A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

All things teach.

Garlan was not very familiar with this cult that was wiped out by King Camos.

Because during the past few rebirths, this church had been completely wiped out by King Camos, and not a single bit was left. Therefore, he doesn’t know much about the All Things Religion.

The reason why he still knows a little bit about it is because Shermer once mentioned this religion to him when he was teaching him.

The Cult of All Things takes Aaron Landis as its central station and makes waves and makes trouble throughout Aaron Landis.

This church claims to serve Timiyat, the mother of all things who created the world. They declare to the world that one day, the mother of all things will come to the earth again, and all things in this world, including humans, will eventually be integrated into one again.

Because the iconic symbol of this religion is very special, Garlan was deeply impressed.

A blood-red circle, in which the runes of water symbolizing life and the runes symbolizing destruction and war are intertwined, and they have also turned blood red, and the entire circle is upside down.

It is said that this means the blending of all things.

Because he didn't know much about the Cult of All Things before, he didn't have much emotion, but now that he saw what this cult did with his own eyes, Garlan immediately hated it to his core.

Not just human sacrifices, but also children.

Looking at the believers kneeling around and worshiping, they could actually watch a child's throat being cut in front of them and bleeding to death. They even looked at him with extremely fanatical eyes and a look of longing for more. .

These are simply a group of hopelessly ill scum!

Garlan gritted his teeth and thought.

Perhaps, there is no such thing as human nature among these cult fanatics.

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The wheels creaked, leaving behind the frantic shouts of the fanatics.

Garlan lay in the cage of the carriage with his eyes closed, gritting his teeth and clenching his fingers.

Hold it in.

He tried to relax his breathing and kept telling himself.

He must not be discovered by anyone. Only if he holds back can he stop alerting the enemy and wait until Brother Wang and the others come to completely destroy this bloody den that kills innocent children!

The carriage swayed for a while and then stopped.

The wooden door of the cage was opened, and the children in the cage were moved out one by one and stuffed into the cells here.

It was a huge rock cliff, with several deep caves sunk into the bottom of the mountain wall. The caves were large and small, and the entrances of the caves were blocked by thick wooden railings, forming a natural mountain wall cage.

The cell doors of the two largest caves were opened, and Garlan and his group of children were separated and thrown into the two caves. Then, all those ‘thieves’ left here.

After a while, after confirming that all those people were gone and there was no sound outside, Garlan, who was lying on the ground, slowly opened his eyes.

The moonlight revealed that the wooden fence fell on his face, and he glanced outside the wooden fence from the corner of his eye.

It was quiet outside the prison, except for the small rustling of the big trees in the night wind. Several torches were hung on the mountain wall outside, and the red firelight flashed, illuminating the backs of several guards standing in the distance.

Garlan put his hands on the ground and slowly got up.

He knelt on the ground and looked up into the distance.

The weird altar that I passed just now is a bit far away from here. It is blocked by dense woods and tall rocks and cannot be seen at all.

But Garlan stared in that direction quietly, without blinking, his gaze looked like a sharp sword through the woods and rocks towards the place where crime and madness were being staged.

The bright moonlight fell into the golden eyes, as if molten golden amber was flowing in them.

At this moment, the child's eyes were horribly bright in the darkness.

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The fiery red sun jumped out of the horizon, shining the still weak light onto the earth.

Kelly rubbed her eyes and woke up. Because she had just woken up, she was still in a daze. She knelt on the ground and looked to the side in a daze.

She saw the little brother named Gal sitting leaning against the stone wall at the entrance of the cave, with one hand on his bent knee and the other on his straight leg. He tilted his head as if he was looking at something outside.

A few rays of sunlight in the early morning fell into Gal's eyes, and in a trance, Kelly felt that those golden eyes were brighter than the sun.

She didn't know if it was her imagination, but she felt that at this moment, Gal, who had eyes brighter than the sun, didn't feel like a child to her.

"...Gar?"

She shouted a little uncertainly.

The blond child who was looking sideways into the distance turned back to look at her, was startled for a moment, and then smiled at her.

Her soft blond hair is scattered on her milky white cheeks, her big eyes are curved into the shape of a crescent moon, and her smile is so cute that it seems to be sweet to the bottom of her heart.

Kelly scratched her head.

Maybe she was asleep.

No matter how you look at it, Gal is an innocent and cute child.

"Gall, how well did you sleep last night... huh?!"

Kelly let out a scream, and then she realized that they had changed their residence.

They were not in that gloomy underground cage, but at some point they were in this open-air cave on the mountain wall.

"W-where is this? Why are we here?!"

"It's so noisy."

A grumpy voice came, and Kelly followed the sound and saw that the person speaking was a twelve or thirteen year old boy about her age.

