"He is generally well-educated and hardworking, but he is a little too addicted to women." - Apien commented on Mitradati VI

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When he walked into the main hall with everyone, he saw a miserable and messy scene. Just like when he first came through and entered the Karabi Palace, there were poisoned and swollen corpses, eunuchs, women, servants and servants. Then, in the dim light, he saw Adiana kneeling in front of a huge body lying in a pool of blood, and mourning. Biduita stood silently on the side, while Achilles left to explain the defense settlement with the "Eighth Legion Advance Team".

It seems that no soldiers have been robbed at the core of this palace. When they learned that King Bendu committed suicide, they dispersed. Calabis walked into the oval small bedroom, and took out some gorgeous and majestic clothes from the closet, some spared jewelry, precious ointments and other things, grabbed them and walked to Adiana, and helped her up. "Listen, Adiana, now you have to be strong. I have put the fake body on the boat and sent it to Pompei's residence, so that he can delay him for a while. But the time you have to worship your father is still limited. You have said before that you do not want your father's body to be placed in a mule cart and sent back to Rome. Now I will help you do this-you, go and move the wood and furniture piled at the door of the palace in."

The princess held Karabis's hand tightened, "You mean, are you going to burn my father's body on the spot?"

"Yes, according to the request of the people from the Roman side, I was asked to send Mitradati's body or head back to Rome - so I can only help you get to this point." Calabis said seriously. You should know that you are also taking huge risks. "Adianna, this is because you decided not to nod, but you must be as soon as possible, and there is not much time."

Adiana looked at his father who had passed away with red and swollen eyes, and then looked at Karabis, and finally gritted his teeth and nodded at him. Karabis brought a ring chair and helped the mourning Adiana sit on it. Then he covered his hair and mouth with his cloak, revealing only a pair of eyes outside. He walked to the garden on the colonnade patio and dug out two shallow pits with the tools he brought, one for Mitrada and the other for Marca. The soldiers and centurions who followed him put furniture, branches, wooden boards and other things in the shallow pit, and made a simple cremation pile.

Then, Karabis took out all the letters in the bookcase. He looked at them and walked to Adiana. He half-kneeled down and placed the letters next to her chair, saying, "These things are of no significance to the looted people, but they are different to you and I think they are well kept and don't fall into the hands of Pompei's group of idle literati."

At this time, Biduita walked forward and handed the sword of Mitradati, "Altolicus" and Monime's little crown to Adiana. "My daughter, this is the last gift given to me by your father. Now you hold it, Minander and Stratonis are still alive in the world, or use it to revenge the royal family, or sell it without asking about the world. This sword is worth at least 400 Tarant, which is enough for the rest of your life for the prince."

Adiana took the heavy sword and looked at Karabis, who was covered with a cloak next to him, and was busy with sweat. He helped his father and brother to apply oil on the bodies of his father and his brother and put them in clean clothes without saying a word. Karabis' subordinates raised the bodies of the two with the removed door panel. Karabis and Biduita picked some flowers and cinnamon branches from the garden and placed them on it. Then his black eyes stared at Adiana, as if waiting for her statement. Adiana pursed her lips, hugged "Altolicus" to her chest, and nodded to the clay pot on both ears.

The corpse on the crematorium, along with the wooden boards and furniture, burned, and the father's body gradually evolved into a shrinking black shadow in the flames, and the thick smoke rose up. Adiana sat on the ring chair and slowly pulled out Altolicus's sword body. It was as cold as water, reflecting the orange flame and her chestnut gaze.

After the cremation ceremony was completed, Karabis and others picked up the remaining bone ashes, poured them into two bronze sealing vessels, and then carefully put them in a box. Then, he took off the cloak covered with his eyes and whispered the air. Adianna held "Altolicus" with both hands and walked to Karabis, "Binary ear pot, can I use you again? This Altolicus is my reward."

Karabis pushed the sword back, "I made an agreement with you in advance, even after your father dies, you are still the princess of the capital who is upside down. I have not forgotten this agreement - but I need an envoy to return to Rome now. As for me, I will stay here for the time being, but I don't know if that damn Claudi is really dead." After that, Karabis pressed a piece of amber board for writing on the pillar, dipped his teeth into a charcoal ink pen, and stroked it on it...

But when they walked to the dock with boxes, letters and other things, and were about to spend more money to hire some sailors and ships back to the Acropolis, they saw the ocean in the distance, and a group of ships rushed towards them with great might. "Is our legion's successor coming from Philiplon?" Pope was so scared that he hurriedly took off the helmet and armor used by the general.

"No, no, the sail is not the logo of the Thirteenth Legion. The other party's flagship uses purple sail!" Karabisnahan said, "What is the fleet from this one?"

Biduita next to him said in a deep voice: "It was the purple sail pirate Macmillan. He was originally in Crete and was later expelled to Eukxinghai by Pompei. But it was amazing that this guy could escape from Pompei!"

"I had advised my father to spend a lot of money to hire them to fight Pompey, but I didn't expect that after his father died, Macmillan came." Adianna's face was solemn, not knowing whether the future was sad or happy.

But when the Zifan Pirate ships lined up in the sea in front of the dock, the guy who was sitting in a boat to negotiate was enough to make everyone present take a breath. It was Claudi, with a dull and charming smile. Next to him was a bronze muscular man with a Scythian beard, grinning with snow-white teeth, laughing, and hugging Claudi, who was a little stiff.

Before Claudi and the bronze muscular man's boat docked, a soldier who had served in the Seventh Army quietly said to Karabis: "Oh my Goddess of Destiny is arranged by the goddess of fate. Claudi was kidnapped by pirates when he was in Silesia. Later, he wrote to his brother-in-law Lukuras, asking his brother-in-law to give twenty tarants to redeem him, but the pirate said that he was only worth two tarantes, but Lukuras refused to leave either."

"How did Claudi redeem himself later..." Having said this, Karabis figured out the reason why Claudi hugged his brother-in-law's thigh and begged hard, there was no need to say anything else, and the real scene was in front of him.
Chapter completed!