A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

A steed rushed into the messy slums like a whirlwind. It sprinted on the winding and muddy path, knocking away a lot of debris piled up on the side of the road, and frightened the nearby untouchables to avoid it.

And not long after the steed rushed past, they saw a group of horsemen chasing after them, all of whom were armed with spears, swords and other weapons. Watching the group of people rushing past.

"Catch up!"

Someone shouted, Gore was overjoyed, and urged his steed to run over, wanting to humiliate the woman he had long disliked.

As a result, he happily passed by, but only saw a neighing steed, but the horse's back was empty.

"What about people?!"

He roared, his face turned livid as if he had been slapped.

"Master Gore, that woman probably jumped on the horse..."

Without saying a word, Gore swung the whip in his hand and whipped the guard who answered.

"waste!"

He said angrily, "They're all trash! There are so many people, you can't even catch a woman with a child! What use is it for me to raise you trash!"

"Go, find them all for me! Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find that stinky bitch for me!"

After being whipped, the guard endured the pain on his back, and immediately arranged for his men to search separately.

………………

The slums were very dark, and there were shelters everywhere, so when they turned a corner, the female knight resolutely jumped off the horse with Garlan in her arms, and let the horse gallop away.And she ran into a dark alley with Garlan in her arms, and hid.

"Gal."

She knelt on the ground on one knee, touched the body of the child in her arms in panic, and asked nervously, "How are you? Is there anything wrong?"

Garlan raised his head, held down the female knight's hand that was groping around his body, and even wanted to take off his clothes, and quickly replied: "I'm fine."

As he spoke, he even jumped on the ground to dissuade Fataya from wanting to take off his clothes, expressing that he was healthy.

"Don't worry, Sister Fataya, I am forced to practice martial arts by my teacher every day at home."

Although he is not as talented as Heymos, he still learns martial arts from Shemuer every day.Shemuer doesn't keep his hands during training, so it's common for him to stumble and crawl, and sometimes he falls heavily, leaving some bruises on his body.

The level just now, that is, the level where I fell a little harder during martial arts practice and left some bruises on my back, is not serious.

"Because I saw you were sent flying by him..."

Fataya was still nervous.

"I stood still and resisted the stick, so I was hurt more."

Because he was young, most of what Xie Muer taught him was the technique of using force to relieve force.

In the situation just now, he must have suffered internal injuries from that stick, but flying out along the force of the stick could relieve a lot of the force of the impact.

"That's right...that's true." Fataya was relieved, "It seems that you have indeed practiced martial arts."

She looked around and saw that not far away, someone from Gore's men had come back on horseback, looking for her everywhere, and her eyes froze.

"Keep quiet." She whispered to Garlan, "Come with me."

After finishing speaking, she led Garlan's hand into another alley.

Afterwards, Fataya and Garlan kept hiding here and there, but Gore's subordinates pressed hard, and they pressed the untouchables in the vicinity for their traces, and Fataya's hiding area was forced to become wider and wider. smaller.

She stood in the shadow of the alley, frowning as she watched Gore's men not far away searching around.

At this time, a ghostly figure sneaked out of the darkness and approached them slowly.

Hearing the footsteps behind her, Fataya turned her head abruptly, her body tensed up, staring vigilantly at the coming person like a female leopard ready to go.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, I'm not on their side, I'm here to help you."

A tall and thin boy who could be seen to be living in a slum at a glance waved his hands in a panic, indicating that he did not have any malicious intentions.

"Master Cheng, Chengwei, I saw that you were hiding from them, and I will show you the way." He said, "I know this place well, and I know how to get rid of them."

As soon as the boy finished speaking, he slid into the alley opposite.

Fataya frowned and weighed it, and finally decided to follow.

She felt that if this little rascal wanted to harm them, or Gore's men, then it would be enough to expose his whereabouts by yelling, and there was no need to go through so much trouble.

And dealing with these guys from the slums is much easier than dealing with Gore's well-trained men. These untouchables don't have the guts to do anything to the city guard.

