My XX deal with Sister Nero

After completely unifying the Celtic tribes in the north, the British province has now become so powerful that the Celtic tribes and Picts on the island of Ireland dare not underestimate it.

After all, this was not the province of Britain under Decianus, but the province of Britain under Prince Odenis.

"Everything is moving in a good direction." Tony rubbed his eyebrows. It seemed that things were getting better.

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Almost at the same time, outside Rome.

"Rome..." Standing on a small hill not far away, Martha looked at the tall walls of Rome with a tired face and muttered to herself.

After the Battle of Caesarea, Martha finally chose to stab Salome in the back. Her actions naturally led to the complete split between Christianity and Judaism. Such events led to great dissatisfaction within Christianity with this saint.

If Martha was not a saint, then what was waiting for her would not be the deprivation of certain management status as she is now, but execution, right?

Martha could understand. She knew that the Christians must hate her now. She knew that they could not understand her actions. She also knew that she might not be able to return to Christianity for quite some time.

It was for this reason that she chose to return to Rome. Since she could no longer stay in the Jewish province, she might as well return to Rome. After all, according to the information she had previously obtained, little Tony seemed to be getting married in two months.

Chapter 679: Scathach's Visit

Get married...

According to the standards of the Roman Empire, little Tony was old enough to get married, but his marriage partner was Nero, which... was awkward no matter how you looked at it.

Forget it, as long as he is happy.

Martha shrugged helplessly, adjusted her mood a little, and walked towards the direction of Rome.

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"Ah, long time no see, Sister Tita." In the study, looking at Tita standing beside him and pouring him a full glass of grape juice with an obedient look on his face, Tony put down the parchment scroll in his hand, stretched himself, and said to Tita happily.

"Well, long time no see, Your Highness. Congratulations on your triumphant return~" Looking at Tony with a happy face, Tita smiled and said to Tony.

"Ah... There's no outsider here, why are you calling me Your Highness?" Tony curled his lips, looking unhappy.

"Because His Highness is His Highness." Tita still looked at Tony with a very gentle smile and said in a low voice.

After working and serving in the palace for a long time, Tita of course understood some things she didn't know before. For example, even though Tony had seriously called her sister before, and even though Tony had said before that Tita could call him brother, he said that this did not mean that she could really call him that, because... Tony was a member of the Claudius family and the most distinguished prince of the Roman Empire, while she was just an ordinary civilian who did not even have citizenship.

Some words are just for listening and not for taking seriously.

Looking at Tita's gentle smile, Tony sighed secretly.

He was pretty good at observing people's expressions, and he could probably tell what the problem was from Tita's face, but this problem... he had no way of solving it.

After all, the existence of class is not something he can solve.

Tony sighed, put down the cup in his hand, suddenly looked up at the door and said loudly: "Mary, Mary, come in."

"Your Highness." Hearing Tony's call, Mary pushed the door open and came to Tony and knelt on one knee: "What do you want, Your Highness?"

"How are the arrangements for the personal guards going?" Tony asked with a somewhat dejected look.

"Your Highness, the remains of the guards who died in the previous battle have been sent back home. The surviving sisters have been given a week's vacation as Your Highness wished. As for the reinforcements, His Majesty has also promised to provide us with new personnel." Mary replied with her head lowered.

"I understand." Tony nodded. It would be great if the remains of those guards who died in the battle could be buried. It would also be good for the living guards to have a vacation. As for whether or not to recruit new guards, that didn't matter. Anyway, Tony now had a treasure and there would be no problem in protecting himself.

"By the way, Sister Mary...you...should also take a few days off and have a good rest. You've worked hard these days." After hesitating for a moment, Tony finally stood up and walked to Mary, looking at her seriously and said.

"Your Highness..." Mary subconsciously raised her head and looked at Tony.

"Listen to me and take a few days off. I won't leave Rome these days anyway. I rarely even leave the palace these days. You should take this opportunity to have a good rest." Tony said with a smile, half squatting and gently patting Mary's shoulder.

