The Devil Tears: Lord of the Night
Arc 1 Chapter 10: Louis

...Ludwig...

...Author Note: Illustration by Ludwig...

When he was 6 years old, Ludwig was taken by Roland when he tried to steal his wallet in the slums around the city of Salzburg in Styria Duchy. He is an orphan and only lives in the culvert – culverts of the city.

Roland fed him Bread then invited him to live with Roaring Wolf, the mercenary group that he had formed not long ago. At that time Roaring Wolf only had 10 people and only took – escort missions within the city.

5 Years passed, the Roaring Wolf group was already quite well known in the City of Salzburg and had members of up to 40 people. Nobles owner of the city of Salzburg even often ask Roaring Wolf to carry out a mission to escort – goods to other cities.

When he was 12 years old Ludwig asked Roland to join him in the mission – mission taken by Roaring Wolf

“ you are still too young and can't even beat a single official member of this Group “

“ if I can beat one of them you promise to take me? “

“ of course “

After training hard on the – techniques of fighting with Roland, when he was 15 years old, Ludwig finally challenged one of the members to fight and win it. At that time Roaring Wolf moved headquarters and settled in the Rhine Duchy and had up to 100 members.

Although still young Ludwig has been widely known by members of Roaring Wolf because he likes to follow the regular training of the members. Ludwig had great talent in sword and among the young members, Ludwig was the strongest.

“ We have a mission to escort a Caravan “ Captain Roland decided to bring 50 people. They will escort the Caravan from Marburg City to Elea City and is expected to take 1 month. They'll pay half and then the rest will be given when the mission is over.

When he reached the city of Alemania, Ludwig saw the townspeople welcoming the holy knights who had just been on a mission to eradicate the Devil Cult. Ludwig always wanted his hard work to eradicate crime to be recognized as a holy knight in front of him. He also practiced the – skill skill to become a knight under the direction of Roland who was a former knight in the kingdom of Catanbria.

Arriving in the city of Elea Ludwig was surprised to see the impact of the war between the Nordland Federation and the Kingdom of Bavaria. Debris – city debris strewn people – people lack food. After the merchants finished their business they prepared to go back. Until now the journey had not experienced obstacles, usually the bandits would not attack the Caravan with a tight escort, he said, But the end of this final – group bandit group cooperated and formed a horde until it reached 200 more and seized the Caravan – caravan that headed to Elea City through the Eppstein valley.

When he and one of his colleagues was doing a guard shift he was approached by 1 girl and 1 boy – boys. The – boy did not have a special stature but the girl beside him had bright red hair and unique red eyes.

After traveling for several hours, they decided to rest on the crossing bridge before entering the Alema forest. Ludwig also practiced perfecting his 2 mainstay techniques by doing Sparring with Edwin.

“ I think you can already use that technique in a real battle “

“ yes I guess, but my Rage technique still feels weaker than the Captain and when I use it my body will feel tired “

“ often – often practice then when you get used to it later maybe you will be easier to use it “

When for 2 hours entering the forest, a herd of goblins appeared and Ludwig was very excited to face his first fight against monsters like holy knights, and the, however he was a little off guard when fighting the 2 goblins and ended up being saved by the red-haired girl he met earlier this morning. Ludwig was speechless when he saw the girl easily splitting the goblin into 2. monster blood that soaked his face slightly, red eyes lit up and a confident expression full of smiles. Ludwig saw the Goddess of war.

The girl's name was Liz and she asked me to teach her the sword technique –. Although Liz is younger than Ludwig, Liz has strong movements and horses – horses. His sword slash was heavy and had good slash accuracy as if – if he had experienced more than Ludwig in playing the sword. Ludwig felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction when he saw Liz's shocked face as he displayed his flagship skill. Ludwig told Liz his dream like he was doing a confession of love and saw Liz confessing her dream to make Ludwig very happy.

Ludwig wanted to show him and get recognition for his – efforts to the red-haired girl.

But when the girl he wants to impress asks for help after he saves her a second time, Ludwig is unable to move and shakes after seeing the fate that befell his – comrades. This was the first time Ludwig had felt the horror of a monster. When he saw his Captain kill the muster easily, he thought that the monster was not that scary.After a few minutes and the sound of Liz's scream disappeared he sensed that someone was approaching. He looked up and saw a brunette carrying a sack and said in a cold tone.

“ where's Liz? “