The Return of the Eternal Hero
Meaning of Name Leonhart - Chapter 6

Battlefield, Marquis Bargos Defense Headquarters - 6 March 537

"Ayahanda, it's me Stewart"

"Come in"

A man about 25 years old entered the tent, he was wearing clothes that were quite similar to the clothes worn by Marquis Bargos

He was Stewart Bargos, the second son of Marquis Bargos. A genius who only appeared in 50 years that's his nickname, he mastered the swordmanship of the Bargos family in just a few years

And now that he was at his best, as a swordsman he was at his best, he had mastered the swordmanship of the bargos family perfectly by the age of 26

Currently he reached 6 Star and would likely ascend to 7 Star in a few more years. He was one of the people who helped Marquis Bargos when fighting Sword Saint Reina

The severe injuries Reina received also came from her. Of course if the fight was a fair fight 1 against 1 then Reina would not lose much less to receive serious injuries

However, because Marquis Bargos fought him with several soldiers and accompanied by Stewart Bargos, Reina was overwhelmed and eventually had to retreat after receiving serious injuries

"I'll excuse you, sir"

Seeing Stewart enter Charles asked to leave the tent because it seemed like there was something important that Stewart had to talk about to Marquis Bargos

"All right"

Charles got out of his chair and started walking out

"Young Master"

When he passed Stewart, Charles looked down as a form of respect and greeted Stewart a little

Stewart slightly nodded and continued his path toward his father, while Charles walked out of the tent

"Let's go home"

"Good Sir"

Charles' voice from outside the tent sounded like he was talking to a subordinate who was in charge of escorting him

"Is God okay if we keep in touch with people like that?"

Stewart feels uncomfortable if they have to come into contact with someone like Charles, a parasite who tries to gnaw anyone that long for his own benefit

Seeing how he could betray the Leonhart family with just a few lure alone made Stewart feel that continuing to maintain a relationship with such a person would be dangerous for them

"We're only using such voracious people until we bring Leonhart down"

In the view of Marquis Bargos he wanted to continue using Charles to his advantage until he finally felt that Charles was useless

From the beginning he did not intend to keep his promise to Charles because for him it is better to silence the mouth of a two-faced man like Charles than to keep trying to feed them

Instead of continuing to follow Charles' desire only for Charles to cooperate with him it is better to kill Charles and keep his mouth shut forever because Charles knows too many of their secrets

Especially the false evidence presented by Marquis Bargos to declare war to Leonhart's own family actually comes from Charles

Because Charles was in charge of taking care of the many documents in the Leonhart family because it was very easy for him to forge some documents on behalf and stamp the Leonhart family

"I hope so"

For Stewart his father is too greedy, it is better to immediately silence Charles when there is an opportunity like that, although maybe they will experience some losses in the future

"Then what do you want to talk about my son?"

"I want to tell Father that our supplies are getting thinner and thinner, we will run out of supplies in the next 2 weeks—"

From the beginning Marquis Bargos did bring a little supply, many of his men who did not get rations to eat even died due to lack of medicine

"—Added now the traders have run out of merchandise and now we are really short of supplies especially food—"

Stewart himself had tried to cover all those shortcomings by selling war booty to the merchants and buying some supplies for the soldiers

"—Typically the war will resume 20 days after the truce to bury the corpses and to give purification to their souls but we don't have that much time, we have to force Leonhart to end the ceasefire in a week otherwise we will go to war with no supplies at all"

Things got worse for the Bargos, once the mistake of the Bargos decision put them in a disadvantageous state

Indeed, Marquis Bargos' decision was initially based because he did not want to spend a lot of money but the decision also grew stronger because he felt it would not take long to fight against Leonhart

The reason for that was because they had paid one of the Sword Master 7 Star as well to fight Reina, a Sword Master who came from the mainland named Chana

But unfortunately Chana was immediately killed in just a few sword fights against Reina

Although he managed to leave some injuries to Reina but the result was very bad for Marquis Bargos because the result he wanted was Chana beat Reina

The money he spent on hiring Chana now ended up in vain, although the outcome of the war before the truce was already in their favor

But now that things turned around and harmed them, Leonhart would gain a great advantage as long as they could endure

This meant that Leonhart could have pulled their troops back and held out within their city's strongholds while Bargos, who had run out of supplies, would eventually have to retreat or try to forcefully attack

Therefore they had to advance their war schedule, to avoid the possibility of their defeat occurring in the future

"Then there's no other choice, send Leonhart a letter"

The letter itself is quite long and the essence of the letter is that Bargos forced Leonhart to continue the war in the next 1 Week and he asked for an answer from Leonhart 3 days after the letter arrived at hand Archduke Leonhart

If after 3 days Leonhart did not give an answer then the Bargos Army was ready to invade Leonhart's territory and if Leonhart refused Bargos' forces would also invade Leonhart's territory

Bargos gives 3 options to Leonhart, who first refuses and they are about to be in invasion, the second surrendered to the Bargos and gave the head of Alaric Leonhart to the Bargos family and the last to continue the war within the next week

There is actually no rule of war within the kingdom that dictates how long they can carry out a ceasefire therefore both sides can continue the war whenever they want after the ceasefire

However, there is an unwritten rule on the time of the ceasefire, which must give at least 20 days to carry out a ceasefire if the ceasefire is done to bury the bodies of war victims

These 20 days date back to a time when the then King of the Narva kingdom was killed during the war and the queen who experienced deep sadness locked herself away for 20 days

After that the unwritten rule became something that the entire kingdom followed because the Queen was the most respected person and the Queen was also the perfect example to follow

Therefore 20 days is also a time when a person can grieve after the loss of a loved one and anyone should not disturb the person for 20 days

If the Bargos were to break this unwritten rule, it would be a disgrace to them and make their name worse

But they had no other choice because their names which had become bad for breaking the unwritten rules were better than those which had been tarnished by losing the war

"We must win this war!"

"Okay Ayahanda"