the everden grand ducky belongs to the great azeldian empire the empire is the only surviving nations of the great war who was fought by all races humans ,elves ,dwarfs ,orcs and other minor species in the year 445, the empire was the leader of humanity and managed after many defeats to stand supreme .the other human nations in the old human territories bowed to the azeldian empire and in the new land who humans annexed after the war new countries were founded the strongest of them rose to be the kansberg empire

the year 472 the war was over with human victory , after the war the azeldian empire was the strongest country and uncontested leader of mankind the empire will go to fight many wars many of them with the demons there will be economic collapse and rebellions but the empire will survive but after the year 1100 the empire was starting to collapse, the year is 1471 and the reason that the empire is alive is loyalty ,most of the lords are not loyal to the empire but they are constantly at war with each other so they are not strong enough to rebel but at the same time they are keeping the empire weak . but the high lords like the everden grand ducky are loyal to the emperor so they are having the lords and other nations at check and the imperial family has a secret weapon no one knows what it is but everyone knows that it exist

las after 1 month had reached the capital there he was forced to stay for some time his illness was getting worst and worst he was at bed for most of the time

las woke up with cold sweat dripping at his forehead he looked around " hmmm what is this feeling its like someone in watching me" his brothers may have send someone to get rid of him it would be not something that he did not expect [i must make sure that no one is here to murder me ]

he made his way to the door the knights who were standing guard were surprised the one in the right spoke "my lord is there a problem ? its better to stay at bed " las spoke back " did anyone came to my room"

the knights pause for a second but after a minute they recovered and drew their swords and they said clearly "my lord stand back we will protect you"

las said " you the one in the left go and wake up commander leonard and the others" the night saluted and run to the room of the commander

after 15 minutes all of the forces were in one room even the officials who don't go to the battlefield knew how to use a sword after all they came from the knight household of everden so they are useful

las gave the order "search the estate in groups of 4 " las then looked at the other side of the room and said "leonard and arthur you two will come with me at my room" all saluted and started the search

las got inside the room arthur spoke "my lord please go to bed " then leonard bowed "i will guard you my lord "

las looked at them with a smile "i want to stay up for just a little " he said but after a second he coughed ,blood could be seen his face was white he seem like he will fall at any moment

arthur "my lord please go to bed don't push yourself so much " las lost his balance the commander hold him up and said "my lord you must sit down " las weakly said "i don't have any strength to walk " " then excuse me my lord" the commander lifted las he was like a feather and white like his hair , but his purple eyes were full of life and determination the commander thought [i must protect the young master until i die this eyes were not of a person in the death bed "

something interrupted the commanders thoughts it was las he smiled warmly and in a clear voice he said " i will not die "

then las saw something he said "a spirit??" the light ball came to his ear and a voice was heard "i saw your determination poor soul i will help you so follow me and i will be of help"

las looked at the blue spirit he looked with suspicions arthur spoke" my lord what are you looking at ?" las didn't spoke but he thought [what choice do i have should i take the hand of this spirit, i heard that most of them are good nd they don't lie but still ]

minutes passed and las looked at arthur and said "prepare a carriage with 10 guards " arthur looked at his master he looked at his eyes he understood after all he has been serving this man for 10 years "he bowed and said as the lord commands "he didn't want to but he knew the lord made a decision

leonard who did not now the lord well spoke "what no you can't go out you will worsen " las spoke " even if i stay at bed i will die i must do something do you understand " the commander was taken aback but he did as he was told to he couldn't disobey his lord "i will prepare the knights"

las rode the carriage for 2 hours when the spirit told him to stop he and the knights walked finally the spirit spoke "stop the knights here " las said "im weak i may fall down " "don't worry i will handle it my mana is unique"

las stopped the and said "i will go alone from there " the commander said " what please let me go with you we don't know the place " "no i will go alone you stand back" the knights had no choice but to obey las in reality did not want to go he didn't trust the spirit but it was his last hope of survival it was the fight of a man who is going to die

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las followed the spirit in silence then he saw it "a Statue of the last hero ?" the spirit started to shine and it took a human form "yes my statue im the last hero ,called in to this world " indeed the spirit was like the statue but spirits can't be human souls they are another minor race

las was baffled "what are you talking about ? " the spirit smiled and said "we heroes can't pass on the afterlife until our wishes are made reality ,my wish was not i will give you my memories and i will unite with you and help you heal"

"what are you talking about even if i believe that your a hero why did you came to me ? "

