My XX deal with Sister Nero

"This..." Tony stood up and quickly glanced at the surrounding buildings while looking at the shiny colorful things on the ground: "Is this... gem magic?"

Necromancer and gem magic, it is obvious that the other party has more than one magician!

"Brother." At this moment, Nero also quickly turned over and dismounted, came to Tony, turned his back to him and said: "Let's take shelter in the house next door first."

Seeing the elder sister's subconscious action of protecting herself, Tony suddenly smiled and said, "Elder sister, have you forgotten that although the situation seems dangerous, in fact... our opponents are just ordinary people."

As he spoke, Tony took a deep breath, his pupils shrank slightly, and then... he quickly began to look for the enemy!

clairvoyance!

Clairvoyance is the basic skill of Archer-class Heroic Spirits, and in a sense, clairvoyance can also be considered a kind of magic eye.

Of course, the clairvoyance mentioned here refers to the clairvoyance of Merlin, Kimpika and Solomon. Clairvoyance like Tony's... to put it bluntly, is just farsightedness, and is not even as good as Red A's eyesight.

But, in this case, that's enough!

In just over ten seconds, Tony found the enemy's location.

"Someone come! Take over that room for me!" Tony stretched out his hand, pointed at a window on the third floor of the opposite building and shouted.

"Yes! Your Highness!" Hearing Tony's order, the Royal Guard general shouted to one of his captains, "Take your men and find the bastard in that room!"

Chapter 432: The Engagement Ceremony Continues

"Yes!" The captain responded, looking at the assassins holding daggers who were gradually retreating, a cruel sneer suddenly appeared on his face, and he said to a captain of the Centuriae next to him: "Take your people and kill these guys for me first, and then come to support me, understand?"

"Yes, captain." The captain of the centurion team held the short spear in his hand and rushed towards the assassins with his subordinates.

However, what was unexpected was that just when this detachment was about to split into two groups and prepare to attack their respective targets, a fireball suddenly appeared in the crowd as if out of thin air, and then swallowed up the surrounding soldiers.

"Disperse!" Tony was stunned at first when he saw the fireball that suddenly appeared, and then he ordered loudly.

Is this a fire magic? Or something else?

There was no way. Tony didn't know much about magic. He was not a magician, so he had no way to distinguish in detail what these magic tricks were.

But no matter what, Tony can be sure of one thing, this magic... as long as it is dispersed, then the casualties can be minimized.

"The guy upstairs is the one who uses gem magic, where are the rest? Where are the two guys who use necromancy and fire magic?" Standing at the stairs, Tony looked around anxiously. The engagement ceremony cannot be stopped, and these bastards... must be caught!

"There is one on the third floor of the building right in front of Tony, and one in another building not far away. There are several others scattered in the surrounding buildings. If I'm not mistaken, there are a total of five magicians on the other side."

In an alley not far away, a young woman with dazzling blonde hair was holding a gadget similar to a modern telescope. After searching carefully, she spoke to the man with an Asian face behind her.

"Well...then you should go and deal with these guys first. Oh, and try not to destroy other people's homes. I guess the house these guys are in... is probably rented temporarily or occupied by force. Don't destroy it or else others will have nowhere to live."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The girl holding a telescope responded, then threw the telescope to a companion beside her and quickly disappeared into the alley.

"Next...you guys wait here for a moment, I'm going to go meet our groom." The young man with an Asian face smiled, stretched, and walked towards where Tony was.

the other side.

Under the protection of the Royal Guards, Tony and Nero have retreated into the residential building. As someone who has played PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds before, he certainly understands that the first thing to do at this time is to find cover and block the enemy's line of sight. Only in this way can the enemy be unable to figure out their position. After all, there are two people on the opposite side who are performing gem magic and fire magic. If nothing else, at least they have to block their line of sight first and prevent them from seeing them.

"The engagement ceremony cannot be interrupted." Standing at the corner of the stairs, Nero took a deep breath and said with a gloomy face.

Although we don’t know who the employer behind the assassin is, that’s a matter for the future. What we need to do now is to complete the engagement ceremony!

But...if we can't get rid of the assassin first, how can the engagement ceremony be completed?

However, just as Tony was thinking about how to break the impasse, he suddenly heard a scream from the building opposite, followed by the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.

"Your Highness!" About three seconds later, a soldier standing at the staircase on the first floor suddenly came forward and reported, "Your Highness, the magician you mentioned earlier...seems to have been thrown out of the building."

