Albrecht's Chronicles

Humans were finite in their lives, but always longed for eternity. The aspirations of the Earth, of the people or of eternity have always been in my heart.

That's why they wanted to breed their offspring and continue their bloodline.

I heard someday that humans are just robots controlled by selfish genes.

Then, hope for eternity might also be just a gene command for reproduction.

But if you leave it right or not, and you add duty and responsibility to your bloodline, it becomes something else entirely. It goes beyond the meaning of reproduction.

Albrecht was 20 years old. Even in Oberburn, and even in Zairex, there was an offer of marriage.

I didn't think much of it when I refused, but what would it mean if I married, built a family, and inherited a family?

Is it just a reproduction? Beyond individual obligations and responsibilities, what does an oath to bloodline mean?

And what kind of obligations and responsibilities do we have for our offspring?

Albrecht walks east in the moonlight. Vervantos, who was in front of Albrecht, slept well on a horse that was shaking his head.

Albrecht looks down at him, a cute little boy with pointy ears.

‘I was told you weren't familiar with it, but you were tired. ’

Albrecht only cared about Schwarz as much as he could.

The plains of the eastern continent, with desert-like terrain, were endless stretches of tiny, dry grass.

He rides in front of the Vervantos, walks through the desert in the dry wind in March sunlight, and sees a nomad riding a horse and slaying a goat far away.

Nomads may be mild when they have plenty to eat, but they often turn into ruthless plunderers when they have nothing to eat.

Looking at the huge flock of goats, it doesn't look like there's much to eat now.

You look at each other from a great distance and raise your hand as if to say hello to the nomads. Albrecht also raises his hand. Then I left the road again.

Vervantos was unfamiliar with riding, so he often had to get down and rest.

While resting, I took out the hard bread, jerky, and wine I brought for lunch. As I ate, Albrecht suddenly wondered.

“But where do we go? Dwarves live at the far east? ”

Vervantos puts hard bread in his mouth, drinks wine, and says well.

“What are you talking about? We live in the North. You humans live in what we call the Sky Mountains. ”

From the northernmost tip of the northern central continent, the Sky Mountains told us that a vast mountain range extends to the south, like the Tibetan Plateau.

Albrecht was bewildered. Shouldn't he be on a boat to the North continent first?

“Then why are you heading east? ”

Vervantos smiles and says.

“Of course we're going to space travel. How long are you going to walk on a boat? We need to get to the coordinates to make room. I can't do it anywhere. ”

Space travel. Albrecht has decided not to talk about it anymore. You'll see.

“You said you were looking for armor, by the way. What else is there besides the axe? ”

On the outside, the seemingly incomplete little boy suddenly drank.

“Yay. Shields and bows. I heard the shield is owned by the king of the Kingdom of Veles and the bow is owned by the Queen of Anglia. ”

Albrecht glances at him and says,

“What, no magic to track? Are you just going to ask him? ”

“If you have any of that, teach me. I'm just asking for hydrogen. And I'm gonna steal it or something. ”

Albrecht sticks his tongue out. Dwarves, you have no choice.

They were both obsessed with eating without saying a word for a while. Then Albrecht looks at Vervantos and asks again.

“But how old are you? I heard him say it roughly as if you were old. ”

Bervantos ponders for a long time and replies.

“Well, I don't know, I haven't counted since I was 100. I think he's about 150 years old. ”

Albrecht is frightened inside. He's older than his grandfather. I thought I should avoid punishment in the future.

Schwarz grazes nearby, and the wind blows through the endless desert as you two dine.

We still pick up Vervantos in front of us, and a day or so later, he starts to show us the way. But something was never cool.

“Uh, I don't think this is it. Is that it? Go that way. ”

After a long while, Albrecht grows annoyed. The punishment decides not to, but he begins to stroke Vervantos' head gently.

Vervantos continues to show you the way as he feels Albrecht's hand. Then, when the rubble reaches a few random places, Vervantos shouts.

“Hey, over here! Right here!”

Then he leaps off the horse, pulling a stick out of the Doraemon pouch.

The shape looked like a wand used by the wizards in the movies, not just a stick, but like a machine.

“This is made from the heart of the dragon Teleija. There's not much left. It's a one-time use per person. Consider it an honor."

