A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

When an Aaron Landis dies, his soul will be led to the underworld by Ornas, the goddess of the underworld.

The human soul will pass through the hands of Ornas, purified into the original pure and flawless soul, and then be sent to reincarnation by Ornas himself.

And when a person's soul passes through the hands of the goddess, his memory will be taken away by the goddess.

Legend has it that the huge white wings behind the goddess are the wings of memory formed by the brilliance of countless people's memories.

"While Ornas takes away the memory in the soul, he can also gain the power of faith contained in everyone's memory."

"The power of faith is one of the most important sources of power for the gods."

The reason why King Camos was able to become the God of War was not only because of his own powerful soul and achievements, the vacant God of War throne, and the guidance of the Sun God Shamash, but also because he got the support of the people of Aaron Landis. Respect and have extremely huge power of faith.

Among the gods, only Ornas, the goddess of the underworld, has the ability to obtain the power of faith from the souls of dead people. She will share the power of faith obtained from the soul with Isdar, the goddess of fate.

Then, depending on the strength of each soul's faith, Isdar, the goddess of fate, will weave the thread of destiny for this soul in the next life.

In other words, the power of faith determines the fate of that soul in the next life.

"Before I died, I made a deal with Ornas."

"In exchange for the power of faith I gained in that life, I will exchange for the memories of Kaihos and the three of them."

He did not die, and his soul did not go to the underworld. Naturally, Ornas could not take away his soul memory, let alone obtain the power of faith he had obtained.

The power of faith gained by Emperor Heimos far exceeds the power of faith possessed by the three souls of Kaihos combined.

Ornas, of course, accepted the deal.

Behind the palace, the elevated courtyard closest to the sea is particularly bright under the sun.

Upright palm trees surround one side of the wide courtyard, and dense woods separate the courtyard from the rushing Enki River in the distance.

The open-air pavilion stands in the courtyard, facing the boundless blue sea.

Looking around, you can't see the end at a glance, you can only see the distant place where the water and the sky meet, and the sky where the blue and the blue intersect, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.

The waves hit the bottom of the sea cliff below, making waves of splashing water.

When the sea breeze blows from the sea, the palm and cypress crowns on one side of the courtyard will sway and make a rustling sound.

In front of the arched pavilion, a soft down quilt was spread on the white jade stone platform, which was warmed by the sun.

The little fur ball rolled on the soft quilt, then spread out on its back, spreading its short limbs, exposing its round belly that had just been eaten to the sun, revealing A look of contentment.

The little milk lion just lay there with a lazy look, basking in his belly.

He was paralyzed for a while, probably feeling that he was too much, so he looked at Garlan with pitiful eyes.

"Ouch~~"

I'm afraid this guy has completely forgotten his majesty as a big lion.

Gallan reached out helplessly and gently rubbed Nerga's swollen belly to help it digest.

After being rubbed to feel comfortable, Nerga hummed at Garlan a few more times. The voice was tender and coquettish, and one could tell that she was acting coquettishly.

Garlan was too lazy to pay attention to Nerga, who was acting cute and coquettishly at him. While he continued to gently rub his belly, he looked at Heimos and continued what he had just said in the middle.

"So when you said you wanted to collect a debt before, you meant asking the goddess of the underworld to collect a debt?"

"Um."

Garlan: "..."

Don't know what to say.

Heimos was standing nearby eating a cake covered in jam. Garlan thought it was too sweet, but he liked it very much.

After eating, lick any red jam remaining on your fingers.

After eating, he watched Garlan rubbing Nerga's belly and Nerga humming in comfort. He squatted down and stretched out his fingers to poke Nerga's soft belly.

Then, his finger was bitten fiercely by Nerga who was unhappy.

The little milk lion, who insisted on his pride and would never allow anyone other than Garlan to poke his belly, glared at Heimos fiercely, although his teeth were still too young and could only use Heimos's finger to grind them. , it still bites and refuses to let go.

The crouching Heimos stared at it, and it stared at Heimos.

