A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 10. Chapter 10

The priest of Shamash, the priest of the sun, is just and unselfish.

The requirements for Shamash priests have always been very strict. First, it must be of superior aristocratic ancestry. Second, it must have a wealth of knowledge and correct judgment on a matter.

These are just the basics.

There is another hard requirement to become a priest of Shamash, that is-in addition to going to the palace, you must also go to the battlefield.

Before the people, they must hold the scepter as the instructor to teach the people, as the judge to rule on various cases, and as the priest to hold the sacrifice ceremony. At the same time, they must swipe the scepter on the battlefield to break the enemy’s leg and smash it. Into meatloaf…

Let’s put it this way, the minimum requirement for a qualified Shamash priest is to be able to fight five at least one by one.

Xiemur is such a most orthodox and best Shamash priest.

In Gallan’s memory, Sheemur always had an expressionless appearance, was stern and stern, and rarely revealed emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy.

Even if…

Even when saying those words to him, the Shamash priest looked like a stone sculpture, motionless, and then abandoned him without looking back.

That sentence……

[You can’t beat Hiemos. 】

At that time, when he was being pressed by Heimos step by step, when he was in danger, the tutor he most trusted and relied on said to him, and then left him.

It was like the last straw, which gave him the final fatal blow.

After the power of Shamash Temple led by Sheemur turned to Huimos, his power declined rapidly. More and more people followed Sheemur’s footsteps, abandoned him and turned to Heymos. S.

Defeated like a mountain, he was finally forcibly instilled|poisoned by Heimos to death.

When the whole body was burned by the poison and was so painful that he couldn’t speak, at the last glance, he seemed to see that person. His mentor stood behind Huimos, condescendingly, looking down at him coldly, his emotionless eyes as if mocking his naivety and stupidity.

He closed his eyes weakly, plunged into darkness in unwillingness and remorse, and died at the hands of Huimos again.

When he was reborn for the fourth time, he actually wanted to ask Xie Muer.

Why?

I regard you as a master, like a father. You brought Garlan up with one hand and accompanied Garlan for eight years. I always thought that even if everyone in this world would betray me, you would stay with me. Around.

But why…

Later, he thought about it, but actually there was no need to ask.

The words Xiemuer said before leaving him had already answered everything.

The man said, you can’t beat Hiemos.

You can’t win.

This sentence is like a prophecy, or perhaps a curse.

………………

In the fourth rebirth, at the beginning, he once thought about revenge.

It’s just that he didn’t do it in the end, and he couldn’t do that, because if he really did something to Xiemur, it would be his fault in the eyes of others who didn’t know anything, and it would make other people who follow him feel heartbroken. shake. So in the end, he only gradually estranged from Xie Muer, and then found an excuse to transfer Xie Muer away from him.

At first he felt aggrieved, but as time passed, the full of anger and dissatisfaction gradually dissipated, and he also wanted to understand when he calmed down.

In his opinion, Xiemuer betrayed him.

But in Xiemuer’s own opinion, he just made a choice that he thought was the most appropriate.

It’s true that Sheemur was his mentor, but, at the same time, this person was also the priest of Shamash, the priest of this country.

He just chose the latter between protecting a person and protecting a country.

The priest of Shamash was fair, calm, and sensible. He would not be influenced by personal feelings, so he chose the king he thought was more suitable.

The so-called eight years…Perhaps, for this person, there is no so-called personal feeling at all.

Garlan thought about this, his clenched hands slowly let go, and the breath that was blocked in his chest when he saw this man also slowly dissipated.

He thought calmly.

Since this person doesn’t have feelings, why should he bother himself because of this person.

Anyway, in this life, they will only have the fate of today, and they are just passers-by.

Thinking about this, Gallan felt a lot more comfortable. He exhaled a long breath, leaped, jumped off the stone bench, and ran quickly to the middle of the hall.

Before he jumped down, the dozen or so teenagers or children who had been waiting in the main hall had been lined up on both sides in order, one after another, and respectfully received and sent them from the Shamash priest. The pen and paper, and then go back and sit down.

