Chapter 1523 Are you ready?
The palace of the City of the Sun is far less huge than it looks - because a considerable part of the land belongs to the temple.
But even so, the palace is obviously not small... The guards followed Princess Yamanlana all the way, and it took about twenty minutes to complete the transition area between the temple and the palace.
During this period, Princess Yamanlana didn't even look back and spoke to the guards following her - she didn't know what to say.
Princess Yamanlana is a person who likes to reflect. At this time, she was reflecting that her behavior just now seemed a bit too reckless - of course, other royal families probably would not take such a small thing to heart.
But Princess Yamanlana knows that if she wants to be a wise king, she must not abuse power... All power needs to serve the kingdom and its people, so that the country can endure for a long time.
Princess Yamanlana is very strict in running the army, and she is also very strict in monitoring the ministers of various systems in the kingdom. She is even very strict with herself... She suddenly cares whether this guard will compare herself with the arrogance because of this matter. abuse of power.
——Probably because of the giant beast incident, her Qi-nurturing skills were messed up... Her Highness the Princess quietly explained herself.
"Iben, where do you live?" Princess Yamanlana breathed a sigh of relief, then turned around expressionlessly and asked seemingly casually.
——Let’s start with home affairs first... An approachable image is also a quality that a wise king should need.
Her Royal Highness the Princess quietly gave sufficient reasons for her actions.
"It's quite far away." The guard thought for a moment and said, "It's in the east, far away from here."
Princess Yamanlana nodded, "Is it on the east wall? It's really far away from the palace."
The air died in vain for about half a minute, and Princess Yamanlana, who was always good at speaking, suddenly said again, "I like the market over the east city wall. I have passed by it several times and wanted to go and have a look."
The guard blinked his eyes and looked like "You continue, I'll listen."
"...Well, it's nothing."
Princess Yamanlana turned around and strode forward... She couldn't help but smile bitterly. In fact, she was not good at words and rarely even had such simple communication with others - even with her father in the kingdom. No.
She suddenly discovered that, except for the high priest, she had never seemed to have a relaxed conversation with anyone in the City of the Sun... This guard probably couldn't either - because she was a princess and he was just a small guard.
"Since I have passed by it several times and want to go in and have a look, why not go in and have a look."
"I can't stop." Princess Yamanlana stopped immediately, and her reply seemed to be faster than the guard expected. "Once you stop, you will become relaxed! The kingdom is not what it seems on the outside. Calm down, we have always been facing a huge threat. If we are not careful, what awaits us will be the destruction of our country and our family!”
"Is the princess referring to the giant beast in the desert?" the guard asked curiously.
Princess Yamanlana nodded and said seriously: "Not only are these giant beasts huge, they can even lurk under the desert. Some can even disguise themselves as rocks, and they will become their food if you are not careful. In order to sweep away these giant beasts, Beast, the City of the Sun does not know how many young warriors are sacrificed every year. Moreover, it is not known when this kind of war will end... Maybe, maybe one day, the City of the Sun will no longer exist, but it is not necessarily true. .”
The guard turned around and glanced at the temple in the distance, and asked curiously: "Isn't the City of the Sun protected by the Sun God... Even so, it will fall?"
Princess Yamanlana shook her head, as if she didn't want to say more. She looked at the guard deeply and suddenly asked: "Iben, young warrior, when danger comes, are you willing to stand up for the sake of peace?" Will your country fight to the death for your family? The longest day of darkness will come soon... Are you ready?"
The guard shook his head directly.
Princess Yamanlana glanced at the guard Iben unexpectedly, then shook her head and said with a complicated expression: "Actually, I am not prepared either... The whole kingdom is not prepared either, but what can be seen clearly is not Several.”
——This princess seems to have misunderstood something.
But the guard warrior had no intention of explaining.
He just thought for a moment and asked: "What on earth are these giant beasts."
Princess Yamanlana suddenly said: "Iben, you haven't seen these giant beasts intuitively, have you? I'm not talking about what you see across the city wall on the longest day of night every year... but standing in front of them. , touch their bodies.”
