"Coach Frederic! It's you! Why are you here?"

This was Klose's voice, which seemed a little unexpected.

The lord looked at the burning wooden building and came to Klose and Fredry.

Frederic had taken off his helmet. He looked to be in his late fifties, but he still looked very strong and his eyes were bright.

The two Mettenheimers had already begun to chat with each other. Klose knew Frederic, and he could even take the initiative to introduce him to the lord.

"Sir, Mr. Frederi is a member of the Mettenheim Death Team and a respected coach. I also received guidance from him when I was in the army."

Klose seemed to respect the veteran, but Leon felt that Frederic seemed a little hesitant.

"Fredery, how come you are under Faucher?"

Frederic is still somewhat well-known in Mettenheim.

He is a professional soldier, a veteran who has served in the Mettenheim Standing Army for half his life, and one of the coaches of the Mettenheim Swordsmen.

As a member of the Death Squadron, he has a high status in the military.

Unlike Klose and the others who became mercenaries in order to make a living, Frederic came to the Pendor continent with a mission.

A year ago, because his hometown of Mettenheim (formerly Eisenberg Island) fell into famine and was invaded again by the Barkley Empire, he and his legion commander were sent to Pendor as an envoy to perform trade missions.

But I don’t know if the people of Mettenheim all have the negative attribute of being ‘easy to fall into the sea’. Anyway, Fredry, like Klose, also suffered a shipwreck on the Pendor continent.

However, he did not encounter pirates in Fieldsway, but encountered a storm on the coast of the Bacchus Empire in the south.

The envoy originally planned to land at the Imperial Port of the Bacchus Empire, but just the day before arriving at the port, the fleet deviated from its course due to a hurricane. Subsequently, their ship was broken into planks in the stormy waves.

After being pushed by wind and waves for a whole day on the sea, Frederic finally took a few Mettenheim soldiers and landed with difficulty in the bay near Malasburg in the Bacchus Empire.

They lost most of their equipment, all their belongings, and supplies, and were all exhausted.

This was already miserable enough, but misfortunes never come singly. This team, which was already in dire straits, was attacked by Snake Cult believers just after landing. The place where they landed happened to be the lair of a group of Snake Cultists.

nearby.

Frederic's envoy was dispersed by a sudden attack by a large group of Snake Cultists. Fortunately, he was very skilled in martial arts and was able to fight and flee along the way. He killed all the Snake Cultists who were chasing him and barely managed to escape.

He didn't know where his other comrades had fled.

Or, maybe, he was the only one who survived.

His army was wiped out, his ship was destroyed in a hurricane, and he was left penniless, not even his armor, which he had thrown away after the hurricane.

He has no way out.

The only thing left is the sword in his hand and his rich fighting skills.

He became a money-grubbing mercenary who accepted any task - for an old swordsman who was forced to a dead end, nothing else mattered. He wanted to make money and complete the mission entrusted to him by his motherland.

mission!

From Bacchus to the Lion Realm, he has been running around in the prosperous cities of this continent, taking on high-value tasks in a greedy way, and even some of them are black jobs that violate his own moral principles.

Because Frederic never forgot his mission - he was a soldier, his hometown was in war and famine, and he must bring food back to the motherland!

But half a year later, during the harvest season in October, he almost despaired.

Because he is not a noble.

It is not difficult for a skilled swordsman to make a living as a mercenary in Pendor.

But no matter how greedy Frederic was, it was difficult for him to save enough money to purchase food in a short period of time. As a commoner, it was impossible for him to let the nobles sell large amounts of food to him.

Until he met Faucher half a year ago.

When he met Faucher, Frederic was drowning his sorrows in a tavern in Lion Lake City.

By that time, Faucher already had a large number of people around him.

There were pirates, gangsters, and some other soldiers, more than three hundred of them.

Faucher only chatted with him for a few words, probably only heard his name clearly, and then hired Frederic. He promised that in another six months, he would provide him with a large amount of grain during the next harvest season.

After learning that Faucher was the illegitimate son of the Grand Duke of Lion Lake City, Frederic felt like he had seen hope.

In order to complete his mission, Frederic became Faucher's bodyguard and followed the underworld brother to many places.

Lion Lake City, Mist Cage City, Cliff Bay, Envoy Bay, Crow City... Faucher took him to visit many big cities, all the way to the big cities in the north, all the way to the Crow Kingdom.

Changge Port.

In Frederic's memory, whenever Faucher visited a city, the first place he went to was the city's tavern...

But most of the time Faucher seemed disappointed - he seemed to be looking for someone or something and found almost nothing.

At Longsong Harbor, Frederic saw Faucher's particularly disappointed and depressed look, and also saw that the illegitimate son had finally turned from normal to cruel.

