Hannoic War
Fleshy Mask (Part 23)

"Everyone who stretches his net of spiders to catch something can either bring himself to glory or regret..."

vergil in Aeneid

Fleshy Mask

Sitting Willy in his bed.his eyes were empty.his eyes were half the eyes of a corpse and half the eyes of a desperate man.

"My feet.." said Willy as he looked at his feet.

The heart of the person wearing it is still glowing, while the heart of the person wearing it is not.

Willy was a cheerful person and when he woke up his cheerful self instantly died.

When opened the blanket can be seen his legs that only stay on his thigh..

Willy then looked ahead with a blank look..

"I can't walk for the rest of my life." said Willy, sliding something in front of him that wasn't visible..

*He saw the digital screen.It's a pity that I couldn't see it.* , Cleorah thought as she stood with regretful eyes.

Cyrus just stood in front of him as silent as a stone, his eyes more serious hundreds of times than usual.

Several heroes are also in this room, Szeth looks the most regretful.

"I ran away.I ran away.I should have been able to fight that Orc.." - Szeth said by biting his lips.

*Szeth was one of the fastest to run, he was a coward at the time.but he was not a fool, he was a coward, he was the smartest when he saw the hundreds of skulls and the big Orcs he immediately ordered some heroes to run.he knew that we could not fight.*, Cleorah thought as she bit her lips.

Cleorah felt like crying.When she saw Cyrus.she wanted to lean on Cyrus' chest and cry..Isn't that what a man wants most?

Sometimes Cleorah thinks that men are the ones who want to fall the most to cry in a woman's chest and the woman says with a sweet breath..

'you did your best..'

"No" said Elara in a voice that felt stronger than any other hero, "i-this is not your fault, there are hundreds of skulls there and that one Orc alone we might not even fight against..we don't know that…."

*Is he right..?* ,said Cleorah while biting her lips more strongly.

Cleorah then pinched his arm.up to his strongest pain.

If Cleorah saw her hand wearing her fancy bracelet right now, she would definitely pinch it to the blood.

"I'm not wrong.I should use my skills wisely.but I use them when it's too late." said Cyrus, covering her face with her hands.

This time Cleorah bit her lip until it bled..

His blood could be felt descending on his chin.

Her love...Cyrus is wrong...Cyrus is never wrong…..Cyrus...

"T-no I. wrong" Sera said in a nervous and sad voice, "I should

"I want to go visit the queen" Cleorah said as she exited the room with a bitter face.

Cleorah walked out in the hallway of this palace while wiping her bloody lips..

Blood stained the clothes in his arms.

Cleorah then fell to her knees with both feet...

She wanted to cry this time, a hundred times stronger than before..

For Cleorah this was not something she could handle.39 The hero who lost his way.or lives 36 now..

Then the man behind the Black Party incident…

He has to be careful with everyone but his friends..

Then the body was in the library….

'Don't tell or tell anyone including heroes, I'll tell my loyal bodyguard. This body should be new, how is it possible that this not-so-deep library layer has no known corpse in it, Mr. Flynn must know something he knows about a corpse like this' ' said Miss Harlaw.

Cleorah can't think of any of that, can she? He's just a 17-year-old boy….

Why did Perrin do it? Why is Perrin? He was as old as Cleorah why could Perrin who had a heavier burden?

Why…?

Cleorah imagined Cyrus would hug her from behind and say as sweetly as she could....

'you did your best..'

"Cleorah?" said Queen Voa in the soft voice of her little child.

"Perrin..Lord Queen." Cleorah spoke but his words were cut off by a cry that he could not bear.

*Mr Queen Voa? No. The Queen doesn't have to be here...The Queen must be in her room...Lord Queen could be in danger.Since the Black Feast of Perrin has ordered you to remain in the room.*, want to say it Cleorah but instead she cries.

His cry was small...Cleorah was even sure no one heard her.

Cleorah's tears were being held in her clothes..

"Mr Perrin?" murmured the Queen did not understand.

