A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

The city gate was opened, and the army was welcomed into the royal city.

The sun was shining brightly on the young Dauphin's hair, pure as melted gold.

Riding slowly forward, the boy's eyes were bright, his fair cheeks were slightly flushed, and the light-colored cloak fluttered gently behind him as he walked forward.

Garlan rode alone at the forefront of the army.

One body behind, Heymos rode the reddish-brown steed and followed behind Garlan.

His jet-black hair was scattered around his brown cheeks, his eyes were slightly lowered, and there was no expression on his handsome face at the moment.

He seemed to be indifferent to everything around him, and only occasionally raised his head to glance at the figure of Garlan in front of him, his eyes passing over the rough lapis lazuli earrings on the young man's earlobe without any trace.

Kaihos, Xinyas, and the dignitaries who came out of the city to meet them followed after a distance.

They all looked calm and calm, as if the undercurrent that was surging not long ago had never existed.

It's just that, even if you can't see it on the face, the hearts of many powerful ministers have finally fallen to the ground at this moment.

The throne is set.

They don't have to worry about it anymore.

Outside the city gate, Heymos knelt in front of Crown Prince Garlan.

Since then, the dignity has been determined.

That kneeling.

It meant that Heymos had publicly announced to everyone that he was willing to serve Garlan as a knight.

That's it.

Many people breathed a sigh of relief.

Aaron Landis could no longer stand any turmoil. If the two princes were fighting for the throne at this moment...the consequences would be unimaginable.

As Garlan and his party entered the city, the carriage following them also slowly passed the city gate and drove into the avenue of the royal city.

The moment the carriage entered the royal city, everything was silent, and all sounds seemed to disappear at this moment.

It was a golden carriage.

It is engraved with golden lines that symbolize the runes of the god of the underworld, and snow-white silk cloth is scattered from the surroundings, covering the carriage, and gently fluttering in the wind as the carriage moves forward.

In front of it, four snow-white horses are pulling it forward slowly.

It was noon, the sun was high in the sky, and the weather was a little hot.

But there was a bit of chill seeping out from the carriage, and a bit of mist from the huge ice cubes placed inside the golden carriage radiated from the snow-white silk cloth scattered around the carriage.

The knights guarded tightly around the carriage, with solemn expressions, escorting the carriage forward slowly.

On both sides of the wide road in Wangcheng, countless people stood on both sides.

The dark crowd stood along both sides of the wide road, the sun was bright, but the faces of the people clustered on both sides of the road did not have the slightest warmth, only full of mourning.

Wangcheng is a very long avenue that runs through the entire city, and there are countless people crowded on both sides at the moment.

Forward, with no end in sight.

Backwards, no tail in sight.

Countless people crowded on both sides of the road, and it was dark, but there was no sound on the long avenue.

They stood quietly, watching the golden carriage in silence.

I don't know who started first, I don't know who took the lead.

Someone leaned over, just stood on the side of the avenue, bowed his head and knelt down.

Then, one after another, everyone knelt down on the ground.

No one ordered, no one forced, but everyone here kneels at this moment.

They willingly knelt down on their knees and bowed their heads deeply to the golden carriage on the road.

Among them, there are old people who are dying, young children, women with tears on their faces, men with sad eyes, rich businessmen with gorgeous clothes, and poor people with rough faces.

Under the bright sunlight, the entire royal city was silent.

The sun was so bright that it made people feel pale and powerless.

Suddenly, the flute sounded on the silent road.

The bard Shulos, who was riding on the side of the carriage, played the flute.

The mournful flute sound echoed softly in the silent royal city, like a farewell elegy.

There are endless people kneeling on both sides of the road, but the land is very quiet, only the sad flute echoes in the air.

Those who dared not even cry out sounded like they were afraid of disturbing the sleeping Heroic Spirits in the carriage.

No one speaks.

No one wants to disturb their sleeping king.

Ten miles long, the people mourn.

The people of Aaron Landis knelt on the ground.

Clasped hands, pressed against forehead.

They closed their eyes and silently prayed to the gods of Aaron Landis.

King Kamos

i am the king of aaron landis

immortal lion

May your heroic spirit be accepted into the kingdom of God by the gods.