The boy was originally inside the cave, but when he came out now, the sun shone on his face, but it looked gloomy.

He stared at Kelly with an extremely unkind look and deep mockery.

"Anyway, he's going to die soon. Do you care where you stay?"

"Death...death? What do you mean!"

Kelly was stunned for a moment.

"That's what it means. Once you get here, you'll just wait to die."

The boy sneered and turned his attention to Garlan who was sitting at the door of the cell. He looked at Garlan a few times and showed disdain and gloating in his eyes.

"Look at how weak you are. You belong to either an official's family or a wealthy businessman, right? Don't show off when you get here. They are all meat on the chopping board, waiting to be slaughtered."

There was a deep mocking tone in his words.

"Young Master, it seems that you will die together with us untouchables."

"What did you say!"

Kelly, who was still kneeling on the ground, suddenly stood up, and the hair all over her body exploded, like a female animal protecting her calf.

"Say it again! Believe it or not, I will beat you to death!"

Kelly's menacing look made the boy take a step back subconsciously, as if he was a little afraid of her, but he forced himself to show an "I'm not afraid of you" look.

He sarcastically said: "What's the use of trying to please him now? Anyway, he's the same as us, he's going to die."

After saying that, probably because he was afraid that Kelly would really rush over, he turned around and walked quickly into the depths of the cell hole, disappearing into the shadows.

Kelly, who was so angry with the mean boy, couldn't help but rush over, but was stopped by an old voice.

"Forget it, Kelly."

"grandfather!"

"The kid is right...well, I...we won't live long."

"Grandpa, what do you mean?"

"Oh, I thought those thieves were just catching children for sale, but I didn't expect them to be from the All Things Cult."

When he mentioned this name, a look of fear flashed in the old man's eyes.

He had lived for a long time and experienced a lot. Naturally, he had heard of this church that flourished in Aaron Landis for more than ten years and was later annihilated by King Camos.

"This evil church has arrested so many children for the purpose of sacrificing them."

The old man looked at his granddaughter in front of him sadly with cloudy eyes.

He woke up first and already learned some truth from the frightened children here.

He knew that before they were transported here, every day, a child would be pulled out and used as a sacrifice to stand on the altar created by the church and bleed to death.

The truth he learned from the older, more sensible children made the old man feel horrified and chilled all over. If what those children said is true, then thirty or forty children have drained their blood on that altar so far.

"Grandpa is old... half of his body has been buried in the ground, and he will die when he dies. But you, Gal, and so many children... you are all still young, you can still live for a long time."

At this point, the old man knelt on the ground with tears streaming down his face and hugged Kelly tightly.

Thinking of those children huddled in the corner, trembling with fear, and their numb and lifeless eyes, I thought that the granddaughter in my arms would become like a walking zombie like those children, and would even be dragged to the altar and shed alive. When the blood dries, he feels like a knife.

"This damn church—these unscrupulous things—"

Afraid of being heard by people outside, he did not dare to make too much noise, but lowered his voice and let out a low moan.

At this moment, a person flashed through his mind.

The one who protects them in the mouths of all the people of Aaron Landis is like a hero descended from the sky.

"O King, O King Camos, O God of Aaron Landis, can you hear our voices? Can you hear the cry of your people?"

"Please, if you can hear me, at least save these innocent children, please..."

"grandfather……"

The little girl didn't understand it very well, but she could feel the pain when the old man held her. No matter how tough her personality was, she was still a child after all, so she couldn't help crying.

The old man held the little girl in his arms tightly, his eyes full of despair, and he was crying.

The crying suddenly infected other children, and the children who had just been transported just like them also started crying. Other children who had been here for a while looked at them numbly with eyes that had dried up their tears.

Garlan stood quietly aside, looking at the old man who was crying in despair, at Keli who couldn't help but cry with the old man, and at those people who were sitting on the ground with numb expressions. Children who would be dragged to the altar.

Then, he turned his head and looked outside the cage.

His gaze crossed the dense woods and flew to the endless sky.

Brother Camos.

You said you would find me, I was waiting for you, you would come over, right?

besides……

...And Heymos, although you are my enemy, I know that you always keep your word.

So, Heymos, come to me quickly.

hurry up.

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Time flies by so fast, one day passes in the blink of an eye, and the sun sets in the west and sinks below the horizon.

Several people came over and lit the torches outside the cage. The red firelight illuminated the pale faces of the children in the cave on the mountain wall.

Many children began to shrink into the cave and trembled. They all know what the arrival of these people means - it means that they are likely to be the next victims.

I saw the visitor saying a few words outside, and then a tall guard wearing leather armor walked towards Garlan's cell hole.

Suddenly, the children in the cells in other directions breathed a sigh of relief, but the cell in Garlan was instantly silent. The air seemed to freeze at this moment, and every child's face was filled with fear. Some people even began to sob quietly.

