I was excommunicated from the Holy Knights

89 – War 3, written as restoration and read as destruction

Alsace

An area that occupies the middle of the Palatinate, a treasure trove of resources with numerous iron mines, and a place with rich agricultural land based on fertile land.

Anna, a young girl who lives there, woke up early this morning to help her parents.

Her house, which has a vineyard, took pride in producing the best grapes in the empire.

Purple grapes ripening to taste.

With their harvest just around the corner, Anna knew she had a lot to do today.

Although she is only 7 years old, she is learning farming from an early age to help her parents.

Thinking that she had to work hard today for her little brother who would soon be born, she rubbed her sleepy eyes and rose from her seat.

The time of dawn when the darkness begins to recede.

Originally, the cold yet fresh air felt at this time should have gently stimulated Anna’s nose.

however..

At this moment, in the process of taking a deep breath at the same time as waking up as usual…

Anna’s face automatically began to frown.

Something unpleasant poking her nostrils.

It wasn’t… the fresh air, as always, nor the sweet scent of grapes in the vineyards.

Smells of blood..

And… the smell of something burning…

Recognizing that, Anna slowly rose from her seat, feeling a visceral fear creeping in.

Immediately after that, what you see is an ominous light coming through the crack in the door.

It wasn’t like a pure white light announcing the morning.

Light with orange and red hues.

What that meant was not clear to young Anna.

I can only feel the unknown scary feeling..

“..mom and dad?”

Anna calls her parents in a voice filled with fear.

Then she started to open the door with trembling hands.

To go to my parents, who would normally be preparing breakfast at this time.

In order to soothe this fear in my mother’s arms.

And right after that…

“… uh… mom… mind?”

The scene in front of her eyes made Anna no longer able to think.

People screaming through the windows and a terrible red light creeping out of the flames.

The floor strewn with broken household items and food.

and..

What you see in between…

The figure of the father with his brain exposed with half his head blown off…

The dead mother with a split stomach…

And.. the hand of a small person showing through them..

What that meant, Anna didn’t understand for a moment.

However, before she even thought about it.

Her eyes began to see someone holding an ax soaked in blood.

A being wearing thick armor and showing a creepy smile with bloody paint all over the body.

The moment I saw it…

From Anna’s lips, a word automatically started to come out in fear.

“Ah… bad… mind..”

The name that pastors often talked about…

Terrible and monstrous climbed from hell.

An evil being that smiles with joy while drinking human blood.

At this moment, seeing it slowly approaching her, Anna could not help but automatically think of that demon.

Hell’s monster who killed his family

Recognizing that it would kill her now, Anna slumped back in her seat, seized with deep despair.

and..

At Anna, the demon continued to raise an ax with a terrifying smile.

“die! You wicked demon!”

With those words, the demon slashes an ax at Anna.

Right before the terrible thing that killed his parents fell on his head.

A really meaningless question began to pop up in Anna’s mind.

‘Why.. is the devil calling me a devil?..’

A fact that she couldn’t understand with her young head.

Questioning it, Anna just stared blankly at the bloody thing falling towards her.

and..

-Pak!

*

“Ahahahahaha! Killing them all is coming! Demons who have succumbed to the wicked church! These guys have no value in living anymore!”

Christian bursts into light and shouts at the soldiers.

Amidst the screams of people coming from everywhere and the disgusting smell of blood, she was unfiltered with her excitement as if she were expressing her emotions.

On the other hand, seeing her like this, Mansfeld, who is also leading this ‘justice judgment’, also began to feel a strange excitement.

Christian, who emits wildness like a beast without any hesitation, without filtering.

In her plowing like a wild horse, Mansfeld began to feel a strange charm.

‘I became a mercenary in pursuit of a free life, but this woman seems more like a person who lives more freely than I do.’

As a mercenary, he was insensitive to human death from the beginning, and he was Mansfeld who had already reached the point of enjoying it.

To him, the slaughter under the leadership of Christian and himself was nothing more than a merry banquet.

Rather, in a way, this moment in which he can unfilter his own desires, which he had to suppress while paying attention to his surroundings, can be said to be the painting Mansfeld has always wanted.

Just like that, while Mansfeld was feeling the instinctive joy rising from his heart, Christian, who was standing next to him, spoke in a voice full of thirst as if he couldn’t stand it any longer.

“Ahahahaha! I can’t do this because my body is hot! I should go and have a little fun too!”

With those words, Christian runs forward on his horse.

Then, she wielded the spear in her hand and began to use magic as it was.

A blood-red aura began to coil around her.

Soon, they spread out in all directions like living bed bugs and began to wrap around the bodies of the residents who were running away right in front of their eyes.

“Quaaagh!”

Residents die as their flesh gnaws away while letting out gruesome screams.

However, her magic didn’t end there, and she began to wrap herself around the bodies of others around her as if a fire was spreading.

The magic that started with one or two people took the lives of about 30 people in an instant, and in the center of it, Christian began to burst into a jubilant madness.

And… looking at her like this.

Mansfeld, too, felt a thirst for slaughter and began to run his horse.

I couldn’t take my eyes off Christian for a while, radiating unstoppable madness in front of my eyes.

*

A place about a day away from the border area of the Palatinate.

General Tilly, who had just arrived there, was listening to information about the Palatinate while taking a break with 15,000 men under his command.

“Did Mansfeld and Christian or something like that?”

“Yes, General, so General Spinola is waiting for General Tilly to come as soon as possible.”

“Okay, go back at once and tell General Spinola our location. It is also said that he will join us soon.”

After sending the man from Spinola’s side like that, General Tilly began to suppress the burning anger inside.

Mansfeld and Christian are devastating all over the Palatinate occupied by General Spinola.

As much as their terrible move could be said to be a huge blow to the Holy Empire that occupied the Palatinate, Spinola wanted to join Tilly as soon as possible and drive out those crazy bastards.

And this was what General Tilly, who was given another chance by the emperor to lead the army, also wanted.

.’

Although he was defeated in the last war due to his mistake, his pride in doing God’s will was still alive.

“The evil cult’s army is doing something devilish. As a servant of God’s will, I absolutely cannot stand to see such a thing!”

General Tilly, who speaks with feelings of anger.

And about this

A young woman sitting across from him similarly nodded in agreement.

“You are right. You slaughter poor people and take away their riches, you must strike them down and make them pay for it.”

She speaks in a voice with a little excitement.

Regarding this, General Tilly said in a determined voice, thinking that this man was also angry for the same reason as himself.

“That’s true, as expected from an archbishop who directly supports God’s will, I look forward to seeing you and the Order of the Holy Knights in this war.”

“Leave it to us, we who have come from Milan to this distant place to do the will of the Lord. We will do our best to bring justice.”

While answering General Thila’s words with a serious smile…

she is..

Archbishop of Milan,

Maxim Caféora made an expression of justice, hiding the greed wriggling in her heart.