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"what is the problem?!"

The voice of the priest of Shamash at the moment carried a rare sense of anxiety.

"Obviously when I came back, I was still fine, why did I suddenly fall ill!"

Not only Ximuer, but Kaihos and others are also staying here at the moment.

It was obvious that everyone was in a gloomy mood, and the atmosphere in the room seemed depressing.

With a creak, the bedroom door was pushed open, and Mistress Taputi came out from inside.

Her complexion didn't look very good, she was much thinner than before, and there was no blood on her face at the moment.

As soon as she came out, everyone's eyes fell on her.

She shook her head at the crowd.

As a result, the atmosphere in the room became more and more depressing as she shook her head.

Everyone looked at each other with solemn expressions and heavy hearts.

Although they were all worried in their hearts, in order to prevent the news from leaking, they couldn't stay here for too long, and they left one after another after a while.

After sending everyone away, Taputi returned to the bedroom. She sat by the bed and looked at Garlan who was sleeping on the bed.

The young man lay quietly on the bed, with an abnormal blush on his cheeks, and the skin beyond that blush was extremely pale.

Sweat from his forehead stuck a few strands of golden hair to his cheeks.

The lips were slightly parted, and the breath was quite rapid.

Even in his drowsiness, his brows were slightly frowned, and his eyelashes fluttered occasionally, as if he was enduring some kind of pain.

Taputi gently wiped the sweat off the prince's forehead with a wet towel, and looked at Garlan's pale face with distress.

On the second day after returning to the palace, Prince Garlan fell ill.

When she went to the dormitory to wake him up in the morning, she found him lying on the bed drowsily with a low fever.

For a whole day, the low-grade fever persisted, and the person remained lethargic.

Garlan's illness immediately caused a large group of people to panic.

While they wanted to conceal the news that the crown prince fell ill and fell into a coma, they were still in a state of anxiety over Garlan's illness.

At first, Keyhos thought it was the plague he contracted in the army, so he hurriedly brought the army doctor who had a lot of experience in the plague over for diagnosis and treatment.

But the doctor said after the diagnosis that the crown prince's illness was not the kind of plague in the army, and he could not find the cause.

Afterwards, Lady Taputi secretly brought the old doctor in the palace who was only in charge of treating King Kamos.

After carefully checking Garlan's condition, the old man shook his head, his expression looked extremely heavy.

"The crown prince is not actually sick..."

The old doctor paused, then changed his words suddenly.

"No, it's actually a disease."

He says,

"Heart disease."

As soon as he said these two words, Kaihos and the others were all stunned, staring at the sleeping Garlan with complicated expressions.

"This kind of disease can't be seen on the outside, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist."

"There is too much weight on his heart..."

"I think...it probably feels like there is a knife stuck in my heart..."

The old doctor was chattering.

The old man who knew exactly what had happened during this period of time looked at the sleepy boy with a low fever, and let out a low sigh.

He has always been the exclusive doctor of King Kamos. He has been with King Kamos for more than ten years and watched the little prince grow up under the care of King Kamos.

He often laughed and watched the interaction between the two brothers.

He can clearly see the intimacy between the two that is not a real brother but far more than a real brother.

Seeing the death of King Kamos with his own eyes, the pain in the little prince's heart can be imagined.

But in order to save Aaron Landis in crisis, he didn't have any time to relax, so he could only bury it deeply in his heart.

"In order to protect Aaron Landis, he has probably been holding on."

The old man sighed again.

"...he lasted long enough."

Shemur pursed her lips.

He asked: "Can the crown prince recover from his illness?"

"do not know."

The old doctor replied.

"The prince is very strong, but sometimes it's not a good thing to be too strong... He has carried everything on his own."

"If he is unwilling to vent his pain, and refuses to pull out the knife in his heart..."

He shook his head helplessly.

"This disease will never get better."

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Thinking of what the old doctor said, Taputi looked at the prince who was still frowning slightly in his sleep, and sighed softly.

She turned her head, looking through the window.

The deserted moonlight fell on the courtyard at night, and the sound of the fountain flowing from the courtyard could be faintly heard.