Albrecht looks at him with his ugly eyes and says,

“Once per person? Should I get off the horse? ”

Then Vervantos opens his eyes and looks at Albrecht.

“Well? Can't we just ride it? ”

Albrecht feels irritated almost down his throat.

“Hey! ”

I almost blasphemed, but I could hardly bear to think about his age.

Vervantos is furious and presses the button on the machine towards Albrecht. All I could hear was the crackling, and nothing happened.

“Huh? What's wrong with this? ”

Albrecht doesn't know whether to smile or not. Albrecht's annoyance rises, but he holds on tight. God! Take away my wrath for a moment!

Bervantos wants to tap the machine with his palm a few times and then press the button again, but when it does not work, he starts hitting it harder and harder.

At that moment, the machine snapped and broke. The problem is, after it's broken, a dazzling flash of light flashes out and shoots at Albrecht.

Vervantos is embarrassed, and he doesn't know what to do.

“Huh? Isn't this the right thing to do? ”

Albrecht has a thousand dollars in his belly. I wanted to yell at you if you didn't want to do this, but the sudden flash of light surprised Schwarz and lifted his front foot.

Calm Schwarz down, calm yourself down, and you clearly saw it. Broken!

“Fuck you! ”

In the end, Albrecht and Schwarz disappear with a swarm of light. A dwarf stands dumbstruck in an endless wilderness. A wind in the desert swept through him.

Albrecht closes his eyes to the twinkling light. Suddenly, the surroundings were completely different. You've barely calmed down the chaotic Schwarz and looked around.

Even just now, he was clearly in an endless plain, now in a dense forest.

Where the hell am I? ’

Albrecht was unable to enjoy the mysterious experience, even though he had experienced it as a space movement that had never been experienced on Earth's memory. Where am I?

You drive Schwarz around the woods for a moment. I also wanted the northern continent to have thick, tall trunks of trees.

No matter how hard I rolled my head, I couldn't figure out where I was. Ultimately, Albrecht hoped that Vervantos would hear, and unleashed his fury on him somewhere in the world.

“You son of a bitch! ”

The birds in the forest were surprised by the sound of thunder, not the time. Albrecht can't even tell where to go, so he's just stuck.

Even if you know the sun from east to west, where should you go?

Albrecht moves on to the creek or the river, holding his undying anger in his heart. Fire burns the eagle in the snow.

I became a drifter, but Albrecht was surprisingly well off.

Albrecht had never hunted before, but was naturally specialized in combat or hunting.

After several unsuccessful attempts, you quickly identify the essence and chase after the small beasts, throwing your sword unconsciously.

In the river, I caught some fish or crayfish and baked them, but I also packed a bunch of Eastern Continent spices as I left with Vervantos and had a delicious meal.

Then the anger subsided naturally. But I couldn't live this life forever. I just wanted to follow the river and get the villagers out. Or a den of thieves.

Albrecht was just walking along the river, wanting to do this, but carrying a moderately rich drift.

I ate animals or fish and bathed in clear, clean waterfalls or pools.

When the problem of eating and washing was resolved, I felt like I would come out of a civilian village or something someday.

After four days of space travel, Albrecht was still riding the river in his relaxed Schwarz.

I was relaxing for a while, but I heard someone from a distance.

"Finally!"

Albrecht gladly drives his horse, but it sounds a little strange.

They look like soldiers. ’

Ordering and grumbling at something, it was a familiar sound he heard when he led the army.

As we move further out of the river toward the forest, the sound of the soldiers grows louder. Then someone pops out of the bush, sees Albrecht, frozen, and stops.

I was wearing body armor, but it was a woman. Body armor tailored to a woman's body could be surprising, but not surprising compared to her beauty.

Albrecht thought that Elisa was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen and that there was no woman he could cross. But it wasn't.

A woman in body armor had a good eye for silver hair, a combination of facial features and carpet equipment couldn't be more perfect, and skin was as white as white eyes.

I don't know what I've been through, but my beautiful silver hair is sticking to my face with sweat, and the soot looks like I just struggled with something.

She stares straight at Albrecht with fear and astonishment, and Albrecht looks at her dazzled. The sound of the soldiers is getting closer.

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