Perrin would have been furious to see Cleorah...Perrin had trusted him with his friends and Cleorah had already destroyed him…

"Perrinn.." Cleorah said in tears…

"Mr Perrin won son" said Miss Harlaw emerging from the back of the Queen's wheelchair.

*Mr...Perrin..won..?* ,thought Cleorah to hear it.

"Mr Perrin had destroyed the traitorous navy and Trivistane rebels in the sea around the Bee River. Almost all of his navy has been destroyed, the sea now has us..for a while.." said Miss Harlaw with her adult voice, "there is a command of Mr. Perrin from the pigeons if we are going to the capital"

"Kei..capital?" , Cleorah said in an uncharitable voice from crying.

"You crying, son? You don't have to cry for long, I've been in that situation. Mr. Perrin has already won the battle and we with Her Majesty the Queen will move to the capital. There Mr. Perrin will re-stabilize Dalmatia and get things going" said Ms. Harlaw as she walked past Cleorah who was still on her knees in tears, "that's it, I have no business. Get your friends and the Queen ready to go"

*prin...Perrin you were always the best among us.*, Cleorah thought as she wiped her tears.

"Miss Cleorah heard? People nicknamed the battle 'Battle of Black Fire' you know! Any songs to listen to? The song is quite good" said the Queen with a visible spirit he wanted to cheer Cleorah.

*If Perrin were here he wouldn't cry.*, thought Cleorah.

Perrin will stand firm and silent while thinking about his next plan.

Perrin wouldn't wait for a knight or a hero to hug him and save him.

Or even Perrin wouldn't make a knight save him.

Perrin had decided to become a knight himself…

Cleorah then stood up slowly…

"The evil creature came~ Came from the evil land to destroy our land~"

Singing the Princess in her sweet young voice..

Cleorah decided not to cry this time…

"Knight comes to save us~ Sail them with brave~"

Cleorah's legs are weak at this time.and she won't let a man lift her..

"Hike them on board~ Willing them to leave their wives and families to save us~"

Cleorah's face ached after wiping away her cries but Cleorah got used to it…

"The Black Fire Magic flew in a space by the Hero saved us all~"

Cleorah decided to put on Perrin's face.stoic face.strong face.face stared intently ahead…

"The White Ship collided with the Villain Ship and saved us all~"

Cleorah decided to install something that Perrin had never installed..

"Lauto becomes clean again~ Saved by Hero~"

A smile…

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Charla walked on the ground while accompanied by several mercenaries with leather armour riding around.

Hanno walked behind him with her calm footsteps.

"See try you're not a priest I've been raping for a long time" said one of the mercenaries looking at Charla with a look of wanting to spit.

Charla could only stare at him with a limp look to pretend...

"No fool, what god do you want to curse? Rape the priest?" said one of the soldiers carrying the mercenary flag....

'The 'Lunner' name of this mercenary group, Charla heard it earlier from this mercenary chatter.

Charla then looked back, she looked at Hanno, her gaze flat and calm.

*Thank you Hanno.*, wanted Charla to say that but she can't now.

He remembered a moment ago..

'My brother Helena is a priest and I was escorting my brother to our distant relative in Jamatyr City so that he could be safe' ' Hanno said with a face that hardly seemed to lie..

'Keep why he disguised himself as a man?' said one of the soldiers doubting Hanno's remarks.

'I'm afraid my brother was raped because we heard there was news that there was a Pay Soldier raping the priest, so I wanted to disguise him my brother' Hanno said.

'Huh, then where did you guys get these quality items from?' said one of the soldiers.

'We used to serve little nobles but the nobility wanted to rape my brother, so we ran and brought the things we could. That's why my lord so that we can get to Jamatyr city quickly' Hanno said.

'the priest who stole ei?' said one of the soldiers.

'my brother fought my idea of running and carrying things, but I still took him to survive.I just want to save my brother gentlemen' ' said Hanno.

Some of the soldiers could only smile and fall silent at their stories.

Then one of the mercenaries rode forward past his other companions.

'Does your sister know anything about medical science? The priest usually can' ' said the horseman to the front.

