"Ah? Robbing medicine from a child's hands that was meant to save a life? How utterly shameless!"
Hearing Elashia tell the part about being robbed of the medicine, Cecilia clenched her fists tightly, wishing she could travel back in time and beat up those people.
"Wait, there's more to the story."
Elashia said with a smile:
"Then, that Lady Dorothy came charging out from who knows where, beat up all those thugs severely, and got back the medicine we needed to save Ileina."
Elashia's expression at this moment showed extreme emotion.
"If it weren't for her, probably neither Ileina nor I would be in this world now..."
For Elashia at that time, Ileina was everything to her.
If Ileina had left due to that high fever, then Elashia definitely wouldn't have been willing to live alone.
Sometimes fate is just that coincidental.
If Dorothy hadn't happened to pass by at that time, these two girls who depended on each other would most likely have left this world together in that cold winter.
And afterward, there wouldn't have been Elashia who transmigrated to change Elasia, nor the [Northern Fire] resisting the blood clan under Ileina's leadership in the bloody terror...
Dorothy herself could never have predicted that her casual act of righteousness back then would indirectly save two countries.
"If it were her, she would definitely do that."
Cecilia nodded after hearing Elashia's account.
Back at the orphanage, Dorothy had been an extremely justice-minded rebellious girl.
The orphanage director was an old lady who had retired from the knight order.
The old knight knew that these children without any support would have to leave the orphanage to make their own living after reaching adulthood.
And being all alone, after leaving the orphanage's protection, if they wanted to succeed in dark Elasia, there was only one thing they could rely on—their own martial strength.
So out of responsibility for these children, she transplanted everything she had learned in the military to the orphanage.
Whether it was schedules, methods of action, or daily life.
The entire orphanage almost became a military camp.
Now that orphanage still operated in a completely militarized manner under the old knight's management.
Because of this, that orphanage had produced many powerful knights.
Many people even called that orphanage the "Imperial Knight Academy Affiliated School."
And Cecilia at that time had awakened her own knightly path under this old knight's guidance.
She not only appreciated that old lady's instruction, but also recognized her philosophy.
Dorothy was different.
Like Cecilia, she had also shown extremely strong talent from a young age.
So the director treated her as strictly as she treated Cecilia.
But Dorothy couldn't stand it.
She knew the director meant well, but she just couldn't stand the life of crazy training every day.
So she would often run outside to play during training time or rest time.
Although she would be severely disciplined by the director when she returned, she just enjoyed doing this tirelessly.
Cecilia especially remembered one thing—in the director's rules, when seeing companions from their orphanage being bullied, companions were absolutely not allowed to intervene.
Because she required every orphan to have the will to fight and resist on their own, not to depend on companions.
But Dorothy completely ignored this rule. As long as she saw injustice, she had to intervene.
Other things that didn't suit her heart, she completely turned a blind eye to.
So at that time, you could see Dorothy getting spanked by the director almost every few days.
And every time Dorothy violated the director's rules, facing the angry director, she almost never made excuses.
And her attitude when admitting mistakes was always particularly good.
But the next time facing the same situation, she would still do the same thing.
Because she understood the director and knew the director meant well for them.
It was just that she really couldn't accept many of the director's philosophies.
When the weak were being bullied in front of her, she absolutely couldn't just sit by and watch.
Thinking of this, Cecilia felt somewhat troubled.
"However, Your Majesty, her personality... might not be too obedient to your commands..."
You had to know, Dorothy was a quite justice-minded ranger who probably wouldn't be willing to fight for the royal family.
But Elashia smiled and shook her head.
"It's fine. You have to know—the opponents we'll be fighting afterward will no longer be humans, so it's about time to recruit her."
Cecilia thought about it and felt that was right.
Although Dorothy had had strong resistance to authority since childhood, this resistance also came from her almost innate strong sense of justice.
As long as they could prove that joining under Her Majesty Elashia's command could better pursue her justice, they could make her serve Elasia loyally.
Moreover, whether it was Cecilia from the same orphanage, or Elashia who had once been helped by her, or many knights in the knight order who were her old acquaintances, this could make recruitment more convenient.
Thinking of this, Cecilia suddenly thought of something and asked:
"Your Majesty, you've been in power for so long now. Doesn't Dorothy know?"
Elashia smiled and said:
"To avoid danger at that time, neither Ileina nor I dared to publicly reveal our identities, so she didn't know I was Elashia then."
Cecilia nodded.
It seemed Dorothy really didn't know what kind of young girls she had helped back then...
Being able to meet her childhood playmate again, and even quite likely work together again, naturally made Cecilia very happy.
However, she also knew that to recruit this group of "bandits," they would still need to use some "coercive" methods.
And having determined her "punishment," Cecilia said goodbye to Elashia and went to handle post-war affairs.
Watching Cecilia walk toward the battlefield, Elashia showed a quite expectant smile.
Dorothy wasn't a [Human Hero].
But she was the most special ordinary human.
Logically, only [Human Heroes] could break through the human level 40 limit, while ordinary humans had a level cap of 40.
Once reaching this level, no matter how hard they tried afterward, they couldn't display strength beyond level forty.
But Dorothy was the only exception among them.
After Elasia's capital fell, having experienced a series of events, after collapsing and then firming her beliefs again, Dorothy encountered an [Undead Lord] who had entered the city to conduct massacres.
And she directly delivered a slash that only warriors of level seventy or above could execute.
She instantly cut that [Undead Lord] in half.
Why Dorothy could display superhuman power with an ordinary human body—this question had made Elashia very curious since her gaming days.
If they could find and replicate this in the army, they wouldn't need to fear being overwhelmed by levels in the upcoming [Undead Disaster].