spartan ancestor

There are slight similarities between his eyebrows and Hyacinthus, but they are quite different.

Under the firelight, his resolute jaw line and straight nose bridge are full of masculine temperament, deep wrinkles are left between his brows that are always furrowed tightly, and his thin lips are tightly pursed. It can be seen that he has a strict and old-fashioned personality.

Hyacinthus raised his head, crossed the stacked crowd, and met the man's eyes.

Although his blurry vision made him unable to see the other person's face clearly, based on his past experience, that person's always tightly knit brows must have wrinkled a little harder.

The other party had no intention of stopping to reminisce about the old days. After looking at each other briefly, they turned around. The galloping horse did not intend to slow down in the slightest.

"Oh...it's General Oss!" Some of the recruits reacted belatedly, almost unable to hold back the desire to jump up and catch up, and stretched their necks vigorously, trying to look at the distant figure a few more times.

A small wave of heated discussions immediately erupted among the recruits:

"I remember that General Oss should have gone to a friendly country to help repel the invading army? Why are you back now?"

"Oh! Oh! I see, they brought back the spoils, and you know what that means, don't you?"

"Of course! General Oss won the battle beautifully and quickly!"

"No, not only that. You know the rules. After the war is over, you must go to the other side of the sea and go to the Temple of Delphi to fulfill your vows-this means that General Oss repelled the Argos army faster than we thought. Even faster, in such a short period of time, he has already returned from Delphi!"

"Oh, look, the red cloak behind him is so glorious and majestic, like the fire stolen by Prometheus."

"...This is a bit exaggerated. The cloak of General Oss looks very old. And you should keep your voice down, His Highness Hyacinthus is right next to you. Everyone knows that he and General Oss won't get along. "

"——I don't know, why? Isn't General Oss the elder brother of His Royal Highness Jacintos?"

"I didn't kiss enough to crawl out of one belly. General Oss's mother is a Heroes, otherwise you think that with General Oss' ability, why, as the eldest son, did not become the heir apparent?"

"Okay...but he has done a good job. Before him, there has never been a Spartan-Helo hybrid who can become a general, and it is even difficult to qualify for the army."

"Of course, you know that in our place, the king also holds the position of general, and besides the two kings, the only general is General Oss."

Apollo's focus is quite different. After listening to the gossip with relish, he walked to Aka's side, with a hint of schadenfreude: "It must be that General Oss was often dragged by Yassin...His Royal Highness to compete."

Aka: "No. His Royal Highness Yassin said that he never had a chance to compete with his brother."

Unlike the crown prince, Oss did not have the right to be exempted from training.

From the age of seven, Spartan boys have to leave their families for group training.After that, Oss joined the army directly. The age difference between Jacintos and Oss meant that the two had few chances to even meet each other.

Aka: "General Aussie seldom goes home, and even if he does, he will avoid meeting His Highness Yashin."

Apollo's focus continued to go astray: "What! There is no competition, so why does he have a bad relationship with Yashin...His Royal Highness!!!"

Damn it, being able to not have to worry about the threat of the competition and having such a beautiful younger brother, what is there to be dissatisfied with this damned Oss! !

A recruit next to him suddenly interjected with a bit of embarrassment: "It may be because, for His Highness Yashin, the right to be exempted from training is dispensable, and because of his background, General Oss is continuously trained. Do you have to try your best to get the qualifications?"

Apollo stuck: "..."

Aka glanced lightly at Apollo, who was a little at a loss, and soon withdrew his gaze, continuing to focus on Hyacinthus in the center of the field.

Kleo had already taken advantage of the time when Hyacinthus and his brother looked at each other, and scrambled away. He ran straight in the direction of the governor, and met the eyes of soldiers behind the governor. : "..."

Cleo clenched his back molars hard, forcing himself to retract his foot that was about to step out of the circle.

A clumsy soldier can be trained, but a Spartan who surrenders is only worthy of being flooded with contempt and shameless eyes.

Cleo felt like a bellows riddled with holes at this moment, with pain piercing through his body.Regret kept flooding into his heart, he wished he could go back to the past and strangle himself who provoked Yacinthos to death.

His body began to tremble uncontrollably. He lifted his feet and walked back to the center of the court. It was so simple, but he felt his feet were deep in the mud.The armor that originally gave him a sense of security was so dark and impenetrable, at this moment it seemed to become a dead sea that suffocated him.

