Volume 2 The Cry of the Outcasts Chapter 41 Caesar Who Became a God
There was a loud bang behind him, but Will didn't bother to look back.
Will believed in Choi Ming and had always believed in him.
Therefore, Will cannot live up to everything Choi has done for him.
With a group of Holy Assassins around him, Will went on a rampage in the garrison of the legendary legion "Senate Guards", and closed his eyes as he ran.
It wasn't because he couldn't bear to see the legionnaires killed because of his men, but because he suddenly opened the Pupil of Polya!
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There was darkness in front of him, countless gray points of light, surrounding Will, and he understood that these were the soul fires of the Holy Assassins.
Beyond those points of light were orange spots that symbolized the legionnaires......
Will didn't have time to look at the fading orange dots, he had been looking for the places where those orange dots were most dense......
There must be the senators who want to escape from Rome!
Soon, Will found where the Patriarchs were—it was due west of them.
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Will opened his eyes, and his face gradually became solemn, because he found that there was a powerful presence in that place...... It's so powerful that he can't ignore it.
Moreover, this powerful existence made him very familiar with ......
"Everyone's attention, hide your body, I'll go alone!"
Will coldly gave the order, and then a man ran towards the west.
Although most of the troops in the garrison were attracted by Cui Ming, the rest were also on their way to find Cui Ming.
But here, there are nearly 300 people guarding it.
These 300 people are elite......
Will's eyes narrowed slightly, of course he noticed something unusual about this group of people-they all possessed the strength of a warrior commander or above.
Worthy of the Senate, in order to protect its own safety, is it so desperate?
Looking behind them, hidden behind them was a group of panicked senators.
They seem to have discovered themselves early on, and followed their men.
Because these loyal soldiers, or loyal for money, have formed three lines.
Just like ordinary Roman soldiers, with the shields in their hands, they formed a formidable line of defense, waiting for Will's arrival.
It's just that they don't have the throwing spears that ordinary soldiers have, because they don't usually need them.
If it weren't for the protection of the elders behind them, these powerful warriors would often appear in the enemy's battle formations, rather than cowering and forming a defensive line.
Seeing this, Will's heart gradually relaxed, and he exhaled, it seems that behind this group of warriors, the guy who commanded them, seems to be a ...... Rookie!
"Venerable warriors, lay down your short swords and hand over the traitors behind you who are trying to assassinate His Majesty Caligula!" Will said in a sincere tone, standing thirty meters away from those men.
His voice was blessed with battle energy, and he didn't worry at all that they wouldn't hear him, and besides, he didn't want everyone to start fighting in the first place...... Why fight so hard when you can solve things that can be solved by conspiracy?
Will's sincere shouting did not impress the group of warriors who were loyal to the elders, on the contrary, they stared at Will coldly and did not say a word.
After realizing that his first attempt was fruitless, Will sighed...... It seems that the Senate has replaced all the royalists in the army.
And these people, I'm afraid they are the personal guards of the senators, right?
It's no wonder that if you really want to gather so many people, Caligula, who is already financially tight, may go crazy.
So......
Will took a deep breath again, looked at the group of soldiers who were still motionless, as if looking for their own flaws, or waiting for orders, and said sincerely: "Now that the situation is clear, hand them over, you and your family, there is still a chance to live." I know they must have promised you endless riches...... But what is the use of these riches if you die? Ravenna in the north of Rome has been conquered by my father, and the traitors who betrayed the pen of the noble Caligula have been hanged outside the gates, and the eastern and southern parts of Rome are also guarded by His Majesty the Emperor, and you cannot escape...... And the Grand Duke of Sicily will not condone the existence of those who betray His Majesty the Emperor, as for Sardinia...... You may not know that His Royal Highness Gaius Julius Caesar did not die, but he had become a legendary powerhouse, returning to the world in order to solve the plight of Rome!
When the word Caesar came out of Will's mouth, there was a confusion on the other side...... Although, the confusion was minor.
Will narrowed his eyes, it was clear that Caesar's influence in their minds could not be underestimated......
