My XX deal with Sister Nero

"Is that so..." Tiridati nodded slightly. As long as it doesn't consume the soldiers on his side, then... it doesn't matter what you do.

"I understand. From now on, except for the sacrifice of soldiers, I will provide you with other help as much as possible." After thinking for a few seconds, Tiridati finally agreed to their request.

As long as you don't ask this general for people, everything is fine.

And these two magicians certainly would not ask Tiridati for people.

Although Tiridates does not have many troops now, fortunately his brain is still there, and this guard also retains a relatively detailed map. The only thing they need is to let Tiridates analyze from the perspective of a commander and analyze Tony's most likely route!

After determining the route, the magician's partner will use future vision to confirm whether Prince Odney will pass through this route and approximately when he will pass through this route. After confirmation, the magician will use his past vision to kill Prince Odney!

PS: Let me first explain why I have been so quiet these past two days. I received a temporary job the night before yesterday, and was asked to fill in a vacancy at my part-time job the day before yesterday. I said okay, and then the person in charge there said that he would add me to the group later (to facilitate salary payment after work the next day). I said OK, but I didn’t pay attention because I was chatting with a girl until very late, and I didn’t realize until the next morning that he didn’t add me to the group. So the day before yesterday, I was originally planning to say that since I’m on a break, I might as well post three updates?

However, he called me at around eleven o'clock and said that someone was down and asked me to go and help. Okay, I went, so I planned to come back and write after work at ten o'clock in the evening. But I didn't expect to have a stomachache after noon, which lasted until yesterday. I didn't recover until about noon today, so I wrote this chapter first... I'll take a short break and write another chapter in the evening.

Chapter 519: Preparation before the Beating

There are many kinds of magic eyes, such as the future-seeing magic eyes, the past-seeing magic eyes, clairvoyance, etc., and each kind of magic eye has strengths and weaknesses. For example, clairvoyance, Tony's clairvoyance is the weakest kind, which is just equivalent to a telescope and can see the distance more clearly, while Merlin's clairvoyance can see every corner of the world.

In the same way, some simple past-seeing magic eyes can only see what happened in a certain place in the past, but some powerful past-seeing magic eyes can store certain things in the "past", such as... blades and arrows.

This past-seeing magic eye is called the bubble magic eye. It is a relatively advanced magic eye among the past-seeing magic eyes, a gem-level magic eye.

Even in the Age of Gods, even in an age when magicians abounded, jewel-grade Mystic Eyes were still rare commodities.

After telling Tiridati about his general idea, Tiridati didn't say anything. On the one hand, he didn't know much about magic and couldn't comment on it. On the other hand, he thought it was worth a try. Even if it failed, it wouldn't be a big loss to him, right?

Analyzing the enemy's marching routes is a basic knowledge that a general must master. Soon, Tiridates analyzed several routes that Tony might take. Then, he took these magicians and arrived at the place where Tony was most likely to appear and set up an ambush. After confirming that the ambush was set up, Tiridates took his personal guards and magicians and quickly headed south. He wanted to return to Ctesiphon and take back the military power that belonged to him!

On the other hand, Tony was also quite lucky.

A few days later, Tony and his team finally arrived at the ambush circle deployed by the Parthian Empire.

"Ah...what should I eat today?" Lying in the carriage, Tony ate the snacks he had prepared earlier, while looking at the ceiling of the carriage and muttering to himself.

However, just as Tony finished his words, a white light flashed, and then... half of the carriage flew into the air as if it had been chopped off by some sharp prop, and fell into the dust behind the carriage.

"Enemy attack!" After a brief moment of surprise, Mary suddenly drew the dagger from her waist and commanded the soldiers present to quickly defend on the spot and be on guard against the surrounding woods.

Looking at the carriage that was almost half destroyed, Tony stood up from the carriage with a gloomy face and shouted to the soldiers who were constantly on guard around them: "Come on, send out scouts to search the area. The enemy should have sent out magicians this time."

These damn guys!

If I hadn't felt tired from sitting and wanted to lie down for a while, I'm afraid that this time it wouldn't just be half of the carriage that was chopped off, right? !

"magician?"

Although I don't know why His Highness made such a judgment, but... the order to send out scouts to search the vicinity is indeed correct.

