Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Undercurrent

Everything went according to plan at first, but from the next day, anomalous movements began to emanate from the Barren Lands, which intensified and eventually turned into devastating shocks.

In the eyes of the Thebeans, the Barren Land was an unattainable forbidden land, and although many terrible rumors were circulated, there was never any danger.

Just when the civilians on the border of Debea were wondering whether to send a message to the top of the kingdom for help, the army of Debia appeared on the border at an unexpected speed.

From the beginning of the movement in the barren land, the appearance of the Duberian army was only two days, and even if the information was transmitted quickly, it was impossible for the top management of Thebia to make decisions so quickly.

Smelling something strange, Assas warily urged the third prince to pack up and leave, but just as they quietly left the village and walked on the hills, a devastating tremor suddenly came from the barren land.

What followed was a series of unexpected changes, with the wind blowing in increasing the coldness, and finally even mottled with crushed ice.

The size of the Thebean soldiers grew larger, and finally a legion of 10,000 men was formed, and it was while the Third Prince and Assas and others were hiding from the cold wind and rain that they were spotted by a group of Debian patrol cavalry and brutally captured.

Kratos, as one of the initiators of all this, naturally knows that the third prince and Assas only suffered from the pond fish.

But he didn't say a word, and looked at the scene that kept appearing in front of him, but quickly regressed, with a serious expression, as if he was thinking about something.

Entering the plains of Mesodas, the sight is complete with serenity and serenity, in contrast to the devastation of the flooding of Dibia, where some civilians point at the sight of grey griffons as they streak through the air over the village.

Five days later, the outline of Tellian City finally appeared in sight, and Kratos did not dare to approach the gray griffin directly, and fell from the sky at a position that was still half a day away, and the three of them rode back to the outside of Tellian City on the war pig instead.

With the third prince Arthur Evans at the front, Kratos held the bloody giant's head on his shoulder, starting from the main entrance, and slowly entered the royal city of Mycenae under the awe-inspiring eyes of everyone.

Soon soldiers from the kingdom arrived from the city, and immediately after receiving the giant's head, it was announced that the third prince, Arthur Evans, was the third to complete the triathlon and return.

After hearing this result, the third prince and Assas didn't have much thought, because being able to successfully obtain the head of the three-headed giant and return safely was already the best result they had ever imagined, and the ranking was no longer within their requirements.

But Kratos had an unusually serious expression, and quickly returned to the mansion of the third prince without saying a word, and immediately summoned Kohler, who he appointed as the head of the intelligence bureau to which the third prince belonged.

At this time, Kohler's appearance has changed dramatically, his whole body is wrapped in an airtight gray tight-fitting suit, even his face is covered by strips of cloth, and a pair of eyes that are only exposed are always slightly narrowed, making people unable to see the look in it.

Kohler the Escapee was already a famous thief known on the Peloponnese, and almost no one had ever seen his true face, and after being appointed by Kratos as the head of the intelligence organization, he developed with ease.

As soon as Kratos saw Kohler, he suddenly asked without a clue, "Is the general who is now in charge of leading the army on the border of the Eurotas River the second prince a person?" ”

Kohler's face hidden under the mask first showed an unknown expression of surprise, and then replied in a dull voice: "According to your instructions, I have paid all the lowliest laborers in the city of Telian with money, and I have received information from the laborers who are responsible for transporting food to the various noble councilors of the kingdom, and the mansion of General Tanatos, one of the three major generals of the kingdom, has greatly reduced the import of ingredients twenty days ago. ”

Not to mention a general with the strength of a thousand enemies, even if he is an ordinary officer, he is a powerful human with vigorous qi and blood, and his strength reaches hundreds of horsepower.

The food they consume every day is several times or even dozens of times that of ordinary people, and the general whose strength exceeds thousands of horsepower, the food he has to consume every day is even more immeasurable, and the input of ingredients is suddenly reduced, and the meaning of its representation is self-evident, and General Tanatos, one of the three major generals, has obviously left Tellian City.

The Mycenaean Kingdom has a total of three generals, and it is not a pseudo-thousand-man enemy general like Mimas, whose real strength only reaches 800 horsepower.

It's a real thousand-man enemy powerhouse, each with a strength of more than 1,000 horsepower. Kratos once had a conflict with Princess Aphro, and the old man Heinrich, who easily relieved him in a few words, is one of the three generals of the Mycenaean Kingdom, although he did not make a move at the time, Kratos can be sure that his strength is definitely above Mimas, even if he is now, I am afraid that he is not the opponent of the other party.

