A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 255. Chapter 255

In the violent shaking of the stone hall, Gallan and his group quickly left the underground stone hall.

After returning to the ground, they did not dare to delay for a minute, and immediately ordered everyone to evacuate from here.

Soon after everyone left the valley, I heard huge roars one after another. At this moment, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the ground shook as if it were about to split apart.

The horses neighed in horror, and were dragged by their owners, before they flee without madness.

Everyone just watched as the valley where they were staying not long ago collapsed and sank amidst the roar.

Most of the mountain peaks around the valley collapsed, boulders rolled down, the slopes split, landslides along the valley, and fell into the collapsed valley.

In the end, the cracked mountain mass buried all the collapsed valley floor, and no one could step into the deep ancient stone temple underground.

The wind whizzed by, making Huimos’ forehead wiggled over the corner of his eye.

He stared deeply at the ruins of the collapsed valley.

It’s not clear why, but when the underground stone hall collapsed, he suddenly felt a relief in his heart.

It was as if an invisible existence that had been tightly entwining him and fettering him suddenly dissipated, and the whole person became relaxed.

It was as if a heavy chain that had been pressing on him finally broke at this moment, giving him the illusion of being free.

He closed his eyes, and the wind passed by his side, bringing a cool breath in the middle of the night.

At this moment, he had an unprecedented sense of lightness and comfort.

Gallan on the side glanced at Hiemos, a soft smile appeared in his eyes.

He didn’t say anything, just patted Hiemos’ arm lightly, then smiled and turned away.

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After the valley collapsed, Garlan did not immediately set off to return, but camped nearby for a few days.

He ordered the soldiers to search around nearby, and only after confirming that there were no followers of the Cult of All Things hiding in the ruins of the valley, did he order to return to the royal city.

On the way back, the spirits of the others were okay, but the West Asian prince of Kanal was incompatible with everyone. He lowered his head and hardly communicated with anyone, not even his knight could tell him. a few words.

As soon as he camped at night, he entered the camp early.

He followed Garlan silently when he was on the road during the day. Although he followed, he never took the initiative to say a word to Gallan, unless Gallan spoke to him, he occasionally hummed or popped a few words.

It was late at night, and the moonlight like water was flowing on the earth.

The camp is very quiet. Except for the soldiers who are watching the night outside the camp, most people have fallen asleep in the camp.

A shallow lake reflects the moonlight of the night sky, and the stars shine on the clear water, sparkling.

Garlan sat on the rock by the lake and looked up at the night sky.

Huimos stood beside the boy, not looking at the night sky or the lake, but at Garlan.

“You should know that I was abandoned by the Eyas when I was very young, and I have been wandering in the slums.”

“When I was about seven years old, I and the other children in the slum were taken away by the Cult of All Things and sent to the altar.”

Huimos spoke in a calm tone, and couldn’t hear much emotion.

He seemed to be just talking about one thing.

“The other children were killed. I was the last one, but I don’t want to die. I am very unwilling to die there, let alone die for a god who doesn’t know the so-called.”

From the day he remembered, he lived no different from a dirty and humble mouse living in a stinking ditch.

He has never believed in the so-called gods.

“Although I don’t know the reason, it may be because of the fear of death. I suddenly went mad. I don’t have the memory of when I went mad. I only know that when I woke up, I saw corpses all over the place…”

He said,

“That was the first time I killed someone.”

When he didn’t know anything, he killed people, many people.

At that time, when he was still young, he looked at the pile of corpses in front of him, his mind was blank.

He knelt on the ground, looking at the blood in his hands, trembling, almost out of breath, and almost collapsed.

Finally, with strong self-control, he forced himself to get up and staggered away from the place that seemed like hell to him.

…

Later, killing became a habit.

In order to keep himself alive, killing others has already become a matter of course for him.

“That person said to me that I was branded on my body, and I was destined to become a sacrifice to the gods. One day, I will return…”

While Huimos was speaking, Garlan still looked up at the starry sky.

