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Chapter 5: Young lord of a pioneer city
Chapter 5: Young lord of a pioneer city
Chapter 5: Young lord of a pioneer city
Translated by SoundOfDestiny
Edited by Zil
It was five years ago.
The second prince of the Kingdom of Zain, Raidorl Zain, was exiled from the capital and sent to a pioneer city in the south of the kingdom.
He was given the nominal title of “Lord”, but the people of the city did not take kindly to the way he was treated.
Half of the looks directed at the thirteen-year-old prince were sympathetic to the idea of a young prince living on the harsh frontier. The other half was a look of contempt that was clearly laced with hostility.
The city was not built with the help of the Kingdom of Zain.
It was built voluntarily by an adventurer’s guild that fought demons for a living.
For a lord from the kingdom to be sent to such a frontier city at this time would be like having the jewels you have worked so hard to polish snatched from your hands. It wasn’t very acceptable.
If it had not been a boy of thirteen who had become lord, they might have planned to eliminate him by violent means, such as assassination.
The adventurers who had built up the pioneering city made no secret of their ill-will towards their new lord, Raidorl, and the young prince was condemned to a life of needle-in-a-haystack.
Shunned by his brother Granard, abandoned by his trusted advisors and his fiancée, and exiled to the frontier, he is subjected to a constant stream of pity and malice.
After such a hellish fall, Raidorl crawled on the ground and suffered the humiliation of sipping muddy water. He cried until his tears ran dry and clawed at the ground until his nails came off.
However: the young prince did not stop there. Despite experiencing the lowest point in his life, Raidorl chose to climb up from the depths of hell, despite his suffering.
“Guildmaster, teach me how to fight the demons!”
With grief and despair in his heart, Raidorl stood up fiercely and, on his two feet, went to the guild master, Bartolomeo Zafis, to ask for an apprenticeship.
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“Well, ……, you’re not a lord in name only, but you’ve got some nerve. It’s interesting.”
Zafis was surprised by the young lord’s behavior, but he gladly agreed and taught Raidorl how to fight as an adventurer.
In the beginning, Zafis had some difficulty in dealing with the young prince who became his lord.
He is sympathetic to the situation of the young prince, who was sent to the frontier because his older brother did not like him, but he does not like the idea of the royal court interfering more than necessary in the frontier city.
That said, we can’t let other adventurers harbour ill feelings towards a thirteen-year-old prince.
In that sense, Raidorl’s apprenticeship was a good thing.
Zafis dared to take Raidorl to the guild’s training grounds and beat the young lord in full view of the other adventurers, teaching him how to fight and training him from the core.
Raidorl had originally learned the basics of swordsmanship as a royalty, but his talent became outstanding due to being chosen to be the owner of the holy sword.
Although the sword was taken away by Granard, Raidorl still had the blessing of the sword within him, and he was slowly learning to use its power.
The adventurers around him began to look at him differently as he grew stronger and stronger through his hard training.
The pioneering city of Raid
The name of the town, given later, was a sign of respect and affection for the young lord, who was fighting with his life to defend the frontier city.