Chapter 53: Falling short

"I didn't expect there to be other reincarnators here, since you are also part of the rebel army, then you can also contribute now! The last merchant ship holding Carthaginian prisoners of war is yours! Xu Mo raised his eyebrows and said slowly.

"Joseph, it's a good opportunity, there's only Dinah by his side......" Rose rumored in the team's correspondence.

"Let's go!" Joseph took a deep look at Xu Mo and led everyone out of the cabin. He was accompanied by more than thirty gladiators of various races, and it seemed that there were no more than a hundred captured Spartan warriors, so the slave owner stuffed the other prisoners of war into this relatively idle slave ship by the way.

"Joseph, Old K doesn't seem to recognize us, why didn't he do it just now!" Qin Long asked word by word.

"No, Old K has already recognized us, he just deliberately pretended not to know us. One is to not provoke contradictions between the two sides. Another reason is that he is vaguely saying that we are not worthy of his attention at all, and he does not take us seriously at all! Joseph said with a gloomy face.

"The regiment commander and Lao K didn't choose to do it just now, I think it's because those Spartan warriors next to them, whether it's Lao K, or we do it first, those Spartan warriors won't stand idly by.

If we do it, the Spartan warriors will immediately kill us as spies of the Romans, because they belong to the Spartans with them! Anon interjected with a smile.

"There's another reason...... Roland, what's wrong with you? Joseph took a deep breath and was about to explain, when he suddenly noticed that something was wrong with Roland next to him.

"You guys are really ...... Ignorant! Only I could feel the tremendous pressure coming from Old K, and I thought I had gained the heart of a knight, and even if I couldn't defeat Old K, I could catch up with him. But...... The gap between us is even bigger, and most of his attention just now is on me, and I can't even move a finger! Looking at his slightly trembling hands, Roland covered his face in pain.

Joseph and the others were shocked, Qin Long and Roland were the strongest in their team, but compared to Qin Long, Roland, a preparatory Templar who had been trained by the Holy See since he was a child, grew up faster, and was the first among them to comprehend the heart of a knight, and also had the most self-comprehension skills.

In the usual mutual competition, Roland can break through MT Chen Hao head-on and completely suppress Qin Long, to defeat him, at least two people in the team need to join forces. Joseph thinks that Roland has almost reached the level of Xu Mo in the King of Fighters world.

"Then there is only one possibility, I'm afraid Lao K has already completed the transfer!" Joseph said with a wry smile.

In the entire team, he, Roland, Qin Long, and Rose all received personal tasks, but only Roland has completed the second step of personal tasks and is in the stage of transferring tasks, but there are at least three conditions that do not meet the standard.

"How is this possible, except for the fourth and sixth tasks, the other four tasks are extremely difficult, and Roland has completed the first and second items because he has been trained by the Holy See since he was a child, and the others ......" Rose whispered in horror.

(The conditions for the transfer mission are detailed in Chapter 57 of The King of Fighters, and will not be repeated here)

"Lao K's affairs will be put aside, let's control that Carthaginian prisoner of war ship, we can't leave here, it's useless to say anything!" Joseph looked at the situation in the harbor and his eyes flashed, "Perhaps, we still have a chance to leave the old K to the Romans to solve, his plan this time is not very clever......"

He's the old K! Chen Hao, who had been silent all along, flashed a trace of confusion in his eyes, then shook his head and followed Joseph.

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"BOSS, why do you want to spare Joseph and give him control of a slave ship?" Dinah, who followed Xu Mo to the deck, asked a little puzzled.

"It's not that I want to give him control of a ship, it's that our manpower is scattered and we can't restrain them at all. Joseph would not sit still, he would control a ship himself, and with their men, he could do it. Xu Mo shook his head, "It was my negligence, although I saw that this task was a competitive mission, but I didn't expect that the competitors were part of the prisoners of war." ”

"There is no way to prevent this kind of thing, BOSS, you don't have to blame yourself!" Dinah whispered comfortingly.

"When, when, when!" A loud alarm bell suddenly sounded in the harbor, and in the silent night, the bell quickly passed into the distance, and the actions of Xu Mo and the others were discovered by the Romans.

"Hehe, it seems that Lagerseus and they were discovered by the Romans!" Dinah said lightly.

After Lagseus rescued Cabal, the two were responsible for leading a group of rescued Carthaginian prisoners of war to burn a Roman battleship, and Eumes led the Spartan prisoners of war to take charge of the last one. After becoming a one-eyed dragon, Chisionis, who had better eyesight, was in charge of monitoring the situation in the Roman military camp.

There were more soldiers guarding the Roman battleship, and after such a long time, it was not surprising that the raid battleship by Lagertius and others was discovered by the Roman guards, and it had long been expected by Xu Mo and others. In fact, in the process of rescuing the three slave ships, a lot of time has been won without being discovered, and it can be said that the early operation is perfect.

