Rome Must Fall

Of course, there are also foreign guests in the stands: allies of the Nyx tribe—Aristakas, the chief of the Ardei tribe, elder Cleobrotas, Ambrasinos, Budokaribas, Xi Several pirate leaders, including Selitses, Kalsipempas, and Agatacus who were authorized to participate in the festival; Sfili, the leader of the Noriki Iron Core Tribe and Druid Bo, who have friendly relations with the Nyx Tribe. Damoqi, several leaders of the Yabod tribe.

In addition, there were several special guests - several Pannoni chiefs from Lake Gomami, including Adatis, the son of Iberus.

Although these guests all came together to salute and say hello, it was hard to say whether they were out of friendship, pressure, or just perfunctory...

However, Maximus always had a smile on his face, patiently returned greetings one by one, and sometimes exchanged greetings, so he moved very slowly.

Since Nesia was temporarily absent, the two children who were following Maximus and held by Gniandafla were no longer restrained and urged impatiently: "Dad, can you hurry up!"

Aknis hurried forward, bent down, and made a silencing gesture to the two children with a serious look on her face.

Not to mention, the two children immediately became quiet, because apart from Nesia, only Aconis could control them in the main room.

"Let me take care of the children." Akonis said to Genian Davra with some dissatisfaction.

But this was exactly what Gniandafla wanted, and she hurriedly agreed.

Maximus finally came to the small platform at the top of the stand, sat down in front of the big wooden chair in the center, and immediately called to the etiquette instructor Kephisophon who was already waiting there: "Don't keep the people waiting, let's start quickly. "

"Yes." Kephisophon quickly informed the band in front of the stands.

The ten trumpeters in the band played the brass horns hard.

"Woo!!!..." The high-pitched and long horn sounded throughout the arena.

Not far away, the west gate of Ofidilia West Village suddenly opened wide, and horse-drawn carriages galloped out, driving along the avenue to a specially reserved pedestrian passage outside the stadium.

Then, the members of the two teams participating in the rugby final from Snotia and Todlido, as well as the coaches and support staff of the two teams, as well as the referees and medical staff of the game... all got off the carriage and gathered. There were more than 150 people together. This is also one of the results of the development and gradual improvement of the summer festival rugby game.

The sea of ​​​​people made waves again. Most of the spectators outside the stadium stood up, stretched their necks, and looked towards the pedestrian passage. At the same time, they waved their arms and shouted loudly, excitedly expressing their support and support for a certain team. The love for a certain player gradually began to boil outside the stadium.

However, the audience was excited and excited, but they stood still and did not move, because this was one of the important laws about the summer festival enacted by the tribe. Once anyone violated it, he might be punished with blasphemy. Not only will he be banned from watching games in the future, but he will also not be able to worship in the temple. He will also be looked down upon by other ethnic groups. This is more uncomfortable than killing him. Therefore, no matter how excited the audience is, they will never dare to violate this ban. .

The players from both sides ignored the cheers of the audience, and under the leadership of their respective coaches, they walked to the edge of the court and their exclusive area with their heads held high.

"Give you some time to prepare." After the referee finished speaking to both teams, he took a few of his men to inspect the court.

The head coach of the Snodia team is Torrelugo. Although he likes to play football, he is too big, not fast enough, and not flexible enough because of his gladiator background. He has never become a Snodia player and participated in the competition. Qualifications for such a major competition, but Snodia is the source of troops for the second legion. The players are all soldiers from the legion. As the legion commander, he can easily intimidate these tough players and make them obey orders obediently. So it was natural for him to be the head coach.

At this moment, he called all the players over and gave a serious lecture: "Boys, since the summer memorial football game was held, our Snotia team has won the championship for three consecutive years. Snotia's The people hope that you can achieve greater success and bring the bronze statue of Goddess Danu back to Snodia, bringing greater luck to the village! I believe you can do it, because you are the strongest, right? "

"Yes!! Yes!! Yes!!!..." The players shouted excitedly in unison.

Tolerugo's eyes scanned the surrounding players, and finally stopped on one person: "Gawes, you are the captain, do you have anything to tell your teammates?"

"Yes!" Gowes responded in a deep voice.

