Chapter 38: Great Ark Mountain Becomes Emperor
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A cool highland breeze blew on the cheeks of the Commander, a sensation he knew very well, he had felt as a child in the Elbistan zone.
"It's blowing from the Iberian meadows!" Diognis, who was still a young boy at the time, stood in front of the courtyard of his little sentry fort, looking at the black and gray wilderness below, and the fan stirring his little robes, and his father and his two brothers held their saddles and put them on their mounts, and then his father, who had gray hair, turned over and sat down, and took the reins with a quiver on his back, and said goodbye to him, "It is the month of taxation (late autumn of September), and the men will come from the other side of the plateau on horseback, and burn and plunder." Little one, the Emperor's trumpet for the invasion of invaders has been sounded, and perhaps many Persian and Oghuz bandits will soon break into here. Maybe it won't be long before it will be abandoned. ”
"Give up ......"
"Yes, the emperor only needs us to keep the imperial capital now." My father fell silent.
The two elder brothers mentioned that perhaps the Empire had placed new land in Thrace or Macedonia across the Strait for our group of border guards.
"Let's go." The father did not reply, but said this, and rode away.
Soon little Diognes was standing in front of the horseshoe-shaped doorway, looking at his father and brother, who had left home, and their backs grew smaller and smaller in the pass between the two peaks, until they were gone.
Then little Diognes watched for the return of his father and brother at a fixed time every day.
The following year, they really left Elbistan and went to Pisidia; The following year, they were forced to leave Pisidia, where Suleiman's Turkic soldiers were about to arrive, and the family moved to a small border military town in Lydia.
In the fourth year, his father and brother accompanied Caesar on an expedition to the Sakarya River, never returned, and are said to have been killed.
Thinking of this, tears actually flowed from the corners of the guard's eyes, and then his pupils flickered - on the back of the galloping horse, he actually saw that at the end of the boundless meadow, between the heavens and the earth, there appeared a huge and spreading golden thread, undulating and meandering, and the scenery was magnificent.
Soon, the golden thread became wider and wider, and seemed to turn into a golden river in the sky, and then the blue sky spread out above it, and the towering snowfields were outlined below, as if the sound of the rolling wheels of the sun rising in the sky came from afar.
"Here, it's Great Ark Mountain!" Diognis exclaimed.
At this time, Gao Wen in front of him had stopped his mount and stood in the middle of the grassland, looking back at the rising sun on the Great Ark Mountain.
All the Tarsus generals stopped and lined up, keeping a distance of dozens of feet from Gawain.
The sun climbed higher and higher, and the black summit of the Great Ark Mountain, wrapped in golden sunshine and pure white snow, and the velvety blue sky, really resembled a huge ship stranded there, the Ark - perhaps once this plateau was under the vast sea, and the "ark" that mortals could not climb was really floating and sailing at such a high place in the sky? Nobody knows.
The soldiers of the brigade scrambled to follow, and then Gawain reined in his horse, turned around, and stood in front of the snowy peaks of the Great Ark.
All the soldiers bowed down in awe and excitement, and then several forbidden soldiers simply took off the iris shield and round shield that they carried behind their shoulders, and surrounded Gawain, closing the round shield in the center and stacking the kite shield on all sides to form the shape of a petal.
The envoys of Hilvan, Seljuk, and Great Armenia bowed down in praise and watched as Gawain ascended his shield and was carried by the soldiers, and then his guards rushed to hand him all sorts of things—a golden lion crown, a shoulder strap studded with gold bars and diamonds, and the golden eagle scepter possessed by David the former builder.
Then all the people present cheered loudly Gawain's honorific title, and from then on, "Grand Patron of the Seleucian Hospital" was just one of his titles:
"The true Roman Emperor, the eagle over the Great Ark Mountain, the brave Imperato, the invincible holy warrior, the walking shadow of the Lord on the earth, the breathing embodiment of truth, the disobedient heretic and heretical chasmer, the husband of Tarsus Caesar, the recovering man of the Roman land, the sole patron of the Seleucian Hospital and all the synagogues and monasteries, the Annian Umbrella of Anatolia, Cilicia, Lydia, Bithynia, Trabzon, Georgia, Sylvana, Mysia, Greater Armenia, and Cyprus, the loving father of all merchants, soldiers, peasants, sailors, and craftsmen in the territory, the fourteenth holy apostle on earth, the saint of the rank who possessed the holy spear, the best friend of the Seljuk Sultan and the Baghdad Caliphate, and the guardian of the Sultan of Rûm. ”
These glorious titles were thus placed on Gawain, as was his signature on the paperwork, and the same glorious titles were given to Anna:
"The true Roman Emperor, Caesar of Tarsus, the blessed Virgin Mary, the ruler of all the and keys in the court, the one born in the most noble purple bedchamber, the natural royal noble, the mother of the noblest blood, the embodiment of the truth that can breastfeed, the assistant of the emperor, the sole protector of all women and maidens in the realm, the handle of the umbrella of the Antian Umbrella of Anatolia, Cilicia, Lydia, Bithynia, Trabzon, Georgia, Sylvane, Mycia, Great Armenia, Cyprus, The master and mother of all merchants, soldiers, peasants, sailors, and craftsmen in the territory ......"
"Our next step is to destroy the castle of Nicosia in Cyprus and take all of Tripoli; And gather the rest of the army, and prepare to cross the sea to besiege Gallipoli - and the Empress of Ten Thousand Cities, Constantinople! Gawain on the shield shouted.
"We will welcome you into the Brachna Palace!"
When the solemn ceremony was over, all the soldiers present cheered, and everyone was given the gift of coins and wine, and anyone felt that they could participate in such a scene in their own lives.
In the scarlet tent surrounded by a lively banquet, Gawain was not fluttering because he was the emperor in the daytime, he sat calmly in front of the map sand table again, and quietly arranged to the confidential officer Philaktos:
"Within two years, in the synagogues of Sebastian and Meritane, a paper and a printing workshop were to be set up, and a large number of Rolands were to be printed. the works of Bandinelli and your consuls, and the preparation of a future assembly of priests and bowls of the Reformation in Nicaea or Prusa to discuss the open printing of the Bible;
Immediately Gregor and Parni were dispatched, and the Gimagis Brigade, the Artillery Regiment and the Tronzak Engineer Regiment were sent to Cyprus to reinforce the Andodat Corps. The armed forces of Nisitas have sought to capture Nicosia before winter, and then I have appointed Androdat as commander-in-chief to restrain the crossing of the Gimegis Brigade and all the civilian army to the sea, and to lay siege to the cities of Tripoli......"