Sheila Yuzas is probably one of the few generals to have served in both the Shadow Legion and the Immortal Legion.

He was originally the lieutenant general of the Shadow Legion.

After Emperor Marius established the Legion of the Immortals, he served as the lieutenant general of the Legion of the Immortals, the first intermediary between Emperor Marius and the Legion of Shadows.

Marius had trusted him, and in fact, General Agathon was only Sheila's successor.

Unlike Agathon, Sheila Yuzas is actually a native of southern Pande.

However, his family defected to the empire when General Osa founded New Bacchus, and was a military family of Bacchus, so Sheila was also considered a famous family and was regarded as a member of the Bacchus.

As a result, Sheila has always referred to herself as a Bacchus - even if his ancestors don't have any Bacchus blood, he still insists on it.

He had always kept a large number of slaves in his family, and during his tenure he continued to kill enemies to collect booty and slaves, and it seemed that his thirst for wealth never ended.

This kind of behavior is actually quite normal in Bacchus, and it is not a big problem, at least it is not like Livius who bullies men and women and mutilates civilians, and it is a good thing for the emperor to have a problem with greed for money.

It is precisely because he is both from Pander and a nobleman of the Bacchus Empire that Marius gave him such an important task - both the Shadow Legion and the Immortal Legion will consider Sheila to be their own, and such a person will actually help ease the antagonism between the two peoples.

And Sheila did serve the empire conscientiously in the first half of her life.

Whether facing the Duchy of Dexia or the Lion Kingdom, he has killed countless enemies in his twenty-year career as a horseman, and has made great achievements for the empire.

Although he was mostly a lieutenant general and therefore not well-known abroad, he was undoubtedly one of the most important commanders of the empire as the lieutenant general of the two core legions.

And within the Empire, everyone knows that he is a real Imperial Warrior, the best general in the entire Bacchus!

Probably the only flaw is that he is too greedy for money - he is extremely ruthless in order to plunder the spoils of war, and sometimes causes massacres in enemy countries......

However, treating the enemy as an enemy and taking spoils from the enemy is not a disadvantage of a general.

Originally, he was able to retire as a top general and leave his portrait forever in the palace corridors of the Bacchus Empire.

But no one expected that he would suddenly lead an army to rebel after Emperor Marius vigorously promoted the reform policy!

It wasn't until he launched a rebellion that everyone knew that Sheila's previous massacre was probably not because she regarded the enemy as an enemy......

Purely because of his cruelty and thirst for killing.

And his so-called "greed for money", constantly gaining booty, is just a by-product of the killing he loves.

Yes, Sheila is not greedy for money, he keeps making money not for his own enjoyment, but to gain the approval of the Shadow Legion and launch his big plan to "return to the Osa era"!

Sheila Juzas did not support Emperor Marius's reforms.

Or rather, he was extremely opposed to Marius's reforms......

It stands to reason that most of the Pande's natives would support Marius's reforms.

But Sheila Yuzas is different, she insists that he is part of the Bacchus nation.

This probably means that I can't stand up after kneeling for a long time, and it's similar to some people who still have pigtails in their thoughts, and they always feel that the foreign adults are superior.

And Marius's reforms, in the eyes of Sheila Juzas, were a betrayal of the Bacchus!

Or rather, a betrayal of a native military family like him......

It took his family more than a hundred years to abandon Pande's relatives, endure the infamy of traitors, endure the oppression and ridicule of the Bacchus, and pay countless prices to make the Bacchus regard him as his own kind.

He went from a Pande to a Bacchus, and was finally accepted into the Shadow Legion by the Bacchus in his generation, and became a general through the efforts of the first half of his life.

At this time, the Yuzas family finally became a human being, a member of the highest class!

But the first rule of Emperor Marius's reform was to treat the Pande and the Bacchus equally...... No one has been on the throne since then?!

Sheila Yuzas felt that this was tantamount to turning half of his life's efforts, and the humiliation and dedication that his family had endured for a hundred years, into a joke......

He could not accept such a policy......

He believed that under the reforms of Emperor Marius, the empire had gone off the rails!

In Sheila's view, Emperor Marius is not worthy of sitting on the throne of the empire, and he will overthrow the puppet emperor Marius, lead the empire to set things right, and return to the Osa era!

As a result, Sheila Juzas broke away from the Bacchus Empire and became an independent armed force.

He distributed most of the money and slaves he had obtained to his cronies who had been in the Emperor's ranks for many years, and got many officers to support him in the manner of General Ossa, who stated that he would enforce the civil law, and the "military law" based on military ranks......

