A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

In the cool mountain forest, Garlan slept comfortably.

He had come on vacation, to let himself relax for two days.As a result, when he woke up and opened his eyes, he realized that something had come to him.

"Canal?"

Of course, it is impossible to have maids in the special training camp, not even attendants. When Garlan came here yesterday, he only brought a group of guard knights. Since he had no plan to stay here at first, Taputi did not arrange for attendants to follow him. serve.

So at this moment, Garlan, who had just woken up, was changing his clothes while asking.

"Yes, that man claims to be the royal knight of Kanal."

Kehoes replied.

A veil separated Garlan from Kaihos who was standing outside. He turned his head and looked at the shadow in the mirror.

Because he secretly applied the ointment to remove the bruise last night, the red marks on his side neck and shoulders have almost disappeared today, leaving only a faint mark, which can only be seen when you get close.

Garlan breathed a sigh of relief.

Great, no need to wear that troublesome gold necklace today.

He changed into a simple white sleeveless tunic, and the thin cloak was tied on his shoulders with peach branch-shaped pure gold shoulder buttons. After hesitating for a moment, he didn't tie up his long hair, but let it hang loose Come down and cover most of your neck.

Then, Garlan stretched out his hand, lifted the veil, and walked out.

He asked: "Why did the knights of Kanal come here? Are they still hunted down by followers of the All Things Cult?"

"It's not clear yet. Those two people are very wary and insist on not telling anything until they have an audience with you."

While answering, Kaihos stepped forward to Garlan's side, raised his hand to fasten the slightly crooked gold shoulder buckle on Garlan's shoulder, and tidied it carefully.

The movements of the guardian knight were extremely natural. Whether it was the prince in the past or the king in the present, his attitude towards Garlan was always as if he was treating a child who needed his careful care and love.

The way he looked at his prince was always a kind of tenderness that others couldn't get.

"The other one is seriously injured?"

"Yes, when we rushed over, he was seriously injured by those fanatics of the All Things Religion."

After the young knight revealed his identity, he and Heymos exchanged glances, and decided to save them.

They are not afraid of any traps.

After all, setting a trap for the two strongest knights in Aaron Landis, and even the most powerful knights on the mainland... must have been impatient.

When they arrived, the middle-aged knight named Moya had already been stabbed in the stomach, and he was about to be killed by the sword of the fanatics of the All Things Cult.

They rescued the Kanal knight just in time.

It's just a pity that those fanatic believers saw that the situation was not good, and they bit the poison in their mouths one after another, and committed suicide.

In the end, they only caught one alive.

…………

When Garlan walked quickly outside the room arranged for the two Kanal knights, he glanced at Heymos who was standing there.

Heymos was guarding here, nominally to protect the two, but in fact, he also meant to monitor them.

Heymos' eyes were on him.

The two looked at each other.

...'During many nights in my dream, I was wantonly violating you, plundering your body, and making you cry and beg in my arms'...

The words Heymos said the day before suddenly resounded in his mind again, Garlan only felt his face heat up, and hurriedly looked away.

In fact, although what happened yesterday morning made him a little angry, after half a day, his anger has almost disappeared.

It's just... those too explicit words, for him who has been a virgin for several lifetimes and doesn't even have much experience in kissing, the impact is too great.

So much so that when he saw Heymos, he felt an indescribable sense of shame, and he couldn't look at him at all.

In order to hide the embarrassment in his heart, he deliberately pursed his lips to make himself look serious.

Then, he took a big stride and walked past Heymos without stopping.

However, Garlan didn't notice that when he looked away and pretended to be cold-faced, Heymos looked at him with a dimmed look.

Garlan, who hurried past Heymos, didn't see it. Instead, the blond knight who was following behind Garlan couldn't help but cast a glance at him, with somewhat complicated eyes.

……

When Garlan walked into the room, the young knight was feeding medicine to the older knight who was lying on the bed. When he saw Garlan, he was taken aback.

Although he had never seen Garlan before, when he saw the beautiful blond boy who appeared here as a master, and the scorching sun knight standing behind Garlan as a servant, he immediately reacted.

Putting the medicine bowl in his hand aside, the young knight knelt down and saluted Garlan.

The elderly knight with his upper body naked and his abdomen wrapped in a thick white bandage's eyes lit up when he saw Garlan. Regardless of his injury, he struggled to get off the bed.

Holding back the pain and gasping for breath, he bent down and lowered his head, kneeling on one knee at Garlan's feet.

"Moya, the royal knight of Kanal, has seen King Garlan."

As he spoke, he took out a piece of cloth from his belt.