The sound of violent heart beating can be clearly heard in the armor. He was fighting with his uncontrollable and motionless body, and broke out in a cold sweat. Before he was out of breath and fainted due to suffocation, the helmet was lifted from the outside Open, fresh, dry air rushes into the lungs.

—and then he saw the enlarged face of Hyacinthus.

Cleo nearly went into cardiac arrest and went into shock.

Yacintos raised his eyebrows with his helmet in his hand: "What expression do you have? Are you all right?"

nothing!Cleo stared at Hyacinthus, as if he saw the god of death in the underworld. After taking a few breaths, he frantically pulled up the armor on his body.

Hyacinthus looked at Cleo who was desperately getting out of the armor with a strange expression, as if it was the mouth of a giant crocodile: "Are you overheating?"

Just when he was about to step forward to help, a horse neighed from behind the crowd, and the soldiers quickly moved away to prevent the horse from trampling on them.

The visitor was alone, and he rushed to Cleo before reining in his horse.

When he hurriedly got off his horse, he could vaguely see the inconvenience in his movements, no matter how he controlled his lame leg, it was obvious: "Cleo!"

Someone came to support Cleo, looked up at Yacintos, showing a pale and sickly face: "Your Highness Yaxin, I'm here to convey a message to your father, His Majesty Una, and His Majesty asked you to go back immediately."

——Who is this again?Apollo mouthed exaggeratedly at A-Ka.

Aka was expressionless: "Kleo's younger brother, Neliu." Seeing that Apollo opened his mouth to ask, Aka cut it off in advance, "They have the same father and mother."

Obviously, even with the same father and mother, the relationship between the brothers is not much better.Cleo was still retching, and insisted on pushing Neliu's support with his trembling arms.

The two brothers got entangled in a mess and stumbled up anyway, just as Neliu was about to take Cleo to leave.

"and many more."

Yacintos crossed his arms and looked at the brothers with his head slightly tilted: "Stop fighting?"

Cleo trembled uncontrollably.

Neliu looked a little uneasy: "Yes, Your Highness, your father wants you to see him, why don't you keep His Majesty waiting...?"

Because of his illness, Neliu's body looks extremely thin, especially to support Cleo's fat body, Yacintos is afraid that Neliu will be like the one who was kicked by him in the next second. Like spears, the brothers fell to the ground together.

Based on this, Hyacinthus stood up straight, and said straight to the point: "I have to make some compensation, please? Based on the rude provocation of Your Excellency Cleo?"

Cleo's clenched teeth were chattering.

Neliu looked at his elder brother, then looked at Yacintos timidly: "What do you want?"

Hyacinths smacked his lips dryly.

Neliu's green eyes, which looked extraordinarily large on his thin face, made him so embarrassed that the lion opened his mouth.

Yacintos thought for a while, and said casually, "Give me a hoe."

For the sake of Neliu, Yacintos felt that this matter could be ended here.

Compensation is necessary to show that the Yagiade family is not being bullied, but it can be done with a symbolic meaning.

But Cleo obviously didn't think so.

He jerked his head up and let out a beast-like grunt from his throat, with humiliation written all over his face.

Neliu: "Yes... ah!"

He didn't expect that he would be suddenly pushed away by Cleo. His thin body didn't give him a chance to react, and he fell to the ground in one fell swoop, coughing a series of times.

Cleo staggered a few times and stood still: "Hoe...hoe! Good! Good!"

He sneered—though still trembling: "I remember, Hyacinthus."

Yacintos's eyes were getting colder. He looked at Neliu who was getting up in a panic, and when he looked at Cleo again, his soft eyes became cold and hard: "Remember?"

He sneered: "I haven't explained the conditions clearly yet. I remember that the hoe should be engraved with such a line: 'Kleo lost to Hyacinthos, hereby compensates'."

In the silence, Yacintos turned his eyes to the governor who was barely sullen and straightened his waist: "Your Excellency the governor should also think clearly about the apology, not only for me, but also for you. The Argyad family who provoked by Riley's actions."

The Governor opened his mouth to argue.

Yacintos made a gesture of invitation: "Or do you want to play too?"

The governor's face contorted for a moment, then he turned his head violently, and vented his anger at the group of recruits: "Come here! Why don't you leave? What are you doing there!"

Hyacinthus narrowed his eyes. He hadn't forgotten the purpose of the Governor and Cleo, which was to design the leader of this group of recruits: "Wait a minute."

