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The princess of Pontus, Adiana! ?

It seems that the one under me is not a female ghost, but the daughter of Mithridates and Manime. And the wall of the mosaic has a mechanism, which is a mezzanine wall that can hide people. In the portrait, Mithridates The eyes were hollowed out, and the one who was peeping into the hall just now was hiding behind the wall. This Adiana, Lepidus thought it was the eyes of the portrait that were moving.

Seeing her biological mother's body being annihilated and defiled, Adiana couldn't bear it anymore, so she rushed out of the mezzanine wall.

At this time, there was gradually warmth under Lepidus. After Adiana spit out the blue-black liquid, her face and skin gradually turned white and red, and her body slowly became softer. The naked Lepidus Finally, I discovered that the person underneath was a young girl.

The reason is probably that Adiana had taken the poison and was planning to go with her mother. Unexpectedly, before the poison took full effect, Hebrida and the others rushed in. In the panic, they could only hide in the wall. , and then she slashed Batiatus and Lepidus too violently, causing her to vomit out all the poison in her body, and the poison "ebbed".

But at this time, the bronze door on the other side of the hall opened. It was Hebrida, Arminius, Safano and "Sissy" who heard the noise and rushed back!

"Damn it, damn it!" Hebrida howled when she saw the messy scene. At this time, a red shadow clung to the ground and swam rapidly towards these people - Arminius deserved it He was a veteran with sharp eyes and quick hands. He nailed the red shadow to the ground with a sword. It turned out to be a small bright red snake, which swung its head and tail under the tip of the sword and died.

It turned out that this venomous little snake had been hiding under the fig leaves. After being alarmed, it attacked and took Fan Tu's life.

As for who put this little snake in the basket, and for what purpose, was it a tool used by Baloud to take away the lives of the princesses? A palace murder aborted because of the Romans? Or were the princesses taking pre-retaliatory measures because they were worried that the body would be defiled? I'm afraid it will never be known.

With a muffled sound of "Gudong", Lebida held Adiana's head and hit it on the floor, causing the girl to faint.

"Who is this damn whore?" Hebrida asked.

Lepidus quickly stood up, and then at an angle that Hebrida could not see, he gently used his legs to sweep the small ax into the gap between a potted plant, and then returned: "Respected officer , probably a slave girl hiding behind the wall, who was surrendered by me." - "I'm so smart!"

Hebrida looked at Lepida, then glanced at Batiatus who fell on Monimee's body, "What's going on with Batiatas? You'd better give me a decent explanation."

"He annihilated the body of the dead princess, maybe, maybe he received the divine punishment from the goddess of virtue..." Hearing the words "annihilating the corpse of silver", everyone present showed an expression of disbelief, but what they saw in front of them was unbelievable. They had to believe that Batiatus had a very deep groove cut on the back of his head, but fortunately the "Gaul-style" helmet on his head, with its unique rear brim that extended backwards, protected him (in Lepidus' case) In his eyes, the helmet worn by soldiers of the Roman Republic was similar to the helmet of today's firefighters), which allowed him to linger and gasp, lying on the corpse of Monime, moaning and twitching.

Just when Heibrida was hesitant, a wave of horns sounded outside, and everyone's faces immediately became nervous, because this was the horn of the legion!

When Lepidus and "Sissy" carried the unconscious "slave girl" Adiana out of the gap in the broken wall on a simple stretcher built from the palace's tree trunks, the dawn sun had already filled the plain in front of the Pontus Palace. with the valley.

Only then did Lepidus see that the surrounding ruins of the smoldering palace were covered with square tents of the Roman legions, as neatly arranged as rows of white chess pieces, and equipped with trenches and wooden fences for isolation and siege. Now he finally understood why the palace he saw two thousand years later was turned into rubble for future generations to pay tribute to.

At this moment, Lepidus had taken off the clothes from the slain Pontic slaves and gathered together a set of clothes. Of course, the expensive silk clothes for the corpses of high-level slaves had been stripped off by the soldiers. Lepidus only found a stable slave. The burlap blouse worn by the slaves has no sleeves. A hole is cut on the top, and it is put on the head and tied with trousers at the bottom. It is also painted with charcoal: "I am a slave, don't be with me." The Greek word for "speak".

Therefore, the "sissy" stared at Li Bida all the way without saying anything to him.

As soon as the two put Adiana down, the sound of horse hooves came. The officers and soldiers of the Sixth Battalion who participated in last night's night battle hurriedly picked up their weapons and shields and lined up in front of the broken wall. One of them was obviously more gorgeously dressed than Hebrida. The centurion came on horseback, and the two followers behind him, one wearing a wolfskin cloak and holding a trumpet, and the other holding a "grape cane" symbolizing authority and title, stopped in front of Hebrida.

Hebrida stood at attention hastily and saluted, "Hi, my respected senior centurion of the Third Wing of the Sixth Brigade, the military tribune empowered by Roman citizens, Uterius Agomes Maurice. install!"

"Low-ranking centurion Hybrida, I most want to hear the news that you have captured or killed Mithridates, because this can offset your crime of sending troops to fight without permission last night while I was not in the camp." Utai Rhys asked loudly.

"Sir, Mithridates has already fled because of our army's hesitation. There are only a few of his wives and concubines in the palace of Calabi, and they have all committed suicide."

"Please repeat it, low-ranking centurion!"

"Yes, sir. They have all committed suicide, sir!"

Utires bent down on the saddle, pointed at Hybrida with his hand very rudely, and said in a low voice: "Listen, you will become the sinner of the Sixth Battalion, Hybrida, you old soldier from Febria, the commander will hear about your crimes and harm, our Roman army would rather have cowardly soldiers than brave robbers - I will immediately submit a written report to the finance officer of the province of Asia, and he will settle the looted materials of you soldiers, and finally you will not get half a drachma!"

After saying these words, Utires pulled his horse away with a "thump".

"Cough cough cough cough", on the stretcher, Adiana woke up in pain.

Lepidus looked up at the relief of Mithridates VI on the cliff. The sunlight was still refracted by the scepter of the relief. He was rubbed into the halo, but the expected result of traveling back did not appear. When he came to his senses, the fact that he became a slave of the Roman army was not a nightmare that he could wake up from.

The Seventh "Bacchus" Legion of the Roman Republic captured the palace of the King of Pontus, Karabi, on October 18, 678 years after the founding of Rome, or according to the chronology of Jesus' birth that Lepidus was more familiar with, in the late autumn of 66 BC, and massacred and looted. The enemy Mithridates VI escaped and went to the Armenian Kingdom of his son-in-law Tegrenes for refuge.

War, the "Mithridatic War" of the Roman Republic against the Kingdom of Pontus has not yet ended.

However, history has quietly deviated from its direction due to the mixing of an unknown small factor.

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