After the chaos was over, a fat man with a somewhat pale face dressed in a noble robe, under the protection of the soldiers, walked out.
When he saw Will, his legs shuddered, but he managed to stand up straight, and said loudly, "I'm Barry, the elder of the Senate, I don't agree with you, we're not a rebellion, we're just trying to save Rome from the tyrant of Caligula......!" I don't know who your father is, and don't try to deceive us! We're only evacuating Rome for a short time, and we'll be back with a big army!"
Barry's words were obviously a little pale, and his words were not enough to convince anyone.
But he just stepped up...... Will frowned...... Isn't it too easy to be the emperor of Rome?
Could it be that Caligula was defeated at the hands of this group?
Then he is too incompetent!
If Caesar knew Will's thoughts at the moment, he would probably agree with it very much, and by the way, Will's opinion would be even higher.
"Don't deceive them anymore, these soldiers are innocent!" Will continued to tell nonsense with his eyes open, as if he did not know that the soldiers he spoke of were the private army of the senators.
"Pompey also fled with his army and the Roman senators who were loyal to him, but what happened to him?
"But Caesar is dead! You're lying, warriors, kill him!" Barry was so excited that he said with a red face, how could Caesar be resurrected after being dead for so long?
"I have not deceived you, Venerable Augustus, His Highness Gaius Julius Caesar, has become a legendary powerhouse, and after the end of this rebellion, he will become the greatest guardian of Rome!" Will said in a very cold tone, but his eyelids jumped twice at the mention of Caesar......
"Yes, he did not deceive you, and here I am...... I returned to Rome...... He's not right, I'm not mortal anymore, but ...... God!"
Caesar appeared, he appeared in mid-air, he looked down at the group of soldiers who had become helpless after seeing him, smiled slightly, and said, "You are innocent, and the group of elders will be judged...... Who's for it, who's against?!"
Here, it became silent......
No one dared to speak out in front of Caesar...... Limon who belonged to the royalist faction did not dare, those powerful warriors did not dare, and neither did the senators who created the riot in Rome......
Some of them plucked up courage, they carefully raised their heads, and when they saw Caesar's appearance, they bowed their heads in horror......
Caesar's appearance, they, will not forget......
The largest currency of the Roman Empire was the gold Ore coin with the bust of Octavian, and the most widely used silver coin was the silver Pré coin with the head of Caesar!
They won't admit their mistakes......
The one who stood above everyone and appeared in mid-air was none other than Augustus, Gaius Julius Caesar, who was rumored to have lost his life in the Senate!
Seeing Caesar finally show up, Will swallowed......
He knew that the task given to him by his father had failed.
Fortunately, he didn't reveal too much information to his subordinates before, and he also issued a gag order......
All this should not allow Caesar to find out that he was deceived.
Himself, with his people, stumbled upon the forces of the Senate who were supposed to stay in the palace and escape into the Mediterranean Sea through the canal......
And Caesar must have encountered those standing legions that should have been dealt with by the Holy Family, right?
It's a pity...... Still a step slower......
If Caesar hadn't appeared here, then, relying on Will's own strength, coupled with the elites sent by his father Richard to follow him, it should be easy to tear this seemingly impregnable defense line apart, but it's a pity......
"No, you're not Caesar, you're not!"
Just as Will was thinking, a panicked voice suddenly came from across from him.
Without looking up, Will knew that it was the fat senator, Barry......
It's really pathetic...... He should have been scared crazy......
Will shook his head inwardly, if he and his father hadn't arrived from the north, Caesar would have easily made this group of conspirators who thought they could control Rome after dealing with the emperor of the empire pay their due price.
After all, Caesar was a legendary powerhouse...... Moreover, the legendary legions of the empire are not as good as before......
Will raised his head and looked at Barry with pity, who was already mad, and he pointed to Caesar, who was like a god of war in mid-air, and shouted frantically, "You are not him...... Caesar had died in the Senate, having long paid the price for the death of His Excellency Pompey...... This must be the devil's trick, it must be!"
Devil...... Is it?
