hunting light

On the screen wall, the mainstream media of various countries are broadcasting the news of the Byron Empire coup in the news.

"...Antonio IV's government has occupied the capital of the empire, and Glory's close-air combat has basically ended..."

"...The casualties of the two armies have not yet been counted. It is reported that the Holy See army suffered heavy losses in this battle. All countries are shocked by the Holy See's intervention in secular domestic affairs. The Pope has not yet expressed his opinion on this incident..."

"Emperor Raphael's whereabouts are unknown. Princess Elsa and some imperial nobles were also evacuated with him. Prince Louis has arrived in Glory, but is still in custody..."

"The eldest son of Antonio IV, Leon Coleman, Earl of Wellman, played a key role in this battle..."

"According to insiders, Antonio IV is very likely to die in the collapse of the wormhole. His government is currently in a state of no supreme leader. According to the law of succession, the eldest son of Antonio IV and his legitimate second son, who will inherit his throne, and will also cause..."

All the screens were muted at the same time, only the host opened and closed his mouth, like a school of fish waiting to be fed.

"The press conference should preferably be held within 24 hours." Gercia stood leaning on the desk, her eyes fell on Leon, "Now all forces are watching us, wondering what we will do next , to determine whether to support us. We must express our position as soon as possible.”

Leon sat on the couch with a glass of whiskey in his hand.The ice wine stones shook and collided gently in the crystal glass, making a light ding-dong sound.

"If you don't want to, I will go and talk to the Duchess as your representative," Gercia said.

"I'm not the little boy hiding behind you, Dad." Leon smiled, "Besides, how are you going to talk to her?"

"Improvise." Gercia disapproved, "For example, we can start with your father and talk about the pain of losing the head of the family. After all, orphans and widows..."

"Father!" Leon looked at his biological father helplessly.

Gercia had no choice but to say: "We want to make sure she doesn't get in the way. She occupies the name. And we want you to succeed to the throne in a fair manner without leaving any trouble. Your father also doesn't want the Coleman royal brothers to kill each other. continued in his son."

"I'll talk to the Duchess," said Leon, "but I just want to talk to you right now, Dad. How do you feel?"

"I think the progress of the situation is too jumpy, but it is not impossible to control." Gercia analyzed, "It is indeed a big problem to let Raphael escape..."

"Father!" Leon interrupted him again, the sadness in his eyes flowed with the night, "I just want to know, are you okay?"

Gercia stood silently by the desk, half of his handsome face was bathed in the light, and the other half was immersed in the moonlight coming in from the window.Cold blue and warm yellow meet like ice and fire on his face.

After a while, he turned his head away from his son's gaze.

"I am not too surprised that your father has such an ending." Gercia whispered, "He has always been a person who is burning himself madly, and this is probably what attracts me the most about him. I am a person who lives in the dark And he is so bright and burning... I know that one day he will sacrifice himself for his ambition, die a martyr. I also believe that at that moment, he is happy."

Gercia sighed deeply: "Your father and I are both fighters. Maybe we are in different battlefields. Maybe there is no gunpowder and gunfire, but we are fighting all the time. And that belief is worth fighting for all our lives. Your father Died as a soldier. He deserved it, son. I'm happy for him too."

"Even if he failed to finish his cause?" Leon asked, "even if his revenge is just beginning to bear fruit?"

"He has you." Gercia looked over with deep eyes, "You are his heir, Leon. You will succeed him and continue on."

Gercia paused and said: "Everything we do is to pave the way for you, Leon. It is all to enable you to realize that ideal. Your father left the stage prematurely, which will indeed allow you to take over. Very rushed. But at the same time, I think you're ready."

"Why me, and not my father?" Leon asked. "What makes you think that only I can complete the mission of the Coleman warrior?"

Garcian language stop.

Leon continued to ask: "This is why you decided to raise me in the first place, isn't it?"

Gercia's expression finally changed.

He smiled sadly: "How much do you know?"

"A rough idea," Leon said. "I'm counting on you to tell me the details, Dad."

"What made you suspicious?" Gercia asked again.

"Some clues." Leon said, "You and my father's expectations and cultivation of me, Asura, Prometheus, awakening to become a dark sentinel... I feel more and more that I am following a long-planned destiny. Okay, I don't think my existence is accidental. So I went to check on you."

