ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 383 Assassination
During the sacrifice in front of the Temple of Hades, Davos no longer acted like he did when the temple was first built. Instead, he followed the traditional rituals, slaughtering lambs, offering blood food, and then reading carols.This time the Ode to Hades was not the previous one, but was written by Lysias. Davers had read it before and felt that it was well written, which means the development of Dionian culture.

Since all mortals are equal before the gods, the people participating in the sacrifices are in order, and those who arrive first will stand in front.

Megalis had been standing on the outside of the square, close to the temple, so when people flowed towards the temple, he walked in front. Now in front of him were citizen soldiers maintaining order. They held hands and formed a large circle. A large defensive circle surrounded the entire Temple of Hades.There are several teams of guards patrolling the circle to maintain order and prevent accidents.

Davos was more than 20 meters in front of Megalis. At this moment, he was singing carols loudly, and a group of priests were singing behind him.

McGalis swallowed a few swallows subconsciously, lowered his right hand, and touched the hard object close to the outside of his thigh.

Davos finally finished singing the carol.

"Boom!..." The bronze bell rang.

Then listen to Davos shouting emotionally: "Now let us pray to the great Hades!"

After saying this, he lowered his head and closed his eyes. The people also lowered their heads and prayed silently. Some even knelt on the ground. Even the soldiers began to pray silently in their hearts.

McGalis saw a group of guards passing just in front of him from the inner circle.

This is the moment!His eyes opened, and he kicked the ground with his right leg. Like a cheetah, he passed through the gap between the citizen soldier's hands with a short body, dodged behind the guard, and stretched his right hand into Bolton. , pulled out, and the shining dagger was already in his hand.

Among the mercenaries in Campania, he is famous for his speed, and the distance of more than 20 meters is just an instant for him.At this moment, excitement and tension surged throughout his body, and the whistling wind blew in his ears, but his eyes were always fixed on Davos in front of him.

Close!Very close! !
Davos raised his head, neither nervous nor afraid, just smiled at him.

McGallies felt a "thump" in his heart.

Behind Davos, two priests who had lowered their heads suddenly rushed out, holding small leather shields in their hands, and swung the leather shields hard towards Megalis.

He was sprinting with all his strength and was unable to dodge due to inertia. He felt as if his right hand was hit by a boulder, his bones were in pain and the dagger flew out of his hand.

Then another shield hit his head. Megalis' head buzzed and he fainted immediately.

"Is he dead?" Davos asked.

"My lord, he has fainted," replied Martius, who was dressed as a priest.

"Very good." As soon as Davos said these two words, someone in the crowd shouted: "There is an assassin! There is an assassin! We want to assassinate Lord Davos!"

"It's killing people! There are assassins who want to kill us!"

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The people who reacted at this time saw the assassin lying on the ground in front of Davos, and heard someone shouting repeatedly: "Killing! There is an assassin!..." Suddenly the people began to riot.

No, someone is causing trouble!Davos's mind immediately sounded alert: There were tens of thousands of people in this sacrificial ceremony. If something happened or panic led to a stampede, the consequences would be disastrous. Wasn't that what Mithridat's troops were like back then!

In desperation, he walked forward for a while, came to the back of the soldiers, and shouted loudly: "Citizens of Dionia, soldiers of the Legion, I order you to stay calm! Maintain order! Protect the people!"

Martius and the soldiers followed him and shouted together.

The citizens of Dionia began to respond to the Supreme Commander's orders, consciously stood up and stabilized the emotions of those around them, and the chaos gradually subsided...

At this time, a woman screamed and fell forward into the defensive circle due to the push.

Davos looked concerned and prepared to step forward to help.

The citizen soldier next to her immediately took over. As soon as she helped him up, what he saw was a twisted and ferocious face. She pushed the unsuspecting soldier away, quickly pulled out the dagger hidden on her body, and fiercely attacked Diver. Stab away.

Davos, who was very close to him, could not dodge at that moment. He watched in shock as the blue-light dagger pierced his chest. At this flash of lightning, Martius behind him suddenly pushed with his left hand. He drove Davos, and at the same time, he quickly rushed forward with his right hand, and the dagger pierced his palm.

He roared and hit the woman's face hard with his left fist.

The woman screamed and was beaten back several steps. She fell to the ground, twitching and vomiting blood.

"High Priest, are you alright?!"

"Lord Davos! Lord!..."