The young man led them to the left and right in the cobweb-like alleys. He is the local snake here, and he can find gaps in many places that don't look like roads. Garlan feels like It's like drilling around in a huge ant cave.

After a while, he brought Garlan and the others to an open space.This open space is surrounded by a dozen or so half-collapsed abandoned houses, with some messy things piled up in the middle, which looks like a place to throw away waste.

"You are hiding here."

The poor boy chuckled and rubbed his hands.

Fataya nodded and gave him a handful of copper coins.

"Those people are gone, you come to inform me."

The boy who took the money nodded like a pounding garlic, his long face blooming with a smile.

He thought, there is a bounty here, and I will report it later, and there is a bounty over there. He really got rich today.

He grinned at the female knight and ran away in a hurry.

Fataya looked around, walked to the back of the collapsed house, found a fairly clean place, sat down to rest, and thought about what to do next.

Garlan sat obediently beside her, but his eyes rolled around like a little squirrel.

Those people react really fast.

he thinks.

He dragged Fataya around here for an hour or two before someone came looking for her.

In fact, at the beginning, he also considered, for the sake of safety, should he immediately go back and report the matter here to Brother Wang, and it would be better for Brother Wang to send someone to investigate.But he quickly realized that since Brother Kamos had arranged this matter, he would definitely send people to inspect it regularly.However, nothing wrong was ever found out.

Apparently, those who controlled the place used various means to cover up peace and force the untouchables to keep silent when the inspectors came over.That's why the inspectors couldn't find anything.

The thugs of the person behind the scenes have discovered that he and Fataya are here, so they will definitely report to the people above, and those behind the scenes will definitely respond in time... If he goes back first and reports to Brother Wang, then no matter what Whether he brought people to make an unannounced visit or Brother Wang sent people to make an unannounced visit, this time difference is enough for those people to smooth out the loopholes, annihilate the evidence, intimidate the untouchables, whitewash the peace, and disguise everything here.

That way, even if it is an unannounced visit, nothing can be asked.

With the means that those people can kill the poor, it is very easy to keep these poor people silent.

Therefore, he chose to take the risk to stay.

……

While Garlan was still thinking about it, he suddenly heard a bang outside, like someone being thrown heavily on debris.

Immediately afterwards, the young nobleman's loud voice sounded in the open space.

"Fataya! Get out!"

Standing at the entrance to the clearing, Gore yelled into it.

"Don't you fucking hide like a mouse, come out to me!"

Thrown out by one of Gore's guards, the tall, thin boy who fell into a pile of rubbish groaned in pain. His nose was bruised and his face was swollen.

Gore didn't even bother to look at him.

Because he found this kid sneaking around near him, Gore, who was already furious, found an excuse to grab him and beat him up. It was just to vent his anger. The boy learned of Fataya's whereabouts.

At this moment, he was standing at the entrance of the open space with a sneer. Because there were debris piled up everywhere, they had all dismounted and surrounded the open space.

The clearing was quiet for a while, and then there was movement.

Fataya stepped out, staring at Gore with a frown.

"Gore, you have to know when enough is enough."

"Enough is enough? Hehe, I need to stop in this kind of place?"

Gore is already extremely proud at this moment, and at this point, this stinky woman is already unable to fly.

Thinking of how Fataya never gave him face since he was a child, and always beat him in every way, so that he was often ridiculed for being inferior to a woman, he hated him very much.

It was rare to seize such a good opportunity, and this woman dared to inquire about the affairs here, so he thought that he must humiliate her severely today to vent his hatred.

He flicked his whip.

"Give it to me! Teach her a lesson!"

Gore's men swarmed up.

Suddenly, a group of people huddled together.

Although Fataya is alone, but she has strong martial arts skills, coupled with her ruthless efforts at the moment, although she is at a disadvantage, it can be seen that she will not be able to deal with her for a while.

Gore rolled his eyeballs, and when he saw the blond kid standing in the corner and watching this side secretly, his eyes lit up.

