Proof of the Sun King

Frankly speaking, the number of times Ryan has met the old king is really not too many. Since he came to Brittany, the number of meetings between him and Richard is really limited.

On the one hand, it was because there was a certain amount of compulsion when Ryan was named a baron. To put it simply, it was the meaning of the fairy in the lake. After Richard was conferred the sword by the monarch, Ryan should have been his vassal, so he ordered Ryan to reluctantly. There are reasons and reasons.

The embarrassing problem is here, Ryan is the Holy Grail Knight, Richard is just an expeditionary knight, the Holy Grail system of the kingdom determines that the expedition knight is of course not good at ordering the Holy Grail Knight, plus Ryan has the support of the goddess, and the strength of the sanctuary. With the support of Lançois, it was difficult for Richard to manage Ryan, and the relationship between the two parties was very embarrassing, and they seldom met.

On the other hand, Ryan and Richard have different political opinions. The only tacit agreement between the two sides is that Richard's eldest son Charles will not have the opportunity to take the throne. Richard prefers Lawn, and Ryan obviously wants to fight for the throne. The two sides have fought on the throne of knights. There have been many competitions and struggles, and this struggle has finally been concluded with Richard's defeat, Lawn's defeat in Musillon, and Ryan's recovery of Musillon. Richard accepted the defeat. a result.

Before Matthew Bard was beheaded by Lane at the city gate of Curona, Richard had passed his title of Duke of Le-Angouran to his nephew Taubote, and let his grandson William set out for the Holy Grail Expedition, as for his son-in-law, the Prince Charles who finally chose to become a vampire without waiting for the duke and the throne for more than 70 years?

Who cares?

Every time I see Richard, Ryan can feel that the other party seems to be getting a little older. When he first came to Britannia, Richard's hair was still gray, and when he failed to suppress Ryan later, it turned gray, and now it is almost gray. All white.

"What? Is it unexpected?" Richard was standing at the door, his temperament had become a pure old man, and the outgoing old king stroked his beard: "I think it is necessary for me to come and see you. "

"Of course." Ryan hesitated for a moment, but still felt that he had to give Richard basic respect. This was not because he was cowardly or cowardly, but because he maintained his legal orthodoxy. Only by fully respecting the old king, his throne There will be orthodoxy: "Uh, take a step?"

"Are you interested in going out with me? It's nearby." Richard spread his hands: "No weapons, no arrangements."

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll go talk to Suria." Ryan nodded, he entered the room instead, and said a few words to Suria, the female knight was a little surprised, but soon said it was fine.

A few minutes later, in the dimly lit streets of Curona, the old king and the new king who was about to take the throne were one after the other, ignoring the curfew, and strolling down the street. At this time, there were no pedestrians on the street. Under the rule, the capital's curfew was strictly enforced, and no one was seen loitering on the streets, except for a few nobles who had the right to go to the streets or licensed merchants.

The street lights are not bright. Curona is the most populous city in Brittany and covers the largest area. If you want to keep the city brightly lit at night, it will cost an amazing amount of money every day. Raun only guarantees that the city maintains the basics. The lighting, so whether it was Richard or Ryan, their faces loomed under the lights.

"Don't you have anything to say to me?" Richard's old voice was calm and relaxed.

"I remember that you were looking for me." Ryan was amused after hearing this.

"Your Majesty." Richard said in a hoarse voice.

"Um?"

"You must call me now, Your Majesty, because you are not a king yet." Richard snorted coldly from the depths of his throat: "Don't you have any basic courtesy?"

"Okay, my majesty, I remember that you came to me first." Ryan rolled his eyes without a trace, thinking that the old guy was at the end, and he didn't forget to take advantage of it.

Ryan's voice fell, Richard gave a faint "um", and didn't say anything else. The old king was in front and Ryan was behind. The two walked along the street together. Richard never said a word, and Ryan also kept silent.

In the eerie silence, the two gradually approached the Cathedral of the Holy Grail Champion Warriors. The holy and splendid cathedral glowed brightly under the illumination of the magic lamp. The story of the twelve first-generation Holy Grail Knights will be sung here forever. Until the end of the world.

"No one will forget Arthur and his Holy Grail companions, no one will forget their glorious founding twelve battles, without their sacrifices and victories, there would be no Britannia today, the kingdom of knights." Richard Caressing his white goatee, the old king's eyes were already filled with tears: "Ryan, as the inheritor of Landuin's will and virtue, you must be able to experience this feeling, right?"

