Kingdom’s Bloodline

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A heartbeat, sound like a heavy hammer.

pain.

Heartbreaking pain.

Thales barely stood up while leaning on the fast rope, dripping with cold sweat.

No.

Click.

Another heartbeat.

After struggling to take away Barney's sword, the terrible sequelae struck again, making every breath, and even every heartbeat of him, accompanied by severe pain that almost pierced his heart.

Every time it gets worse.

It was like the ferryman's call to smash him from head to toe.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

He cannot fall.

At least not now.

Dying, Thales swept across the nine scarred men with despairing eyes.

The former royal guard.

Click.

After the next heartbeat, the sin of the prison river that was nearly exhausted surged again as if he had come back from a desperate situation, filling his limbs, rushing towards his overwhelmed heart and body that was on the verge of collapse.

Unfamiliar and familiar fluctuations strike, recreating the scene of Dragon Blood Night and the battle against the Meteorites:

The Sin of Hell River began to consume a huge amount of energy, accelerating the regeneration and recovery of damaged tissues in his body.

Accompanied by infinitely magnified pain.

Thales began to tremble uncontrollably.

But unlike before, after listening to Sackel's confession and little Barney's sobbing, listening to the gurgle of blood in Naki's throat and Nai's increasingly chaotic breathing, Thales suddenly found that he could not care about these things The pain that made him die.

Sackel's words were vivid in his ears, as if they had passed away, but they were extremely clear.

"The royal guards are their own masters, and colleagues and comrades-in-arms meet each other..."

"A total of eleven times... brotherly killing each other."

Click.

In Thales' increasingly dim vision, the punishment knight stared blankly at the darkness.

"I can only watch everything happen, powerless, helpless..."

"sorry……"

Saker said emptily.

"I can't do anything."

Thales subconsciously squeezed the fast rope's arm and closed his eyes.

The crime of Hell River was still galloping and roaring in his body like a wild beast looking for its prey.

But at that moment, Thales seemed to have returned to that night in the abandoned house, lying powerlessly on the dilapidated ground.

He heard Quaid laugh wildly.

Kelet, Ned, Ensola, and the dead beggars were floating in the air, looking at him expressionlessly.

Watching Quaid cross Thales, step by step towards the weak and trembling Kelia.

And he can only...

Can only watch helplessly as everything...happens.

Nothing can be done.

Thales clenched his fists.

Can't do anything?

No.

In his heart, there seemed to be a voice whispering so softly.

No.

Click.

As if ordering his own body, Thales let go of the fast rope tremblingly, and stood up straight in pain.

That night, the noise and blood in Dragon Clouds City flashed through his mind.

Everything... do, no, do.

He suddenly understood.

What he learned from Tolos' teaching is not just the use of magic energy, or the "contactor" or "object" stage of a magician.

But something more important.

Thales opened his eyes suddenly.

"No."

The boy's voice sounded faintly, steady and firm, which attracted everyone's attention.

Kuaisheng looked in surprise at Prince Xingchen, who was still relying on himself to stand firm just a second ago, and now he was stepping forward in cold sweat.

"It has nothing to do with what we can or can't do." Thales staggered over Barney's sword, picked up the dying torch from the ground, and shook it in the air, allowing it to fully recover burn up.

The light illuminated the dark storage room.

Sackel looked at him blankly, and little Barney was still lying on the ground and weeping silently.

Naki, who was on the verge of death, had gradually lost his eyesight, and Nai's cough became soft and silent.

"It's about whether we have made the choices we deserve when that moment comes."

Thales took a deep breath, forcing himself to block the pain from the mana sequelae or the treatment of Hell River's crime from consciousness, and holding the torch, he walked step by step towards the dark pool of blood ahead.

"No matter what you plan to do now, it's too late," Samir snorted lightly, with endless sadness and sarcasm in his tone:

"This is the truth."

Thales shook his head and just kept going.

Nucky's neck blood stained the soles of his shoes.

Just like that night, he stepped into the pool of blood in the abandoned house.

All eyes were on the prince.

Thales gasped and stepped into a pool of blood.

The next second, the pain in his body suddenly increased!

