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The scene seemed palpable, and in the husband's dream, the wind blew from the distant plateau and the sea, faintly gray, blowing the branches and leaves of the trees of the same color, making a monotonous but surging whistling. Alexios, the handsome and brave man of his youth, rode on the strong warhorse, and his bow swayed gently beside his shoulder strap and arm, when the horse suddenly neighed uneasily, and the hunter's sensitive eyes suddenly matched the cruel beastly eyes hidden behind the grass.

The beast rose up with a huge black shadow, and with an earth-shattering roar, it rushed out of the hidden ground, carrying a bloody and filthy wind, and pounced on the hunter!

Outside the Blachna Palace, the lightning of the White Forests shook the land, and the columns were illuminated, and then they disappeared into the darkness in order, and Adjoan was so frightened that he began to weep, and then the Emperor turned his head and said confidently to Irene, "This beast was then slain by me, and it should symbolize Gawain, or Theodoro." ”

After that, the whole court fell silent, and the emperor was waiting there, waiting for Irene to compliment him a few words.

However, not long after, Alexios saw that tears rolled down his wife's cheeks for some reason, "What's wrong with you." He asked.

"No, I don't know...... Maybe it's just an instinctive reaction of the mind. Seeing her husband's expression, the queen was also surprised, stretched out her finger to wipe the corners of her eyes, and sure enough, it was salty and moist, and then lowered her head and coaxed Adjoan, and then she whispered, "It's rare that you can still recall the hunting garden in Thrace in your dreams." ”

"You're here again......" said the Emperor unpleasantly, feeling impatient and a certain guilt, and this guilt for Erin made him heartily frightened - in the hunting garden at that time, the teenage Erin. Ducasse stood under a tall pear tree with her youthful braids, which was independent on the hillside, and the clouds seemed to swim over its canopy, and in the spring breeze, clumps of pear blossoms piled up on it like snow on Mount Olympus, and Irene gasped, she ran boldly from the other side of the mountain, holding the trunk of the pear tree in her hands, beads of sweat oozing from her forehead and the tip of her nose, and her sparkling eyes were full of admiration, and she looked and looked, stared at the young hunter knight, and did not leave for a moment.

In the end, the emperor was depressed, and left the courtyard without saying anything.

In the spacious courtyard outside the gate, several young guards were carrying swords, waiting for the emperor.

Next, Alexios went to the chief lady's chamber, but the door was locked, and in the rain he saw the slash-nosed general Tetisius standing in the porch with his back to him, wrapped in a cloak, discussing something with the two medical eunuchs.

Seeing the emperor, Tetisius hurriedly half-knelt down.

"What are you doing here, my general?" The emperor asked affectionately.

"The prince had come to pay his respects to the queen and the chief lady, but the news that the chief lady was ill was reported here. So the prince hurried to attend to his official duties, and asked the servant to ask the medical officer here. ”

"Well, it's true that Marlena has been sick for a while, and it is estimated that she will not recover until next month." The emperor was very satisfied with John's diligence in government affairs during this time, and he gave Tetisius a few words of encouragement, saying that he must fight against the rebels of Tarsus on the plateau immediately and must fight for his duties.

"What the hell is Malena?" After watching Tetisius leave, the emperor asked the two medical eunuchs.

"The Vice-Empress Dowager was afraid to see people and had to lie still for a while, because she said that the other day she ..... Met the ghost of Constantine...... We prescribed her a meditation potion and asked the monks in St. John's Church to come and pray for her, so that the evil spirits could be kept away from her dreams and her room. A eunuch named Simon Gonus said, and the man named Euticis next to him bowed his head, his eyes wandering, and he did not dare to say a word.

The emperor understood in his heart, so he sighed slightly, and said that when I triumphed, Marlena's condition might be cured.

After Alexios and the guards left, the two medical eunuchs in the rain were pale in the side door covered with moss and vines, tearing and scuffling with each other, among them, Yuticis was pressed against the stone wall of the corridor by Simon Gonus, who was very strong, and he almost couldn't control his voice, "It can't be like this, I was selected by the little bird to enter the palace, and I can't hide anything from his eyes, and the result of doing this will definitely be shattered!" ”

"Listen, bastard, we can't say anything we see in the palace, it's the oath we made when we came in. So you and I didn't go against anything. Understood, Euticis, my companion! Simon Gonus shouted with his eyes wide open.

"Ghost, ghost......" Utichis shuddered and kept saying the word, looking up in a frenzied and frightened look, drawing a cross on his forehead, and then looking at the darkness as if the devil were there.

On an auspicious day, the cumulus clouds dissipated after the rain, the sun shone brightly, flocks of white seabirds flocked, in front of the semicircular royal dockyard of Constantinople, the smoke billowing from the forge workshop, and countless slender men pulled ropes and trekked in the sea, slowly pulling the huge royal ship symbolizing the glory of the empire into the Golden Horn. The sound of the horn shook the earth, and many high-rise buildings along the coast, the citizens and merchants were stunned to see this incomparably magnificent sight: the purple flag of the royal ship, their emperor standing on the deck of the bow of the ship, surrounded by well-armored Varangian guard warriors, and many small ships floating around, clustered around the royal ship, like a floating giant fortress surrounded by trees, some ships stood with imperial soldiers with spears and spears, and some were loaded with arrows, shields and other supplies, They were all made from the workshops of the big cities of Thessaloniki, Corinth, Durazzo and other cities to arm the emperor's army.

Beside the great docks, the nobles, wealthy merchants, and ladies of the imperial capital stood under beautiful umbrellas, led by the Grand Governor of the Imperial Court, Nichardia, the Imperial Governor of the Empire, Beriel, and the new Grand Administrator, Prince John, who shouted praises to the royal army that had gone out—Alexios was right, and he had assembled as many as 40,000 horses (and more than 20,000 were stationed throughout Asia Minor). Among them were 20,000 mercenaries of all nationalities, and now the bulk of this army had crossed the strait in batches and were stationed in Tunchivit and Nicomidea, and the magnitude of their presence shocked all the people of the world. The remaining 20,000 men were the Imperial Native Army and the Imperial Forbidden Army, which were no longer the weak and chaotic appearance of the Emperor after half a year of careful training and adjustment, and included the two new elites of the Thessaly New Army and the New Immortal Army, which the Emperor could not wait to throw into the battlefield against Anatolia. (To be continued.) )