Albert Leland

**Albert Leland** is a character in Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside series. Albert is a rare B-rank adventurer from the nearby settlement of Zoltan. Albert is blessed with the sign of the 'Champion' that allows him to overcome great difficulties to achieve amazing feats. Aware of his gifts, he worries whether or not he is living up to them.

## Overview

Albert is the frontier's second strongest adventurer after Rit. He has the divine blessing of the Champion and a strong ambition to move up in the world. Although in the top tier for the frontier, he only ended up drifting out to Zoltan after not being able to cut it in Central.

## Appearance

Albert is a young adult with short silver hair. He is usually dressed in a dark knight armor.

## Personality

It seems Albert personality is similar to Ares but to a lesser extent. He is cocky, arrogant about his adventure rank and his blessing as a Champion since he is the one of the rare rank B adventurers along with Rit. Despite his arrogance, unlike Ares who was willing to dispose or get rid of campions who are weaker than him and his crew, he offered Red to join his party to raise his rank to Rank C adventure since he does respect his pharmacy skill and his knight skill. But nevertheless, he is considered ruthless and careless as even though he and his member tried to hunt down an Owlbear only to burn down the forest full of resources for medicine treatment since Red tried to collect an herb to save Tanta from white-eye diseases. He and his member failed to kill the Owlbear as it was killed by Gideon before the party had a chance to kill it. Despite this trait, he does want other adventures to join his party and in fact has a difficult time to manage his party since some members are drug addict for the power and afraid being alone which is the reason why he wanted Red to join party due to the lack of guidance of the leadership.

After Ares' death and betrayal, Albert revealed his dream is to become a hero when he looked up to the Heroes' Party. He realized the path of wanting to become a Hero has turned to be grim after he learned it is nothing but a lonely and cruel fate.

## Relationships

### Red

In the beginning of the story, the two antagonize each other due to different adventure rank. But Albert still offered him an opportunity to raise his rank before Red declined the offer. Deep down, we all know he wanted Red in his party due to lack of guidance similar to the Heroes party since both parties are dysfunctional without him. He will do anything to get Red to join him, he even keeps antagonizing Red to make themselves more competitive rather than collaborated. He is not above cruelty as Ares as he does respect Red's skill since he is secretly aware of it and wanted him to manage his party. Despite this, Red still turned down his offer because he wanted to retire with Rit for a better and peaceful life by being a pharmacist in Zoltan. After Ares' betrayal and death, Albert told Gideon and his former fellow heroes that his dream is to become a hero when he looked up to them as well realize the path of becoming a hero is a cruel and twisted fate.

## Trivia

* Albert is one of the few people who learns Red's true identity.