Chapter 4 The End (Part 2)
Two rubber boats that had been asked for from the withdrawn Agayans floated in the bay to Pontikabien. Pop was wearing a gorgeous general suit that had transcended his identity. Several soldiers next to him held the rods and axes he had just made, and stood at the stern with Karabis in his cloak, complaining to the envoy of the Legion: "You should kill yourself and us, if Pompey knew about our actions, he would be exiled or beheaded."
"Stop it, someone will help us solve this problem when we go back to Rome." Karabis said. The flag-holder next to him was not holding the thirteenth legion, but the eagle flag of the Eighth legion. This eagle flag was seized by Adiana's plan, but later it was given the bronze shield army as spoils. This was also the reason for Adiana's great resentment towards the bronze shield army. Before leaving, the Agaya people also thanked Karabis for "executing" the princess of Bendu for their king. However, Karabis also learned that Pompei's army had arrived in Korkis and declared that the whole territory had become a free kingdom, so the Agaya people were ready to withdraw their country from the Simmerian Strait.
"Pompey is coming, you have to hurry up!" Karabis thought to himself, Adianna was sitting at the bow of the ship, enough for all the people of Bendu to see her. Although the city of Pontica Biang was in a mess, the water surface today was very calm. The sailors knew that the war was about to end and they would soon go to the merchant ship to earn compensation, so they all lay on the deck to take a nap, while the Navy of Bendu went directly to the shore to rob.
The closer she got to the city pier with black smoke, the more she shook her whole body. She naturally stretched out her hand and held Karabis.
On the dock, Achilles stood there to "welcome". Fortunately, he did not recognize Pope, while Karabis hid behind the "Superior Stick", covered his face with his cloak, and shook Adianna's hand away in case he was recognized by the former commander-in-chief of the Navy.
"My daughter, your father's affairs are a tragedy. Stratonice and Minander disgracefully escaped and killed him." Achilles held her hand and comforted him as Adiana leaped onto the Pier Square.
Adianna, dressed in dark mourning clothes, looked paler, "Achilles, you should do your best to ensure that your father's body is not insulted by those lowly soldiers."
"Of course, the rebels of the new model army have achieved their goal. Many people fled to the countryside after plundering the city and warehouses. These people will become pirates or bandits in the future. Don't worry, your father received the help of Biduita at the end of his life. He died not so painfully, and his body is now guarded by the Galatian swordsman." Achilles then stopped Pope and his party with his hands. "Isn't this the spoil of the Copper Shield Army-the eagle flag of the Roman Destruction Legion?"
"Now our 8th Legion has been repaid. You should also know that the Copper Shield Army is all over!" Pope continued to speak a little stiffly according to the rhetoric arranged by Karabis in advance, but fortunately Adianna acted as a translator, and Achilles did not notice it, "The Eighth Legion advance team stationed in Korgis came to accept the body of this city and Mitradati on behalf of General Pompei. General - you can take your troops out of the city and stationed in the country immediately. When the commander comes, you will be able to get peace." After saying that, Pope slapped Nunu, and a "sent-in-company" next to him handed over a wooden board engraved with words, "This is a document for defense delivery, stamp it on it - the formalities must be done!"
When Adiana translated this passage, she added: "The attitude of these Latin savages is always so arrogant."
Achilles was not so unhappy, but asked Adiana strangely: "I gave you a white sailboat before. Didn't you go to the advance team of the Thirteenth Legion in the Acropolis? Why is the Eighth Legion escorted you to the peaceful settlement this time?"
"You have to understand that only Pompeius was granted the power of the Roman Impe Ummaius (i.e., the commander-in-chief, with the power to make peace and declare war independently, and was granted by the Citizens' Congress. Pompei had been awarded this power since he wiped out the pirates). If I want to retain a place after the war, I will naturally please Pompei's Eastern Legion instead of the Thirteenth Legion belonging to the Governor of the Macedonian Province."
Hearing the princess' words, Achilles nodded. He knew the Eighth Legion and said, "I and General Achilles don't want to negotiate with the Thirteenth Legion's advance team, as that will only insult our military career." As he said that, he stamped the wooden board.
Who would have thought that the soldier took out a wooden board with dense fonts from the general Bendu, asked him to stamp the mark, and then another one... (This is a valuable experience of Karabis's life before traveling through time), Achilles gradually felt dizzy and no longer looked at the contents carefully, but asked the soldier to arrange the boards in a fan shape, and then handed the seal directly to the clerk to operate.
When Achilles and Adianna walked towards the palace, Karabis stepped forward and brought the wooden boards with the stamped one in front of him. One of the boards made him smile:
The content of this board is Latin and Greek double-language style, but Achilles didn't read what it was written at all. This was a gamble, because it was actually a letter to Pompeii in the tone of the two generals, Achilles and Archilus. It clearly stated that Mitradati had committed suicide and died, and his body was willing to hand over to Pompeii, hoping that Pompeii could be buried according to the etiquette of the royal family.
There was also a wooden board, but it was a command to mobilize a Phoenician paddle boat in the city, and the clerk of Achilles was stamped with a confusing seal. In fact, the clerk was still preparing to look at the details above, but was frightened by the Roman soldiers who were angrily drawn by the sword next to him, so he turned his eyes away - the war is the end, why do you have that extra thought?
Soon, a paddle boat with black sails sailed out of the harbor. Karabis threw the wooden board to the sailors on the deck. Then several soldiers held a corpse wrapped in a blanket and threw it to the sailors. The sailors carried the corpse and stuffed it into the bottom cabin. Then Karabis gave the sailors a lot of money and gave the boat a few important words. The sailors were gratefully as arrows away from the string and sailed on the boat.
Chapter completed!