"im the hero from another world and there are others the reason that i choose you is a secret no to put it right i can't say it to you because of a seal "

"and why should i believe you ?" las said looking at the spirit

the spirit gave las a smirk and said "what choice do you have "

las indeed had no choice he was slowly walking towards to death "your right i have no choice so are we going to make a pack? and what do you mean give me your memories?"

the hero " i come from another world where technology is more advanced and i have memories of different people soldiers scientists and engineers so you will be able to rise but i can't heal you i can only give you a part of my power to make you better"

las looked at him he could not believe what he heard but he had no choice so he said "and what do you want you would not give everything for free would you?" las was full of suspicion but this was his last hope

"as i said before we can't pass to the afterlife until our dreams came true so you must make my dream true"

"and what do you want?"

the spirit got near las and whispered something 'las froze and he screamed "are you crazy "

the spirit smiled and raised his hand he said something and a magic circle was formed it was in another language but las understood the words , las read the pack he didn't move for a minute or two he thought but ade his mind fast "aaaa what choice do i have i don't want to die "and he made his choice he Sign

the spirit said in a low voice "poor child i will help you live and i beg for your forgiveness, we sheal meet when you need me " las looked at this spirit its seem like the spirit felt remorse

las screamed "leonard" and he fainted the pack was made

when las woke up the first thing that he saw was arthur by his side when arthur realised that las had woken up he run to his side and he kneeled "my lord are you alright ? are you feeling better ?"

"calm down arthur im fine what happened ? for how many days was i asleep ?"

arthur spoke" the knights brought you unconscious and you were asleep for two days "

las slowly got out of bed and said "wait that means this is our 7 day in the capital did i lost the imperial convoy"

it's a tradition to sent a convoy to high nobles like the everden " the convoy did not came my lord"" it seems that the imperial house doesn't consider me an everden they probably know of my exile for some time before i even learnt of it you need at least 3 months to take over a viscountcy without resistance from other lords even with the power of the empire im not surprised "

arthur looked at me he was like a statue "what is it arthue?"

"my lord your not vomiting blood and your not coughing your at all and your color is normal are are you getting better?"

las looked at himself he smiled "it seems " a knock was heard "come inside"

it was leonard he got near las ,kneeled and said "my lord please give me punishment i couldn't protect you"

"no need i am the one to stop you but i will give you work , start preparing we need to reach the territory in the north"

leonard got up he saluted "as the viscount orders " "arthur can you bring me something to eat" both bowed and left las sat at the bed he squeezed his hand and said "he said the truth but the memories have not come to me ? why is that and why did he choose me? what did i miss"

the next day they started the march after 3 weeks they reach the outskirts of the helstain viscountcy we reached a river the guard inform us "in the other side of the river starts the helstain territory

when we reached the other side of the bank of the river ,leonard rode near the carriage and said "my lord something is wrong smoke can be seen in the distance "

"i see let's go and check " leonard hesitated but he saluted"as the lord commands "

after 30 minutes we reached a burned village and we rose our flag a golden dragon in a red background and two griffins in each side we reach the square the carriage stopped there were wounded villagers and dead a priest was using healing magic with no much effect most of them had hatred in there eyes

one of them a young girl threw a rock at the carriage and said "nobles you bastards you can only tax us and don't care about us " a woman stopped her she bowed and said "please forgive my stupid daughter my lord please spare her life"

the knights in full plate armour were looking at them no one dared to move without the order the villagers looked with anxiety the mother was trembling

silence a hand was moved from the window the knights understood they dismounted the villagers got scared the priest run and said "in the name of the god of light please spare them"

the knights ignored them, the priest and the woman were confused[what are they doing?] 2 lines were formed the knights saluted and the door Open leonerd with his hand at the handle of the sword in the right side and one the left arthur and las at the center

the priest and villagers were surprised everyone thought [ a nobleman got out of his carriage to meet them]

the noble looked at them and said in a cold tone "what has happened here why is the village like that"

the priest was shaking but he spoke "o great lord the sun and sea"

las interrupted him "cut the bullshit speak clearly "

"yes yes my lord this territory is ruled by horse bandits they are unified under one leader this village refused to pay the tax if they did pay both the lords and the bandits they would starve so they were made an example of for others "

"did you check all the houses for survivors? "

"no my lord we did not hade the time"

las looked at the second carriage and moved his hand all the officials were in a line in minutes

las said "go around the village search for survivors and treat the wounded and count the dead and 15 of the knights put out the fire "

"as the lord commands " was heard in unison