My XX deal with Sister Nero

Yubor would not betray Tony, at least not at this moment.

Because the family behind Yubol is the Mihran family, a famous noble family in the Parthian Empire. If this family wants to improve its status, the only way is to replace the Artasis family and become the ruler of the Parthian Empire.

If Yubol stabbed Tony in the back at this moment, it would be against the interests of their family, so they would not do it.

However, the Mihran family has not yet reached an alliance with the Roman Empire. In order to preserve their own vitality, they will not confront the Ashass family now. When Tiridates, who represents the Ashass family, begins to seize the military power that belongs to him, the only thing the Mihran family can do is to lie dormant temporarily and avoid direct confrontation with the Ashass family.

But in this case, Tony will be the one who suffers.

After all, after the Parthian Empire withdrew its defenses and gathered 60,000 cavalrymen in Ctesiphon, Ctesiphon had become a tough nut to crack for the Roman Empire. This former military fortress was not something that 20,000 Roman troops could take over!

"The only good news now is that the Parthian army in the Mesopotamian region has been basically wiped out, and our Roman legion does not have to worry about its retreat being cut off. The bad news is that the city of Ctesiphon has concentrated 60,000 cavalry and 50,000 light infantry of the Parthian Empire as well as temporarily recruited militia forces, totaling 110,000... This battle is not easy to fight." In the hotel room, Tony frowned and pointed at the simple map spread out on the bed. He half-squatted and looked at Mary kneeling on the ground and a young man dressed in typical Parthian resident clothes, and lowered his voice.

"Your Highness, I think that even if Your Highness opened the city gates and let the 20,000 elite Roman legions led by General Bruce into the city, even if they could defeat the enemy in street fighting, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to achieve a complete victory in the subsequent battles and capture Ctesiphon, right?" Mary frowned, looked up at the window not far away, and whispered.

Chapter 522: Using Heroic Spirits to Defeat Heroic Spirits

Mary has a point.

In street fighting, cavalrymen who are unable to charge can only become targets of infantrymen and be pulled off their horses and killed by infantrymen. However, no one will watch themselves being killed. They will also resist, either to escape or to kill. If an army of 110,000 resists, can the 20,000 soldiers of the Roman Empire... resist the resistance of the Parthian army?

I'm afraid not.

"It seems that this matter needs further consideration." After two seconds of silence, Tony finally stretched out a finger, gently tapped the simple map on the bed, and said lightly.

"Speaking of which, Your Highness, uh... I have a piece of news from Rome." Looking at Tony half-squatting there in deep thought, the small chief of the Roman Empire's intelligence department swallowed and said cautiously.

"Hmm? Information about Rome?" Tony was stunned for a moment, then frowned: "Wait a minute, tell me first, does this information... have anything to do with my sister?"

"Uh... Your Highness, this information is... information related to His Majesty." The little leader lowered his head and took a cautious look, his expression a little fearful.

"Ahem." Mary couldn't help laughing out loud when she heard this.

"Although your cough was a cover-up, but... forget it. Come on, Tamaus, tell me the specific content of this information." After taking a deep breath, Tony put on a resigned expression and said to Tamaus.

"Yes..." the small leader named Tamaus whispered, "Your Majesty... seems to have left Rome with his personal guards and is heading towards the front line."

Emmmm, well, that's expected.

When Tony sent the letter to Nero, he considered that his elder sister might come to kill him again. It would be best if she didn't come. If she did, he would just admit his mistake honestly. In this way, his elder sister might forgive him because of his good attitude, right?

However, our little prince is still too naive.

The Roman Empire, one of the three largest empires in the world, was a very large empire, and its domestic intelligence departments' ability to collect intelligence was naturally terrifying. Nero happened to be the head of the empire. If she wanted to know someone's intelligence, it wouldn't take long for the empire's intelligence department to send her the corresponding intelligence about that person.

For example, Nero basically knows everything about what our little Tony is doing now.

"Why is this Nitocris here too?!" In a temporary military camp near a small town, Nero frowned as he looked at the information in his hand.

Nitocris, the last pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, was one of the heroes resurrected in the Cefalu incident... Now here comes the question, wasn't this guy wandering around? How did he appear on the front line with his brother?

