As the sun goes down, the sunlight between heaven and earth is disappearing little by little.
The afterglow of the setting sun shrouded the distant horizon, shrouding it with a crimson glow.
The white hall is still very quiet, except for the sound of breathing at different frequencies, there is nothing.
Heimos had been standing beside the Peacock Sarcophagus for a whole day, motionless, as if completely still there.
He didn't raise his head until the last ray of sunlight had completely disappeared.
There was a shimmer in the red eyes, which made people shudder.
"You can all leave."
A voice suddenly sounded in the hall, which had been silent for too long, and it was surprising.
Suojia looked up at Heimos and frowned.
He understood what Heimos said, and Heimos said, let them all go, meaning that he wants to stay here.
"Lord Heimos..."
Before Suojia could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Heimos.
"Walk."
Heimos's voice was cold, and he didn't even look back at everyone.
Suojia could only see his back and the unquestionable command voice from above.
Without waiting for Suojia to say anything, the high priest Shamash who was standing beside him turned around suddenly and left without a word.
Suojia sighed in his heart, and followed Xi Muer to leave here.
At this time, Heimos's voice came from behind again.
"Tell the guards to close the door, and no one can break in."
It was obviously the hottest end of summer, but his voice was only cold in the mid-winter in the north.
"A trespasser, whoever it is, will be killed on the spot."
Suojia's footsteps stopped.
"Yes."
He turned and bowed to answer.
Once this order is issued, no one can step into the royal tomb unless all the guards guarding the tomb are killed.
Suojia stood in the endless square of the royal mausoleum, and the gate of the white palace slowly closed in front of him.
The figure standing at the end of the hall disappeared from his sight along with the closed stone gate.
He turned his head, looked at the back of Xie Muer who had gone far away in the dark night, and sighed deeply.
Suppressing the worry in his heart, he turned and left with heavy steps.
Above his head, the sky is full of stars.
…
The huge stone gate of the white palace closed slowly, isolating everything from the main hall.
With the final closing sound, Heimos's eyes that had been closed suddenly opened.
He leaned over, stretched out his hand, and hugged Garlan lying in the malachite sarcophagus.
Heavy footsteps echoed in the silent hall, and Heimos walked up the stone steps on the side of the hall with Garland in his arms.
On the main hall of the Royal Mausoleum Palace is a relief stone statue of the goddess of the underworld who guards the soul.
On the left side of the main hall, there is a wide stone staircase, together with the main hall and the highest point of the palace.
It leads directly to the top of the palace.
Heimos stepped on the stone steps and walked up step by step.
The walls on both sides of the stone steps started to depict the city on earth. As they went up, they turned into a pattern of wings. Going up, there were runes of floating clouds and sunshine. At the end of the last stone steps, there was an exhibition. The arm seems to be in the pattern of the goddess who greets the person who comes.
The stone steps and the patterns along the road imply that the soul of the owner of the royal mausoleum and palace will follow the invisible avenue to enter the kingdom of heaven.
At the end of the high stone steps, there is a spacious temple, located at the highest point of the entire palace.
On the head is a vaulted dome roof, and on the surrounding stone walls are reliefs of the gods of Aaron Landis, symbolizing that this is the kingdom of heaven where the gods are.
Heimos walked to the temple with Garland in his arms, he leaned over and put Garland on the ground. On the other hand, he landed on one knee, half-squatted on the ground, and wrapped his arms around Garlan's upper body.
He lowered his eyes and gently rubbed the soft but cold blond hair of the man in his arms.
Then, Heimos raised his head and looked around at the relief statues of the gods on the stone walls of the temple.
The shrine was not lit, it was pitch black, only the tiny stars shining in from the skylight brought a little light here.
In the dark night, only Heimos's golden red eyes were terrifyingly bright.
There was obviously no light in his eyes, but the pupils of the cold-blooded animals like lizards in the dark night radiated cold light.
Looking at it, it is cold to the heart, cold to the bone marrow.
"The gods... are they?"
He stared coldly at the relief of the gods in the dark, his eyes were like the bottom of the abyss, and he could not see the slightest anger, only a dead silence.
His voice was not loud, but it was exceptionally clear in the silent temple.
