The Throne Of Valor
Edmud: Future

Tonight the Valley of Death is illuminated with a full moon.

Penny is on guard duty with Guntar, but they split up to make the task easier.

Tonight, as Penny walked around the valley, Penny saw metallic flashes of daggers, axes, and other war equipment reflected so much from the valley floor.

As Penny stepped in to inspect it from above the valley, Penny saw the Orc bandit troops were walking towards the mouth of the valley.

Realizing that, Penny immediately ran towards Guntar to inform him of this because Guntar was an Orc as well.

“Guntar, I saw Orc bandits at the bottom of the valley!” call Penny staggered when it arrived behind Guntar.

“Orc? Haha!” Guntar immediately ran and plunged freely to the bottom of the valley.

“Huh, Orc base!” Penny soon catches up with Guntar, but Penny is unable to jump as freely as Guntar, so Penny must descend the rocks to reach the bottom of the valley.

*bruck

Penny hears a fight from the bottom of the valley, but it is protected by rocks so Penny has no idea what happened.

*argh

Orc roars suddenly, Penny quickened her pace down the valley.

“Sial, what does Guntar do?!”

While Penny was down the valley, it turned out that Guntar was fighting with Orcs consisting of a platoon.

“Orc? Show your abilities as an Orc Nation, Guntar will not be serious against you.”

Guntar stared at the 30 Orcs in front of him at the moment with a condescending look.

Guntar threw out his iron axe and poked his fingers in front of them before running at high speed towards the front row.

*bruck

Guntar's right-hand strike hit one of the orcs in the front row, and made him bounce through the Orc herd behind him.

“Are you guys really Orcs? Why so weak?! Haha!” Guntar laughs.

“Guntar?!” One of the Orc bandits looked so shocked after hearing Guntar's name.

“What do Orc bandits know me?” Guntar released the clutches of his hand that was strangling an Orc and looked at the Orc that called him Guntar.

“General Guntar?!”

“Where did you know Guntar was a General back then?!” Guntar looked at him seriously because they knew the background of Guntar once.

“We were General Guntar's army when fighting against the Kingdom of Hirendel!” said one of the Orcs while bowing his body in front of Guntar.

“Oh interesting! Haha!”

Not long after the conversation of the Orcs, Penny came from behind the rock crevice.

Those Orc bandits instantly raised their weapons as they saw a human suddenly appearing.

“Penny, show your ability against them!” call Guntar in Orc language staring at Penny.

“Cih, Orc!” penny muttered and prepared her sword and arrow.

“Strike!!” the Orc bandits run towards Penny with the intention to kill him, as humans are the Orc's greatest enemies.

*wush

Penny jumped up while aiming at one of the Orc heads while in mid-air.

*Srek

Penny's arrow hit the head of one of the Orcs in a narrow gap using a steel helmet.

Penny drew her sword up and ran unsteadily as Penny's condition had not fully recovered.

As Penny prepared to swing her sword towards the neck of the Orc, Guntar suddenly shouted, “enough!”

“Penny is great! Guntar recognizes Penny's power!”

The Orcs instantly stared at Guntar as Guntar dismissed the unnecessary fight.

“He's human, and he's Guntar's friend! No one can touch it!”

As Guntar explains everything to the Orcs that night, Edward begins to sleep and goes back through time to become the future Steph.

…

Morning in Vienna, Austria.

Steph fell asleep so fast that she woke up excitedly.

“Steph, be prepared as we will head to the location of the Hirendel Kingdom to prove your dream. I'll wait in front with Gwen.” John leaves Steph awake.

“My dream is so long. I even felt fear if Penny died then. Wait, why am I thinking about Penny? Ah that rude girl!

Steph checked to see if her little sister was okay.

“Huh, thankfully.” It turns out his little brother is doing well.

Steph then prepares and follows Jhon in front of the hotel.

As Steph slowly pushes her wheelchair into the lobby, Steph sees Gwen laughing at some of the words Jhon said to her.

Yes, the gaze emitted from Gwen while staring at Jhon was a gaze full of love.

Steph was able to judge that easily from Gwen's brown eyes.

“Hei Steph!” Gwen waved her hand at Steph.

“Come we go!” John comes to Steph and pushes his wheelchair up to their car.

…

A sunny but cold day accompanied their trip across the Austrian side.

The drive to Hirendel Castle takes two hours from the Vienna City Centre.

Because it was located in the mountain valley, Steph had to think of a way to not trouble the two friends when they arrived there.

Gwen saw Steph's face next to her not so excited, but this was proof of their dream.

Steph just leaned her head against the glass window and looked at the cornfield and grass on the side of the road.

Realizing that, Gwen knew that Steph's feelings seemed to be bad.

“What's up, Steph? You look sad.” Gwen patted Steph on the shoulder gently, trying to look at her.

“No, I'm fine.” Steph answered by looking out.

Gwen immediately held Steph's cheek with her hand and turned Steph's face to hers.

“You're not okay. Tell me what's your problem, Steph?”

Seeing the serious look from Gwen's brown eyes, Steph immediately whispered in Gwen's ear saying, “I'm jealous.”

“At whom, Steph?”

“On you guys.”

Hearing that, Gwen was very unlikely to get such an answer from Steph.

Does that mean Steph likes Gwen? No-no, they just met a month ago right?

Why can love so easily appear and bloom? Because love needs no reason.

“Why are you jealous of us?” whispered Gwen slowly so as not to be heard by Jhon who was busy choosing songs in the car while driving.

“No, I was just kidding.” Steph releases Gwen's arms around her cheek, and rests her head against the glass window.

“Gwen, actually I'm serious about those words,” muttered Steph in his heart.

…

Hirendel Castle, Austria.

Because of the existence of the castle in the valley, it is very difficult for Steph to go there.

So Gwen and Jhon went to investigate while Steph waited in the car.

As Steph looks around her from the closed car, Steph sees someone wearing all-black clothes sneaking towards the departure of Gwen and Jhon.

“What does it do?” Steph opens her phone and tries to tell Jhon that someone suspicious is following them.

…

Meanwhile at the entrance of Hirendel Castle.

“Yes! That's her well behind the castle!” Gwen runs away from Jhon looking at her phone to ask her best friend Steph.

“Sial! No signal!” jhon lamented from his heart.

John did not realize that there was someone who was sneaking up from behind him.

*bruck

The sound of the back of Jhon's neck was hit with a wooden beam until Jhon immediately fainted on the spot.

“Princess Gwen! You'll be mine! Hahahaha!”

...Edmud Collins Visual...

credits and art by @qwuou