At the same moment when Nero was going crazy, on the other side, in the palace of Isfahan, the capital of the Parthian Empire.

"Are you... really Archimedes? The ancient Greek mathematician?" Vologases I, the king of kings of the Parthian Empire, who should have been famous in history, looked quietly at the young man standing in front of him and asked.

"Yes, I am Archimedes~" The young man smiled and spread his hands, "I know that Your Majesty must have some doubts about my identity. After all, I have no way to prove my true identity at the moment, but... I can explain one thing, that is, the reason why His Royal Highness was able to capture General Tiridates is... He has the existence of a heroic spirit in his hands."

"Heroic spirit?" Hearing this unfamiliar term, Vologases I was stunned at first, then nodded thoughtfully and said, "Heroic spirit..."

"Yes, heroes, those heroes who are praised in history or myths and legends." Without exposing Vologases I who was pretending to know and didn't want to expose his ignorance, Archimedes pretended to be unintentional and simply explained to Vologases I what a hero is.

"The legendary hero? No wonder the Sassanid Empire dared to raise the banner of Darius III, so this is what happened." Although the Parthian Empire had the help of Arash in the last war, Arash also possessed a certain divinity in the mythology of ancient Persia and was a demigod. Therefore, Vologases I always thought that he had the help of God. Now think about it, that Arash... should also be a heroic spirit, right?

"Yes, whether it's Darius III or the recently appeared Alexander the Great, they are all heroes. Of course, so am I." Archimedes smiled slightly and said to Vologases I, "Mortals are no match for heroes. With the blessing of legends and anecdotes, even if I am a powerless being like me, if we really fight, ordinary soldiers will not be my match."

"Hmm..." Vologases I certainly knew that Archimedes, as a famous scholar in ancient Greece, certainly had no fighting ability. Scholars are of course good at culture, but as for fighting... forget it.

In any case, now that we know who helped His Royal Highness the Prince take down Tiridates, things will be easier.

After all, humans are only afraid of unknown things.

"Tell me, what do you want?" Vologases I took a deep breath, looked at Archimedes calmly and asked.

As the king of kings of the Parthian Empire, he certainly would not believe that Archimedes came all the way to Isfahan just to pass on information to him. The reason why Archimedes told him these things must be that he had other intentions.

"Your Majesty, what I want is also what your Majesty wants." Archimedes raised his lips slightly, smiled at Vologases I, and said, "For some reason, I want the life of Prince Odenis of the Roman Empire. Of course, considering that the Parthian Empire currently has no one who can compete with these heroes, I am also willing to contact a few heroes to assist your country in fighting against the Roman Empire."

Is it……

After pondering for about five minutes, Vologases I finally nodded and said, "Then everything depends on Mr. Scholar."

Now the Parthian Empire...or the Ashassis family, is in a very severe situation of internal and external troubles!

Vologases I had no choice. Even if he could guess that Archimedes' purpose was not that simple, he had no choice!

He must defeat the Roman Empire, defeat the Eastern army, and then... quell the domestic rebellion in a short period of time!

Since the other party possesses a heroic spirit, and since ordinary people are no match for the heroic spirit, then... just use the power of Archimedes and use the heroic spirit to defeat the heroic spirit!

ps: It's time to speed up the plot

Chapter 523: The evil of mankind, Tiamat, appears!

Is Sefalu strong?

Sefalu is very strong.

In pan-human history, Sefalu defeated most of the gods on earth by himself, seized the sword of the god of war Mars, and killed a considerable number of gods including Mars.

Compared with the gods, the heroic spirits who are suppressive fighters are completely inferior to the gods in terms of combat power.

So when Sefalu came to this world again, the restraining force chose the human wave tactic, by summoning a large number of heroes to resist Sefalu's invasion.

It was just that due to the appearance of Rosa and the sudden recovery of the insane Sefalu, the war that should have broken out did not occur.

Well, the question is, how many heroes were summoned by the Restraint Force? Really... only the dozen or so who appeared on that battlefield? Of course not only!

After reaching an agreement with the Parthian Empire, Archimedes took action to make his presence felt!

A few days later, in the Persian Gulf.

"The weather is nice today." A sailor on a warship flying the flag of the Roman Empire looked up at the sky and suddenly said.

