William Smith
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"Okay lads, line up." After stripping the corpses of their arms and all valuables, those guys from the forward guard who didn't get to contribute anything to the fight tore were tasked with decapitating the bandits and wrapping the bloody packages into the clothes of those who dared to attack us. With just a few minutes of digging the ground with whatever my people could find around, we created a small hole beside the road, before ditching the corpses away. While it pained me to do so, I had to accept…-
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"Roads under heaven, roads under the sun, we are riding forward, where the joy and gale" "We are riding forward, under a starry sky, roads under heaven, leading us through life." "We will ride through the lands, all the way past seven seas, In the world of our dreams, we will face the women whims!" "We will reach somewhere soon, Just in time for honeymoon" "It's not really that far, Where the pretty maidens are." As Al continued to sing the popular travellers song, I pretended to not have the urge…
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Travelling through the road that encompassed the city suburbs that spread out away from the town's walls was safe enough for me to bolt forward while leaving my subordinates and seven lower servants to take care of the carriage. Thinking about this, I couldn't help but scoff at the previous owner of my body, or the program that controlled it till this day, who bothered to bring so many people! While it was understandable to bring at least this much of armed escort on three days long journey with various…
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The moment where I finally got to jump on my horse had a magical feeling to it. As soon as I reached the stables where the lower servants were running around while trying to not break their spines as they bowed on the run in my direction, I knew which horse was waiting for me. Taking a piece of apple from the open casket hanged on the side of the wall - way out of the reach of horses greedy mouth; I moved towards the box located around the middle point of this small shack. Slowly taking one step after the…
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*Small note about scales: Dozen - 12 Stack - 60 Kor - From Polish Korzec, about 120 litres (For dry matter) Las - 30 Kors about 3600 litres (For dry matter) Barrel - about 160 litres (of liquid) Garn - from garniec - about 4 litres (liquid) Quater - forth of Garn, about 1 litre (liquid) Lut - about 12g Gryw - from Grzywna - about 0.2kg Stone - 32 funts - about 13kg Centar - 5 stones - 1600 funts - about 65 kg I will be using those scales for the better immersion, but for the sake of keeping…
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After the entire official ceremony, or rather its religious part, was over, all the nobles from the cathedral and the immense crowd from the town's square right beside it formed up. With the Great Marchal leading the whole procession with the Crown's banner raised high in the air - as compared to the procession that leads to the cathedral when it was kept low as a sign that the King-Elect had yet to officially start his duties. While most of the nobles took the opportunity to use this great excuse to…
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The time all those people spent on those pointless ceremonies was the one downside to my current situation I could think off. After making the traditional sign of the cross in the air with the ceremonial sword, Henry accepted the crown itself, other sigils of a ruler like the golden apple and silver sceptre and only then the proper mass would begin. Banking on the fact that the homily would be spoken in Polish instead of Latin like the rest of the religious ceremony, I raised my head and moved the window…
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"I hereby name you a King of Poland, Grand Prince of Lithuania, Prince of the Prussia, Livonia, Mazowia..." Hearing a long and tedious list of the various titles bestowed upon the new head of the state, I couldn't help but wonder what kind of feeling it would be... To sit on the throne while feeling the gazes of crowd one's back while the highest priest of the state lays the crown on your head... Instead, I was forced to watch the show of this fucking bastard who would run away in a matter of…
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