My XX deal with Sister Nero

So facing Attila's stopping and starting, Evebia's spies were a little panicked.

After all, according to Evebia, this guy in front of him is a "world destroyer", but this destroyer walks around, eats and drinks all day long. What kind of destruction is this? Destroying the snacks of Rome?

So not only were Evebia and Nero confused, even Tony, who considered himself a lunar man, felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the style of painting.

"But since Cefalu has become the size of a normal person and has been in Rome for such a long time and the city has not been destroyed, I think... this should mean that Cefalu is controllable. So, how about I talk to her?" Tony frowned and thought for a while, then spoke.

Chapter 369 Rosa's Secret

"Is this the legendary city of Rome?" On the eastern outskirts of Rome, a woman wearing a Papal robe and with typical European features stood on a small hill, looking at the towering city walls not far away, and spoke with some intoxication.

"Yes, Your Highness the Elector." Behind the woman called "Your Highness the Elector," a woman with long golden hair and a hot body nodded and pointed to the city wall not far away and said, "That should be the capital of this empire."

"But speaking of it... what is that?" At this moment, a woman with long pink hair who looked a little silly and had a pair of round... indescribable parts pointed curiously at a construction site next to the city wall and said, "Looking at the foundation, they should be building a house, right? But the scale doesn't look like that of an ordinary family, and if it's a villa of a wealthy family... it wouldn't be so neat, right?"

"This... looks like a residential area? Or a dormitory or something like that." A black-haired girl with an Asian face stared at the construction site and suddenly asked, "Prince Lampado, has His Majesty told you? What is this construction site?"

"Ah?" The indifferent girl with Caucasian features standing next to the Asian girl replied, "Prince Bumby, do you think His Majesty knows what this construction site is?"

"...Okay." The girl called Prince Bumby shook her head. Although she was curious about what this construction site was going to build, she was just curious about it.

"Alright, alright, stop talking." The woman standing in the front, who was called the Elector and was wearing a para robe, turned her head and looked at the girls following behind her. She frowned and said, "Prince Bumbi is from Japan, so he should be more familiar with the world view of FATE, right?"

"Yes, after all, FATE is a national IP in Japan, and your Majesty used to go to Japan often." Prince Bumby nodded and said, "I also got to know the FATE series for various reasons, so I am quite familiar with some of the special terms in it."

"That's fine." The Elector nodded. She was different from that Majesty. The late Emperor whom she once served was an out-and-out otaku. It was said that he usually carried three mobile phones with him, one for watching videos and making private calls, one for almost all work calls, and the other for playing various mobile games, such as Crown X Designated and Tomorrow X Ship. It was said that sometimes one could hear the late Emperor bragging that he was actually a swordsman who was good at aerial splits and had saved people from an island who should have been a cleaner.

God knows what the late emperor was talking about.

"Speaking of which, did something happen when Your Majesty left this time?" At this moment, Prince Lampado, who had been in a state of expressionless expression, suddenly spoke. The late emperor suddenly left this world and returned to his own world. Something must have happened, right?

"Ah? You mean that?" The Elector gently lifted his hair and said, "It is said that the missing Xiao Changtian has been found."

"Xiao Changtian?" Prince Lampado frowned slightly as he chewed on this unfamiliar name: "Who... is this?"

"Nothing, just a serial killer who committed serious crimes." The Elector shrugged and said undeniably: "I am not very familiar with this person. According to your majesty, this person is as important as Xiao Yun. I can only guess that he is one of that group of people, but... Xiao Yun accidentally traveled through time, and this Xiao Changtian is a pathetic murderer."

"Pathetic...murderer?" Upon hearing this description, the princes present were stunned and could not react.

According to the description just now, Xiao Changtian is a serial killer. How can such a person be called pathetic?

"I don't know the specifics, but it seems that His Majesty is going back to deal with his affairs." The Elector shook his head: "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's go back and find a place to stay first."

"Uh-huh."

Soon, these princes and the Elector moved in under the same gaze as an innkeeper. The Elector glanced at the palace in the distance and said, "Okay, according to your majesty's plan, what we should do next is to search for how many enemies this young prince has in Rome."

