Chapter Eighty-Six: Homecoming
To get to the Golden Dragon Sanctuary, you must first pass through the dangerous Antigorin Sea.
For a person like Owen, who had already crossed the Antigorin Sea, Prince Marne and his followers had no interest in how they had been dying in the forest for more than half a year. The only thing that is known is that the ragged and scarred Prince of Marne, inspired by the crimson spear in his hand, which is said to be made of dragon blood, finally finds Grace, the daughter of the golden dragon who entrusted him as a baby to the former king, despite the fact that his followers have died and exhausted.
History is always strikingly similar, as in the first meeting with Augustine Lato more than 30 years ago, when Marn found Grace, she was lying naked in the golden spring to heal her wounds. With his eyes closed and his demeanor serene, his astonishing beauty and moon-like temperament, Marn was stunned on the spot, and his soul seemed to have been hooked, completely forgetting the purpose of his trip......
What happened afterwards is just as recorded in history. The three princes who participated in the party struggle for the succession were equal in strength, and none of them could have an absolute advantage, because no one could ascend to the throne. But "a kingdom cannot be without a king for a day." The throne could not remain vacant, so the Council of High Priests put the younger brother of the previous king, who had no children and was seriously ill, on the throne as a stopgap measure. But this new monarch is a puppet at all, the second, fourth, and seventh princes who really hold real power, no one takes this weak uncle in their eyes. In this way, the subjects of the kingdom of Agulema passed the spring and autumn cycle of 5 or 6 imaginary monarchs.
The infighting without a bottom line has destroyed the original intact order of the country to the fullest, black and white are reversed, the order is changed overnight, and the chaos is unbearable. The national strength was empty, the people were miserable, and the nobles and gentry who had the ability and financial resources, but did not want to get involved in the party strife, fled one after another.
The roof leak happened to rain overnight. Just when the kingdom of Agulaima was in constant trouble, external troubles arose.
The southern behemoth of the Shumiro Empire has always coveted the land of the Agulaima Kingdom, and within a few years of the end of the Demon War, it launched a war to invade Agulema. Due to the stubborn resistance of the Agulema army and civilians, the Imperial Army has not been able to capture the entire territory of the kingdom, but the disparity in strength is huge, and the kingdom has not been able to completely expel the Imperial army. It wasn't until 7 or 8 years ago, when Prince Marn, who was only 15 years old at the time, rose to prominence on the battlefield, defeated the invincible Shumiro Imperial Army, forced the empire to the negotiating table, and the two sides signed a non-aggression pact, and the border crisis was barely temporarily subsided. However, at the moment when Agulayma's national strength was greatly damaged due to internal strife, and Prince En, who was the most feared by the imperial army, was nowhere to be found, the Xiumiro Empire did not hesitate to tear up the treaty, gathered more than 200,000 troops with the strength of the whole empire, and claimed to be a million army to the outside world, and launched the craziest invasion in history with the posture of vowing to destroy the Agulayma Kingdom.
This time, the stormy kingdom of Agulaima did not perform another miracle. It was not until half of the empire was lost that the three princes, who had fought so much, woke up from a long-overdue reconciliation and fought together against the invasion.
But this alliance of mutual vigilance is meaningless.
The results of the resistance were disastrous. In the past, the most arrogant and arrogant second brother was unfavorable, defeated and captured, and surrendered to the imperial army on his knees, but he was humiliated and deprived of even the most basic dignity as a human being; In the case of hopeless breakthrough, the seventh child chose the most shameful method, the second and fourth children at least fought hard with the imperial army, but the seventh child was in the desperate situation of the soldiers approaching the city, and the army and the people were ruthlessly fooled, posing for the posture of co-existence and death with the royal capital, but hiding his subordinates behind his back, secretly escaped from the tunnel outside the city, and disappeared.
The three powerful princes fled, died, and surrendered, and the other princes and princesses did not become a climate, the weak puppet king was frightened to death, and the remaining high priests who could still hold power could still preside over the overall situation, but they were completely unprepared for the march, and the gorgeous kingdom collapsed almost overnight, and some princesses even hanged themselves before the city was broken and raped......
At the moment when this edifice was about to collapse, the miracle of 23 years ago appeared again! The "golden sun" that suddenly appeared in the sky 23 years ago shone the imperial killer hidden in the corner of the imperial palace, and 23 years later shocked the spirit of the imperial invasion and blocked the imperial army's footsteps in capturing the royal capital.
Compared with the surprise of the imperial army, the remnants of the kingdom were shocked by the defeat of the army, because the young heroic Prince Marne, who had mysteriously disappeared for 6 years, fell from the sky on the back of a huge golden dragon with a shining yellow dragon armor and a scarlet spear in his hand.
Dragons had made a rule not to allow dragons to intervene in human infighting, but if they had signed a contract with humans to become dragon knights, they would not be subject to this restriction.
The golden dragon's punitive flames burned the Imperial army's battering ram to ashes, and the dragon knight's crimson spear pointed at the kingdom's army and the people regrouped and launched a Jedi counterattack against the mighty Imperial army.
The capital of the kingdom of Agulaima was preserved, but the strength was still very different. Before the Host, Marn was ordained as the new king of the kingdom of Akulaima under the auspices of the Council of High Priests. Less than two hours after the young new monarch put on his crown, he led 200 cavalry to rush to the camp of the Imperial army's siege vanguard stationed outside the city. The frightened Imperial Army never expected that the enemy would take the initiative to attack the city, and the more than 7,000 siege troops were unexpectedly defenseless and chaotic. 200 cavalry as if into no man's land, directly into the middle tent, the general of the imperial siege force was awakened in his sleep, just sat up from the bed, before he had time to put on the armor, was the first horse King Marne shot through the chest, and then the head of the main general was raised high by the crimson spear, the head of the owl to show the public, 7000 imperial soldiers had no intention of fighting, rout and fled; 200 cavalry chased from behind, and even left nearly 1,000 corpses.
After the defeat of the enemy army, Marn found the second child who had surrendered after being captured in the empty and ruined Imperial barracks. At this time, the second prince, who used to be high, was being locked naked in a small dog cage and died in this extremely shameful posture. The retreating Imperial Army did not intend to leave a way for the captive to live, and before leaving, they stabbed Ming Huanghuang's sharp knife into the heart of the second child.
Looking at the corpse, which was still warm, Marn was silent and full of mixed feelings. The knight, who had only followed Marn for half a day, thought that the young new monarch missed his brotherhood, but he didn't know that Marn's heart was full of hatred and anger at this time. The culprit who killed his mother in front of him, Marn had long wanted to break him into pieces, eat his flesh, and drink his blood, but for the sake of a more long-term goal, Marn had to force the hatred in his heart, live under the same roof as the enemy, endure for years, and now finally waited for the opportunity. In order to create a more opportune time, Marn and the golden dragon partnered with Grace to hide outside the royal capital and observe for several days before making a move.
How could Marn not be annoyed that this bastard had finally escaped his punishment in this way? However, Marn had to continue to swallow his anger into his stomach, because revenge was only part of his plan, not the whole story, and his lofty ideals must not be compromised by the fact that revenge had been messed up.
During the night, when Grace, who had returned to human form, came up behind the pensive Marn and reached out to touch his shoulder to comfort her depressed partner, Marn suddenly grabbed her hand backwards and turned back to smile as brightly as usual.