The cloth seemed to be a piece torn from the clothes.

Moya raised it above his head with both hands, and solemnly presented it in front of Garlan.

He said: "King Garlan, I beg you, help Kanal and rescue the last descendant of the royal family of Kanal, Prince West Asia."

Kaihos took a step forward and took the cloth raised by Moya first to prevent anyone from doing anything on it.

He opened it and saw that the writing on the cloth was bloody, which looked shocking at first glance.

This is actually a blood book written in blood.

"Prince of West Asia?"

Garlan looked at the blood book suspiciously, and asked, "If I remember correctly, this prince was martyred more than a year ago when the Gastadians stormed the city of Kanal."

The royal city of Kanal was destroyed, and the eldest prince died in battle. Afterwards, the princess and the little prince jumped from the high tower of the palace to die for the country.

The news has already spread throughout the continent.

"Her Royal Highness has indeed died for the country, but accompanying the princess to die for the country is a substitute for the prince."

Knight Moya replied on his knees with his head bowed. Because of the serious injury, his face was extremely pale.

Garlan glanced at his face and said, "You are injured, so you don't need to kneel down, lie on the bed and continue talking."

"No, in front of you, how can I do that kind of unmannered behavior."

Even though there were bursts of severe pain coming from the oppressed abdomen, Moya categorically shook his head and refused.

But the wound on his abdomen obviously opened again, and the gushing blood instantly stained a large area of ​​the bandage red.

The young knight kneeling aside looked at him worriedly, but could do nothing.

Now they are asking King Garlan, so they dare not show the slightest disrespect in every move.

Seeing that Moya was determined not to move, Garlan didn't say anything, but just glanced sideways at his guardian knight.

Keyhos understood, stepped forward, directly pulled Moya up, and put him back on the bed.

"It would be really disrespectful for Keyhos to rescue you with great difficulty, but now die in front of me due to excessive blood loss."

Garland said,

"Just lie down and talk."

"...Thank you for your tolerance."

Moya, who was lying on the bed, bowed his head deeply, and the young knight beside him also heaved a sigh of relief, showing a grateful expression.

Moya then continued.

"Before the city was about to break down, the princess ordered us to protect the prince of West Asia and escape from the royal city."

"Then, I escorted the prince all the way to the east. I wanted to rush to the King City of Aaronlandis and ask King Kamos for help, asking him to help the prince and me drive the Gastads out of Kanal ..."

Garlan's gaze paused slightly.

"When I just arrived at the city of Yila on the border of Aaronlandis, the prince of West Asia couldn't get sick because of long-term displacement. As a last resort, we can only temporarily stay in Yila city to recuperate."

"However, just when the prince's illness improved slightly and we were about to continue our journey..."

Having said that, Mo Ya paused.

He glanced at Garlan before continuing.

"King Kamos died in battle on the Camea Plain, and the news came that Aaron Landis' army was destroyed."

He said, "And then..."

When Moya said this, he closed his mouth.

But even if he didn't say anything, the people present understood what he wanted to say.

Then, the Gastadians drove straight in, approaching the royal city.

Aaron Landis saw that the country was about to die.

In this situation, Aaron Landis is still too busy to take care of himself, how can he help Kanal restore the country?

Seeing that there is no hope of restoring the country, and the Gastadians who are the deadly enemies are about to capture even Aaron Landis. The prince of West Asia, who has just recovered from his condition, has suffered a heavy blow and cannot afford to fall ill again.

In addition, Aaron Landis was in chaos at the time, Moya and other knights had no choice but to return to Kanal for the time being.

They brought the prince to a city on the border of Kanal, where the lord of the city was a member of the collateral line of the Kanal royal family and a distant relative of the Prince of West Asia.

After the city lord learned the identity of the Prince of West Asia, he hid them in a secret place, and expressed in front of the prince that he was loyal and would protect the prince's safety at all costs.

However, Mo Ya and the others never expected that the loyal guy smiled sincerely when facing them, but turned around and sold the prince to the Gastadians.

Moya still remembers that night, they were woken up from the night by the loud sound of horse hoofs, and they watched helplessly the scene where a group of Garstad cavalry surrounded them.

The city lord who had vowed not long ago that he would risk his life to protect the prince was extremely humble and flattering in front of the cavalry generals of Gastad. The appearance was really disgusting.

He will never forget.

At that time, Prince West Asia seemed to be staring into the abyss with gloomy eyes.

The Gastadians took them, secretly, without anyone knowing.

Except for the city lord who got a large bounty.

Because the Gastadians didn't want the Kanals to know that their prince was alive.