He pointed in that direction with his whip, and shouted, "Take that kid!"

As long as you use that child to threaten Fataya, she is not afraid that she will be caught without a fight.

"Gore! How dare you—"

Fataya, who was under siege, suddenly panicked and wanted to rush over, but she was surrounded by people and couldn't get out, so she could only turn red with anger and watch one of Gore's men rush towards Garlan.

The guard stepped in front of the child in a few steps.

The blond-haired child stood quietly, with his head raised, looking at him with a pair of bright eyes, neither crying nor screaming, which made the guard feel a little strange.

Perhaps petrified?

Thinking of this, he stretched out his big hand, wanting to roughly grab the child's hair and pull him over.

However, he had just stretched out his hand, before he even had time to touch a hair of the child——

Suddenly, a dark brown hand came in obliquely and grabbed his wrist forcefully.

Before the guard could react, there was a sudden sharp pain in his wrist, followed by dizziness.

Accompanied by the sound of a broken arm, the guard turned over and fell heavily to the ground, his chin gnawed hard in the dirt.His right arm was folded to the back by the dark brown hand, twisted abnormally, and the pain made him uncontrollably let out a scream.

"Heymos?"

Garlan stared at the young man standing in front of him with wide eyes, and said in surprise, "Why are you?"

Stepping on the guard under his feet, Heymos raised his eyebrows.

What Garlan said was 'Why are you', not 'Why are you here', that is to say, Garlan knew that someone would come to him?

He kicked the person under his feet hard, knocking the screaming guy unconscious, and opened his mouth to speak.

"Who are you guys! How dare you do anything to my people! Brat, aren't you afraid of death—"

Seeing that he failed to catch the child and his subordinates were beaten to the ground instead, Gorton over there became furious and cursed Heymos with his mouth open.

"You wait, bastard, you will know what will happen to you if you offend me!"

Heymos frowned, then raised his foot, and kicked a person rushing away.

While beating those who rushed up, he was talking to Garlan easily.

He said, "I'll take you home."

He glanced at the yelling guy.

"He scolded you too?"

When the young man asked, there was a hint of danger in his golden-red eyes.

Just as Garlan was about to answer, he suddenly heard a creaking sound not far away.He looked down and saw a small black figure coming out of the sundries, running to him, standing upright, and screaming at him non-stop.

As he approached, he faintly heard the sound of countless horseshoes running towards this direction.

Suddenly, Gore over there was like a goose being strangled by someone, and the scolding stopped abruptly.

After a few seconds of silence, he shouted again.

"Stop it! Stop it! Stop it for me!"

This time, there was panic in his voice.

His subordinates all stopped, stood where they were, and looked at each other for a while, half dazed, half stunned.

Fataya, who was almost unable to bear it, walked quickly to Garlan's side while panting.She glanced at Heymos, then at the little mouse in front of Garlan.

She was a little surprised.

Because she still remembers that when Garlan dragged her around here, she once said that she was going to go to the bathroom and went out. A little black mouse.At that time, she was afraid that Garlan would be bitten by a mouse, so she hurried over to drive the little black mouse away.

...Why is this little black mouse so similar to the one not long ago?

However, Fataya has no time to think about the little black mouse.

The ground vibrated slightly amidst the sound of horseshoes. She raised her head and saw countless tall and burly knights wearing unique black and red leather armors riding horses. They had armbands with special badges on their arms in the setting sun. sparkling with light.

The female knight suddenly opened her eyes wide.

King's Guards!

The place where all the most powerful knights of Aaron Landis gather, the army that will be dispatched only to protect the king.

Why did it come here? !

With a swish, the galloping knights reined in their steeds in unison, and stopped neatly outside the open space. They rode their horses and stood awe-inspiringly outside the open space.

The three leading people got off their horses, and one of them, a knight wearing a black blindfold, walked over quickly.

Seeing that person, Gore froze for a moment, then hurried up to meet him.

