A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

Heymos, who had fought with Kaijos, stopped after seeing Garlan being surrounded by the guards rushing in.

He had already heard Kamos' inquiry sounded in the outer court, followed by hurried footsteps.

Within tens of seconds, Kamos would come over, so after Heymos admitted that he killed the two guards, he didn't speak again, and he didn't continue to confront Kayhos. The long sword he had snatched from the guard he had killed turned his gaze towards Garlan.

Seeing Garlan sitting on the bed looking at him, his eyes flickering, obviously thinking quickly about how to explain his identity to everyone, Heymos couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.

But when Keyhos said that he had been by Garlan's side for ten years, his raised lips were pursed again, looking a little unhappy.

Not only Nega, but even Kaihos found Garlan before him.

And he had been with Garlan since ten years ago.

Although Heymos knew that Kaihos did not have the memory of that life, but as long as he thought of someone who had been with Garlan for ten years before him, he felt uncomfortable.

Obviously he was the first to meet Garlan 2000 years ago, even earlier than King Kamos.

He was the first to accompany Garlan more than anyone else.

Heymos stared at Kaihos, still feeling uneasy in his heart, the sound of hurried footsteps approached from far away, and a tall figure hurried in with strides.

In the next second, the two looked at each other.

Kamos stared wide-eyed suddenly, his eyes changing violently.

Heymos, on the other hand, still looked at him indifferently, and his emotions did not fluctuate.

2000 years ago, after spending those decades alone, his heart stopped beating and he was almost dead. He has lost almost all emotions.

No one or anything can cause his emotions to fluctuate anymore.

...except for the person he put in the softest place in his heart.

Only in front of that person can his heart come alive again.

However, even so, Emperor Heymos, who had gone through a thousand sails for a long time, couldn't help the corners of his eyes twitching when Kamos suddenly laughed loudly, "Catch him!" one time.

This...hasn't changed at all.

Although it is true that he is still the same one, but after all, he has been a god for so long, so his temperament is still the same as before, even the attitude of protecting the cubs is exactly the same.

Seeing that people around him were about to gather around him, including Kaihos on the opposite side, Heymos' eyes turned cold, and the long sword that had just been lowered was raised in front of him again.

A big war is inevitable and imminent.

On the other hand, Kamos, who was laughing happily, did not hide his complacent expression, raised his thick eyebrows, and waited to see the delicious food with great interest.

Although he also knew that the current Kaihos and the group of guards were no match for that guy, anyway, that guy would definitely not hurt anyone in front of Garlan, so he was naturally happy to watch a good show.

As for how it will end at that time...well, we will talk about it at that time.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Aaron Landis Empire thought so heartlessly.

However, Kamos knew that the ferocious wolf was docile and submissive in front of Garlan, but he forgot that he himself was no less lenient than Heymos in front of his own brother.

"Brother Wang!"

Just a shout from the young man froze the smile of the Lion King who was eagerly waiting to see the show.

Kamos turned his head, looked at Garlan's golden eyes staring at him, felt guilty for no reason, and at the same time felt a little sore in his chest.

Well, the world is not as big as his younger brother.

He coughed heavily, and immediately changed his words without a stand.

"Well, cough, it was just a joke."

He said, raising his hand to signal the people who almost rushed forward to back away.

"This man is my guard for Garlan."

"His Majesty?"

Keith asked puzzled.

Obviously, Kamos's sudden change of tone made him very puzzled.

"He killed two guards."

This man was a dangerous man, and Kayhors could not trust him to stay in the prince's room.

"He will make a move, which means that those two people want to harm Garlan. You should thoroughly investigate this matter first."

Although he was very upset about the fact that the wolf took away his brother, but based on what Kamos knew about Heymos, he guessed the reason why Heymos killed him.

He waved his hands and said, "As I said, he is the guard I sent to Garlan."

Kaihos was still a little suspicious, but Heymos suddenly retracted his sword and stepped forward.

Under the vigilant gaze of Kaihos, under the watchful eyes of everyone, he bent down on one knee and knelt down in front of the bed with a calm face, looked up at Garlan, and stretched out his right hand to the boy who was still sitting on the bed.

That action, no matter how you look at it, is a gesture of serving the master.

Heymos' behavior made Garlan couldn't help laughing, but he still held back.

He put his hand in the hand of Heymos who was stretched out in front of him, and he helped him get off the bed.

The Lion King smacked his lips in dissatisfaction.

It's like hitting a snake with a stick.

Tsk, this guy must have used these tricks to coax his brother into his hands.

However, Kamos had no choice but to be convinced that this guy was able to do this without hesitation, given his decades of experience as an emperor.

"Okay, you go back first."

He waved his hand, and let all the guards leave, including Keyhos.

He asked Keyhos to investigate the matter of the two dead guards first.