"I?"

"Yes." Leon stared at his biological father, "Even in front of me, you are a mystery, Dad. There is very little information about the 'Moruz'. I only know that you are a spy from the Atlanta Federation. You In the government system in Atlanta is a non-existent person. But I found a tip about the spy training in Atlanta. As mentioned above, the group of agents named after the birds are all performing deep missions , many of them have become partners of the target person. In order to better complete the task, you have all undergone surgery and will not have your own offspring."

Gercia said nothing, and stared into the distance of nothingness.

"You can still have children," Leon said, "so, I was conceived and born by your body. You are my biological father. But, Dad, I still have to ask that every child will ask The question: Where did I come from?"

Gercia burst out laughing and raised her hand to rub her forehead.

"Oh, my little jelly bean!" He sighed, "We originally planned to tell you the truth when you were crowned crown prince. Now the situation has changed. Let you know your origin before being called His Majesty the Emperor, too. It should."

Gercia sat on the high-back sofa next to Leon, looking tenderly at his son's handsome face.

"Atlan has been fighting on the front line against the Holy See, as you know. Our people launched a revolution, overthrew the monarchy, and realized democracy. Although the follow-up progress is not ideal, we are always a group of revolutionaries in the front We may temporarily succumb to the onslaught of the Holy See army, but our heart fire to overthrow its rule and fight for freedom has never been extinguished!"

"I was sent to your father's side back then because the superiors knew that the Coleman family might have a weapon that could fight against the Holy See. At that time, we didn't know what it was. Maybe it was really a powerful weapon. A military weapon, perhaps a revealing document. Anyway, we're sure it was taken from Glory to Fryer by your father."

"Your father and I naturally had a lot of contests before we finally opened our hearts." When recalling this past event, although Gercia understated it, the warmth that bloomed in the corners of his eyes and brows was still touching.

"For me, of course, this is dereliction of duty - an agent, but fell in love with the target person, and decided to abandon the mission. This is a crime that should be removed from the system. In the past many years, my relationship with Atlanta Great, it’s also for this reason.”

"So you betrayed Atlanta." Leon said coldly, "You just left without saying goodbye just to avoid them?"

"Oh no." Gercia said, "I have dealt with the enemy who chased me back then. In fact, after you were born, the relationship between me and the Atlanta Federation has been greatly eased. And this is also thanks to you, my son."

"I?"

Gercia's fingers tapped the leather armrest of the sofa and said, "Perhaps you remember, there was an egg at home when you were a child. It was made of precious metal and inlaid with precious stones. We used it to hold candy for you."

Leon's memory has always been excellent, and when his father mentioned it, he recalled it.

"Yeah... I thought it was a toy. Is that a real thing?"

"It couldn't be more true." Gercia raised an eyebrow at his son, "It's priceless, and you can buy a small mine star. Anyway, in the beginning, it wasn't used to hold candy - it contained you. Or, You are still the size of a bean, the embryonic stage of you."

At this moment, Leon finally understood how his nickname came about!

"It was Emperor Brad who put you in the egg. You are a gift for the Lord's Day." Gercia laughed, "For thousands of years, the embryos have been frozen and well preserved. The reason why your father Taking this easter egg was just a good expectation, believing that the ancestors would bless him. He didn't expect that he would get a mysterious, huge and unbelievable treasure because of it."

"Then you gave birth to me?"

"No, it's not that simple," said Gercía. "Your father was a very cautious man. When I met him, he was in his early forties. Beneath the surface, he was still a child lingering in the mystery of his parents' tragic death. When he brought the egg from the imperial capital to Fryer, he figured out what was inside. But decades passed, and he did nothing."

"People in the Coleman royal family have long forgotten the ancestral teachings left by Emperor Brad. In fact, the irony is that if your father hadn't paid attention to revenge, he would not have discovered secret."

The Duke of Oran was only 12 years old, which was the age when Leon and Ian met.

In this year, he suddenly lost his loving parents, lost the throne that should belong to him, lost the glory and privileges that surrounded him since he was a child, and was knocked down from heaven to the world.

Leon seemed to be able to see how the little boy opened the egg and saw the secret inside.That was the first time the father and son met.

