Eagle Byzantium

After Gawain got up the next day, the sleeping officer and the gate guard discovered a mysterious symbol painted on the corner of the palace's bronze door.

Wen Ruomingna handed the rubbing paper of the symbol to Gawain. Gawain looked at it and saw that it was a lion-shaped pattern made of curved Persian calligraphy. Gawain didn't understand the meaning very well, so he handed it to the military commander. Someone who knows Persian will translate it.

Then the results came out. It was a "death notice" sent directly to him by Assassin from the Alpine Sect.

It said that Martyr Assassin had a hundred ways to assassinate himself, "It can be done while you are bathing, you can be having sex, you can be cruising, you can be camping, you can be washing, you can be... How about toilet time... Neither dungeons nor guards can protect you, because Grand Master Hassan is omnipotent. He is proficient in divination, astrology, building secret rooms, weapons and poisons, and any other superb art. hour I will deal with you immediately...and any Assassin martyr responsible for the assassination is simply unstoppable to you. They do not know how to flinch or feel pain, and can use anything as a weapon to kill you. If you still want to survive, give up the eastward march and don't approach any boundary between Lake Van and Sylvan. If you persist, we can only say, Stephen Gawain, we have found you and understand you. Everything..."

The letter ended abruptly, with endless hints of horror.

Seeing this, the Holy Sister, who had always had some contact with the Mountain Sect, turned pale. She begged Gawain: "The male and female believers of the Mountain Sect who were ordered by the old man Hassan have taken the powerful hashish resin for many years and have become... They are walking zombies who don't know pain. They only know how to kill dissident political opponents fanatically, regardless of the indiscriminate nature. They killed the great vizier of Riksha Khan, and now the great sultan of Seljuk has just died in their hands. These sultans have all besieged the Eagle Castle in the mountains, but they all failed due to the steep terrain and the fanaticism of the enemy. Unable to succeed. The whole of Persia, Anatolia and Mesopotamia has been shrouded in the shadow of death they created for many years!"

"Sister Holy Sister, do you want me to give up my plan and not move towards Lake Fan?"

Kabeamiya nodded, biting her lips, "I know this is your grand ambition, to revive Greater Armenia, but also to revitalize an empire, and to pave the way for the march to the imperial capital. But if you lose your life, Not to mention that the great achievements will come to naught, it will also make me feel heartbroken. Just settle the surrendered Ani people in Maras and Melitene, and then concentrate on moving westward to maintain the boundaries with the mountain sect. The water from the well does not interfere with the water from the river.”

"Is this your ambition?" After listening to the sincere expression of the Holy Sister, Gawain suddenly asked her with some sarcasm in the palace, "Is your Paulist Republic content to stay in Melite? Are you content with occupying twelve market towns and less than 100,000 believers? As a layman, I don’t think so, but as a consul, you are holding back because of despicable and weak intimidation.”

Kabeamiya blushed, and before she could defend herself, Gawain continued to talk, "Paulists, Syrians and Armenians all have similar faith foundations. In the future, my great cause will require you and your church to integrate and unify it." But look at you, a threatening letter from the Eagle Castle on Mount Alamut scared you to this point. It seems that those people are just scum armed with psychedelic drugs and ignorant fanaticism, and there is nothing that cannot be destroyed by iron and fire - wait, Holy Sister, I and the entire Kingdom of Tarsus will not accept any assassination Blackmail, I will sweep away the ashes from their filthy lair like a broom."

After speaking, Gawain stretched out his arm, "Do you really think that I am unprepared to deal with this group of scum? You are wrong. I have already sent envoys to contact the Shirvan Kingdom (now southern Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran). The capital was Taulis, later Tabriz, located on the Black Sea , the traffic artery of the Caspian Sea, located in the southeast of Georgia) Chief Ahmadi Ben Ibrahim Ben Waha Sultan Rawadi Kuadi, who happened to be suffering from the sect of the mountain sect Death threats, can’t wait to join forces with me to destroy the mountain sect.”

"Ahmadi..." When the holy sister read the name of this sheikh, her tongue curled up a little.

But Gawain was very considerate and told her that she only needed to call this "Ahmadi Rawadi". His ancestors were originally Saracens. After conquering the Shirvan region, they built an important and rich The emirate adopts Kurdish as its official language, believes in Sunniism and submits to the Seljuk Empire.

And now the surrounding Seljuk forces have begun to decline and die. Even the Great Sultan has been assassinated, and Ahmadi himself has received a death notice from the "Sect of the Mountain" - it seems that Hassan, the old man of the mountain, is going to take advantage of this opportunity. The "Assassin Kingdom" was established on the southern shore of the Khazar Sea (Caspian Sea) - which frightened Ahmadi so much that he promptly abandoned the original master and joined the newly-rising Gawain.

As for Ahmadi's gift, it was a specialty of the Shirvan Kingdom: "Twelve boys and girls as beautiful as the moon were sent to the patron's harem to serve as smart and well-behaved slaves." Now they have been sent to the palace hall in the inner city of Melite, to accept the mercy and favor of their new master Gawain.

The Saint Sister, who had come out with Gawain to inspect the "gift" with a stern face, saw twelve Sylvan boys dressed in gorgeous clothes when they arrived at the hall. They looked to be only about ten to twelve years old, the cutest age. Six of the boys with beautiful hair and fair skin wore beautiful women's clothes like calyx, dancing up and down on the rope rings and wooden frames set up in the hall, posing in various postures to show their soft waists and figures.

The other six girls, contrary to the norm, wore dark golden brown cloaks and white breeches, with their braids erected, wearing golden sheathed sabers, playing various Persian musical instruments to cheer the boys' dance, constantly shouting exciting beats, and looking heroic.

"I'm very curious about what kind of cursed and disgusting life this Ahmadi chieftain leads on weekdays!" The Saint Sister, who was sitting in a small chair at the back, couldn't help blushing, and was very dissatisfied with the orientation of this Saracen chieftain, and complained to Gawain.

But she turned her eyes to look at Gawain, who was sitting in the chair in front, surrounded by the maids and other servants, laughing and clapping for the performance of the Sylvan boys and girls. The scene was very lively and exciting.

Finally, all the boys swung their arms on the dance wooden frame and froze in position, while all the girls shouted in unison, like the order of an army to move. The music in the whole hall reached its peak, then suddenly fell, and there was silence.