A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 40. Chapter 40

The bright moon hung high in the sky, casting the soft moonlight down the earth.

The night should have been quiet, but this night the city of Wiener was a little more chaotic in the quiet.

Because there was a war in the city taking advantage of the darkness.

Under the leadership of the dignitaries in the city, those believers of the cult of All Things lurking in the city secretly opened the city gates to welcome the companions who had already squatted outside the city, and they were aggressively preparing to do a big fight in the city.

Rush into the homes of the residents in the city, snatch finances, snatch women and children, and the ignorant guys settle on the spot, listening to the wailing of the weak.

These bloodthirsty fanatics disguised as thieves are gearing up, eagerly preparing to rush to their feast of the night–

However, their carnival had not even begun, and they were strangled in the cradle.

They even had just entered the city, before the door of a family of city residents had time to open, they found that their group had been surrounded by a group of heavily armed cavalry.

Needless to say the next thing, these fanatics met the regular army, especially the elite guards who followed King Camos, and they were naturally defeated.

All the cult followers wearing black robes were mercilessly killed by the knights, and the powerful subordinates were crushed to identify their masters. The knights took part in the attack on the city of Vynar. All of the corrupt officials dug out from the mud!

Many officials were still asleep, and they were arrested by the knights who rushed through the gate.

The citizens of Vernal City didn’t even know that such a terrible war had taken place outside their door, and they were immersed in their dreamland ignorantly.

I’m afraid they won’t know about it until the next morning, and then they are afraid.

King Aaron Landis, with brown hair like a lion’s mane, stood on horseback in the night, and the dark horse under him held his head proudly, standing still on the ground.

Except for the running sound of horses hoofs around, there is no other sound. These specially trained horses will not easily neigh during a war.

King Camos was looking around, watching his knights execute his orders in an orderly manner and deal with all the complicated things one by one. There were nearly a hundred knights standing behind him quietly on horseback, waiting for his next order.

He thought about it, and felt that there was nothing to add for the time being, so he dismounted, intending to torture the prisoner himself. However, he walked a few steps, and before he reached the prisoners, the grass under his feet suddenly moved, and a small black figure sprang out from it and screamed at him.

Camos frowned when he saw the familiar little black mouse.

Generally speaking, if there is no emergency, the knight will not release the black rat to report to him.

He reached out and grabbed the little black mouse, took off the copper tube tied to its neck, opened the letter hidden inside and read it.

Before looking at it, Camos was only slightly frowning, and his face suddenly changed in the next second.

Huimos was originally standing on the side of the captives. Seeing King Camos stopped halfway through, and seeing the little black mouse, he suddenly had a bad feeling.

He remembered that the little black mouse was domesticated by the knight who was left behind. Was it because of what happened to Ayr Town that the letter came so late?

Thinking of this, he subconsciously walked over to King Camos.

As soon as he got here, he saw King Camos’s face changed after reading the letter. He couldn’t care about anything else, and walked over and asked directly.

“Something happened to Garlan?”

King Camos didn’t say a word, but just stuffed the note directly into Huimos’s hand.

Then, he turned around and walked back to the dark horse and turned on the horse.

He swept away the less than a hundred knights who were still by his side, then turned his head again, and his gaze fell on a middle-aged knight commander who was giving orders not far away.

“Will!”

He shouted the name of the knight commander who was known for his steadiness, and said, “You will take care of the rest of Venar City!”

After clicking on the person in charge of this place, Camos pulled the reins, turned his head and shouted to the knight behind him.

“There is a rebellion in Ayr! All the people here follow me!”

Before he finished speaking, the pitch-black steed under him had rushed into the night like an arrow from the string, following his mind.

And just the second after Camos rushed out, the other horse was almost back to front foot, carrying Huimos and rushing into the night.

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Contrary to the peaceful city of Wiener, the town of El, which had been filled with all kinds of noisy sounds in the first half of the night, was strangely silent at this moment. Only on the edge of the town, the lit houses on the road out of the town were still burning, making crackling noises, and the flames burned the night sky.

