Barnabas remembered that the Adrestia's mission was not to take out the Athenian ships on behalf of the Spartans.

Their purpose was to land at Megaris.

In the distance, two Athenian ships that shot a rain of arrows were still swimming like sharks, and they probably didn't even see what had been done by a wave of javelins.

This thus gave the Adrestia plenty of time to turn.

"Turn! Pull it up! Let's sink this mess! ”

Barnabas communicates loudly with the paddlers in the cabin.

"Don't let up! Hey, hey, hey, hey......" The oarsmen shouted excitedly, the oars on both sides going back and forth, and the syllables coming out of their mouths became faster and faster.

The repetitive syllables spurred the oarsmen to paddle, and the speed of the Adrestia became more and more impressive.

Kassandra and Lanen's eyes widened as the brass crashed toward the hull of the Athenian warship, which had been severely attritional, for their first battle and first win at sea.

And the Athenians on that ship were shocked.

"Stand firm!" Barnabas roared.

The wood that made up the hull of the warship cracked like an explosion! The Adrestia trembled violently, and after this tremor, it went straight through the screaming movement, splitting the Athenian ship in two like an open door.

The mainmast fell, and the crew clinged to the wooden mast for their lives. These commotions come and go quickly.

It was only at this time that the two Athenian galleys in the distance reacted and urgently turned their bows to lean towards this side.

"They're not going to lean." Rann pulled Barnabas to his feet from under the guardrail of the command seat and calmly made a judgment. "We're too close to the shore for the Athenians to take such a risk for a small boat."

His cat's eyes swept across the white sands of Megaris.

On the beach, a group of Spartans were watching the situation on the sea menacingly.

They look like they've come out of a movie, wearing torso armor made of brass that depicts the lines of the abdominal and pectorals.

Compared to their enemy, Athens, the Spartans' armor was strong and fierce.

They wore Corinthian helmets with bright red feathers like horsehair on their heads. The shield on his hand was painted with the red Lambda symbol, which was a mark that resembled a red arrow.

There was already a slaughter going on on the beach, and the Athenian army and the Spartan army were fighting each other.

The Athenians on the ship sunk by the Adrestia are now drifting to the shore with the wreckage of the ship pushed by the waves, which can be regarded as an alternative form of 'reinforcement'.

And even in the face of the enemy's reinforcement, the Spartan soldiers did not say a word from beginning to end, just buried their heads in front of the prey, stabbed out spears only to penetrate the enemy's chest, and the blood sprayed out condensed into fog over the battlefield, and all that remained was the screams of the wounded.

On this battlefield, a young Spartan officer performed brilliantly. An elderly Spartan general, without a helmet and with half-gray hair, stood on a cliff not far from the beach, looking down on the battlefield.

That should be Sparta's Blood Wolf, Kassandra's father?

Lan En turned his head to look at the expression of the woman next to him, and found that she was looking at the old general on the cliff in distraction.

"It's your family business, I won't worry about it."

The witcher patted Kassandra on the shoulder and whispered.

"I'm going to enter the hinterland of Mergaris first, and if you need help with your mission, feel free to come to me."

Kassandra nodded silently, her gaze unmoving.

Lan raised his leg and was about to leave, but after taking two steps, he turned around and slipped out of Fauber, who had poked his head out of the cabin, and dragged him along.

"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing? I'm going to be with Kassandra! ”

The little girl cried out in discontent, but Lan's hand did not let go at all.

"I just knew you had to be with Kassandra to pull you away, that's her family business."

"But I'm also her family!"

Fauber retorted unconvinced, and Lane pointed to the old general on the cliff.

"Yes, you are her family, no one can deny that. But this whole thing is not that simple, he and Kassandra are also family, and in addition to family relationships, there is also enmity and bounty. Anyway, you'd better not get involved in this trouble. It's for the sake of your relationship with Kassandra. ”

There are some things that you can't mix indiscriminately, otherwise you may not even have friends to do.

Lane tried to tell Fauber that's the truth.

Fortunately, although Fauber doesn't understand and has a very independent personality, she is also very smart and persuasive.

If she doesn't understand the problem for the time being, she won't directly take a resistant attitude.

So she just turned her head and waved at Kassandra at Lane's tugging.

"Remember to come to us for help, Kassandra!"

"The main thing is to ask me for help, you don't have to worry about it."

Lan En complained calmly.

As the two of them walked away from the beach, they saw that the young officer, who had shown great courage in battle, had approached Kassandra and began to talk to the mercenary who had suddenly broken into the battlefield and helped.

It seems that because they sank an Athenian galley, these Spartans had a decent attitude, and at least they could communicate amicably.

As soon as you walk out of the beach, there is a road that is clearly manicured.

This was a symbol of prosperity in the early days of civilization.

It's good to have a trampled beast path in a remote area.

"And what are we going to do, Lanne?"

Fauber said as he bounced around the witcher, looking very cheerful.

In her eyes, Kassandra was a demigod who had tamed the bird of the gods, and there was nothing to worry about.

So she can now indulge in the feeling of adventure.

"We didn't enter the hinterland of Megaris first to play, Fauber. We're gathering intel and dealing with trouble in order to get the job done faster. ”

The two men walked in the land of Megaris, and under the steaming of the Aegean sun, the olive and lemon trees in the wild, and the unknown wildflowers gave off the fragrance.

"No matter what Kassandra was going to do to her father, she had to at least approach her alone. And to get a chance to be alone with the military commander-in-chief, it is certain to win the trust of the entire army. ”

Rann had not been involved in Kassandra's dealings with the young officer, but his education and his own critical thinking skills made it easy for him to guess what the conversation was about.

So in Fauber's unaware adoring eyes, Lan En continued with a natural expression.

"Sparta will make Kassandra do things for them, and will not be trusted until they have unquestionable merit."

"That's what I'm here for."

Fauber hurriedly interjected and added.

"It's 'us'!"

"Okay, let's do it, if you like it."

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