The boy slipped, unable to support his weak body any longer, and knelt down on one knee in front of Naki and Cannon.

"Thales!"

Kuaisheng exclaimed, but was stopped by the prince's decisively raised hand.

"For now, at least."

Thales took a breath, walked a few steps closer to Naki, and met his almost dry eyes.

"There's one last thing we can do."

one last thing?

Quick Rope froze for a moment.

"Nake the Idler of the Guardian Wing, right?"

Thales endured waves of severe pain and looked at the man whose life was passing away in front of him.

With Cannon's support, Naki glanced blankly at Thales, and the blood on his neck kept gushing out between Cannon's trembling fingers.

Immediately, Naki looked away tremblingly, dodging and weak, as if he did not dare to face the young man surnamed Canxing in front of him.

"I see."

"I know what you've done."

Naki shuddered slightly.

The flames illuminated Naki's face as he was about to leave:

Sallow, dry, wrinkled with despair and pain.

Seeing the other party's unstoppable neck bleeding, Thales gritted his teeth and squeezed out a peaceful smile, trying his best to make his words sound calmer.

"You took part in plots and civil unrest."

"During the chaotic years, you, you vacillated between the family and the royal power, and finally chose to deny the former king, to be loyal to another Canxing, and to choose... the future he represents."

"You have a blood debt that cannot be washed away, including your guard brothers."

Naki, lying in Cannon's arms, began to tremble.

His dark eyes swept towards Thales, full of remorse and pain.

Thales watched calmly, the sorrow in his heart temporarily overshadowed the pain in his body.

"You paid the price for this: tormented by conscience, in guilt, unwillingness and resentment, wearing the brand of guilt on your face, not seeing the light of day, and struggling for half your life."

The boy sighed:

"I've wasted so much."

Naki opened his mouth in pain, but he could only make a gurgling sound of blood in his throat, looking at Thales with increasingly desperate eyes.

The guards stared at the prince with different eyes, either desperate, desolate, indifferent, or empty.

But Thales ignored them.

He just smelled the smell of blood all over his nose, and stared at Naki in the pool of blood, as if he wanted to stare at the remaining soul of the other party.

"But I also know," Thales squeezed out a weak smile:

"I know that you refused to plead guilty back then, and Dai Lao went to prison not because of your own selfishness, but because you wanted to carry out your choice and cover up the Canxing royal family's scandal."

"That may be a sad but honorable choice."

After the words fell, the expressions of the guards moved slightly, and Cannon, who was holding Naki, even raised his head in surprise.

Nucky struggled with his grimy face.

He looked back at Thales in disbelief, his five fingers closed into fists.

In the next second, Thales sighed:

"But none of that matters anymore."

The young man looked at Naji seriously, his bruised and embarrassed face was calm and indifferent in the firelight.

"Because eighteen years later, you escaped from prison in the next step, and at the moment when freedom and liberation are at your fingertips, you finally chose to give up hypocrisy and luck, face the nightmare, face the pain, face the ugliness, and face yourself back then .”

Saker, who was listening silently, shook for a while, and little Barney also calmed down.

Listening to Thales' words, Naki's intensified breathing along with bleeding began to become chaotic.

"Maybe what I'm saying now is trivial and long overdue..."

The weak Thales stretched out his left hand tremblingly, and gently stroked the ugly sin marks on Naki's face.

Flesh engraved with the "s" of the ancient imperial letter.

His touch seemed to have some kind of magical power, which made Naki gradually quiet down.

Thales clenched his teeth lightly.

"But at least, I want you to know."

"Even if the world doesn't know it, even if the kingdom refuses to admit it, even if it can't be clarified forever, at least I know it in my heart."

Thales took a deep breath, smiled and said:

"I don't think you're a bad guy, Nucky."

At that moment, Naki's pupils suddenly shrank!

The look in the eyes of the prince he was looking at changed just like his expression.

"You are not a selfish, simple, evil traitor."

The boy's voice was so soft that it could only shake the dust, but it spread through the dungeon with incomparable clarity.

into everyone's ears.

"On the contrary, you are a respectable man."