Nearly a thousand refugees in the riots had gathered in the center of the town at this moment, around a mansion, and they all quieted down inexplicably, who were still crying passionately to kill.

They held torches and silently surrounded the house, watching what was happening in the small courtyard.

Looking at the past from afar, his gaze flicked over the burning flames from the edge of the town. When Garland retracted his gaze, he had already walked up to Klee and the old man, the refugee leader named Gia. In front of him.

As long as the man stretched out his hand, he could easily grab the little child.

“…Aren’t you afraid that I will take you hostage?”

Seeing Prince Garlan walking to his predecessor, the man was silent for a few seconds before asking.

Surrounded by thousands of people, could it be possible that he could give birth to wings and fly out?

These common people believe in the gods, but according to his own experience as the so-called beloved by the gods, Gallan knows very well that the hands of the so-called Aaron Landis gods cannot reach into human beings at all, nor can they Show miracles in the world.

Otherwise, this so-called Son of Destiny won’t die four times, okay–

Of course, it is impossible for Garlan to speak out the above-mentioned words of the gods.

Garlan stood there, with a calm expression on his face, and said lightly.

“If you have such a plan, it makes no difference whether I stand there or stand here.”

This seemingly understatement, not surprisingly, won the admiration eyes of a crowd of people waiting for’worthy of the prince’.

Even the leader of the refugee was no exception. He took a deep look at Garlan, and his eyes became more complicated.

Then he leaned over, knelt down on one knee, and knelt in front of Garlan.

“His Royal Highness,” said Gia, “under the witness of the gods, I swear to you that there will be no falsehood in what I say next.”

“If I tell a lie to the gods and you, even if it’s just one sentence, my body will be tortured by thousands of swords, and my soul will be burned by fire after death, and I will never rest.”

The kneeling man took an oath that everyone heard was shocked, causing a small riot among the surrounding refugees.

The little girl beside her nervously grabbed Grandpa’s hand, and the old man sighed softly without saying anything.

“good.”

Garlan looked at the man kneeling in front of him and answered him.

“I will listen to what you say, and then tell Brother Camos what you said.”

“…Yes, Your Royal Highness.”

Gea took a deep breath, then raised his head and looked at Garlan.

“I am from Wiener City and have been since birth. I am a mercenary. I have always been hired by caravans with my companions to escort the caravans to and from various cities. My wife and children are Living in the city of Wiener, staying together with my wife and children every month is my greatest joy.”

He raised his hand and pointed at the people behind him.

“These people are just like me. They are ordinary people from Wiener City. We have always lived our lives honestly. Although it’s a bit harder, as long as we can live peacefully with our family, We are satisfied.”

As Gea spoke, the words that had originally been lamenting nostalgia suddenly changed at this moment, and his tone became sharp, bringing anger and hatred.

“But all of this was destroyed! More than a month ago! On the day when the flood broke out in the city of Wijnal–”

After that day, countless ordinary but peaceful families were destroyed.

Countless people have lost their loved ones and friends, and watched their important people die.

That day, the city of Wiener was like hell.

“If it is a natural disaster, if it is really just a punishment from the gods on us who are ungodly, we will recognize it.” He gritted his teeth and said, “But it’s not like that! It’s not a natural disaster, nor is it a punishment from God!” The Vernal River shouldn’t have burst its banks, our city shouldn’t have been submerged, and our relatives wouldn’t have died—”

His voice suddenly became high-pitched, and there was a deep hatred in his eyes.

“The Wiener River has been unattended since the second half of last year! The river embankment has not been maintained for more than half a year! How can it not be broken?”