"Your Excellency Kehoes, why are you here?" He said flatteringly, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

The blond one-eyed knight ignored him and strode into the open space.

Gore also followed behind Keyhors, with a flattering expression on his face.

You know, this one-eyed knight is quite famous.

He is the guardian knight of Prince Garlan who is very much loved by King Kamos.

Back then, because of Prince Garlan's injury, King Kamos was furious, killed a large number of people in the palace, severely reprimanded many noble officials, and even flogged the children of those noble officials regardless of anyone's pleading. Dayton, kicked out of the palace.

Seeing that King Kamos was so furious because of Prince Garlan's injury, one can imagine how favored the little prince was.

However, the little prince has always been in the palace and rarely appeared in front of everyone, even if he wanted to please, he couldn't find a chance.As a result, many people took the next best thing and went to curry favor with the little prince's guardian knight, Kaihus.

Gore thought, narrowing his eyes.

If he could climb up to this knight and win the favor of that little prince, then he could basically walk sideways in the royal city in the future.

Thinking of this, he spoke to Kehoes all the more courteously.

Keyhos strode forward, ignoring the people behind him who were fawning on him.

He took a few steps to the blond child who had been standing quietly all the time, glanced at Heymos, and then, under the unbelievable gaze of the catching up Gore, he knelt down in front of the blond child, He bowed his head respectfully.

He said: "Prince Garlan, I was ordered to bring the guards to fetch you back to the palace."

The entire open space was extremely silent at this moment.

Fataya opened her mouth wide, dumbfounded.

Gore was dumbfounded.

All the people under him turned pale.

Even the tall, thin boy lying in the pile of rubbish with a bruised nose and swollen face stopped moaning and screaming in pain, and stared round.

Only Heymos, who was pursing his lips, looked a little unhappy.

At this moment, in the quiet open space, only the conversation between the little prince and the knight continued.

"So slow, Keyhors."

Garlan said dissatisfied.

"Why are you slower than Heymos?"

Just in case, he brought a little black mouse with him when he left the palace, and released it secretly when he got to the street.

As long as he wears the bracelet made by Keyhorst, and those little black beads, the little black mouse will circle around him, and he will whistle, and the little black mouse will come to him.

So when he was visiting the slums, he sent the little black mouse to deliver the letter to Keyhors.He remembered that Keyhos had said that the closed special training camp of the Guards was also in the outer city, and that Keyhos should be able to come over soon after receiving his letter.

As a result, Keyhors didn't show up until he left the ghetto.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness. After the Guards' special training camp is closed, no one is allowed to go out without the king's order." Keyhos said, "It took a little time to get the king's order, so I came late."

"Uh, is that so..."

It turns out that the training camp still has this rule, well, he miscalculated a bit.

Ah, wait.

"Obtain the king's order?"

Garlan reacted instantly.

"According to what you say, brother Wang knows that I have escaped?"

"Yes, Prince."

Kyhors smiled brightly at the little prince.

"After all, I don't have the right to order the Guards."

Only when King Kamos issued a king's order, the guards would be dispatched.

Gallan: "..."

damn.

This is being caught straight.

"You... what are you talking about, what are you talking about?"

Gore, who stood beside him stupidly for a long time, stammered and opened his mouth.

He felt like he was having a nightmare now, in the dreamland, the conversation between the child and Kehuos, about the prince and brother...he seemed to be unable to understand.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, only to feel that his mouth was dry, his tongue seemed to be knotted, and he could only make a sound after stumbling.

"Are you... talking... what are you talking about... king... what... prince?"

"Ah, that's right."

As if suddenly remembering something, the blond child turned around and looked up at Gore.

Those big eyes were bent into the arc of a crescent moon.

"It's the first time we meet, let me introduce myself a little bit."

Garlan showed him a smile as bright as the sun.

"I am Garlan, the prince of Aaron Landis."

pat.

The riding whip inlaid with gold thread in Gore's hand with a pale face fell to the ground.