"You make your own choices, and then live with your consequences without complaint or regret, and follow your principles."

Naki's breathing began to accelerate, drowning out the sound of bleeding from his neck.

He looked at Thales, opened and closed his lips, and grunted intermittently.

But his slightly excited words were buried in the surging blood.

Thales smiled.

"I know, Nucky, I understand."

The prince pressed Naki's forehead lightly, pulling the distance between them closer.

Nucky's grunts continued, but became weaker and weaker.

"So, at this moment, in the last breath of your life," Thales realized that his voice was trembling, more trembling than Naki's trembling when he was dying:

"Tenaki."

Thales was breathing in a trance, and Naki's haggard face began to blur in front of him.

"In the name of the orthodox descendant of the Canxing family, the sole heir to the nine-star crown, and the second prince Thales Canxing."

The young man heard himself utter tremblingly:

"I forgive you."

At that moment, the dungeon was eerily quiet.

Everyone stared blankly at the young man who was hugging the wounded and speaking softly.

"Forgive all your sins and mistakes that you have, or have, or have not."

The prince's voice fell.

At this moment, it seemed as if nothing had happened, and the dungeon was as silent as ever.

But a few tenths of a second later, Naki's chest began to heave violently, as if he was about to struggle to get up!

"woo woo"

Finally, like a dam that had been blocked for a long time, Naki collapsed at the last moment.

His eyes had lost focus, but he still trembled greatly and stretched out his weak left hand, scratching in the air in vain.

His lips twisted and twitched, and he let out violent sobs and whimpers to Thales, as if he wanted to say endless words.

"Woohoo"

Nucky's fierce reaction caught Cannon, who was pinning his wound, by surprise. He could only try his best to control him, so as not to let his powerless situation worsen again.

Thales put down the torch, ignored the blood all over his body, tightly grasped Naki's empty and helpless palm, and leaned over to embrace the dying man.

"No matter who you betray, whomever you are loyal to."

"No matter what your heart is, what you should do."

"No matter what you did in the past and today."

He pressed his cheek against Naki's forehead, letting the other party's struggle gradually calm down in his own voice:

"May you no longer suffer from sin, contradiction, torture, and guilt."

"Freed from this."

Thales panted, holding back the sourness in his nose:

"May your past be gone, may your nightmares be over."

"Rest in peace."

No one said anything.

At that moment, in the dungeon, there was only the sound of Naki's breathing slowly calming down and weakening.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

I don't know how long it took, but Naki's struggle finally calmed down.

Thales let out a sigh of relief, patted the frozen Cannon, and let go of Naki.

He lowered his head blankly.

At some point, the person in his arms had already closed his eyes.

No more moving.

he's gone.

Thales said bitterly to himself.

After eighteen years of torture...

gone.

But Thales moved immediately.

I saw endless crystals sliding down from Naji's lifeless face.

Tears surged, worse than the blood flow in the neck.

Thales felt a sore heart.

"Thank you," Cannon sobbed, still holding the body of his comrade-in-arms:

"Thank you, Your Highness...Naki, he...Naki..."

Thales raised his head and looked at him blankly.

Naki's teary cheeks twisted and curved, as if he was suffering from severe pain.

But Thales knew.

That's not pain.

But Naki didn't show it for eighteen years...

smile.

Thales froze for a moment in confusion, then stood up staggeringly, and raised the torch again.

Only then did he realize that at some point, all the people in the field were staring at him intently, either in surprise, or excitement, or sorrow, or sadness.

It seems that the young man is the protagonist of the stage at this moment.

Even Sackel stared blankly at Thales, motionless.

Kuaisheng was silent, looking at Thales with a more meaningful look.

Thales took a deep breath and looked away from Naki. Step to the other side.

I don't know if it was the sequelae of the mana that let him go, or if the crime of Hell River was finally repaired, the pain in his body began to become numb, which was not worth mentioning in terms of his current state.

Thales took weak steps and approached Belletti who was holding Nai.

Nai coughed in pain, but the eyes of Thales were lit up with the reflection of the fire.

