Heavenly Magician
Chapter 82: The Oath of a Commander

After leaving his king. Else, Nikola and Norn went to where the Knights were.

Many Knights were starting to get exhausted while doing their duty to lead the population out of control.

That's just natural. The Knights who were supposed to enjoy their break hours after a day's duty now instead had to work again.

The Other Commander and his two deputies arrived to where the Knights were resting, the Other looked at all the Knights with his tense face.

"What's the situation?" Ask Another.

A Knight who represented the other Knights to speak stood up from his place.

"Report, the situation has started to improve from before."

"All right."

Another turned his gaze from the Knight towards Nikola.

"Where is His Majesty now?"

"So His Majesty went back to the main tent." Nikola answered with his Knight attitude.

"Thank God he's okay."

Another returned his gaze towards the Knight.

"For those who have no more tasks, please rest, but remain vigilant."

"Good."

The Knights started to stand up, saluted Lain a little and went to disperse.

"Nickel, Norn. You guys get some rest."

"other?"

"Just calm down, I'm going to the capital for a bit."

"Be good."

After asking his deputy to rest, Lain continued her journey to the capital to see for herself the state of the capital.

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Walking alone with the rank of Knight Commander still could not hide his own fear when he saw the capital he was trying to protect as hard as he could now be destroyed in an instant.

Along the path he went through, the sight of destruction made him slightly goosebumps. Houses, shops, everything is destroyed.

He was also at odds with some of the Knights who were still carrying the strapped residents. The Other Eye could not stop seeing the innocent resident tied up, but how else.

Continuing the journey, Lain suddenly heard some sounds of footsteps heading towards her. With the Knight horses, Lain began to take out the sword from its sheath.

He listened to the voice getting closer every second towards him.

One. No, like there are some people.

When a favorable position for Lain was reached, he patiently waited for those people to turn the corner that was in front of him.

Some light began to be seen on the road indicating that the mysterious person was near.

One, two, three, three,

"Now."

Another swung his sword with all his might towards the light, those who were aware of the danger leaped avoiding the swing of the Other sword.

"Strick the Commander."

While Else was about to swing her sword once more, a voice she was familiar with sounded from the crowd.

He tried to find the owner of the voice, and in the end he found a face that was very familiar to him clearly plastered in the middle of the crowd.

"Guildhead!?"

"Yes, it's me. Do you want to cut me?"

"Nope-no. Sorry."

"It's okay." Said Relisha with a gentle smile on her face. But suddenly the smile disappeared from his face as his serious face came out.

"How's it going?"

"As it seems, you should have seen it, right?"

"Yes. Along the way, I looked with disbelieving eyes. Looks like some areas of the capital are destroyed huh?"

The question from Relisha did not get a direct answer from Lain, the Commander who was inserting his sword then looked back at Relisha with empty eyes.

"Not a few, but the whole capital is destroyed."

"N-no way."

Relisha and all the adventurers who had come with him keget, some of them who were a woman including Relisha quickly closed their mouths as if in disbelief, there were also those who shook their heads to confirm whether he had heard wrongly or not.

"That's how it really is."

"But when I got the report from the Guild, they said that some parts of the capital had a big commotion."

Once again the Other Commander shook his head.

"Initially it was only a few, but in the end it spread throughout the capital."

Another explained with an unrelenting face looking down.

Even though his rank was a Commander, but right now he felt like a useless person at all.

He now did not even have the guts to look at his King after seeing for himself the consequences of what he thought was his own negligence.

When his feelings were not upset, suddenly something shook in his pocket. He took the smartphone and looked at the screen.

It turned out that someone he could not meet at all now had contacted him instead. Quickly but a little scared, he picked it up.

"Hello, Your Majesty."

"Other!"

"Is there anything I can help you with, Your Majesty?" Ask Another in a slightly trembling voice.

"Sorry, but can you go back to the palace. Please protect the girls and the people in the palace. Don't forget to also bring some Knights with you!"

"All right, Your Majesty. I'll do it."

"Thank you."

"What is Shin?" Relisha asked after hearing the other conversation.

"Yes, he told me to go back to the palace to look after Her Majesty the Queen."

