I was excommunicated from the Holy Knights

38 – When I came to my senses, it was a needlessly flashy hell 1

“Hey… do you really have to go this far?”

“Well, of course. Unlike Munich, Bohemia is an area that is almost completely dominated by heretical forces. In other words, it means that priests can get shot and die right away if they go wrong.”

“Ugh..”

From a certain moment, Polena secretly uses repulsion against herself.

With the help of Polena, Cazeros was changing clothes inside the wagon.

At this moment, she took off her usual clerical attire and was on a tourist ranch that was as inconspicuous as possible.

In addition, the symbol of the paladin is also hidden in the luggage separately.

In such an unpleasant mood, she took on the appearance of an ordinary traveler,

Looking at her like that, Polena nodded slowly.

“Hmm… It’s certainly plain, but this one suits you well too.”

For some reason, Polena looks at Cazeros with a very pleased expression.

In response, Cazeros hurriedly got out of the carriage, feeling as if he was embarrassed for some reason.

And, watching her hurriedly go outside, Polena began to look with warm eyes like a mother looking at her daughter.

‘Really… they look a lot alike. With that child…’

*

Bohemia rebelled against the newly crowned emperor Sisyphus.

Located in the middle of the southern and northern parts of the empire, this place originally served as a buffer between heretical forces and church forces, but now the heretical forces, which rebelled against the emperor, who was almost certain to carry out coercive policies, took control almost completely. was in the middle

And, the leader who leads such heretical forces,

Head of the Andreas family, one of the 13 historical noble families in Bohemia.

Tourn Andreas was struggling with various things about the future.

Although the rebellion itself was successful, and in the process it successfully expelled the nobles who were the emperor’s kinsmen, that did not end the situation.

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No.. In some ways, the real crisis could be said to have started right now.

‘The rebellion succeeded… but the emperor certainly won’t stay like this. Sooner or later, troops will be dispatched here. And… it’s almost impossible to stop it with only Bohemia’s army.’

Although the army of Bohemia under his command was clearly strong.

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Not an ordinary army, but an army centered on wizards who can use the special power of magic. Thurn, who led them, was also a wizard with strong power.

Based on the talent he had since childhood, Thurn is learning magic at the level of an archmage.

In fact, during this rebellion, he blew the emperor’s envoys out of the window with a single gesture, and he had the skills to be confident in victory even if he was an opponent of quite a few wizards in the empire.

However… even considering his fighting power, the emperor’s army was strong.

Although it would be impossible to move a large army of close to 100,000 like it was in its heyday.

Even if the power that can be mobilized right away is enough, it will be tens of thousands.

It was impossible to count all the talents of the powerful wizard families under his command, and most of all, among those who led the army was the famous archmage Tilly.

The greatest general in the Empire and one of the few people who cannot be assured of victory when it comes to individual strength.

With his participation in the coming war almost assured, Thurne was in need of a new ally anyway, but the situation was far from favourable.

Although he took the lead in causing an uprising, even at this moment, the lords of other heretical powers throughout the empire were reluctant to step forward, only paying attention to the emperor.

The only person to reach out to was the Elector Count of the neighboring Palatinate region, and even at this moment he was coming here with a weak reinforcements, but honestly, their troops, aside from their scale, had almost no proportion of wizards.

Literally, it was a troop that had been dragged by only filling in the numbers in a hurry.

So, to look to another country, it was judged that it would cross the line, so I had no choice but to put the matter on hold.

The bottom line is, whether it be porridge or rice, the situation must be overcome with only one side’s strength.

To this end, Tourn was trying to mobilize as many troops as possible, while also strengthening internal discipline.

‘Even if it’s possible, even if it’s just one soldier… even one magician, there’s no choice but to collect more. If we… go further, in order for the heretical forces of this empire to survive…’

While thinking about that, Thurn looked up at the sky slowly…

At this moment, an image of a person he had longed for all along began to emerge in his mind.

‘If the child had been here all along… wouldn’t he have thought about this? At that time… if I had been a little kinder to that child then…’

The child who has disappeared to an unknown place now…

As he recalled the image of his son, whom he could never forget as a father, a bitter feeling began to linger in Turnen’s heart.

*

After finishing our proper makeup, we went inside the Bohemia Castle.

My first impression of the place was more stern than I thought.

“This is… really a battlefield-like atmosphere.”

“To be precise, you could say it was right before the war. According to the last rumors I heard in Munich, in the end the emperor decided to do something.”

The news of the Emperor’s heresy eradication came at the same time as we completely left the Münchel area.

In this story, which was practically a declaration of war, not only me but also others were vaguely guessing what would happen in the future.

“… That means… it must mean that the emperor’s army will be coming here sooner or later.”

“I guess so. And if that happens, I believe that the master will protect this fragile Polena.”

“Um… ”

Even in this situation, Polena calmly jokes.

In response to her words, I cleared my throat and cleared my teeth, then began to recall the scenes in front of me in my head.

At the training center located on the outskirts of the city, many new recruits were training with weapons.

On the side of the wall, we were inspecting the defense facilities including cannons,

Everywhere inside the castle, soldiers were walking around with their weapons on guard.

‘How to say.. If I had to use a metaphor, it felt like martial law had fallen. Whether it’s this side or the other side, when you enter the exhibition system, the atmosphere basically changes..’

Although the appearance of the city was beautiful to the naked eye, the number of troops passing under it did not seem to leave time to appreciate such beauty.

And crucially…

From my point of view, knowing full well that sooner or later this city would be reduced to ashes, this situation was approaching even more fleeting.

‘Well… Anyway, since I’ve already come. I’m going to take a day off and start right away. It would be a real headache if I stayed here for a long time and got involved in a war.’

In my heart, I wanted to leave this place right now.

But we had to buy new food, and the horses pulling the carriage, and we ourselves had to rest for now.

So, feeling like we were sitting on a cushion of thorns, we left the wagon at the inn for the time being, and immediately headed towards the market.

Fortunately, even in this atmosphere, it seems to be operating normally.

Relieved by that fact, we moved a little further inside to buy bread, fruit, and dried meat.

at that time…

“huh? what?”

“I think something happened…”

A place where a group of people and soldiers are gathered.

In fact, seeing the place almost completely blocking one side of the road, we thought about going back for a while, but unfortunately, as we don’t know the geography of this place, we headed there to move as soon as we could see.

‘No.. what the hell happened to block the road like this…’

With that thought in mind, I began to automatically turn my eyes to what was going on inside.

at that time..

“uh?”

“… Those people are definitely…”

Me and Cazeros talking in a blank voice

At this moment, in our eyes… two people with very familiar faces to us…

The paladins, Nune and Tine were visible.

“Leave this! Let go of wheat!”

“You guys! How dare you do this against a paladin! Isn’t the sky scary!”

Two people being dragged somewhere while being held by the hands of soldiers.

Also, in this heretical realm, calling themselves paladins and screaming at their screwed up behavior, Cazeros and I looked at them with dazed faces for a while.