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The knight, Aegis Charlotte, had a difficult childhood.
She was the daughter of a fallen noble.
She was the third daughter of a fallen noble who had committed a great sin and had fallen to the ground, completely stripped of her lofty status as a count.
There was no way someone with such birth could live a normal life.
Her parents, who could not give up their noble lifestyle even after becoming nobility, spent all the money they had and even borrowed money from private loans.
Then, as if they had not come to their senses, they willingly gave up their own child.
In this way, Aegis Charlotte fell from a noble to a fallen noble who was no different from a commoner, and from a fallen noble to a s*ave.
It was a truly hopeless life.
A life where there seemed to be not a single ray of light in life.
However, despite living such a life, Aegis never gave up.
It was not that she had some lofty purpose or anything.
The young child simply did not want to die.
She simply wanted to continue to survive.
Yes, where could there be a noble will to continue living as much as a person’s will to live…
Naturally, the life of a s*ave who was sold was a path that easily broke even that will.
However, she was lucky.
Unlike other slaves who had been broken countless times, she had talent.
A talent for fighting, for battle.
The place she was sold to, as if it were a stroke of luck that had never come before, was a gladiator’s arena.
If she had been sold to a noble with perverted tastes, she might have died before she could grow up.
If she had been sold to a maid or servant somewhere, she would have lived a worthless life without being able to show off her brilliant talent at all.
However, luckily, she landed in a place where she could show off her talent, and she showed off her talent in that fierce space where blood and flesh, cheers from far away, and screams from very close by, were all at once.
In a place overflowing with creatures fiercely clashing against each other to survive, she was small and weak, but she had more brilliant talent than anyone else, so she stubbornly survived and blossomed her talent, and before she knew it, she reached the top of the gladiator’s arena, despite her young age.
And so, someone bought her, who had become the brightest in the arena.
The new owner who bought her had an incredibly great lineage.
It was no wonder, because he was the son of the emperor, the master of the empire, and a member of the imperial family.
The son of the emperor’s third empress and the fifth son of the emperor.
The one who bought her was such a brilliant being.
In some ways, you could say that the imperial family was the cause of her family’s downfall, but she didn’t particularly hate the imperial family or the empire.
Rather, she hated and resented her parents for committing a crime and sending her family into the abyss of ruin, and even selling her out…
However, regardless of her own thoughts, her circumstances quickly changed.
The reason the fifth emperor bought her was not because he had his eye on her, but simply to hand her over to the man who would become the next master of this empire, the crown prince.
He had no good intentions at all.
The young prince had been trying to spoil the honor of the most noble person by gifting a s*ave gladiator who was nothing more than a mess of blood, sweat, and dust.
It was a childish and malicious gift from a child who had grown up under the malicious and power-hungry education of the empresses who thought that he had a chance to exploit her, even though he was the child of the first empress who had already passed away.
However, that was the greatest luck she had ever encountered.
“So, you are the warrior my brother sent?”
The man was refreshing.
He smiled at her, a s*ave in broad daylight, and treated her with pure kindness.
“I heard that you have great skills. Do you want to be my knight?”
The crown prince, who had washed and called in a mere s*ave, kindly offered her the position of knight.
To her, the crown prince seemed like… the sun.
“… It is merely an honor, Your Majesty. I offer this lowly sword to You, Your Majesty!”
And so Aegis became a knight.
And with the full support of the crown prince, she erased all the suspicions and contemptuous gazes that she had become a knight through special treatment.
After three years, she had become the crown prince’s closest confidant and shield, and had proudly become a ‘Master’ who was ranked as one of the ten strongest people in the empire, and after another five years, there was not a single person who was called stronger than her.
Her brilliant talent, beyond the simple goal of survival, met the existence of the crown prince, set a firmer goal, and worked even harder.
As she, the tree called Aegis Charlotte, received endless nutrients from the crown prince’s full support, she blossomed into a gigantic world tree that existed only for the crown prince!
Despite possessing such strength, she was still loyal only to her lord.
At first glance, it may seem like a natural thing for a knight, but there weren’t many knights in the world who did that natural thing.
Of course, loyalty is important to a knight.
A knight must become the sword of his lord.
A knight’s loyalty is to follow any order given.
A knight’s life should be to be a tool that is swayed by his lord’s will without caring about the world’s evaluation.
At least, that’s how Aegis lived her life.
In a world where it’s not strange for those with great power to have ambitions, her thoughts may sound old-fashioned and old-fashioned, but she was also a textbook knight.
That’s why she couldn’t waver.
From the countless temptations that approached her.
When the emperor died, the royal family rose up, saying that they could not leave the country to the crown prince born of the empress of low birth, and in the civil war that broke out, there were those who urged her to change sides.