Although Rosa left in a hurry, after he saw Orias, he knew that King Solomon, or Mr. Gai, had finally started to take action on this loss belt.

And the most important person and the most important core in this loss belt is Tony.

That's right, Tony is the lord of this Lostbelt. This was created by Rose, or rather, the future Rosa, through various means. After all, the heroic spirit Tony does not exist in pan-human history.

The most crucial person in this loss belt is Tony, or in other words, in the future, he will become the master of this loss belt.

Regardless of whether Goetia knows this or not, the right thing to do is to protect Tony first!

And...he had to be on guard against one person, and that was Archimedes.

Although he said he hated him, Rosa had to admit that Archimedes was a true genius. At the same time, Archimedes, like Rosa, was a "traveler between worlds" and could travel through time and space to other parallel worlds.

With just a little comparison and analysis, Archimedes could easily find that the biggest difference between this world and other pan-human histories was that in this world, Tony became a heroic spirit.

Although Tony also exists in other parallel worlds, the Tony in those parallel worlds is almost always just a "somewhat capable" prince, and he did not become a heroic spirit after his death. But this world is different. The Tony in this world has become a heroic spirit.

If one wants to destroy this Lostbelt, the first person to be eliminated is the future Lord of the Lostbelt!

Rosa…didn’t want to lose Tony again.

Just as the Elector knew, Rosa had been looking for a group of people. In Rosa's view, these people were his helpers and indispensable collaborators, with whom he would prosper and suffer together. They were also his... biggest secret!

That's why he would do whatever it takes to find Tony, and even his future self would take a huge risk to tell him about the Lostbelt Project, all in order to save Tony's life and prevent him from being assassinated in the future.

The same is true for the cold-blooded murderer named Xiao Changtian!

Chapter 370: This stupid sister has the wrong idea again!

Tony once asked why Rosa looked for him.

But Rosa did not tell the reason, but according to Rosa, he seemed to have looked for Tony for a while in the world where Rosa lived in his previous life, but did not find him.

Later, through the heroic spirit Tony, he was found in this world, and it even implicitly stated one thing, that the dream Tony had in Byzantium was real.

Tony in the future did die in an assassination, and the man in Tony and Nero's dreams was Rosa.

But here comes the problem.

The reason why Rosa appears here to help Tony is because the future Rosa specially came up with a way to rescue Tony after knowing that Tony would be assassinated. It is precisely because of this that Rosa appears here and has contact with him.

So, how did Rosa and Tony meet in the first place?

According to Rosa, he looked for Tony with a certain purpose, but he didn't say what the purpose was.

Originally, Tony was very concerned about this matter, but after finding out that Rosa had no ill intentions, he stopped caring about it.

The topic has gone too far.

At this moment, Tony didn't know that Rosa's men had entered Rome. What he wanted to do most now was to satisfy his curiosity, which was to find the heroic spirit Attila and find out what her plans were.

However, Nero did not allow Tony to do so.

Although Cefalu has now shown enough self-control, Nero is still worried. What if Cefalu suddenly draws his sword against his brother? Wouldn't his brother be in danger?

Even if his younger brother has been blessed by the heroic spirit and has a certain ability to protect himself, who is he facing? It's the wandering soldier Cephalu who can kill gods, the half-human and half-god King Gilgamesh of Uruk, and the demigod Caenis. Any one of these three can crush his younger brother to the ground!

So no matter what Tony said, Nero did not agree to let him go to find Cefalu.

"Okay, okay." Knowing that his sister was doing this for him, Tony waved his hand and said to Nero, "I won't go, but...how is the Sassanid Kingdom doing?"

A month ago, Tony accidentally met Scheherazade on the street and learned that Parthia was planning to attack the Sassanid Empire. While the Sassanid Empire was preparing for war, it was also sending people to seek help everywhere, trying to attract reinforcements. In addition to the Roman Empire, the Sassanid Empire also contacted the Yuezhi and Baicheng Dynasties, hoping to get some help.

The Baicheng Dynasty didn't say anything. They just supported from a distance. Anyway, there was the Indo-Parthian Kingdom between them and the Parthian Empire. Even though this country has been fighting a civil war for more than ten years, the foundation laid by King Gondophares for this country is still there. At this precarious time, the Parthian Empire really didn't dare to easily take action against such a once second-rate power.