After the three of them were left in the room, Kamos folded his strong arms on his chest, and his gaze swept over the two of them carelessly and undisguisedly.

"Okay, Garlan, explain what's going on."

Kamos frowned and looked at Heymos.

"He doesn't look like Keyjos."

Immediately afterwards, Kamos heard something that stunned him, who was once a god, and couldn't react for a while.

There is still such a practice?

he thought in shock.

After Garlan's death, he brought back Garlan's soul and Nega, who chased after him and held him tightly, so he didn't know what happened after that.

The only thing that is known is the death of Heymos after more than 30 years of reign, which is recorded in Aaron Landis's royal history book.

Depend on!This guy is actually playing dead!

Kamos cursed a dirty word in his heart.

However, even though he was swearing, he had mixed feelings in his heart for a moment, and his mood was extremely complicated.

He never expected that Heymos could do this for Garlan.

2000 Ah.

Seeing Heymos at the beginning and Garlan's various discomforts when he was protecting Heymos just now turned into embarrassment in his heart at this moment.

Perhaps it was because what Heymos did was too cruel to himself, so cruel that even Kamos couldn't bear it.

He shook his head.

Forget it.

Originally, I wanted to cause some trouble for this guy, so that it would not be so easy for him to get close to Garlan.

Seeing what he did for Garlan, he let it go.

So, in the next little time, Kamos and Garlan discussed what to say to the outside world.

The final story that was made up was...

The first emperor sent Kaihuos to secretly protect Garlan ten years ago, but in fact, before the late emperor sent Kaihuos, he sent another secret guard there.

It's just that less than a month after the hidden guard protected Garlan, because of an accident, he appeared in front of him in order to protect Garlan, and was regarded by Garlan as a savior, and the two got to know each other like that.

As a result, the hidden guard was quickly recalled to Aaron Landis, and Kehuos was sent there again.

In this way, what Garlan said in public just now, "This man is my friend", also explained the reason why Kyhors didn't know the existence of this man.

After the hidden guard came back, he was punished by the former emperor and imprisoned in a secret training center because he failed the mission because of his identity exposure. While accepting the punishment, he continued to receive special training to improve himself.

After Garlan returned to Aaron Landis, Kamos thought it would be better to have someone he knew accompany him, so he sent this hidden guard to be the prince's personal guard.

As soon as the hidden guard came to the prince's palace, he found the two guards sneaking around outside the wall, so he directly dealt with them.

Regarding the above explanations, although Kaihos always felt that something was wrong, but since His Majesty the Emperor and the prince had said so, it was impossible for him as a subordinate to say anything more, and he could only stop talking with full of doubts.

Whether it is the emperor's palace or the newly built prince's palace, they are all surrounded and protected by invisible protective barriers built with crystal pillars of the Shamash Stone.

There is only one entrance to the barrier, and that is the palace gate.

This is why there are guards only at the gate of the palace, but not the walls around the palace.

Only by wearing the token of the Shamash Stone from the same source as the crystal pillar in the palace can one pass through the protective barrier.

Kehos thought, since the man can wear this token, his loyalty must be recognized by His Majesty.

...And the truth is, Kamos is also very puzzled as to why Heymos was able to pass through the protective barrier.

He discovered that the power of the Shamash Stone did not seem to work on Heymos.

Garlan speculated that it might be because the power of the gods still remained in Heymos, so the stone of Shamash that the power of the gods turned into had no effect on him.

Kamos didn't bother to think about it, so he accepted this explanation.

But after thinking about it, in this way, Heymos could sneak into Garlan's palace anytime and anywhere without any hindrance, and he suddenly felt a little bit stuffed.

Just when the matter here was finally settled, a guard came in to report.

"Your Majesty, Your Excellency the Chief Priest has arrived."

Kamos smacked his lips at that moment.

Kamos had previously traveled to the country where Garlan was located on the grounds of visiting abroad.

When he went to visit, he naturally had to bring his confidants there, and the chief priest was one of them.

However, in the middle of the visit, he sneaked out alone without telling others to find Garlan, and then directly brought Garlan back to Aaron Landis.

Naturally, he threw all the rest of the mess to those subordinates including the chief priest, so the chief priest waited for his subordinates to return to Aaron Landis one step behind him.

Presumably this incident made those subordinates who were left behind by him very angry.

Chief priest?

Is it...

Garlan looked at Kamos reflexively.

Kamos looked back at Garlan, and suddenly smiled slyly.

He said, "Not Shemur."

Garlan snorted, his tone inevitably revealing disappointment.

Heymos gave him a deep look.

"His Majesty."

A soft-sounding voice came from the door.

The familiar voice stunned Garlan, and he quickly looked up. When he saw that person, he opened his eyes wide in astonishment.