"Your Highness, we..." Looking at Naki who was no longer breathing, Belletti suppressed the emotion in her chest, and just as she opened her mouth, Thales raised her right hand to stop her.

"Wait a minute." The boy shook his head.

Belletti immediately closed her lips without any objection.

As if it was his calling.

Perhaps affected by what happened just now, no one wanted to interrupt Thales' actions.

As before, Thales knelt in front of Nai on one knee, watching the man who was still smiling at this moment coughing unceasingly.

"The massive internal bleeding after the blunt attack will not get better. As a logistics officer, I know it very well." Nai smiled with difficulty, his face was pale and he was sweating profusely, while Belletti beside him closed his eyes unbearably.

Thales stared at him sadly.

"Sasnai, the second logistics officer." The boy said seriously.

Nai subconsciously pushed Belletti who was hugging him, puffed out her chest.

Seems to want to be more presentable.

Just listen to the prince speak softly:

"I don't know what you have experienced in the past eighteen years, but I know, I know that your experience is not fair."

Nai watched the prince calmly, but his seriously injured body gradually became numb.

Thales suppressed the resentment in his chest:

"Eighteen years, in the grievances and pain, you bear the consequences that are not commensurate with what you have done."

"I know that there is no place to appeal your grievances, your pain is unspeakable, and the justice you deserve...may never come."

Listening to the prince's words, Nai's eyes gradually became lax, filled with sadness.

But Thales grasped his palm.

Nai's palm was cold, as if blood had never flowed through it.

"But you, logistics officer."

"Do not worry."

Thales' tone fluctuated slightly:

"Because at least, at least I will remember your innocence and justice."

Nai's cold palms began to tremble.

"I will always remember that there is such a person, no matter how much pain and grievances he has endured, no matter how much he has endured, whether he has lived or died, he has always believed in and cherished his teammates for ten years, and has never wavered."

Nai's vision was blurry, but he did his best to smile at the prince.

This made Thales quite relieved, and relieved his heavy heart after experiencing Naki's death.

Thales took a deep breath, suppressing his sadness in his heart.

"Sasnay."

Thales said, pressing his forehead against Nai's forehead:

"May the prison river go smoothly."

Thales said softly:

"May you rest in peace."

Nai's body was trembling slightly, even though he didn't have much vitality.

The dungeon was still very quiet.

But right now.

"No, Your Highness..."

Thales let go of Nai, and looked in surprise at Nai who was in tears but still refuted.

"We made an oath," I saw Nai trembling, staring at the empty ceiling with dull eyes, but with tears and smiles, struggling to speak:

"As the emperor's guards, our souls...do not enter the kingdom of heaven, nor go to hell, but are cast in...the majestic empire."

soul?

Thales was slightly taken aback.

Amidst the tears that could not help falling, Nai's smile became even brighter.

Thales felt sad for a while.

"Just like the old brothers..."

Nai could no longer see the scene in front of him clearly, but he still trembled and turned in everyone's direction with the little strength left.

"Royal Guard, Second Logistics Officer, Sassnay."

Boom!

He struggled to clenched his right fist and hit his heart hard!

Regardless of the burden and pain this action brings to oneself.

Thales looked at him in surprise, and suddenly found that the surrounding guards, whether it was Sackel, Barney Jr., Belletti or Semir, unconsciously puffed up their chests and put on a serious face.

Like the most solemn of occasions.

"Everyone!"

Nai opened her pupils, which could only reflect the darkness, and said hoarsely.

"My sword is broken, and my mission is over."

He seemed to be forcing his weak chest and lungs to breathe, trying to squeeze out this sentence from his mouth, the words were correct and decisive.

Every word made the guard members tremble.

Nai took a deep breath:

"I have obeyed, I have fulfilled my duty..."

In the middle of speaking, Nai couldn't continue to breathe, and took several breaths in a row.

Dani recovers and quickly continues:

"I must..."

"I will rest in peace on the side of the Emperor..."

The dying Nai's words froze, and she let go of her fist.

"No."

Nai shook her head.

Trembling, he touched Thales' embarrassed face.

Thales lowered his head slightly, leaning his cheek against the opponent's palm.