"Your Excellency Randuin is worthy of being the perfect man of the knighthood. He sacrificed himself and saved Musillon. Without his sacrifice, Musillon would not be where he is today." Ryan nodded slightly. Apart from the infinite admiration, there is no other thread in his heart. Without sacrifice, there will be no victory. In the long history, countless martyrs have used blood and glory to forge the cornerstone of human standing.

"Hehe~" Rickey saw Ryan's watch, and smiled like a mockery and self-deprecation, he pointed to the rows of stone benches at the entrance of the Holy Grail Cathedral: "I'm old, I can't walk so much, Sit with me."

"Okay." Ryan didn't refuse, he and Richard sat on both ends of the bench.

"Have you ever hated me?" Richard was sitting on the bench, turned his head and asked Ryan: "Since the chivalry war in Arden Forest, I have embarrassed you more than once, and then I want to transfer you to Go Araby and tell me, Lady's Chosen Champion, have you ever had hatred in your heart?"

"No, it's just boredom at most." Ryan shook his head calmly: "We just have different positions."

"Hmph~ Hahaha! Different positions?" Richard heard the words and laughed loudly. His old laughter spread far away. Several guards from the Holy Grail Cathedral immediately came out to check the situation and saw that it was the old king and the new one. The king sat chatting together, saluted quickly, and stepped back again. The old king looked at the guard and sneered: "Do you think that I have a different stand from you? Ryan, do you know that when I was young, I used to be the same as you. Reformers?"

"???" Ryan frowned when he heard the words, and he thought for a moment what Richard meant by what he said.

This old guy turned around and changed to support me?

Or is it about to abdicate and sell it?

"Why, don't believe it?" Richard sneered: "Do you know the Marine Corps of Le-Angoulan? This army is fully equipped with muskets, decades before your old guard."

"I didn't expect that the army was actually created by you." Ryan decided to wait and see for the time being. He was indeed a little surprised, because the Duchy of Le-Angoulan did have a musket battalion called the Marine Corps, but its presence was too low. , he almost forgot, did not expect that this army was actually created by Richard: "But I don't seem to have seen it."

"That's because this army is already unbearable." Richard nodded slightly, he seemed to sigh, and seemed helpless: "About thirty or forty years ago, when this army was first created, there was still a certain amount of combat effectiveness. Scattered battle formations, poor management, and enough military pay, the serfs are unwilling to fight hard, the army that spent a lot of gold and silver to build and the muskets purchased from the empire are all waste, I didn't think about this at the beginning. As thoughtful as you are, I once thought that as long as we bought muskets and trained them strictly, our army would be no worse than the Empire."

"...Only the equipment keeps up, the system and management haven't kept up, it's useless." Ryan said casually: "This kind of temporarily formed army can only fight a full-scale war at most, and the soldiers either make enough money, or fight the war. Death Field."

"Well, now you believe that I used to be a reformer, right?" There was a faint light in Richard's cloudy eyes: "I realized it long ago, before you, when I was a duke, John I and John II reigned successively, they used military force outside, crazily squeezed national power and serf wealth, I was probably the most radical of the dukes at that time!"

"...I can't see it." Ryan didn't know much about the history and stories before Brittany.

"You must want to know, why did I become what I am now?" Richard laughed: "When he ascended the throne, the high-spirited and ambitious Duke of Le-Angouran, the paladin Richard nicknamed 'Tiger', How did you become the cautious old man you are today?"

"My Majesty..." Ryan let out a sigh of relief. He looked up at the dark night sky. The bright moonlight filled the entire street, shrouding the Holy Grail Cathedral in an unreal light and shadow.

"I have thought of many ways after I ascended the throne, a lot." Richard continued on his own: "But without exception, I failed. It took me a few years to hit my head and blood. I thought the dukes chose I will support my decision when I come up, but I don't. On the contrary, they only focus on their own interests. I am restricted everywhere. What's worse, I can't get the support of Morgiana, who does not support me. , then the lady will definitely not be on my side."