As for the Great Yuezhi... the Five Marquises of the Great Yuezhi had always wanted to bite off a piece of meat from Parthia. Based on the attitude that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the Great Yuezhi naturally agreed to the alliance with the Sassanid Kingdom.

But having these two countries is not enough.

Similar to the Parthian Empire, the Baicheng Dynasty had no way to attack the Parthian Empire directly and could only cheer it from a distance. Although the Dayuezhi wanted to swallow up the Parthian Empire, its national strength was ultimately inferior to that of Parthia. Even if the Five Xihou joined forces, they could at most force the Parthian Empire to fight a slightly larger local war.

Therefore, their focus is on the Roman Empire. As long as the Roman Empire shows its intention to join the war, the Parthian Empire will definitely be cautious. After all, the Roman Empire is not the Great Yuezhi. Once a war breaks out with the Roman Empire, it will be a national war!

But a month passed and Scheherazade did not receive any satisfactory response.

Tony did tell Nero about this matter, but considering that he did not hold any official position in the central government of the empire, he did not say anything. As for Nero, as an unqualified emperor, he had no interest in whether or not to protect a small country, so he directly threw the matter to the Senate.

As for the Senate...

As the emperor's advisory body and one of the actual rulers of the country, whether the empire should accept this younger brother is a simple question. What benefits can it bring to itself by accepting this younger brother?

No.

The Sassanid Empire could not bring any benefits to the Roman Empire today.

King Shanuya of the Sassanid Empire just wanted to win over a powerful figure. As for the benefits... sorry, there are none for now. After all, the Sassanid Empire was also a very poor country.

No money.

In other words, they are unwilling to give even if they have money.

Taking you as my little brother will not only bring no benefits but may also lead to another war with the Parthian Empire. Who would be willing to do that?

"This king... is there something wrong with his brain?" Tony slapped his forehead. He really didn't expect that this could be played like this.

Actually, he was more inclined to accept such a younger brother. After all, his trade fleet had to have a stopover in the Indian Ocean, right? You couldn't stop in the Parthian Empire, right?

Compared with the Parthian Empire, the Sassanid Empire is indeed a very good choice.

But if the Sassanid Empire played things this way, it would be boring.

Although it’s a pity for Scheherazade, but... I’m not someone who can take the risk of going to war with a first-rate power just for a woman.

Besides, even if I really dare to do that, my elder sister would probably hang me up and beat me.

"The Empire currently has no plans to go to war with Parthia, and the Sassanid Kingdom sounds a bit arrogant... How about this, sister, you talk to the Senate, and I'll go talk to their prime minister. If they are willing to give the Empire certain benefits, then we should be able to help them, right?"

"Brother, are you..." As Nero spoke, he narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Tony with a very dangerous look.

"What are you thinking about, silly sister!" Tony retorted bluntly, "Have you forgotten? I have been preparing a trade fleet in Egypt, hoping to use this trade fleet to solve my saltpeter shortage problem. According to the description of the Sassanid Kingdom, its geographical location is very critical. If possible, I would like to set up a stop here. In this way, I can avoid unnecessary losses caused by my trade fleet stopping at the Parthian Empire."

"That makes sense." Nero nodded.

Although the two countries have now re-entered a peaceful phase, and the Parthian Empire will not deliberately make things difficult for the merchants of the Roman Empire, it is not certain if the other party is the caravan of His Royal Highness Prince Odenis.

After all, this little prince just gave your Parthian Empire a severe beating last year.

Chapter 371 Sapur

There is a reason why Tony wants to take in the Sasanian Kingdom as his little brother.

After inventing gunpowder, he had been thinking about how to solve the problem of saltpeter. Although there were many septic tanks in the suburbs of Rome and Britain for making saltpeter, the saltpeter production was far from enough for Tony to equip the entire Roman Empire with hot weapons.

Of course, with the gun manufacturing technology Tony has mastered, the best he can do is make a flintlock rifle.

So we can only go to those saltpeter producing places to find saltpeter.

As for the largest saltpeter producing areas, Chile is too far away. As for the remaining two... India is a good choice.

