War, is it fantastic?

Today I will be training the sword, my father ,Robert, I woke up early today, I went to the courtyard picked one of the wooden sword and started to warm up. Harold now with eight years old has arrived first and was already swinging his sword and said with a tired voice:

"Ya're late Alex, how I'd like ta sleep as much as ya do, already picked your sword start with a warm up then father will make you repeat the basics real quick then we will be spring."

The basics guard that I know right now is the Ladys Guard, the Window Guard, the Iron Gate,the Long Guard, the Short Guard and the Boar Fang. there are variants like left and right of each guard and there are the in between and the counter attacks guard, so, yeah.

"By the way, where is father? He normally isn't late, did something happened?"

As I looked around I didn't see father, so I asked brother where he could be.My brother seemed to be always uninterested and tired almost like a teen but with six years old.But he IS smarter than he looks.

I think this just justifies my theory of we not being humans but yes another species that independently evolved to look like humans from earth but there are minimal details that differentiete like here we seem to have an early maturity and growth, I think.

"He problably just did it too much yesterday and he's tired, he will wake up more energetic 'cause that.Now enough with chitchating go warm up till he get here."

And with that I did warm up for about thity minutes and got already out of breath, this might had been the longest warm up I vere did, but finally father arrived.

"HYAUM, what a good sleep, now kids I bet you independently did your warm ups, now Alex come here, I want to see your form, footwork and stamina. Hal take a breath clean you sweat and let me see you form too."

We went in front of father and showed the guards we could and how to use in battle, father had to correct my foot work and form sometimes couse I don't have enough strenght to keep holding the sword for a long time.

"Okay let's end early today it should be time for breakfast I bet y'all are hugry."

As we were entering home a drake came running like crazy, and stoped in front of father, there was a man riding the drake, it had a banner with a bear wielding a shield.

"It's already that time of the decade, huh? Well I was wanting to get some revange from last time, kids lets go to the plazza for a moment."

What? what time of the year what do you mean? wha?

When we arrived at the plazza there was a crowd there then father with the knight-like man got in the center of the plazza and said:

"People from the Balduk Village we just got message from our Lord, Baron Bearshed, it's that time of the decade again! WE ARE AT WAR WITH THOSE BASTARDS OF THE CHURCH!!!!!!THOSE DANMED SO CALLED "CRUSADERS" WHO CAME TO KILL OUR PEOPLE ARE GOING TO PAY FOR LAST TIME WHO'S WITH ME?!!"

W-war? and why are thay so happy? it's war right? is it the thing og people before the great war loving war?

"Brother, what is happening?What are the crusaders?"

I asked my brother to explain something that is happening

"Let's get out of here, and go somewhere more quiet, I don't feel good in the middle of crowds".

We went back to our house where mom and Feli was, 'cause we live in the middle ages so it's a patrarchal sociaty so women stay at home cooking and cleaning, nothing that I can do in this lifetime right now.

"Oh you are home,come come and sit I'm just finishing to cook, where is you father?"

Said Carol as she puted some vegebles in the soup.

"We are at war," Said brother "so I think it's a good opotunity to teach about the region and our relations with others."

"Oh it's that time of the decade, right, first let's eat, your father will problably be a bit late since he needs to recruit the levi."

"Brother, you are here, look I made a handkerchief for you what do you think?"

Feli happily gave me a hankerchief that had a werewolf woven in it, the werewolf is the symbol of our family because of my fathers inner animal, representing the man and the wolf.

"There is nothing for me? Your brother is sad."

Oh it looks like Hal and Feli are going to fight again.They are twins so I understand they should have somo fights, I had siblings in my past life, not twins, but man how they were annoying.

"Enough with that come eat. So Alex, in the Santos Kingdom there are a number of nobles that reject the idea of the others god, and they try to force everyone to belive in their god, and if they don't those from the church of Origin do a crusade in other to eliminate them.And there is a noble family that wages crusades against the territory of Baron Bearshed about every decade or so, since the Baron is one of the beastman he is often attacked by the church, and your father as a retainer and knight will fight for him.Do you understand now?"

"I get the gist of it but why they have so much power then?If they are a bunch o bullies to the others gods?"

When you said crusades I got what you meant from earth, since you know ,christianity did a lot of things in the past, but the reason of their popularity was mainly because of the Roman Empire, that made it their national religion but how did a religion so similar apperared here.

"You see Alex before Tamar and the Heroes that ended the Demon King there was a massive empire that fell because of the monsters the Demon King created.the religion of that Empire was mainly the Original Church teachings, the remnants of that church is what the church of Origin is.

So it is a case like the Roman Empire, I see.

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In the end of every day I've been taking a look at the chicken house, where I put the egg that I bought from Lardo, but in the middle of the night I heard a cry I never heard before, I run to the chicken house and there was a cracked egg in the floor there was a cat with a human face and tiny wings crying. It's a Sphinx.