The gates of the city were opened, and the army was welcomed into the royal city.
The bright sunlight reflected on the young prince's hair as pure as melted gold.
Riding slowly forward, the boy's eyes are very bright, there is a slight blush on his white cheeks, and the light-colored cloak flutters softly behind him as he moves forward.
Garlan rode alone at the forefront of the army.
One horse behind, Heimos rode the reddish-brown steed behind Garlan.
The jet-black hair was scattered on the brown cheeks, he lowered his eyes slightly, and his handsome face showed no expression at the moment.
He seemed to be indifferent to everything around him, only occasionally looking up at the figure of Garlan in front of him, his eyes passing over the rough lapis lazuli earrings on the boy's earlobe without a trace.
Kaijos, Sinyas, and the nobles and ministers who came out of the city to greet them were separated by another distance and followed behind.
They all looked calm and composed, as if the dark tide surging not long ago had never existed.
However, even if the faces could not be seen, the high-hanging hearts of many powerful ministers finally fell to the ground at this moment.
The throne is set.
They don't have to worry anymore.
Outside the city gate, Heimos knelt in front of Prince Garland.
Since then, honor has been established.
That kneeling.
It means that Heimos has publicly announced to everyone that he is willing to serve Garlan as a knight.
That's it.
Many people breathed a sigh of relief.
Aaron Landis can no longer withstand any turmoil. If these two princes are fighting for the throne again at this moment... The consequences are simply unimaginable.
As Garlan and his party entered the city, the carriage that followed them slowly passed through the city gate and drove into the avenue of the royal city.
When 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 the snow-white silk cloth is scattered from all sides, covered on the carriage, and fluttering gently in the wind as the carriage moves forward.
In front of it, four snow-white steeds dragged it slowly forward.
It was noon now, the sun was high in the sky, and the weather was a little hot.
However, a slight chill seeped out from the carriage, and a little mist emanated from the huge ice cubes placed in the golden carriage emanated from the snow-white silk cloth scattered around the carriage.
The knights of the guard guarded the carriage tightly, with a solemn expression, escorting the carriage slowly forward.
On both sides of the wide road in the royal city, countless people stood on both sides.
The dark crowd stood along the sides of the wide road. The sun was shining brightly. The faces of the people crowding on both sides of the road did not show any warmth, but were full of mourning.
The avenue that runs through the entire city of Wangcheng is very long, and there are countless people crowded on both sides at the moment.
Forward, no head in sight.
Backwards, no tail in sight.
Countless people crowded on both sides of the road, and it was dark, but the long avenue was silent.
They stood silently, watching the golden carriage in silence.
I don't know who started first, I don't know who took the lead first.
Someone leaned over and stood on the edge of the avenue just like that, bowing their heads and kneeling.
Then, one by one, everyone knelt down on the ground.
No one ordered, no one forced, but everyone here is kneeling on their own at this moment.
They fell to their knees willingly and bowed their heads deeply to the golden carriage in the road.
Among them, there are old people who are dying, there are young children, there are women with tears on their faces, there are men with sad eyes, there are rich businessmen in gorgeous clothes, and there are poor people with rough faces.
Under the bright sunlight, the entire royal city was silent.
The sun is bright to the extreme, but it gives people a pale sense of powerlessness.
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 sound of the flute reverberated softly in the silent royal city, like a farewell elegy.
The people kneeling on both sides of the road are boundless, but the ground is very quiet, only the mourning flute echoes in the air.
People who didn't even dare to cry sounded like they were afraid of disturbing the sleeping heroic spirits in the carriage.
No one speaks.
No one wanted to disturb their sleeping king.
Ten miles long road, all the people mourning.
The people of Aaron Landis knelt on the ground.
Hands clasped, pressed against forehead.
They closed their eyes and prayed silently to the gods of Aaron Landis.
king camos
I am the king of Aaron Landis
immortal lion
May your heroic spirits be brought into the kingdom of gods by the gods.
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"what is the problem?!"
The voice of the priest of Shamash at this moment had a rare impatience.
"Obviously he was fine when he came back, why did he suddenly fall ill!"
Not only Xie Muer, Kaihos and others are also staying here at the moment.
It was clear 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 Chief Tapti came out.
Her face didn't look very good, and the whole person was much thinner than before, and there was no blood on her face at this 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 depressed as she shook her head.
Everyone looked at each other, all 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 after a while.
Tapti returned to the bedroom after sending everyone away. She sat beside the bed and looked at Garlan sleeping on the bed.
The boy lay quietly on the bed, his cheeks flushed with an abnormal blush, and the skin other than the blush was extremely pale.
Sweat oozing from his forehead made a few strands of golden hair stick to his cheeks.
The lips were slightly parted, and the breath was rather rapid.
Even in a drowsiness, his eyebrows were slightly frowning, and occasionally his eyelashes twitched, as if he was enduring some kind of pain.
Tapti gently wiped the sweat from the prince's forehead with a wet towel, and looked at Garlan's pale face with distress.
The day after returning to the palace, Prince Garland fell ill.
