Luzia Senki: Notes of the Luzian War

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Continental/continental General Calendar 1330: Early Autumn.

Middle Drakea continent: Draeruz Kingdom: Claudia Region: Moose Village.

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Three days after the meeting in the center of Carran City, a line of humans were walking to a place, if identified more of course they were bandit troops who had come out of the foxhole. Previously they prefer to wait in the forest to make sure the situation is safe or not.

The withdrawal of the Knights from the two villages that serve as the Frontline battle between Bandits and Knights really surprised some parties who did not miss the Bandits though.

On the one hand, they really feel that it is quite suspicious, but of course in the end they did not want to miss this opportunity because they themselves were basically tired of fighting continuously for months, moreover, they made Claudia's territory their Main Headquarters because they knew that there was no other unstable region like Claudia Region, no matter how strong the Knight Claudia was in defending.

Basically, the bandits are also victims of poverty that hit several regions on this continent, the loss of confidence in the state governments or the Aristocrats of their countries eventually joined the fellows who had the fate of raising swords against the merchants to be robbed or also plundering other Villages, as a means to survive in this harsh world.

Bandits in the region Claudia is indeed not a popular or feared bandit like some bandits in various corners of this large continent, but lately they have the support of the Kharza Empire in the south, a country that has been at war for the next 7 years Draeruz Kingdom.

Among the bandits though there was also someone who was considered their leader, he was Booze. As a leader he is certainly aware that behind the good of the Kharza Empire there must be a goal that is certainly not a positive sign.

Even so he did not care much about it because he himself did not care about the fate of this country, even he also got some horses and dozens of personal from the Kharza Empire.

Booze himself a former General and a 7-year war veteran but after the war he was finally fired from the royal army because the country was no longer strong in giving salaries to many soldiers after losing the war, which eventually made his confidence in the State already lost and here he was in the end.

Well, even though he himself while still serving as one of the generals in the royal army, he already had a bad reputation in leading the army.

"Hahaha, it seems like they've been desperate and lost their minds again, I can't believe it looks like this place is completely empty" Booze said with excessive confidence.

The bandit members who followed him began to disperse and scurry here and there into the homes of the randomly abandoned residents, those with their own initiative without Booze's orders began to loot the property inside the house.

In fact many of the bandits in their hearts did not really expect to get much loot in Moose Village, but it was different from what they had expected, Moose Village turns out there are even many treasures that somehow accidentally the villagers left behind, it was as if the villagers were already unconcerned about what had happened and immediately fled the village in a hurry to the point that many of their treasures were left behind.

Of course the bandits who saw that also did not care the reason the residents hurriedly fled the Village because they only assumed that the residents were tired because almost every day they were in the village all-out combat.

At that time they had been completely blinded by the treasure and did not realize that they had actually been exposed to one of the trap elements that Luzia had prepared.

The booty they obtained were mostly abundant agricultural produce from the villagers in the previous harvest season. Among them are rye, wheat, peas, and some other vegetables.

Because of the large number of crops you might even be able to make it into several seeds to be planted and for winter supplies later.

Even so because it had been drunk by a long-cherished victory, the bandit troops seemed to have another plan, which was to use much of the spoils for partying, even Booze who as the leader innocently agreed to the plan of one of his subordinates.

It was not worth showing by a former general in the Kingdom, but it seemed that he had also been struck by a victory hangover.

"Hey, look what I found!" a boy about 10-13 years old with a disheveled appearance, shouted to the other bandit members who were older than him.

"Well, where did you get that many sheep!?"

"Ah Boss Booze, as I circled around one of the back houses of a resident I found a cage where by the time I opened it there were already sheep left by the owner."

The boy, Kaba Boutros, was formerly a slave of a wealthy Commonwealth nation led by influential merchants called the Orte Alliance. The country currently prefers to be a Non-Block state such as the Draeruz Kingdom and the Kharza Empire.

The nobleman who has a bad hobby is none other than one of the Three Duke Alliance members who lead the Parliament of Kirya, Duke Sauron von Ramton, as well as the Head of the Duke Ramton Family.

Luckily the caravan that drove him to Duke Ramton's territory was suddenly attacked by bandits in the border section between the Draeuruz Kingdom and the Khirza Empire, which was when he met Booze.

"We already have many types of vegetables and even livestock that we can consume meat, he said, this way maybe we can divide some for the future again, especially for winter and the rest for us to party tonight!" booze shouted with enthusiasm.

"Damorah!"

"Finally after a long time in the woods!"

"Party!"

It was also seen that the bandits gathered in front of the village head's house shouted with great enthusiasm after hearing Booze's statement.

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On that night about 3000 bandit members were in the same place that Moose Village was doing a celebration party of a considerable victory. Moreover, for bandits who are not so famous but they quite have a fantastic number of members, maybe all because of the poverty that hit the Kingdom after the war.

Moose Village that was previously empty like a ghost village because it was abandoned by the residents, suddenly the atmosphere inside the Village became more festive than the previous one.

A large bonfire was lit in the middle of a large courtyard in the center of the village, and bandits were also seen running around the huge fire.

"In the beginning we did not expect that at that time a small army tasked with destroying the Knights from behind could be destroyed by one person only. Is he even a human?" booze said after that he drank something in the wooden glass he was holding.

On the other side of the party site, two people were drinking a glass of alcohol they got from one of the houses they had previously looted. The two men were of course Booze and a 20-year-old man, he was named Fendrel.

"Well, you're right. Although in the end it seemed that the attack still had an impact on them because the evidence was now that they were withdrawing from the battle, thanks to the mysterious man before whom we ourselves do not know what his purpose is but all this thanks to his advice to change the pattern of the assault schedule with the aim of tricking the Knights."

Before becoming a Bandit, Fendrel lived in an orphanage but was eventually expelled from the orphanage because of his age was considered enough to find a job on his own, despite that he eventually became a minor criminal in the end.

For the time being maybe if you were in a military organization you could assume Fendrel's position as an aide because he himself was the first member recruited by Booze when he was a bandit, and Booze himself believed in it too much.

"By the way what about the two noble couples we live in the forest?" ask Fendrel to Booze.

"That Royal dog pair?! don't mind it let them die there, even though I'm myself how the mysterious man got them both and then voluntarily gave them to us for free." said Booze who in a tone that no longer cares about what is asked by Fendrel.

"Our members even have rumors that the mysterious man is a witch, although it's hard to believe that a Witch that exists only in ancient artifacts can actually exist in this world."

"Hey hey, come on with this shit now we're in a victory situation so let's celebrate this shit and let the curse boy roast to death in the forest, mwahahahaha!"

"You're right, Boss!"

After they discuss something about a mysterious man they meet who claims to be their liaison with the Kharza Empire, eventually they forgot all about the oddity and started heading around the campfire to dance.

While they were having fun with their self-proclaimed victory, that was when the time bomb that had been set up to destroy them had already begun.