“During this time, we went to the Executive Hall together many times to ask the Archon to repair the river embankment as soon as possible, but every time we were driven out. The old people have been very upset, and they have discussed whether to advance during the flood season. Avoid it, but I didn’t expect that the flood season of the Venal River was advanced this time, so the river embankment was broken and the city was flooded. My wife and children were washed away by the flood at that time, and now they can’t even find the bones. ——”

Speaking of this, the strong man who could lead the refugees to attack the town of Ayer was uncontrollably blushing, and his voice was choked up.

His words resonated with the refugees who were just as affected as him, and even some refugees who had also lost their loved ones could not help sobbing in a low voice.

Thinking of her aunt and brother with no bones left, Kerry also rubbed her flushed eyes vigorously. The old man turned his head and couldn’t bear to see his son’s painful appearance.

Gea took a deep breath and suppressed his excitement.

He eased a little for a while, then resisted his grief and continued.

“More than that, it is obvious that the rich and powerful in the city caused this disaster. However, instead of reflecting on it, they intensified their efforts. They even swallowed the relief food and life-saving medicine for us displaced refugees.”

“They unceremoniously treated us who had lost our home as rubbish, and drove out of the city of Vénar.”

“We have lost everything, we have left our country and left the well, but this is not enough. They will also make their soldiers pretend to be thieves, take our wives away, and send our children to the altar as a sacrifice.”

At this point, he stared at Garlan with flushed eyes, and his words seemed torn apart.

“His Royal Highness, in the eyes of those powerful and powerful, have you ever cared about our life and death?!”

Hearing Jiaerlan’s accusation of blood and tears, Gallan remained silent for a long time.

He looked around and looked at the grief and indignant eyes of the refugees, as well as the people who could no longer control the crying, and his mood became heavy for a while.

Those officials and dignitaries in the city of Wöhnal…the so-called knock on the bones, I am afraid that is the case.

In their eyes, civilians are like grass and mustards, at most the livestock they raise in captivity.

Their endless greed, like a bottomless pit, turned them into blood-sucking bugs that should have guarded the people. For their own wealth, they can’t wait to squeeze the last drop of blood and the last bit of bone marrow of these civilians to exhaustion.

“I have heard your accusation. I have also found out most of what the officials and nobles of Venar City did.”

Gallan took a deep breath and replied.

“Brother Wang is on his way to Venar City, and he will arrive soon. By that time, he will make a fair judgment and those people will be punished as they deserve.”

The prestige of King Camos caused a commotion. Hearing that King Camos was about to visit Venar City, countless people’s eyes lit up.

However, after this moment, the eyes that lit up turned into panic and fear one by one.

They attacked the town of Ayr. They are now mobs and insurgents.

The just King Camos will definitely execute those corrupt officials, but they will also be executed as insurgents, and at the same time, their wives, children and relatives will be implicated.

Everyone who thought of this panicked.

However, no matter how scared, no one thought of confronting King Camos.

For them, the king is the incarnation of God in the world.

Fighting King Camos is equivalent to fighting a god-something that is absolutely impossible to do.

The crowd cast panic eyes at their leader, the man who was kneeling on the ground.

Gallan also looked at Gea. He knew very well that Gea hadn’t finished speaking, or he should say that the next words were what Gea really wanted to say.

Under everyone’s gaze, Gia spoke.

“King Camos… will he come in person?”

“Yes, if there is no accident, he will be here tomorrow.”

Garlan saw Gia’s hand clenched suddenly, and after a while he slowly released it.

“His Royal Highness, how will you treat us?”

“…”

Gallan looked at him without answering.

“We did attack the town of Ayr. According to the law, we have become insurgents…”

Ji Ya knelt on the ground, raised his head, and looked at Garlan with scorching eyes.

“But you should know that we were forced! Under the persecution of those corrupt officials and nobles, in order to survive, we had to do such a thing!”

He said hurriedly, “Even if we attacked you, we don’t know whether you are a prince or the misunderstanding caused by your subordinates taking away the children. It is not our fault!”

“During that flood, we have already killed countless relatives. Then, our wives and children were arrested one by one. Many people still don’t know their lives or deaths… We have experienced so much suffering, Do you… still have King Camos want to execute us who have already suffered so much?”

