"Finally came out..."

After a long time from the Syrian province, she finally looked to the desert to the west. It's so winding that it took me almost half a year to get out.

Due to the war, there are not many merchants in the activities, but there are more movements of some ringing horses and nomads, and she follows the activities of the nomads quite a lot, but that direction is naturally not right.

During this period, I even ran to the area of the Red Sea, and I didn't know how to get there, until I saw the endless sea, and then I realized that I was not a little bit away.

Luckily, cacti and some exotic insects on the road can keep her hydrated, and some mice and birds can be caught on the way to stock up on food. When I walked to the other side of the sea, I prepared some dry food and water for myself, and then I set off.

She also got to know a lot of human beings here, but they were all nomadic people, and they didn't understand each other's languages, and she didn't know Greek very well, so the communication was generally sign language. However, both of them knew that the other had no ill intentions, so Ellie was happy to teach them something, such as some advanced tools and Greek books. In return, they prepared a strong camel and a lot of water for her.

At that time, many people from the big tribe came to see her off.

"Are you leaving? A guest from afar? ”

A man asked in half-baked Greek, and Ellie probably understood what he meant, nodded, then pointed to the east, and replied in Greek.

"Yes, I may come back here, maybe never."

"Then I will make a promise, when I live, you will come and be treated with the best."

"I'll look forward to it, goodbye, people of the desert."

With the guidance of these nomads, she finally made it out of the desert and now finally reached the place controlled by the Persians.

However, it is not a prosperous place, it is full of war-torn fields, and the dilapidated city stands in the sunset, and the eerie atmosphere hangs over this scorched red land. The army was stationed outside the city, and what Ellie heard was endless shouts and curses, the wails of the wounded and the groans of the dead echoing in her head.

From time to time, a trolley loaded with corpses and wreckage was rolled out in the city and in the barracks, and they were thrown into a large dug pit ready to be landfilled.

Even so, the corpses scattered around the city were not cleaned, and dozens of corpses could be seen as soon as they were seen. Ellie even saw that there was even a man on the ground struggling, and the intestines and internal organs that were flowing from his stomach were spilled on the ground, and he was trying to shove them back into his stomach.

It's just that it's useless, his own blood has almost accumulated into a small puddle, and all he can do now is to wait for his own death like a fish that is about to dry up.

“… Why bother? … If it goes on like this, it will hurt both sides? ”

Ellie got out of her camel and looked at the dying man. She pulled her saber out of the space she hadn't used for a long time, aimed it at the man's head, and sliced off his head without stopping.

The soldier's last look showed relief and gratitude.

"The Roman Empire will lose most of its territory in North Africa and Western Asia this time... But the power of the Persian Empire will also be empty, and when Rome settles down, then it will be a terrible tug-of-war..."

There are more human blood stains on the robe that has been destroyed by the wind and sand and mud for half a year, but this originally light-colored robe has long been turned into a sack, and nothing can be seen in the extra color.

“… No wonder... These two empires lost so quickly on this side of West Asia..."

The camel had been sitting on the scorched earth, and Ellie put back her saber and climbed onto the dromedary, and when the camel saw that its master had come up, he immediately stood up.

"We'll have to hurry, Nasir, this place isn't for us long."

When the camel heard his name, he turned his head, and Ellie took the rope and headed for the next place.

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The Sassanid Empire, which believed in and promoted the vast Zoroastrian religion, was much more stable internally than the Roman Empire, and at least the current Persian Empire basically obeyed the orders of the Persian king.

It is not surprising that this king was also born in a coup d'état, and he was elected to the throne by the rebels at the cost of killing the previous king, that is, his father. Then, someone in the country set himself up as king, and the king went to the Roman Empire, borrowed troops on the condition of Persian submission, and then used their strength to dispose of the rebels.

Then, when he sat down, he immediately lifted the table and refused to admit it. The previous Roman emperor jumped to his feet angrily, but there was no way out, so he could only pinch his nose and admit it.

Now, the Roman Empire is in civil strife, and the king, Cousin II, immediately chooses to attack. The offensive was successful, he pulled out the stronghold of the Roman Empire in the Caucasus, and then went straight to Syria, the area around Jerusalem.

For the nobles, the king won the victory, and he naturally got a piece of the pie, so the situation in the country was relatively stable. It's the civilians who suffer a lot, because they are the main source of support for the country's expedition.

However, everything is fine now, so for now, the country is still in the state of ZTE.

Ellie huddled in an ordinary inn, and when she got up, she asked for a basin of water and wiped her face and hands.

It took another two months of travel to barely reach the center of Persia. And this is just the beginning, and when it comes to going deep into Central Asia, it may not be easy to find such a city.

Her long hair was tangled together, and it had lost its smoothness and shine. With a shake of her head, a lot of sand can even fall out of her hair, not to mention the clothes on her body.

"Are these priests still so close to me? It's only been a day since it followed. ”

She glanced out the window and muttered a voice. There was a group of people on the street, holding a lot of weapons, and the weapons were burning with majestic flames. When the people around them saw them, they subconsciously avoided them, not only because of the weapons in their hands, but also because their clothes were only worn by the priest class.

You can't offend God's servants, these Zoroastrian believers think. But in this way, it was bitter for Ellie, who did not spend a whole day in a Persian city, and each time she avoided the Zoroastrian priests.

In the wild, she dealt with at least three teams, and it has to be said that these people are all very strong, especially the holy fire they summoned, and it is a desperate torture to deal with magical creatures.

The scorching sensation, almost touched, had the pain of suffocation, even fainting, not to mention its lethality, it took three days for one of Erlie's hands to recover completely.

"Two months to go... You can get to Central Asia. Now it should be the territory of the Turks ... At least there would not be such a strong Zoroastrian priest...

Hold on to it... When it comes to the territory controlled by the Sui Dynasty, there will not be so much hostility..."