Soon, the scouts sent out quickly reported back that there were no enemies nearby.

"A pre-set magic trick..." Tony took a deep breath, his face serious.

Tony didn't know much about magic, and Cleopatra VII and Nitocris were magicians, so although they understood magic, they could name a lot of pre-set magic tricks like this one that could produce similar slashing effects, so... it didn't seem to have much reference value.

"But...how did the other party lock on to my location? In other words, how did the other party know that I would appear here?" Tony touched his chin and muttered to himself.

If the other party used some kind of detection magic to lock my position, then they should be nearby. If not, then what kind of magic did they use to determine their position?

"Could it be... the Eye of Future Vision?" At this time, Nitocris suddenly proposed a very likely guess: "Could it be that the other party used the Eye of Future Vision to observe that Tony would pass by here, and then set up an ambush here in advance?"

"Future Vision Magic Eye?" Although he didn't know much about the magic eye, but through the name, Tony could roughly guess what the Future Vision Magic Eye was.

"But even if it is the Future Vision Magic Eye, the holder of the magic eye should have to come here to see little Tony passing by, right? So how did the holder of this magic eye know that little Tony would appear here?" Nitocris scratched his head in confusion, not quite understanding how the other party was sure that Tony would pass by this road.

"Although we are not sure how they did it, this incident at least exposed a problem. That is, the marching plan we made before can no longer be used. We must change a new route of action, otherwise the enemy is likely to launch a new round of attacks on us."

"Your Highness is right." Mary nodded.

After thinking about it for a while, Tony finally decided to give up on joining up with Bruce for the time being and instead head directly south, intending to lead the Heroic Elves to infiltrate the city of Ctesiphon first, and then join forces with Bruce's army to capture Ctesiphon.

About half a day later, inside the military camp of the Roman Empire's Mesopotamian Front.

"This... Your Highness, are you kidding me?" Bruce slapped the table hard and stood up in horror. His Highness actually sent a letter saying that he would bring a small group of elite troops to infiltrate Ctesiphon and cooperate with him to open the city gate of Ctesiphon and capture the city?

Isn't this a joke? !

If anything happens to His Highness, who will be held responsible?

It would be strange if Your Majesty doesn’t skin himself alive by then!

I can't bear this responsibility!

After walking back and forth in the central military tent for two steps, Bruce finally gritted his teeth and ordered, "Order, send out all cavalry to search for the whereabouts of His Royal Highness along the way and try to find His Royal Highness. Also, submit this letter to His Majesty and ask His Majesty to make a decision!"

If Your Highness really wants to do this, then... no matter the title or the official position, I can't stop Your Highness. The only thing I can do now is to report the situation to His Majesty, and let His Majesty decide it personally. At least... I have to pass the blame on first, so that I don't have to take the blame later.

Although he didn't know what Bruce would do, Tony could roughly guess what Bruce would do, so while writing this letter to Bruce, Tony took the initiative to send a letter to Nero, telling Nero about his general plan. In order to ensure that he would not be beaten by his sister, Tony even emphasized a sentence in the letter.

"If I were with General Bruce, it might be even more dangerous. After all, 20,000 soldiers is too big a target. But if I were to sneak into Ctesiphon with the Heroic Spirits, the danger would be much smaller because they wouldn't think that I had sneaked into the city."

Chapter 520 At this moment, our little Tony didn't know that he was still going to be beaten

From his debut in the first chapter to now, our hero, little Tony, has been beaten by his sister twice. Once was because he secretly went to the Anatolian Peninsula which was still on the front line, and the other time was because he secretly took people to rescue St. Peter.

In other words, the fundamental reason for being beaten both times was because Tony put himself in danger.

Nero is a brother-con, or to be more precise, Nero has a compensatory mentality towards Tony, because the last time Tony disappeared, Nero always believed that his brother ran away because he didn't like him. So now that his brother is back, Nero shows an attitude towards Tony that he is holding in his mouth for fear that he will melt, and holding in his hands for fear that he will fall. He is afraid that he will accidentally lose his brother again.

Especially now that both his parents are gone, the only person related to him by blood is this younger brother.

What? You mean those sisters?

I'm sorry, but strictly speaking, those sisters are all daughters of Claudius. In terms of blood relationship, at best, they can only be considered distant cousins.