"Lane, the power of habits and traditions is terrifying. When a country that has been passed down for thousands of years gradually declines, many times it cannot be saved by one person alone. Ryan, do you really think that John I and John II are both heinous sinners. , is it a tyrant who endangers the country?" Richard turned his head and looked at Ryan: "I thought so at first, until I became king, I found out that John I and John II were not what they imagined, they also wanted to To save this declining kingdom, they just didn't choose the right way, especially John II pinned his hopes on a crusade of chivalry, to gain actual control of the kingdom by expedition to the badlands to fight against the greenskins, but his end is chivalry. The army was annihilated, and he was brought down from the throne by Morgiana."

Ryan sighed lightly when he heard the words, and he understood that the new king also looked at the old king: "So, after trying many times, you chose to give up, because the ending of John II scared you."

"Yeah, I'm scared." Richard nodded slightly: "Many times, being selfless is just a pursuit, I have my family, I have my family, I have my vassals, I can't because of my selfishness, Let bad luck befall them, I can only become what I hate the most, being a rubber stamp, trying to maintain stability, like an old captain desperately steering the helm, controlling the leaking broken ship, I am tired I'm tired and tired, but I can't stop, and I don't dare to stop, Ryan, you have the way you want to protect the kingdom, and I have mine."

Speaking of this, Richard has tears in his eyes: "I heard the story of Arthur and the twelve first-generation Holy Grail Knights when I was three years old. I used to think that I just need to move forward like Arthur and the Holy Grail companions in the story. , I am not afraid of evil, I can have my own great achievements, but after becoming a king, I find that I can't do anything about the status quo. When I see your various strange actions and repeated challenges to the existing order, my tiredness My heart and fragile will make me instinctively hostile to you, because I know that this kingdom cannot stand any little ordeal."

"My Majesty..." Ryan looked up at the black night sky, the weight of the crown, who can understand? Everyone only sees the glory and power symbolized by the crown, but few people know the weight of the crown, which is enough to turn Richard, a once brave and proud Paladin, into what he is today.

Old, conservative, rotten, stubborn.

"I'm very happy that you found a way." Richard took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes: "Now is your time, the future of the kingdom will soon be handed over to you, I have a hunch , The kingdom of knights is either in chaos under your hands, or it is in great governance."

"Wait for my performance." Ryan didn't know what to say. To this day, he was still a little less confident about becoming a king, and the whole kingdom would be placed under his rule. There was something in his heart. The feeling of not going out seems to be excited and worried. In the future, he must take care of this country by himself.

"Hmph, speaking of it, you are still an outsider." Richard said casually: "But what does it matter? Arthur is not also an outsider, the entire Breton people have moved over from the opposite side of the Grey Mountains. , since you married Surya, then we are Bretons."

"So people, you don't know it, you can't predict it yourself." Ryan stretched out his index finger and gently rubbed it from side to side under his nostrils, then spread his hands: "A person's fate~www.wuxiaspot.com ~Of course I have to work **** my own, but I also need to take into account the history of the itinerary. My Majesty, you said that I am the adopted son of a Nord lord, how can I become the king of knights?"

"Oh, this isn't the first time. Isn't the original Knight King Taylor the illegitimate son of the Duke of the Empire?" Richard also sighed, "I have been on the throne for more than 30 years. Just three things."

"First, after John I and John II's militancy and chaos that lasted for decades, I presided over the resumption of production, stabilization of the political situation, and an end to the civil war between the dukes."

"Second, the war of chivalry has been stopped for more than 20 years, and the national strength and the number of knights have been restored."

"Thirdly, reaching a consensus with the former Emperor Luitpold has maintained the general peace between Brittany and the Empire for nearly three decades."

Richard said to himself, Ryan nodded again and again when he heard the words, with a smile on his face, the old king didn't actually say it to Ryan, but to himself. To be fair, Richard did have something to do with the kingdom. own contribution.

"If there is any achievement, it is that I have tried to introduce the technology of the empire, and the scale of the invasion of Aegir is also very large, but these are secondary, my main I are three small things, very Ashamed, only a little bit of work was done."

"The future is yours, Ryan, and below heaven is your heaven."

"May the lady bless you."

After the old king said this, he stood there, ignoring Ryan, he left alone, the old shadow has long lost the strength of his prime, but the pride in his heart and the ease of unloading the burden made his steps very fast. Quick, turn a corner, Richard left, Ryan knew that this was probably the last time he saw Richard.

"Very well, next, it's my turn."