Garlan on the side couldn't help but want to laugh as he watched one person and one lion glaring at each other.

He stretched out his hand and rubbed Nerga's ears, and Nerga obediently opened his mouth and let go of Heimos' fingers.

Then it started to flutter into Garlan's arms, and Garlan hugged it with a smile.

The little milk lion huddled up in the boy's arms, and hummed twice aggrievedly at first, but it was so comfortable to be smoothed by Garlan's hair, and it didn't take long before he closed his eyes comfortably and snored off to sleep. .

However, Nerga didn't know that as soon as it fell asleep, the annoying man took it out of Garlan's arms by the back of its neck and placed it on the soft quilt aside.

The quilt under her body was soft, and the sunlight above was warm, so Niega just shook her fluffy little ears and continued to sleep soundly.

Heimos knelt down and sat down next to Garlan.

"Because the deal was made with her when I 'died', I only replaced the ones who died before me."

He said nonchalantly, reaching for the maple syrup soft cake on the low table next to him.

However, before touching the sweet cake, he remembered that his finger had been bitten by Nega just now, and he stopped in mid-air.

In the moment of his hesitation, the white hand passed over his and picked up his target before him.

His golden-red eyes glanced at Garlan who picked up the maple syrup cake.

Garlan also looked at him with a smile.

Heimos opened his mouth and said, "Ah."

He was extremely calm and showed no shame to the boy who was a little younger than him, as if he was begging for food.

Garlan couldn't help but chuckle, and then stuffed the maple syrup soft cake in his hand into his open mouth.

The soft cake is very soft, and the thick maple syrup flows from all sides of the soft cake. As long as you pick it up, the honey-colored viscous liquid will inevitably stick to your fingers.

Gallan looked at the honey-colored maple syrup on his fingers and was thinking about washing his hands when suddenly a shadow came over.

The man who had swallowed the soft cake in his mouth in a few mouthfuls came over, lowered his head, took his finger in his mouth, and licked away the remaining maple syrup on his fingertips.

After licking it, Heimos raised his eyes.

The dark forehead hair was scattered in the corners of the sharp eyes, and a strand of snow-white hair was blown by the wind.

The man's tongue slowly licked his thin lips.

The light cold lip color and the red tongue form a contrasting yet inexplicably attractive tone.

"You want to taste it too?"

The deep sound seeped into the eardrums, as if tainted with the sweetness of the maple syrup just now.

"No……"

Garlan just shook his head and wanted to refuse, but Heimos had already bullied him and blocked his mouth.

The tip of his tongue, still stained with maple syrup, invaded his lips and teeth, infecting his taste buds with the sweet and greasy taste.

Heimos patiently dyed the sweetness away little by little, and then savored the taste of his lips and tongue that became even sweeter because they were soaked in syrup.

The boy's fair cheeks glowed with a faint pink color. He hesitated for a moment, closed his eyes, and slowly wrapped his tongue back...

Suddenly there was a heavy coughing sound from far away.

Gallan, who had just lightly wrapped the tip of his tongue around it, was startled. He pushed Heimos away, reached out and randomly picked up a red fruit on the low table, biting it down one by one, pretending to be eating. .

The red fruit in his hand reflected his red cheeks, making his face look so delicious that people couldn't help but want to bite it.

Heimos thought so, resisted the urge to bite it, and turned his head to look in the direction of the coughing sound.

Unsurprisingly, what he saw was Shermer with a dark face.

Shermer glanced at Heimos with a cold look, then glanced away and fell directly on Garlan, who had his back turned to him.

"prince."

Shermur's shout made Garlan's shoulders shake.

After hesitating for a while, he turned around, still holding the half-eaten fruit in his hand.

He raised the fruit in his hand to Shermu'er with a concealed smile and said, "Want to eat it? Shermu'er, this is very sweet and delicious~~"

Shermer stared at him, expressionless.

"I heard that you skipped class this morning."

He is in charge of Garlan's martial arts lessons.