'Yes, at least the nurses in our place can increase, the soldiers affected by the disease more and more' ' said one of the soldiers who walked.

Hanno was just silent with a flat face as usual.but from the movement of his cheeks Hanno wanted to smile..

'Can' , Hanno said.

Charla feels grateful to bring Hanno a hundred times more grateful than she was…

Charla admitted that Charla herself was not good at lying…

He was grateful to bring a good liar this time….

Charla then looked towards Hanno..

With a smile he looked at Hanno..

There was the sound of footsteps approaching, but this time the sound of footsteps of the horse was more walking.

It was seen that there was another group of soldiers leading them from the side.

"Yo big lips" said one of the soldiers from the troop group in Charla's place with a smile.

It was seen that the group carried the same flag.

But they brought more captives and peasants than Charla's entourage.

There seem to be dozens? the 20s? the 30s? Charla can't count it now.

But Charla could only see that the group of farmers had frightened faces, sad and their eyes were empty.

"What do you think you got Frogs, '" said one of the soldiers from the other troupe seen the soldier got the nickname 'Big Lips' indeed because it has lips that protrude forward and always show his teeth.

"1 pastor and 1 brother priest" said one of the soldiers from Charla's entourage.

"Praise? It might be good to add the blessings of the gods to the sick stomach in the camp" said Big Lips with a smile.

"At least, only 2 people? Tumben" said one of the other soldiers.

"If you get what?" said one of Charla's soldiers.

"A group of villagers hiding in this forest" said one of the other soldiers.

But the farmers and captives who brought it consisted only of men..

"Where's thefemale? You have raped and hanged, huh?" said the soldier nicknamed 'Katak' by soldiers from another entourage.

"Yes, you can immediately guess" said Big Lips with a smile.

"Heh, I'm calling you general loh, the general has hung some rapists loh~" , said one of the soldiers in Charla's overhauled with a ignorant tone.

"You'll also have to hang if I stir, you've been raped. After all, if we rape in the forest like this, the general will not know" said Big Lips while pulling with the rope of one of the farmers he held.

"Heh, the generals always think that hanging who rape will make other soldiers kapok. Though many do not know that it can be hidden hehehe" said one of the soldiers on horse-ridden Charla.

"It's a pity that you're a priest, if I haven't raped you" said one of the soldiers from the other party, looking at Charles.

"Because of your curse, if you rape the priest" said one of Charla's soldiers.

"As if we've been cursed in hell by rape" said one of the other soldiers.

"The rape of women can still be forgiven, but the rape of the priest will not be forgiven by the god, sikomandan said that" said Frog.

"hm, you're too following what the commando said, let's go back to camp" said one of Charla's soldiers.

Then the soldier advanced with his horse to the front, making Charla's entourage move to follow him.

The other party followed them behind. And then the farmer whom the other party had brought met Charla and Hanno.

"You preachers? Which god do you worship?" said one of the farmer's boys asking Charla.

"Belena is the greatest and strongest and most powerful Reverend of the Sea God" Charla said with the most fanatic face she could.

"Ohhhh...ohh.." said the farmer's son then out of words and fell silent.

Charla ignored him and looked ahead.

Charla needs to play pretend as 'Helena' until she feels safe, safe if this mercenary is on her side.

Charla himself was grateful that the troops he met were mercenaries Lightning Day who were bleeding Victa instead of Geralda or the others, Victa people did not like to offend other people's gods and attack other religious priests.

The Geraldas and various other factions themselves did not, The Victas preferred to tolerate the gods of other religions, and allowed anyone to embrace any religion.

Rather than allow.more precisely maybe 'do not care'...

Charla looked at Hanno...Charla wonders what bloody Hanno is...Victas..Tyronias..Gerald..Damaltia or Legata?

Hanno also turns out to be good at lying and better at making up than he is...

"Sister" said Hanno in a soft voice while looking at Charla.

*Hah!?* ,thought Charla with a surprised reddened face.

"I'm sorry, sister, is it okay?" said Hanno in a voice full of affection.

Charla's face turned red so she could not speak.