Will shook his head helplessly, he had heard this statement...... The devil is the definition that the new gods have given to him what he considers to be the forces behind the pagans.
In this way, it seems that there is no need to guess who planned this riot.
However, Will didn't expect that the belief in the new gods would actually penetrate into the upper echelons of Rome - look at the patriarch named Barry, who was not in awe of Caesar's great strength at all!
Is it because he knows about his death and doesn't want to believe what is in front of him...... Still is...... The power of faith?
Will thinks the latter is more likely......
As my father said, the new god is dangerous, and he is trying to use fanatical faith to control the world.
This belief is different from that of other gods, and although the other gods are not very good at dealing with their followers, they do not tie ordinary people who believe in each other to be burned at the stake!
Pompeo ...... He's my friend...... We just take different positions. After hearing Pompey's name, Caesar had a rare trace of trance in his eyes, and in this moment, he seemed to return to the era of the "Triumvirate" in Rome......
At that time, Caesar and Pompey were staunch allies.
Although Pompey was bloated, he loved poetry, was happy and capable of leading the crowd...... Pompey brought no less benefit to Rome than Caesar himself......
Unfortunately, the two ended up choosing different paths.
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Caesar chose to lock the high-ranking and stupid senators in the Senate forever for the sake of the plebeians (until Caligula released them again), after which Rome needed to devolve power to the plebeians (although his successor Octavian, and later Tiberius, continued to strengthen the imperial power and promote their own people, while fighting with the Senate, they also blocked the opportunities for the plebeians to participate in politics).
Pompey, on the other hand, believed that the people needed the leadership of wise leaders, such as himself, Caesar, and Crassus......
But they all had the same enemy - the Roman Senate......
And the existence of the Triumvirate was established to contain the Senate...... It's a pity...... In the end, Pompey still fell to the Senate, only because of the orders of the gods......
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Caesar landed on the ground, gave Will a faint look, and walked over to Barry.
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When Will was watched by Caesar, although he was silent on the surface, his heart had begun to beat uncontrollably!
Because, he found that the power that occasionally leaked out of Caesar's body was essentially the same as the projection of the new god he had seen under the library of Rome before!
Caesar, is he a god?
......
Before Caesar came to Barry, Barry was still standing, his legs shaking, but he still wouldn't go back.
But the warriors who had been standing behind Barry threw their daggers on the ground, then took a few steps back, and respectfully knelt down on one knee towards Caesar—none of them had any luck after seeing Caesar.
"Your God, teach you well!"
Caesar grabbed Barry's chin with one hand, which made Barry feel bad.
"But what you have done betrayed Rome!"
Caesar jerked his finger into Barry's throat, and then casually tossed aside the corpse that had just begun to struggle in his hand......
Barry, death!, Will, who witnessed all this, lowered his head...... He remembered a legend he had read in some books about the gods.
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The faith that the god absorbs from the believer will be fed back in himself......
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Although Will did not know how Caesar became a god, this can be seen in his current reaction.
If I'm not mistaken, Caesar should have become a god on the battlefield, right?
The violent and fleshy divine power in his body should have been absorbed from those believers, and those believers should be the soldiers of the legendary legion "Augustus" commanded by him, right?
Caesar looked at the trembling warriors in front of him, and said coldly: "You guys, do you want to do it yourself, or let me come?
Hearing Caesar's words, none of the soldiers who were loyal to the Senate dared to raise up the mind of rebellion...... Will even saw a few people who were simply frightened to the ground because of Caesar's simple words, and foamed at the mouth.
This is not difficult to explain, after all, the gods are out of reach......
Whether it is from ancient mythology, or Caesar who is now in front of him...... All of them are incomparable to mortals......
The gods are free to rain calamities on the earth, to declare a person's sins at will, to ...... at will Decide the life and death of many.
And more than a hundred years later, Caesar is not dead, on the contrary, he still looks so young, isn't this something that only gods can do?
Add to that the strength he has shown and his impressive track record......
It's not hard to understand...... It's really not hard to understand......
