A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

The room suddenly became quiet, and the conversation between the two ended with someone looking away guiltily.

In fact, Gallan just suddenly remembered that Heimos once pressed him against the mirror and said that he violated him in his dream when Heimos mentioned that he was dreaming about him.

Then, without holding back, he asked that sentence.

Heimos' guilty expression made Gallan very angry.

Just now, he felt sorry for the suffering Heimos had suffered in the past three months. Although Heimos spoke lightly and covered up his experiences in the past few months in just a few words, Garlan He knew in his heart that being seriously injured and having to escape from the remote and cold snowfield of Gastad as a slave in the arena was absolutely terrifying every step of the way.

Even Heymos was probably on the verge of death several times.

but--

Everyone just wants to have enough food and clothing and indulge in sexual desires, but this guy didn't forget even when he went through hardships——

Garlan was very angry and couldn't help but want to slap someone who looked away.

But when he dropped his hand, he couldn't bear to see Heimos' skin that was obviously much rougher than before and the scars at the corners of his eyes.

Although the hand still slapped Heimos on the face, the force was not strong at all. To a thick-skinned person, it was like being bitten by a mosquito.

Heimos instinctively held the hand that slapped him, and his eyes fell on the angry Gallan's face again.

The young man had a sullen look on his face, and his fair cheeks were a little red. He didn't know whether it was because of anger or something else.

The face that was slapped felt itchy.

For no reason, it even made his heart itch.

"You guys, even at such a dangerous time, you still don't forget - woo!"

Halfway through his words, Garlan suddenly covered his throat and looked uncomfortable.

His throat was not healed yet. Although it had recovered a bit over the night, he could barely speak. If he spoke a little faster or higher, the pain would start again.

Heimos stretched out his hand, sat up and held Garlan's shoulders, looking at Garlan nervously.

Garlan closed his eyes and endured it for a while, feeling the pain in his throat gradually disappearing, and then opened his eyes.

As soon as he lowered his hands from his neck, Hermos's hand had already reached over and gently untied the bandage on his throat.

"Don't move, don't talk, I'll change your dressing."

Heimos' tone was like coaxing a child.

Even though he knew that Garlan was not squeamish at all, he still couldn't bear to speak louder to him.

The boy was like the softest soft flesh in his heart. A slight touch could make him go crazy with pain.

The golden eyes looked at him and blinked.

After Garlan heard what he said, he obediently stayed still.

Suojia is a very considerate subordinate who always properly considers all the small details for his superiors.

When he came here just now, he brought new ointments, bandages and warm wipes, which he put on a plate and placed on the low cabinet beside the bed.

After taking off the bandage, Heimos wiped off the original ointment with a wet wipe.

After applying the medicine overnight, the shocking purple bruise last night was a little better. But the circle of bruises branded on the snow-white skin was still extremely dazzling to Heymos.

When he thought that those were the marks left by others on Garlan's body, he couldn't help but feel a surge of rage in his heart.

Resisting the urge to kiss and lick all the bruises and lick away all the traces of others, Heimos gently reapplied the translucent ointment.

Finally, a bandage was put back on.

While he was doing this, Garlan remained quiet.

The boy put his neck into his hands without any defense.

That is the most vulnerable part of the human body.

If Heimos was willing, he could break this slender neck with just a little force of his hand.

Heimos touched the bandage on Garlan's neck with his fingers. After all, he couldn't help it. He lowered his head and kissed the side of Garlan's neck gently.

Half of his lips fell on the soft skin, and half fell on the white bandage.

The boy seemed to shrink back reflexively, but did not avoid his lips.

"Feel sorry."

Heimos said, holding the person in his arms.

"Actually, I arrived in the city yesterday afternoon. I just heard about your attack in the morning, so I didn't show up immediately, because as soon as I showed up, the people who secretly wanted to harm you would shrink back."

"I don't want to leave any hidden dangers around you, so I decided to follow you secretly and find out the hidden dangers before meeting you again."

"and……"

Having said this, Heimos suddenly paused, showing a hint of embarrassment.

"and?"

The man coughed, as if to hide his embarrassment.

"I was in a hurry to get back all the way, and I didn't take care of myself very much. I was in a mess, and it really didn't look good. I thought I'd tidy it up first, and then..."

He didn't want to appear in front of Garlan with that embarrassed look at all.

How could Garlan see that unshaven, dusty and imageless look?

Garlan was stunned for a moment.

He could understand the reason why Heimos wanted to protect him secretly and find out the mastermind behind it, but he never expected that there was another reason like this.

He suddenly felt like laughing.

But he knew that if he really laughed, Hermos would be unhappy. So he held back, stretched out his hands, and touched Heimos' cheek.

Even though there is a scar at the corner of his eye, the man's face is still extremely handsome, and even has a bit of a sharp and ruthless look because of the scar, making that dangerous aura even more attractive.

Garlan looked at the handsome face in front of him and imagined the unshaven and desolate appearance of the other person.

