13.The Past and the Present
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The Sun Kingdom, where the sun always smiles upon unless it’s night.
A place where rain and snow doesn’t reach and is always summer.
The flowers bloom at every corner of the Kingdom, which gave the Kingdom the nickname.
‘The Sunny Flower’
Its citizens took pride in it, especially the nobles of the kingdom. Their pride took over their head when they gained power more so than the other kingdoms and started closing their gates from the commoners and didn’t accept invitations from the other kingdoms. The other kingdoms didn’t really care.
If the Sun Kingdom wanted to annihilate themself, let it be.
After all, no flower in a greenhouse can survive in a case of annihilation.
The King of the Sun Kingdom was already weak and old, so nobody listened him when he gave advice and instead listened to his wife, the Queen who proclaimed that she was speaking in the king’s name.
With her as the head of the kingdom, the whole place started to go downhill.
All of the other Kingdoms closed down their trade routes with them and even sent spies to closely watch them. They were so deep that the Queen with her pride couldn’t even see.
A common mistake when you gain power. All of that power, yet no brains to use it.
It only signals the case of Calamity.
The Annist event. One where a kingdom can be destroyed.
Every 50 years. All nine Kingdoms gather and union. While the commoners will drink and party with each-other. The nobles will play judge. In this case the Sun Kingdom will be judged.
Every Kingdom has its own rules, but all of them have one rule they have to follow.
The rule is ‘Don’t get greedy or you perish.’
An unspoken rule of course. And the Sun Kingdom is at the end of it.
Maybe the Sun Kingdom hasn’t shown much greediness, but it has shown rebellion and tried to push through other kingdoms in many occasions.
Before the other Kingdoms chose to cut ties with the Sun Kingdom because of its inhospitality, they were given a certain timeframe until they can change their means.
That timeframe is until The event. If they didn’t change their means, they will be destroyed.
But things are never easy in politics. The Sun Kingdom still had a friend, The Moon Kingdom.
It could be said they were twin Kingdoms.
If the Sun Kingdom was known as the ‘Sunny Flower’
The Moon Kingdom were ‘The Cold Monarchs’
Unlike the Sun Kingdom. The Moon Kingdom didn’t get arrogant and still played by the rules.
When they saw their twin Kingdom break them.
They still supported them. The other side’s bad leadership will not break their history through thousands of years.
So they chose to remove the problem from the root.
And that root was the Queen.
They sent high level [ Assassins ] to kill the queen. In the mean time, the Moon Kingdom’s High-Ranked Nobles helped the Sun Kingdom, by making the third son of the king become the Crown Prince.
Why the third ?
The reason is very simple.
The queen had already instilled her ideas on the oldest son, the Crown Prince.
While the second was just a waste who liked to play in brothels.
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They were respectfully 27 and 25.
While the youngest, the third prince was 16 years old and was not effected by the Queen’s ideals.
His name was William von Apollo.
After the Moon Kingdom’s plot began. They managed to kill the queen and also poisoned the other two princes.
Managing to kill the three of them and made William the Crown Prince.
Until he is of age to become the rightful king.
He was forced to learn the matters of the Kingdom and try to save it from certain doom.
He was very adaptable and managed to quickly get a hold of the situation.
He knew that even if the Moon Kingdom helped him. One vote will not save him. He had to get the approval of the other near Kingdoms, but didn’t know who to trust. In the shadows of the Kingdoms, there will always be treachery and cunning people who will try to make the Sun Kingdom their own vassal.
So before he became the king he used his status as Crown Prince to hold a meeting with the King of Penesca Kingdom. Despite his mother’s attempts to push through their borders, The king was open minded and showed his reputation as a good leader and King.
A kingdom that made trade around all of the world. They were the richest kingdom, but they weren’t necessarily the strongest.
They made a treaty, The Sun Kingdom will help Penesca train their soldiers without holding back, in return. The Penesca Kingdom will vote against annihilating The Sun Kingdom in the Annist Event.
Of course if there is no way the two kingdoms can go against the treaty.
They both signed a magical contract.
In any case they don’t hold to their promise. The Royal Bloodline of both kingdoms will be destroyed.
A year later
In the year 1119 of the New Avalon Calendar.
The king of the Sun Kingdom, Barrius von Apollo the lll.