It's just that his so-called "military law" of "returning to the Osa era" is not very complete.

Because there is no people in his structure.

He intends to let everything be managed by the military system, and the pyramid is built with the military system.

Slaves, Pande soldiers, Bacchus soldiers, Pande officers, Bacchus officers, generals - the Bacchus people are above the Pandes, and the generals are at the top of the pyramid.

Authority is determined by class, and there is no other means of governance, slaves below the soldiers, and no civilian class—a structure that is not even a warlord government, and a far cry from the empire built by Ossa.

And in Sheila's logic, starting with the soldiers, the upper class can own everything in their territory, and the rank can be hereditary.

This is probably a combination of warlord thinking, feudal logic, and nationalism, and it may seem like no big problem, but if it is actually implemented, it is probably no different from the Cathones......

Oh, and it's a bit different, the Cato don't actually think that their own people are nobler than the others, but Sheila, a native of Pande, insists that the Bacchus people are inherently superior to the others......

However, Sheila Youzas's two-devil logic does have a market in Bacchus.

Due to Bacchus' strict military regulations, legionnaires were paid less for their service, and they had to serve for sixteen years, after which they could only become tribunes and other officials at best, not hereditary nobles.

In particular, the soldiers of the Immortal Legion, although nominally the Emperor's own army, did not gain any additional benefits under Emperor Marius, who would strictly enforce his own reform policies.

Therefore, many Imperial soldiers, especially some elite and middle-level officers who have served for many years, do have illusions about Sheila Youzas's logic.

Those who came out of the commoners for policy reasons were given opportunities that they would never have had in their lifetime, but when they turned over, they were actually more eager to become oppressors than the traditional aristocracy, and they would be more greedy......

Human nature has been like this since ancient times.

And the traditional nobles, that is, the people of the Shadow Legion, felt that Sheila's idea was actually in line with their original traditions......

Especially the Shadow Centurions, who suffered losses as a result of the military reform.

Therefore, when Sheila announced her departure from the Bacchus Empire, there were indeed many people who followed him, and basically all of them were veterans or officers who had served for many years.

But in fact, Sheila Yuzas did not raise the flag of rebellion in the first place, maybe he was not good at governing the country, but he was definitely not a fool, he knew that direct rebellion would definitely be a dead end - he just declared that he would retire with the veterans and leave the empire and become a free man.

Emperor Marius did not initially consider them rebels, but only allowed them to leave their nationality and expelled them from the territory of Bacchus.

After all, these warriors had made a lot of achievements for the country, and they didn't make trouble in the country at that time, but they didn't want to be citizens of the empire anymore, and there was no reason to directly exterminate them.

Marius was pushing for reforms at the time, if

Therefore, a big fight will make the old school attack him because of it.

As a result, this hidden danger gradually grew into a cancer.

Instigated by the Senate of the Bacchus Empire, Augustus, a rebel leader who had been lurking in the Empire, approached Sheila Yuzas.

In fact, Augustus was the emperor elected by the Senate of the Bacchus Empire twenty years ago, but in the end, Marius used some "small means" to make the Senate change its mind, and Augustus became a rebel.

Augustus himself was a politician and did not have the ability to lead the army, so he had to hide all the time.

But Sheila Yuzas was a battle-hardened general.

So, the two sides joined forces and began their journey - Augustus "defected" to Sheila Yuzas, and they planned to join forces to capture Siyuan City, and in one fell swoop, change the day and implement Sheila's warlord ideals.

But at first the situation was not very good, because it was the battle-experienced Marshal Kairos who was ordered to destroy them......

The rebels were chased everywhere, and they did not dare to fight a frontal war at all, let alone conquer anything......

Sheila Youzas was lucky, though.

Not long ago, he unexpectedly received a large amount of funding from the Lion Kingdom - countless dinars and food, as well as a lot of equipment!

As a result, many of the grass on the wall, who were still waiting, defected to this rebel army after Sheila smashed a large number of dinars.

Among them were hundreds of centurions of the Shadow Legion, who had lost their authority to lead the peasant army under Marius's new policy.

It also includes six hundred Immortals, the Legion of the Immortals that Emperor Marius put a lot of effort to build, and nearly a third of them are under his command!

There were even three hundred Imperial Knights, who were only cavalry members of the First Imperial Legion after Emperor Marius' reforms, and were not truly aristocratic knights.

This rebel army quickly grew into a considerable size, and this was a temporary rebellion......

