Legend Of Heroes Trails Of Cold Steel : The 8th Knight

/ 2 days later /

It has been two days since the senior officers of the guild left on missions leaving the few members and me to manage the guild in their absence I pursue my training at the Vander dojo, visiting Towa and on top playing with the children of the poor district of the capital.

During these 2 weeks in the capital I also solved many murder cases in my [Devil Drive] form as I did in my old world and I can do so thanks to a badge that the Emperor had made especially for me which means that I represent the imperial family which gives me an authority comparable to that of a prince of the empire.

You ponder why the emperor favors me so much to provide me this item well it was 5 years ago when my father was drafting a doc.u.ment that the imperial family requested him and the latter came to request me for my opinion.

After having analyzed the doc.u.ments I proposed solutions taking into account the consequences they can bear and exposed them to my father, then the latter exposed them to the emperor.

A few months later the latter summoned my father to the capital and me to praise us because the proposals we made it possible to develop the empire effectively and the effects are being felt only a slight bit.

It is from that day on that I visit the castle from time to time, and Emperor Eugene and his wife Priscillia consider me as if I were one of their own children, I have met the twins Alfin and Cedric who look at me as their older brother and become friends with Olivert and Muller.

After all these solved cases I received the title of the empire's youngest detective, I can resolve everything from domestic cases to military cases, of course, I make sure not to pull the feathers out of the intelligence division and Osborn.

In my spare time, I visit the catacombs of the capital using the entrance I recall in the game, to see if there is any suspicious activity.

I discovered traces of travel in the canals, a person probably on reconnaissance and I don't like it at all.

But I can't achieve anything about it all, I can only prepare and minimize the damage and expect for Senior disciple Cassius to arrive and then destroy this group of Jaegers as soon as possible.

/ Timeskip 2 weeks later /

At dawn, powerful explosives placed directly under the city's underground stream buildings completely destroyed the Bracer Guild houses in Heimdallr and the Imperial Army Intelligence Division of Erebonia captured a member of Jester Jaeger Corps suspected of illegally entering Erebonia.

The Erebonian branch of the Bracer Guild was unable to contact the Bracer in charge of them, Sara Valenstein because the latter was blocked in Northern Ambria by an, unknown character, unable to help the guild in Erebonia.

The Erebonia Bracer Guild subsequently contacted the branch of the Guild in Liberl directly, requesting the help of high-ranking Bracer.

Two days after the attacks began, guilds in six imperial cities had been attacked and the Bracer Guild was beginning struggling to function.

This is the information I am reporting to Cassius Bright, a high ranking, S rank Bracer that the Liberl branch sent us and to the other members who rejoined us outside the walls of the capital, as the temporary representative since Sara left on a mission I pursue this role by the request of Cassius Bright.

"Here's all I could gather," I conclude my report.

"Thank you, temporary representative Schwartzer, as you all remarked, we are under enemy attack and seem to want to destroy us, but we will not let ourselves be destroyed."

"Understood" everyone responds

After Cassius told us about his plan he sent 7 members who knew the area well to find Jester's base, when I had to contact all the branches in the empire through a special encrypted orbal radio, usable only by me or those to whom I gave a decryption key and I ordered all the members of these branches to be careful, to cut all conventional communications, to expect another attack from Jester and also not to rely on the help of the Imperial Army

A few weeks later, Sara and Toval came back from a mission when I had just finished a meeting with a squad, I was hugged by the latter and something soft was pressing against me.

"Sara-Nee, let go of me."

"I'm glad you're all right."

"Ho, Are you happy that your favorite disciple is alive or are you happy that the one who can provide all you can drink is alive?"

"Both," she answers instantly.

"You answer instantly without even thinking a little?"

"Which shows that I appreciate you very much, my dear disciple"

I sighed, after some time in Sara's company I learned to support her behavior

"Um, as you can see, I'm in Olympic shape, but I'm more worried about you, I received that you were delayed in Northern Ambria by Sharon Krugger,"

"They were accurately informed of all our movements. It would seem that your instincts were right" Toval replied to me.

"I wish I was wrong, and that none of this would have happened."

"Now that I think about it, the way you refer about this woman, it's as if you know her personally," Sara tells me a terrifying aura around her.

"It must be your imagination Sara-nee," I reply Sara with cold sweat on my back trying to get out of this situation because I know that Sara harbours resentment towards Sharon for what happened in Northern Ambria I don't know what happened there and I don't want to know.

"Yuno" Sara starts pulling out her Orbal gun, and lightning starts appearing around her.

"I'm getting out of here." Lightning also appears around me allowing me to move very quickly to escape from her. I comprehend this by observing Sara during our training sessions.

"Come back here and explain yourself" Sara runs after me while Toval laughs at this scene.

/ Timeskip /

The seven Bracers of which I was a member successfully located and attacked the Jaeger base and apprehended the members, identified as the Jesters.

After the assault, the jaegers slowed down their movements and our two sides entered a stalemate that would last 3 weeks instead of two months thanks to my constant use of my [Demon Drive] first release that allowed me to return risky situations to our favor with a well-placed "Judgement Cut" or devastating demonic loaded fire.

During one of my clashes, I confronted the leaders of all this operation, Enforcer N°0 Campanella and Lorence Belgar or Leonhardt one of Hamel survivor, during our clash I confronted the two members of Ouroboros to retrieve critical information that is not in the game.

