Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1599 1571. Olympics?
"Okay, now you sure you don't want to put on some more clothes?"

Standing on a layer of floating water above the ground of Dagon's Temple, Lan turned casually and asked Cassandra.

"You probably won't care too much about what other people think of you wearing something like this in this weather, but it does make you look a little silly."

The development of armor and clothing in each region must conform to the local environment.

Cassandra's Mediterranean armor, although this set is actually forged with Isu technology fragments, its appearance is still very revealing.

It is an armor style from the early days of civilization.

Compared to her outfit, the wild and barbaric equipment of the pirates of the Skellige Islands made them look like pioneers of civilization.

The northerners have landed on this land for about five hundred years, and before they accidentally came to this world through the celestial conjunction, they were already a civilization with basic ocean-going navigation technology.

It took much longer than the development of ancient Greek civilization.

"Can I wear your clothes?" Cassandra gestured to Lan's figure.

"Use it as a cloak for now." Lan En took out one of his coats from the alchemical leather bag at his waist. "When we get to Aretuza, I'll give you a proper and nice one."

"Looks good? That doesn't matter." Cassandra took the coat and put it on without any pretense. "But can't you pray to the gods? Or cast a spell?"

Seeing the other party's impatient and curious eyes, Lan En sighed: "This is not the realm of the gods, Cassandra. This is just another world. Gods don't care about eating, drinking, and wearing clothes. And mages basically don't study this kind of magic."

"So what do they study?"

"War, politics, and other things. For things like eating and drinking, it's more convenient to pay for a servant."

"Okay, I'm a little confused." Cassandra crossed her arms and nodded up and down, "But it doesn't sound like anything to worry about, right?"

"Your open-mindedness in this regard is very wise, Cassandra."

"Ha, thank you for the compliment. Being called smart by someone who can communicate smoothly with Socrates is a great honor in Athens."

"Socrates? Is his tongue even more poisonous now?" Lan asked in surprise as he led Cassandra from the Temple of Dagon to Black Tern Island so that they wouldn't have to stand in the floating water.

"I talked to him before, and he really thinks that your thinking is always superficial. But at the same time, he admires your sharp instinct to find the key points directly. Overall, he thinks highly of you."

"Socrates meow?" The ball of velvet on Lan's shoulder frowned and thought hard, and finally identified it with the people he met in Athens. "Oh! It's that fat bearded man meow! He always asks questions when he talks to me!"

Talking about their mutual friend in Athens, Cassandra smiled and said, "He is still the same now. When talking to people, he always asks questions again and again, as if he is not done until he has completely dissected the person's thoughts. Few people can stand this kind of communication."

"Unless you are a minority who can have a back-and-forth with him in questioning, then people can feel fair, instead of being bullied one-sidedly. Yes, being bullied. Athenians now say that Socrates' questioning is bullying."

"I mourn for those people." Lan En curled his lips. "I think if this continues, Socrates will be exiled soon, right?"

"Ha, hard to say." Cassandra also laughed and answered concisely.

The Lady of the Lake was nowhere to be seen on Black Tern Island, so Lan took Cassandra and Abe Haruaki to rest near the clear spring on the island.

"I came in a hurry before." The demon hunter confirmed to Cassandra, "But you agreed to my request without hesitation. I am very grateful."

"But this trip might take several months. Will the Adrestia be okay?"

Cassandra sat casually and confidently on the rocks surrounding the spring, while Lan half-knelt in front of her with a serious expression.

The Aegean beauty's thick black eyebrows, which were painted like indigo stone, were raised upwards, and the corners of her mouth and eyes became ambiguous with an aggressive look.

She reached out and grabbed the collar of Lan's armor, pulling him forcefully towards her.

The two could feel each other's hot breath.

"If I really want to say it, I would rather have some 'real' gratitude. My beauty, can you imagine how hot my heart was when we were riding on the unicorn's back, stepping on the waves of the ocean? I could hardly bear it."

Lan En was already accustomed to the Spartans' strong and direct expressions of love.

On the contrary, the Qilin following behind let out a "hiss" sound, and moved sideways several steps away while swinging its hooves.

A pair of ruby-like eyes looked in surprise at the two people who had just gotten off his back.

——What are you two planning to do on my back?!
Cassandra glanced at the elegant Pegasus and smiled as she withdrew her hand from Lan's armor collar.

"Nothing has been going on aboard the Adrestia lately. Did I tell you? I found my mother, Myrrine! She became the king on the island of Naxos!"