At this moment, India does not have a unified regime. The largest regime is naturally the Baicheng Dynasty. Tony is even thinking about one thing, that is, whether to learn from future generations and establish a large-scale East India Company.

But think about it and forget it.

The reason why the British or Dutch East India Company could grow so big was that they had absolute military force as a guarantee. But what about the Roman Empire? Although the Roman Empire was powerful at the moment, it was not powerful enough to defeat everything. Facing the Baicheng Dynasty, the Roman Empire's expeditionary force might not be a match.

Therefore, if you want to trade with the Baicheng Dynasty, you must first sort out the shipping routes and ports along the way. If you can't even handle this, then it will be really troublesome.

If there had been no civil war in the Indo-Parthian Kingdom, Tony would not have minded using the country as a trade transit point.

Therefore, if possible, it would be a good idea to win over the Sassanid Kingdom to make it his trading base.

But if the Sassanid Empire is so unruly, there is nothing we can do. The worst that can happen is that we can win over a force from the Indo-Parthian Kingdom, support this force to take power, and then let the other party take over the two ports.

However... the latter is more time-consuming and costly, unlike the former, which can be done quickly if the other party knows what's good for you.

"Okay, I will inform the Senate tomorrow, and then I will let you, as the plenipotentiary representative of the Roman Empire, to negotiate with the other party." Nero nodded. As long as it was not too dangerous or related to girls, Nero would support Tony no matter what he did.

It's a harmless job to let my younger brother try conducting diplomatic negotiations with the prime minister of another country, which is not dangerous.

"You mean, His Royal Highness will come to negotiate with us?"

Looking at the Roman Guard in front of him, the prime minister of the Sassanid Empire, who was nearly sixty years old, subconsciously widened his eyes with an expression of disbelief.

Before, in order to win over the Roman Empire, he had specially sought out many senators and nobles, but... no one was willing to meet him actively. Even if they met him, they would just laugh it off and talk about some meaningless topics, and they never talked about serious matters.

To the extent that the prime minister was already somewhat discouraged at this moment, he had already decided that if no one was willing to help him after waiting for a few more days, then he would leave the Roman Empire and return to the Sassanid Empire.

But what he didn't expect was that His Royal Highness was willing to meet him on his own initiative! And he was meeting him as the plenipotentiary representative of the Roman Empire!

This means that once the young prince nods in agreement, then... the entire Roman Empire will stand behind the Sassanid Empire. At that time, the Parthians will have to think carefully about the consequences of taking action against themselves.

But then again, this Prince... doesn't seem to be an easy person to deal with.

Because he had made a mistake before, he later went out of his way to learn more about His Royal Highness Prince Oddney. This prince was not very old, only less than fourteen years old, but what he had done were really not trivial things!

His Royal Highness has almost won all the five wars he led, including suppressing the rebellion in the Pontus region, defeating the attacks of the Parthians, suppressing the attacks of the southern desert peoples, suppressing the Boudica rebellion, and taking the initiative to attack the Picts!

Of course, the attack of that desert nation still sounds a bit exaggerated. After all... who could there be in the depths of the Sahara Desert?

But even if this war is excluded, there are four wars left, four of which were victorious, including the defeat of the Parthian attack. The value of this war is very high!

In addition, His Royal Highness has also made achievements in other areas, so... the Prime Minister really doubts whether this Prince... is really only thirteen years old?

His question was soon answered.

The next morning, the prime minister had just finished his breakfast when he heard footsteps coming from outside the door of the house he had temporarily rented.

"Your old minister, I am Sapur, the Prime Minister of the Sassanid Kingdom, greeting His Royal Highness the Prince of the Roman Empire!" When he arrived at the gate and looked at the young man standing at the door, the Prime Minister of the Sassanid Kingdom quickly put his right hand on his chest and bowed deeply to Tony.

"Sapur, huh?" Tony shrugged. It turned out that the prime minister whose name had never been revealed in the Thousand and One Nights was called Sapur.

"Ah... yes, Your Highness." As he spoke, Sapur slightly turned sideways and invited Tony into the house.

"I heard that the Parthian Empire is now actively preparing for war and intends to attack the Sassanid Kingdom, is that right?" Tony asked directly as soon as he sat down in the house.