He rested his chin in one hand, looked at the sky quietly, and listened quietly to what Heymos said.

Following Garlan’s gaze, Hiemos also looked towards the sky.

After watching it for a while, he said: “When I was a kid, I didn’t like this kind of night… the stars are too bright, I want to steal something to eat, it’s easy to be spotted.”

Garlan tilted his head, his gaze fell from the starry sky to Heimos’s face, who was looking up at the starry sky.

Fragmented starlight fell on Heimos’ face, reflecting the honey-like luster of honey that is unique to brown skin.

A little bit of starlight is reflected in the golden red eyes, the side cheeks are handsome, and the slightly raised corners of the eyes are like sharp swords, showing more and more forcing sharpness.

Let people watch, but they can’t move their eyes.

“now what?”

Garlan asked.

Huimos’ gaze fell back to Garlan and did not answer.

“Does the starry sky look good now?”

Garlan, who was sitting on the rock, asked him.

The young man put his hands behind him, tilted his head slightly, and looked up at him, his golden eyes arched like a crescent in the night sky.

The surface of the water was sparkling, reflecting the figure of a young man dressed in starlight.

“…Beautiful.”

Huimos answered.

He looked down at Garlan, his eyes soft.

The sky full of stars, boundless, shining like a gem on the dark night, like a dreamlike beauty.

Thousands of stars, no more than the smile of the blonde boy in front of him.

“Himos.”

“Um?”

“When you are controlled by someone in the future, think about me.”

“…”

“Don’t think about the messy things you used to. Just think, I said, I will guard you until the end.”

Garland said,

“If you encounter something similar again, just keep thinking about this sentence, do you know?”

It was quiet for a moment under the stars.

Then, Huimos smiled and hummed lowly.

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After a few days, in a lively noon, Gallan and his group quietly returned to the palace.

Under the meticulous arrangement of the high priest Xie Mu’er, no one noticed that the young king had left the king’s city for more than ten days.

Although Garlan did not want to let Sheemur know what happened in the stone palace, but with so many knights following him, it was impossible for him to silence everyone.

Therefore, Sheemur quickly learned everything from the knight commander who was following Garlan, as well as the thrilling process.

Of course, the high priest of Shamash immediately rushed to Garlan, who had just returned to the palace and had not had time to catch his breath, with an ugly face. The famous name was to ask the king to listen to his advice. In fact, he was mercilessly taking Garlan. Lan severely reprimanded.

From noon to night, he gave Garlan’admonishment’ for four hours, without a sip of the water in between.

But Garlan, who knew that he was wrong, could only listen to his high priest’s’admonishment’ honestly, and from time to time he obediently nodded his head to confess his mistakes, and accompany her with a smile.

Until the evening, the magistrate Taput interrupted Sheemur with dinner, and this relieved Garlan.

In order to reward and comfort the self who was so dizzy by Xie Muer’s training, Gallan ate a big meal unceremoniously, then lay down directly on the bed, and fell asleep.

After taking a good night’s sleep, Gallan, who felt that he had been resurrected with full blood the next day, couldn’t help but twitch at the corner of his mouth when he saw the mountain of government documents.

Then, under the watchful eye of his high priest, he began a tragic life of burying himself in the clerical documents except for eating and resting from morning till night.

The prince of Kanal, Sia, who was rescued by Garland, stayed in the palace as a distinguished guest, and Xiemuer was responsible for receiving him.

West Asia still looks cold and silent, and barely talks to anyone except the necessary dialogue.

Moya, the knight of the Kanal royal family, who had previously stayed in the palace to recuperate, had already recovered a lot. Since then, he and another young knight have been closely following Xiah.

After Sia arrived at Aaron Landis’ palace, she locked herself in the room for two full days, not seeing anyone or talking to anyone.

Even the meals were brought into the room by his knight, and then brought out after eating.

