Chapter Ninety-Two: The Holy Sword
About a few years ago, there was no Kingdom of Sealand in the world. 『』『Words*love*first*hair http://www.Klxsw.com
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At that time, there were twenty or thirty small principalities and city-states scattered on the islands of Zealand, Lutland and D'Loland, and the rulers of each small principality wanted to eliminate other opponents and unify the three islands, however, no small country had overwhelming strength, so that the common people were miserable every year at war.
At that time, in the northeastern corner of Zealand, there was a city-state called "Candvideoan", with a small territory, a small population, almost no agricultural production, no mineral resources, completely dependent on fishing and limited commerce to support its economy, and its military strength was even weaker.
Suddenly, one night, a huge meteorite fell from the sky and fell to the west of the city-state, smashing a large crater, the city wall was crushed, more than a third of the soldiers and civilians were killed and wounded, and the whole city-state was in mourning.
However, as there is an old saying in the Far East: "Blessings and misfortunes depend on them, and misfortunes and blessings lurk." "The meteorite that almost destroyed the city of Miè brought not only disaster, but also opportunity.
After the meteorite fell, it rained heavily for nearly two months, and the crater smashed by the meteorite became a lake. When the weather is clear, people are surprised to find that the water in the lake is very sweet, and after drinking the lake water, people will become infinitely powerful and agile, whether it is fishing labor or military training, they can get twice the result with half the effort.
At that time, there was a relatively strong small kingdom nearby that learned that the Khandvian Kingdom had been attacked by meteorites and suffered floods, so it took advantage of the fire to loot and launched a large army to attack Kandvian, thinking that it could be taken lightly.
But contrary to their wishes, the Candvian soldiers were outnumbered and not only withstood the enemy's rotational attacks, but also attacked the opponent's lair in turn and eliminated them.
From then on, the city-state of Candvideo was overwhelmed, and they regarded the crater-turned-lake as a sacred lake, and with the power of the lake, they reorganized their armaments, attacked the city, and became a tiger and wolf army that swept through the northeastern part of Zealand.
However, the good times were short-lived. After a few years, the waters of the sacred lake dried up day by day. The rulers of the city-state were very nervous, and they tried many measures to preserve the lake, including flooding the seawater, bringing in the river, and collecting rainwater and filling it into the lake, but all efforts were in vain, and even barely maintaining its water level could not prevent the mysterious magic of the lake from gradually disappearing. Ten years later, the lake was turned into an ordinary lake, and the Candivian soldiers who had been fighting with the power given by the lake were also beaten back to their original shape, and they were defeated by the enemy's counterattack, not only lost all the land they had conquered over the years, but also barely able to hold the mainland.
The building will fall, and the vision will reappear.
A small earthquake suddenly occurred in the sacred lake, and the remaining water was sucked away by the cracked ground in the lakebed, and the sacred lake dried up completely, however, the meteorite standing in the middle of the lakebed cracked open in the upper part of the earthquake, revealing a golden sword that was half-inserted in it. The ruler of Candvian was so surprised that he hurriedly called all the brave men in the city-state to draw their swords, but none of them could do it.
At this time, when the enemy army was already in danger of life and death, a young man from the slums who was leaning on the dock to make a living came to the golden sword, and in full view of everyone, he pulled out the golden sword and raised it high above his head.
To the cheers of everyone, the ragged young man, armed with a mysterious golden sword, rushed towards the enemy forces that had already attacked the city. He had never received any military training, but he mastered the art of swordsmanship the moment he swung his sword, and he had never gone to school, but he understood the art of arranging his troops at the moment he raised his sword. The young man unexpectedly cut off the head of the enemy general, and then, under the stunned gaze of the surrounding enemies, he mounted the deceased's war horse and rushed left and right, as if entering a no-man's land. Behind him, the scattered Candilian army quickly rallied, following the beggar-like boy and charging forward to kill him.
In the end, they won a glorious victory that they had not seen in a long time.
This scruffy young man was named "Solomon". Originally, he was just an ant at the bottom of the society, but his fate has undergone a big reversal. Not only did he gain the favor of the daughter of the lord of the city, he became a nobleman, and later inherited his father-in-law's title.
As for the golden sword that was pulled out of the meteorite, Solomon called it the holy sword "Eternal Victory". Because he declared, the moment he came into contact with the sword, a sentence came to his mind:
With this sword in hand, you will never be defeated
What happened in the afterlife proved that Solomon did not brag. His knights, his army, fought to the north and south, and it took ten years to unify the Isle of Sealand, and then after ten years of conquest, he conquered the islands of Lutland and Drowland, and successfully united the three islands under the same royal banner and established the great kingdom of Sealand.
