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"It seems I have to leave you for months or maybe even years" Taitus said as he walked into the closed carriage

There were soldiers guarding Taitus around him.

Kalavvar and Redrick greeted him.

"So Scerl, I'll leave Kalavvar's protection to you" Taitus said.

"Yes-yes, take it easy son, there is no need for a sad farewell" Kalavvar said.

"Yes you're right, maybe I shouldn't even invite you to say goodbye to me" said Taitus, who stopped walking and turned to Kalavvar.

"Fuck you, is it so bad that it makes you a little angry?" Kalavvar said.

"Oi catch it!" said Taitus, throwing a coin at Kalavvar.

"ah! Ah!" said Kalavvar as he caught the coin that Taitus had thrown.

"What is this?" said Kalavvar

It is seen that the silver coin has the symbol of the Tiger beetle printed on it.

"Gift goodbye. If we meet at least it will make our meeting a little warm" Taitus smiled and continued walking towards his closed carriage.

Taitus continued walking until the distance between Kalavvar and himself was quite far.

The soldiers surrounding him grew in number.

"My master, good luck on the road" Scerl said, bowing respectfully to Taitus.

"You saved him once when he was chased by a hit man in the street, I beg you to save him next time if there is such an event!" Taitus said.

"Okay sir!" said once again Scerl politely.

"Just calm down, the next time I meet a killer then I will fight a boy!" Kalavvar said with a smile.

"Don't till this last time we met Kalavvar! Don't die from drinking too much wine!" Taitus said.

"You take care! Let not the famous young master Basileus die from the swing of the bandit sword in the street!" Kalavvar smiled.

Taitus also smiled during the entrance of the closed carriage.

The closed carriage door was then shifted by the soldiers.

The horse neighed and the wheels of the carriage then moved.

Taitus's chariot moved away and hundreds of cavalrymen followed him from behind.

"Oi Rodrick! Let's go back and have a drink!" said Kalavvar, holding Rodrick so tightly that Rodrick could not breathe

"My lord, Rodrick will run out if you don't let go" Scerl said

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"Strength and Fast in silence" Taitus said.

"mm? There's a complaint my lord?" said one of the soldiers asking Taitus.

"Nothing, I'm just saying my family's motto" Taitus said.

The Basil's family flag fluttered in the field around the chariot of Taitus.

Note: Family Coat of Arms Basileus

The family motto Basileus is "Firm and Fast in Silence"

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"Are you ready, son?" said Father Filda from his chariot extending her hand to Hanno.

"Yes" said Hanno, taking Filda's father's hand and riding on his chariot.

*Teek*

Hanno then rode the carriage pulled by the horse.

The sound of the board shifted as Hanno stepped on the train

There was meat, bones, skin, and some animal liquid to be sold in the town of Ballerius by Filda's father.

"Filda, take good care of yourself if there's anything, go to that strange white temple of your light god worshiper" said Father Filda in a harsh tone.

"Yes father" said Filda with a bitter smile.

"Hanno, do you take care of yourself?" said Filda looking at Hanno and gently smiling.

Hanno just nodded lightly while smiling.

The carriage walked and the horse dried away from the house of the two of them.

And Filda waved from afar.

His father and Hanno returned the favor.

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Darkened.

Only candles and windows illuminate the room.

Bookshelves filled this room, with hundreds of books with knowledge from the ends of the World here.

That is the shortest explanation for the Regio to explain the Dalmatian state library room.

The library, which has stood for hundreds of years, was built by 'King Varilaus iii the Peacemaker'.

This library has stood along with the castle Balradius stands.

Lantern in his left hand and thick book in his right hand. Regio walked in the library room, walking himself in the dark towards the desk on the desk where he could read the book he was tenting calmly.

"Oh you're here too Casca" said Regio a little surprised when he arrived at the table.

"No need to worry my friend, I'm just standing here looking for something" Casca said softly

"Searching for something?" said Regio as he sat in the chair and put the tome on the desk.

"Just take time with curiosity of knowledge" said Casca as he sat down with Regio.

Regio then opened the thick book and opened the sheets of the book one by one, reading from the sheet of twins.

"Strantos's history from 3,000 before Cassandra's great conquest" Casca said, looking at the title of the book Regio read, "what are you looking for in the book?" he asked.

"Truth" Regio said.

"About what?" asked Casca.

"Hero from another world" Regio said

"Ohhh... It's rare that you do such a thing" Casca said grinning, "are you starting to doubt them?"

"If it's for the sake of Dalmatia and the Dalmatian royal family, I'll doubt whoever Casca is" Regio said as he closed the book.

