One day six years ago, Lucius, who was only fifteen years old, came to the royal capital for the first time. However, he was not attracted by the prosperity here. Instead, he practiced hard and continued to improve his combat effectiveness.

He had only one ambition from the beginning to the end, which was to become a paladin and serve the princess he admired most.

As for why he was so obsessed with the princess, he didn't know it himself. Later, when he thought about it carefully, maybe it was because when he was a child, he often listened to his mother telling stories about princesses, the kind of beautiful, elegant, and strong women who shouldered important missions.

Make him extremely respectful.

In fact, his Menard family has always served as guards for the royal family. However, with the decline of the family, it was eventually replaced by other knight families. The elders of the family were also sent to remote areas to provide protection for those minor nobles.

Serve.

Although they have become more leisurely, it is more depressing for the knights of the family. In Lucius's impression, his father is always frowning all day long.

When he was young, he felt strange, and one time he finally plucked up the courage to ask his father, but his father seemed to have been struggling to find anyone to talk to, so he told him the truth about the family's misunderstanding by the royal family.

Lucius has always been a positive and optimistic person. At that time, he thought it was incredible that his father and the elders of the family were depressed because of such a thing.

Now that you know you have been misunderstood, you should work harder to prove your loyalty. How can you be secretly sad without doing anything?

However, when he expressed his thoughts, his father was even more disappointed and said that the child really didn't understand anything.

Unexpectedly, Lucius, who had always been very obedient, also felt angry. From then on, he never spoke to his father again. He just practiced his sword silently every day like a man in a daze.

Of course he felt sad for what happened to his family, but he always believed that his idea was correct, so he had to use his own strength to prove it, and when his goal was achieved, his father would definitely look at him with admiration.

Unfortunately, that unpleasant conversation was the last time Lucius met his father.

After grandpa passed away, his father, the eldest son, took over as the head of the family. However, the good times did not last long. They lived close to the border of the empire, but they never thought that the nobles of the royal capital still refused to let them go, so they sent a powerful

A very terrifying killer who plans to kill everyone in his family.

There is a former paladin in the family. Although he failed in the recent knight competition, his strength cannot be underestimated.

Facing the assassin who came alone, the knights of the family did not pay much attention at first, so they only sent the former paladin to fight, thinking that they could quickly deal with the enemy and let those in the royal capital understand that Menard

The family was sent to remote areas not because of lack of strength, but because of strict compliance with royal orders.

However, they underestimated the killer after all. According to the memories of the knights who survived the battle, the family's paladin was actually helpless in the face of the killer. In just ten rounds, he was covered in wounds and bloodied by the killer.

As noted, he died of excessive blood loss in the end.

After realizing that something was wrong, the knights retreated one after another. They were by no means greedy for life and afraid of death, but wanted to do their best to protect the younger generation of the family.

Lucius still remembered the scene that day. The sun was shining brightly outside, which was a good weather for traveling. Moreover, just the day before, after a long training, he finally got the approval of the swordsmanship teacher, and the teacher decided to give him a day off.

So, he went out in a relaxed and happy mood, but he saw a chaotic scene in the yard. Before he could ask about the situation, his mother involuntarily pulled him and ran to the back door.

"Mom, what happened? I haven't had breakfast yet."

"Don't worry about so much. Here," his mother stuffed a package that was obviously prepared in a hurry into his arms, and then wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. "The dry food here is enough for you to eat for three days. Come on, don't worry."

came back."

"...So what happened?" Lucius saw something was wrong and immediately asked sharply.

But the mother ignored her and turned to greet the other children in the family who arrived after her.

There is a large river behind the family mansion, and there is a ferry boat on the river that can lead to the next town. At this time, dozens of children were tricked by the knights into getting on the boat, and the oldest among them was Lucius.

Finally, his mother looked at him and warned him very seriously.

"Lucius, you must take good care of your brothers and sisters outside. Of course, you must also take care of yourself. Also, don't take revenge, because you can't fight them. I only hope that you can spend your life in peace in the future.

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Lucius was not a dull man. After seeing the situation clearly, he nodded solemnly, and then paddled away from the shore with the old butler who accompanied them.

After sailing a few hundred meters, he could vaguely hear screams coming from behind. He quickly covered his ears, not daring to look back, and asked the children to hide in the cabin quickly.

Later, he didn't know how he escaped. He just woke up and went to the next town. As the oldest remaining child in the family, he had to take on the responsibilities of a parent.

