Augustus Road

"My father is right, Your Majesty." Stratonis understood. The captain of the guard, Obisius, was her father. He was just a poor theater musician, but Mithridates once watched During the performance, he was fascinated by Stratonis, the daughter of the leading musician. He immediately summoned Orbisius and gave him a luxurious villa, thirty slaves, and four horses. Ten eunuchs and enough wealth to fill all the rooms in the villa. Then, the musician became the chief guard of the Ponto Palace, and the musician's daughter became the Ponto King's favorite concubine.

Ever since Metdorus advised Mithridates not to trust his concubines and eunuchs too much, the father and daughter had hated this "superior".

Mithridates approved of his concubine's suggestion, and he told the warrior next to Orbisius: "Oh, the first swordsman from the Galatian Highlands, the hero of the Celts, the goddess of war Aibo Na’s right hand, Biduita! I wonder if you are satisfied with the two slave girls I gave you last time?”

This warrior named Bituita has a dark blue and scary paint on his face. He wears an oriental-style pointed round helmet. He has huge and strong arms in his naked body. His eyes are full of killing and silver. Desire, smacked his lips and said, "Except for the fact that their screams on the bed were not melodious enough, everything else was fine."

Mithridates laughed loudly, and then said: "My father is going to Ataxeta, and I ask you to protect him all the way. Remember, always wait for my instructions from the carrier pigeon. The reward is fifty talents."

Biduita smiled and took the order to retreat. Then Orbisius also left. Stratonis untied King Pontus's clothes and prepared to accompany him into the bath. She softly suggested: "If Father Shang comes out, If things go wrong, not only His Majesty’s daughter married to Armenia, but His Majesty’s sister Nesa may be able to reverse the situation.”

"Oh?" Mithridates took off the gold breast ornament hanging around his neck, "You mean, that guy Tegranis still loves my sister?"

Stratonis smiled in agreement.

The white Ataxeta stands among the black mountains. In the deep palace of the Kingdom of Armenia, King Tegranis and Queen Otepele, the daughter of Mithridates, sit on the first floor and the other. On the two smaller thrones: Metdorus, the superior father of Pontus, arrived one step ahead of Apis, the Roman envoy.

Tegranis is the most powerful man in the entire eastern Asia Minor. He has long curly hair, a neatly trimmed beard, and a short stature, showing the ability and majesty of a king everywhere. He stared at the old man at the bottom of the steps, who was also the envoy of his father-in-law. Listening to the other party's lengthy rhetorical narrative about the interests of Armenia and Pontus, he finally became impatient and asked: "Meterdorus, it is said that you "You are the wisest man in the world. Why are you talking so much? Do you think that I, the King of Kings, should send troops to help my father-in-law and fight against the Romans?"

Hearing such questions from the King of Kings, Metdorus felt relaxed, but he still hoped that his rhetoric would be impeccable, and finally said the stupidest words in his life: "If it is based on my lord's opinion, your country will naturally be the same as mine." It would be good for my lord to join hands; but according to my personal opinion, it would be very bad for your country to be an enemy of the Romans."

As soon as these words came out, even Tegranis was amused. He raised his neck and laughed, and his voice shook the palace. Metodorus didn't know what his words meant, so he could only stay with him and have fun together. .

But Otepili became angry. She couldn't help but stand up from the throne, pointed at Metodorus and cursed: "My father supports you and trusts you, but now you have shown the bad virtues inherent in a literary man. May God I will punish you with the king." Then she turned to her husband and said sarcastically: "I heard that the Romans only had an army of ten thousand people, and they lacked horses and fodder at all. Now you, husband, and my father actually let Rome do it. People have been ruthless in their own territory for so many years, are there really no men in Anatolia?" After saying that, accompanied by several maids, he left the palace angrily.

Tegranis lost all face after being scolded in this way. He waved his hands with great annoyance and asked everyone to leave. Then he stood up and shouted to a minister: "Misaro, I have been listening to women and rhetoric all day long. The family is so noisy that I really can’t tell the difference between the two types of people – hunting is the most suitable for me now, so go and prepare!”

This young courtier named Misaro had red lips, white teeth, and a handsome figure. He had always been Tegranis' most trusted male favorite. Although he had something to say at this moment, he still bowed down and prostrated, and then left as ordered.

After a while, several men in uniform on horseback walked out of the small door on the back wall of the palace. The leader was naturally Tegrenis, accompanied by Misaro and the prince "Little Tegre". They were in the spacious place behind the palace. In the hunting garden, with horses riding and shooting, flying eagles and lackeys, they were enjoying themselves - several Celtic warriors were kneeling outside the fence of the hunting garden, saying that they were his father-in-law's bodyguards, who were the same as Metdorus. Get up, I have something important to report.

"It's endless!" Although Tegranis was bored, he could only cross a few fences with his horse and came to those people. They were all unarmed. The tall man who led him had indigo tattoos all over his body. , extremely vicious, holding a plate covered with silk, raised his head and said to the King of Armenia: "I am Biduita, the guard of King Pontus. I was rude during the meeting just now. This is presented to you by our Lord - Wan The gift of the king of kings.”

Tegrenis used a whip to gently pick up the silk, and what appeared on the plate was the head of Metrodorus and his severed hands!

The King of Kings of Armenia roared, gritting his steel teeth and scolding Biduita for his father-in-law's cruelty. Just because of an old man's momentary confusion, he wanted the life of this famous scholar in Greece.

"Mettorus instigated the friendship between the two countries, so he should end his life." Biduita was calm.

At this time, a shrill trumpet came from the tower built on the mountain beside the hunting garden. Tegrenis and others looked up and saw a man pushed down from the 100-meter-high tower by several people, falling like a kite, and then there was a muffled sound of blood and flesh scattered.

"Who is that man? Who dared to commit murder in my palace?" Tegrenis shouted, and several followers immediately rode their horses to rush over. After a while, they ran back with sweat on their heads, knelt at Tegrenis' feet, and reported: "It was the court logic teacher Anficoladi."

"Teacher!" Prince Tegreni burst into tears, and Tegrenis continued to ask angrily, who dared to kill the prince's teacher. The followers hesitated and finally answered: "It should be Her Majesty the Queen, my king. Anficoladi spoke rudely at the tea party just now, saying that the Armenians should not send troops to assist Pontus, and that he would leave for Seleucus soon, saying that Armenia's 'small rivers cannot accommodate large ships'."

The King of Kings reached his peak of anger, broke the horn bow in his hand, and shouted that the king's decision still needed women and slaves to point fingers!

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