spartan ancestor

Vanity is insane.

When seeing the souls of the dead fighting to argue whether they were killed by the king of Sparta himself, Hades and the others didn't realize which direction things would go until half a month later.

In the palace of Hades.

"What's the matter, why did the souls fight this time?" Thanatos asked the soldiers in front of him listlessly, "The Temple of Hades is only half completed, and the souls of the dead are entering the underworld one after another. I still have a lot of projects to do." Need to rush... so help out, long story short, this is already the eighth dispute I've dealt with today."

The soldiers were also very tired, and said with a wooden face: "They insisted that they were 'the Queen of the Underworld personally sent them to the Underworld'. Some people disagreed, made mocking remarks, and started fighting after arguing."

Thanatos: "..."

He didn't even have the strength to say "again".

I don't know how this strange atmosphere spread. Anyway, one day, he found that the dead souls in the underworld seemed to be admiring and comparing his own death cause.

No matter what race they are or how many years they have been dead, they always like to boast that they died under the hands of the great Empress Dowager.

In such a huge underworld, it seems that most of the people were killed by Yacinthos.

Thanatos gritted his teeth for a moment: They are all those dead souls from Uboia!He must have heard the rumors that Hyacinthus was the Queen of the Underworld, so he smeared gold on his face even more, bringing this bad atmosphere!

Hypnos knocked his elbow beside him and lowered his voice: "It's really not possible, let's spread a rumor and say that Hyacinthus is not actually the queen of the underworld..."

"Then everyone started to sing about how he defeated His Majesty Hades and successfully escaped from the underworld?" Thanatos turned back and glared at his younger brother, "Aren't they even more rampant? After all, even His Majesty was defeated by him!"

"..." Hypnos looked at Thanatos speechlessly, thinking that you are also whitewashing the peace for vanity, and what is the difference between you and those dead souls.

He could only pat his brother on the shoulder, and said to the soldiers: "Tell the dead souls, all the dead souls who make trouble in the place of pain, the intensity of labor will be increased, and the dead souls who live in the blessed land and make trouble, if the circumstances are serious, they will be sent to the place of pain."

This method should be effective, and the soldiers suddenly turned their worries into joy, and led them out of the Hades Hall.

The soldiers parted at the crossroads, some rushed to the place of pain to execute the punishment for the troubled souls, and the other went to the Elysee Paradise to announce the new regulations.

The latter is easier, because the dead souls who can live in Elysee Paradise are kind-hearted, and generally this level of restriction is enough to make them settle down.

So even though it took a lot of time to summon the dead souls, the soldiers responsible for announcing the new regulations were still relatively relaxed. They stood on the high platform and patiently explained the restrictions before leaving.

The kind souls muttered in the audience, and scattered in twos and threes:

"Don't let fights, is it a crime to quarrel with your mouth?"

"Okay, didn't you hear what the soldiers said? Our Queen of the Underworld never kills kind people, which means that it is impossible for the people in the entire Elysee Paradise to be sent down by the Queen of the Underworld."

"Oh, damn it. So the villains in the House of Torment had the honor of dying at the hands of the King of Sparta?"

"...?" In the crowd, a woman dressed as a hunter, with bare arms and long legs, turned her head when she heard the sound, with slight doubts in her blue eyes.

A group of female ghosts struggled through the crowd and surrounded them:

"Hey! You're back! You said taming the falcon before, how is it doing?"

"You don't even know that during this period of time, you were hiding in the valley alone to tame eagles, but you missed many interesting and wonderful stories, such as His Royal Highness..."

"Your Highness Baobao?" The woman raised her brows heroically, "Can you tell me more about it?"

The female ghosts immediately started chattering around her, telling each other the story of the troubadour who had gone through twists and turns into the Elysee Paradise, and finally pointed the woman to the Elysee Palace in the distance to conclude: " That's it! Our Queen of the Underworld rests here. You don't even know how much Your Majesty loves him! You would rather break your own principles and allow him to return to the world. So it is impossible for us to see the Queen of the Underworld now, but I believe that he will return to the underworld soon! He will definitely still be living in the Elysee Palace by then!"

"..." The woman frowned slightly and didn't speak for a long while.

There was a cry of an eagle in the sky, and the brown eagle swooped down from the clouds and landed on the woman's raised wrist armor, its sharp eyes swept around.

The female ghosts were frightened, and soon clapped their hands happily: "You succeeded! It's so majestic, can we touch it?"