"Indeed not." The guard shook his head again.
Princess Yamanlana suddenly smiled at this time, as if she had thought of something fun, "Come, I will take you to a place."
The guard said: "Isn't the princess planning to attend the banquet?"
Princess Yamanlana said calmly: "You can go to this boring banquet anytime... If you are hungry, I will ask you to prepare something for you."
The guard smiled and said: "I seem to have no reason to refuse."
Princess Yamanlana glanced at the young guard angrily... thinking about how she, the majestic princess of the City of the Sun, seemed to be a prince - probably because she hadn't encountered this person in a long time. The kind of guy who doesn't care about her status as a princess.
"Iben, have you ever thought about what the outside world is like?" Princess Yamanlana suddenly asked.
"A place outside the desert." The guard thought for a moment and said, "They say there is a place outside the desert, but the giant beasts block the way out of the desert."
Princess Yamanlana said: "Why are there only giant beasts in the desert blocking the road? The outside world..."
"The outside world?"
Princess Yamanlana shook her head, her expression returned to her serious look, "It's okay, we need to speed up a bit... Although we don't have to be there on time, if you are always absent from the banquet, there will still be some trouble."
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She walked in the other direction, her pace gradually increasing... Along the way, she never stopped to talk to the young guard.
……
Dying... This thought has been completely thrown away from Claudia's mind, replaced by [dying soon].
She probably underestimated Princess Yamanlana's influence in the kingdom - originally, she was only traveling with Mani, the son of the Minister of Agriculture, but the number of people in the team gradually increased.
They were all the sons of the ministers of the kingdom... I met her on the road, and like ants surrounding honey, they immediately stuck to her - they were singing praises beside Claudia.
Claudia didn't see how outstanding these ministers' sons were, but the sweet words these guys spoke were quite good... In school, Claudia had never had the experience of being surrounded by many men.
She had always felt that the experience of being surrounded by men was like being a monkey in a zoo.
But the real experience is...it's actually not bad, it smells really good.
Even in the beauty, sunshine, or politeness, she couldn't help but feel a little bit elated... Claudia even thought in a daze: Since she can touch her here, I saw Princess Yamanlana who was just like me, and I met Ibn who was just like Aria. Is it possible that I would also meet the same lost guy.
As one of these ministers' sons?
"What are you looking at?" Mr. Otto, as the bodyguard of Princess Jacques Mann (Laura) Dina (Ya), came forward and asked in a low voice, "Did you find something? ?”
"No...nothing." Mr. Otto's voice made Claudia's strange thoughts disappear, and she quickly said: "I was just checking to see if that guy had come here...really."
"Yes." Mr. Otto nodded, looked at Claudia strangely, and then said: "You need to find a reason to leave in front of these young masters... We will go to the banquet venue soon. Once If we meet the real Princess Yamalana, we will be in trouble.”
"I know." Claudia's face gradually became serious... If she just wanted to find an excuse--it turned out to be the only excuse.
"Everyone, I have something to do, excuse me..." Claudia opened her mouth, but was suddenly interrupted.
"Yamanlana, the pride of the kingdom, my son!"
Not far away, the pharaoh of the kingdom was seen walking slowly, surrounded by his entourage... The ministers and sons around Claudia gave in one after another.
Claudia's eyes suddenly darkened, and she gave Mr. Otto a dead look. Then she watched with numbness as the pharaoh of the kingdom finally came to her.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Otto lowered his head at this time and quietly took two steps back... Claudia's pupils couldn't help but shrink - she had never seen such a shameless guy!
So angry——!
"I thought you were not going to attend tonight's banquet." The pharaoh of the kingdom did not find anything wrong with the princess in front of him. He kindly grabbed the palm of [her princess] and said with a kind smile: "I'm looking for someone. I went to your palace to look for you, but I didn’t see anyone. I didn’t expect you to be here. It makes me so happy, my daughter.”
Claudia had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "After all, it is a celebration banquet. If I don't attend, others will say that I disrespect you."
