Demon King's Mentor

The eastern border borders the country of Batana, and it is also the weakest of the five borders. This place is bounded by the foot of the mountain, the plains to Fendel, and the mountains to Batana, so it has always been difficult to defend and attack. .Fortunately, Batana is not a powerful country. I am afraid that the crossing of the border this time may be instigated by Allah Germany.

Fendel's regular army has a total of 1000 people, plus 800 mercenaries. This time it can be said that they are going all out to force back the Batana army.But although the opponent has only [-] troops in the territory, are there still many enemy troops hiding in the towering and steep mountains?Everyone can't predict it.

General Divoge, who is in charge of the command, is a middle-aged man who has experienced many battles. Lorian's experience on the battlefield is remarkable. It can be said that sending this general is safe.

The Gray Deer Mercenary Corps and other mercenaries were organized into the first team. Everyone was not very nervous and felt that they had a chance of winning.But Eric called Timon, Gillens, and Lamir to his side before departure, and asked the three young men to follow him as much as possible, not to rush to the front, let alone get too close to the opposite mountain.

They looked at this unpredictable man, and reluctantly agreed, but Timon was very worried about him, but he couldn't say more, so they had to tell Gilens and Lamir in private that this man might have lost his wife and children. Have suicidal tendencies.

Gillens and Lamir were taken care of by him on the previous few battlefields, and they felt that they owed him favors. This time they were even more embarrassed to hide behind him, so they had to secretly make up their minds to keep an eye on Eric.

The horn of war reverberated on the battlefield, and the shouts of charge were all in his ears. Eric watched the spearmen, and when Lamir got too close, he pulled him, and waited for Lamir to recover. At the time, a spear was piercing the shoulder of the soldier behind him.

Before Lamir had time to thank him, he saw Eric's gleaming long sword piercing into the body of the opposing infantry, turned around and swung it, cutting off the leg of a cavalryman, and fell down together with his horse.

It's like being able to predict the enemy's actions in advance!Lamir's eyes widened, watching Eric turn around and pull him up, telling him to be careful not to expose his body to the charging soldiers, and pulling him away from the mountain in front of him to escape.

When they were about to annihilate [-] enemy soldiers, a huge boulder suddenly rolled down from the mountain. However, Gilens and Timon had already stayed away from Eric's warning, but the mercenary assault corps lost heavy.However, General Diwog didn't care about them. He quickly lined up his elite soldiers, neither too close nor too far away. The former king was sent to Brundu Mountain to guard the pass for two years, and he knew the tactics of being close to the mountain.

Because the enemy has not been too close, the Batana country had to attack with bows and arrows from time to time, but with little effect. After a few days of stalemate, the Batana army, which had been ambushing on the mountain, first proposed negotiations because of the difficulty in transporting supplies. Fendel has thus far resolved the border crisis.

The clarion call of victory made all the Fendel soldiers excited. Because they were the assault troops, Eric and the others received a generous reward. It was the first time Timon saw four silver coins lined up together. He was so happy that he didn't know what to do. good.

Timon, Gillens, and Lamir unanimously agreed to share one of their bounties to Eric. When they put the three silver coins in Eric's hands, Eric was stunned for a moment. refused to accept.

"If it weren't for you, I would have been seriously injured this time!" Lamir said first.

"It's your destiny not to get hurt," Eric replied, "thank the gods and don't thank me."

They couldn't say enough about him. After all, these three young men were not very literate, let alone understand any major principles. They looked at each other and felt that this man must be the guardian sent by heaven to save them.

They took Eric to a few good dinners and invited him to those relaxing places for entertainment, Eric knew where they were going and didn't stop them, Timon refused because he had a girlfriend and stayed Walked around the market with Eric.

Eric bought some paper and ink, stunned Timon, who adored him even more, and asked him if he wanted to write a letter, and to whom.

Eric sometimes wanted to teach them how to read and write, but it was hard to make time in such a difficult environment, not to mention that the three young men were as frizzy as he was then, staring at the tavern and women all day long.

"You must have been to school," Timon said with some low self-esteem, "I really don't know why you want to join the mercenary army and hang out with us."

"Everyone has their own destiny," Eric said. "I only started learning in my 20s, and I didn't know many words before."

"Really, then you have time to teach me!" Timon rekindled his confidence.

"Okay, I'll teach you tomorrow when I'm free." Eric said.

Eric returned to the hotel, arranged the paper and ink on the table, and recorded General Divoge's fighting methods and other certain information he had inquired on the flat white paper stroke by stroke, such as Where will the 500-man army go now, the situation of the guards stationed in the eastern border, and so on.After he finished writing, it was already late at night. He folded the paper and stuffed it together with other papers into the pocket of his clothes.

Eric fell asleep on the hard bed, leaning on the warm stove, he dreamed of the nanmu desk in the sun, and dreamed of all kinds of things when he first arrived in the palace.

At that time, in order to hide that he couldn't understand too complicated words, he tried his best to read the picture book in front of Eastero, in case the other party asked questions.Then sneakily before leaving, take the dictionary on the bookshelf back to the room, and study it while everyone is asleep.In the early morning, he was the first to get up again and put the dictionaries and books back to their original places.

He tried his best not to show embarrassment in front of Eastero, in order to prevent himself from revealing that he was not a nobleman, but he was still speechless by Eastero's questions several times. He admitted that he was not good at academics, Then he secretly asked those teachers outside the palace for more than half a year, so that he would not be caught by Easteros.

He had never been in contact with nobles before, so he didn't know that even in the palace, there were some nobles and ladies who were illiterate.When Eastero later told him this fact unintentionally, he was secretly amused by his panic at the time. However, it was indeed much more convenient after he knew the words, and sometimes he even felt that he was Eastero's mentor. No worse than those nobles, at least when he shared a book with Estero, he rarely felt that he had touched a part of that child's heart.

"Esther..." He murmured the name, dreaming of the other party's golden eyelashes fluttering in the sun, and the butterfly-like projection falling on the blue iris, each fluttering on his heart.

"teacher."

A cool touch fell on his cheek, Eric opened his eyes suddenly, and saw the familiar face.