Frederic said that Faucher spent several days searching the entire Longsong Port, and found nothing in the end. Then he kept yelling: "Where is the treasure chest! Why is there no treasure chest anymore!"

After that, the illegitimate son's temper became worse and worse, and his attitude towards others became worse and worse.

If he wanted to get something, such as supplies or women, Faucher also began to send people to rob them directly, often even burning down villages or killing people for fun.

These dishonorable practices caused a large number of soldiers to desert the illegitimate son, but more thieves and thugs joined Faucher's ranks.

As a soldier, Frederic naturally could not accept such behavior. He had advised and threatened, but to no avail.

He also tried to rectify the discipline of the miscellaneous troops under Faucher, but all he got was scolding and rolling eyes - Faucher himself had no self-control, and the bandits and underworld naturally followed the same example. This kind of thing is fundamentally rotten.

There is no way to train the troops well.

Later, Faucher only used him as a bodyguard - the illegitimate son said more than once: "I didn't expect that the coaching ability was useless? If I had known that this old thing like you was useless, I shouldn't have spent so much money to hire him."

You still have to post a large amount of food..."

Of course Frederic was aggrieved, but he did not defend himself, but endured it.

He had a mission, and every time he heard about food, he would think of the famine in his hometown, and the half-year period was not long. He just wanted to endure it until then and leave with the food.

In fact, before meeting Faucher, Frederic also knew the behavior of noble children like Pende. In fact, most of them were similar, and Faucher's evil deeds were not too special.

The last big city Faucher went to was Xiaolu City.

I don’t know what news Fucher got from the tavern in Xiaolu City. Anyway, he stopped running around since then. Instead, he took people back to Lion City and sent many pirates everywhere to look for some ruins.

Then, in the Lion City, Faucher met Sarah.

After just one meeting and knowing Sarah's name, Faucher vowed to 'get her' - these were Faucher's exact words.

Maybe it's the power of love, but Frederic has never seen anyone fall in love with a woman so quickly.

Of course, Frederic also felt that it was normal for Faucher to fall in love at first sight with Sarah's appearance.

It was probably just because Sarah was a noble that Faucher didn't directly rob her as usual.

But Faucher's approach was not much different from Mingqiang - he first invited Sarah to his home to perform singing and dancing for two days, and then he showed his love to Sarah and said he wanted to marry her, not caring whether Sarah wanted to or not.

willing.

After Sarah clearly refused, Faucher unilaterally declared Sarah to be his fiancée - and Sarah fled immediately.

Faucher lost his temper for a long time and kept saying, "There was no quarrel, how could she run away" and "I will always recruit her again in the pub", and his temper became more violent and his behavior became more violent.

It's becoming more and more unbearable.

However, the matter of forcibly marrying the bard did not follow up, because Faucher's father, the Duke of Alma, happened to let the illegitimate son go to the Mist Cage City to participate in the athletic competition at this time.

In the arena, Frederic was injured a little while trying to save Faucher, who didn't know the heights of the sky, so he had to recuperate temporarily.

However, the illegitimate young master did not win the championship. He sprained his ankle and, like Frederic, had to recuperate in Fieldsway.

They stayed in Mist Cloud City for a short time.

However, even though he was injured, Faucher continued to struggle.

After barely being able to move, Faucher took him to Guangxiao Bay and robbed a Buckley businessman - this was the only thing Fredry did under Faucher that made him willing.

Mettenheim is facing a second invasion from Buckley. Robbery of the Buckley people is considered appropriate by the people of Mettenheim, and Buckley's ocean-going merchant ship itself is not a simple trading ship.

After grabbing a musket and some gunpowder and lead bullets from the Buckley people, Faucher began to call himself the Son of Prophecy, and his temper became increasingly weird. He often killed people and robbed caravans or villagers. Things like this were commonplace.

Frederic clearly heard Faucher say: "Fortunately, this treasure chest does exist...but why can't I find it in Changsong Harbor?"

He didn't know what the treasure chest Faucher was talking about. In fact, most of the time he didn't know what nonsense Faucher was talking about.

At this time, the war between the Lion Kingdom and the Bacchus Empire began.

Faucher was just an illegitimate son, so a civilian would naturally not participate in the war.

However, taking advantage of the relative emptiness of the villages during the war, he let his men plunder many small villages - even some small villages in the jurisdiction of his father's Shihu City.

This was probably for the purpose of robbing money.

Of course, it might also be for the girls in the village...

Perhaps it was for something else - Frederic heard Faucher say that he wanted to 'create some refugees' in order to 'complete the task'...

But Frederic didn't understand very much, what kind of task would require "creating refugees"?

A mission issued by the Red Brotherhood?
To be continued...