"...Yes, Your Highness." Looking at Tony's serious expression, Mary finally nodded and did not refuse.

After letting Mary and Tita go out, Tony stood in front of the table and looked at the report he had just placed on the table. He knew that according to pan-human history, basically all the major and minor events during Nero's reign had been resolved. Boudica's rebellion and the Jewish War had been quelled, the Parthian War had also ended, Christianity was currently not popular, and the Senate was currently succumbing to Tony's power. The rest... were only the Guards!

In pan-human history, Nero's plan for Greek autonomy affected the senators' interests, leading to the Vendix Rebellion. Upon learning of the news, Nero returned to Rome from Greece in a very short time. Unexpectedly, he received news of a nationwide rebellion as soon as he arrived in Rome. Although this news was false information released by the Senate, it is undeniable that this false news did scare Nero and caused her to flee Rome. The last straw that killed Nero was the betrayal of the Praetorian Guard!

Tony wants to completely incorporate the Royal Guards to eliminate his last worries!

In addition to these "historical issues", Tony currently has a biggest enemy that he has not yet dealt with.

The magic king who is not sure whether he is Goetia or Solomon!

Just as Tony was standing in front of the desk thinking, for some reason, he suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing from his left.

"Is the window open?" Tony touched his face gently and turned to look towards the balcony.

"Emmmm..." Tony rubbed his eyes vigorously and carefully looked at the figure standing by the window: "Scathach?"

Tony blinked. What happened? Although he understood that Scathach was indeed capable of sneaking into the palace without being discovered, but...what was she doing here?

"This... should be our second meeting, right? Your Highness Prince Oddney." Scathach stood by the window, looking at Tony, and asked expressionlessly.

"...Yes." Tony nodded. Before he knew for sure whether the other party was a friend or an enemy, he did not plan to ask for protection.

"I remember when we first met, your physical fitness was not that good. At best, you were slightly stronger than your peers. If I were to say, you couldn't beat a normal adult at that time, right?" Scathach still looked at Tony with an expressionless face.

"...about that." Tony nodded.

Indeed, when they first met, Tony had just obtained the power of the Heroic Spirit, but this power did not directly raise his body functions to a new level from the beginning, as his body would not be able to bear it. Therefore, this power was slowly improving Tony's physical fitness in a very gentle way at the time, slowly improving his body, which was originally weaker than his peers, to what it is now.

When he first met Scathach, his body was still in the process of "transformation". At that time, he was only slightly better than his peers. Even if he had some fighting skills learned in his previous life, it was difficult for Tony to defeat an ordinary adult in the face of absolute power.

Chapter 680: Preparations before the Final Battle

Scathach came inexplicably and left inexplicably.

After chatting casually with Tony, Scathach left the palace.

"What on earth does this guy want to do?" Tony, somewhat confused, came to the window, closed the open window, muttered a few words, and then left the study.

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Although there are still about three months to the wedding of His Majesty Nero and His Highness Tony, the city of Rome has begun to strengthen public security management.

Such a big mistake happened at the last engagement ceremony. Although Tony and Nero did not hold the relevant officials accountable later, but... if they play such a trick again, those responsible might as well commit suicide to apologize, not to mention that most of the low-level officials responsible for the security of Rome and the militia who maintain law and order are loyal to Prince O'Donnell.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the wedding, public security in Rome and several satellite cities and towns on the outskirts of Rome began to be tightened. Some people even organized themselves spontaneously to help the authorities search for possible dangers as much as possible.

The reason why Christianity was able to grow and develop among the poor and slaves was, of course, because they were able to bring tangible benefits to the slaves and the poor at the bottom. It was precisely because of these tangible benefits that they joined Christianity.

But now, Tony can also give them benefits.

Tony came from the future. He had studied history and he knew what the people needed. These poor people and slaves at the bottom of society did not need a sense of belonging to the country. What they needed was to have enough food to eat for themselves and their descendants.