The stone statue of Star Goddess Isdar was shrouded in moonlight, fine water droplets splashed on her face, and slowly flowed down the cold stone statue.

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The boundless dream unfolded slowly, presenting scenes to the sleepy young man.

That scene was what happened after his death in previous lives.

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In each of those lifetimes, shortly after his death at the hands of Hymos, the Great Battle of Judas broke out.

Bewitched by the religion of all things, Yonas, the lord of Judas, colluded with the Gastades and poisoned King Kamos to death.

The Lion King, who was undefeated on the battlefield, was poisoned and died in Yunus' room without anyone noticing, and died there.

Everything after that was like this life, Yunas's subordinates rebelled against the Lord Killer.

The Gastadians, led by Tire, besieged the unsuspecting Aaron Landis army.

The two armies were destroyed.

But this time, no one covered up the fact that Yunus poisoned King Kamos, and it was deliberately publicized by the Gastadians, which immediately caused great shock and turmoil in Aaron Landis.

King Kamos actually died at the hands of the royal family and even his uncle. This incident caused a serious blow to all Aaronlandis people.

If anyone in the royal family is colluding with the Gastadians, who else can be trusted?

The city lords began to be suspicious of each other, everyone was in danger, and they no longer dared to trust others easily.

Aaron Landis was distracted.

Imprisoned in the dungeon by the Gastadians, Yunus committed suicide in remorse and despair.

His daughter disappeared during the war, and no one knows her whereabouts since then.

Afterwards, the Gastad people used Judas City as their material base, and drove straight all the way, leading an army of 10,000+ to the king's city.

There is only one legion guarding the royal city.

At the same time, the Geshurians in the north invaded, and the Yisians in the east invaded.

The Army of the North and the Army of the East were immobilized.

And misfortunes never come singly.

Civil strife broke out in Tasda, the friendly country in the northwest, and the new ruler led the Tasda army and the Gastads into the territory of Aaron Landis and attacked the royal city.

The city of Tozes, which had been attacked by pirates in the south not long ago and was in a half-destroyed state, was attacked by pirates again, and the group of pirates even went up the river, attacking the cities along the river, and heading towards the king city. Come.

Wangcheng was besieged by three armies.

At this time, among the two princes in the royal city, Prince Garlan died "accidentally", and only Prince Heymos remained.

Something unbelievable happened.

Prince Heymos resolutely abandoned the royal city, and led the army in the royal city to abandon the city and leave.

The Gastadians easily captured the royal city.

Aaron Landis dies.

Afterwards, Heymos directly ordered that all the northern and eastern legions abandon the border.

Aaron Landis's six legions destroyed two in the battle with the Gastadians, but the remaining four legions were preserved with a lot of troops because of his order to abandon them.

Heymos led the army to retreat to the northwest, behind the Oya River, directly cut off the retreat of the new ruler of Tasda, and sent troops into the country of Tasda to help the original ruler regain power.

After that, he guarded by the natural danger of the Oya River, backed by the country of Tasda, quietly lurking, and there was no more movement.

The Gastadians easily captured the royal city abandoned by Heymos.

With the retreat of the frontier army, the Geshu people went south, and the Yis people went west.

Except for the small part of the northwest land adjacent to Tasta, most of the land of Aaron Landis fell.

Both the Geshu people and the Yisi people marched towards the royal city unceremoniously.

They joined forces directly and began to attack the Gastades who occupied the royal city.

And the pirates, who knew that they could not fight against the power of the country, plundered and killed the cities along the river in the south, and left without hesitation with a large amount of plundered wealth, returning to the sea.

The three armies of Yisi, Geshu, and Gastard fought fiercely on the land of Aaron Landis, and the people in the occupied area of ​​Aaron Landis fell into a miserable and miserable situation.

The armies of the three parties did not care about wantonly destroying the land of Aaron Landis, burning, killing and looting.

They regarded the Aaronlandians as pigs, horses, cattle and sheep that they could hunt and kill, plundered their property and food, captured them as slaves, and even took pleasure in killing them.

As subjugated people, the Aaron Landis people have almost been reduced to an existence that is not as good as livestock.

Heymos ignored all this with cold eyes.