The woman lowered her head slightly, looked at these innocent girls, and smiled after a while: "Of course. I can also teach you how to tame eagles. But, are you willing to follow me into the valley?"

The girls shook their heads without thinking: "The valley is indeed secluded enough, but it's too secluded! There's no one around, we're a group of women going... Well, we're not as bold as you, we would be afraid."

"That's okay," the woman thought for a while, and then said, "There is a grassland not far from the Elysee Palace, and people don't often go there. I can teach you how to tame eagles there."

The girls became happy again: "That's just right, if the Queen of the Underworld returns to the palace, we might be the first to see it!"

"That's right," the woman said, looking towards the Elysee Palace, with a hint of meaning, "We will be the first to see it."

·

Yacintos, who was far away in Uboia, did not know his "feat" of "taking down most of the underworld" without a single soldier.

After dealing with the Persian warships and rebels, it took Euboia a long time to recover from the damage caused by those rebels and Persians.

The surviving soldiers leaned on crutches and took to the streets with the islanders to bury the bodies that had been brutally killed and dumped on the street.

Hein took out a lot of savings to rebuild the destroyed houses, and donated another sum of money as military funds for recruiting new soldiers.

"Money, money, money!" Hein spun around on the deck like a headless chicken, then looked up to the sky and sighed, "Why am I so poor!!"

Hyacinthos, who also went through this stage, sympathizes with Hein's emotions at the time, but now he cares more about the big treasures he captured from the Persian ships.

These gigantic arrows are exquisitely mechanismd. After dismantling the mechanism structure, Yacintos began to worry about how many new weapons like this there are in Persia, and how many types there are.

"Hey," Hein poked his head in front of Jacintos resentfully, "Do you really want to sign an alliance with me? Can you express your concern?"

Yacintos pushed his head away: "We generally don't care what you call 'caring', or 'interfering in the internal affairs of other city-states'."

Aka raised his leg expressionlessly to drive away the ruffian little captain: "You can pretend you didn't see it, out of sight and out of mind."

"Don't be kidding, Euboia Island is my grandfather's painstaking effort." Hein was blocked by Aka and couldn't get closer, and he reached out to Yacintos, "Help me, we are going to sign a treaty of alliance this afternoon, you Do we need our support at sea?"

Yacin Thorston started the action at hand.

Leaving aside their brains, Hein's crew members are still very capable in combat.

Pirates are not good at land battles, but in the previous confrontation, Hein's crew performed quite bravely even on the pier, and they will definitely perform even more amazingly when they actually launch the ship into the sea.

This is probably the reason why Persia is famous for its fleet strength, but when it invaded Euboia Island, it did not attack directly, but engaged in sowing discord.

Hyacinthus put down his hand calmly: "I don't think I need my help on this issue. You should already have an idea in your mind, but you just want to continue the maritime trade. You can support a trusted deputy as the captain—"

"Yes!" Hein loudly overshadowed Jacintos' voice, and slapped his thigh, "I can support another trusted deputy to be the consul, stay and handle government affairs, and I will continue to do my maritime business."

Hyacinthus: "?????"

That's not what I said, I meant to let you stay and support the captain to engage in trade.

Hein patted Jacintos on the shoulder with a smile on his face: "As expected of the king of Sparta, I think you are right. I should make such a sacrifice, let go of the tempting authority, and resolutely embrace the loneliness at sea."

Hyacinthus: "..." Did I say that? ?

No wonder Hein asked him this question, he just waited here holding the scapegoat, right?

Hyacinthus was speechless and funny: "If you don't want to stay on Uboia Island, and want to continue your former wandering life, you can tell your companions directly—"

Hein leaned over and lowered his voice: "Is the contract still signed?"

"..." All right, Jacintos said, "I told you."

As he said before, he doesn't care about these "family affairs" of Hein, as long as he can get Euboia Island to support him in the naval battle.

He stayed on Uboa Island for half a month, waiting for this contract.

Yacintos glanced at Aka, who was frowning, and casually dismissed Hein, who got too close: "I'm not good at business. Aka also has a large chamber of commerce under his command. Go discuss it with him."

"Oh, really?" Hein jumped at A-Ka like a butterfly, excitedly, "After signing the contract, don't rush away tonight. It's not safe to sail at night, stay and wait until dawn before setting off! Allow me to serve you with the finest wines in our fleet."

Hyacinthus: "No—"

Aka: "Okay."

"?" Yacintos looked at A-Ka suspiciously, but saw the other person's eyes light up slightly, as if looking forward to it.