Yes, Christianity can feed everyone, but the price is to join them in overthrowing the Roman Empire, which may cost them their lives. Tony can also feed them, but the price is nothing more than more work and more pay.

The poor and slaves are not fools. They can certainly see which side is easier and more likely to get them.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. This famous saying of Xunzi was fully brought into play in Tony's hands.

Nobles? Nobles may be important, but so are ordinary citizens.

It was also because of Tony's prestige that during the more than half a year when he was away, the citizens of Rome assisted the Di Men in almost completely wiping out all the Christians in Rome and drove them out of the city.

So the attitude of the people is very simple, whoever gives them food is a good person, but whoever destroys their rice bowl is a bad person!

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the other side.

"I didn't expect to receive such good news just after I came back to watch the show. The executor number two, who I thought had been vacant for a long time, was actually found. So based on this situation, it shouldn't take too much energy to find a new executor in the future, right?" After taking a sip of the Coke in the cup, Rosa put the cup back on the table with satisfaction, took a long breath, and said with a smile as he looked at the young man in front of him, whose face was so similar to his that they could almost be described as twins.

"I didn't expect that he is actually the second executor." The young man who had almost the same face as Rosa nodded and said with some emotion: "I always thought that there would be no executor in that world, but I didn't expect that there would really be one. After all, to some extent, that world went astray from the beginning, didn't it?"

"That's right." Having said that, Rosa paused for a moment, his expression gradually becoming serious as he said, "You are now considered a capable fighter in the organization. From now on, Tony's side will be handed over to you. I will try to complete my side...as soon as possible."

"No problem. According to the agreement between you and me, from the moment I set foot in that world, my name will be Rosa Stissis." The young man smiled, picked up the cup in front of him, and drank all the Coke in the cup.

To the two of them, Rosa is just a common vest, and it doesn't matter who wears it. Although this guy and Rosa have different focuses, but... they are both superpowers, and Tony can't tell the difference between superpowers anyway, right?

"Yes, from the moment you set foot in that world, you are Rosa, and the three major knightly orders I left in the Roman Empire will also be led by you."

"Three major knightly orders? You sent out all three major knightly orders?" The young man who looked the same as Rosa touched his chin in surprise. He knew that Tony was the designated heir and that Rosa would not let Tony come to any harm. However, this was the second time that the three major knightly orders were sent out to protect an executor.

Yes, this is the second time. As for the first time, it was to protect this young man.

"Okay, now that we have the help of the three major knightly orders, my future work should be easier to carry out. Well, when the time comes, please hand over the intelligence and precautions in your hands to me, so that I don't have to answer any of your questions when I come over." The young man nodded.

"Of course. Once I finish the things in my hands, it will be time to gather our forces and defeat the Magic King." Rosa said in a serious tone.

"Gather the top combat forces in the organization to defeat the Demon King? Then the No. 2 executor and that guy... are going to move too?" The young man frowned slightly, feeling a little worried.

"Yes, the fighting power of the second executor is not weaker than you and Gvorst. It can even be said that his strength is very close to mine. As for that guy... he is probably the strongest executor, right? Anyway, in terms of fighting power alone, I am not his opponent. The gap between his strength and ours is too big. We are not in the same dimension at all."

“Understood.” The young man snapped his fingers and stood up. “Then I’ll go back and prepare. I’ll leave in a while. Well, I have to go to the research institute first. I was too busy to deal with Tiamat’s affairs. It would be really funny if I was killed by Tiamat by mistake.”

"Okay, go and get ready. I won't keep you here." Rosa waved at him and said in a light tone.

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Tony had nothing to do with the preliminary preparations for the wedding. Tony, who had a rare free day these days, wore a simple toga and wandered around Rome like a young master with a personal guard temporarily assigned by Nero and Titaora and others, buying some strange things to take back and see.

"Ah~ This weather is really good for a stroll." Standing on the street of Aria Street, Tony stretched.