"So?" said Casca, "have you found anything you told me the truth about?"

"Not yet" Regio said.

"Didn't you see them being called in person? Why do you doubt them?" he said.

"Listen to this Casca, a long time ago about thousands of years ago, the demon king came and brought a period of darkness to all living beings" Regio said, reading one of the words from the book, "but then the heroes came, 'The Healer', 'The White Knight', 'The Fire Knight', 'The Dark Knight', 'Sang Wa-Sang

" 'The 'Woman of Spear-bearers' and 'The Woman of the Flag-bearer of Light' and then the hero defeats the demon king but the demon king will return for thousands of years to come and the hero will reincarnate and defeat the demon king again for good..." ,casca continued to speak Regio.

Casca then carved a sly smile on his face.

"But unfortunately in some versions of other legends, these women are not there, some are adding heroes with other magical powers, everyone around the world knows this story my friend Regio" Casca said.

"May I ask you something Casca? Do you believe those thousand-year-old words? Do you believe in prophecy? Do you believe in legends? said Regio as he closed the book he read and with a serious look he saw Casca, "do you believe in magic?"

Casca just stared at Regio and Casca's smile just kept getting wider.

Then Casca stood up to the window and looked out where the forest and grasslands lay in the window.

"There are many versions of heroes there are many, some say that they are 4...6..7...8.even 19, but what happened Regio? 39 Heroes suddenly appear" said Casca.

"39 heroes.whether they are fake or not it is still mysterious.." Regio said.

"Everything is mysterious in this world.nothing is certain." Casca said.

"Yes, a hero can turn into a demon or some kind of monster" Regio said.

"Hm" , Casca's little laugh, "you don't have to think so weird."

"It was just my speculation" replied Regio.

"Come on. What happened to you? Tell me why you can think of such a freak?" asked Casca.

"A.I dream" said Regio.

"Hoohh...dream..can you tell me about the dream?" said Casca.

"Either the dream was too soon.I don't really remember" Regio said, holding the side of his head with his right hand.

"Tell me" said Casca.

"I dreamed Perrin turned into a dark monster and then captivated the princess with a knife around her neck while the other heroes then pointed their swords at the princess and Perrin while you Casca suddenly turned into a very maggot many and eat a flag.." Regio said.

"It was just my friend Regio's dream." said Casca.

"But still I can't calm down.There's something wrong.but I don't think I know that.." said Regio.

"You saw the hero's call directly, if I may ask how the call took place?" said Casca.

"Everything happened too fast I can't remember everything, but the white sect and Garuman managed to summon the heroes" Regio said.

"Don't lie to me Regio.." , Casca's smile was wide with his voice soft enough, "since childhood, you were pretty bad at lying."

Regio looked at Casca's face.

Suddenly fear arose within the Regio

"I know that the summoning did not go smoothly, the summoning made 20 witches belonging to the white sect disappear, including the head of the white sect magician Garuman" said Casca smiling cunningly, "and some other loyal knights in this castle.they disappeared because of this summoning effect.if I guess.."

"Ba..how do you know?" said Regio turned to Casca

"Yes...you think who you're dealing with..my childhood friend Regio.." , said Casca softly, "so why don't you tell me about the witch's disappearance?"

"Haah.." ,Regio sighed, he could no longer lie" I guess.you are the most dangerous in the whole kingdom of Dalmatia" he said.

"You should have known since childhood that I was the most dangerous? Tell me everything" said Casca

"19 witches of the white sect disappeared during the summoning of the heroes, we did not expect that, after all.19 witches disappeared.

"That's what I know..but you know Regio? We are not the only ones who have such a prophecy, the Centaurs of the northern prairie said that 6 fighters will be born into this world led by one person who will lead 5 other fighters since hundreds of years ago" ,casca said as he picked up a book from a nearby bookshelf, "and the Elves said that there would come 20 heroes who would be born through magic, light, light,also the tree and then they would shoot arrows of bright light from above the sky making the Elves unite against the Demon King when the other nations would be destroyed by the Demon King, Elves have been saying that for thousands of years" she said with a smile

Then Casca put the books he took back on the bookshelf.

"But you know the truth how many heroes are summoned?" said Casca.

"39" , said Regio.

"Yes.but one more hero failed to be summoned, and instead gave rise to a rotten corpse which when we touch the maggots will be seen in his body" said Casca as his grin grew more cunning, "in this world everything is mysterious my friend Regio.and I know everything.behind the mysterious shadow..when all are afraid to know the mysterious shadow.I enter into it"