Warhammer Throne

Frankly speaking, the number of meetings between Ryan and the old king is really not that many. Since he came to Brittany, the number of meetings between him and Richard is really very few.

On the one hand, it was because Ryan was forced to be baroned at the time. To put it simply, this was the meaning of the fairy in the lake. After Richard was awarded the sword at the time, Ryan was supposed to be his vassal, so he ordered Ryan to reluctantly There are reasons and grounds.

But here is the embarrassing problem. Ryan is a holy grail knight, and Richard is just an expedition knight. The kingdom’s holy grail system determines that it is not easy for expedition knights to order holy grail knights. In addition, Ryan is backed by a goddess and has the strength of the sanctuary. With Lançois's support, it was difficult for Richard to manage Ryan, and the relationship between the two parties was very awkward, and they rarely met at all.

On the other hand, Ryan and Richard’s political views are at odds. The only tacit agreement between the two parties is that Richard’s eldest son Charles will not have a chance to ascend to the throne. Richard prefers Ryan. Ryan obviously wants to fight for the throne. There have been many competitions and struggles. This struggle was finally concluded with Richard's failure, Lawn's defeat in Mousilo and Ryan's recovery of Moussilon. Richard accepted the defeat and the grievances between the two sides finally existed. Got a result.

After Mathieubad was beheaded by Ryan at the gate of Curona, Richard had passed his position as Duke of Le Angouran to his nephew Taubert and had his grandson William set off for the Holy Grail. The expedition, as for his son, the Prince Charles, who had waited for more than 70 years without waiting for the duke and the throne, and finally chose to become a vampire?

Who cares?

Every time I saw Richard, Ryan could feel that the other party seemed to be a little older. When he first came to Brittany, Richard’s hair was still gray, and when he failed to suppress Ryan, he had become gray. Now it is almost It's all white.

"Why? Surprised?" Richard stood at the door, his temperament had become a pure old man, and the outgoing old king stroked his beard: "I think I have to come to see you. "

"Of course." Ryan hesitated for a moment, and still felt that he must be given basic respect. This was not because he was weak or timid, but because he maintained the orthodoxy of his law. Only to fully respect the old king and his throne. There will be orthodoxy: "Uh, take a step?"

"Are you interested in hanging out with me? It's nearby." Richard spread his hands: "No weapons, no people arranged."

"Okay, wait a minute, I'll talk to Su Liya." Ryan nodded, he went into the room instead, and said a few words to Su Liya. The female knight was a little surprised, but she quickly said that it was okay.

A few minutes later, in the dimly lit streets of Curona, the old king and the new king who was about to take the throne one after another, ignoring the night order, strolled down the street. At this time, there were no pedestrians on the street. Under the administration, the capital’s night order was strictly enforced. Except for a small number of nobles who have the right to go to the streets or licensed merchants, no one can see any wanderers on the streets.

The street lights are not bright. Curona is the most populous city in Brittania and covers the largest area. If you want to keep the city brightly lit at night, the money consumed every day is staggering, Raun only guarantees that the city remains basic The lighting, therefore, whether it is Richard or Ryan, their faces are looming under the lights.

"Don't you have anything you want to say to me?" Richard's old voice was full of calmness and ease.

"I remember you were looking for me." Ryan was a little amused after hearing these words.

"Your Majesty," Richard said in a hoarse voice.

"Um?"

"You must call me now, Your Majesty, because you are not the king yet." Richard snorted deep in his throat, "Don't you have any basic courtesy?"

"Well, my majesty, I remember you came to me first." Ryan rolled his eyes without a trace, thinking that this old guy is at the end, and he didn't forget to take advantage.

When Ryan's voice fell, Richard gave a faint "um" and did not say any more. The old king was in front and Ryan was behind. The two walked along the street together. Richard remained silent and Ryan remained silent.

In the weird silence, the two gradually approached the Holy Grail Champion Warrior Cathedral. The sacred and splendid cathedral was shining brightly under the shining of magic lights. The stories of the twelve first-generation Holy Grail knights will be extolled here forever. Until the end of the world.

"No one will forget Arthur and his holy grail companions, no one will forget their glorious founding twelve battles. Without their sacrifices and victories, there would be no Britania today, the kingdom of knights." Richard Caressing his white goatee, tears were already in the eyes of the old king: "Ryan, as the inheritor of Landuin's will and virtue, you must be able to experience this feeling?"