Gallan was silent for a while, then spoke.

“Gia, are you asking me to forgive you now?”

“Yes.” Gia looked at him eagerly. “We don’t mean to rebel against Aaron Landis. We are just fighting against the officials and nobles who oppress us. We are not insurgents, are we?”

“No one gives us justice, we can only find justice by ourselves, and punish those wicked people ourselves, don’t we—”

This is the purpose of Gia.

He wanted to get a promise from Garlan that the prince of Aaron Landis would promise not to hold their refugees accountable.

He believes that they are the victims, they are the righteous, they are just resisting the evil dignitaries, and they are not guilty.

From behind, the knight who had lost one eye gritted his teeth.

Half of his face was covered with blood, and there was still severe pain in his eye sockets. He knelt on the ground holding his dead Tongze and looked down. His friend closed his eyes, silent, and died in front of him in order to help him block the arrows shot by the refugees.

This powerful knight did not die on the battlefield, but died in a place like this——

And now, those who killed him demanded their own sins.

He is not reconciled.

He was very unwilling.

But he also knew that the prince should agree to the refugees’ request, because once they refused, those people would feel that they were dying, and they would be in danger again with the prince.

Therefore, agreeing to exempt those civilians from the crime of rebellion is indeed the wisest approach at the moment.

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But even if he understood this in his heart-he still felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, as if something was poaching his heart.

He was terribly uncomfortable.

Because those who killed his tongze will be forgiven and will not be punished, his tongze will die in vain, at the hands of the people of Aarondis who they had desperately guarded together.

Just as the knight closed his remaining eye in pain and lowered his head, he suddenly felt someone standing in front of him.

He raised his head subconsciously, and what came into his eyes was Prince Garlan, who did not know when he was standing in front of him.

When Gia made the request, Gallan did not answer immediately. After watching Gia for a while, he turned around and walked to the knight.

Under the gaze of the crowd, in the knight’s stunned gaze, he stretched out his hand and touched the blood-stained cheek of the knight.

“Does it hurt?”

The little prince asked softly.

The knight was shocked and terrified.

“The King…Prince, I…”

“I’m talking nonsense, how could it not hurt.”

Before he stammered, Gallan answered to himself.

Then, he looked down at the dead knight held by the one-eyed knight.

He looked for a while, then leaned down.

In the silent moonlight, the dead knight’s forehead was covered with blood and dust, but the little prince lowered his head and kissed his forehead.

“…Thank you for your loyalty, the gods will take your soul to the kingdom of God.”

Kiss the deceased’s forehead, mourn and bless him.

That is a ritual peculiar to Aaron Landis.

That is a ceremony that can only be obtained by knights who die in glory.

What’s more, this was made by the prince of Aaron Landis himself, and it was the highest honor for these loyal knights of the royal family.

The one-eyed knight stared at this scene blankly, feeling some comfort in his uncomfortable heart.

He spoke to his friend in silence in his heart.

El, if your soul is still here to guard the prince, you must be very happy to see this scene…

After all this was done under the gaze of everyone, Gallan turned his head.

He looked at the people behind him.

“Do you know who the knight you killed was?”

He asked, he was obviously a child, but his eyes sharpened suddenly.

Gea froze for a moment and replied.

“I know, this knight must be a nobleman, but…”

“No, I don’t mean his identity, not his origin.”

Gallan interrupted Gia.

“A few years ago, the enemy countries joined forces to attack Aaron Landis. Brother Wang led an army of 50,000 to the border and defended him for more than 90 days. This saved Aaron Landis.”

“The army of fifty thousand, less than half is left, in order to protect Aaron Landis all killed on the battlefield. If it weren’t for those warriors, you who are standing here would have been ruined and taken away as slaves of other countries.”

Everyone looked at Garlan in confusion, wondering why the prince suddenly mentioned this matter.