So in terms of intimacy, these sisters are no match for little Tony, right?

Okay, we’ve strayed off topic.

Nero did not want his brother to take risks, the reason was simply that it would endanger his brother's life. Not to mention the Senate, even his enemies Vologases I and Tiridates knew this. It was precisely because Tiridates knew this that he judged that capturing Tony would mean the end of the war. After all, as long as the little prince fell into his hands, the Roman Emperor would definitely agree to all the conditions of the Parthian Empire for the sake of his brother, even if he would lose his position as head of state afterwards.

Therefore, Tony, as one of the parties involved, understands better what will happen to him once his sister knows that he is about to put himself in danger. His sister will definitely, definitely hang him up and beat him!

So he had to explain it to his elder sister first, for example... taking advantage of the blind spot, when no one would think that our little prince would sneak into Taixifeng, at least in this way, it would be much safer than being among 20,000 troops, just as he said.

This time Tony really managed to travel light.

After abandoning his luxurious carriage which was only half broken, and ordering his personal guards and the First Legion of Oddney to join up with Bruce's troops, our little prince, along with the Heroic Spirits and Mary, sneaked into Ctesiphon with a group of six.

Ctesiphon, a famous city in the Parthian Empire.

In the past, in order to resist the Seleucid Empire, the Greeks built a militarized fortress at the location of the current city of Ctesiphon. After the fall of the Seleucid Empire, Ctesiphon was taken over by the Parthian Empire and formed into a semi-militarized city similar to a secondary capital. Until about twenty years ago, this city was determined as the new capital of the Parthian Empire, and then... it was abandoned.

However, in terms of scale, this city that could be defined as the capital by the Parthians must be much larger than other cities.

When Tony first set foot in Ctesiphon, his first impression of the city was that it was big, but not prosperous.

Of course.

Unlike Rome, a port city that has developed for hundreds of years, Ctesiphon was originally defined as a military fortress. It was not until about a hundred years ago that it was gradually civilianized. It was only after the Parthian Empire decided to expand westwards twenty years ago that it designated this city as its capital. It was at this time that the Parthian Empire shifted its resources to this city, intending to build it into a true capital.

However, twenty years later, before the city had a chance to prosper, it was conquered by the Roman army, and then... For strategic reasons, Vologases I eventually moved the capital back to Isfahan.

"In terms of street planning, the city's municipal planning is better than Rome, and the streets are also very wide."

In a small hotel, Tony made his bed a little, stretched himself, and said to Mary who shared the room with him.

Tony's sentiments are not without reason.

Although Rome is large and prosperous, it took too long to build and was expanded bit by bit. It can be said that compared with Ctesiphon, the construction of Rome is very disorganized, and the average width of the streets is only four meters.

What about Ctesiphon? Because it was originally a military fortress, the streets of Ctesiphon were very wide. After all, it was necessary to transport troops. If the streets were not wide, how could troops be transported?

Mary had no way of answering these words.

Born into a declining noble family, she didn't quite understand the issue of street construction. The only thing she knew was that Ola and Tita were not around, and now she, Mary, the captain of Prince O'Donnell's personal guard, had to take care of His Highness in every aspect, whether it was his safety or his food, clothing, housing and transportation.

However, compared to Ola, Mary's care seemed a little clumsy.

After all, Mary was born into a declining aristocratic family, and when she was in her teens she joined the Praetorian Guard to protect Nero. No matter when, she had never served anyone personally. How could she possibly serve Tony well?

Well, luckily Tony is not picky about food, and as a modern man, he has no special ideas about serving. It is a good thing to have a little Loli to serve him, but Mary has never served anyone... You can't expect her to learn how to serve others right away, right?

"Well, let's take a rest today. But I heard that our General Tiridates has returned to this city?" Tony suddenly asked, standing in front of the window and looking at the pedestrians hurrying on the street.

"Yes, Your Highness. General Tiridates not only returned to Ctesiphon, but also successfully regained command of the army." Mary stood up straight and lowered her voice.

"...Interesting." After a moment's silence, Tony suddenly smiled.

It was clear that Uber had miscalculated.

According to Yubor's idea, the Roman Empire would definitely carefully bring the big fish Tiridates to the city of Rome, but Tony overlooked one point, that is, there was a magician beside Yubor.

