Chapter 537: The situation gets worse

Countless arrows fell, instantly knocking the guy who wanted to escape off his horse, covering the poor guy. The officer didn't even make a sound before being buried by countless arrows.

Then, the actions of Aresio, Verus and the Guards had made the entire battlefield eerily quiet. Everyone was looking at the grave made up of hundreds of arrows, in which the tragically dead guy was.

The arrows became his grave, and the murderer was none other than his fellow Romans.

"See it! See it!"

Aetius pointed at the tomb and shouted angrily to the soldiers beside him: "This is the fate of our kind-hearted Romans. He was so kind. When I was about to teach these bastards a lesson, he tried hard to persuade me not to attack my fellow Romans. But now, he died under the arrows of the Roman companions he tried so hard to protect."

Under Aetius's instigation, the eyes of his soldiers were filled with anger. They gritted their teeth and glared at the defenders on the city wall, as if they were sworn enemies at this moment.

"What a perfect plan!" Aresio looked at the Roman soldiers who were cheering and fighting wildly below, and couldn't help but sigh that Aetius was really a master of playing tricks. He easily gained the trust of the entire army at the cost of one person's death, and had a reason to start a war.

"Aetius, you should at least understand what you are doing now." Aresio looked at the roaring soldiers below without any fear in his heart. He had seen many grand scenes, so he would not be frightened by the formation deliberately set up by Aetius in front of him.

"Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle!"

The officers of the Guards shouted loudly, and the soldiers drew their arrows again, put them on the strings, and aimed at the soldiers below.

The Roman Imperial Palace, there has been no trace of Augustus here for a long time.

After Honorius, both Constantius and Valentinian were disgusted with this place full of intrigue. They would rather stay in Ravenna than in this damn city where there were traitors who were eyeing Augustus' throne at any time.

But for protection, he had to come here from Ravenna because he was told that Aetius might launch a coup to overthrow him.

Valentinian III, who had been wary of Aetius since childhood, naturally believed what Luca said. After all, no matter what, the most important thing at the moment was to keep Augustus' position and the countless money and wealth.

In the luxurious palace, he ate delicacies from land and sea every day, all of which were rare delicacies from all over Rome. He was accustomed to such a life, and it was natural that he lived very comfortably in the palace under the protection of the Luca Legion.

The guards kept a close watch on Augustus in order to prevent those bastards in the Senate from secretly finding Augustus and whispering nonsense into his ear. As long as Luca lost Augustus' trust, everything he had to deal with now and in the future would be extremely difficult.

But after a few months of comfortable life, everything in front of him became boring. Valentinian was too tightly bound and rejected everything now. He had never been free since he was a child, which made him very sensitive. He would fly into a rage if something didn't go his way.

Anyone who has seen him angry says that he is the god of thunder, always so irritable.

“Snap!”

The sound of earthenware jars breaking broke the usually quiet environment.

"Get out! Get out! You traitors, I will kill you all and hang your heads on the gates of Rome, so that everyone who comes in and out will spit on your dirty heads!"

Valentinian's roar was heard from the room, and soon, through the open door, several maids with tears in their eyes ran out crying.

The guards at the gate rushed in, only to see Valentinian waving a wooden stick desperately. He didn't know where the anger came from, and he couldn't control his reason.

He swung the stick and knocked all the tableware to the ground, then pushed the table over and shouted at the top of his voice: "Liar, you are all damn liars, traitors, traitors!"

Such a roar attracted Augusta Licinia, who hurried over with several maids and saw Valentinian going mad.

"Oh, my God, what are you doing here?" Licinia was disgusted with this guy, so she said to Valentinian unhappily.

When Valentinian heard Licinia's voice, he calmed down as if a miracle had happened. He gasped for breath, looked at Licinia's red and swollen eyes, ran over the mess, grabbed Licinia's hand and said, "My dear, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. When I heard the news about my poor brother Theodosius, my heart was broken. Licinia, oh, my dear, I'm so sorry, so sorry. These hateful guys didn't even tell me such an important thing first. These damn traitors."

Licinia was very surprised because she did not expect Valentinian to do this. This selfish guy who only cared about himself would actually mourn the death of his brother whom he had never mentioned a word before.

"It's just because God called him." Li Jinia turned her head away, trying hard not to let her tears fall.

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"But you are his daughter, his only daughter!" Valentinian suddenly changed his tone at this time. He stepped forward and grabbed Licinia's arms, staring at her intently and said, "You are his daughter, and I am his brother. We have the noble blood of Flavius. Now the eastern half of Rome is without an Augustus, but no matter whether they are nobles or subjects, they all urgently need a new Augustus to ascend the throne and lead them to complete the unification that the previous Augustus had been unable to achieve."

Licinia was stunned by what Valentinian said next. She turned around and stared at Valentinian III with wide eyes, whose eyes were full of greed and desire.

He seemed to have turned into an inhuman monster under the desire for power. It turned out that all this was because he wanted to succeed his father Theodosius as the Augustus of Eastern Rome, or the Augustus of the entire Roman Empire.

"So that's what you think!" Liginia glared at Valentinian hatefully, then waved her hand and slammed his hands open.

A hint of surprise flashed across Valentinian's face. He didn't expect that Licinia, his wife, would treat him like this.

"Licinia!" Valentinian shouted, "You are my wife and a descendant of the Flavius ​​family. Now I am the only man in the Flavius ​​family. I am the only Augustus of Rome given by God. As my wife, you must serve me and obey me!"

"I hope it will be as you wish!" Licinia glared at Valentinian, and after saying that viciously, she turned and left, leaving Valentinian shouting at Licinia's back: "Traitor, shame on the family, shameless bastard, get out of here, I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"

(End of this chapter)