My fight against Leonhardt was very formative, he's strong, has a goal in mind, I almost died during this fight, if I had not prepared a withdrawal point, but I left a last message to the survivor of Hamel who was surprised that I knew his identity

"Lorence, no Leonhardt, you better not die before I defeat you myself, so there's still another survivor than you and Joshua whose name is Ash and watch out for that madman Weissemann,"

I informed him before disappearing into the darkness of the night to return to the temporary Bracers HQ where I received a sermon from Sara to go and engage enemies fiercer than me.

Meantime, Cassius has developed an intelligent strategy. After contacting the Intelligence Division, he communicated two messages to them: a simple message and a coded message. The clear message specified the date and time when the division met again with Cassius.

The coded message contained a detailed plan in which the imperial army would defeat the jaegers after they had been attracted by the erroneous information contained in the clear message. The General Staff Office of the impérial army approved the proposed plan.

The jaegers had indeed intercepted the message and gathered to murder Cassius. Instead, they were surrounded and forced to surrender. The arrested members revealed the location of their other bases. The plan made it possible in the following days to completely dismantle the Jesters.

Once the situation was resolved, all the Bracer guilds of Erebonia were successively closed under government and provincial pressure.

Sara was offered a job at the Thors Military Academy and Wenzel was transferred to the Crossbell branch.

Toval continues working as Bracer, alternating between the Legram branch and the Alster branch.

As for me, I was promoted to Senior Bracer rank G+ for having been able to coordinate the members of my squad with tactics and methodology, for having been able to retrieve essential information and in record time, which earned me a new title of "The Youngest Senior Bracer" but also that of "Purple Demon" in tribute to the fact that I am Sara's student and I was also transferred to the Legram branch with Toval.

Before Cassius returned to Liberl having accomplished the purpose of his trip to Erebonia we talked a lot since it was during Jester's assault that he discovered that I was a student of the "Eight leaves and one blade" school, he was also surprised that I was already in the intermediary rank at my age, which made him proud to have a junior disciple like me, and I learned a lot from him especially about the first form which is called "Helix", of course I asked to have a match against him and I lost but I had a more clear view of my use of the first style.

After saying goodbye to Cassius, I am also preparing to resume my trip after sending a letter to my family, say goodbye to Towa, Aunt Aurier and Sara-Nee and wish her good luck at the Thors Academy not notifying her that I will be one of her students in the future and I tell Toval to leave in front of me at Legram because I would like enjoying the landscape on the way.

My following destination is Celdric, because I always wanted to go to the big market, well after leaving the capital I take my bike out of my inventory and put myself on the way.

// Timeskip //

It has been two weeks since the events in the capital, I passed by Trista where I stayed a week to enjoy the landscape, during my stay I met some students from the Thors Academy and I met someone I didn't think I would meet at all.

"I think my luck is unusually high," I said to myself.

Claire Rieveldt or I identify her as the "Icy Maiden" and one of the members of Chancellor Osborn's Ironblood, in her Thors uniform, our meeting was relatively common, I look at books at Trista's general store when our hands touch the same book.

She's like any other girl but her glance was as cold as ice when she noticed my Senior Bracer badge it piqued her curiosity after a little discussion she asked me about it, I replied her, taking care not to disclose any s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e information about my abilities or me.

And one thing led to another, we became friends if you can say, no, I think I was more of a confidant than a friend given my young age since the accident with her family, she asked me if I would join the academy later on, which I answered yes.

At that moment she smiled at me, she seems to really care for me in the little time we spend together and wished me good luck for the future.

After leaving Trista, I arrived in Celdric, which is in addition in the area of the empire controlled by Duke Albarea, and how to say the provincial army in this part of the empire repels me at an unbearable level if I did not know at the utility and importance of the Duchy I would have come to assassinate Duke Albarea as soon as possible.

Arriving in Celdric, I luckily got to know Otto the market manager, he was very kind to explain to me about how to be a merchant and how to run a stall and he even permits me to sleep in his house to teach me more about his work.

The thank him I mainly helped to move crates of product for the big market and do service to the village community, after a few days I rented a small stand for three days since the annual festival is close, I offered a tasting of products from my world pancakes, crepes, and other sweet and salty confection with ingredients from my resources.

During the whole duration of the festival, my stand became popular and crowded with customers, but I always managed to satisfy my customers and quickly whether it was a well-off or poor birth and was free for the children.

As was anticipated, the provincial guard had to come and stick their noses in the market business when I saw the announcement for the tax increase in Celdric, I almost go ballistic if I didn't remember that I was a representative of the Bracer Guild, the Imperial family and a nobleman of the empire.

They decided to target my booth since I was making many profits, so I decided to drive them completely crazy if they decided to come to my door to make my life difficult.

They tried to wreck my stand at night and steal my merchandise to make it look like a theft, but I managed to set everything back in place without anyone noticing. When they saw my stall was still in place and full of customers the next day they made one of these heads

They even tried advertising me badly by using thugs to say that my products are not fresh and/or poisoned, that kind of person I saw them coming and I prepared a dish so delicious that they could only admit my dishes are delicious.

When I got annoyed with their nonsense, I drove them crazy using a little Hexen magic, they ran away and didn't bother me anymore, just after me, of course, erased all traces before leaving Celdric a few days later.

At that time I wondered if I didn't change the future a little bit when class VII comes to Celdric for the field trip although I'm sure after two years they'll forget me although I'll make sure I'm part of the group that's coming because I don't want to babysit the two muleheads of the group who will by any means jump at each other's throats at any word that comes out of their mouth.

Otto thanked me and proposed to me if I would come next year what I promised him and here I am on my way to Barehard or maybe directly to Legram.

Bareahard, the Green City is the capital of the province of Kreuzen. The city was founded in the Middle Ages and is run by the Albarea family, one of the four large houses, since then.