Gercia continued: "For some reasons, I was also dissatisfied with many policies of the Atlanta Federation, and tended to agree with many of your father's views. So, after we solved most of the troubles, I will remove you from the easter egg It was taken out and implanted in my body. Eight months later, the cutest and most perfect angel in the world came to the world."

Gercia raised her hand and stroked her son's cheek, her eyes were loving and full of pride: "And this is the most correct thing your father and I have done in our life, and the thing we don't regret the most."

With mixed feelings, Leon held his father's hand.

"But at that time, we didn't know anything about your future." Gercia said, "Emperor Brad's legacy was very vague, and he only said that you were hope. Raise you well and cultivate you into the greatest A warrior, you will change the entire human world. Now we finally understand his intention. In his era, the power of the Holy See was too strong, even an emperor like him would not dare to easily fight against the Holy Lord."

But Brad the Great also planted a long lead that spanned thousands of years.To this day, the cluster of sparks is finally about to burn to the end, triggering an earth-shaking explosion.

"Your father," Gercia sighed, "I admit that when he decided to give birth to you, he only wanted to use you to avenge himself. Your life began with the selfishness of the two of us, and we did not So proud. But you have changed us, Leon. As time has passed and events have progressed, our goals have become higher and farther."

Seizing the throne of Byron has already changed from the ultimate goal to a stepping stone in the process of realizing the ultimate goal.Leon will step on it and continue to climb towards the more dangerous peak.

"This is also the reason why your father was able to let go." Gercia smiled faintly, "He gave his life for a greater ideal. He is not an ordinary person who only pursues imperial power and indulges in revenge. This is also the man I love, He is the father who can raise a warrior like you."

Leon fell silent.

Gercia cupped his son's face and looked into his eyes.

"We are not your biological parents, Leon. But our feelings for you are no different from ordinary parents and children in the world. I hope you can understand."

"I know." Leon said, "I know..."

The father and son leaned their heads lightly and for a moment did not speak, sharing a common grief.

At this moment, Leon felt that the Duke of Oran was with them.His heroic spirit is still lingering in the world, lingering around his family and his lover.

"Then who am I?" Leon thought of another key question, "The replicant of Emperor Brad?"

Gercia was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "We have done a genetic comparison between you and the Great Emperor. You have a very close blood relationship with him, but it's not him."

"How close?"

Gercia's expression was a little weird for a moment.The corner of his mouth twitched for a while, and he rolled his eyes: "You...should be his father."

Leon: "..."

"I understand, son!" Gercia held his son's shoulders and said earnestly, "This ethical issue is more complicated. It took your father and I a little bit of work to accept it. And you know? We also found that Bu Emperor Ryder and his brothers are actually of the same mother. This shows that he is not actually the seed of his father, Earl Normanville, but the old man next door... that is yours!"

"..." Leon's mouth also began to twitch, "Do you know how strange your words are, Dad?"

"I know!" Gercia yelled, slapping her thigh, "I have held back these words for more than twenty years, and now I can finally vomit to you. Your genetic information registered in the register is our Younger brother Paul's gene modified a few data and submitted it. In fact, the man you called your father for 25 years is actually your first..."

Leon held his forehead: "Dad, stop talking..."

Gercia calculated in her mind, but failed to come up with a result: "—Anyway, it's your great-grandson."

Leon: "..."

"And the timing is so coincidental." Gercia continued, "Your father and I have been worrying about how to tell you the truth. After all, when the time comes, should he change his name to your ancestor?"

"Dad, please!"

"Now that he is dead, all problems are solved!" Gercia sighed, "The truth has been announced, the embarrassment has been avoided, and your father's last dignity has been preserved..."

"Dad!" Leon shouted.

Gercia shut her mouth and shrugged innocently.

Leon couldn't help but laugh.

Gercia returned to seriousness: "As for why Emperor Brad passed on his biological father's embryo as a secret weapon to future generations, it probably has something to do with your dark sentinel gene—otherwise this is the most perverted thing ever. It is an ancestral thing. Brad the Great should also be a very good sentry, but he did not become a dark sentry. And you are the key to the success of the revolution."

"What about Ian?" Leon thought, "How did Ian come to this world? Who arranged for him to meet me?"