"I know you can hear me."
Heimos's voice echoed in the empty temple, like a trace of ice cracking.
"Gods of Aaron Landis, I want to make a deal with you."
"I can promise you that I will do what you ask and let fate go on what you call 'the right track'."
"But, as a price..."
The night was silent, and in the temple of the gods, only one person's voice sounded.
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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, two days and nights have passed.
Seeing that it was the evening of the third day, Suojia, who had dark circles in both eyes, was standing at the gate of the royal mausoleum. He was so anxious that he kept walking back and forth in front of the gate.
The mausoleum guard in armour, holding a silver spear, stood in front of the gate with a solemn expression, dutifully performing his duties without looking sideways.
They are like lifeless stone statues, no matter how Suojia shakes in front of them, there is no movement.
But Suojia knew that as long as he dared to take a step inside, the tip of the spear in the guard's hand would stab him mercilessly.
It's the third day!
Suojia thought anxiously, stretched his neck, and kept looking at the white palace inside the royal mausoleum, his eyes wishing to see the scene inside through the thick stone wall.
However, no matter how he looked around, the stone gate of the White Palace was still tightly closed and motionless.
He frowned, thinking about the conversation he had with Heimos that day, and he became more and more uneasy.
Could it be that Lord Heimos really intends to…
Just when Suojia was in a state of impatience, two people appeared at the entrance of the royal tomb.
Xie Mu'er still had an expressionless expression, glanced at him, and then looked at the closed white palace.
The blond knight who had disappeared for two days now only had indifference in his eyes, as if all the tenderness had been taken away by that person's passing, and there was nothing left.
"He hasn't come out yet?"
Cayhors asked.
Soga nodded.
"It's the third day, and I'm worried—"
The last half of the sentence was swallowed by Suojia, but everyone present understood his unfinished words, and their expressions became serious.
Although the grief in their hearts has not been alleviated by half, they cannot let the situation develop like this.
After all, Heimos is the only heir to the throne of Aaron Landis, and he must not have an accident.
Otherwise, the kingdom that King Gallan had finally revived would decline again.
The high priest was about to walk inside, but the tomb guard guarding the door narrowed his eyes, and the silver spears in his hands were all aimed at him.
Xi Muer expressionlessly raised the heavy golden scepter in his hand.
"... It seems that we can only push through."
Kaihos said lightly.
He raised his hand, and the long sword around his waist was unsheathed with a clanging sound.
The prince had said that his remaining task was to protect Aaron Landis.
He failed to fulfill his oath to protect the prince, at least the prince's last entrustment must be fulfilled.
The knight of the scorching sun and the high priest of Shamash are going to break into the royal tomb, and the loyal guards of the tomb will not retreat.
Just when the two sides were about to touch, suddenly, a long and heavy friction sound came from the royal tomb.
The originally tense atmosphere was stagnant, Suojia's heart that had been hanging high finally let go, and he quickly raised his head and looked inside.
At this sight, his breath was a meal.
He stared blankly and blankly at the familiar yet unfamiliar figure.
Kaihos and Xi Muer in front of him looked at the figure, and a complex color flashed across their eyes.
In the blazing sunset, Heimos emerged from the royal tombs and walked toward them.
The crimson sunset light shone on his body and reflected on his hair.
Heimos looked indifferent and could not see the slightest emotion, but among his jet-black hair, the few strands scattered on his forehead had become snow-white.
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Aaron Landis
During the reign of King Gallan, later generations were called the Chronicle of King Xianming.
Five years later, King Garland died.
The reign of King Xianming came to an end.
Afterwards, the former military commander Heimos ascended the throne and was initially called King Heimos.
During his reign, it was later known as the Heimos Chronicle.
After King Heimos succeeded to the throne, he continued to appoint ministers and generals of King Gallan, continued to use the code of King Gallan, and continued to implement the policy of governance of King Gallan.
And he himself is focused on developing the military.
[I hope that the people of Aaron Landis will never abandon their fellow citizens easily.]
That's what King Xianming once said.
It has long been spread in the army and in Aaron Landis, and since then, it has gradually become a tradition of the Aaron Landis to rescue captured soldiers.