But this morning he had something to do, so he appointed one of his subordinates to take his place.

As a result, when I came back, I heard that the prince turned around and sneaked away as soon as he heard that he was not there.

"Well……"

"Now, please follow me and catch up on the morning classes."

"Xie Mu'er, I don't think I really need to learn anything else... I'm an adult, and it's too late to start learning martial arts now."

In his previous life, he had been exercising and learning martial arts since he was a child, so his body could get used to it, but with his body in this life, for a student who could only do aerobics, it would be fatal for him to learn martial arts again now, right?

"That's why you need to exercise even more. Your body is too weak now!"

Garlan muttered softly.

"Anyway, with Heymos here, my weakness is nothing."

It's okay if he didn't say it. As soon as he said this, Xie Muer's face turned even darker.

Seeing that Shimu'er was about to get angry, Garlan saw that the situation was not good, so he decisively picked up a grape from the table. When Shimuer opened his mouth, he went up and stuffed the grape into Shimuer's mouth.

"You will get older easily if you are always angry, Xie Mu'er. Eating more sweet things will make you feel much better."

The young man who stuffed the juicy grapes into Shermu'er's mouth bent his eyes and smiled at Shermu'er. He looked up at him with eyes as bright as morning stars. His bright smile made the anger in Shermu'er's heart not brew yet. It faded away without a trace.

He looked at the prince who was stuffing grapes into himself with a smile on his face and had an expression of "Look~~I'm trying to please you", feeling angry and helpless at the same time.

His mouth was gagged and he couldn't speak. He looked at Garlan helplessly, but there was deep softness hidden in his helpless eyes.

He always has trouble with his prince.

No matter it was before or now.

At this time, the sound of laughter came from behind.

No need to look back, just by listening to the hearty laughter, you can guess who the person is.

Sure enough, a familiar rich voice immediately sounded from behind.

"Garlan, only Shemu'er has it, doesn't Brother Wang have it?"

After swallowing the grape in his mouth, Shermer turned sideways and saluted Camos, who was striding towards him.

He watched expressionlessly as Camos came to Garlan, lowered his head with a smile, and an expression on his face that said, 'I want to be fed too'.

Then, His Majesty the Emperor was actually fed a dried walnut by His Highness the Prince, and he was immediately satisfied.

The head of the Royal Guards, who was responsible for guarding His Majesty the Emperor, could not help but twitch at the corners of his eyes.

Caihos and Tapti, who came with Camos, were very calm about this, after all, it had been commonplace since that life.

While Camos and Garlan were talking, Caihos turned his head and looked to one side.

On the platform outside the pavilion, the little lion was lying there basking in the sun and sleeping soundly.

Heimos stood leaning against the stone pillar on one side of the pavilion, his expression indifferent, but his eyes were always looking at this side.

You don't have to think twice to know that he must be looking at the prince.

Caijos walked up to the little lion first and touched its little head.

"Lord Heymos, you can say that you are exchanging memories for us for the sake of the prince, but in fact it is also for yourself."

Heimos said nothing.

Caihos, on the other hand, lowered his eyes and continued.

"If we didn't have the memory of that life, if you and the prince wanted to be together in this life, we would definitely try our best to stop it."

"But if we remember... we will feel sorry for him, so as long as it is what the prince wants, we will never refuse."

"In this way, even the prince will inherit the throne this time, but with our acquiescence and even wholehearted help, there will be much less obstacles between you."

"That's your plan, isn't it?"

Caihos called out the old title.

"Your Majesty Heimos."

There was still no answer. Under the dark hair that was gently blowing in the breeze, those golden-red eyes followed a person's figure from beginning to end.

Persistent and unwavering.

It was as if what he was looking at was the entire world.

Kehos sighed softly.

"……never mind."

He turned his head and looked forward.

Under the sun, the young man's bright and carefree smile is everything they pursue together.

Beyond that, nothing matters anymore.

Whatever Heymos' purpose was, it didn't matter.

