The quick-witted Calabis retracted his movements, and Kelly pointed to the alcove by Lucuras's table, meaning that Calabis should use the filament cloth to wipe the statues and sacrifices placed on it.

"Your name is Calabis, right?" Lucuras, who was half-lying on the couch, asked as he chewed a fig in his hand and held the dossier.

Calabis nodded, holding the rag, and stood with his head bowed respectfully, not daring to make any unnecessary movements.

"Kelly, register Calabis as soon as possible, and - give him clean clothes now, he is too dirty - Calabis, you must get used to it, and the rudeness and filth that you have been in the tent must be washed away as soon as possible, both physically and mentally. You must know that you are not only a slave who serves me, but also a slave who serves the alcove, which contains the idols of my family's god Apollo and my ancestors, and that defiling them will bring disaster to me. Remember my words, my son, Calabis. Luculas said this in a fit of rage, and then yawned to show that he was sleepy.

Calabis, who was listening there, was shocked, yes, he had heard Luculas calling himself "my son" just now.

The horror was fleeting, and I seem to remember that the masters of Rome would call the young slaves "sons", and it was really frightening my father.

Soon, Lucuras lay down on the couch and fell asleep, and in the faint snoring, his slaves were still quietly busy, and Calabis received a new tunic of thin material, and was shaved off his long hair and beard by Kelly, "Calabis, I must admit, you really look a bit of an aristocratic shadow, and if you don't do stupid things, you can fool a few girls who don't understand the world." Kelly commented after putting Calabis in order.

After the alcove was cleaned, Calabis replaced the candles on the alcove with new ones, so that the flame would last long, and lay down on the floor of the tent with several personal slaves, and slept under a blanket.

On the second day, when Luculas got up, he told Calabis to take the sacrifice to the temple of Diana at the foot of Mount Sophini, and said, "The great goddess of the hunt gave me a dream last night, because my god Apollo is her brother, and she said to me in her dream, Lucuras, son of light, I will bless you in the next battle, but you must come and get the token yourself." ”

The temple of Diana here is not comparable to the miraculous building of Miletus, it is located on a cliff, it is small, plus Mithridates has been committed to burning the god Diana, and the priests have long since run away in the war, and the altar on the steps of the temple wall is full of dead leaves, looking desolate and desolate.

"Very well, my son Calabis, you look much stronger than you did yesterday, so that you can match me as my master." Lucuras was clearly pleased with the change in Calabis, who quickly cleaned the altar and placed some of the offerings on it, and Lucuras stepped forward, very reverently anointed his face with dye, and then lit incense, and raised his hands and muttered a blessing to him, surrounded by several army priests.

Under the temple of the cliff, there are soldiers and generals of the Seventh Legion, who are watching the priesthood of the commander to the gods with their own eyes, and also to judge whether the commander has been blessed by the gods, and whether there will be some external displays, such as birds, clouds, whirlwinds, etc., these things are very important things to the morale of a huge army that is on the march - the soldiers, from the bottom of their hearts, prefer to believe that God chooses to stand on their side.

Diana, the protector of hunting and virginity, the mother goddess of harvest and fertility, her fame is well known throughout the wilderness of Asia Minor, many barbarians and Persians believe in her, as for the Romans, they are pursuing "following the customs", once they conquer this place, they will also be very happy to move this god back to Rome to worship, so Rome's "polytheism" is essentially the process of accepting the beliefs and cultures of other conquered peoples.

Soon the army began to stir up, for many of them saw a beautiful cow coming from the steppe at the source of the Euphrates on the other side, dressed in holy sunlight, as if led by an invisible rope, toward the temple, and slowly passing through the procession of the Roman soldiers, as if all the soldiers could see her. The soldiers pointed to the cow and exclaimed, "Look at her ass!" ”

On the cow's plump buttocks, there is a torch-shaped brand, "This is the exclusive sacrifice of the goddess Diana, they are all free-grazing in this grassland on weekdays, oh my God, the goddess Diana really guided her!" The smiling priests beside Luculas whispered that the cow had a spirit, and had walked up to the rock on the cliff, with its beautiful head bowed, motionless.

The five thousand soldiers of the Seventh Legion below all watched silently, holding their breath.

One of the priests stepped forward and plunged the cow into the neck with the knife in his hand, and the cow fell down with a moo, and blood splattered out, and Luculas, covered in blood, turned to all the soldiers, and threw himself up at the neck and shouted: "This is our oracle for the conquest of the Euphrates and Tigris, the conquest of Armenia, and even Mesopotamia, Diana protects our army!" ”

In the lower compartment, Utiris first stretched out his arms and shouted, "Long live Diana!" Long live the invincible Lucuras! Then came Murilla, Sekedilius, Appis, and even Hebrida, and the whole Seventh Legion was boiling, and the soldiers were shouting slogans and falling into a state of frenzy.

"The Eleventh Legion has gone to Tegreseta as an advance army, and the rest of the brethren, don't be left behind!" Luculas continued to incite, shouting.

"This clumsy trick to deceive the crude inferior, hmph—hey, Calabis, is that you?" On the side of the altar, Adiana in a loose silk robe came, the folds of her clothes brought by the wind outlined her slender curves, and next to her was Demitrius with an umbrella.

Calabis stepped forward, saluted without humility or arrogance, and said, "Your Excellency, this is the priesthood of the commander of the army, and it is better for the enemy to avoid it for the time being, the army has the rules of the army. ”

Angry, Adiana raised her eyebrows and shouted, "Amazing if you wear a new dress?" Clay pot or clay pot, Jew, when you go back, I will reward you with the latest and most expensive silk clothes to wear, and compare this fellow to Calabis! ”

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency, I'm the boss's niche slave now, the Jews are your personal slaves, and we're not Barbie dolls for showmanship." After saying this, Calabis turned his back and ignored the other party.

"What Barbie? Also, how dare you turn your back to me, to me who is so noble!? On the hillside, Adiana's angry voice was louder than the other.

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