"Oh. But why is your face like that?"

"Why, I feel like I can't show my face in front of His Majesty again after this."

Hearing that made Relisha speechless, she seemed to know the intent of the Other's words therefore she could not refute it.

But then Relisha walked up to Lain who was gloomy, she held onto Lain's shoulder and softly said.

"You think too much about it, it's not your fault. You also know who Shin is, so Shin must understand that as well."

Perhaps because they were fellow women, so the sentence of Relisha went straight inside the Other without any hindrance.

His face began to improve from the previous one.

"Thank you."

"Not a problem, so where are the current residents?"

"Your Majesty instructed to bring all the inhabitants to the north field."

"All right, we'll be there."

"I'll take you there."

"Thank you."

The other Commander and his entourage again moved towards the northern field where the inhabitants were in isolation.

In front of the north field door. Reluctantly sensing something rather familiar, he immediately looked up towards the sky to see what it was.

"That's, what's a bird??"

Hearing Relisha's mutter, everyone including Lain stared at the sky quickly. Due to the dark sky, they narrowed their eyes slightly to focus their vision.

"That's a creature of His Majesty's calling, it seems like His Majesty wants to ascertain the state of the capital once again." Another after confirming the identity of the bird.

"Shin?" Relisha muttered in a sad voice.

They continued their journey into the field. Just entering the northern field, the sounds of the cries of the residents began to fill their eardrums.

"It's worse than I imagined." Relisha.

On the way to meet his King, Lain suddenly stopped after seeing some Knights who were crying unstoppably beside the residents.

Else, Relisha and his entourage immediately rushed towards there.

"What's up. What's going on?" Ask Nikola and Norn, who are also there.

Nikola and Norn who were aware of Lain's arrival, they both stared at Lain for a while then turned their eyes towards the Knight.

"A Knight found his family amidst the unrestrained population, hearing that made the other Knights also start searching for their respective families. And the result."

Staring at his rebellious family behind the wall, Some Knights continued to cry while hugging his unaffected son. The crying could not be contained at all.

"What should we do?" Ask Norn.

Others just kept quiet while looking at some Knights who started to notice the surroundings, for some reason Lain felt that the other Knights also wanted to look for their families. But because of duty, they were forced to stay here.

"All of you, follow me now!"

"Where are we going, Commander?" Asked the Knight who had been looking around incessantly.

"Waiting His Majesty."

".........."

"You're so focused on the task that you ignore your own family, I know this is an order, which is why you can't just go. So I will accompany you all to ask His Majesty for permission."

Hearing that made the faces of the Knights look extremely pleased, they quickly stood up and gathered around the Other Commanders.

Another Commander and his Deputy walked together towards the main tent where his King was.

Others also felt unable to show his face again in front of his King, but now he chose to hold that feeling deep

There was only one more turn left to get to the King's place, but Lain suddenly ordered everything to stop.

"Aghruci. W-What's the other?" Asked Norn who was in pain when he hit Nikola from behind.

"Husses. You hear that voice?"

Curious, Norn and Nikola and the other Knights focused their senses into their own ears.

"This?"

"I heard it, it's the sound of crying."

Since they did not recognize the sound of crying, they all ventured to peek at him.

"That."

"Your Majesty."

Others and everyone who wanted to meet his King came to a standstill when they saw his own King muttering with unstoppable tears.

"I'm like a useless person at a time like this." I muttered with eyes still focused on the scene

At the same time, tears also began to wet the Commander's cheeks when he saw his King crying in front of his eyes.

He had all this time felt useless for failing to protect the capital he was supposed to protect.

He was even embarrassed to meet his King, but after seeing his own King cry made him even more unable to hide his sadness.

Not only was the Other Commander crying, but everyone behind him was also shedding tears.

I am only concerned for myself, but Your Majesty is not, even he is probably currently the one who suffered the most from this incident.

With a clenched hand and a confirmed heart, Else muttered.

Your Majesty, with my soul as a witness, I now swear that I will give my life for the Kingdom and be the tip of His Majesty's sword until the end of my life.

As he tried to remove the trace of crying on his face, Lain looked at her King along with the vow she made.