When the empire that had shone like a mighty sun began to shake, even the wolf-like kingdoms that were waiting for the gap coveted her.
The self-proclaimed revolutionaries who were trying to completely destroy the empire and its current system even tried to make Aegis their symbol, knowing that she was a noble who had fallen from grace and had been reduced to a s*ave by the royal family.
However, nothing could change Aegis’s heart.
Even amidst countless temptations, she was always the crown prince’s knight, his shield, and his closest confidant.
… But she knew.
The reason she could only stand by the crown prince’s side, the man who was now the emperor of the empire, was not simply because of her loyalty.
The sole and great sun of the empire, the sole master of this Aegis Charlotte, the most splendid emperor who will be praised forever:
Standing by the Emperor’s side, always living as his closest aide, living a life closer to the Emperor than anyone else.
In the knight’s heart, there was something other than loyalty.
‘This disloyal knight dared to have feelings for my lord.
Your Majesty, I adore you!’
The true feelings of the great knight Aegis Charlotte that she never once said out loud.
The reason she never wavered.
Even though a new spouse suitable for the new Emperor was born, her heart never wavered.
However… even though her heart was torn inside with those feelings, she could not express even a little of those feelings.
A fallen noble who had sinned against the Imperial family, a lowly s*ave.
A worthless tool to tarnish her noble status.
She felt too shabby to convey her feelings to the man who had reached out to her and made her a knight, the one who shined brighter than anyone else.
Even though she called herself a loyal knight, she harbored such dark thoughts, and it seemed like she was too much for a woman like herself…
Even though she was the most powerful knight on this vast continent, she couldn’t muster up her courage.
On the contrary, the more she felt that way, the more she personally destroyed those who stood in her way as the Emperor’s shield.
So that the Emperor’s reign would last forever.
… That was a mistake.
The civil war that almost split the Empire apart, the betrayal called revolution that shook the Empire, the threat of the enemy that was still not hidden.
And the desire for power.
On her way back from the battlefield, where she was carrying the victory report to present to her lord, she heard that.
The emperor’s head had been cut off due to the uprising in the capital.
“Ha, haha..”
How could something like that happen in the capital?
Oh, it was all the work of those who looked down on His Majesty the merciful Emperor.
The hearts of the Emperor’s siblings who had saved their lives by the Emperor’s mercy still burned with ambition, and the Empress who had been smiling innocently was not satisfied with the Emperor and revealed her Sagal-like nature, enjoying a dark relationship with such a royal family.
Those filthy people pulled down my sun.
“Aegis Charlotte. The most loyal of the Empire, the shield that protects the Empire. Now, work for me and not for such an incompetent Emperor.”
How dare you dare to speak of loyalty with that filthy mouth?
To be loyal to the Empire?
No, her loyalty has never been directed to the Empire.
Her loyalty has always been directed only to the Emperor.
So she couldn’t stand it any longer.
She killed them all.
The Empress, the Imperial Family…
Those who followed them, and those who had even the slightest connection to them.
They destroyed every single nation that existed in this world.
With the shield and sword that the Emperor was proud of…
“Your Majesty, your beloved Majesty. My great lord. The splendid sun that I adore.”
However, the man who could tell her that she had worked hard was already gone.
Regret is always too late, no matter how fast it is.
The knight who destroyed the entire capital, the heart of the empire, and made it the emperor’s burial place remained there, guarding the tomb.
“I should have been by your Majesty’s side.
It should have been me, not that kind of woman.
It shouldn’t have been just the sword of your lord, just the shield of the emperor.”
Standing before the Emperor’s tomb, the knight swore.
If there was another chance, he would not hesitate again.
“We will be together for the rest of our lives.
No one will harm you, my lord.
Because I will protect your Majesty.”
The knight who had lived those long years protecting only the emperor swore to herself.
Now, no one will ever be able to take the emperor away from her again.
Even if she had to lock the emperor up and spend the rest of her life in a secret room, she would protect the emperor for the rest of her life.
Even if she had to be chained up so that no one would be betrayed by the emperor’s charm, she would remain by the emperor’s side!
The knight decided not to hold back the desires flowing out from within her any longer.
That is why, sensing the second chance that came as a miracle, she could not hold back and split the dimension to appear before the emperor once again.
However…
Kwa-d-duk!
‘Your Majesty, Your Majesty whom I adore…
The god, blinded by love, pierced the empire’s shield.
Perhaps, our reunion may be a little late…
The monster that hatched from the egg pierced the knight’s heart.
‘So, please wait a moment…
I, Aegis Charlotte, will definitely stand before my lord again…
The shield of the greatest knight fell to the ground.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
And the madness of the god who was certain of victory echoed throughout the ruined land.
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