Chapter 749 - Small Home

The men and women of this town had all been prepared to die. The threat they faced was too great and they were simply too weak.

They knew that they should be happy simply for the sake of surviving, they should be grateful, thanking their lucky stars that they could see another day. However, how could pain be washed away by logic?

"General?"

The blue eyed youth always stood silently by Leonel's side. Seeing him blankly staring at the pain and grief before him, he couldn't help but check up on him.

"Hm?" Leonel absentmindedly responded, his gaze never shifting.

There was a little girl over there, no more than seven years old, clutching the blood stained scabbard her father had left home with.

Not far from her, there was a woman. She had a young and youthful face. Though she wasn't extraordinarily beautiful, she was very pretty, maybe even the prettiest within this small, malnourished town.

Yet, tears streamed down her face endlessly, her sobs echoing as she grasped onto a necklace that hung from her neck with both hands.

With every quiver her body made in her fit of sorrow, her dress shifted in the wind, making the baby bump she sported all the more obvious.

On another side, there was an elderly couple. The old woman with deep grey hair trembled in her husband's arms, her tears getting lost in the folds of her wrinkles.

eyes of the two were already murky with age, but they clutched their son's leather armor between the two of them, their fragile bodies seemingly

didn't miss a single story of grief, a single cry of pain, not a single tear not a single quiver.

blue eyed youth

have been far worse if not for

Leonel didn't respond.

the metric he should be using? Especially when just hours ago, he didn't even spare

one matter, while his heart

to roar into the skies, but he knew that even if he did, he wouldn't be able to vent his

a tight grip on his wrist. He looked down to find that his blue eyed, right hand

in another bar all night after saving our asses. I'll take

eyed

and allowed himself to be pulled along. He didn't know what he should be doing in this world, but he knew that wallowing in self pity

"Our esteemed General can't be the only one without

want to fill Leonel's soul with light

two entered the town, traveling through its

half broken homes, the filth and the poverty. It seemed that whether they camped out at the town's entrance

the center of the town. Compared to everywhere else, it was almost like a heaven,

though, the blue eyed youth led Leonel to a modest

but I managed to secure it with our military salary. That sum you lent me? This is what it went

two entered the small home,

"Rollan!"

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