This is Rome, this is the luxurious and decadent Rome under Nero!

Chapter 681: Rest? Not happening!

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Originally, Tony wanted to take advantage of this time to travel around Rome and enjoy its luxury and decadence, but... I don’t know if it’s because Mars is gone, but some troubles always find Tony unconsciously.

"Your Highness." Just as Tony was strolling around the street vendors, a female guard suddenly appeared beside Tony, bent over and whispered in his ear: "Your Highness, there is an accident at the Adeati City Gate."

"Something happened? What happened?" Tony was stunned for a moment, put down the small object in his hand, stepped back half a step, and asked the female guard with his head slightly tilted.

Logically speaking, if there was a conflict at the city gate, it would usually be reported to the sheriff or militia officer in charge of the area. But in this case, reporting directly to him...it means that the person in the incident is related to him.

"Your Highness, Martha... Martha appeared near the Adria city gate." The guard pursed his lips and thought for two seconds before speaking.

Martha? Tony understood immediately after hearing this name.

Martha is a Christian saint. Because she had accomplished the feat of slaying a dragon, her name was widely praised throughout the Roman Empire. However, recently, as the conflict between the empire and Christianity intensified, this Christian saint has been discriminated against in Rome.

Now, Nero and Tony are about to get married. Thinking about how Christians dared to send people to assassinate the Prince at the last engagement ceremony, the Roman citizens naturally and spontaneously organized themselves to boycott Christians.

Then... Martha appeared.

The Roman citizens did not know the relationship between Martha and Tony, nor did they know that Martha was actually a traitor in the Jewish War. When Martha appeared near the city gate, not to mention the soldiers guarding the city, even the citizens who were originally near the city gate subconsciously gathered around and surrounded Martha.

"You go over there first and rescue Martha from the crowd, and then arrange for her to stay in my sister's villa in the suburbs. I'll be there soon." Tony sighed and said to the bodyguard.

"Yes, Your Highness." The guard nodded and turned away.

"Let's go." Looking at the bodyguard's receding back, Tony waved to the people around him.

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"Sister Martha." Inside the villa, Tony sighed as he looked at Martha, who was sitting on the sofa in a daze with a glass of water in her hand.

To be honest, his relationship with Martha is really complicated.

He had been taken care of by her since they arrived in Riverwood Town, and later he rescued St. Peter for Martha. Originally, the relationship between the two sides was quite good, but eventually, due to problems in their camps, a rift appeared in their relationship.

After the Fire of Rome, Tony inevitably took his anger out on many Christians who were not involved in the incident. In return, Christians retaliated and launched an assassination attempt against Tony. The most direct result of these events was that Tony and Martha became opponents because of camp issues.

Until… the Jewish War.

When Christians and Jews conspired to launch the Jewish War, Martha was not optimistic about the war. She also knew that the losses of the two armies would be very heavy. Instead of fighting for a long time with countless casualties, it would be better to cut the Gordian knot and end the battle in a short time to minimize the losses.

But her actions were destined to be incomprehensible to Christianity.

If it weren't for her status as a saint, Martha might have been assassinated by some extreme Christians by now?

But even so, Martha knew that because of this incident, she might... It would be best for her not to contact Christians in the future, right? At least for the next few years.

"You've had a hard time too." Tony shook his head at Martha's somewhat lonely expression.

Christianity could not tolerate Martha because of her betrayal, and this betrayal was unknown to the Romans so the Romans also could not tolerate her. Now Martha was like a rat in a bellows, caught between two odds. Not to mention Tony, even a random passerby would probably find it hard to bear to look at her.

"It's okay." Martha raised her head and smiled at Tony.

Forced smile?... Tony sighed as he looked at Martha's extremely forced smile.

She couldn't continue living here anymore.

"Sister Martha, if you really don't have anywhere you want to go... why don't you go to Londinium, that's my fiefdom, there... Sister Martha, your life should be more or less improved." Tony said carefully after organizing his words a little.