Plesinas, the priests, and the people at the scene all screamed and rushed towards Davos with concern.

"Stand still and don't move!" Davos stood up quickly and roared: "Keep order, I'm fine!"

As he was speaking, the guards rushed over and protected him in the center.

"Go and see your captain!" Davos pushed aside the siege of soldiers and walked quickly towards Martius.

"Sir, I'm fine." Martius whispered, he had torn the sacrificial robe on his body and wrapped his right hand.

Davos looked at his right hand, which had already dyed the white linen red, with concern, and patted him on the shoulder emotionally, without saying anything. He remembered the life-saving grace this time in his heart.

Then, he continued to move forward and walked to the woman.

The woman's face was broken, and her appearance at this moment was extremely terrifying.

Davos looked at her blankly, his fingers trembling slightly: this was the first time in this world that he truly felt that death was so close to him!
damn it!Damn it... Just when he felt that he could no longer control the rapidly growing violence in his heart, a soldier shouted from behind: "Captain, what's wrong with you?!"

He turned his head hurriedly and saw Martius falling to the ground helplessly.

The dagger is poisonous!An idea immediately flashed through Davos' mind.

More than ten years later, Ansitanos wrote in his "History of Magna Graecia": This Hades celebration, which should have been a lively and joyful celebration for the people of Dionia, was interrupted because of this assassination incident. The captain of Davos's bodyguard fell into a coma due to his injuries. Hundreds of Dionian people were injured due to the panic caused by the assassination, which led to considerable riots, and more than a dozen people died.But more importantly, although the assassination attempt on Dionysian Consul Davos failed, it shocked the entire Dionysian Alliance and the entire South Italian city-state.At the same time, it also had a profound impact on the political situation of Dionia, southern Italy, and even the entire Western Mediterranean.This was something the people behind the scenes never expected...

The historian's pen can easily laugh about historical events after the fact.But on that day, after the assassination, Thurii immediately locked down the entire city and imposed a curfew.Many people living at home and in hotels are uneasy because there are rumors saying: "Davos has been killed by an assassin." This makes the people of Dionia, who have always regarded Davos as the alliance's greatest reliance for security, how to Can you not be frightened?

The consul, whom the people had been worried about, had now returned home. Faced with the care and condolences of Christoya, Agnes and the children who came after hearing the news, he barely managed to deal with it and immediately called Aristiras, Davos, who had always had a good attitude towards him, was furious at this moment: "You and your men are fools! You actually allowed an assassin to lurk next to me so boldly without any warning. Unaware! If Martius cannot wake up this time, many of your men will have to pay the price!"

Aristelas made no excuse.It is true that this time he was deceived by the enemy. Unexpectedly, McGalis was just a cover, and the real killing move lay on a weak woman. Fortunately...Davos was not injured!Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on his back.

After Davos finished his anger, his mood eased slightly. He said sternly: "Aristiras, I don't care what method you use, you must hide the hatred in the Dionia territory in the shortest possible time." Dig out these 'nails' in Dionia, and I will let Matonis' patrol team cooperate with you!"

Aristelas clenched his fists and said angrily: "Sir, don't worry, I will never let you down again!"

"I don't want to see any more elders, generals, or alliance officials from Dionia being assassinated or accidentally killed, especially when Dionia takes action in the future!"

Davos's warning did not make Aristelas feel the pressure increased. On the contrary, he became excited: The alliance wanted to take action? !To whom? !

As soon as Aristiras left, Kunogorata and Matonis came hand in hand. You must know that Kunogorata has been there since his failure in the battle of Thurii with the Lucanian tribal alliance. He had a quirk - he didn't want to be alone with people who were born in the military, but this time it was clearly an emergency.

Matonis walked into the reception hall and saw that Davos was indeed safe and sound as others said. He felt relieved and said loudly: "Sir, the assassin has confessed."

"So fast?!" Davos was a little surprised.

Matonis grinned and wanted to smile, but he remembered that the atmosphere was not right at this time and had to hold back: "After the assassin woke up, before we could torture him, he took the initiative to confess. He only made one request, hoping that he could be killed before he died. Eat some delicious food from Kristoya’s.”

This request was indeed a bit funny, but Davos was not in the mood to laugh at him. He asked seriously: "What did he confess?"

Matonis looked angry: "He said he was a mercenary from Campania and had been fighting for Syracuse for the past few years. This time, Mathias, the general of Syracuse, sent him to assassinate you. …”

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