At this time, he is no longer the ignorant newcomer who just joined the tribe and was just a spectator on the sidelines. In last year's summer game, he was the player with the most points. In this year's semifinals, he prevented Sirinos players from scoring a touchdown at a critical moment. He scored points and preserved the victory. He is the mainstay of the Snotia team and the confidence to win.

His tall and strong body exudes strong confidence, and his sharp and compelling eyes are firm and calm. He looked around at his teammates, including his compatriots from Skodischi who he was most affectionate to, and his Pannoni enemies who he once hated so much, but at this moment he gave them the same emotion, because they were all playing against him. A powerful help that you can trust and rely on.

"Brothers, our opponent in today's final is not Westney, but Todlido. We must not be blinded by their poor record in the past few years. Think carefully about the performance of the Silinos team in the semi-finals. Don't underestimate Todlido today. We must go all out!

If you encounter difficulties in the game, don't panic. Always stick to the tactics we have been training. In the end, we will win because our Snowtia team is invincible!" Govis waved his arms vigorously and shouted the last sentence, which caused his teammates to shout in unison again.

On the Todlido team side, head coach Aulus was also motivating the players: "...Yes, the Snowtia team has won the championship for three consecutive years and has never lost in the summer festival rugby game, but this is not terrible, because no army can be undefeated forever, and no team will not lose.

Since Snowtia will lose one day, why can't we, Todlido, be the first winner! Think about it, before the start of this year's game, no one would have thought that we would stand on the Iyenosi Stadium, and even many people thought that we would be eliminated in the first round, but now Now you are standing here!

It is because you have the belief of not admitting defeat and have been fighting with all your strength all the time that you have won one victory after another! We don’t have players as capable as Govis and Theresa in the Snowtia team, but as long as you can keep running, grabbing and fighting desperately, you can drag down our opponents, disrupt their formation, and win in the chaos! ..."

As a legion commander with rich war experience and older age, Aulus has always been steady in doing things, but today in order to inspire the fighting spirit of the players, he rarely showed his passionate side.

Even in order to win this final, he humbly consulted his former deputy, the current fifth legion commander, and the head coach of the Silinos team, Pekote. Fighting hard and grabbing to disrupt the battle was played by this guy who is good at coming up with unexpected tricks. In the semi-finals, he almost won the Snowtia team with this trick.

"Come on, brothers!" Aulus stretched out his right hand and said excitedly: "Our team is a whole, everyone is indispensable, as long as you all try your best, you can win and bring the goddess Danu home!"

The players rushed to put their hands on Aulus's right hand, they roared in unison, and a blazing fire ignited in their hearts.

The Todlido team is slightly different from other teams. Most of the Pannoni players are from other Pannoni tribes and were captured in the last war. At this moment, they are no different from other teammates, shouting excitedly to bring victory back to Todlido.

The referee called the captains of the two teams to guess the coin and choose the side.

The referee held a special copper coin in his hand, with the head of the goddess Danu on the front and the head of the leader Maximus on the back.

The Knicks tribe has no plans to issue coins for the time being, but the hot pressing technology for making coins is not complicated and has long been popular in Mediterranean city-states. After some research, Sistos led the blacksmiths and soon applied this technology to the tribe, such as the round dragon emblem showing the official rank.

In fact, the Knicks tribe has no need to make such a copper coin specifically for a rugby game, and the procedure of guessing the coin and choosing the side can be completely omitted.

But Maximus is obsessed with this, and he has his own thoughtful considerations:

First, the more complicated and sophisticated the procedures of rugby games are, the more solemn and formal it will appear, thus attracting more tribesmen to participate and making it a unique culture of the Knicks tribe;

Second, it can better highlight the sacredness of the game, and through such small means, the tribesmen's belief in the goddess Danu and the awe of the leader Maximus as the descendant of the goddess Danu will be continuously deepened;

Then, as the Knicks tribe continues to grow and rugby games continue to become popular, the tribe can also make profits by selling copper coins and other game-related products to the tribesmen.

Of course, the players on both sides didn't know that Maximus had thought deeply about a copper coin. They stood in the middle of the field, staring at each other, and their eyes sparked sparks in the collision.

Accompanied by a sharp whistle, the game officially began...