Chapter 29 Revenge
◎ "Yeah~ what's going on~~"◎
Snap, snap, snap.
Melia bit her nails and walked around, and the room was filled with the sound of slippers stomping on the floor.
"Okay, stop turning. It makes me dizzy. Don't worry about what cards Sura plays. The priest is on your side now." Elena reached out and grabbed her wrist, pulling her to the bed.
"Ha... I know."
Melia covered her head and suppressed her resentment: I was almost there, almost able to go back, but I had to be intercepted by Sura and the annoying prince halfway!
It's not hard to guess what they're thinking: they've already offended Muala's heir, and since they can't take advantage of her stupidity, they have no choice but to eliminate her physically.
The temple follows rules and regulations, and she can use the rules to her advantage, and so can Sura.
"Hmm~ What should I do?"
Melia fell onto the quilt and rolled around. Elena grabbed her ankle and said, "Don't roll over here. Did I waste my dinner just now?"
"without……"
The two of them lay side by side on the bed, and the room fell silent.
Half an hour ago, they dined with the high priest and priests as divinely favored. Elena's divine favor stemmed from the Third Princess Ophelia: Caesar's legion had temporarily lost contact, and someone unlucky enough had to be pushed out to take the blame.
Ophelia was also a popular heir. If she had acted a little later, someone would definitely have proposed in parliament that "Her Highness Ophelia, who is deeply blessed by the gods" be sent to the front line.
The high priest apologized to Melia implicitly, saying that he knew nothing about Sulla's conspiracy and had no intention of participating in it.
He was willing to provide some help, such as refuting the second prince's suggestion about the "flag-bearing goddess".
"By the way, Elena, what does 'Flag-Bearing Goddess' mean?" Melia tugged at the blanket and quietly slid onto the pillow. Just as she had taken up half the pillow, there was a snap, and Elena firmly tucked the other half under her head.
"No wonder you managed to drive the tutor away."
The princess didn't keep the secret. The origin of the flag-bearing goddess is a story that children of all ages can sing:
Legend has it that Rome was originally occupied by the descendants of an evil dragon. The patient Wolfblood family waited until the evil dragon's bloodline withered and only a few descendants remained, then they rose up in rebellion.
In the end, the golden dragon and the wolf defeated the evil dragon, but the deceived people were unwilling to accept the rule of the Wolfblood Family. They believed that the Wolfblood Family had no favor from the gods and were usurpers.
The Second War lasted for six full days. At dawn on the seventh day, the roar of a tiger was heard from the ruined city gate.
People flocked to the streets, their mouths wide open: a bright and tall woman stood on a float with a spear in her hand, while horses and tigers simultaneously cleared the way for her.
Fifty handsome young men and women stood by, striking their shields with their swords to disperse the crowd. Each of them was clad in golden armor, and the hilts of their swords were inlaid with various gems.
At the end of the team, the heir of the Wolfblood family followed the goddess into the city. She wore a blood-stained golden crown on her head - a crown taken from the head of the evil dragon.
With the goddess's servants clearing the way, the Wolfblood Family proved they were favored by the gods! People finally stopped resisting and submitted to the Wolfblood Family's rule.
Two hundred years later, the descendants of the Wolfblood family continued to expand their territory, and the Roman Kingdom was renamed the Roman Empire, but some traditions still continued...
"Yawn, so what exactly is the flag-bearing goddess..." Melia's eyelids were heavy, and she rolled to the other side, but was firmly supported by Elena.
"Simply put, sometimes the church or the army will choose a young girl to serve as a flag bearer. She must dress up as the goddess of war and fight at the forefront until victory or death."
Melia blinked and slowly came back to her senses:
The so-called appearance of the goddess is to wear a gorgeous robe, a small decorative helmet and a small round shield with jewels, and hold a flag in one hand.
Standing at the front of the line dressed like that, with her little helmet probably covered in feathers—isn't that a sitting duck?! She was lucky to even run twenty meters under a hail of arrows!
"What's the point of this?!"
"It's auspicious when a goddess walks on earth, and it's also auspicious when a goddess returns to heaven to bless her." Elena patted her shoulder and said, "You will become more auspicious than the ribbon bull."
Seeing Melia's expression as she ate a lemon, she felt very happy: "How about it? How about asking me to put you at the end of the team?"
The priest has rejected the proposal of the flag-bearing goddess. Only one of the two gods needs to lead the team in the front, and the other can take advantage of the situation.
Melia tilted her head and showed a sly smile: "Humph, even if I didn't beg you, you wouldn't let me be the vanguard."
"boring."
Elena rolled her eyes at her and turned away wrapped in a blanket.
The reason was simple: whether it was a vanguard or a leader, both required sufficient courage and experience. With Melia's limited abilities, if she turned around and ran from the battlefield, morale would be completely destroyed.
Ophelia expected them to die, but she was not prepared to actually die.
"Good night, I'm going to sleep first. I really have something to do~"
Phew~ Melia extinguished the candle.
"Don't you have something to do? Why are you sleeping?"
“…”
The breathing sounds behind me were even and shallow, inhale~inhale~inhale-inhale... After a busy day, a strong sense of sleepiness came over me.
[What is she going to do... Never mind, I'm so tired, let's go to sleep first.]