Everyone knows that Shamash’s priests are the most serious and severe, and they never talk about human feelings. Even the naughty children dare not presumptuously in front of them.

Therefore, when the priest did not speak, everyone was quiet, and the whole hall was quiet.

The sound of popping suddenly broke the silence.

It was the sound of running footsteps, although not loud, it was extremely harsh in the silent hall at this moment.

It was Garlan who came running that made the sound of running.

Because he began to sit far away on the edge of the hall, and when he saw Xiemur, he was in a daze. When he came back to his senses, almost all of the examination papers in Xiemur’s hand had been issued, and there was nothing left. One, obviously for him. So Gallan hurried to speed up and ran to get the exam papers. After all, even if he didn’t plan to be the king’s brother, he didn’t want to do something so eye-catching as he refused the exam.

His biggest goal now is to be low-key and low-key.

Xiemur stood there and waited quietly. He watched the unruly kid running over with his short legs and frowned slightly, but he waited calmly. .

After the child ran up to him, he bent over slightly, and handed the last piece of paper and pen in his hand to the child.

He said: “You should wait here, not in that place.”

Xiemuer patiently taught the child to behave.

The child listened to him and looked up at him. The palm-sized face and the big almond-like eyes are round and round. The pupils are like golden amber stained with clear water droplets of the Enkiea River. When the light falls in, it seems to shine with the golden light of the sun. As if it can penetrate into people’s hearts.

The child’s eyes are as bright as the sun in the sky.

As the priest of the sun god Xie Mu’er thought in his heart, he felt a little less uncomfortable with this child, and a little bit more favorably.

However, just when his mental state had just changed a little, the child glanced at him and suddenly snorted with his nose, then turned his head, shook his face, ignored him, and grabbed the paper. The pen turned around and ran away.

Xiemuer: “…”

He became the priest of Shamash for so many years, and it was the first time he met a child who shook his face at him.

Especially in the current situation, everyone knows that he has a lot of influence on Wang’s choice. Other teenagers are all well-behaved in front of him. Unexpectedly, this kid who has a little bit of affection actually… …

…………

For some reason, he seems to be a little subtle…unhappy?

Of course, the ten thousand years of facial paralysis of our Lord Shamash can not see his mood at the moment.

Forget it, care about something with a kid who doesn’t know the rules.

Thinking about this, he withdrew his gaze from staring at the running child.

Xiemuer’s eyes slowly swept over the dozen or so children who were sitting and looking at the examination papers seriously. These were all bloodlines of the royal family from different regions.

The ancestor was poisoned several years ago. As the only heir of the ancestor, the current king, King Camos, urgently succeeded to the throne. However, the young king who first ascended to the throne was not yet an adult, not even married, let alone having children.

The situation is now very tense. Foreign enemies are eagerly watching, and the country is turbulent. Only King Kamos is left in the direct bloodline of the royal family. King Kamos often fights abroad and is born to death on the battlefield.

Every time King Camos rushed to the battlefield, the ministers were frightened and had trouble sleeping and eating.

Everyone knows that once King Camos has any accident, the throne will be vacant immediately, and the kingdom that has already stepped on the line of the cliff will probably collapse as a result.

Therefore, in order to avoid accidents, after consultation, the ministers decided that each minister would recommend an offspring of collateral blood of the royal family, within the range of eight years old and less than fourteen years old.

Then bring these young children to the royal capital, let King Camos choose one of these children, recognize him as the younger brother, and teach him carefully. Before the birth of King Camos’s heir, once King Camos had any accident, the king’s younger brother would succeed him, so that the throne could continue to be passed on in the royal blood.

Of course, if King Camos has an heir, this well-taught brother can also become the little prince’s minister.

Thinking of this, Xiemuer’s fingers clenched slightly.

His eyes carefully and carefully swept over these young children one by one.

he thinks.

One must choose the best successor.

For the future of this kingdom.

…………

Randomly found a separate place to sit down, and Garland spread out the paper he had just received on the long bluestone table.

It was pale yellow parchment, and it felt a bit hard, because it had been rolled into a tube, so even if it was spread out, it would still be rolled around the edges. Dozens of questions were written in small print on the parchment paper, obviously for them to answer on it.