Garlan looked at Gea deeply, and at the people who smashed stones at these knights not long ago.

His eyes were calm at this moment.

He said: “The knight who defended Aaron Landis desperately at the time and also guarded you, now, here, was killed by your own hands.”

Gia’s pupils shrank violently at this moment.

At this moment, he was silly on the spot, almost forgetting to breathe.

“Now, do you still have to ask me to forgive you from your sins?”

The child’s voice is still very calm.

But it was this calm that made Gia’s heart hurt sharply.

Countless people lowered their heads, and some even knelt down, toward the direction of the dead knight.

The faces of those knights who had personally thrown stones at these knights were full of regret and regret.

The night was terribly quiet, no one spoke, everyone’s throat seemed to be pinched by an invisible big hand, and there was no sound.

In this almost deathly silence at this moment, the one-eyed knight lowered his head and couldn’t tell why. He, who has never shed blood but no tears and was called a member of the iron-blooded army, has sore eyes at this moment.

He opened his eyes wide, gritted his teeth, and tried his best to hold back the vapor in his eyes.

The child’s voice continued to ring in the quiet night.

“Jia, look at the flame.”

Garlan looked up and looked at the flames still burning at the edge of the town.

He said, “Are those who were set ablaze by you, are the homes of the officials and dignitaries who persecuted you?”

“…”

Gea opened her mouth, but couldn’t answer.

Those on the edge of the road in the town are just the homes of ordinary residents.

“You attacked the town, took down the townspeople’s houses, and the ruling house… Tell me, have all the officials in Aier town bullied you?”

“…”

“Those officials who haven’t bullied you, such as the governor who has been working hard to rescue you and even mobilize the grain and grass in Aier Town, have you let it go?”

“…”

The man’s breathing became a little heavy.

“Even if you don’t talk about officials, they are just servants and maids who work in the ruling house or in the families of lower-level nobles, these commoners like you, did you let them go when you attacked the house?”

“…”

Every time Garlan asked, Gia’s face was ashamed.

He looked at Garlan pale, but he opened his mouth but couldn’t speak.

How can I let it go?

When the town was raging, when the crowd was angry and everyone had lost their minds, how could they let go of any enemies in their eyes when they had killed them?

Even if the servants of the nobles and the clerks of the ruling house are civilians like them, they are the running dogs of the officials and nobles, they are just as damned–

At that time, they thought about it and killed the civilian slaves all at once.

Gea was kneeling with his back straight, like a rooted pine tree, even when facing the prince, his back was not bent at all.

But at this moment, his body shook a bit, and he, who had a firm look on his face, seemed to be on his knees and wobbly at this moment.

“No… this is…”

He wanted to refute something, but opened his mouth to find that he couldn’t refute anything.

He finally reacted, why, why would he do such a cruel thing?

Why would he do the same things as the nobles he hated?

“I sympathize with your experience, Gea, but I will not forgive your sins.”

“You are not justice, you are just doing crimes like venting hatred to those innocent people in the name of justice.”

“Especially the insurgents who killed the innocent people of Aaron Landis like you yourself will never be forgiven.”

Gallan said, word by word, categorically, there is no room for change.

“You are victims, but it does not mean that you can be forgiven for doing wrong. Rebels are punished, and those who kill innocents are executed. This is a national law that must be implemented.”

“The law of the country will not be tolerant.”

He said, “The only thing I can promise you is that your relatives who did not participate in this rebellion will not be implicated, and your innocent wives and children will also be properly placed.”

The pale Jia’s eyes were confused for a while, and suddenly gritted his teeth, he suddenly stood up on his knees and approached Garlan.

“Prince, please promise you that I will be spared the sin of waiting!”

“No, I will not promise.”

“Prince, I will die both left and right. Instead of being executed as a rebel, it is better to take you as a hostage and flee here.”

The man seemed to have completely broken the jar and began to threaten Garlan.

His words made everyone around him look surprised, and the old man rushed forward in a hurry.

