Chapter 4 Oracle

Davos' chief tent could not accommodate more than forty people, so he asked Guard Captain Martius to lead 30 members (the number of the escort team was also expanded), and encircled an open space in front of the tent, so that no Strangers come in to snoop and light torches all around...

Davos' eyes swept across everyone's faces:

Captain of the 1st Heavy Infantry Company - Caps, the steadfast

Captain of the Second Infantry Company - Antonios who is good at identifying and capturing fighter planes

Captain of the 3rd Infantry Company - Brave Amintas

Captain of the Fourth Infantry Company - Alexis who is good at thinking and planning

Captain of the 5th Infantry Company - His loyal confidant Hiros

Captain of the 1st Light Shield Company - Epithenis with great tactical ability

Captain of the 2nd Light Shield Company - Tspit, who worships Davos for his devotion to the gods

As well as the baggage officer Mersis, the medical officer Helps, the herald Asisters, the cavalry captain Ryders (although his horses are few, Davos still retains this establishment and soldiers, after all They already have a lot of experience in cavalry combat). There are also twenty-eight squad leaders, all of whom are experienced and talented team officers. Plus 1,400 veterans who had been fighting for more than a year. This is his entire team based on this world!

Tonight, he had to convince them that after a long year of fighting, he was not very confident in continuing to follow him to a foreign land thousands of miles away. Thinking of this, he coughed lightly and said: "Brothers, the farce you played in Byzantium today was a good one! Kleinde immediately expressed sympathy for our situation and was willing to provide us with some food, It's all your credit!"

The crowd laughed.

Olivers even said loudly: "Chief, this is not a farce, but a comedy. You didn't see those Byzantines faint with fright!"

Everyone laughed again, only Matonis had a ghost in his heart, so he had to lower his head and snicker.

"Yeah, comedy." Davers sighed and said, "but how long can this comedy last? We're stuck here, and we can't go anywhere and don't dare to go anywhere. According to reliable sources, Spar Da is ready to fight Persia, and the Spartan general Tiburon has come to Ephesus to recruit soldiers. How can he let go of our veterans who have fought against Persia! It won't be long before we fight again In Persian soil!"

"Is it true? I'm tired of fighting the Persians and I don't want to go back!"

"How could this be?! I'm ready to buy a piece of land in Crete and find a wife..."

...

Immediately everyone was in a commotion, and there were very uneasy discussions...

Davos did not answer them, but shook out another shocking news: "Also, the kind-hearted Kryander is about to step down, and he will be replaced by Aristakas of Sparta!"

Someone said "ah".

Davos glanced in that direction and said coldly: "Some of you know him, some of you don't. I tell you, this Spartan was famous in the previous war with Athens! Not because he fought bravely, Instead—" Davos looked solemn, and said in a serious tone, "He sold the defeated Greeks twice as slaves!!"

These words were like pouring a can of cold water into a boiling oil pan, and everyone immediately exploded.

"Is he going to sell us?!"

"If he dares to do this, I will fight him!"

"We are freemen, not enemies of Sparta! There is no reason for them to do this, and it is against Greek tradition!"

"Sparta has always been arrogant and domineering, and now it is the overlord of Greece, and it is not up to it to do anything!"

...

Davos watched the panicked crowd,

His voice was full of emotion, he said: "We are free Greeks, we live hard to survive. However, in the eyes of the Spartans and the citizens of the city-state, we are landless pariahs who threaten the city-state. Steady thieves and robbers! So, Anaxis can deceive us at will (referring to the Spartan admiral in order to deceive them to Byzantium, saying that he would pay them and breaking the contract as soon as he arrived)! Kryander can also deceive us at will, deceive us out of the city, close the city gate, give no food, and face the large number of Thracians! Sparta is so powerful, do we dare to resist?! Sold as slaves, not enough to eat, not warm enough to wear, until one day he died of exhaustion on farms and mines, and then was thrown into the wilderness; or he followed Sparta to fight, and he was bruised and bruised every day until he died in some unknown desert. In the countryside; of course, it is possible to be lucky enough to return home safely, but so what?! As a landless free man, he is a foreigner in any city-state, cannot enjoy the rights of any city-state, and will be cast aside , until he died in obscurity..."

The crowd listened quietly, so quiet that they could hear someone sobbing...

At this time, Davos was also full of tears: "Is this the result we want after fighting bloody in Persia for a year and struggling to return to our hometown! Are we not given the right to a stable and happy life? Is there no place in this world for us poor free people to live peacefully!!!”

Davos' roar and questioning from the heart woke up every team officer present. They clenched their fists, clenched their teeth, and their eyes were angry and painful...

Shiros stood up, stretched out his hands tremblingly, and said, "Leader Davos! Our commander! Hades' favored one! Please tell us, what should we do?! What should we do to get out of our predicament? !!"

"Yes, leader of Davos, we need your oracle!!" Hiros' words reminded many people, Capps and Antonios excitedly pleaded with Davos.

When everyone's eyes were focused on Davos' face, his expression became extremely solemn: "Last night... a person entered my dream, and the golden light radiating from his body made me unable to see his appearance... ...he pulled me out of bed, through the window, and flew into the air...I looked down in fear, and the Mediterranean was like a picture clearly in front of me...The Peloponnese was like a The hammer went deep into the sea, and Italy, next to it in the west, was like a leather boot... Further west, I saw the Pillar of Hercules like a gate separating the Mediterranean from the ocean... Egypt's The Mediterranean coast is like a long green carpet stretching all the way to Africa..."

Davos's dreamlike narrative attracted everyone. They compared their geographical cognition and found that the Mediterranean Sea looked like this, which made them believe in Davos's words.

"At this time, the person who radiated golden light said something to me?"

"What did he say?" everyone asked.

"He said, 'Davers, the mission of you and your soldiers is in the west of the Mediterranean!', and after that, he pushed me down from the air, and then I woke up." Davos said with lingering fears, Trance still in a dream.

"West of the Mediterranean, where is that?"

"In Sicily?"

"It could be Italy."

"Iberia is also possible."

"Why not Nubia."

"Who is that golden man, Hades?"

"How could Hades have golden light? It should be Athena!"

 …

Just when everyone was speculating, Davos sighed secretly. Since he became the leader, he has deliberately avoided his identity as a "God's Favored One", but has won the trust of his subordinates through his own abilities. But this time the stakes were so great that he had to resort to the Greek gods again, and he deliberately made the oracle vague, that it was

Because oracles are inherently ambiguous. For example: In the past, there was a Lydian kingdom in Asia Minor, and it wanted to go to war with Persia. It went to Delphi and spent a lot of money to get the oracle of Apollo. The oracle said: A great kingdom will be wiped out. The Lydians happily went back to fight, but the Lydian kingdom was destroyed. The explanation of the priests of Apollo is: In Asia Minor, the kingdom of Lydia is also a great country.

Note: Thurii

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