Xie Muer reported the matter to Garlan, and Garlan pondered for a while and then replied that he didn’t need to do anything specially, just follow the instructions of the prince of West Asia.

After speaking, he continued to bury his head in the piles of papers.

After shutting herself in the room for two full days, Sia came out by herself.

Then he directly made a request to Xiemur, saying that he wanted to take a look around in the royal city.

Xiemuer agreed, just saying that in order to protect his safety, he would send someone to accompany him – of course, it also meant surveillance.

West Asia agreed without hesitation.

For the next whole week, accompanied by the knight commander sent by Xiemur, Xia took his two knights around in the royal city.

The knight commander who accompanied West Asia will go to Xiemuer to report West Asia’s behavior today after returning home in the evening.

What makes Xiemu’er feel strange is that although West Asia kept walking around in the royal city, she just watched and did nothing.

He has watched every corner of the royal city, whether it is near the royal palace, the market, or the poor people gathering on the edge of the royal city, including the trade office, which is already crowded with people and guests like clouds. Looked for a long time.

After seeing the inside of the city, I ran outside the city to see nearby towns, villages, and even the road construction site that was being built.

However, he consciously avoided wherever it was related to the military, and did not approach it.

The strange behavior of the prince of West Asia made Xie Muer completely unclear what the purpose of the little prince was.

After more than a week of this, West Asia, who had seen the royal city and its vicinity, stopped this behavior.

Immediately afterwards, he locked himself in the room for a day and a night.

When she came out the next day, West Asia’s eyes were flushed, and her eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes.

Obviously, he did not rest in the house, but stayed up all day and night.

Looking at Moya who had been standing by the door, Xia said, “Tell your High Priest that, as Prince Kanal, I ask to see King Garlan of Aaron Landis.”

He added,

“Secret audience.”

Moya took a breath, and he looked at Xia solemnly.

“Prince, have you… made up your mind?”

West Asia nodded slightly.

Moya didn’t say anything, he leaned down on his knees, saluted West Asia, then got up and left.

Xia took a deep breath. He stood in the courtyard and closed his eyes. The bright sunlight shone on him, a little hot and a little hot.

His skin was pale and abnormal because he stayed underground for a long time without seeing the sun.

He closed his eyes, his eyelashes trembling slightly. His hands slumped to his side were clenched, so hard that his knuckles were all white.

This decision I made…

Sister Wang, you can understand, right?

I will never forgive those guys.

I will never let those guys get what they want.

at all costs.

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The night came again soon, and the entire palace fell silent.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Kaihus evaded people’s eyes and secretly brought Sia and the two Kanal knights to Garlan’s palace.

After entering the room, Xia saw Garlan sitting on the golden seat, and the high priest Shemur standing aside.

The blazing sun knight who had brought him walked forward, walked quickly to the side behind Garlan, and then stood there quietly.

Xia glanced around and after confirming the people in the room, her eyes fell on Garlan.

The young king of Aaron Landis looked at him with a calm expression.

Garlan sat calmly, waiting for him to speak.

Retracting her gaze, Xia leaned over and landed on one knee.

He bowed his head and saluted Garland.

“King Gallan, thank you for saving me from the teaching of all things. I will remember your kindness to me.”

He said,

“Although it is presumptuous, but I have a very important thing to ask you, I hope you can agree.”

The high priest standing behind Garlan frowned.

“Prince West Asia, I can guess what your request is.”

He unceremoniously refused directly.

“But I’m sorry, our country has just ended the war, I am afraid I can’t help you.”

The prince of Canal came to Aaron Landis for the purpose of asking Aaron Landis to help him restore his country.

This is well known to everyone present.

However, not to mention that Aaron Landis, who has just ended the war, is in need of recuperation. Even if Aaron Landis has not experienced the war, it is impossible to sacrifice his soldiers to help the prince of another country recover.

Regarding Xiemur’s refusal, neither West Asia nor the two knights behind him had expected it, and did not feel embarrassed.