Will remained silent, intending to tell his father what was happening...... The strategy against Rome in the future should really change......
What would Caesar think if he knew that Will and his father Richard had deceived him and were the real culprits of this rebellion in Rome?!
And when the time comes, what kind of status will the Holy Clan be placed in?!
Will didn't dare to think about it, and now, he could only endure and continue to endure it......
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Just as everyone was frightened by Caesar's words, a cowering figure was fleeing from the rear with a few men who were following him.
When Caesar saw it, he frowned, but with a single hand, he shook it out of thin air, and that person turned into a cloud of blood mist!
"Ah, it's Lord Sipre...... He, he wants to run away ......"
"Is this, the means of the gods?"
"Forgive us, Venerable Augustus, we have been deceived by the senators!"
The warriors were completely devastated when they saw Caesar like a god casually pinch and blast another senator who wanted to escape in the distance, Sipp.
That kind of death is really scary!
"Let me let you go? ”
Caesar shook his head, and then, with a cold gaze, he glanced at everyone in front of him.
"You have betrayed the Empire and have become enemies of the Empire!"
"In the service of the greedy maggots of the Senate, you should think of the time to die!"
"But that's not enough...... Let me show you a little more cruel ......"
A cruel smile appeared on Caesar's lips, and he stretched out his right hand flat, aimed at the place where Sipp was dead, and pulled back.
A screaming and howling sound that almost pierced everyone's eardrums instantly filled the entire battlefield.
Everyone covered their ears in pain, and when they came back to their senses and looked at Caesar, they found that he was carrying a transparent humanoid mist in his hand......
But it's not hard to recognize...... That's the chypre ......
The warriors, as well as Will standing behind Caesar, saw Sipp's transparent, desperate face!
"Legend has it that after death, a person's body becomes twenty-one grams lighter...... These twenty-one grams, as some romantic poets say, are the weight of the soul......"
Caesar spoke slowly, though what he was saying, and the increasingly cruel expression on his face, was very contradictory......
"After death, the soul of a person will be thrown into the river Styx by the god Pluto (corresponding to Hades, the king of Hades in Greek mythology), and if there is a sin, it will sink to the bottom of the river, and the innocent will go to the ...... of rebirth in the ship of the underworld."
As Caesar said this, a flame suddenly appeared in his right hand...... A golden flame......
The temperature of the flame made Will, who was far away, feel a burst of heat......
The void around Caesar's right hand was distorted......
Will closed his eyes, he knew that this was a divine flame that only gods possessed, and the divine flame symbolized the strength of a god!
Just as the Greek god Prometheus stole fire for mortals, flames are no less important to the gods than ordinary humans!
Obviously, as a new god, Caesar was more powerful than the so-called gods of the small countries around Rome......
Will had witnessed a god disciplining his followers, the flames, the little pitiful......
Compared to Caesar, the god who only had thousands of faithful believers was really not enough......
Thinking of this, Will was shocked......
Silver coins of the Roman Empire...... I see!
"When I was the dictator for life of Rome, I wondered what would happen if the soul of man disappeared before it entered the River Styx?"
Caesar suddenly threw the soul of Sipp in his left hand into the divine flame burning in the palm of his right hand.
"Uh...... Ahh......h Ahh
Sipp's soul screamed in the flames, and the transparent mist-like figure was burning rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye...... It's like a piece of paper that has accidentally been ignited!
Soon, Sipp's soul burned out.
However, his mournful wail still seemed to echo in everyone's ears.
In the eyes of these warriors loyal to the Senate...... The image of Caesar gradually became frightened......
They trembled and tried to retreat, and a few of them even broke down and tried to flee, but they didn't take two steps before Caesar was executed in the same way in front of everyone!
Caesar extinguished the flame in his hand without finishing it, as if Sippe's howl just now was rare for him...... Delicious!
Caesar then looked at the warriors in front of him who were loyal to the Senate......
"Tell me, how are you going to die? Do you simply kill yourself so as not to dirty my hands, or do you want me to kill you myself, and annihilate your souls by the way?"