However, they were suddenly attacked by a group of unidentified people on the way the Gastadians escorted them to the royal city.

Although the Gastadians were strong, the unidentified group of people were not afraid of death or pain, and they were so powerful that it was difficult for the Gastadians to resist.

The group kidnapped them, blindfolded them, and led them to a secret valley.

As soon as he saw the altar there, Moya recognized it.

These guys are believers in the religion of all things.

The Cult of Everything, although this notorious cult is mainly active in Aaron Landis, there are traces of them in other countries as well.

In his early years, under the order of King Kanal, Moya tracked down a horrific village destruction incident.

The final result of the investigation is that this damn cult bewitched and brainwashed the people in this village, causing hundreds of people in the entire village to sacrifice themselves to death.

At that time, the tragedy of the massacre in the whole village made some of them, the knights, vomit out of control.

The teaching of all things is to get the heraldry ring in the hands of the prince of West Asia.

This is a ring that only the king of Karnal is qualified to wear, and it symbolizes the royal power of Karnal.

In addition, it has a secret that only the royal family of Kanal knows.

The royal family of Kanal hides an astonishing fortune somewhere hidden away.

This is just in case, if the descendants of the Kanal royal family are seized by powerful officials, driven into exile, etc., they can use this wealth to make a comeback.

And the key to unlocking the royal treasure is the royal crest ring that Prince West Asia took away when he fled the royal city.

It was also because of this wealth that they firmly believed that they could get help from Aaron Landis.

They intend to exchange this wealth for the help of Aaron Landis' army.

Never expected that this secret was learned by the Myriad Things Sect.

The reason why the All Things Sect spared no expense in using fanatics to attack the cavalry of the Gastadians was to get this ring and the huge wealth of the Kanal royal family.

However, the All Things Sect failed to find the ring from Prince West Asia.

Ever since the incident of being betrayed, Moya found that Prince West Asia seemed to be a completely different person.

There was hardly any expression on that childish and immature face, his eyes were always gloomy and cold, and his whole body seemed to be shrouded in an invisible shadow.

When those eyeballs stare at people, there is no luster in the bottom of the eyes, and the whole person gives a gloomy feeling.

After realizing that coercion and temptation were useless, believers of the All Things Sect began to torture the Prince of West Asia, forcing him to hand over the ring and tell the location of the treasure.

However, even though he was tortured to the point of death, the Prince of West Asia never revealed anything.

After almost dying that time, those believers didn't dare to deal with it easily, locked them up, and continued to force them to hand over their rings.

In this way, Prince West Asia was imprisoned by the All Things Cult together with them for a whole year.

During the year of being imprisoned, although Prince West Asia refused to hand over the ring even if he died, he lost all energy, like a walking dead, and rarely spoke once in a few days.

No matter how much Moya and other knights tried to persuade him and comfort him, he would definitely take him out, but he just sat in the shadows expressionlessly, as if he didn't care whether he could escape or not.

His eyes were too dark to see a glimmer of light, and he was completely plunged into darkness.

This child who has experienced too many hardships at a young age seems to have given up everything in despair.

It's as if the whole person has been swallowed by the abyss.

until one day……

He and Prince West Asia inadvertently overheard the chatter of the new believers who were guarding them.

When they were imprisoned, Aaron Landis was still in the chaos after the death of King Kamos.

He and the prince had always thought that Aaron Landis had been swallowed up by the Gastadians just like Kanal.

It wasn't until now that they were shocked to find that Aaron Landis hadn't died.

Those believers kept complaining about the new king of Aaron Landis, talking about the fact that the young king had mercilessly destroyed their altars one after another during his succession for more than a year. Talking about the boy king who defeated the Gastard army to save Aaron Landis more than a year ago.

They regretted that if it weren't for the young king, their religion of all things would have grown stronger in the war-torn Aaron Landis.

Moya, who was listening, turned his head inadvertently, and was immediately surprised.

He was surprised to see the little prince, who had been as gloomy as a rotten wooden pile this year, raised his head, and there was a little light in those dull eyes.

"...Crown Prince...Crown Prince Aaron Landis..."

The child's voice became extremely hoarse like a rough millstone due to the long period of silence.

"My sister said..."

Prince West Asia said in a trance.

"Go to Aaron Landis to find... King Kamos."

"King Kamos is gone... not here... no, there is... you can still find..."

It was as if a faint flame had been ignited in the dark abyss, and his eyes were fixed on the front.

His eyes with a little light seemed to be looking at a distant place through the wall in front of him.

Go to Aaron Landis.

Go to Prince Garlan—