"So you shaved off your beard first, then washed yourself up, and then came to see me?"

After saying this, Garlan still couldn't hold back and laughed.

Heimos raised his eyebrows and looked at Garlan, then suddenly grabbed both of his wrists, turned him over, and pressed Garlan on the bed.

He pressed his whole body on Garlan and pinned his hands to his sides.

A length of jet-black hair hung down from his cheeks. He leaned over and kissed the young man beneath him.

Compared to the light kiss he gave not long ago, his kiss this time was a little longer, and he even bit the other person's lips as if he wanted to punish the other person for laughing at him.

"Didn't you ask me what else I did in my dream besides kissing?"

He lowered his head and brought his lips to Garlan's ear.

A heart-stopping low voice sounded in Garlan's ears, and the man even licked the pink tip of his lips with dissatisfaction.

"Shall I tell you everything now bit by bit?"

"Uh, wait a minute, He—"

Heimos' rogue behavior caught him off guard. Garlan was taken aback and subconsciously wanted to struggle to get up.

But his hands were firmly pressed on both sides of his head, and he couldn't break free at all.

Heimos blocked his lips again, forcing him to swallow the name he hadn't finished shouting.

Seeing that the other party's tongue has unceremoniously opened the seam of his lips, he is about to attack the city——

"King Garlan, Lord Kaleni has arrived at the city gate. I will go to greet him now."

Suddenly, a high-pitched voice came from outside the door.

That was Suojia's voice.

He was fulfilling his duty to 'warn you two after Kaleni's arrival'.

With this veteran's temperament, he would definitely come to see King Garlan as soon as he entered the city.

That's why Suojia took the trouble to remind the two people in the room.

After shouting loudly, Suojia turned around and left. He didn't expect that his words would interrupt the ambiguous atmosphere in the room.

The suppressed Garlan pursed his lips and stared at Heimos.

Heimos clicked his tongue and let go of his hand unwillingly.

Gallan, who finally escaped a crisis, breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, quickly got up, got out of bed and started to clean himself up.

Kalleni is coming over soon, and when he sees the veteran, he can't look disheveled like he is now.

This room was a temporary change and there were no clothes for him. Fortunately, Suojia also sent two sets of clothes when he delivered the medicine.

This person is really attentive. Even if you don't explain, he will still compromise on everything.

No wonder Suojia has firmly occupied the position of Heimos' confidant for several lifetimes, and no one can shake his position.

Garlan praised the careful priest in his heart, but when Heimos saw these two sets of clothes, he showed a subtle look in his eyes.

That guy Suojia is really...

never mind.

Looking at Garlan with an uninformed expression, Heimos silently buried it in his heart.

If he dared to tell this speculation, Garlan, who was always thin-skinned, would definitely become angry and quarrel with him.

So he just silently picked up his own set of clothes, changed into them, and then casually threw the coarse cloth clothes he changed into into a waste basin aside.

"sit down."

As soon as he finished changing his clothes, Heimos heard Garlan's voice coming from behind.

He didn't look back and sat down obediently.

A pair of hands reached out from behind and stroked his hair.

In three months, his hair had grown a lot, covering his ears and the back of his neck, and the ends of his hair were messy and spread over his shoulders.

The young man's fingers dug into his hair and combed through it.

"How about you try growing your hair long?"

While playing with Heimos' hair, Garlan said on a whim.

After thinking about it for a while, he rejected it himself.

"No, it's not convenient to have long hair on the battlefield."

After saying this, Garlan stopped talking. He quietly combed Heimos' black hair with his fingers and tied it neatly into a bunch at the back.

Heimos closed his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The soft fingers behind him kept touching his side cheeks and the back of his neck, stroking his hair.

The warmth transmitted from the fingertips he touched seeped into his skin, as if small streams of warmth were slowly integrating into the deepest part of his body.

Only by being by Garlan's side could he feel calm and satisfied.

The young man's unique breath came faintly from behind, surrounding him, like the fresh and warm wind in early spring.

The room was very quiet.

All is quiet.

Heimos closed his eyes.

He thought that all he wanted was for this moment to last forever.

…………

……………………

Originally, Kalleni would not be able to arrive with his army until the afternoon, but he was shocked when he heard about the attack on Garlan. He abandoned the army and rushed to the royal city of Kanal with a group of confidants.

He rushed to the city in a menacing manner, with a square stone face, and went straight to see Garlan without saying a word.

It wasn't until he saw with his own eyes that King Garlan was safe and sound that he breathed a sigh of relief.

He had just said a few words to Garlan when the curtain on one side of the room was suddenly lifted open, and a person he could never guess appeared in front of him.

When he saw that person, Kalieni was stunned for a moment.

"Lord Heimos?"

He looked at Heimos in astonishment, with a look of disbelief on his face.

"Didn't you already—"

Halfway through the sentence, probably because he felt that the word 'death' was too unpleasant to hear at this time, Kalieni forcefully swallowed the remaining half of the sentence back into his throat.