How could he not know when Aka fell in love with wine?

Hyacinthus was surprised and hesitated.As a Spartan through and through, he never drank alcohol, but if Akka expected...

It was rare for A-Ka to take the initiative to speak: "Stay here. You can have a few drinks, and I will see that nothing will happen."

Yacintos looked at the light in Aka's eyes and smiled: "It's okay, I don't drink, but I can stay with you for one night."

This handling is perfect, Yacintos thought, but saw Aka pause, and the light in his eyes slowly went out.

"Forget it then, don't waste time." Aka said lightly.

"...?" Jacintos gradually narrowed his eyes.

Why, the reason for staying was not that A-Ka wanted to drink, but because he wanted him to drink?

What does Aka want him to drink?Want to see him drunk?Then what?

A smirk appeared on the corner of Jacintos's lips: "How can this be called a waste of time? It is really not safe to sail at night, and there are sharks at several piers on Euboea Island. Stay, I can watch you drink .”

…………

The reason for Hein to keep A-Ka is very simple. He really hopes to reach a cooperation with A-Ka's chamber of commerce.

After the reception started, he kept promoting the goods of their fleet to Aka: "...too many lucrative businesses, perfume, essential oil, wine, dyed cloth, weapons, minerals, timber...but our most Ripe is the trade route of wine."

He tried his best to introduce, but unfortunately, the reasons why the two guests stayed were not as simple as his.

Holding the wine glass, Aka seemed to be listening to Hein's strong recommendation with a cold face, but his body was tense, and he was always on guard against Yacintos.

Hyacinthus was even more exposed, holding Aka's arm with one hand, and holding the amphora with the other hand to refill Aka: "Drink, don't stop, this is Hein's favorite product, I specially took it out You can't lose face to those who entertain you."

Hein couldn't help but stop the sales after watching it. After a moment of hesitation, he couldn't help stretching out his hand: "The wine is good, don't be greedy, drink less—"

Without even thinking about it, A-Ka blocked Hein's outstretched hand, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, and then cast a warning look.

Hein: "..."

Well, one person is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. What kind of fun is he doing.

He wisely pretended not to notice, speeded up his speech to finalize the cooperation matters, and then jumped up from the chair and left as if his butt was on fire.

Yacintos glanced at the back of Hein's leaving, put down the amphora in his hand, and approached Aka with his chin propped up: "Tell me, why do you want me to drink?"

"..." A-Ka held his glass and didn't move or speak, a trace of drunkenness floated on his cheeks.

Yacintos raised his eyebrows, leaned forward relentlessly, and put his face in front of A-Ka: "Are you really drunk? Just now, I talked back and forth with Hein, why did you become drunk when Hein's butt got off the bench?" gone?"

A-Ka stood firm and motionless, his eyes resting on the wine glass lazily.After a while, he stood up straight again and walked into the cabin step by step like a wandering spirit.

... Pretending to be quite like it, Hyacinthus put down his wine glass, lazily folded his arms and followed behind A-Ka, all the way into a small cabin.

Hyacinthus glanced at the door and smiled meaningfully. This cabin was exactly the one that Hein arranged for them. If he was really drunk, how could he find the room he had only entered once so accurately?

It's clear that someone is acting, but he also dislikes the other room, and would rather reveal his secrets than enter the opposite room.

He stepped into the room, and A-Ka was already lying face down on the bed. The quilt that Heind sent someone to change was messed up by him, and most of it was covered on his head. Isolate Jacintos' questioning.

But if Hyacinthus was so easy to dismiss, he wouldn’t be Hyacinthus. He walked to the bed and sat down, clearing his throat calmly: “Are you really drunk? So drunk? I’ll listen to everything I say. not see?"

Even the ups and downs of Aka's breathing became even.

Yacintos nodded, and stretched out his hand towards A-Ka: "Then I should help you undress, right? Hey, it's really not me groping, you lie face down, I just want to help you unbutton it."

He said righteous words, stuffed his hand between someone and the quilt, and reached for the button that was pressed under it decently, but his palm was dishonest.

Strong and bulging chest muscles, a thin waist...

Hyacinthos narrowed his eyes slightly, and couldn't help but recall how Akka broke the iron chain with his bare hands the night he assassinated the Persian commander.

This is a dangerous, unknown person.

The training he had received made his instincts constantly screaming for danger, urging him to stay away, but the usual docileness of the tiger, plus the pleasure of teasing the tiger's whiskers, only made his palms slightly hot, and he continued to stretch his claws desperately.