The first thing he did was, in order to prevent innocent people from being affected, he gave the old housekeeper a sum of money and asked him to leave.

"But, Master Lucius, what are you going to do next?" The old housekeeper was a little reluctant to leave.

"It's okay, just take it one step at a time. That guy is here for the Menard family and has nothing to do with you, so there is no need for you to get involved."

"Haha, Master Lucius, look what you said, if it weren't for your father's help, I wouldn't be alive today. However, what you are doing now is exactly the same as your father, so I would rather obey you with respect...

…but allow me to help you one last time.”

Later, the old butler told Lucius that this town was called Baifeng Town, which was his former hometown, and that the lord of the city was a great nobleman with both ability and political integrity, Fritzman Taranka.

Hughes provided shelter.

If it were normal Lucius, he would definitely reject this proposal, because he had heard from his father that this Fritzmann and his grandfather had always had political disagreements, and maybe this genocide incident was also related to each other.

But after he calmed down, he still agreed, because as he had always believed, if he was suspected, he should prove his innocence, and if he suspected others, he should find out the truth.

As expected, after learning about the situation, Fritzmann adopted all the children without any explanation.

When faced with Lucius's stubborn and vigilant eyes, he did not get angry, but solemnly explained to him that he only had political disagreements with his grandfather, but he would not do such a cruel thing, if he didn't believe it.

, Lucius can then conduct investigations freely, and can always ask him for help if he encounters difficulties.

However, in the following days, Lucius became more and more trusting of Fritzman from his initial suspicion, because the head of the family was consistent with everyone and never cared about so many red tapes.

If this was a performance, he wouldn't do it in front of his family.

In short, Lucius temporarily lived in the Taranca family as an adopted son, and at the same time became Ophelia's brother. A few years later, he even fell in love with another girl from the Taranca family.

He thought that this kind of life could continue forever, but unfortunately, the hands of the great nobles still reached out to this family, which has always been known for its loyalty.

Although it was not as tragic as his own family, the other party still sent assassins to assassinate Fritzmann and the candidate for the head of the family, who was Ophelia's father.

What made him collapse the most was that his lover was also brutally murdered. While holding the body of the person he loved most, he saw clearly the true identity of the killer, who was the one who had destroyed his family.

In an instant, as if all anger was filling his heart, he picked up his sword and rushed toward the killer like crazy.

Perhaps infected by this anger, a legendary weapon collected by the Taranka family was awakened and flew directly into Lucius's hands.

Without thinking much, he directly used his sword skills on the killer. In the next moment, a large group of dark red flames surged out from the red sword blade and went straight towards the killer's face.

The killer didn't pay attention to him at first, and was about to kill him with a wave of his hand, but he never thought that at that moment, his face was burned by the sudden high temperature.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh".

Lucius had never experienced actual combat. Seeing his enemy in extreme pain, he became nervous. But soon he remembered the hatred of his family, and the anger instantly burned through his body again, and finally turned into the flames on the sword.

"Damn it, I will pay for it with your blood today!"

Lucius chased after him and planned to chop him again, but the killer did not sit still and wait for death. Instead, he relied on his years of combat experience and sensed the flow of air around his body, kept dodging, and finally distanced himself.

"You are... Oh, I saw you on the boat that day," the killer sneered, "Haha, you turned out to be a remnant of the Menard family."

"That's weird. You've lost all your eyes. How can you tell it's me now?"

"Huh, you don't understand," the killer curled his lips and continued, "For so many years, the only one who can be hurt is you. It's really unlucky that you were hurt by a short-lived ghost."

"Short-lived ghost? Aren't you talking about yourself?"

Lucius couldn't help laughing wildly. He had a strange feeling. When he held the sword, there was endless anger in his heart, and it seemed that no matter how great the fear, it could be dispelled.

The next moment, the two men rushed towards each other at the same time, their weapons clashed together and made a harsh noise, and scorching flames suddenly burst out...

Back in time, the two started a fierce battle, and the red mist emanating from the sword became thicker and thicker.

Ophelia on the side looked at this scene, and the scenes hidden deep in her memory suddenly emerged.

She finally remembered that she had indeed witnessed a fierce battle the day before her family's downfall, but she fainted soon after being stimulated.

At that time, she was kneeling next to her dead sister, and she was fighting against a bad guy whose face was burned, and Lucius, who was holding a red sword and seemed to be on fire.
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