When she went to the bedroom to wake him up in the morning, she found him lying on the bed groggy with a low-grade fever.
For a whole day, the low-grade fever did not go away, and the person was still drowsy.
Garlan's illness immediately caused a large group of people to panic.
While they were trying to hide the news that the crown prince fell ill and fell unconscious, they were still in a state of anxiety because of Garlan's illness.
At first, Kaijos thought it was a plague contracted in the army, and quickly brought the army doctor who had a lot of experience in plagues in the army to diagnose and treat.
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.
Later, the female magistrate Tapti secretly brought the old doctor in the palace who was only responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of King Camos.
After carefully checking Garlan's condition, the old man shook his head, his expression seemed extremely heavy.
"The crown prince isn't actually sick..."
The old doctor paused for a while, then suddenly changed his tune.
"No, it's actually a disease."
He says,
"Heart disease."
As soon as he said these two words, Kaihos and the others were stunned, and looked at the sleeping Garlan with complex expressions.
"This disease can't be seen from the outside, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist."
"It's too heavy on his heart..."
"I think... that's probably the feeling of having a knife stuck in my heart..."
The old doctor babbled.
The old man, who knew exactly what happened during this time, looked at the boy who fell asleep with a low fever and let out a low sigh.
He has always been the exclusive physician of King Camos. He has followed King Camos for more than ten years, and he has also watched the little prince grow up little by little under the care of King Camos.
He often smiled and watched the interaction between the two brothers.
He could see clearly the intimacy between the two of them that was not a brother but far more than a brother.
Watching King Camos die with his own eyes, the pain in the heart of the little prince can be imagined.
But in order to save Aaron Landis in crisis, he didn't have any time to ease, so he could only bury it deep in his heart.
"In order to protect Aaron Landis, he has probably been holding on."
The old man let out a long sigh again.
"… He's held out long enough."
Xie Muer pursed his lips.
He asked, "Is the crown prince sick?"
"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 took everything on his own."
"If he doesn't want to vent his pain and pull the knife out of his heart..."
He shook his head helplessly.
"This disease will never get better."
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Thinking of the old doctor's words, Tapti sighed softly as he looked at the sleepy prince who was still frowning slightly.
She turned her head and looked through the window.
The deserted moonlight falls on the courtyard at night, and the sound of running water from the fountain can be vaguely heard from the courtyard.
The stone statue of the star goddess Isdar was shrouded in moonlight, and fine water droplets splashed on her face, slowly flowing down the icy stone statue.
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The boundless dream slowly unfolded, showing scenes in front of the sleepy teenager.
That scene is 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 Heimos, the battle of Judas would break out.
Under the bewitchment of the religion of all things, the city lord of Judas, Yunas, colluded with the Gasdads and poisoned King Camos.
The Lion King, undefeated on the battlefield, died of poison in Yunas's room without anyone noticing.
Everything after that was like this life, Yunas' subordinates rebelled and killed the Lord.
The Gasdadians, led by Tyr, besieged the unsuspecting army of Aaron Landis.
The two armies were destroyed.
And this time, the matter of Yunas poisoning King Kamos was not covered up, and it was also publicized by the Gasdads, which immediately caused great shock and turmoil in Aaron Landis.
King Camos turned out to be killed by someone in the royal family or even at the hands of his uncle, which dealt a serious blow to all Aaron Landis.
If everyone in the royal family colluded with the Gasthards, who else could be trusted
The city lords began to doubt each other, everyone was in danger, and they no longer dared to trust others easily.
Aaron Landis was distraught.
Imprisoned in a dungeon by the Gasthards, Yunas committed suicide in remorse and despair.
His daughter disappeared during the war, and no one knows her whereabouts ever since.
Afterwards, the Gasdadians used the city of Judas as a material base and drove straight in, leading hundreds of thousands of troops to the king city.
There is only one legion guarding the royal city.
At the same time, the Geshus from the north invaded, and the Issians from the east invaded.
The Northern Corps and the Eastern Corps were immobilized.
And misfortunes don't come singly.
A civil strife broke out in Tasda, a friendly country in the northwest. The new ruler led the Tasdar army and the Gasdads into the territory of Aaronlandis and attacked the royal city.
The city of Tozes, which had been attacked by pirates not long ago and was in a half-destroyed state, was attacked again by pirates, and the group of pirates even went upstream, attacking the cities along the river all the way, and also heading towards the king city. Come.
Wangcheng was besieged by three armies.
At this time, the two princes in the royal city, among them Prince Gallan, died 'accidentally', leaving only Prince Heimos alone.
Something unbelievable happened.
Prince Heimos resolutely gave up the royal city, and led the army in the royal city to abandon the city.
The Gasdadians easily captured the royal city.
Aaron Landis fell.
Afterwards, Heimos directly ordered that the Northern Legion and the Eastern Legion all abandon the border.
Two of Aaronlandis' six major legions were destroyed in the battle with the Gasthards, but the remaining four legions were spared because of his abandoned orders.
Heimos led the army to retreat to the northwest. After the Eya River, he directly cut off the back road of the new ruler of Tasda, and sent troops into the country of Tasda to help the original ruler to regain power.