Charla did not expect Hanno's voice to be this sweet if softened.

"I-I'm fine" Charla said in her weak voice.

Charla tried to calm herself..

Charla doesn't even remember this pretending…

Some of the soldiers started looking at them, but no one looked at them in a suspicious tone.

*Good..* , thought Charla.

"Is my brother cold? I can give you my robe" Hanno said in her soft voice while holding her robe ready to put it on Charla.

*sales..* ,Please let Charla scream but she can't.

Hanno pretends to be too good.it's too good…

Charla wanted to look at Hanno's face, but for a moment she couldn't..

"I'm fine.." said Charla with a red face.

"All right.." Hanno said, ".sister"

They walk with Charla who can't stop thinking about what happened…

*It's pretending Charla.it's pretending.*, thought Charla while looking around her..

Seen no farmers suspicious of him, there was a little suspicious tone from the view of the farmer..

Now there's no..

The soldiers just ignored them without much suspicion.

Charla looked at Hanno and she saw her thick charcoal black hair…

I want to laugh Charla.

*That's Charla's pretending.*, he thought.

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Fyrr Castle can be seen from far away.with its tall tower towering as usual.

The thick walls were white that had started to fade.

Seen 16 towers that have their respective names towering.

And then Vesius turned his gaze aside…

Seen from afar was a lookout fortress made of wood and stone.

*Sitting*Dough*

Seen a collection of horse riders with the flag of the Garius Family came to his establishment.

It looks like leather armour and a fairly dull owl flag fluttering.

They rode towards Vesius and his knights.

*Hm, the clothes and the dull flag.it seems that Fyrr Castle and the surrounding area have begun to be unkempt*, thought Vesius.

His father Vesius himself was busy leading the country and trying to win the war.

The man in charge of guarding the castle when Vesius and Vesius' father left was also said to be ill.

*Sitting*Dough*Drugged*

He approached the band of soldiers carrying the flag towards Vesius.

When the soldiers approached close enough that they could see the face of Vesius.

They all fell silent like confusion.

*Why are you?* ,thought Vesius while looking at one of them gaping to see Vesius.

Then the soldiers saw each other.

One of them then rode his horse further forward closer to Vesius.

"I'm sorry sir, what's coming here?" said the approaching soldier.

"This is my house, right? Does it matter if I come here" Vesius said with a strong gaze, "did you not hear that 14,000 troops will come here?"

"It's my master" said the soldier with a face that still looked confused.

"We heard there would be help from the capital.ta-but we didn't know if you were coming" said one of the soldiers riding closer.

Vesius just fell silent and looked at their faces all that looked dusty and also dirty.

Even most of them did not wear iron armour but only leather armour.

One of them was so wet from his feet to his waist.

"Why are you not wearing an iron armour?" said Vesius.

The soldiers then saw each other again.

"Say there are no more iron rods that are enough for my master to fight, most iron armours have been taken for the front" said one of the soldiers.

*Hm, because the war continues to burn on the border and there is a rebellion most of the soldiers guard the castle is not concerned* *, thought Vesius.

"Why is it wet?" said Vesius asking the soldier who looked wet.

"I am from the 'Mountain Water Fort' flooded with my lord, the Batu River dam said damaged in the north" said the soldier.

"Flooding to drown his fortress?" asked Vale.

"No my lord, only the lower part of the fortress was flooded and muddy, but we slept at the bottom of my master, this afternoon just flooded big, so my friends and I just moved earlier to the Wyne Fortress " ,said one soldier.

*What's the whole thing.until the flood is ignored.* , thought Vesius.

"Back in your castle, you wet stay in the Wyne Fortress with your friends and wait for my orders. I myself will go to Castle Fyrr" Vesius said.

"Okay my lord" said one of the soldiers while bowing.

Then Vesius rode his horse while his knightly retinue followed him from behind.

While the soldiers rode their horses back to their respective temples.

Note: Fyrr Castle has its own castle around it to feed or scout the circumstances of the Castle around it, this helps many of the Garius Family in guarding and ruling this region.