"Your Excellency Landuin is worthy of being the perfect man of knighthood. He sacrificed himself and saved Mousillon. Without his sacrifice, there would be no Mousillon today." Ryan nodded slightly, at this moment, except for the rise in his heart. Apart from infinite admiration, there is no other thread in his heart, no sacrifice, no victory. In the long history, countless martyrs used their blood and glory to form the cornerstone of mankind's standing.

"Hahaha~" He looked at Ryan's watch, and smiled like sarcasm and self-deprecating. He pointed to the rows of stone benches at the entrance of the Holy Grail Cathedral: "I'm old, I can't walk so much. Sit with me."

"Okay." Ryan did not refuse, he and Richard sat on the two ends of the bench.

"Have you hated me?" Richard was sitting on the bench, turning his head and asking Ryan: "Since the Chivalry War in the Arden Forest, I have embarrassed you more than once, and later I want to transfer you to Arabi Mujahideen, go and tell me, lady's champion of choice, have you ever had hatred in your heart?"

"No, it's just bored at best." Ryan shook his head calmly: "We just have different positions."

"Huh~hahahaha! Different positions?" Richard laughed loudly when he heard the words. His old laughter spread far away. A few guards at the Holy Grail Cathedral immediately came out to check the situation. They saw that it was the old king and the new one. The king sat together chatting, saluted quickly, and backed away. The old king looked at the guards and sneered: "Do you think I have a different stand with you? Ryan, do you know that when I was young, I used to be the same as you? Reformers?"

"???" Ryan frowned when he heard the words, and he wondered what Richard meant by these words.

This old guy turned and changed to support me?

Or is it about to abdicate and sell it well?

"Why, don't you believe it?" Richard sneered. "Do you know the Le-Angoulan Marine Corps? This army is all equipped with muskets, decades earlier than your old guards."

"I didn't expect that the army was actually created by you." Ryan decided to wait and see the changes for the time being. He was a little surprised, because the Principality of Le-Angouran did have a musket battalion known as the Marine Corps, but because of its low sense of existence , He almost forgot. He didn't expect that this army was actually created by Richard: "But I don't seem to have seen it before."

"That's because this army is already out of service." Richard nodded slightly, he seemed to sigh, seemingly helpless: "About 30 to 40 years ago, this army still had a certain fighting capacity when it was first created. The sparse battle formation, poor management, paid enough military pay, the serfs were unwilling to fight hard, the army that spent a lot of gold and silver and the muskets purchased from the empire became waste. I didn’t think about it as such at the beginning. You are as thoughtful as you are. I thought at one time that as long as we purchase muskets and train them strictly, our army will not be worse than the empire."

"...Only equipment can keep up. The system and management have not kept up. It's useless." Lane said casually: "This kind of temporary army can only fight a full-scale war at most. The soldiers may either make enough money or fight. Dead on the battlefield."

"Well, now you believe that I was a reformist before, right?" Richard's muddy eyes exuded a faint light: "I realized it a long time ago. Before you, when I was a Duke, John I and John II reigned successively. They used military force to squeeze national power internally and squeeze the wealth of serfs. I was probably the most radical among the dukes at that time!"

"...I can't tell." Ryan didn't know much about the history and stories of Brittany before.

"You must want to know why I have become what I am now?" Richard chuckled: "The energetic and ambitious Duke Le-Angouran when he came to the throne, Richard, the Paladin named'Tiger', How did you become the cautious old man today?"

"My Majesty..." Ryan let out a sigh of relief. He looked up at the dark night sky. The bright moonlight flooded the entire street, shrouding the Holy Grail Cathedral in an unreal light and shadow.

"I have thought of a lot of ways since I came to the throne, a lot." Richard said to himself: "But without exception, I failed. It took me a few years and I was battered. I thought the dukes would choose. I would support my decision when I came up, but they didn’t. On the contrary, they only focused on their own interests. I was restrained everywhere. What’s more, I couldn’t get the support of Maugiana, and Maugiana would not support me. , Then the lady is definitely not on my side."

