Durin's Diary

Chapter 445: Spring and Autumn Notes

The two old men in the art center were extremely satisfied. It had been such a long time since the Saint sacrificed herself, and since the first king of the Cleghan family had died in armor for the Saint. The Cleghan family had been guarding this land on her behalf for so long. The family had produced a total of twenty-one kings, and each generation of kings had worked hard for this land.

The process is tortuous, but judging from the pictures and Du Lin's introduction, this will definitely be a masterpiece.

"The draft should be ready in five days. Then you can invite His Majesty Harker of Clegane to take a look. If there are no problems, I will proceed to the final refinement process."

With Du Lin's words, the two people from the art center returned home happy.

Teacher Czerny also came back soon. He and Wilson chatted and laughed as they watched Durin start painting. Soon, Wilson was amazed by Durin's ideas.

In front of Durin, the wizard's hands held different paintbrushes for their masters.

The first king had rage in his eyes, his background was the black after blood had coagulated, his armor was covered with spots, and the half of his face revealed in the picture was covered with horrific burns - in history, he was the last foot knight to die in battle. Before the three foot knights died, they faced hundreds of northern masters, and killed more than ten times their number of enemies with the most skilled foot combat combined attacks, until their comrades were successively overwhelmed by the torrent of magic.

In such a desperate situation, he still refused to surrender. After killing two barbarians from the north, he threw his sword and nailed an eight-ring mage to death - the sword pierced through the body, and with the master's belief, it directly shattered the opponent's body protection spell and stone skin.

In the end, half of his face was shattered by the magic and he died on the spot.

The second king, with his hands behind his back and a sad face, his back is pitch black.

This was the eldest son of the first king. When he became king, he faced a land devastated by war and nobles who were in name only. He spent all his energy to unite with Sidney and died of illness at the age of 41.

Starting from the third king, the portrait begins to tilt. The king has a compassionate face and holds a small wooden doll in his hand. This style of painting represents that Sidney's eldest son died young due to an accident.

This sage of Clegane had a title called the Benevolent King. He became king at the age of seventeen and reigned for twenty-seven years. Under his rule, the Sidney Union was the first to completely abolish the serfdom system, because this affected the interests of many people. He was assassinated thirteen times in his life, and his eldest son died from a stray arrow in an assassination attempt - no one wanted to kill this ten-year-old child, but he eventually died in the king's arms.

The fourth king, the third son of King Benevolence.

His eldest brother died in an assassination attempt, and his second brother died in the wilderness fighting against the greenskins. In everyone's eyes, he was a prince with no talent at all.

But he has a good wife.

Next to the king stood a smiling girl, a friend he had known since childhood, the youngest daughter of the Duke of Alkin.

The Duke's daughter had known him since she was eight years old, and the two of them spent a total of forty years from the time they met to the time they parted ways due to death.

Since he ascended the throne at the age of fifteen, she has been hiding behind him all her life, fighting against everything for him.

Until an epidemic struck her and him down.

The fifth king is the youngest child of the fourth king.

He ascended the throne at the age of nine, and a plague nearly shattered the entire family, but it also shattered all of the Cleganes' enemies.

The young prince ascended the throne despite his illness, so in Dulin's painting, the king is a sickly-looking child wearing the short gray robe that patients wore at the time.

In the painting, one can already see his complete appearance, but the leprosy caused by the disease occupied the other half of his face. He reigned for thirteen years and left behind a six-year-old child.

It was a tragedy of that era, but the sick king completed his mission and his children were blessed by the anonymous person.

So the sixth king was a six-year-old child with long hair. That was a little superstition in the plague era. Everyone said that if a boy was raised as a girl, the messenger of plague would not come to the door.

However, this king completed the centralization of state power during his 33-year reign. After him, no duke had enough strength to launch a rebellion. He established a standing army, making Klinger's rule indestructible, and even if the dukes united, it would be of no avail.

Therefore, he was eventually called the Wise King.

The seventh king was the grandson of the wise king. His children died one by one in the war between plague and green-skinned orcs. In the end, he chose the descendant of his eldest son - because he had practical military experience and the determination to rule the people.

This is true. The seventh king was titled the Lord of the Sea, and even the Lord of Storms acknowledged his achievements on the ocean.

During the twenty-three years of his reign, the Sidney United Army built a powerful navy and fought continuous battles with the green-skinned orcs in the southern Storm Sea, which eventually helped the Sidney United Army occupy the largest island group in the subsequent archipelago colonization.

But he also had a bad habit, he liked drinking, and eventually died early from alcohol.

The eighth king took over the scepter of power from his father at the age of twenty. During his time and that of his children and grandchildren, the green-skinned orcs once penetrated the entire northern Farol. Except for Genoa, which could rely on urban defense, Venice, which lost its sea, fell.

So in Turin's painting, the eighth, ninth, and tenth kings all have suffering on their faces, but their eyes are full of determination.

Sidney is the only two countries in the entire human civilization that can keep the green-skinned orcs out of the country. The other one is the Northern Kingdom. For the first time, these two countries put aside their past grudges and fought for the lives of the people, until the Nameless led the army of heroes to the world and drove all the invading green-skinned orcs out of the Western Continent.

Next, the eleventh king, who succeeded to the throne after his father died in battle, proposed that there should be no more wars between human kingdoms, and that each nation should send a part of its army to help the Everforged Fortress.

The painting is more than halfway done here, and the back has turned lead gray. The eleventh king has a title called the Devout. He is a very devout believer in the original creator, the Anonymous.

He closed his eyes, holding tightly in his hand the token from the anonymous person.

When he finished drawing, Du Lin put down his pen because the kitchen said it was already evening and asked him to come quickly for dinner.

Du Lin turned around and noticed that Mr. Wilson was still standing there. He was a little curious: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's only been half a day..." Wilson sighed as he looked at the canvas in front of him.

"Yeah, it's been half a day, and we're only a quarter done."

"what?"

Durin's question seemed to confuse the red dragon.

(End of this chapter)