It wasn't just him, Heymos, who was watching Garlan quietly from the side, also showed a little surprise.

"Your Majesty, I am really pleased that you can return home safely."

A woman with a figure as beautiful as a flower blooming in the spring rain in early spring stands in the room, wearing a priest's robe and a crown of olive branches and leaves.

The smile on her face seemed very gentle, but for some reason, just looking at it made people shudder.

Although the voice was soft and gentle, although the tone and tone were very respectful, the words were soft and hard no matter how they were heard.

"I wonder if you have forgotten our existence?"

Kamos laughed, wisely, he didn't confront his pale but clearly angry chief priest, but quickly changed the subject.

"Garlan, let me introduce you, this is my chief priest."

He laughed out loud, and blinked lightly at Garlan unobtrusively.

"Meet you for the first time, Prince Garlan."

Seeing Tapti who bowed to him calmly and gracefully, Garlan recovered from his initial surprise.

The chief priest...?

It seems that with the development of time, Aaron Landis has begun to allow women to serve as priests and officials.

Garlan's eyes softened as he looked at Taputi, who faintly revealed the majesty of someone in a high position.

He still remembers.

After he took the throne 2000 years ago, he asked Taputi what he thought about the future.

Although Taputi is a bit older, her beauty is not diminished, and her relationship with him has made many high-ranking nobles flock to her.

But Taputi firmly expressed his unwillingness to marry.

She said that she didn't want to be trapped in a corner, and she didn't want to have to do housework, greet and see another man for the rest of her life, and also take care of other women and children who were not her own.

She said that it was worse than death for her to live like that.

In fact, Garlan knew that Taputi had always been a very ambitious woman.

But such ambitions are not bad.

She just wants to be like Ximuer, to be someone who can contribute to Aaron Landis.

Even as a woman.

Taputi's talent in politics is not bad. After realizing this, Garlan would often involve Taputi in discussing political affairs with Shemur and the others.

At first Ximuer and the others were very surprised, but then they acquiesced.

It's a pity that for women who can't be officials or priests, serving the king's female officer is already the highest status they can achieve.

Although Taputi never said anything to him, Garlan could tell that Taputi was actually very unwilling about this.

Now, 2000 years later, Aaron Landis has changed a lot.

If Taputi knows that after 2000, women can also stand above the royal court to handle government affairs, and I will be very relieved.

Just when Garlan was feeling so emotional in his heart, Taputi kept looking at him.

She smiled slightly at Garlan.

"Although it is the first meeting for you, Prince, I know you very well."

she says,

"Maybe it's presumptuous to say this, but I also watched you grow up. So, I'm very happy to see you in front of me now."

Garlan blinked, he didn't quite understand what Taputi said.

Kayhos has been guarding him secretly for ten years as a guardian, but Taputi should have been in Aaron Landis all the time. How could he have watched him grow up like Kayhos?

"Also, since you have returned to Aaron Landis, then this thing must be returned to you."

Saying so, the head priestess took out a crystal bracelet made of Shamash stone and sent it to Garlan.

Kamos, who was still indifferent just now, changed his expression the moment he saw the head priestess take out the crystal bracelet, got up in a hurry, and stretched out his hand to the head priestess.

"Wait, Taputi, I know I was wrong!" He said nervously, "So don't give this to Gal—"

However, Kamos spoke too late.

The head priestess, who had long made up her mind to give this thing to the prince when the prince returned, pressed the bracelet on the table, and in an instant, a light curtain appeared above the bracelet.

Then, four or five images flashed in the light curtain one by one.

Gallan: "..."

All images are of one person.

When he was a child, he was eight or nine years old, teenagers, from childhood to adulthood, all of them.

"According to His Majesty's order, when Kaihos is guarding you, he will regularly record your images and send them to His Majesty."

The head priestess said with a smile, ignoring His Majesty the Emperor whose face turned pale and blue.

"The images of you from childhood to adulthood have been well preserved here by him, and he takes them out to look at them from time to time."

"Although I think this is not good, it is His Majesty's order after all, and I really can't object. But since you have come back, I think it is better to hand the bracelet to you."

"Brother Wang..."

Garlan looked at Kamos expressionlessly.

"You know what that kind of behavior is called in my place?"

This kind of behavior is called abnormal in him!

"I just think that you were so cute when you were a child... I couldn't help it before, but it's rare to be able to... once again..."

At this moment, His Majesty the tall and burly emperor was like a child who made a mistake, weakly defending his actions.

"It's really a pity not to save it, look, how cute..."

Just when Garlan was about to continue to say something, suddenly a hand stretched out from the side and touched one of the images of Garlan when he was in middle school.

Heymos seemed to understand something when he found that his fingers penetrated the image.

He looked up at the head priestess.

He said, "Any more? Give me one."

Gallan: "........."

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