He could touch the accelerated heartbeat of the other person, and appreciate that the original uniform breathing of the other person gradually increased to a frequency that was never suitable for pretending to sleep—until someone turned over and threw him down through the quilt.

"..." Yacintos's movement of teasing the tiger's whiskers came to an abrupt end.

He blinked between the quilts, turned his head sideways, and could only see the tightly separated quilts.

The person on the quilt was determined to pretend to be drunk to the end, those strong arms held down his arms through the quilt, and his legs also pressed against his, his much taller body completely restrained him from continuing to act dishonestly. possible.

Jacintos moved a few times tentatively, only to be suppressed more strongly by the opponent.

The winter sea breeze came in through the porthole, and Jacintos felt that someone on the quilt moved slightly, and the tall body was tightly shielded from the chill.

Hyacinthus sighed silently under the quilt, obviously interested in him, why there is always something between him?

The warmth from the other end of the quilt slowly penetrated, as if wrapping him in a warm and tight nest.Hyacinthus yawned slowly, and fell asleep while thinking about the next plan for pulling the tiger's beard.

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Aka's "performance" didn't know when it was time to end. Anyway, when Jacintos woke up, he was already lying in the quilt in an orderly manner, and Aka put the red cloak outside the quilt to prevent the cold. Strictly.

He only had time to roll his eyes, and Aka bent slightly, and walked in through the door that was a bit small for him: "The Spartan fleet is coming."

"!?" Jacintos suddenly woke up and sat up on the bed, "I didn't call them. I guess they were sent by my brother again?"

The reason why he didn't let Sparta send a ship is very simple. First, everyone knows the weakness of Sparta in sea combat. Second, from Sparta to Euboia, it is bound to pass through the Great Atti where Athens Cards can easily spark new tensions.

According to his original plan, he wanted to leave with Aka on a newly bought second-hand merchant ship, so that neither the army nor the pirates would be interested in them. Those who really caught his eye were probably scattered pirates who couldn't eat them. He and Aka just took the opportunity to change ships midway.

Hein's voice also came from the deck: "Hurry up, hurry up, you agreed to leave Uboia on a merchant ship, and your fleet will pick you up in the open sea? I just recruited a merchant fleet to come to the island Trading, your fleet is blocked there, even if they come, they dare not dock."

Jacintos was also quite afraid, mainly because he couldn't figure out how the Spartan fleet arrived smoothly, and he left on the Spartan ship. The goal would be big, and he really wouldn't go to see Hades in advance ?

Steady footsteps came from the entrance of the cabin, and as soon as Hyacintos put on his clothes and went out, he saw the figure of his old acquaintance Aizhi.

Hyacinthus signaled Ai Zhi to go to the merchant ship with him to chat: "How is the city-state?"

"Everything is fine in Sparta, but not in Macedonia." Aizhi pouted, "A while ago, Persia used new weapons to directly break through Macedonia's defense line, and most of Macedonia was occupied by the Persian army. That The old king was finally willing to put down his face and ask for help, and now His Majesty Os is attending a meeting with Athens and other city-states in Corinth, and His Majesty Old Una is staying in Sparta."

"New weapons?" Several people boarded the dilapidated small merchant ship, Hyacinthus kicked open the deck and said, "Is this the one? We encountered Persian ships here, and the Persian ships were equipped with this."

"..." Ai Zhi stared blankly at the cabin, then scratched his head and said, "It should be this one, but our spies in Macedonia said that there are also small ones..."

mini?Yacintos stepped on the deck door: "How did you come from Sparta? Didn't you encounter any obstacles from Athens on the way?"

Aizhi shrugged: "The current consul in Athens is not tough. We go around a little farther away from the borderline of Athens, so their fleet doesn't open fire on us. But it's also because of this. To be honest, I'm a little worried about this time. His Majesty's meeting in Corinth. I'm afraid that Athens doesn't want to take on the responsibility of fighting the Persian army this time, and throw all the burden on the shoulders of His Majesty Oss..."

He shook his head: "Forget it, His Majesty Oss doesn't need us to worry about this. Are you ready to go? I'll ask someone to move all these things to our Spartan ship."

Hyacinthus stood still.

Ai Zhi: "Your Majesty?"

Yacintos was cautious: "Wait a minute. I don't mean to uplift others' ambitions and destroy my own prestige, but I'm still considering whether to believe in the strength of our Spartan fleet."