Elena slowly closed her eyes. Hmm… Sulla and the second prince, Titus, probably haven't left the temple yet. They'll continue to persuade the high priest. But the high priest probably won't agree: killing a princess so directly would likely displease Caesar. As for Melia…she hasn't signed the land transfer contract yet.
There is also the method of making transparent glass. You should know that the Egyptians were still using natural glass to string beads. The Roman technology was already very advanced, but they still could not make large pieces of transparent glass.
If the high priestess was persuaded by Sura again, what would she do? She would probably offer more chips... What kind of chips?
Thoughts were flying in her mind, and Elena eventually fell into a deep sleep at the same time as the person behind her, even their breathing sounds became mixed together.
…
"Hey meow~ I'm coming! Are you ready?"
The little white cat fell to the ground with a thud and raised its paw towards the two people not far away.
Misha hurried over and grabbed her pink paw pads, "It's already been built according to your instructions!"
Following her finger, Miranda saw her laying down the last stone. A pile of rubble and planks formed the outline of a two-story building on the site of the Temple of the Gods.
The temple covers a large area, but this is only the location of the temple warehouse. To be more precise, it is the innermost small room of the temple warehouse.
"Very good, meow meow~ Remember to call me Meimei meow from now on!" The little white cat jumped to the second floor with its tail tip erect. With her leaping footsteps, the stones began to merge from the bottom layer upwards.
Bang, bang, bang. The rubble gradually gathered before everyone, forming a true pavilion. Although it was small, there was not even a crack in the middle, and it was very solid.
Miranda swallowed the grilled wings in her mouth, and she and Misha went into the small building one after another. One of them held the cat's paw pads, and the other held the cat's tail.
After dozens of breaths, the world before my eyes changed:
It was no longer a ruined stone building, but the innermost room of the temple warehouse. The floor was edged with fur, and wooden planks divided the bottom floor into grids, each containing a heavy treasure chest.
Melia clapped her paws in satisfaction, spotting her own sign immediately. "Take away those boxes on the left; they're filled with gold."
Of course, how can we express our gratitude to the high priest and Sulla by only bringing back our own gold? Besides, building a school, operating the area surrounding the school, and comforting the tenants whose houses were demolished all require a lot of money. The temple has been extorting land for so many years, it wouldn't be so magnanimous, right?
The cat squeezed its head out from the crack in the door. The guards were standing outside the second-floor door, very far away!
The little head popped back, and its paws touched several boxes of things: "Here, here, and here~ pack them together!"
Misha and Miranda joined hands and soon dragged the boxes of gold coins together. Thanks to the blankets underneath, there was almost no sound.
The three of them sat on the box with their legs touching, and twenty seconds later, the world changed again.
"Meow hahahahaha." Melia stood on the ruins, laughing breathlessly, her little paws desperately knocking on the boxes: "Quick, push them down, we will move the next batch~"
…
"At least leave some, don't go too far..." Melia looked at the two little ones moving things around excitedly with a little embarrassment.
How could they be so strong? They almost emptied half the warehouse! Starting with the small boxes of jewelry at the back, they had already moved all the most valuable gold and silver to Shadow Rome.
Well, although the high priest must pay her, Elena and Miranda psychological damages, is that too much? Her little conscience was a little uneasy.
"Ah, Meimei meow, at least take this." Miranda dragged out a leather box from the middle, which looked much lighter than gold.
"It's not Meimei-nyan, it's Meimei... What is this?"
The cat pressed its paw on the purple cloud-shaped emblem and felt it carefully. It seemed to be some kind of textile?
Miranda gently hugged the cat's waist and placed her next to her: "Inside is the potion that Father...the priest has newly made. It took a lot of my magic power."
Good man, you old immortal are the one who made the potion?!
The scenes of Elena being teased by the potion drifted into her mind. Recalling the scenes of herself drinking poisoned wine again and again, Melia raised her cat paw and snapped her nails. "Clear it all. Clear it all out."
…
The next morning, Elena opened her eyes in the sunlight, and the evil laughter of "Hehehe" beside her pillow was so noisy.
"What’s wrong with you…"
Melia covered her mouth, the corners of her mouth unable to stop rising: "I thought of something funny ~ Hehehe."
It was as good as nothing. Elena yawned nonchalantly, rolled off the bed, and prepared to get something to eat.
This guy couldn't just follow her lead. If he showed any interest, he'd definitely be even more smug. Better to just ignore her; he'd be unable to hold back any longer.
She walked to the door and tapped her fingers on the wood. "We're awake. Some roast chicken and apple pie."
After waiting for half a minute, I didn't hear the footsteps of the white-robed priest, but instead heard a chaotic noise outside the window.
It sounded as if someone had broken something or was shouting, and the wind was filled with the sounds of whips and the clanging of iron tools.
"What's going on?" Elena frowned and looked at Melia unconsciously.
The girl has already walked to the window.
Melia lifted her long hair in the morning breeze, leaned half of her body out of the window, and gave a sly and sweet smile to the people below.
"Yeah~ what's going on~~"
The author has something to say:
It is a historical legend that a tall and beautiful woman dressed as Athena led people into the city. I have adapted it a bit here. But I forgot where I saw it orz
Thanks to the factory girl for her hard work, Lin Xing, and Luo Mu Xiao Xiao for her hard work~
Thanks to Tan Tianyang, Doubi Xiaomushi, x, Xingchen Lifeng, and Rerejiang for their support~
There is another chapter next ~ It will be updated tomorrow
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