He stared at Heimos for a long time, looked up and down several times, and then let out a long breath.

There was a rare hint of emotion on that tense and serious face.

The untimely death of King Camos had already made him extremely uncomfortable.

When he heard that Heimos had also died unexpectedly, he felt a sigh of relief in his heart. He was so bored that he sat in the room all day long, unable to swallow a mouthful of food or a mouthful of water.

he thinks.

He is old.

The heart that was as hard as iron when I was young has already softened a lot and cannot bear so many separations of life and death.

And he is so uncomfortable. How sad will it be for the young king who has lost his relatives one after another in the royal city?

Kalleni has always been so worried.

Now, after seeing Garlan's appearance with his own eyes and seeing Heimos return alive, he didn't know what to say for a moment.

"As long as it's okay...just come back."

After holding it in for a long time, this old man who had been stubborn for half his life could barely choke out such a sentence that he thought could comfort people.

The corner of Suojia's mouth twitched when he heard this.

To cover up his own clumsiness in this area, Kalleni quickly changed the subject.

"King Garlan, do you plan to temporarily hide the news of Lord Heimos' return?"

Waking up from the relief, the veteran immediately realized keenly that there was no news about Heimos' return.

After thinking about it again, he guessed Garlan's plan.

"Yes."

Garlan nodded.

Suojia was very smart. Although he was shocked when he saw Heimos for the first time, he guessed that Heimos wanted to hide his identity from the fact that Heimos was wearing a large cloak and a hood. With all his thoughts in mind, he just didn't call out Heimos' name.

After that, Suojia also kept Heimos' identity tightly sealed.

In other words, no one knows about Heimos' return except Garlan, Suojia, Kaleni and a few confidants who Suojia arranged to guard outside the room.

This arrangement is very convenient for them to implement the next thing.

…………

The news of the attack on King Garlan has already spread throughout the entire royal city of Karnar.

Although everyone saw it that night, a secret guard rushed out and rescued King Garlan who fell.

But they also clearly saw that when King Garlan was carried back and rushed to the hospital, although his appearance could not be seen clearly from a distance, there was no movement from his people.

And since then, a day and a night have passed. King Garlan has been staying in the room and never showed his face again.

On the contrary, the entire Aaron Landis army went to war, tightly controlled the entire city, and began to hunt down the assassins.

The faces of those Aaron Landis soldiers were all very ugly.

As a result, the news that King Garlan was seriously injured and unconscious spread like wildfire. Some people even secretly said that King Garlan was actually dead, but the Aaron Landis kept it secret.

As time passed day by day, King Garlan never showed up, and even the veteran general Kaleni who came with the army never showed up. It seemed that he was staying by King Garlan's side.

The rumors are getting worse day by day, the atmosphere in the royal city of Kanal City is gradually becoming restless, and the residents in the city are becoming more and more panicked.

The Kanar people have gone through many hardships in the past few years. They were first destroyed, and then oppressed by foreign rule. The aliens were finally driven away, but King Garlan who came here was assassinated in the royal city and his life or death was unknown.

They only felt terrified, fearing that King Gallan would really die here, and the Aaron Landis would retaliate against them.

A few days later, the veteran Kaleni suddenly appeared. His face looked a little haggard, and he seemed to be in no mood to deal with those who came to him to inquire about the situation. He just hurriedly escorted King Garlan out of the city, where he was already stationed. The sixth legion also came out of the city to guard the king.

King Garlan, who was being escorted by him, never showed up in the carriage. Someone vaguely saw that he seemed to be lying down all the time.

Everyone felt that King Garlan must be dying, so Kaleni hurriedly escorted him back to Aaron Landis.

At this time, Aaron Landis couldn't care about Kanal at all.

As a result, the secret forces felt that this was a great opportunity.

It is dominated by the nobles of the old forces of Kanal, and they firmly oppose the merger of Kanal into the Kingdom of Aaronlandis, and even oppose the rule of King Garlan.

When the hearts of the people were dispersed, the old aristocratic forces began to instigate the so-called 'uprising' under the banner of righteousness such as 'never surrender to the aliens' and 'Kanal can only be ruled by the Kanal people'.

The army under their command that originally helped the Gastard people oppress their compatriots changed their appearance and became the so-called 'rebel army' that resisted foreign rule.

While the army of Aaron Landis hurriedly escorted King Garlan back to his country and thus greatly reduced his power in Karnar, these people jumped out one after another.

This is especially true for a key city like the Imperial City.

The old nobles of Kanal proudly led their 'rebellion army' in the royal city to 'uprising' against the 'brutal rule' of the Aaron Landis.

For a time, the people in the royal city were confused, angry but at a loss.

At this moment, Aaron Landis' army confronting them split into two parts like a tidal wave.

In the midst of the army, the young king with a picturesque appearance, riding a white horse, appeared in front of everyone.

The long golden hair shines like gold in the sun.

He raised his eyes and smiled.

So that day, the sun was shining brightly.

So on that day, the royal city of Kanal bowed at the feet of the young king.