???

Was he thrown out of the building?

When Tony heard this, he was a little confused. Who did this?

"Who is it!" Almost at the same time, the soldiers who were originally gathered around the building suddenly shouted loudly, followed by the hasty sound of swords being unsheathed, as if some enemy was walking towards this side.

"Don't worry, everyone. Your Highness and His Majesty know me."

"Huh? Rosa?" Hearing the voice, Tony almost subconsciously stuck his head out and looked at the familiar young man standing in the middle of the road outside.

"Okay, your engagement ceremony continues. I've also dealt with those magicians for you, but I have to take them away. After all, I can still use the magic marks on them."

"Wait a minute!" Hearing this, Tony pushed aside the guards on both sides, quickly went downstairs and came to Rosa, and said to Rosa: "You can't take them away. I still have to interrogate them carefully to find out who their employer is."

Feeling the murderous aura emanating from Tony, Rosa smiled and shook his head and said, "I can't give him to you, but I can help you interrogate him. Besides... you should do some good deeds these days and avoid violence, isn't that good?"

"You..." Tony frowned and looked at Rosa standing in front of him. Finally, he nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll leave it to you."

After Rosa left, Tony turned around and said to the guards around him, "Okay, let's continue with the engagement ceremony."

Just as Rosa said, it would be better to commit less murder recently.

The news that His Majesty and His Royal Highness were almost assassinated at the engagement ceremony soon spread throughout the city of Rome. Just as the crowd was talking about it, suddenly, there was a burst of footsteps coming from the end of the road not far away, as if a neatly-armed army was walking towards this side.

"Huh?" Hearing the footsteps, the citizens present subconsciously stopped talking and turned their heads to look in the direction where the footsteps came from.

At the end of the road, a group of soldiers wearing brand new Royal Guards armor, surrounded by two young men and women riding war horses, were slowly walking towards this side.

"This is... His Majesty the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Prince!" When the citizens saw clearly the two men and women on horseback, they subconsciously exclaimed. Although they didn't know what the previous assassination was about, it seemed that these two noble descendants of God did not suffer any harm. This was really great!

"Your Highness! Your Majesty!" Seeing the two most honorable descendants of God slowly walking towards them, the citizens began to cheer wildly and threw the rose petals that they had prepared in their hands, offering their warmest blessings to these two honorable beings.

Tony and Nero smiled and waved their hands to the citizens present, while subconsciously tightening the reins in their hands.

There's no way. After all, he had just been assassinated before, so it's understandable that he would be on guard subconsciously.

Chapter 433: The Earth Gate!

The wedding ceremony continued.

Although Tony and Nero were secretly on guard against a possible new round of assassinations along the way, the new round of assassinations they were worried about did not occur until they reached the gate of the Pantheon.

Christianity...is no longer capable of organizing a second round of assassinations.

The Christian Church at this moment is not only inferior to the Christian Church two thousand years later, but is even far behind the Christian Church that had not yet been completely suppressed two months ago.

They might be able to gather a group of elite killers, but they really can't gather a group of magicians.

Moreover, in the city of Rome, with tens of thousands of troops stationed there, it would be useless even if you could gather hundreds, let alone dozens of killers.

Soon, under the witness of Romulus, Nero and Tony completed the last step of the engagement ceremony, which was to determine the final wedding date.

Next June!

This was something Tony and Nero had discussed before. According to Tony's plan, after the engagement ceremony, Tony would pack up and prepare to attack Parthia.

After receiving the blessing in the Pantheon, Tony and Nero returned to the palace together, and the whole country celebrated!

The squares of all the cities in this part of Italy were opened. Today, governments at all levels in the Roman Empire were mobilized to host a banquet for all Roman citizens. Even slaves from other cities outside Rome were given enough free bread.

As for other provinces outside of Italy...only the capital cities can enjoy such treatment. For other cities, the Roman Imperial government can only issue a notice to announce that His Majesty and His Royal Highness are engaged today.

In short, according to Tony's plan, this engagement ceremony was not only for everyone to have fun together, but also had a more important reason, which was to paralyze Parthia and make the Parthian Empire think that the Roman Empire would not march eastward, so that it could attack the Sassanid Empire with confidence and boldness.

Of course, the Parthian Empire was certainly not so reassured about the Roman Empire. In addition to the spies lurking secretly in the Roman Empire, this time they also took advantage of Nero and Tony's engagement to send someone with a generous gift to bless the newlyweds. In addition to sending gifts, these envoys of the Parthian Empire actually had another task, which was to confirm whether there were any suspicious signs of large-scale military stations around the city of Rome.