Sheila Youzas's own ability to command battles is indeed very strong, and he led the rebels to take Keros by surprise - and Keros didn't expect his Shadow Centurion to suddenly defect!

Thanks to this fortuitous funding from the Lion Kingdom, the rebels won several incredible victories in a row, even reaching a position less than thirty miles away from Siyuan City!

In fact, even a temporary victory for Sheila Yuzas's rebels would not be enough to break the Empire's bones.

King Ulrik supplied him with money and food, just to prevent the Bacchus Empire from taking advantage of the internal turmoil in the Lion Kingdom to launch an attack.

However, in the territory of Bacchus, a huge storm was set off because of this rebellion.

While Sheila Yuzas's rebels attacked, a group of gladiators took advantage of the rebels' attack to launch a slave revolt in the Royal Colosseum of Siyuan City.

While most of the defenders of Siyuan City were busy with garrisons and quelling the rebellion, the gladiators broke the shackles and rushed out of the city.

The Royal Gladiatorial Arena in Siyuan City is the highest level of slave arena in the entire Bacchus, and all the fighters who can compete here are naturally highly skilled, and when these gladiators are freed, the combat effectiveness they show is quite terrifying......

This gladiator team conquered seven or eight villages and towns in a row in just half a month, from Siyuan City all the way to Bozhi City.

The gladiators continued to liberate all kinds of slaves in the territory of Bacchus, and constantly expanded their ranks, and finally formed a terrifying scale of nearly 10,000 people under the city of Knowledge!

Although they lacked food and clothing, and most of them did not have any reliable equipment, their numbers alone were enough to make all the lords of the entire empire helpless.

The fame of this slave rebel army, led by gladiators, even spread to the Lion Realm in a short period of time.

At the same time, due to the large-scale rebellion of the rebels and slave rebels, the Serpentarians in the territory of Bacchus also began to revolt everywhere.

The entire southeastern part of the Bacchus Empire was littered with Serpent Cult armies, and countless villages were destroyed.

Since the governor of Kairos was leading his army to exterminate the rebels and could not return to the division to resist, the Emperor Lingang was subjected to a large number of snakes

The shock of the cultists.

Most of the surrounding lords fled in despair, and there were not a few *** dignitaries who were forced to attach themselves to the Snake Worship Sect.

The port of Emperor Lingang is now crumbling, and it is said that civilians and serfs spontaneously organized troops to put up a difficult resistance.

As a hub between the three core cities of Siyuan City, Bozhi City, and Dilingang, Marasburg has even been captured by the Snake Worship Sect.

Almost the entire Bacchus Empire was at war, and there was no normal communication between several major cities.

In this case, not to mention anything to deal with the Lion Kingdom, it will be a problem for the Bacchus Empire to protect itself......

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Siyuan City.

Emperor Marius stands in front of the map in military uniform.

This is the palace hall, but the current layout is more like a military headquarters.

"Where is Kyros now? There's no reason why he can't send back the message, right? Sheila Yuzas's rebels are not enough to defeat him completely......

Emperor Marius looked at the map and asked General Agathon beside him without turning his head.

"When I received your order, Marshal Kairos was in the village of Fenrad with the main force of the Shadow Legion. Your Majesty, Marshal Kairos probably did not dare to send you a detailed military report...... There are many traitors in the Shadow Legion! Sheila Yuzas always knows the movements of the Imperial armies first!"

General Agathon frowned tightly, looking much more anxious than Emperor Marius.

"Ugh...... It's not just the Shadow Legion that has produced traitors, but the Immortal Legion has also produced many traitors, and the number of Immortals who have joined the rebel army is far beyond my imagination......

Emperor Marius said a little helplessly, but he did not show the slightest frustration: "Agathon, the situation is urgent, you must immediately go and recover Marasbourg, which is the hub between Siyuan City and Emperor Lingang and Bozhi City, and you can't afford to lose ......

Located between the three core cities of the Bacchus Empire, Marasburg is indeed an extremely important connecting hub.

Emperor Marius's gaze has also been wandering around Marasburg on the map.

"But...... Your Majesty, Fort Olega has fallen, and the rebels and the Serpent Cult heretics may attack Siyuan City from both sides, if I leave with the army at this time, you ......

Agathon looked rather uneasy.

"I'm sure Kairos will kill the rebels. As for the Serpent Cult of Fort Olega, I have recalled Titus...... I'm more worried about Dilingang than Siyuan City."

Emperor Marius pointed to the location of God's Harbor on the map: "The snake worshippers who rebelled this time are not simple believers, they have a strict organization and military order, and they have formed a real army! This is not just the Serpent Cultists in the Empire, their army actually came from the sea, from the continent of Amara!"