This is also a symbol of these gladiators after many battles, from individual martial arts gladiators to qualified warriors, but unfortunately their number is too small, if there are three or four hundred more, Xu Mo is not impossible to try to grab the battleship first, and then storm the Roman barracks.

"Serna, Max, how's your situation going over there?" After Joseph and the others went out, Xu Mo, who was on the deck of the ship with his eyes closed, estimated the time and opened his eyes suddenly.

“OK,OK!” The two quickly replied.

"Then follow the backup plan and do it!" Xu Mo said coldly.

"What?" The two were stunned for a moment, and now that the original plan was going well, the two thought that they didn't need a backup plan.

"After the move, you and the Spartan regiment will return immediately, and we will prepare to set sail!" Xu Mo's face twitched slightly, and the appearance of Joseph and the others forced him to use the backup plan. Joseph was too clever to be aware of the flaws in this hastily planned operation. Although I bought a lot of time for the smooth operation in the early stage, if I were Joseph, then I would definitely ......

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"Hey!" Cabal exhaled, and the short sword in his hand slashed through his opponent's throat, nearly cutting half of the Roman soldier's neck. Blood splattered across his face.

Wiping his face, sticking out his tongue and licking the blood on his lips, feeling the strong stimulation of the smell of blood on his taste buds, it was as if a flame was burning in Kabal's heart. After he returned to Sicily and saw his fellow Carthaginians captured by the Romans, the most distant memories he had buried in the depths of his heart began to revival.

Cabal had thought that the memories of his childhood were gone, but when he was tied to a stake and in a semi-comatose state, he saw his parents again. The two vague and kind faces appeared unusually clearly in front of his eyes.

At that moment, Cabal's hatred of the Romans reached its peak, and he finally understood his deep-seated desires. He didn't want to go back to his Sicilian homeland and start a new life, but he had no place to go that early in the evening, when the Romans burned down their house and killed his parents.

He just wants to use the land left in his memory to evoke distant memories, hoping that he can recall the kind faces of his parents and the good times he spent with his parents and loved ones in his childhood.

However, when he really remembered the faces of his parents and relatives, he found that he did not have the slightest joy, only a strong hatred that could not be erased. For a moment, he wanted to burn a fire all over his body and pounce on the Romans, and only the pain of the flesh and the screams of the enemy could alleviate the pain in his heart a little.

"Die!" Cabal raised his dagger high and slashed at the head of a Roman soldier, splitting the iron helmet in half along with the head underneath it.

"Ahh Cabal threw away the broken sword in his hand, picked up the Roman soldier's spear, and lunged at the Roman soldier who was constantly retreating in front of him, stabbing the two Roman soldiers into skewers.

"Lord Cabal, look at our ship!" Suddenly, a rescued Carthaginian warrior pointed to a merchant ship behind a Roman battleship and shouted in alarm.

"Huh!" As if a basin of cold water had been poured on his burning mind, Cabal quickly took a look at the situation around the harbor, and immediately roared, "What's the matter with that slave ship, why have the Romans already set sail before they have even come?" ”

"Master Cabal, let's withdraw, you see, the brothers have disembarked!" The Carthaginian warrior grabbed Kabal.

"But ......" Cabal looked at the Roman soldiers in front of him, who were less than ten people left, a little hesitant, he hadn't finished Xu Mo's order, the Roman warship hadn't been burned yet.

"Cabal, the Romans are coming!" From below the battleship came the voice of Chisonis.

"Let's withdraw!" Cabal stamped his foot reluctantly, and reason finally triumphed over anger.

On the other side, Lagatius, who led the Carthaginian prisoners of war, also encountered the same thing, but the Carthaginian prisoners of war who attacked another Roman ship on his side retreated faster, and no one even told him.

When Lagerseus killed the Roman soldiers in front of him, he found that he had no companions around him, and was surrounded by more than a dozen Roman soldiers. If it weren't for his strength, I'm afraid he would have died on that Roman battleship.

"Kabal, you Carthaginians are all cowards, cowards!" On the way, Lagerseus ran into Kabal, grabbed Kabal, and yelled at him, "We have no time to burn the ship, just a little, that, you know? ”

"You fart! Something must have happened to them! Cabal blushed, defending his countryman.

"Look, Eumes has got it!" Chisionis excitedly pointed to the last Roman battleship, only to see that the fire on the battleship was blazing, and the whole harbor was illuminated red.

"Hurry up, the Romans are behind!" With a group of Spartan warriors, Omus, who came from afar, shouted.

"Only one was burned!" Xu Mo, who had climbed onto the mast of the merchant ship and observed the battle situation in the entire harbor, sighed, and then looked back at the merchant ship that had sailed ahead of schedule and caused Cabal and Lagertius to fall short.

"Joseph, you did it anyway!" Xu Mo's eyes were cold.