But... Tony had long guessed that the Parthian Empire would deploy spies within the Roman Empire.

In fact, this is not to say how smart Tony is. This is just common sense between countries. Even two thousand years later, countries in this world will send spies to each other to spy on other countries' intelligence.

The relationship between Parthia and the Roman Empire was not very good, so it was natural for the two sides to send spies to each other.

So Tony did not gather too many troops outside the city of Rome.

Within two days after the national celebration, Tony reached an agreement with the Magic Association. The Rome branch of the Magic Association temporarily accepted Tony's dispatch and prepared to build a gate for him.

There are only two reasons why the Magic Association agreed to Tony's request so readily. The first reason is that it was a thank you to Tony. After all, Tony prepared a big gift for the Magic Association in Londinium, which was the underground secret of Londinium. The second reason is that they really don't get along well with the Christian Church.

Christianity has always made use of mystery, and its attitude towards mystery has always been in conflict with the Magic Association. The two are now more like children than they were two thousand years later. In addition, the Christian Cathedral does not have many magicians at present, so the two are now at most just some verbal conflicts.

But a verbal conflict is still a conflict. Now that His Highness has decided to suppress the Church, why doesn't the Magic Association take the opportunity to intervene and suppress the Church together?

The Rome branch of the Magic Association, or the former headquarters of the Magic Association. The Magic Association of this era still has strong cohesion. In other words, as long as the orders are from the top, the people below will execute them.

Therefore, Tony decided to conduct a pilot project in Ximu Town and build a ground gate.

As mentioned before, the core theory of the Earth Gate is Tony's combination of the Buddhist theory, Stoic theory and the original Earth Gate theory he knew. Stoicism itself is a Greek philosophical school, so Tony specially selected the town of Ximu in northern Greece as the pilot area for this new sect. The reason is that the acceptance of Stoicism here is higher than in other provinces, and... this is also the "first" town Tony came into contact with after coming to this world.

According to Tony's routine, Ximu Town, as a pilot area, is just a town after all, so the level of the missionaries cannot be too high. At best, he can only send a missionary at the eighth level of the military officer level. So... should we build the organizational structure of the Earth Gate first?

It is easy to recruit missionaries in general, because the establishment of Visi has provided many freed slaves with decent jobs and good salaries. Currently, the freed slaves in Rome can be said to be completely loyal to His Royal Highness. It is for this reason that Tony recruited several freed slaves with a little culture to serve as his missionaries in a very short period of time, so as to preach among the freed slaves.

Unlike Christianity, Tony's Dimen does not nominally have a specific god to worship. Dimen believers believe that the universe has its own logical consciousness, that is, "cosmic consciousness", and great wisdom is the spokesperson for cosmic consciousness, or the embodiment of cosmic consciousness.

This doctrine does not conflict much with Roman polytheism. At least it does not point fingers at Roman polytheism like Christianity does and say that the gods you believe in are all false gods and that the one we believe in is the only true God.

It is precisely because of this doctrine that the religious institutions of the Roman Empire tacitly acknowledged the existence of the underground gate.

Out of trust in Tony, even if they were not particularly interested in this new religion, these freed slaves showed enough goodwill to this new religion. Under such a background and environment, the spread of the Earth Gate could be said to be very rapid.

"In just one week, the Earth Gate has gained more than a hundred new believers, and it has also gained a certain degree of fame in Rome... Not bad, not bad, it's a good sign." Tony muttered as he threw the report in his hand onto the desk next to him.

Honestly speaking, Tony's interest in the Earth Gate was just a passing fancy, and he could just play with it when he had nothing to do. There was no need to put too much of his experience into it. After all, the most important thing he had to do now was to pay attention to the war in Parthia!

ps: Ah, I’m not used to typing on my phone

Chapter 434: Prelude to War

Tony is not a good person, so the strategy of linking battleships that he proposed to the Parthian Empire was clearly intended to trick him.

But the problem is that there was no Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Battle of Red Cliffs in this era. No one knew that Cao's warships and 800,000 troops were burned to ashes by a fire, and finally had to retreat to Huarong Road. For the Parthian Empire, the strategy presented by this young man was indeed... very useful!