"Naxos? There's a king there?" Lan said teasingly.

“Please, it’s just an exaggeration.” Cassandra smiled and waved her hand, “But she did become the manager of that island.”

"I solved the problems she faced on the island, and she felt relieved to reunite with me. But when you came to me, we were actually facing problems too."

"Myrrine and I returned to Sparta, hoping to find evidence of the Cult of Kosmos' murder of our family, as well as members of the Cult of Kosmos within Sparta. But when we set foot on Spartan soil again..." Cassandra grinned helplessly and unhappily: "Tsk, our family's property and our citizenship are all gone."

"These things could have been recovered legally through my father Nikolaos. But what we did together in Megaris before..."

Lan En's face showed understanding.

When the two of them traveled together on the Adrestia to Megaris, Kassandra's goal was to assassinate the Spartan commander in Megaris at the time, Nikolaos the Blood Wolf.

Cassandra did not kill her father in the end. Instead, she learned about the existence of the Cult of Kosmos during a heart-to-heart conversation.

However, Nikolaos, who saw his daughter again, disappeared on his own afterwards.

If a Spartan general disappeared on the battlefield, the Spartans could only assume that he was dead.

Nikolaos was the only one left of Kassandra's family in Sparta, and he later adopted a son.

Now even Nikolaos was considered dead, so the property naturally belonged to the adopted son.

Cassandra and Myrrine didn't care much about the property, but Spartan citizenship was very important.

Without citizenship, it was difficult for them to investigate and prosecute members of the Cult of Kosmos within Sparta.

As a typical example of classical militarism, Sparta had a serious xenophobia problem.

Fortunately, they were legitimate Spartan citizens, and were thought to be dead, so their identities were cancelled. Now they just needed to regain their identities legally.

"Pausanias, one of the current two kings of Sparta, asked me to use the Adrestia to escort a Pancrassian athlete to participate in the Olympic Games in exchange for the right to argue in court."

“So now the whole ship is actually waiting for the Olympics, and there is nothing to do.”

"Pankrasin? What is that?" The fluffy ball had jumped down when Lan's collar was pulled just now. Now he looked up and asked with his big watery eyes blinking.

"A technique for unarmed combat."

"Unarmed combat skills meow!" The war-crazy kitten's eyes suddenly lit up.

"It's just a very crude and basic fighting technique." Lan En's additional explanation made the kitten curl his lips, and the interest that had just been raised faded away again.

"But... the Olympics." After Lan En finished explaining to the fluff ball, a strange expression appeared on his face, but it quickly disappeared.

"How long will it take for the Olympics to start in your country?"

"It's still a few months to wait, it's okay." Cassandra said relaxedly.

Lan En also relaxed. A few months should be enough.

"But your [Tongzhan Fu] really doesn't deserve praise, Qingming."

After sorting out Cassandra's schedule, Lan En began to stab the Yin-Yang Master next to him.

"Didn't you say you wanted to find something or someone without any problems? In the end, it took us two days to find it in the Aegean Sea."

But Abe Haruaki also has something to say.

"There's really no need to praise me, Your Highness." Abe Haruaki continued to smile calmly, as if he couldn't tell what was going on. "This is what I should do."

"Faced with a world I've never seen before, and a constellation I've never seen before, it only took me two days to roughly adjust the results of the [General Divination Talisman], locking the results within a small range, and finally finding Miss Cassandra. This is nothing, you don't have to worry about it."

"When you have really learned how to draw the [Tongzhan Fu], you will understand."

"Okay, okay." Lan En responded perfunctorily. "What the Great Yin-Yang Master said is right."

In fact, he was just joking with Abe Haruaki, but who knew that this guy was actually a sinister and treacherous person.

In the ancient Greek world, Cassandra was a mercenary who had a warship and ran around freely. It was actually completely uncertain where she could appear in the vast Aegean Sea.

The last time Lan En met Cassandra in Athens was during the great plague in Athens. It was just a coincidence.

But this time, Abe Haruaki made a great contribution.

[Tongzhanfu], as the name suggests, is actually a simple manifestation of the Onmyojis' divination ability.

After using it, the person using the spell will have an intuitive and vague feeling about what he or she is looking for, which can serve as a guide.

After Abe Haruaki drew several talismans in a row, causing himself to become weak, Lan was able to find the vague direction within two days and come directly to Cassandra.

(End of this chapter)