After that, he was guarded by the natural danger of the Eya River, backed to the country of Tasda, and lurked quietly, and there was no movement.
The Gasdadians easily captured the royal city abandoned by Heimos.
With the retreat of the Frontier Corps, the Geshus went south and the Iss moved west.
Except for the small part of the northwest country adjacent to the country of Tasda, most of the land of Aaron Landis fell.
Both the Geshus and the Yithians marched unceremoniously towards the royal city.
They joined forces directly and began to attack the Gasdadians who occupied the royal city.
The pirates, who knew that they could not compete with the power of the state, plundered and slaughtered the cities along the river in the south without any hesitation, and left with a large amount of plundered wealth and returned to the sea.
The three armies of Yis, Geshu, and Gasdad fought fiercely on the territory of Aaron Landis, and the people in the occupied area of Aaron Landis also fell into a tragic and tragic situation.
The three armies were indifferently destroying the land of Aaron Landis, burning, killing and looting.
They regarded the Aaronandeans as pigs, horses, cattle and sheep that they were allowed to kill, plundering their property and food, capturing them as slaves, and even killing them for pleasure.
The people of Aaron Landis, who had fallen into ruin, had almost been reduced to being inferior to livestock.
Heimos looked at all this with indifference.
He remained stationed 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 was reduced to a purgatory on earth.
However, in just over a year, Aaron Landis' population of 20 million suddenly dropped sharply to 13 million.
reduced by nearly a third.
In more than a year, a full seven million people were killed in the war.
There are no words to describe or express the suffering of the people of Aaron Landis during this time.
Seven million lives.
Such a cold number.
It is enough to let everyone know the shocking and cruel reality behind this number.
After being stationed in the royal city for half a year, the Gasdadians finally lost to the joint attack of Yis and Geshu because more and more soldiers became ill, gave up the royal city, and returned to Kanal.
Yisi and Gaishu fought on the territory of Aaronlandis for nearly a year. The two sides were at a stalemate. The royal city changed hands several times, and the forces of both sides were greatly consumed.
The once prosperous royal city has long since fallen into disrepair, and the once numerous city dwellers are even more so.
And at this moment, Heimos, who had been on the sidelines for more than a year, brazenly led his troops from the northwest.
First cut off the northern back road of the Geshu people, and defeated the Geshu army.
Then he recaptured the royal city from the Yithians, and drove the Yith army out of the country in one fell swoop.
In less than four months, Aaron Landis returned to his country.
Heimos ascended the throne in the royal city and became the new king of Aaron Landis.
During his reign, the fighting power of Aaron Landis' army was at its peak.
No one dared to take a step against Aaron Landis.
It became the most powerful military state on the continent.
However, this power is a deformed power.
Aaron Landis's military was as strong as its economy was.
Heimos did not deliberately treat his people harshly, he just didn't care and didn't care.
But a king's indifference alone is enough to make life difficult and miserable for the vast majority of his people.
Gradually, the people of Aaron Landis became more and more disappointed, and their resentment against this ruthless king gradually increased, but they forcibly endured it because of their fear of him.
Heimos stayed on the throne for sixteen years, and died before he was forty.
Before his death, he left neither descendants nor designated successors.
It's not that it's too late, it's that I don't want to care at all.
With a completely twisted and surly temperament, he did whatever he wanted on the throne while he was alive, and after he died, he didn't care what would happen to Aaron Landis when he died.
When he was alive, the nobles 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 frantically compete for power and profit.
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, people who have long been complaining have ignited the flames of uprisings in various places.
Aaron Landis was divided and confused.
Heimos had just passed away less than a year ago, and the Gasdadians attacked Aaron Landis boldly after they had accumulated enough power after ruling Canal for sixteen years.
Aaron Landis, who had lost Heimos, was as fragile as a bubble.
In just three months, the royal city was breached by the Gasdads.
The once-prominent Aaron Landis once again perished.
Died at the hands of Tyr, the king of Gasthard.
Afterwards, Tyr, the king of Gasdad, continued to fight south and north after capturing Aaron Landis.
It took him five years to capture Tasda in the northeast, Gaishu in the north, Iss in the east and many other countries successively.
His horse's hoof trod across the land, conquered all the kingdoms on this continent, and established a huge empire.
However, shortly after the complete conquest of the continent, Tyre died unexpectedly.
The vast empire he built fell apart immediately after his death.
Since then, the mainland has been plunged into a century-long war. The divided countries have fought endlessly with each other, the citizens of each country have been displaced, and the earth can be seen everywhere.
The suffering of people on earth seems to be endless...
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Under the starry night sky, the clear water droplets of the fountain scattered in the dark night.
The water droplets that splashed on the face of the goddess Isdar's stone statue slowly fell down the icy cheeks, like tears from the corners of the eyes of the goddess of stars.
The moonlight slanted into the room and shone on the abnormally flushed cheeks of Garlan, who had been asleep for a long time.
pat.
That drop of water gently fell into the spring water.
The boy who woke up from the dream slowly opened his eyes.