King Heimos kept this promise when he led his army into battle.
This is the beginning of the centripetal force of the Aaron Landis army, which is not afraid of life and death, and its combat power gradually becomes stronger than any country.
In the third year of Heimos's year, because Aaron Landis unilaterally cut off the purchase of livestock products such as beef, mutton and wool in Isis, the economy of Isis, which has been regarded as a pillar industry, was greatly affected. .
Iss boldly sent troops to attack Aaron Landis.
King Heimos led the army to the east to counterattack, defeated the Yisi army, and then directly marched eastward to take Yisi's royal city.
In the fourth year, the royal city of Yisi was breached, and Yisi destroyed the country.
In the First World War of Isis, Kareni, a veteran who was in his 70s but insisted on participating in this expedition, made great contributions in the war, but after the fall of the country, he returned to the royal city and died with a smile.
In the fifth year of Heimos, Geshu and Gasdad joined forces to attack Aaron Landis.
With the assistance of Tasda, the attacks of the two countries were successively defeated by King Heimos.
During this battle, the name of Xinyas, the younger brother of the late King Garlan, spread throughout the world.
In the seventh year, Aaron Landis and Tasda joined forces to attack Geshu.
After struggling for two years, Geshu's royal city was overrun by King Heimos.
In this war, Novi, a disciple of the sun knight Caychos and later known as one of the pillars of Aaron Landis, began to shine.
In the ninth year of Heimos's year, Geshu fell.
Seeing that Aaron Landis was unstoppable, some of the small countries that had been surviving in the gap between the three kingdoms of Geshu, Yis and Aaron Landis took the initiative to turn to Aaron Landis, thinking it was their suzerain.
Aaron Landis, who successively annexed the two major countries of Isth and Geshu, as well as many small countries, temporarily stopped the aggression and expansion of the surrounding areas and began to recuperate.
While recuperating on the mainland, the huge navy that Aaron Landis had built up in the past ten years began to sweep into the southern seas.
In the thirteenth year, Aaron Landis had unified the entire southern seas except the Elson Island country.
Born in Tozes City, General Seth, who made great achievements in naval battles and became a naval commander, retired because of his old age. He settled in Tozes City with his family and died eight years later.
In the fourteenth year of Heimos, King Heimos led an army to the west.
He broke through many small countries such as the Sidar country occupied by the Gasdadians all the way, forcing the Gasdadians to flee to the northwest all the way back to the Gasdad Snowfields.
When he set off on the Gastad Snowfield, the 'slave general' Twain, who was in his sixties, fell ill and died in the battlefield.
In the fifteenth year, Novi, the vanguard general of Aaron Landis, smashed the royal city of Gasdad.
Gastard's fall.
At this point, Aaron Landis unified the entire continent.
Since then, this continent has been called the continent of Aaron Landis.
Only Tastar in the Northland Plateau and Elson in the southern ocean island country were allowed to continue to form their own country because they had been leading the army to follow Aaron Landis in the south and north.
Aaron Landis has since entered the imperial period.
Therefore, the Heimos Year was later called the Empire Year.
The bard Shulos retreated after uniting the continent of Aaronlandis, and was never seen again.
In the twenty-eighth year of the Imperial Year, Caijos, known as the Sun Knight, died at the age of sixty-six.
This knight, known for his romantic style, has been separated from many noble ladies, never married and has no children.
He fought on the battlefield all his life, starting at the age of eighteen and fighting for Aaron Landis for more than forty years.
After his death, because he was the guardian knight of King Garlan, his request before his death was approved by Heimos the Great, and he was buried in the side hall of King Garlan's tomb palace.
In the 30th year of the imperial year, Shamash High Priest Shemuel died at the age of seventy.
Although it is not recorded in the history books, in the same year, Tapti, the female officer who served Emperor Heimos, died, also at the age of seventy.
In the thirty-second year of the Imperial Year, Heimos the Great died at the age of fifty-nine.
He did not leave any descendants, but chose a person from the collateral blood of the royal family of Aaron Landis to be the heir to the throne.
According to unofficial records, the appearance of Heimos the Great has hardly changed in the decades since he took the throne.
