Chapter Twenty-Four: The Past of Ios
"I see, I said that there is a familiar smell in the master's flame, it turns out to be the bloodline of that guy Konstantin." There was a hint of clarity in the ice dragon's eyes.
“…… I only found out about the blood in my body later. "It is said that when I was born, there was a flame dancing in the palm of my outstretched hand. The people around me were terrified and thought I was the reincarnation of the devil. However, the priest who had heard the news sent blessings to our whole family. According to the priest, I have in my body the blood of Constantine, which has not been seen for hundreds of years, and it is more pure than I can imagine. ”
"When the news broke, all the Saxons were ecstatic. Because the Konstantin bloodline has always been a god-like existence in the hearts of the Saxons, representing the origin of the race. They believed that this would be a sign of the rise of the Saxon tribes. Soon the Saxon king himself adopted me as his adopted son, gave me the status of the third prince, announced in front of all the people that he would pass on the throne to me after his death, and my father's status was elevated from the most ordinary commoner to a great nobleman second only to the king. From the beginning of my understanding, I was educated as an heir to the throne and worked tirelessly to become a qualified king. ”
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"Hey, isn't that good?" I was stunned when I heard it.
This is simply Saxon, a remake of the legend of the Knight King.
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"If only it had been going so well...... "Ios shook his head with a smirk, "After ten years like this, my father is seriously ill." I took care of my bedside for three days and three nights until my father finally died. But I didn't expect that in the past three days, the eldest prince and the second prince, who had never come to visit my father, actually planned a shocking conspiracy. ”
"When I dragged my weak body out of my father's tent, I never expected that there were heavily armed guards waiting outside. The eldest prince and the second prince came out of the line at the end of the line and rebuked me for trying to steal the throne and poisoning my father. And my father, who had always trusted him the most, jumped out and slandered me for adding the juice of a highly poisonous plant to my father's diet many times over the past few days, which led to the king's death. Before I could argue, the eldest prince directly ordered the guards to kill me on the spot! ”
I don't need to be deliberately stressed by the teenager, I can think of the reason.
Obviously, the emergence of Ios robbed the eldest prince and the second prince of the opportunity to inherit the throne, and also prompted the two who were originally rivals to join forces and decide to eliminate the biggest obstacle first.
Now that the king is dead, Ios has lost his greatest protection and undoubtedly the best opportunity!
Presumably, for this day, the two princes have planned many times!
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"I closed my eyes in fear as I looked at the spear that was stabbing at me. I wasn't proficient in fire magic at the time, and I thought I was going to die. However, at this moment, a figure rushed in front of me......" Ios's body trembled.
The spear was so sharp that it pierced through his body in an instant. But he grabbed the barrel of the gun with both hands, making sure that I wouldn't be impaled in the back. He turned his head, blood spurting from his mouth, but he smiled so softly, and called softly, 'Ios, my child, do not be afraid...... There's Daddy in'. Then...... I learned that he was the father who had not been allowed to see me since I was born......"
"I was ...... Completely stupefied, just kept asking him, what was going on? What's going on? What should I do? He just smiled, grabbed the barrel of the gun with one hand, raised it tremblingly with the other and pointed behind me, telling me to just run, run as hard as I could, all the way out of the tent, out of the gate, where my mother was waiting for me......"
At this point, Ios's voice was completely choked, and his eyes were filled with tears.
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All but Ios bowed their heads in silence. Even Lancelot, who had the strongest aversion to Ios, stopped talking.
The young man's meticulous language completely delivered the tragic scene to everyone's eyes.
"I ran out as hard as I could, completely ignoring the angry curses of the eldest and second princes. Fortunately, my two royal brothers were stupid enough, and such a big thing did not create a momentum among the people in advance, and even forgot to block the gate. I went out of the gate without any hindrance under the honorific title of "His Royal Highness the Third Prince" all the way to the clan. I used to joke that the eldest brother and the second brother are so stupid, but at this moment I have never thanked the two brothers for their stupidity! The corners of Ios's mouth showed a thick sarcasm, but anyone could see the monstrous hatred contained in it.
"Running out of the gate in one go, I met my anxiously waiting mother and three biological brothers. As soon as my mother saw me coming out alone, with blood still stained on my clothes, she understood everything. But my mother still carried me into the car with her grief and urged the groom to hurry up. The carriage had gone long before she began to cry. ”
"When my mother calmed down, I realized that in the past ten years, she and my father have not been watching me secretly. Upon hearing the news that Wang was seriously ill, his father immediately felt that something was wrong. So he commanded his mother and three brothers to take all the family's belongings, hire a carriage and wait outside, and he himself lurked near the king's tent to protect me. Unexpectedly, his premonition unfortunately came true. ”
However, despite my father's preparations, the two brothers' guards rode after him. The groom was so frightened that he raised his hand in surrender, but was shot instantly. So my mother drove herself. In order to lighten the load and delay time, the eldest brother jumped out of the carriage and fought with the pursuers. ”
The eldest brother's life only dragged the pursuers for a moment, so the second brother jumped down again, followed by the third brother...... The three elder brothers did not hesitate to die, just so that my mother and I could escape...... And I'm cowardly, just watching it happen, but I can't do anything about it......"
Ios's lips were already biting bloodshot and running down his perfect jaw.
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Eventually, my mother abandoned the carriage and ran away on horseback with me. In order to protect me, my mother was hit by an unknown number of arrows in her back. But my mother's body didn't even tremble, and she always protected me firmly with her arms. Finally, when I reached the Saxon border forest, my mother pushed me off my horse and told me to run as hard as I could into the forest until no one could find me. ”
"I refused to go, I cried to be with my mother. But my mother said to me, 'Ios, remember that you are the king of the Saxons, and that you are burdened with the future of the whole race. In whatever form, as long as you can live, then the sacrifice of the whole family today will be meaningful'. After that, my mother pulled out a short knife and put it on her neck, forcing me to flee into the forest. At this time, the pursuers also approached, and I did so in fear. ”
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"The pursuers searched in the forest for half a month, but they never found me, but many people were attacked and killed by fierce beasts. They had suffered heavy losses, and they expected that I would have starved to death if I had not been eaten by the wild beasts, so they picked up the corpse of the third brother, who was born a year earlier and was about the same size as me, and let the beasts gnaw until only the skeleton remained. Then they brought the skeleton back to their lives, and said to my two royal brothers that I am dead. ”