He looked at Garlan and thought softly.

As long as the result makes the prince happy.

And Kaihos had to admit that the only person in the world who could trust him to trust the prince was this person.

Heimos.

There will never be anyone in this world who loves the prince more than him.

The more than two thousand years of time, which was long enough for the sea and land to change, has proven everything.

"Ouch~~"

Probably disturbed by Kehos's voice, Little Nerga woke up from her deep sleep, jumped up, and landed on the ground.

He ran towards Garlan with four short legs.

He ran over and hugged Garlan's calf, then screamed and insisted on being hugged by Garlan.

A big hand picked it up.

The little milk lion that was making a lot of noise just now went limp as soon as the back of its neck was lifted up. It hung motionless in the air and could only look at Garlan helplessly.

Garlan looked soft and reached out to pick it up, but Camos laughed and suddenly threw Nerga to Shermer.

The Shemuer people who were discussing the arrangements for the prince's literary and martial arts classes with Tapti were standing nearby. When trouble came from the side, they hurriedly caught the little milk lion thrown by His Majesty the Emperor.

As soon as the flesh on the back of his neck loosened, Nerga instantly became lively again, waving his claws and struggling hard.

With a hiss, after tearing the clothes on Shemuer's chest, it jumped into Garlan's arms.

Xie Mu'er, who was always neatly and meticulously dressed, had his clothes torn apart at the moment, exposing half of his chest, and his face was extremely dark.

Tapti was startled for a moment, then covered her lips and couldn't help laughing.

Garlan quickly hugged little Nerga who had caused trouble, and looked at Shermer with innocent eyes instead of Nerga.

However, the culprit, His Majesty the Emperor, laughed out loud without any sense of guilt, and even tried to take a picture of Shermer's rare disheveled appearance with his bracelet as a laughing stock in the future. In the end, he couldn't bear it anymore. Shermer slapped the bracelet down.

"Awwww~~?"

This is the little furball sitting in Garlan's arms with a confused look on his face.

The bright sunlight fell on the earth, giving the treetops swaying in the wind a faint golden light.

The waves crashed against the cliff, making splashing sounds.

…

The river of time is cruel.

With the vicissitudes of the sea, the changes of the sun and the moon, countless things will gradually disappear in the long years, leaving no trace.

However, there are some things that will never change no matter how time goes by.

Because, from the moment it exists, it has become eternal.

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【end】

Three months have passed since the return of Aaron Landis's little prince.

Early that morning, angry roars came from His Majesty the Emperor's palace.

"Brother Wang, I feel that as the future emperor, I have the responsibility and obligation to personally inspect and visit all the places in Aaron Landis."

"Don't worry, I brought the token and the strongest guard. If you encounter trouble that can't be solved with these two, I will contact you immediately with my bracelet. Brother Wang, you must come with the army as soon as possible. Help me to show off... No, come and protect me."

"As for the spaceship, it's a bit too conspicuous. I'll let it fly back by itself when I get to the destination."

"Well, that's about it. This time I go out for fun... Well, no, it will take about three or four years to visit the Aaron Landis continent. Of course, every other year, during the trip I will also go back to rest, and when I go back I will bring gifts to you and Kehostaptishermul."

The blond boy on the stereoscopic screen finished speaking with a smile, and then added another sentence.

"By the way, Brother Wang, don't send people to chase me, or I will be angry."

Camos: “…………”

I was just about to ask Xie Muer to chase the person back.

His Majesty the Emperor was very angry, very angry.

No wonder Heimos paid special attention to learning the map of the Aaron Landis continent and the situation in various places in the past three months. It seemed that he had planned it in advance.

What a wolfish ambition!

"He must have coaxed and tricked Garlan into kidnapping him!"

His Majesty the Emperor angrily convicted the big black wolf that had snatched away his royal brother.

It must be Heimos' fault! Otherwise, how could his little brother, who was so well-behaved and cute, run away from home——

Kayhos on the side looked away silently.