"Of course it's good. By the way, have you heard that the war on the front line is going quite well? It is said that His Royal Highness the Prince has captured the enemy's general with his own hands. The Parthian Empire is bound to lose!" A sailor who was passing by with two crossbow arrows said with a smile after hearing his companion's words.

"Oh, I'm so envious. The Parthian Empire's navy is too weak. I also want to make achievements." The sailor sighed while arranging the wooden barrels beside him.

However, just as the sailor finished his words, the originally calm sea surface suddenly rolled like a pot of boiling water!

"What's going on?!" Feeling the entire ship shaking violently, the captain of the ship stumbled out of the captain's room, first looked up at the almost cloudless sky, and then asked loudly in confusion.

"Ship...Captain! There's a monster!!!" As if he had heard the captain's question, a sailor standing at the top of the mainmast who was in charge of lookout pointed to the left side of the ship and shouted at the top of his voice.

monster?

Following the direction of the sailor's finger, I saw a huge mixture with ferocious dragon horns but retaining some female human characteristics... standing up from the water and looking down at the Roman Empire warship with an indifferent face.

"Monster...Monster!" Looking at this huge hybrid creature, the captain ordered with a horrified face: "Ballista! Aim the ballista! Kill this monster! And! Vice Captain! Send a letter of divorce to His Highness immediately! Tell His Highness about this monster! Quick!!!"

The letter was sent, but correspondingly, the ship sank.

……

"Your Highness?" In a room of a small hotel in the closed city of Taixi, Tony looked at the letter in his hand with a gloomy face and a frown.

In just a few days, the three armies almost all suffered decapitation-style attacks, and the deputy commander of the central army corps was even beheaded by the enemy. This shows how powerful the people sent by the other side were, which was astonishing.

At the same time, intelligence also came from the navy that a huge monster had appeared in the Persian Gulf. According to the sketch made by the military secretary, this so-called monster should be the famous Tiamat in Sumerian mythology!

"Tiamat..." Tony stood up. Things... were becoming more and more complicated.

According to intelligence, the assassins who killed high-ranking generals of the Roman Empire were not assassins in the traditional sense. They were more like heroes who took the heads of generals in the midst of thousands of troops. It could almost be said that they broke into the enemy camp single-handedly and then assassinated them openly.

What is assassination? Assassination is killing the target without anyone seeing you. So, if you kill everyone who sees you, then no one can see you, right?

You see, there's nothing wrong with it, right?

It is definitely impossible for ordinary people to take the head of a general in the midst of thousands of troops. Therefore, such a person is either a hero in the novel like Yang Guo, or a hero rarely seen in a century like Xiang Yu, or... a heroic spirit!

Okay, now comes a new question.

According to intelligence, the Parthian Empire sent out quite a few heroes, at least five. So where did Tiridates and Vologases I find so many heroes? !

There should not be so many heroes in the Parthian Empire today, or even if there are, Vologases I cannot contact them. Moreover, most of these heroes are not from the Parthian Empire. Some may have been born in the Greek period, and some may have been born in the Persian period. In short, they should have no sense of belonging to the Parthian Empire.

Without a sense of belonging, there would be no patriotic behavior. Without patriotic behavior, they would not be able to be enemies of the Roman Empire with the same reason as Vologases I, "resisting the invasion of the Roman Empire." And Vologases I was not a magician, and it was even more impossible for him to know who the heroic spirits were. So logically speaking, he had no way to actively search for the heroic spirits. So... there was only one answer!

I will... ugh.

Then there is only one answer, someone acted as a middleman and provided the heroic spirit he knew to Vologases I!

Well, the heroic spirit is okay and not the point for now.

The top priority right now is Tiamat!

The Roman Empire's naval fleet currently has two missions.

The first task was to provide corresponding logistical supplies to the four Roman legions totaling 20,000 troops that landed in the southern part of the Parthian Empire. At the same time, they also had to provide a certain degree of supplies to the Sassanid Persian rebels. The second task was to clear all the remaining Parthian Empire navy in the Persian Gulf.

At the beginning, Vologases I was ambitious and attempted to conquer the Sassanid Empire, so he mobilized the entire country to build a large-scale naval fleet. Of course, the final outcome of this naval fleet was that it was completely sunk in the territorial waters of the Sassanid Kingdom. This classic naval battle almost wiped out the main force of the Parthian Empire's naval fleet.