"Ryan, the power of habit and tradition is terrible. When a country that has been passed down for thousands of years is gradually declining, many times it cannot be saved by one person. Ryan, you really think that John I and John II are both heinous sinners. , Are you a tyrant who endangers the country?" Richard turned his head and looked at Ryan: "I also felt that at first. It was not until I became the king that I realized that John I and John II were not what they thought they were. They also wanted They just didn’t choose the right way to save this declining kingdom, especially when John II hoped to come to a knightly holy war, through an expedition to the evil land to fight the greenskins to gain actual control of the kingdom, but his ending is knighthood. The whole army was wiped out, and she was also pulled down from the throne by Mojana."

Ryan sighed lightly when he understood. The new king looked at the old king as well: "So, after trying many times, you chose to give up, because the ending of John II scared you."

"Yeah, I'm scared." Richard nodded slightly: "The altruism is often just a pursuit. I have my family, I have my family, and I have my vassals. I can't do it because of my selfishness. Let bad luck befall them, I can only become what I hate most before, as a rubber stamp, trying to maintain stability, like an old captain desperately at the helm, controlling the leaking broken ship everywhere, I am tired I’m tired, but I can’t stop, I don’t dare to stop, Ryan, you have the way you want to protect the kingdom, and I have mine too."

Having said that, Richard has tears in his eyes: "I heard the story of Arthur and the twelve first-generation holy grail knights when I was three years old. I used to think that I just have to move forward like Arthur and the holy grail friends in the story. If you are not afraid of evil, you can have your own great deeds, but after becoming a king, I found that I can’t do anything about the status quo. When I saw your strange actions and repeated challenges to the existing order, I was tired My heart and fragile will make me instinctively hostile to you, because I know that this kingdom can no longer withstand any small ordeal."

"My Majesty..." Ryan looked up at the black night sky. Who could understand the weight of the crown? Everyone only saw the glory and power symbolized by the crown, but few people knew that the weight of the crown was enough to turn Richard, the once brave and proud paladin, into what it is today.

Old, conservative, decadent, and stubborn.

"I'm very happy, you found a way." Richard took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes: "Now is your time, the future of the kingdom will soon be in your hands, I have a hunch , The kingdom of the knights is either in chaos under your hands, or it's a great rule."

"Just wait for my performance." Ryan doesn't know what to say. To this day, he is still a little unsure of becoming a king. The whole kingdom will be under his rule. His heart is very kind. The feeling of inability to express, seemed to be excited, seemed to be worried, in the future, he must take up the country by himself.

"Huh, speaking of it, you are still a foreigner." Richard said casually, "But what does it matter? Arthur is not also a foreigner. The entire Bretons moved here from across the Grey Mountains. , Since you married Suria, then we are Bretonians."

"Then you don't know, you can't predict yourself." Ryan stretched out his index finger and gently rubbed his hands left and right under his nostrils, then spread his hands: "A person's fate, of course, depends on self-struggle. , But also consider the history of the journey, my majesty, you said that I am an adopted son of Lord Nord, how can I become a knight king?"

"Heh, this is not the first time. Wasn't the original knight king Taylor the illegitimate son of the Duke of the Empire?" Richard also sighed with emotion, "I have been on the throne for more than 30 years. I thought about it carefully. Just did three things."

"First, after the brutality of John I and John II and the chaos that lasted for decades, I presided over the restoration of production, stabilized the political situation, and stopped the civil war between the dukes."

"Secondly, we stopped launching chivalry wars for more than 20 years, and restored national power and the number of knights."

"Third, we reached a consensus with the former imperial emperor Luitpold and maintained the overall peace between Bretania and the empire for nearly thirty years."

Richard said to himself that Ryan nodded and smiled when he heard the words. The old king didn't actually tell Ryan to hear, but to himself. To be fair, Richard did have a good idea about the kingdom. Your own contribution.

"If there is a little achievement, it is that I have tried to introduce the technology of the empire, and the scale of Egil’s invasion was also very large, but these are secondary. My main concern is three small things. Ashamed, I only did a small amount of work."

"The future is yours, Ryan. Below heaven is your heaven."

"May Madam bless you."

The old king got up on the spot after he said this, no longer paying attention to Ryan. He left alone. The old shadow was no longer as strong as he was in his prime, but the pride in his heart and the ease of unburdening made his footsteps very easy. Quickly, turning a corner, Richard left. Ryan knew that this was probably the last time he saw Richard.

"Very well, next, it's my turn."