...I really can't tell who kidnapped whom...

"In the final analysis, Your Majesty, you have gone too far."

The High Priestess glanced at Camos angrily.

"If it weren't for your Majesty's insistence on 'exercising' Lord Heimos three times a day, the prince would not be angry and would not sneak away like this."

Anyone would be angry if a couple in love was interrupted like this.

His Majesty the Emperor, who was furious just a second ago, instantly languished.

He stayed for a while, looking at Garlan in the light curtain with aggrieved eyes, and asked in a low voice: "Does he really only come back once a year?"

Shermur looked calm. He snorted and said to Camos: "Your Majesty, send a message to the prince's bracelet and tell him to return to the palace once a month. This is the minimum limit."

"Oh oh oh——"

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At this moment, in the sky thousands of miles away, the golden spaceship was flying slowly, passing through the snow-white clouds.

The sun fell, making it sparkle.

Garlan stood on the side of the ship, looking at the endless sky.

The wind blowing in his face messed up his bright short blond hair, and his golden pupils looked into the distance, shining brightly and full of vitality.

"Really do this?"

"Um."

Garlan turned around and looked at Heimos.

"In fact, in that life, I always wanted to travel this land and freely visit all the places I have never been to before. But I didn't expect that I would end up on the throne and not be able to fulfill this wish."

Suddenly remembering something, he laughed.

He said: "You should still remember that I had already run away that time, planning to become a bard and travel around the continent, but you chased me back after I didn't run very far."

"Now, Brother Wang and Shermu'er are here, so I feel that I can do whatever I want to do."

After speaking, he suddenly paused.

"and……"

He whispered,

"Lovers also need time alone together."

Brother Wang and Xie Muer's over-protection of him is really...

He's an adult, okay?

Some things can be done, okay?

Looking at Garlan who was talking quietly in front of him, Heimos' lips curved slightly.

He lowered his head and kissed the pink lips lovingly.

"I will be by your side wherever you go," he said.

Her golden-red eyes reflected the boy in her arms, as if looking at his entire world.

As long as you are here, by my side, I have everything.

…………

"Speaking of which, if we wander around like this, will we run into the reincarnated Tal or Novi?"

"perhaps."

"Maybe the Kaleni I met this time was still a baby, maybe Tarnovi is an old man now, and maybe Emma will be a boy in this life - it's interesting to think about it."

"Don't mention her."

"...You should be a little more open-minded."

"No, I'm stingy."

"…………"

The lips that wanted to say something else were blocked again.

The golden spaceship flew slowly in the blue sky, and the tiny sounds scattered little by little and melted into the sunlight in the sky.

…………

The boy's journey to the throne has come to an end.

But the story doesn't end there.

In this ancient and beautiful continent of Aaron Landis, the boy's journey has just begun.

In the future, what kind of things he will encounter, what kind of people he will meet, maybe new people, or maybe old friends, everything is unknown.

However, it is precisely because everything is unknown that it makes people full of yearning.

Maybe that will be the beginning of another interesting adventure story.

The boy's journey is over.

The boy's journey is about to begin.

--【over】--

The author has something to say: When I finished typing this word, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Some emotions, some relief, and some sadness.

After more than a year and a month, the legend of the young man ascending to the throne came to an end at this moment.

The ending may not be the most satisfactory one, and it may not satisfy everyone, but it is the most appropriate and appropriate ending in my mind.

After thinking for a long time, I didn’t know what to say. I could only sincerely thank all the friends who could accompany me and accompany Garlan to the end.

Thank you for falling in love with him.

Thank you for liking this article.

Thank you for your many nutrient solutions and cannons|shells|land|mines. I am very happy to see so many messages and long comments.

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At this point, the main text has been completed.

I'll start updating the extras in about a week or two.

If you have any extras you want to see, please leave a message and let me know. I will seriously consider it. Of course, the lights and cars will also appear in the extras (laughs).

And, fellow divers, it’s time to come up and take a breath at the last moment~~

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