Nai touched the prince's face, and took a deep look in Thales' direction.

In the next second, Nai showed the palest and gentlest smile.

Just listen to him firmly say:

"I have rested on the emperor's side."

My sword is broken.

The mission is over.

I have done my duty.

I have rested on the side of the emperor.

The prisoners of the guard listened blankly to the last words, touched or sighed.

Nai stared at the void, trying to hold his breath, as if waiting for something.

Finally, with a rustling sound, the gray-faced little Barney seemed to wake up from a nightmare, pressed his painful right arm to his chest, and leaned against the wall.

"Second Logistics Officer, Sassnay."

"You have fulfilled your duty," Barney said hoarsely, only hearing the voice of little Barney resisting the inflection:

"You will rest in peace on the side of the emperor."

Finally, Thales saw that Nai's pale smile relaxed, as if he had let go of something on his mind.

Thales raised his head, and saw that all the members of the guard were pressing against their chests at the same time, speaking in unison or solemnly, or sadly, or excitedly, telling the funeral speech of the royal guard:

"Only inheritance continues."

"Witness to eternity."

The voice fell.

The next moment, Nai let go of the palm holding the boy's face.

It hung down abruptly and powerlessly, and Thales caught it.

Thales lowered his head, only to see Nai's pupils completely lost their spirit.

he's gone.

Again, Thales said softly to himself.

Belletti whimpered in pain, and Cannon sobbed softly.

Little Barney closed his eyes deeply, and tremblingly said:

"The... thirty-eighth..."

He paused for a moment, and glanced hesitantly at Naki's body on the opposite side.

In the end, little Barney still lowered his head, shaking his head in a gloomy and hopeless manner.

"Thirty-ninth."

Sackel pressed his face into his hands again, his shoulders trembling.

After seeing off the two siblings, the guards were extremely quiet at the moment.

The silence lasted for a few seconds, Thales gently let go of Nai's body.

It's not over yet.

He dragged his weak body and said to himself.

not yet.

Thales turned his head and scanned the figures one by one:

"Chief Penalty Officer Luton Belletti."

"Second Standard Bearer, Colin Semill."

Belletti bit her lip.

Semir had a complex expression on his face.

I saw the prince shaking, holding a torch and standing up.

His figure was extremely clear in the firelight.

"I understand you, and I understand you."

Thales said hoarsely:

"But I don't have the power like my father, and I don't have the status like him. I can't excuse you, I can't apologize for you, I can't intercede for you."

As he spoke, he glanced at little Barney who was completely hopeless and silent.

"I also know my father's character. Even if I return to Eternal Star City, I will still be powerless and powerless. What I say is worthless or even meaningless."

Belletti looked heavy, and Samir shook his head and snickered.

"I can't erase your brand, cleanse your stigma, change your situation, and repair your scars."

Thales took a deep breath:

"But at least, I can, and I can only tell you as Star Thales."

He lowered his head and said silently:

"sorry."

Belletti and Semir moved together.

"Like Nai, I know your grievances, I know your past, and I know your innocence."

Thales tried to make his tone sound calm and sincere:

"I also know your persistence."

"And I will remember it forever."

"Regardless of others."

At that moment, Belletti tried her best to squeeze out a miserable smile and shook her head, while Samir looked at the prince with indescribable eyes with flickering eyes.

"Like Nai, you have already cleared your stigma in my heart."

Thales tried hard to get rid of the sadness in his heart, and raised the corners of his mouth:

"You are an excellent royal guard."

"thank you all."

Belletti's voice froze, unable to speak: "Your Highness..."

Samir turned his head away and sank himself into the darkness with an unclear expression.

Thales tried his best to smile, and turned to the other three again with his weak body.

"Scout of the Vanguard, Jonah Cannon."

"Guardian of the Wing, Solbury."

"And you, Guti Tardine of high birth."

When his name was called, Cannon, who was holding Naki's body, trembled and did not dare to look up, while Bree, who was huge, whimpered a few times in pain.

Tardin even looked away in shame.

"You were involved in the conspiracy and chaos of the year, and even participated in it."