The pharaoh of the kingdom opened his mouth, glanced at his daughter in surprise, and then suddenly laughed and said: "Others say that Princess Yamanlana has great achievements and never takes me seriously... You guys Look, you all! Those who say these things can be executed! This is the pride of the kingdom!"
Everyone was as silent as a cicada, sweating profusely, and echoed one after another.
The pharaoh of the kingdom didn't care about this. He took [Her Royal Highness]'s hand and walked to the banquet venue. He said loudly: "Let's go! My princess! Let these people see how good the relationship between you and my father is." ! ”
[Her Royal Highness]... Claudia was grabbed by the pharaoh of this kingdom by the wrist. Suddenly her heart was beating wildly, her breathing was rapid... her legs became weak.
I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm really going to die this time!
Claudia glanced back with a stiff neck, but she was somewhat relieved to see that Mr. Otto remained silent at this time, quietly mingling among the Pharaoh's servants and guards...
Unexpectedly, a short while later, Mr. Otto, who had blended in among the attendants, had disappeared... Claudia suddenly cursed, "No man is good!"
"My son, who made you angry?" The pharaoh of the kingdom was startled at this time. "Did these guys offend you? You must tell me! I will execute them for you!"< br>
How much do you like to execute others...
"Yamanlana?" Pharaoh asked again with concern.
Claudia suddenly remembered that before entering the palace, Ibn had said that this banquet was for the Pharaoh to choose a husband for Princess Yamanlana, and she suddenly had an idea, "Tonight will give birth to a man who can spend a lifetime with me." man, but I like to give this man some tests.”
The pharaoh of the kingdom couldn't help but asked curiously: "Test?"
"I need to prepare..." Claudia said seriously at this time: "For the sake of fairness, only I can know the questions of the test."
When the pharaoh of the kingdom heard this, he immediately waved his hand: "This is simple... Come and prepare a room for the princess!"
Just like that, [Her Royal Highness] walked into a separate room in the banquet hall in full view of everyone - but the pharaoh kept this test absolutely confidential, and even sent more than a dozen soldiers to guard the room. He surrounded the room to make sure no one could peek.
In the room, [Her Royal Highness] sat slumped in front of the door, muttering to herself: "Why should I make such a request? Isn't this... self-inflicted?"
While outsiders can't come in, [Her Royal Highness] naturally can't get out either.
……
This place doesn't look as luxurious as the rest of the palace... but it's definitely not shabby - and it's heavily covered with soldiers guarding it.
The soldiers were the kind who looked like elite soldiers. They were stern and unsmiling. Even when Yamanlana came in person, there was not much movement and she just silently opened the door.
"What place is this?" the young guard asked curiously.
"A place to study giant beasts." Princess Yamanlana said calmly at this time: "Here is a collection of specimens of some giant beasts killed by the kingdom over the years. The best scholars in the kingdom are here, and their only purpose is to study Find out how to kill the giant beast more effectively... Come, I will take you to see the giant beast's corpse."
Different from the indifference of the guards outside, after going through heavy guards to enter the interior of the institute, the people who work here will greet Princess Yamalana warmly when they see her.
The young guard took advantage of Princess Yamanlana's time to communicate with the scholars here and began to look around.
This is a museum-like place, with shelves surrounding the huge corpses. Through the shapes of the remaining bones, it seems that we can already imagine some of what these giant beasts looked like when they were alive.
The young guard gradually walked to a pool, and the pungent smell immediately hit him. In the transparent liquid of the pool, there was a huge and ferocious beast head.
"It's shocking, isn't it?" At some point, Princess Yamanlana had come behind the young guard. "This is the head of the giant beast, which was hunted two years ago. We spent a lot of effort to get its head." Cut off the head and transport it to this place.”
The young guard blinked and suddenly asked: "What is soaking this head?"
"Formalin." Princess Yamanlana said seemingly casually: "A potion used to prevent corpses from decaying. Most of the corpses or internal organs of giant beasts here are soaked in this potion."
Formalin... solution. (End of chapter)