Eagle Byzantium

"The eyes of beasts?" Irene also felt waves of icy coldness coming over her. She was also the daughter of a noble family with military merit. She had seen how beasts in the wild tore apart and killed people, just like the carvings on the capitals of churches and the Almost like a mural.

The scene seemed to be within sight. In the husband's dream, the wind blew from distant plateaus and oceans, with a faint gray color, blowing the branches and leaves of the same color trees, making a monotonous but surging whistle. Alexios, who was handsome and brave when he was young, was riding on the strong war horse. His bow and rein were shaking gently beside his shoulder straps and arms. The horse suddenly neighed uneasily, and the hunter's sharp eyes suddenly met behind the grass. The hidden pair of cruel and bestial eyes responded.

The beast raised a huge black shadow, roared earth-shatteringly, rushed out of the hiding place, and rushed towards the hunter with a bloody, dirty and smelly wind!

Outside the entire Brachna Palace, white lightning shook the earth. The columns were illuminated one by one, and then disappeared into the darkness one by one. Adyoan was so frightened that he cried, and then the emperor turned around. Overdoing it, he said to Irene confidently, "This beast was then killed by me. It should symbolize Gawain or Theodoro."

After saying this, the entire palace fell silent. The emperor was waiting there, waiting for Irene to compliment him with a few compliments.

However, not long after, Alexios saw tears rolling down his wife's cheeks for no apparent reason. "What's wrong with you?" he asked.

"No, I don't know... maybe it's just an instinctive reaction of the soul." Seeing her husband's expression, the queen was also surprised, stretched out her fingers to wipe the corners of her eyes, and it turned out to be salty and moist, and then Lowering her head to coax Adyoan, she whispered, "It's rare that you can still recall the hunting park in Thrace in your dreams."

"You're here again..." the emperor said displeasedly. He felt impatient and also felt some kind of guilt. This guilt towards Irene made him sincerely afraid - he was hunting at that time. In the garden, teenage Irene Ducasse, with her youthful and fluffy hair braided, stood under a tall pear tree. The pear tree was independent on the hillside. As if swimming over its canopy, in the spring breeze, clusters of pear blossoms were piled on it like the snow on Mount Olympus. Irene panted. She ran boldly from the other side of the mountain, holding on to her hands. The trunk of the pear tree, beads of sweat on his forehead and the tip of his nose, his bright eyes filled with admiration, just looked and looked at the young hunter knight, never leaving for a moment.

In the end, the emperor felt depressed and left the courtyard without saying anything.

In the spacious courtyard outside the door, several young guards were carrying swords, waiting for the emperor.

Next, Alexios went to the palace of the chief lady, but the door of the room was locked. In the rain, he saw General Titicius, wrapped in a cloak, standing in the outer corridor with his back turned. , discussing something with two medical eunuchs.

Seeing the emperor, Tatisius hurriedly knelt down.

"What are you doing here, my general?" the emperor asked affectionately.

"The prince came to pay homage to the queen and the chief lady, but the news he received here was that the chief lady was ill. So the prince hurriedly went to handle official business and asked me to ask the medical officer carefully."

"Well, it is true that Marlena has been ill for some time, and it is estimated that she will not recover until next month." The emperor was very satisfied with John's diligence in government affairs during this period, and then comforted Taticius with a few words, saying that he would be on the plateau soon. When fighting against the Tarsus rebels, one must fight bravely and serve his duty. General Xiangbi hurriedly agreed, and then left as well.

"What is Marlena's illness?" After watching Taticius leave, the emperor asked the two medical eunuchs.

"The deputy empress dowager was afraid of seeing people and had to lie down for a while because she said she saw the ghost of Constantine a few days ago... We gave her a calming medicine and Let the monks from St. John's Church come and pray for her to keep evil spirits away from her dreams and rooms." A eunuch named Simongonus said, while the man named Eutychis next to him lowered his head and looked at her. Dissociated, afraid to say a word.

The emperor understood in his heart, and sighed a few times, saying that when I returned home in triumph, Marlena's condition might be cured.

After Alexios and the bodyguards left, the two medical eunuchs, with pale faces in the rain, began to fight with each other in a side door covered with moss and vines. Among them, Eutychis was beaten by Simon, who was very strong. Nus press On the stone wall of the corridor, he could hardly control his tone, "It can't be like this. I was selected by the little bird to enter the palace. Nothing can be hidden from his eyes. The result of this will be Shattered to pieces!”

"Listen, bastard, we can't say anything about what we saw in the palace. This is the oath we swore when we came in. So you and I haven't violated anything. Understand, my partner Eutychis!" Simon Gonu Si Nu shouted with his eyes wide open.

"Ghost, ghost..." Eutyches kept saying this word tremblingly, looking up with wild and frightened eyes, crossing his forehead with his hand, and then looking at the dark top, as if the devil was there. Stay there.

On an auspicious day, the cumulus clouds dissipated after the rain, the sun shone, and white seabirds flew in groups. In front of the semicircular imperial dock in Constantinople, smoke billowed from the forge workshop. Countless trackers pulled ropes and waded through the sea, slowly pulling the huge royal ship that symbolized the glory of the empire into the Golden Horn. The sound of trumpets shook the earth. In many high-rise buildings along the coast, citizens and merchants were stunned to see this magnificent scene: under the purple flag of the royal ship, their emperor stood on the deck at the bow, surrounded by well-armored Varangian guardsmen, and many small ships were floating around, surrounding the royal ship, like a forest surrounding a floating giant fortress. Some ships were filled with imperial soldiers with spears, and some were loaded with arrows, shields and other supplies. They were all made in workshops in large cities such as Thessaloniki, Corinth, and Durazzo to arm the emperor's army.

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Next to the big dock, the dignitaries, wealthy merchants and noble ladies in the imperial capital stood under the beautiful umbrellas, led by the palace chief steward Nicodemia, the imperial prime minister Buril and the new chief executive Prince John. They loudly sent off and praised the royal army going to the expedition - Alexius was right, the army and horses he had assembled had reached as many as 40,000 (and more than 20,000 were stationed in various parts of Asia). Among them, 20,000 were mercenaries from various ethnic groups. Now most of this army had crossed the strait in batches in advance and stationed in Civit and Nicomedia. Its huge momentum shocked everyone in the world. The remaining 20,000 were the empire's native army and the imperial capital's imperial guards. After the emperor's careful training and adjustment for half a year, they were no longer weak and chaotic as before. They included two new elites, the Thessalian New Army and the New Immortal Army - the emperor could not wait to put them into the battlefield against Anatolia. (To be continued ~^~)