"You participated in the bloody incident back then, which led to the disaster of the royal family and the catastrophe of the kingdom, and the karma of crime is hard to get rid of."

The mood of the three became even more depressed.

Cannon buried his face in the arms of Nucky's body, sobbing.

Bree knelt on the ground, his face dull.

Tardin bit his lip tightly, as if he was ready.

Thales looked at these three people, and the emotions in his heart were so complicated that it was hard to explain.

But in the end, he took a deep breath and shook his head.

"but……"

Thales showed a faint smile:

"I forgive you."

Deathly silence.

Belletti's eyes widened, and even Samuel frowned.

The three people involved, whether Tardin, Bree or Cannon, were completely stunned at that moment.

"Your Highness..." Tardin subconsciously said.

Thales didn't let him go on, but looked at the bodies of Naki and Nai, and said quietly:

"Like Naki, you have made your own choices among the many paths."

"And in today's world where things are changing and people are changing, it is no longer important to go back to the past to see right and wrong."

Thales' voice fell, and Taldin trembled slightly.

Just listen to the prince calmly and authentically speaking in a tone without any resentment or contempt:

"More importantly, you have already paid the price, whether it is the loss of your siblings, the punishment of your conscience, or the guilt and nightmare that will accompany your eternal life."

The three of them still looked at Thales in disbelief.

"And I've seen who you are."

"No matter what choice you made back then, today, you didn't let Sackel bear the guilt alone, but faced your past and stood up to admit the past."

Many people looked at Sackel, but the severely injured punishment knight remained silent.

Thales sighed.

"And, today, you saved my life. Even though you who know the truth are different from Barney, you know it well: this does not allow you to be forgiven."

Following his words, he didn't know whether it was time or the power of termination had worked, Thales felt that the pain in his body had completely disappeared.

Only weakness, trance, and emptiness remain...

And an unprecedented relief like letting go of a burden.

Thales raised his head, tried his best to smile, with a hoarse voice:

"So, I forgive you."

"Forgive all of you."

"I forgive you, I forgive you from the torments of the past, and I forgive you from the guilt of eternity."

"May you all be reborn at this moment."

This is……

my choice.

The voice in Thales' heart whispered authentically.

Compared to strength and status, this is...

What I should really cherish, care about, and stick to.

is my real anchor.

silence.

There was silence for several seconds, broken only by sparks and breathing.

Finally, Cannon among the three was the first to fail.

Holding the pool of blood on the ground with both hands, he fell to the ground and cried bitterly.

Cannon's reaction seemed to turn on something, and then Tardin knelt down on his knees, covering his face in pain and regret:

"Your Highness...I...I..."

He broke down in sobs.

Bree twitched his lips, but no sound came out.

He just closed his eyes deeply, facing Thales' direction, and lowered his body and head to the lowest.

Samir sighed.

Belletti put down Nai's body and stared at Thales firmly.

Thales smiled at them.

"Sorry, I can only say these words in my own name. I'm not a king after all."

"That's all I can do."

He added without hesitation.

Belletti shook her head, and greeted the prince with her most grateful and restrained smile.

No.

You do...much more than that.

more than.

After speaking, Thales took a breath and looked at Little Barney on the other side.

Kuaisheng, standing aside, watched all this dully:

In the dark dungeon, two bodies lay peacefully on the ground.

Sackel knelt on the ground in bewilderment, looking at Thales.

Little Barney leaned against the wall indifferently, motionless.

The other five miserable prisoners were either excited or sad, covering their heads and sobbing, or kneeling and sighing.

Only the boy holding the torch stood among the crowd with a relieved smile on his face.

His thin figure, against the backdrop of the fire, looked tall and strong.

"What is he doing?" Samir, who was standing aside, said to himself in a daze.

Belletti heard him.

"did nothing."

The prison officer watched Thales walk towards Little Barney's back, and spoke softly, with bitterness and hope at the same time:

"He just... held the torch."

Then.

Belletti looked at Thales from a distance, and said silently in her heart:

Light up our darkness.

The next moment, Belletti couldn't control herself anymore.

This tough warrior on the battlefield turned his head abruptly.

Covering the tears welling up in his eyes.