He still stayed in the northwest, motionless, allowing the people of Aaron Landis to struggle in the flames of war.

The once prosperous and beautiful land of Aaron Landis has become a purgatory on earth.

However, in more than a year, Aaron Landis's original population of 2000 million dropped sharply to 300 million.

reduced by almost one-third.

In more than a year, a full 700 million people were killed in the war.

There is no need to use any words to describe and express the pain suffered by the people of Aaron Landis during this time.

700 million lives.

Such a cold number.

It is enough to let everyone know the shocking and cruel reality behind this number.

After half a year of garrisoning the royal city, because more and more soldiers fell ill, the Gastadians finally lost to the joint attack of Yisi and Geshu, abandoned the royal city, and returned to Kanal.

Yisi and Geshu fought in the land of Aaron Landis for nearly a year. The two sides were in a stalemate. The royal city changed hands several times, and the troops of both sides were greatly consumed.

The once prosperous royal city has long been dilapidated, and there are not even a single one of the once numerous city residents.

And at this time, Heymos, who had been on the sidelines for more than a year, brazenly led his troops from the northwest.

First, cut off the northern back route of the Gaishu people and defeat the Gaishu army.

Then he took back the royal city from the Yis people, and drove the Yis army out of the country in one fell swoop.

In less than four months, Aaron Landis returned to the country.

Heymos ascended the throne in the royal city and became the new king of Aaronlandis.

During his reign, the combat effectiveness of Aaron Landis' army reached its peak.

No one dared to take a step against Aaron Landis.

It became the most powerful military country on the continent.

However, this kind of strength is a deformed strength.

As strong as Aaron Landis's military is, the economy is as depressed.

Heymos didn't deliberately treat his people harshly, he just didn't care and didn't care.

But the king need only be indifferent to make life hard and miserable for the vast majority of his subjects.

Gradually, the people of Aaron Landis became more and more disappointed, and their resentment towards this cruel king gradually increased, but they endured it because of their fear of him.

Heymos remained on the throne for 16 years and died of illness when he was less than 40 years old.

Before his death, he left no descendants, nor designated a successor.

It's not that it's too late, it's that I don't want to take care of it at all.

With a completely distorted temperament and a grumpy temper, he did whatever he wanted on the throne when he was alive, and after death, he didn't care what Aaron Landis would look like after his death.

When he was alive, all the dignitaries and ministers were silent and did not dare to take a breath.

As soon as he died, the people who were suddenly liberated began to fight frantically for power.

Soon after, a young child with royal blood was sent to the throne and became a puppet supported by powerful ministers.

However, many city owners refused to recognize the king they supported and refused to obey the orders of the king city.

At the same time, the people who have already complained have ignited the flames of uprisings in various places.

Aaron Landis is divided and confused.

Heymos had just passed away for less than a year, and the Gastadians attacked Aaron Landis after ruling Kanal for 16 years and accumulating enough strength.

Aaron Landis, who lost Heymos, was as fragile as a bubble.

In just three months, the royal city was breached by the Gastadians.

The prominent Aaron Landis once again subjugated.

Died at the hands of Tyr, the king of Gastard.

Later, after Tyr, the king of Gastard, captured Aaron Landis, he continued to fight north and south.

It took him five years to conquer Tasdar in the northeast, Gashu in the north, Yisi in the east and many other countries.

His horseshoes traveled all over the land, conquered all the kingdoms on this continent, and established a huge empire.

However, shortly after the complete conquest of the mainland, Tire died unexpectedly.

The vast empire he built fell apart immediately after his death.

Since then, the mainland has been caught in a century-long war. The divided countries are constantly fighting each other, and the people of each country are displaced. White bones can be seen everywhere on the land.

The suffering of people on the earth seems to be endless...

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Under the starry night sky, the clear water drops of the fountain are scattered in the dark night.

The drops of water that splashed onto the face of the stone statue of Goddess Isdar slowly slid down the cold cheeks, like tears from the corners of the eyes of the Goddess of the Stars.

The moonlight slanted into the room, shining on Garlan's abnormally blush cheeks after he had been asleep for a long time.

pat.

The drop of water fell gently into the spring water.

The boy who woke up from the dream slowly opened his eyes.