However, although the main fleet was completely wiped out, the Parthian Empire Navy still retained dozens of warships distributed in various ports. In order to prevent these warships from adopting wolf pack tactics to harass their own sea supply lines, Tony specifically ordered this new Red Sea Navy to attack the Persian Gulf, intending to sink these dozens of warships first.

So now, here comes the question.

Tiamat has appeared, and this is something that no human power can contend with. As one of the seven evils of mankind, this creator god in Sumerian mythology, once revealed, means one thing.

Within seven days, all countries around the Indian Ocean will face a crisis of life and death!

Chapter 524: Ishtar, the Goddess of Fertility

Tiamat is the most primitive version of Sumerian mythology, that is, the creator god in Mesopotamian mythology. After she was killed by the Mesopotamian gods, she became one of the seven great evils of mankind that could threaten the world, Beast II, who holds the principle of "return".

God can create everything and can also destroy everything.

Such was Tiamat.

"Mother of the Gods..." On a cliff by the sea, Gilgamesh folded his arms, staring at the empty sea level in the distance with an indifferent face, and muttered to himself.

As the king of Uruk, he had certainly heard of the legend of Tiamat and knew how Tiamat would react after the group of gods who were Tiamat's sons rebelled against her. He could also guess what it meant that Tiamat, who had been exiled to the imaginary space, was now resurrected and returned to the world.

Tiamat, the mother of all things, certainly did not return just to continue loving her children!

"Tiamat, the god of creation?" Attila, who was standing next to Gilgamesh, suddenly spoke with an inexplicable tone, as if she was weighing something in her heart.

"Yes, the creator goddess in Mesopotamian mythology. I think the reason you have never fought with her is that she was killed by her own children long ago, right?" Gilgamesh shrugged.

"Killed by his own children..." Attila repeated Gilgamesh's words softly like a tape recorder.

If she is the God of Creation, then... her strength should be very strong, right?

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

"When Tiamat appears, she will produce countless monsters within seven days to destroy the world. If we leave it alone, not only the Parthian Empire will be destroyed, but even the Roman Empire will be seriously affected!" Tony stood in front of the window, frowning and muttering to himself.

But what can he do?

The only people he could immediately mobilize were the intelligence personnel, four heroic spirits, and Mary in the city of Taixifeng. With such a small number of people, it would be difficult for him to deal with Tiamat, let alone the magical beasts she produced.

How do you think they beat him? With the head?

"Your Highness, I wonder if we can win over the Parthian Empire to deal with Tiamat first? According to Your Highness, the first country that Tiamat will attack should be the Parthian Empire, right? Under the current situation, the Parthian Empire should agree to join forces with us to resist Tiamat, right? After all... Tiamat's enemy is all mankind." Standing behind Tony, Mary lowered her head and asked.

"It's too late." Tony shook his head and said, "Let's not talk about whether the Parthian Empire believes it or not. Even if they do, with the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Mesopotamian region, how many monsters can we fight? Not to mention the existence of Tiamat. But if we need the support of the Roman Empire army, think about it, even if the other two armies set out to help us immediately, can they arrive within seven days?"

“This…” Mary was not very clear about how powerful Tiamat was. After all, she didn’t even know what the Mesopotamian mythology was about. How could she understand the strength of Tiamat?

But speaking of it...it seems that, logically speaking, there should be someone who is more anxious than me?

After Tiamat's resurrection, the one who was most anxious was not Tony, who learned about Tiamat's power through FGO, but the Mesopotamian gods!

Although the rulers of the sky at this moment were no longer the Sumerian gods headed by An, but the Babylonian gods headed by his nephew Marduk, but... Marduk was more panicked. An was defeated after all, and it was Marduk who cut Tiamat into two pieces with his own hands.

You said that now that Tiamat has been resurrected, who does she hate the most?

Without a doubt, it must be our main god in Babylonian mythology, Marduk.

So Marduk was very panicked. In order to confirm whether Tiamat was really resurrected, he decided to send the goddess of fertility Ishtar to the lower world to take a look at the specific situation.

……

"The world has changed." In mid-air, Ishtar looked down at the earth quietly, with a rare hint of tenderness in her expression.