After the warships were connected with iron chains, the soldiers' seasickness was indeed alleviated. After learning about the situation on the front line, Vologases I specially summoned the young man who offered the advice again, gave him a large sum of money, and then ordered the navy on the front line to set sail and attack the Sassanid Kingdom!

As a qualified monarch, Vologases I naturally understood that if he wanted to conquer a country, it would definitely not work to rely solely on military force. Even the most high-pressure policies would still have the possibility of General Lindenwan being exposed. And if it really happened... The Kingdom of Sassanid was isolated overseas. Once the garrison on the island was exhausted, it would take a considerable amount of time to gather troops from the mainland.

So as early as half a year ago, when Vologases I was training his navy near the Persian Gulf, his spies lurking in the territory of the Sassanid Empire came into play.

Bribery and alienation are very common means in ancient times and even in modern times. You know what, the huge amounts of money spent by Parthia really worked. Just when they were about to attack the Sassanid Empire, a general of the Sassanid Empire found a Parthian spy and told the spy that he had been thinking about it for several months and now he had figured it out. He wanted to abandon darkness and join the light and follow you.

This general named Uda can be said to be the most outstanding general of the Sassanid Empire. He is also one of the generals of the Sassanid Empire responsible for resisting the Parthian invasion this time. If this general is really willing to surrender, it would indeed be a good thing for the Parthian Empire.

"There is a concave area to the east of the island of the Kingdom of Sassanid. That is the area under the charge of General Uda. After the war begins, will he find a way to weaken the defense here and let us land from here..." On the edge of the Persian Gulf, a middle-aged man wearing typical Parthian general armor looked at the letter in his hand and muttered to himself thoughtfully.

He had expected General Uda to turn to the light. After all, in terms of military strength, the Sassanid Empire was no match for the Parthian Empire. However... no matter whether the other party really wanted to surrender, as a qualified general, he had to at least be skeptical of the enemy's words.

"General, we..." Behind the general, a young man dressed as a captain of the guards took two steps forward, came to the general's side, and said in a low voice: "General, this letter..."

"General Wuda has abandoned his evil ways and is joining us." The middle-aged general gently raised the letter in his hand and said, "But I don't really trust General Wuda."

"General, what you mean is..." The guard frowned and said in a surprised tone, "Is General Wuda pretending to surrender?"

"I don't know. I can only say that there is a possibility." The middle-aged general touched his chin. Although it took him four or five months to convince General Wuda, but... for some reason, he always felt that there was something fishy about this matter.

According to General Wuda, the defense zone he is responsible for is a concave-shaped sea area, which means that if the enemy wants to set up an ambush in this place, then... he can only be beaten in this sea area.

But what if it's true?

What if General Wuda really wants to surrender to us?

The middle-aged general was a little unsure about General Wuda's specific thoughts.

Like this general, almost all senior generals on the Parthian front had reservations about General Uda's decision to turn over to the light. If you turn over to the light, it's not enough for everyone to believe you just by saying it. You have to take actual actions to prove that you really have turned over to the light.

And General Wuda naturally knew this.

"Your Majesty, is it true..." Inside the palace of the Sassanid Kingdom, Uda looked at the map that King Shanuya ordered his servants to hand to him, and asked in shock.

"Really? This is the real defense map of our country." Shanuya nodded and said to Wuda, "I just want you to present this real map to the Parthian Empire."

"But, Your Majesty, in this case..."

"In this way, the enemy will know the deployment of our army, right?" Shanuya interrupted General Uda rudely and said with a gloomy face: "As a general of the kingdom, you should know how big the gap is between the combat effectiveness of our army and the combat effectiveness of the Parthian Empire. Instead of passively defending until the country is destroyed, it is better to be straightforward and go all out as that person said. Only in this way can we achieve the greatest success."

"This... Your Majesty is right." As a general of the kingdom, Wuda certainly understood the combat effectiveness of the Sassan Kingdom's army.

The so-called army is nothing but a group of mobs. The Sassanid Kingdom is beautiful and self-sufficient in resources. The domestic army is more like a police than an army. After all, their main task is to maintain public order within the kingdom and arrest petty thieves.

That’s right, in such a big country, there has never been even a Lindenwan.

You say that an army that just arrests petty thieves all day long...what kind of combat effectiveness can they have?

Just as His Majesty the King said, instead of relying on this army to defend to the death, it is better to give it a try and see if we can use strategy to consume the enemy's army.

It is also said that it was a Roman who proposed this strategy. According to the description of this Roman, the Roman Empire seemed to be gathering troops to attack Parthia.