The power of the unified Sealand king is so strong that no later era can surpass it.
At that time, the Holy Light Cult was rapidly proselytizing in the three continents of Olopa, and in order to resist the expansion of the Holy Light Sect, a group of heterogeneous believers who believed in the ancient religion rose from the Moren Continent, and quickly expanded to the south-central part of the Star River Continent and the southwest of the Brilliant Continent, establishing a vast black-clothed caliphate empire. This pagan empire, which suddenly rose, not only annihilated the Holy Light crusade that came to crusade against it, besieged the Holy Pope's Island with a black-clad fleet that had no one in sight, but also defeated the Rocard Empire, which had just undergone the "Reform of the Holy Sage Emperor", and forced the latter to cede land and pay reparations.
It is this black-clothed caliphate empire that is in full swing, how can it take that small island country that has just been unified and its national strength is still very weak in its eyes
When an army of 10,000 black-clothed men crossed the sea and invaded Sealand, King Solomon himself led an army of 10,000 to meet him. With one enemy of ten, the Sealand army not only wiped out the invading enemy army, but even swung into the hinterland of the Black Empire, forcing its ruler, the Sultan, to urgently summon the army besieging St. Papal Island to return to defense, and the Papal Dominion could breathe.
This Solomon Khandvian, who dedicated everything to his country, fought on the battlefield, never tasted defeat in his life, and received the peerless title of "Undefeated King". From the first battle of the year to the last battle of the year, Solomon has experienced a total of battles, the previous time was the "eternal victory" with the holy sword in hand, and only in the last battle, he no longer had the holy sword in his hand.
It was a catastrophe in his life.
Knowing that Solomon could not be defeated on a frontal battlefield, the Black-Clad Empire resorted to a discordant plan by sending spies to carry out a military coup in collusion with some of King Solomon's most trusted knights in the Kingdom of Sealand. Before the coup began, the conspirators also used trickery to steal the holy sword from King Solomon.
Even without the Holy Sword, King Solomon was still the "Undefeated King", and in the face of the disparity in strength between the enemy and the enemy, he resolutely led his loyal subordinates to fight a desperate battle against ruthless thieves and foreign enemies. In the end, King Solomon won his first battle, the only one without the sword in his hand, and Solomon suppressed the rebellion, annihilated his enemies, and maintained his reputation as the "Undefeated King" at the cost of his own life.
After the death of King Solomon, his sons and grandsons succeeded to the throne, but his descendants could not drive the holy sword, and the Kingdom of Sealand could not reproduce the glory of the era of the "Undefeated King". The Sultan of the Black-Clad Empire won an "eternal victory" and slaughtered the descendants of the Khandvian royal family, but these heretics were never able to become masters of the Sacred Sword, despite their usurpation.
In this way, the holy sword "Eternal Victory" was locked as a trophy in the warehouse of the Black Empire, and it took many years for it to be rediscovered, by which time the Black Empire had changed the position of Sultan.
Because of the brutal rule of the Black Caliphate, the common people were cornered, and the people revolted continuously, the government was dark, the ruling class was rotten, and palace coups occurred frequently, and the Holy Light Cult and the Rocal Empire learned from the pain and regrouped. Under the multiple pressures of internal and external troubles, this infidel empire that had been conquered by force soon collapsed, and the person who finally buried the black-clothed empire was a 4-year-old girl named "Margaret".
Margaret claimed to be the heir of Solomon and the only surviving bloodline of the Candvian royal family. Although there were many doubts about it at the time, Margaret succeeded in revealing the lost sword in front of everyone. Regardless of whether she really has the bloodline of the "Undefeated King", it is an indisputable fact that the Holy Sword "Eternal Victory" recognizes her as the master.
Under Margaret's call and the light of the holy sword, the people of the former Sealand set off a great revolution against the black-clothed empire, and the black-clothed army was defeated.
A year later, the Kingdom of Sealand was restored.
Another year later, in the palace of the Caliphate in Black, the square where the Candivian royal family had been slaughtered, Margaret raised the "Eternal Victory" and cut off the head of the last Sultan of the Black-Clothed Empire.
In this way, the second master of the holy sword in history, Margaret Candeviaan, was called the "Queen of Vengeance" by later generations.
After Margaret and her descendants had ruled for many years, a third Master of the Holy Sword appeared.
In the Galaxy Continent, in the ruins of the original black-clothed empire, dozens of small countries have emerged, and these small countries have annexed each other. Eventually, the Carolingian Duchy of the Holy Illuminati unified the vast land and established the Kingdom of Medin.