With a creak, the wooden door was opened, and the guard walked in with a casual look on his face. He glanced casually and walked towards the left.

He didn't have any goals, he just randomly grabbed an unlucky kid and took him out. Anyway, it was pitch dark in the cell and he couldn't see clearly, so he decided to catch whatever he wanted.

And the direction he was walking in happened to be the location of the sullen-faced boy who had mocked Kelly in the morning and now came to cause trouble for Kelly and Garlan.

A look of deep fear flashed across the boy's eyes, and then, his eyes flashed, and there was suddenly a hint of viciousness in his eyes.

Garlan happened to look up and saw the fierceness in the boy's eyes.

Immediately afterwards, he saw the boy suddenly reach out and push, pushing Kelly beside him to stagger and fall towards the man who was walking over.

The boy's movements were so fast and sudden that no one could react in time or even see his small movements.

Gallan was the only one who noticed it, almost reflexively. He reached out and grabbed Kelly who staggered forward, and pulled her back hard——

But in order to exert his strength, he had to take a step forward.

As it happened, it was so unlucky that the floor of the cell was originally uneven, and the foot he stepped out happened to hit a slightly larger pit.

So, Kelly was pulled back by him, and when he stepped on the pit, he stumbled forward and fell out.

Just like that, he bumped into the leather-armored man who was walking this way.

The guard who originally planned to catch someone casually saw that a child actually bumped into him. He was so kind that he didn't need to waste any energy. He grabbed the child and walked out.

Gallan couldn't resist the man's strength and was forcibly grabbed and staggered out.

He glanced back and saw the disbelieving look in Keri's eyes that was staring blankly at him, and the somewhat triumphant and vicious look in the gloomy boy's eyes.

"Gal!"

As soon as Garlan was pulled out of the prison, as soon as the wooden door was closed, he heard Kelly's cry.

The little girl rushed over, grabbed the wooden pole of the cell door, cried and reached out to him from the gap, and kept calling his name. The man holding him was probably used to this kind of thing. He didn't even bother to look back and continued to hold Garlan and move forward.

"Kelly..."

"Grandpa! It was because of me - Gal was taken away because of me! He took the initiative to step forward for me -"

"Alas... Gal is a good boy..."

No, you misunderstood.

I really didn’t take the initiative.

I'm really not that great.

I was really just unlucky and accidentally stepped on a pit and fell forward——

Listening to the conversation coming from behind, Garlan thought that he was extremely unlucky.

It seems that I can't wait until Brother Wang and others come to save people.

So, I shouldn't try to be a hero by trying to do this, and risk my own life, right?

The child who was being dragged away was feeling extremely regretful when suddenly, the guard holding him stopped.

Garlan looked up and saw a fat man wearing fine robes standing in front of them. The fat man said a few words, then lowered his head and stared at him hard.

Garlan didn't know what was going on. He raised his head and looked at the fat man in confusion with his big eyes open.

So in the dark night, I saw that weak and cute child with his head raised, his pale golden hair wrapping a palm-sized face, his snow-white skin, red lips and white teeth, and his big, jewel-like golden eyes, reflecting the firelight. She is so beautiful that the fat man is extremely satisfied.

"You go and grab another one."

The fat man said, "Give this to me."

The status of this fat man seemed to be higher than that of the guard holding Garlan. The guard didn't say anything, gave Garlan to the fat man, and then turned around to catch the child again.

The fat man looked left and right at the child he had received, feeling increasingly satisfied.

He led the child back to the cave on the mountain wall. Kelly, who was crying sadly, suddenly opened her eyes wide when she saw Garlan coming back.

The fat man looked around, found a smaller, empty cell hole, and pushed Garlan in.

He originally planned to close the door directly, but after thinking about it, he turned around and took a piece of food from the guard, gave it to Garlan, and then locked the wooden door.

He smiled and said to the child in the small cell: "It's delicious. Eat more."

After saying that, the fat man turned around and left.

Fortunately, he saw it... Look what those idiots did? To actually sacrifice such high-quality goods.

What a waste of natural resources!

The fat man turned around and walked, cursing in his heart.

That kid's little appearance and that pretty little face, he had never seen such a high-end thing in his life. If this is sold to those aristocratic ladies with special hobbies... no, aristocratic men can also do it, they will definitely make a lot of money. With that money, you can buy as many slave children as you like.

Well, you have to take good care of him. If you take good care of him, it will be more valuable.

The fat man thought happily in his heart and walked away.

Garlan was brought back inexplicably and locked in a small cell alone: ​​"???"

The little prince looked at the plate of food that the fat man had given him with a confused expression.

What happened?

The author has something to say: What is there to be afraid of?

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