“Jia, you bastard, how can you—”

“No! Gea, how can this be?”

“In that way, don’t we become thieves?”

Once they become thieves, their descendants will be filthy thieves who have been cast aside by others and expelled by the country for generations.

“can not be like this–”

Gea pushed the old man away and shouted with a distorted expression: “If we don’t do that, we will only have a dead end! Do you want to die!”

He turned his head, his eyes fixed on Garlan.

“Prince, people are forced to do everything. If you don’t forgive our sins… Then, even if we will eventually be wiped out by King Camos, but before that, use your noble life, Prince. It’s worth it for us!”

He moved forward, approaching Garlan once again.

“Please forgive me for waiting!”

The child’s small body stood in front of the man who was nearly twice his height.

He raised his head.

There was no fear in his eyes when he looked at the man.

He said: “The laws of Aaron Landis cannot be trampled on.”

His voice is loud and loud.

This was a moment when the air almost held his breath.

The atmosphere is as tense as a tight string, which will break completely in the next second.

The confrontation between the threatening tall man and the unflinching little child made people so nervous that they couldn’t breathe.

However, in the next second, the tight air suddenly melted away.

The man’s twisted face suddenly stretched out.

He looked at the little prince facing him with his head up, and suddenly smiled with relief.

Then he took two steps back.

He smiled and said: “If the prince you agree to my request…I think I will probably not believe your promise, but will choose to take them and our family to flee here.”

Gea said so, then leaned down and knelt.

This time, he knelt on the ground with both knees, hands on the ground, and bowed his head deeply to the little prince.

“Prince of Aaron Landis, future king, I wait for sinners to accept your trial.”

His forehead was firmly on the soil, as religious as a prayer.

“But, a wise prince like a god, please use your kindness to forgive my innocent relatives such as sinners.”

In the silence for a moment, the others moved too.

The old man knelt down with tears just like his son, and the girl beside him knelt down with red eyes.

The refugees were silent, or sobbed, lowered their heads, leaned over, and knelt on the ground with their knees.

Like Gia, they lowered their heads deeply and pressed their foreheads to the dirt.

One by one, they knelt down, and everyone present knelt down and bowed their heads deeply to the young blond prince.

That is the most solemn etiquette.

That is also the most pious worship.

They will obey Prince Garland’s trial for their crimes.

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A ray of the rising sun jumped out of the horizon and shone on the people galloping along.

After running endlessly in the middle of the night, King Camos and his party finally rushed to the top of a small hill next to the town of Ayr at the moment when the sun was about to rise.

After getting off this small hill, we arrived at the town of Ayr.

Camos was about to continue running down the mountain, suddenly as if seeing something, a trace of astonishment flashed across his face. Then, he raised his hand and stopped the cavalry behind him.

He didn’t speak, just riding a horse on the top of the hill, quietly looking down at the town of Ayer not far below.

Seeing Camos suddenly stopped, the anxious Huimos stepped forward and wanted to speak.

King Camos glanced at him, then pointed downward.

Huimos looked in the direction he was pointing, and he was stunned.

In the center of the small town below the mountain, all the dark crowds knelt down on the ground, bowed their heads deeply, facing one direction.

The first ray of morning sun fell, illuminating the earth.

Countless people knelt on the ground illuminated by the rising sun.

And in that place, only the young prince stood on the ground before the countless people kneeling before him.

The night is about to leave, and the day is about to descend on the earth.

The golden hair of the young prince reflected the first ray of sunlight in the morning, as bright as the rising sun.

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There are historical records that in the long history of Aaron Landis, there was a young king who was known for his wise and fair judgments, who cared for the people and was loyally loved by all Aaron Landis people.

It is recorded in ancient history books that this King Aaron Landis, who was called the “King of the Wise”, was a young prince, and for the first time the rebels who rioted with a fair trial were also surrendered. Great deeds.

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I feel my body has been hollowed out……_(:з」∠)_