At the time of his death, at the age of nearly sixty, his appearance was no different from that of the twenty-seven or eight-year-old when he succeeded to the throne, and everyone thought it was the protection of the gods.
Later generations regarded this record in the unofficial history as a myth and legend fabricated by the Aaron Landis for the ancients, and laughed it off.
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At the end of summer, the sun is scorching hot, and the earth is exposed to the sun as if it was cooked by fire.
The high priest of Nanna stood in front of the snow-white royal tomb, looking at the two palaces that stood side by side.
Because of his age, his eyesight has changed a lot, so he has to squint to see more carefully.
The fiery wind blew over and ruffled his hair, which was already gray at the temples.
He thought, in a blink of an eye, more than 30 years had passed.
"Your High Priest."
The voice came from behind, and Soga turned his head and saw someone walking towards him.
It was a round figure.
Suojia squinted at the person who came.
Back then, the little fat man who was wagging his tail around King Garland like a puppy, is now a powerful person no less powerful than him.
Today's Tal stands above the royal court and controls the financial power of the empire, making people dare not look at him.
That chubby face was still smiling, but that smile never reached his eyes again.
"General Fataya has been waiting for you outside for a long time," Tal said.
Although Fataya is married to Suojia, she is not at ease with her family.
For decades, she has followed Heimos to the north and south, and is the only general of Aaron Landis to become a general as a woman.
Although he is old and no longer on the battlefield, he still leads the commander-in-chief of the city guards in the royal city.
Suojia nodded, turned and walked quickly outside.
Just after walking a few steps, he heard Tarr's low murmur from behind.
"prince… "
Suojia's footsteps paused, he turned his head and saw Tar standing there, looking at the white palace in the royal tomb, with a trance on his side cheeks.
He saw that the corners of Tarr's eyes were already deeply wrinkled.
For some reason, there was a bit of disappointment in his heart.
After walking out of the royal mausoleum, Suojia saw the female general whose hair was mostly gray but still stood upright in leather armor.
The woman he loved the most in his life.
His eyes softened.
"Fataya, are you here to see His Majesty?"
Fataya hummed.
She looked at the distant royal mausoleum and sighed, "Alright, it's a relief for Your Majesty... I can finally follow King Garland..."
"Fataya?"
Suojia was startled, and Fataya's clear tone surprised him.
At the beginning, although King Garland publicly announced his affairs with Heimos in front of several of them, but it was too late to announce it, so...
Everyone who knew about it at the time was tight-lipped about it, and he never said it to Fataya.
"How do you know..."
Fataya smiled at her lover.
There was emotion in that smile, and a deep sigh.
She remembered that a long time ago, under the bright sunlight that day, Heimos on horseback gave Garlan, who was holding him in front of him, a more tender look than anything else.
He looked at Garlan, his eyes bright as if they were glowing.
She just watched from the side, and she was inexplicably moved for a moment.
"Suojia, didn't you find out?"
The female knight sighed.
"Since the day King Garlan passed away, he has never laughed again."
From that day on, there was only a bottomless abyss left in that person's eyes, and there was no more light.
Perhaps from that day on, 'Heimos' ceased to exist.
In this world, only the king of Aaron Landis.
"… "
Soggar didn't answer.
After a long silence, he raised his hand and gently stroked the gray forehead hair scattered in front of Fataya's eyes.
He is so fortunate to be able to grow old with his beloved.
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The death of Heimos the Great heralded the end of the golden age of the famous generals since the time of King Sage.
Many generals have fallen or aged one after another, and the famous general of Aaron Landis has not been picked up.
Coupled with the fact that this period coincided with the height of the slave emancipation movement, the Aaron Landis Empire was in turmoil.
Under the protection of two generals, Novi and Sinyas, who are known as the 'pillars of the Aaron Landis Empire', together with the old and important officials such as Tar and Suogar in the royal court, the turbulent empire finally stabilized.
The empire of Aaron Landis thus continued.
According to historical records.
During this period of turbulent situation, once when Emperor Aaron Landis led his army on an expedition, a rebel army, mainly slaves and civilians, took advantage of the emptiness of the royal city and invaded it.
