Without realizing it, one year passed quickly. Now Rowena has grown into a great sword knight. By order of Basille II one year ago she was required to participate in the Battle of Richella.
During her stay with Edgar, Rowena came to know an important fact that Basille II had deliberately sent her into the Battle of Richella to kill her without getting her hands dirty.
Since her title was revoked and expelled from the palace, Rowena was determined to never shed another tear and would soon take revenge on all members of the Edelle kingdom, especially Basille II and the queen.
Today Edgar escorted Rowena to the royal Knights training ground. The place was already filled with nobles and commoners who brought their children who would soon face death on the battlefield. Rowena just looked at all of this with a flat stare. Somehow his heart had frozen since that day.
Edgar who saw Rowena who kept looking at a commoner woman who was hugging her son while crying so hard, he hit her hard on the back. Rowena immediately turned to Edgar and winced in pain.
"Crazy old man! Why did you hit my back all of a sudden?" cried Rowena.
"I know you're lamenting your fate because your parents didn't bring you here at all like they did. But remember this old man is here."
"Hey, Old Man! It seems that even though I've lived with you for a year you still don't know me. Besides, I hope you won't cry if I don't come back here again."
"I guess you're not so stupid as to die silly on the battlefield, are you?" whispered Edgar.
Rowena had a sly smile on her face. He brought his face close to Edgar's ear. "Wait for me at Duchy Ellien. Once I find the opportunity I'll immediately run away. I'll probably go there in one year."
Edgar just nodded his head. Then Rowena left him and walked into the training ground of the royal knights while holding the sword Edgar had given her.
Duchy Ellien is the territory of the Terania Kingdom. That place was located very far from the Edelle Kingdom. So it is certain that when Rowena escapes from the battlefield, the palace soldiers will definitely not be able to catch her. The most likely thing to happen was that she would be reported dead in that battle.
Before entering into the cruelty of the battlefield, all the children of the commoners to nobles are required to attend troop training. On her first day of troop training, Rowena actually experienced severe discrimination just because she was a woman.
No one wanted to train with him during sword lessons let alone talk to him. They all stayed away from Rowena. For them a woman who joins the war will bring bad luck to their lives. That pathetic training lasted only a week.
Now the real battle has begun. The reality is that this battle is really not what Rowena had imagined it to be. Maybe all this time she had been too naive in imagining the war situation she would face. In this war there is no such thing as compassion or conscience.
They will only kill the enemy soldiers by killing, killing, and killing. A war filled with blood and endless. Rowena, who initially thought she could escape from there, had to bury her intentions deep in her heart. Let alone to run away, to find food and sleep is already very difficult for him.
During the war, his fellow soldiers always bothered Rowena, even one night they wanted to harass Rowena, although in the end Rowena managed to beat them all out. You could say Rowena's life was almost the same as when she was in the palace.
Five years went by very quickly for Rowena. He did not realize that this year he was already 16 years old. Usually at that age most of the women have started to get married or take care of children, but in contrast to Rowena who still has to face the boring war that never ends. Almost half of Edelle's army had died in this battle.
Rowena kept thinking about her future which seemed to be going on like this and the fate of Edgar who had been waiting for her for those four years in Duchy Ellien. Has that one old man left or is he dead? Sometimes these questions still bothered him.
Finally, the time that Rowena had been waiting for arrived. When she saw the guard in the barracks starting to loosen, she decided to immediately run away from there. Before carrying out his plan, she turned his short, boy-like hair into black with his magic. Then she also packed all her things.
When it was dark, she immediately launched her action. Rowena crept away from the other Edelle soldiers. Having managed to get out of the Edelle barracks, Rowena tried to run as fast as possible to escape from there.
Dark skies and the sound of wild animals accompany Rowena on her escape. She was panting for breath as she ran but she had absolutely no intention of stopping. Because if she stopped now there was still a chance that she would be caught by Edelle's soldiers.
A few hours later dawn broke. Rowena was now very far from the Edelle barracks. What she had to conquer now was not the Terania soldiers but the long thorny grass that had been blocking his journey.
"Damn it! Why is there so much thorny grass around here? How long do I have to cut all this annoying grass?" Rowena grumbled as she cut the long grass around her with her beloved sword.
From a distance Rowena saw a light which meant that soon she would be at the end of the thorny meadow. When she reached the end she was immediately surrounded by several knights wearing armor with the royal crest she had seen before. It was the emblem of the Sunverro Kingdom.
While still in the Edelle barracks, Rowena had read a newspaper about the Sunverro Kingdom. The newspaper stated that Crown Prince Sunverro had won several battles in conquering the kingdoms of the western continent. Seeing that Sunverro's army were in Richella Forest which was the northern continent, it could be concluded that Crown Prince Sunverro's army had now moved forward to conquer the kingdoms of the Northern continent.
The Sunverro army think Rowena is the enemy who wants to kill the crown prince. Without further ado they grabbed Rowena and dragged her before the crown prince Sunverro. Apart from being arrested, the bag she was carrying during her escape journey was also searched by a man who Rowena believed to be the commander of the army.
"Fuck! I just wanted to escape that miserable hell but now I'm going to another hell," Rowena mumbled as she was dragged away.