Agathon's eyes widened: "Your Majesty! If that's the case...... I'm afraid that the emperor will ...... in the harbor."

"It's because you have lost contact with the Imperial Harbor, so you must control the surroundings of Marasburg and then ensure the safety of the Imperial Harbor! I'll go into battle in person here in Siyuan City......

Emperor Marius nodded and patted Agathon on the shoulder: "You go now, don't worry about Siyuan City!"

"Yes!"

Agathon was ordered to leave, confident in Emperor Marius's judgment.

Marlo looked at the map again, turned around and poured a glass of wine from a metal wine cup on the table, "Is it okay with Justes?"

"I can't contact the city of Hiroshi at the moment, but if nothing else, my father should be able to convince the slave rebels...... If it's just that all of them are recruited, the food in Bozhi City may not be enough."

A young girl stepped out from behind the side screen: "Your Majesty, why don't you let Brutus take the gladiators to deal with the rebels of Sheila Yuzas? That's what you thought in the first place, didn't you?"

The girl looked quite young, but she seemed very calm and bookish.

"Luciana, I didn't expect Sheila Yuzas to be able to move so many troops to rebel...... I know that many of the Shadow Legion's centurions might defect, but I really didn't expect even my immortals

The Legion also had so many elites who had taken refuge in him. Now the rebels are too close to send officers to guide them. The army of slaves raised by Brutus is too large, and it may not be easy to drive them smoothly now, so it is better to recruit them quickly to avoid even greater chaos......

Emperor Marius was quite patient with the young girl, and treated her as if he were a friend—as he had been with Justus, and even more kindly.

"Your Majesty, my current name is Alina...... Actually, the gladiators were quite cooperative, and Brutus was still their leader, so I thought he could try it......

The girl corrected Emperor Marius's address to her, and it seemed that Marius did not regard Marius as an emperor at all, but more like a close elder.

"Alina, child, you haven't really dealt with gladiators - they will only obey those who can outdo them in combat, and Brutus will have a hard time getting them all to be completely obedient......

Marius shook his head and changed his name, explaining like an elder teaching a child.

"That's really only a good way to recruit in advance, I still haven't thought it through enough......

Alina sighed as she spoke, "The chaos in the empire can be said to have been caused by me...... I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I didn't expect this to be the case."

"Alina...... It's not your fault, there's nothing wrong with your plan. Using Sheila Yuzas's rebels to drive the gladiators to launch a slave revolt, this would have been a good plan to promote the reform of slavery in one fell swoop...... But no one expected that the Snake Worship Church on the Amara continent would suddenly make an expedition across the sea......

Emperor Marius drank the wine from his glass in one gulp and sighed, "I hope there won't be any bad news from the north."

"The Lion Kingdom is too busy to take care of itself, so it won't be ...... However, Your Majesty, it seems that the Noldor Elves are cooperating with the Baron Leon of the Lion Kingdom, and the Viper Force lurking there has sent back a message that the Noldor Elves are following Leon to fight the Gatu."

Alina lowered her head and looked at a pamphlet in her hand.

"Whew...... That's probably good news, at least that guy won't be messing around...... That Leon can control the Noldor elf, which seems to be very unusual indeed. By the way, Alina, I heard that Baron Leon is not married yet......

Emperor Marius looked back at Alina, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"I'm only interested in the hero that Madigan once prophesied...... Your Majesty."

Alina shook her head expressionlessly.

"That's what you say...... How many times have you said it since you were sixteen years old? You can't stay unmarried, Alina, you'll be twenty next month."

Emperor Marius also shook his head and smiled, "Or are you going to stay with me as an intelligence officer?" Justes will definitely complain about my ......"

「…… The latest age of marriage for women restricted by your decree is twenty-eight years, Your Majesty. Moreover, it's not that I don't want to get married, those men don't dare to propose to me, what can I do...... Instead of worrying about my wedding cigarettes, you should worry about the situation in the country......

Alina pouted and retreated behind the screen.

"Ha, you can't be pessimistic at any time...... As long as Agathon clears the enemy near Marasburg, everything will be solved. Titus had also contacted the Ashmen...... Alina, this chaos is not a bad thing, the empire will get rid of all Shen Ke in one fell swoop! Bacchus will be reborn from the ashes, and he will become immensely powerful!"

Emperor Marius poured himself another glass of wine, drank it in one gulp, and then picked up his sword and left the hall.

A bright red liquid slowly flowed from the metal wine glass, which looked like blood.