Died.
A few months later, William came to legal age to inherit the throne.
He also had only one year left to secure another vote. Or else he and his kingdom will perish.
Fortunately their life-long partner, The Moon Kingdom helped them, by getting a vote from the Caio Kingdom, their allies.
The Sun Kingdom had secured 3 votes.
Which was already enough.
Even though it’s 5 agains 4 kingdoms.
By the rules of the event the Sun Kingdom will not be annihilated.
There is even a chance that the some other kingdoms will not vote on annihilation and instead stay neutral.
But in the world where the strong pray on the weak, you can’t leave things to chance.
The year passed and the Annist Event came.
As expected, the Sun Kingdom managed to survive.
With 2 votes for annihilation and 2 kingdoms were neutral.
The two kingdoms that voted on annihilation were the Meeland and Gaia Kingdom.
They were allies and wanted to seize the Sun Kingdom for their own personal reasons.
Unfortunately for them they couldn’t.
Since then. The Sun Kingdom opened their borders and welcomed the other kingdoms and started new trades with them. Not with Meeland and Gaia Kingdom of course.
Entering a total new era since then, with the King William on the top.
He became known as the Sun Savior.
The End.
“That was certainly interesting”
I said as I closed the book.
The book was called ‘The Dangerous Sun Times’ I borrowed it from the ol’ man’s library among a ton of other books. It was a good Idea to keep the books with me.
Well at least I know where my geographical location is and how far I am from the Mayr Kingdom, which was my goal.
I turned to my left and asked Brandon, “Would you mind telling me the year we are currently in?”
He looked at me with a deadpan expression but he wore it off, he probably felt it was rude, and answered.
“It’s the 1477th year of the New Avalon Calendar, but I am sure that the Hellzarr continent has is the same since they share the same change after the Era of Heroes. Are you telling me you don’t know such a thing?”
I waved my hands at his confusion.
“That’s not it, I was just reminding myself of how many years have passed since the last time the Sun Kingdom was in danger.”
I lied through my teeth.
“Ah, I see.” He nodded and then looked at the book I was reading, he was slightly surprised though, for reasons unknown to me, but he didn’t say anything.
He continued to grill the meat in the fire we had built a bit ago, as the other two helped by picking up wood.
That girl sure did a shitty job.
I watch as she struggles to even hold the wood properly. Strength wasn’t the problem, her hands when holding the wood slipped pretty often. She even showed disgust when she touched the wood.
A Noble, pretty bad at hiding her identity.
When I used [ Identify ] on her, nothing came out and just question marks around the status.
As I said, pretty bad at hiding her identity.
I moved my gaze from her and instead used [Identify] on Brandon instead.
[ Brandon ]
[ Level - 22 ]
[ Class - Knight ]
The girl seems to have a treasure to hide her status. But Brandon is an open book.
I sometimes think whether they are just dumb, or are they doing this on purpose.
I abruptly finished my thoughts because Brandon tried to offer me food.
“I don’t know what kind of demon are you, do you need to eat.?”
“I indeed need to eat, but I ate before I took a bath at the pond, so I am not hungry.”
He nodded and instead called the other two.
“That’s enough wood, come and eat.”
“Finally”
Claus let out an exaggerated groan, while Tina just nodded and sat down.
All of us were sitting down and surrounded the fire, the three of them took chunks of bites as if they were in a hurry.
“So, when are you going to head back and leave the forest?” I asked them making them look at me.
Claus looked at me and replied, “We have been here for 2 days and nights. After another night we are going to leave tomorrow morning.”
“Do you mind if I come with you? It’s my first time coming here so I don’t know the way to the city.” I look at them and their reactions.
Just like before Brandon looks at Tina. And just like before, after receiving a nod from her, Brandon nodded and looked at me.
“Sure, we also might need help this time, I am sure you are quite strong, since we can’t see your level.”
“It’s a good deal.”
I looked and nodded at Tina.
She was a bit surprised, but quickly recovered and nodded as well.
I seems she doesn’t intend to hide it much. Brandon also figured the situation by looking at us and nodded.
“What’s going on?”
Claus has no idea and looks at us confused.
Well there’s always a dumb one in the group..
Brandon and Tina also looked at him with deadpan expression, which made the boy even more confused.
Poor boy..