In these battles, the presence of the magicians from the Parthian Empire was too low. They hardly participated in any battles, causing Tony to basically forget their existence. And what about Yubor? He didn't know much about magicians, and he didn't expect that these magicians combined would have such combat power to rescue Tiridates.

Chapter 521: The Furious Sister

"Hiss...ha..." Looking at the letters on his desk, Nero kept breathing in and out, breathing in and out...

Then, Nero, who finally couldn't hold back his temper, slammed the table and uttered a frightening word through gritted teeth: "Brother!"

Finished!

The guard standing at the door of the palace study quietly peeked into the study, and after discovering that his Majesty had an angry expression, the guard subconsciously made the sign of the cross for the little prince in his heart. Well, although making the sign of the cross seemed a little wrong.

Your Highness...you must have angered His Majesty again, right?

Tony miscalculated, or rather, Tony couldn't think too much in this situation. Even if he thought about it, he could only go ahead with it.

Under the protection of 20,000 soldiers, is Tony in danger?

You know what, it’s really dangerous!

Although Tony's Elves had repelled an attack by the Parthian cavalry before, this time it could only be considered a repulsion. Taking into account the harvesting of the cavalry, the assault of the Elves, and the musket attacks of the Odeni Legion, as well as the weakening of the local militia later, the 70,000 cavalry were only 3,000 or 4,000. Under the command of Eubor, there were still about 60,000 cavalry gathered in Ctesiphon.

The Parthians had 60,000 cavalry, while the Roman Empire had only 20,000 infantry. If a war really broke out, these 20,000 soldiers might not be able to protect Tony.

So when Tony said earlier that he would be in danger among these 20,000 soldiers, Nero agreed with this point very much.

Okay, now the question is, if it was Nero, and she knew in advance that her brother would be in danger among these 20,000 troops, what would she do?

There is no doubt that Nero would order Tony to retreat to a safe place to command the battle.

She didn't know what her brother's command level was? Anyway, if the war was won, it was a victory achieved under the wise command of Prince Odney. If the war failed... Heh, the commander of the three fronts, whichever one collapsed first, would be asked to come out and take the beating.

Therefore, my younger brother, a commander-in-chief who is just here to gain experience, should just stay in the rear!

Then Tony gave her a very lame excuse, that is, he was going to Ctesiphon, under the nose of the enemy, because Tiridates would never have thought that Tony would appear here.

What if?

What if Tiridati finds out?

Is Tony even more dangerous?

So in Nero's opinion, his younger brother must want to prove himself and his ability, and he takes the risk by relying on the power of the heroic spirit!

This was the first time he put himself in danger, and his opponent was just the insignificant Pontic rebels. Well, he could lead the fairly elite Roman army to encircle and suppress the rebels. Although it seemed dangerous, he would not lose his life.

The second time he put himself in danger, his opponents were more than a hundred soldiers from the Armenian Kingdom and the Parthian Empire. This time, the so-called risk of life was not as dangerous as the first time.

But this third time, I might really lose my life by taking risks!

"Someone! Gather the guards and go to the front line with me!" Nero, who couldn't calm down after taking several deep breaths, finally slammed the table and shouted to the guards standing guard at the study door.

Eubol? Ha, if I meet this guy on the way, it's fine. If I don't meet him, I'll just leave him in Rome for the time being!

The safety of my brother’s life is the most important!

At this moment Tony didn't know that because of his two letters, his furious elder sister finally made up her mind to come to the front line and give him a good beating. He didn't even know that this time, his elder sister's anger was even more intense than the previous times.

This time, it’s not just about getting beaten!

On the other side, Taixi was sealed off from the city.

After Tony learned that Tiridates had returned to Ctesiphon and regained the military power, Tony quickly made a corresponding decision, that is, all members should avoid going out and going to the downtown area as much as possible.

As for daily necessities and intelligence... there is no need to worry. After all, spies from the Roman Empire had been lurking in this city several years ago.

After getting in touch with these spies in a very short time, Tony also obtained a lot of information he wanted.

"They were able to suppress the army in such a short time. Either Yubor and his men lacked control over the army, or... they did not want to be enemies with Vologases I at this time. Well, no matter what, when Tiridates was rescued by his subordinates, it meant that Yubor could not be trusted for the time being." Tony shook his head.