The two knights lowered their heads, waiting for their prince to continue.

“The reason why the religion of all things imprisoned me was to get the treasure of the Kanal royal family from me.”

West Asia continued.

“In this world, only I know the location of the treasure and have the key to unlock it.”

Xie Muer was taken aback, and then immediately reacted.

I see.

He was still thinking just now, it was foolish for the prince of a country to ask the king of another country to help him regain the country so recklessly.

It turned out that the prince intended to exchange money for Aaron Landis’ help.

This time, he didn’t say anything, and turned his gaze to Garlan.

Like him, both West Asia and the two knights behind West Asia looked at the young king sitting quietly with nervous eyes.

Under everyone’s gaze, Gallan shook his head very simply.

“Sorry, Prince Canal, maybe your treasure has a huge amount of wealth, but I don’t need it.”

If Aaron Landis’s belongings were quite stretched before, especially after he started to build roads on a large scale, but now, the Trade and Commerce Department that Tal presides can be said to be a daily income, and the daily business tax is almost straight. rise.

What’s more, he has already started, intending to extend the Department of Trade and Commerce to other Zhili cities in Aaron Landis.

Once the Department of Commerce is established in cities across the country, he will never be short of money by that time.

Therefore, Garland did not intend to let his soldiers sacrifice for other countries for the so-called treasure of the Kanal royal family.

Gallan simply refused to make the faces of the two knights behind Siya look pretty. He glanced at each other, and his eyes showed a bit of depression.

If even this huge wealth can’t impress King Garlan, then they will no longer find any bargaining chips for Aaron Landis to help them restore their country.

Compared with the loss of the knights, the young children are still very calm.

“No, King Garlan, what I want to offer you is not just the treasure of the royal family.”

He said,

“Please send the powerful cavalry of Aaron Landis to Canal and drive away the Gasdad people who occupy Canal, because that will be your responsibility.”

“Guarding Kanal, guarding Kanal’s people, will become your responsibility.”

This time, not only Xiemu’er frowned again, but Kaihuos stared at West Asia with a sharp gaze.

They couldn’t figure out how the little prince could say such brazen words.

However, Xia ignored the pin-piercing gazes of the two and still knelt on the ground, looking up at Garlan.

He said: “Because Kanal will become your kingdom.”

He looked at Garlan and said, “As the last descendant of the Kanal royal family, I will give you the throne of Kanal.”

“King Garlan, Kanal will be under your throne.”

Suddenly there was a dead silence.

At this moment, almost everyone’s breathing stopped.

The words of the prince of West Asia made everyone in the room look surprised.

Especially the two knights behind him were full of disbelief, and the young knight showed grief and anger, thinking that his master was being persecuted, he was about to get up desperately——

However, he was pressed hard by the Moya knight.

Moya, who was also unbelievable at first, glanced at the young prince in front of him, with a sad expression in his eyes, bowed his head in pain, and remained silent.

The room was silent for a while, and it was a while before Gallan’s voice broke the silence.

“why?”

He said, “Prince West Asia, although I have a life-saving grace for you, I don’t think this kindness is so great that you are willing to give away your throne.”

“I can understand your eagerness to help Kanal regain the country, but it’s too…false to be willing to give the throne for this.”

Xia smiled.

It’s not so much a laugh, it’s a giggle forced out of the throat.

“Recovery?”

He smiled and said, his eyes were dark.

His eyes sank endlessly into the abyss.

“It’s impossible.”

He said, “The descendants of the Kanal royal family have been cut off, and the country will never be restored.”

Behind him, the Moya Knight lowered his head deeply, with an extremely painful expression on his face.

“When the Gastards caught me, they couldn’t kill me, and they were worried that I would be rescued.”

His eyes were slightly empty at this moment, and Xia continued in a calm and terrifying tone.

He said,

“In order to completely solve the problem, they directly acted and cut off the possibility of my childbirth.”