In the city of Ponticabion, a courtyard of Greek architecture, with snow still on the roofs and steps, a light-brown-haired girl in thin clothes crawled up the corrugated columns, then raised her eyes, pouted and folded off a long ice skate, swished down, and then jumped into the snow, excitedly holding the ice skate, dancing like a sword.

When the bell rang, she saw a gray and spirited little goat running on the snow, and the bell was from the golden bell around its neck, and the little sheep was dragging a small cart behind it, and the girl applauded and laughed, and rushed over and straddled the bleating little goat, and raised the "sword" in her hand even higher, and with a pirate-like cry.

Then she saw a man in a regimental cloak standing in the snow in front of the courtyard, holding the rope from the lamb cart in his hand, smiling at her, and giving her a sense of familiarity—yes, his lips and nose were exactly the same as his own. The girl, who was less than four years old, got out of the lamb and cried out at the man, and Calabis was about to cry again, and he crouched down and stretched out his arms towards little Niko, ready for the warmest embrace between father and daughter.

As a result, the sharp tip of the ice skate in little Niko's hand, fast as lightning, hit him the chin and chest, so painful that he covered his face and half-knelt on the snow, and then Niko gave up the attack and stood there with some uneasiness, looking at the strange man.

"It's you, you can find this place too?" Helenputina, dressed in her lavender-colored robes and braided her wavy red hair, descended the steps, El Capa and Ella following her. See this kind of scene. Then he walked to the stable on the side of the courtyard. Begin to feed and saddle the horses.

"Yes, you are not hard to find, Helenputina, I only need to find the temple of Diana in the city of Ponticabiang, you must be the closest." Calabis bit her lip and stood up, and when little Niko saw her mother coming, she carried the ice skate. Standing beside his mother, he looked like a samurai, but his eyes still squinted at Calabis from time to time.

"There are three temples of Diana in the city, unless you started looking for it in the middle of the night last night." Helen Putina said, holding her chin in her hand.

Calabis made a gesture of surrender, "Yes, that's right, I stuffed a lot of money into the officers of the Marcha Palace, and they told you where you were, and walked here. It took me a day's time. ”

"Now that you've seen Niko, please go back. I received your gift. Helen Putina patted Niko on the shoulder. motioned for her to go back into the house, but the little girl ran up to the lamb again, and while touching the soft wool, she continued to eavesdrop curiously on the conversation between the two adults.

"I want to ask, how is your kingdom!" Calabis asked suddenly.

The three Amazonian warriors present turned their heads to Calabis, and after a while Helenputina said, "There is nothing to hide, there are only a few hundred people left in my kingdom, most of them women too old to fight, and a small number of slaves, who live in the forests and mountain villages. ”

"I can help you revive the Amazon Kingdom."

Helenputina chuckled lightly, "You don't have to worry, Calabis, because our kingdom has been like this for thousands of years, and I only need to collect ten tarents a year here in Marcha to feed everyone." ”

"But you can settle the score! Hundreds of elderly women who could not work and could only be supported by these payments, as well as male slaves, if this went on for only thirty years, the kingdom of the Amazon would automatically perish, and it would be my daughter of Calabis who would bear the shame of the country! ”

Hearing this, the Amazon Queen also raised her voice, "Niko has no father, she is just my daughter, the future Amazon Queen." ”

Calabis took a step into the courtyard and put his hand on his chest, "No, she is my daughter, and I will build a temple to Diana, the goddess of the hunt, for her in Africa, Spain, and Gaul, and I swear in the name of a father." ”

"You're dazed, Calabis, let's defend the city under the edge of the Pontus army! At least I hope you live. With that, Helen Putina really took Niko's little hand and entered the house

"It's boring, I'll go first." There, Erkapa, with his braided hair hanging down, rode impatiently on horseback and left the courtyard in a dala. Then, "Storm Ella" rode a horse, brushed by Calabis's side, and secretly patted him on the shoulder, "The queen is about to change into armor and go to Marcha's palace to meet him, because the army of Pontus has besieged the Acropolis, and you can fight side by side with Calabis again, take care!" After saying that, he also whipped and rode away.

"Well, an audience with Marcha?" Calabis looked back, at Ella's back, and then at the door of the main hall of the courtyard covered with snow, and the little grey sheep looked at him and bleated affectionately.

In Marcha's circular bedchamber, Calabis sat on a circle chair with his legs crossed on the cartography table, and Claudius sat next to him with a dull smile, and he didn't know how close and cordial he was to Calabis! Because all the centurions stood in two rows like angry eyes, and Marcha, the governor of the Bosphorus, stood with his eyebrows hanging and looking angry, and stood with his hands bowed down, like a servant.

The three female warriors, Helenputina, Elcapa, and Ella, standing by the door, stood in place, not understanding what had happened last night and night.

"The Queen of the Amazons, huh? Now your former employer has transferred your kingdom's army, well, a total of three people, to me, which means that you are now an auxiliary force of the legion. I forgot to introduce, I'm the envoy of the Thirteenth Legion, Calabis. Gao Nerlius. Marcus F, this is my superior, Pabrius. His Excellency Claudius, who is the lieutenant general of the legion. ”

When introduced to him, Claudius tilted her face towards Helenputina, still smiling sluggishly and charmingly, "By the way, I've handed over the command of the front to the Calabist envoy, yes, full authority." ”

Helenputina glanced at Calabis, who was cross-legged, and asked very seriously: "So, what arrangements does Your Excellency the Special Envoy have for the battle in the direction of the Acropolis?" ”

"We are short of ships, and the long bridge and chain between the Acropolis and Ponticabion across the bay must be to prevent enemy ships from sneaking up and cut off the two connections. Our opponent is Adiana, the princess of Pontus, who is ruthless and cunning. Calabis touched his nose, thought for a moment, then lowered his legs, pressed his hands to the cartography table, and said, "It is necessary to lay more stakes and wrecks in the bay to prevent the ships of Pontus from entering." ”

"What? You say that the army of Pontus was actually commanded by my royal sister Adiana? Marcha cried out as if he had seen a ghost. (To be continued......)