"..." The Governor held back and squeezed out an ugly smile, "Your Highness, what other orders do you have? It is my duty and right to educate Spartan youth."

In other words, you have no right to interfere.

The Governor expressed his unfinished words with his eyes.

Hyacinthus walked up to A-Ka, took the cloak and put it back behind his back: "I have doubts about your actions in exercising your rights, Governor. Please come with them and come with me to see His Majesty the King."

"..." The Governor's expression was cloudy and uncertain, and there was even a hint of doubt.

Since he has such ability, why did Jacintos hide his clumsiness before?

Why did you choose to stop pretending at this time?

...Did he notice something...

With all kinds of thoughts in his mind, the governor signaled the soldiers to return to the camp, while he followed Yacinthos without saying a word, and heard Yacinthus walking into the acropolis while asking the group of dumb recruits: "Who is the instigator in charge of you?"

In Sparta, after every boy turned 12, he was assigned to lead a young adult warrior.The adult warrior is called the "inspirer" and the boy is called the "listener".

The Governor gave the recruits a dark look.

The recruit named by Jacintos: "Uh, sorry Your Highness, we are not allowed to discuss this with anyone yet."

Hyacinthus pulled Apollo to his side with a face of "after watching the good show, now I'm thinking about how to escape": "Okay. Then you must remember to tell your encouragers what happened today."

He doubted whether the group of stupid geese would take this to heart, so he followed up: "In order not to wait for him to recover, I will only have time to collect the corpse for you."

The geese shivered one after another, and one of them muttered: "But he's been so busy recently that he can't see anyone at all..."

The road from the fields to the Acropolis is very long, so walking is a bit slower.

When Hyacinthus led the people to the private hall where his father handled official business, his elder brother Os had already strode out from the door, obviously just finished meeting with his father.

Meeting Jacintos head-on, Oss paused for a rare moment, showing a rare hesitation, but in the end he simply nodded to Jacintos and left without looking back.

Yacintos looked at his brother's back suspiciously, still thinking about what could make his always vigorous brother hesitate. The guard officer of His Majesty Una came out of the hall and saluted Yacintos: "Your Majesty said, the Governor He's heard about it."

The guards said to the governor and the recruits respectively:

"The Governor, please go back first, go to the meeting hall tomorrow morning, and explain your behavior to the two majesties."

"The recruits also return to the original training place, and they can refuse anyone's dispatch without the permission of the inspirer."

The governor's expression became a little annoyed for a moment, and he turned and left with a bit of annoyance.

When the last recruit also trotted away, the guard made an invitation gesture to Jacintos: "Please come in, Your Highness Jacintos, His Majesty is waiting for you."

Hyacinthus was about to move forward, but stopped, and turned to look at Apollo and Akka.

After what happened today, Hyacinthus was not at ease to let A-Ka stand outside and wait alone, and it was even more impossible for Apollo who wanted to sneak away at any time.

He decisively decided to use his privileges, and grabbed Apollo and Aka one by one: "They are with me, if you have any questions, go to my father."

Leaving behind the soldiers' blockade of "Heilaoshi is not allowed to enter the private hall", Yacintos led the two of them into the private hall with heavy strides, almost trotting into his father's room, and " Slamming the door shut.

Soldiers at the door:

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

Hyacinthus breathed a sigh of relief, raised his head, and met another line of sight in the room.

Behind the spacious wooden table sat a man in his 50s.

He has a face similar to Hyacinthus, but his facial features look more gentle, and at first glance he looks more like a wise man than a general.

But it would be wrong to judge people by their appearance, those dark blue eyes, which were more similar to Oss than Hyacinthos, were sharp and imposing.

His Majesty Una sat behind the table and looked at his young son quietly: "..."

Apollo swallowed nervously.

Even though his facial features and temperament were completely different, facing His Majesty Una, he somehow felt that Una's aura was very similar to Hades, the king of the underworld who occasionally went to Mount Olympus to participate in the discussion.

There was a moment of silence in the room.

After another moment, His Majesty Una finally said slowly: "...You told me that you like Heiros, but you never said that you like both at the same time."

His Majesty Una's blue eyes swept across Apollo and Aka: "I don't mean to beak, but as a father, I prefer you to choose this black-haired one."

The author has something to say: Una: Dad likes you more, what do you think?