The calm breeze of the salty air kissed the rosy cheeks of the French King. At the moment Aubry stood onboard the bow of of his flagship vessel with a dignified pose as the sturdy carrack approached the shores of the Holy Land.

A Crusade had been declared, and France was not the only Catholic Kingdom to take up arms to reclaim the holy Land from the unholy alliance of the Eastern Church and its newfound Muslim allies. Aubry was merely the first among many who would soon arrive in the Holy Land in an attempt to enforce the Papacy's claim over the region.

The French King wore a pretty smile on his effeminate face as sniffed the salty air of the Mediterranean sea with his dainty nose. If one were ignorant of his gender, they might accidentally assume that he was, in fact, a woman. However, despite his feminine appearance, he was one hundred percent a man, or at the very least a male, so to speak. After all, there wasn't an ounce of manliness in the boy King's body.

It was a striking contrast to see such a feminine male dressed in the armor worn by the French Knights. Steel clad his petite shoulders and dainty arms as if it were a second skin. Over his delicate chest was a hardened steel breastplate that had ironically been forged in the lands of the German Empire. There was simply no substitute for German steel, and the French King knew it.

Over the steel breastplate was a tabard bearing the colors of the House de Valois. These were the symbols of Aubry's ancestors who would surely be rolling in their graves should they be aware that such a girlish member of their dynasty now ruled over their lands.

Speaking of the boy's ancestors, it had been since been a tradition for the Kings of France to embark a crusade, and Aubry had decided with this campaign he would fulfill his part. Thus, he had an excited smile on his feminine face as his vessels approached the shores of the Holy Land.

Because Berengar had established the Holy Land as a Free State protected by both the Byzantine and Timurid Empires, the Papacy had declared a crusade, and currently there was a sizeable gathering of Catholic Warriors on the coastline just outside the borders of Egypt.

Many of these Catholic Warriors were armed with the newest weapons produced by their kingdoms. Most of which were firearms designed based on the German arkebuse, which had been sold throughout Europe for the past few years. The French Armies were no exception to this rule.

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