Is this a knowledge point test?

Garlan thought silently, picked up the snow-white quill, and looked at the rows of questions above, very worried.

He is definitely not worried about not being able to answer these questions.

What he worries about is that he should answer a few questions correctly.

These topics are all about the basic knowledge of astronomy and geography of this country, and there are also some questions about how to deal with trivial matters… These questions are for those who have been the king’s brother for several years and have received formal teachings, although they have failed to fight for the throne again and again. For Erlan, everything is very simple.

He could answer them all with his eyes closed.

I dare not say anything, but among this group of children, he is definitely a well-deserved schoolmaster who opened the rebirth plug-in.

But the point is, he can answer, but he can’t.

What should I do if I get the first answer by accident? He had made up his mind not to visit the muddy water of the throne.

However, handing in a blank paper seems too conspicuous, so he wondered that it would be best to get a middle-to-lower grade… But the trouble is that he doesn’t know the degree of other people, so he is distressed at the moment to answer the correct questions. good.

While Garland was hesitating, several servants stepped forward and placed the stone tray filled with ink on the tables of everyone. So everyone who was looking at the parchment carefully all started to do it, soaked in ink and started answering questions.

The empty hall was extremely quiet at the moment, and only a rustle of writing could be heard.

When everyone was immersed in answering questions, the blond child with a quill pen and a wrinkled face staring motionless at the parchment in front of him was very conspicuous. Some of the people who saw the motionless child crossed their eyes, and some turned their heads and whispered a few words in a low voice.

Xie Mu’er, who was looking around at everyone, also saw it and frowned.

He thought for a moment. If he remembered correctly, it was Xi Mei, the secretary of the palace, who recommended the child over. The minister is very old and used to fight against the world, and does not want to be involved in the succession of the throne. This time I just wanted to bring that child to make up the number.

Seeing the child staring at the parchment in front of him with a sad face, Xiemur walked over slowly.

He stared into the child’s eyes.

It is like the sun, with pure golden pupils, as if they are shining when they are widened.

The golden pupil is a symbol of the royal family and a symbol of inheriting the blood of the gods.

But as the long history passed, the blood of the royal family was more or less mixed with other bloodlines. In the current royal family, even King Kamos, who is a direct bloodline, is just close to the golden golden brown pupils. Other royal bloodlines are Not to mention.

It was the first time that Xiemuer saw such pure golden pupils without any impurities.

[That is the blood of the gods, the descendants of gold, the supreme king who rules the earth. 】

[He has golden pupils, like the sun high in the sky, allowing everyone to be bathed in his light. 】

He thought, it turned out to be exactly as recorded in the ancient book in the temple.

There is really a golden eye like seeing the sun in the sky.

When Xie Mu’er looked at those pure golden eyes, she probably saw him walking over, and the child who was staring at the parchment in a daze moved quickly.

It may be because Sheemur was standing in front of him, feeling nervous, the boy’s shoulders were taut, and his hands and feet were even more stiff. Holding the quill pen in his fingers, he hurriedly poked into the ink cartridge placed on the table, as if he wanted to quickly dip in ink and write.

But he looked so panicked, his hand was too hard, and the nib was poked hard, and the small ink cartridge was poked away all at once.

And the ink cartridge that was prodded by him’just right’ was thrown at Xiemur who was standing at the table.

With a splash, the jet-black ink splashed all over Xie Muer.

The air in the entire hall was stagnant.

At this moment, there was no sound.

The child who had caused a catastrophe was immediately frightened, his eyes were dull, and he looked at Xiemur with a look of fear.

…

In the diagonally opposite direction, a black-haired teenager slightly raised his head and looked over.

From his position, looking down slightly, you can see that the blond child who looks like a frightened stupid hides under the table with only half of his feet exposed, white and tender, small, with pink toes.

The little foot swayed, quickly drew a circle, paused, and then drew a circle again. How do you see how it reveals its owner’s joyful mood at the moment, like a mischievous mischief After the disaster, the arrogant little pet that will scream in front of the owner.

The golden-red eyes bend slightly, revealing a little smile, and Huimos lowered his head and continued to write on the parchment.