Since the Kingdom of Sealand had not converted to the Holy Light Cult at that time, and the Kingdom of Medin was the vanguard of the Holy Light mission, there was a conflict of faith between the two countries. Coupled with the fact that the two countries have long had disputes over commercial and territorial issues, and under the multiple contradictions, the two great kingdoms finally met each other, resulting in the first "Messi War".
In the early days of the war, the Sealand army suffered a great loss in the face of the powerful heavy cavalry phalanx of the Kingdom of Medin, and even the king was killed in battle.
In the midst of defeat and retreat, the master of the holy sword once again turned the tide.
Usefer, he doesn't have the aura of a royal family, just a hunter who came out of the forest. Without knowing his past or who his parents were, the young man appeared as if out of thin air.
Due to his outstanding bow skills and handsome appearance, some say that he was of one- or one-quarter elven blood and came to the Kingdom of Sealand to stop the expansion of the Holy Light Cult, while others say that he was the concubine of the recently lost queen. But regardless of the truth, in the palace, in front of the orphaned and widowed queen, mother and son, and all the ministers, Usefer raised the holy sword "Eternal Victory", which had already confessed the Lord, causing a boil.
As a hunter, Usefir's fighting style is very different from that of traditional knights. Not only did Osayfer show excellent swordsmanship, but his bowing skills were even more breathtaking. Usefel was able to pierce the clouds with an arrow that could hit the Medin griffons who were hiding above the clouds with a single arrow in sight.
For this reason, Ossefer was given the title of "The Brave Man Who Pierced the Clouds".
But it's not enough to have your own stunts. In order to bridge the gap in protection and healing with the Medin army, Usephil decided to reform Sealand's army, abandoning the armor that hindered movement and focusing on long-range attacks.
Because the new king was very young, the young queen was in charge of the government, and she gave her full support to Usefir, and in order to prevent the conservatives from causing trouble, she even put Usefil on an equal footing with the younger king, and accepted the support of her subjects together, paving the way for his military reforms.
With the support of the Queen Mother, Usefer trained a small but extremely capable army of archers. These soldiers were able to shoot through the heavy armor that the heavily armored knights were proud of with an arrow at a distance of 4 meters, becoming a nightmare for the knights of Meddin. This archer unit was also the prototype of the "cloud-piercing longbowmen" that later shocked the world.
Thanks to the military reform and a qualitative change in the way of fighting, and inspired by the Holy Sword, the Sealand army, which had lost its armor, regrouped and counterattacked, while the superior knights of Medin, were defeated and defeated all the way. The First Messi War ended, and the Kingdom of Sealand was able to keep several of their enclaves on the mainland.
After the victory, the "Brave Man Who Pierced the Clouds" Osayfer, as the first hero, shared the power of the kingdom with the Queen Mother. Years later, Usefer suddenly disappeared from the eyes of his subjects without warning, leaving only the Holy Sword behind, along with the Queen Mother, who had left her country to her son, who had just turned old.
This ending made later historians have many doubts about the relationship between the Queen Mother and the "Brave Man Who Pierced the Clouds".
However, the emergence of a third master of the sacred sword created two of the most important systems in the later generations of the Sealand Kingdom: first, the bow technique was regarded as the national skill of Sealand, and second, it stipulated that the owner of the holy sword had a higher status than the reigning king of Sealand.
As for the owner of the fourth holy sword, he is one of the famous "Twelve Heroes of Demon Slayering" a few years ago: Charlie the "Lionheart".
Like Usefir, Charlie was not originally a member of the royal family, he was the son of Duke Lion, the head of the Royal Guard.
The Demon Wars suddenly broke out, and the demon army swept through the Kingdom of Sealand, and as a member of the Royal Guard, Charlie was responsible for protecting the Holy Sword and Princess Kassandra's evacuation. On the way to escape, Charlie has a secret love affair with the princess, and is recognized as the master when he accidentally touches the holy sword.
Unintentionally becoming the master of the holy sword, Charlie must take on responsibilities that he never thought of before. He held aloft the holy sword and led the fleeing Sealand soldiers and civilians against the mighty demon army, he married Kassandra, who later became the empress, and then took over the throne passed to him by his wife, and in the name of the king, he led the kingdom's best warriors to join the coalition army, crossing the sea to fight the demon lair, the demon continent, and finally died on the battlefield.
Of the four holy sword masters, Charlie was the only one who died young.
The death of the "Lionheart" left behind a thousand-year-old mystery: that is, where is the "eternal victory" of the holy sword
For more than 2,000 years after that, the whereabouts of the holy sword were unknown, and there was no appearance of the fifth holy sword master