The rebels even invaded the tomb of the king, which is only a river away from the palace. They dug up the tombs and palaces of the kings in the tomb, and stole gold and jewels and other funerary items.
However, when the army arrived in front of King Garlan's tomb palace, it was Qiu who did nothing and retreated in front of the mausoleum.
The palace of the mausoleum of Heimos the Great, located after King Garland, was also preserved.
…
After that, thousands of years passed.
During this long period of time, the empire of Aaron Landis rose and fell.
There are times of unity and times of division.
There are times of prosperity, and there are times of life and death.
When it was in decline, it was invaded by powerful foreign enemies, and when it was subjugated several times, it was divided by many countries, massacred by aliens, and it was about to be subjugated.
But no matter what happened, no matter what happened, thousands of years later, Aaron Landis was always there.
[The Aaronandeans will never abandon their fellow men.]
They always remember this sentence.
A word handed down from the age of the ancient wise king, let them rise again and again from decay and destruction.
That has become the belief of all Aaron Landis into their bones and blood.
It is the existence of this belief that allows Aaron Landis to stand on the ground of Aaron Landis no matter what hardships and hardships he has experienced.
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Among the later generations, among the thousands of years of ups and downs of Aaron Landis, the history of the three dynasties, the Lion King, the Sage King, and the Heimos the Great, is the most talked about by later generations.
It was the most magnificent and famous era in the history of Aaron Landis.
Among them, what historians have studied the most is not the heroic era of the war-torn Lion King, nor the imperial chronology of Heimos the Great conquering the Quartet and finally uniting the continent of Aaron Landis.
What historians are most curious about is the shortest of the two dynasties, the era of King Xianming.
King Gallan, known by later generations as the wise king, reigned for only five years, but Aaron Landis had undergone earth-shaking changes.
In the era of the wise king, it may not be as exciting as the heroic era of the Lion King, or it may not be as magnificent as the era of Heimos the Great.
However, it was a special epoch that shaped the beliefs and civilization of the Aaron Landeans.
The wise king Gallan is the only Aaron Landis king in history who, decades after his death, still let the Aaron Landis rebels voluntarily retreat from his tomb.
His affection among the Aaronandeans is evident.
At the same time, countless 'firsts' in the history of the world appeared in the era of the wise king of Aaron Landis.
The first centralized kingdom in history to be established.
The first kingdom in history to begin mass emancipation of slaves.
The first kingdom in history to establish a plague prevention mechanism.
The first kingdom in history to establish a business tax system.
The first kingdom in history to have large-scale construction of roads extending in all directions.
The first kingdom in history to create a 'separation of powers' system.
… All kinds of things, all of the above, were born in the reign of the wise king.
Among them, the most important and influential, and also the iconic existence of Aaron Landis, is the code of law founded by the wise king.
The Code of Aaron Landis, also known as the 'Code of the Wise King'.
It contains the national law, civil law, criminal law and military law of the ancient kingdom of Aaron Landis at that time, and many other laws and regulations.
It is the first normative and systematic written code in the world, it is the foundation of all laws of later generations, and it has a pivotal position in the legal history of the whole world.
The code of the wise king is also the proof and symbol of Aaron Landis as an ancient civilization with a long history.
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King of Garland.
The thirty-sixth king of Aaron Landis.
Five years in power.
Because of his fair and wise governance, compassion and love for the people, he is deeply loved by the people.
He was called King Xianming by later generations.
In just five years, he has created many origins in Aaron Landis, like a miracle, leaving a strong legacy in world civilization.
Therefore, later historians call this era the "miracle era of the wise king".
The author has something to say: …
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A strong desire to survive is the end of history, not the end of the full text.
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And, on the question of some friends saying that Heimos took Gallan's exploits.
I want to say that merit cannot be taken away.
As the great emperor, Heimos was remembered by history for his unification merits. He is not the only one. There will definitely be emperors with similar merits as him in the future generations of Aaron Landis.
But what Gallan left to future generations is civilization and spirit.
He has been remembered by the people of Aaron Landis as a belief, and also by history as one of the symbols of the Aaron Landis civilization.
… um… analogy.
The Great Wall and Qin Shi Huang, who do you think can become the symbol of civilization and spirit