Without further explanation, Kohler continued: "It is not a secret that Tanatos was a supporter of the second prince Akdurumin, and that was not a secret in the entire upper Mycenaean class. ”

Originally, Kratos was just an uncertain guess, but now after hearing Kohler's information, he is completely sure that the war between Mycenae and Thebia suddenly broke out, and the second prince Akduruman is one of the main promoters involved, if not the initiator behind the scenes.

Thinking of this, Kratos couldn't help but marvel in his heart, the son of King Agamemnon is really not simple, the eldest prince Alubond is powerful, and he has heard the favored person of the oracle of the sun god Apollo, if it is not Kratos in the triathlon, I am afraid that the ancestor of the three-headed giant, Grimion, has become his confined.

The second prince, Akduruman, is known as the owl of the Peloponnese and has the title of a wise man, but Kratos has never had the opportunity to see one or two before.

Now that the second prince has first emerged, Kratos has really felt shocked, and in the process of triathlon, the second prince, who has not shown his face, actually stretched out his hand to other places.

Although it is not clear for the time being, it can be guessed that when Kratos and the eldest prince were entangled with each other, the second prince had already sent someone to reap the profits of the fisherman and secretly took away the head of one of the giants.

Despite this, the second prince, Akduruman, did not break the rules in the slightest. Triathlon is all about testing the strength, speed and intelligence of a challenger.

If the eldest prince, Alubond, is the representative of strength and speed, then the second prince, Aktruman, is paranoid and uses his wisdom to the extreme.

Kratos thought of Arthur Evans, who was the younger brother of the two bulls, and even though he had sighed a thousand times, Kratos couldn't help but feel a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart again.

Kratos took a deep breath, and he didn't know whether to talk to himself, or to Kohler beside him, and muttered in a leisurely tone: "War, it's about to break out......"

All three princes successfully completed the triathlon, but ironically, the sudden outbreak of war with Tibia turned everyone's attention to the other side of the Eurotas River.

And on the third day after Kratos and the others returned, the battle report from the front was sent back to Tellian City by the pseudo-griffons.

Along with the battle report, the bloody head of General Thebia, Mimas, was returned. When Kratos heard the news, his heart couldn't help but shake, and it was only then that he realized the cruelty hidden behind this war.

It was not until when the top brass of the Mycenaean kingdom remained silent, and even the speaker of the parliament stopped all discussions about the war, and all decisions were made directly by the king and carried out one by one without hindrance.

As for the reason for the start of this war, it has been completely forgotten, or no one dares to ask at all.

All of a sudden, the entire city of Tellian fell into an eerie silence, with only the constant reports of battle coming back from the front lines of the war.

Although the Mycenaean army had the advantage of surprise attacks and broke through the border defenses before the Kingdom of Thebea was fully prepared, they met with stubborn resistance after entering the hinterland.

The hilly terrain of the Kingdom of Thebea made it difficult for the Mycenaean cavalry to take advantage of their mobility, and the sudden flood disaster unexpectedly became the umbrella of the Kingdom of Thebea, and the torrent almost ran through the territory of Debea, splitting it in two.

Just when the war between Mycenae and Thebia was temporarily at a stalemate due to the interruption of the torrent, a news that shook the whole continent also reached the city of Tarian.

When the news reached the ears of Iphicles, the general of Tyrins and the wife of Iphicles, who commanded the army of 10,000 people, was furious, and immediately mobilized his own army and asked King Tirins to start a war.

Unsure of what secret was going on, the king of Tirinth agreed to the request of Iphicles, and said that the neighboring Argos sent an army, and the two countries formed a coalition of 100,000 men to officially start war on Thebais.

"Kratos, what should I do? Why did Tirins and Argos suddenly start a war, Thebai has already sent a plea to us Mycenae for help, and now the parliament is debating whether to send troops. ”

The third prince, Arthur Evans, was anxious to walk up and down the hall, as if the war between the two countries had something to do with him.

Kratos was also shocked by the sudden war launched by the alliance between Tirins and Argos against Thebais, and he vaguely felt that the Peloponnese, which had been peaceful for nearly a hundred years, was suddenly filled with frequent wars, and it seemed that some unknown secrets were hidden in it.