Ariadne was born with a golden spoon. She is privileged since the mont she was born
Everything she could ever wanted could easily be fulfilled. If she wanted gold there is as many gold as she wanted could be mien for her.
If she wanted entertainnt, that is also easy to fulfill as Arial could summon any entertainers in the four corners of the world he conquered to entertain his daughter.
But, she doesn't seem to want anything. After the death of her mother, she changed.
And Arial did not know how to change it
But, maybe it is because the surrounding is different that Arial could not do what his father had done for him
Ariadne was not the daughter of a farr. She was the daughter of the Emperor, a daughter of the Great Conqueror.
Since she was born, she was lavished with luxury but also she was surrounded by loneliness. Arial had always been in the battlefield fighting all kinds of enemies
Arial priority had always been against the Demon King Invasion. And everything was second place to him. Even his wife.
If not in the battlefield, he would be fighting sothing or handling so problems.
He had no ti to be a father to his daughter. He loves her, true. But, yet he also had no ti to always be beside her.
Maybe, that made all the difference
It was different from Arial father who was always beside him when he was a child and who had supported and believe in him
Arial was with his father for two lifetis and he still feel it is not enough. Arial sighed
'I am sorry, father. Forgive for not being there for you' Arial had a tear on his face. Among the news that he heard, it is not only the news about his daughter.
It is also about the news of his father death
Fortunately, from what he read, his father dies peacefully.
He also heard about how his mother is now in mourning and had not walk out from the Imperial Palace since the death of his father
That is why after he reads the reports and heard it from his two generals, he felt blank all day. He went to his room and only now, he had the heart to calm himself down.
He was not there when his father die.
That regret washed over him like a tide.
He wanted to bla himself at first but then he knew that if his father was still here, he would be heartbroken to see him mourn him in that way
Everyone have their own way of processing grief. Arial had lost many people in his life before. So of them is his comrade in arms. There is also soldiers who he treated like his brothers and sons.
He lost friends, and he saw the death of people he admired and hated. But none, strike so deep as the death of his father
Each ti he wanted to bla himself, he would think of his father and he stopped himself.
He thought of the fight ahead and he could not help but wonder, if this is the final battle, then if he dies, would he et his father again
For once, he wished that there is a pearly gate after his death where he could et his father again.
But then he thought of the death of so many people under his hand and he wonders whether he even deserve to go to the Light Above. Maybe, he already made his bed in the Hell Below.
When he thinks of his daughter and how to interact with her, he would think of his father
His father supported him in a way that he himself could not support his daughter. What cos easy for his father, did not co as easily for him
And that is sothing that is very lantable
There is a bond between his father and him that was forged from love. Love need to be sow. It needs to have ti to grow. It needs to be forged.
Only then, love could be strong. The kind of love that suddenly arrive and appear exist, like the kind of love that is of first sight.
But, it is rare. That kind of love where one glance could change one life forever, that kind of fairytale love does exist
However, it is rare. Very rare indeed. One could even say that it is a miracle.
As for any other type of love. One had to make an effort
Love is the most important thing in one life. Hence, why would it be easy? To fall in love is easy. To love soone is easy.
But to get them to love you back and then to maintain and keep that love. now that is the hard part
Aries, his father had always make it seem so easy.
Arial always wonder how his father, a farr, a lowborn could ever charm his mother who was the daughter of so noble house to fled with him into the night.
There was just this sothing about his father that made everyone felt close to him. It is so kind of personal charm that is not about being charming.
It is not sothing that Arial could imitate. If he could, then maybe his relationship with his daughter would not be that bad.
The death of his wife changes everything. He took ti to grieve and the way he done it change him.
his coping chanism was more aggressive, as he went into battle with the world and so his relationship between him and his daughter beco even more strained.
It seems that he could not yet let go of everything. And he smiles when he thinks of this.
He is still worried about his daughter after all.
That remains his regret. He takes a deep breath and he wish his father is here to tell him what to do.
He thought again of Helia. He thought he could have the perfect life with her, following the footsteps of his parent. Lifehowever had another plan for him.
He then wipes away this feeling in his heart as he could not let himself break down in sorrow. He hoped he could win and at least have the chance to clean his father grave.
Thinking about it, he felt sorrow in his heart. His tears did not fall but the feeling he felt inside his heart. It is like his heart is being cut. He thought of another thing to make him forget about the sorrow he is feeling right now.
He thought about Santiago and Giovanni, his thought now spirals toward the matter of the Empire.
These two generals. two among the twelve generals of the Empire. He thought back toward those monts in the past during the Conquest
It was very glorious when he thinks back all of those years ago.
He created the Twelve General system to help him quickly conquer the whole world. These twelve generals conquer the whole world for him, possessing great military power
It was a warring era. A great number of people die in that war that propped up the current Empire prosperity.
The Twelve Great Generals of the Empire! This was a title of honor and power. There were like kings with almost an unlimited authority toward their army.
But, after the battle ended, when the dust settled, these twelve generals have all beco very dangerous.
The autonomy that he had given them had created twelve factions in the unified military system.
These twelve generals all possess great ability in war, all of them possess loyal subordinate that would die for them and they possess great power.
When the war ended, and Arial decided it was enough, the hardest part that he needed to stabilize was the stance of the Twelve Generals
He did not want to beco a tyrant that killed his ritorious subject.
But he was fully prepared to lift the sword and kill them if they were to challenge his authority and threatened the newly created Empire.
And it nearly co to that.
Though nobody would know if they learn for the official source. But those who in the know, know enough not to blab about it
Even during that ti when he was asking them to return back their Token of Authority, four of the Twelve Generals fears that he would put them away after the deed was done, and they almost rebelled
In truth, they fear that the deeds that they have done during the ti of war would be accounted for.
They fear that he would execute them by finding so reason. All in all, it is not an entirely absurd thought.
A harmless enemy is a dead enemy. The generals fear that he as the Emperor would find them to be threatening and would find ways to kill them
So were more intelligent as they voluntarily break up their own faction ahead of ti. But so people did not have such a choice. Each army of the Twelve Generals follow the deanor of their general.
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