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296, the person in the oracle

When Aristotle said, Amon couldn't help but think about Thales, the sage of Midulli. Thales preached and imparted various knowledge to people in the square all day long, but everyone laughed at his knowledge as having no use to the merchants in Midulli. As a result, Thales borrowed a sum of money from Aesop to do business, earned a lot of money, and then preached and imparted various knowledge.

Thales did business just to prove one thing. The knowledge he passed on was not useless to merchants, but what he asked for was not the case. Thales had proved that he was an excellent merchant, but he was indeed not a merchant. Look at the great magician Aristotle in front of him. He was indeed not a magician, and there was no need to pursue the identity of a magician.

Amon thought of himself again, and Zeus had made an agreement with him: "Here, you cannot be a god!" This agreement sounds a bit funny, because Amon is a god, which is a fact that cannot be changed no matter what. So how can we both abide by this agreement and seek inner peace? As soon as we meet Aristotle, Amon got the answer.

People often say thanks to the gods in their hearts, but Amon can only say thanks to Aristotle at this time.

Seeing Amon pondering, Eisen finally couldn't help asking: "How do we deal with these assassins? Especially the High Priest Merlin, he is an important figure in Yalun City!"

Aristotle glanced at the assassins who were unconscious on the road, thought for a while and replied, "Take them all away and wait until they are safe."

Amon said, "Mr. Aristotle, with me here, is a safe place."

Eisen asked again: "What should we do after the interrogation? We can't bring so many prisoners on the way."

The current identity of these assassins is equivalent to prisoners of war. In the conflicts between Heaton City-State, the methods of handling prisoners of war are basically the same. Aristocrats with status will be detained and asked the other party to pay a large ransom. Civilian prisoners of war without "value" may be resold into slaves, and sometimes they will be executed or released.

Since these people were captured by Amon, they were Amon's "trophy" and Amon's opinion was still to be sought. Aristotle said again: "This group of assassins is very important to the Kingdom of Heaton. If possible, I want to bring them all back. Amon, Medanzo, if you want a ransom, the Kingdom of Heaton can pay, please let me take the people away."

Amon waved his hand: "I don't need any ransom for you to deal with it. From now on, they will be your captives."

Eisen frowned and said, "How can we take these assassins back on such a long way? These people are here to kill people to silence them. If the news is leaked, I'm afraid someone will kill these assassins to silence them halfway."

Medanzo smiled and said, "Don't worry, we are here to escort Mr. Aristotle. These thirty assassins can be handed over to me alone. I promise to let them go on the road honestly, so you don't have to worry."

Aristotle ordered the guards to say, "First disarm these assassins and search for the extra things on them, even if they are your spoils. They set up ambush in the deep mountains, and they could not have come by foot. The horses must have been hidden somewhere nearby. Our horses are losing their horses, so search for them."

When the guards heard that there was a bargain to take advantage, they happily searched for the assassin's body, and some people went to find the horses hidden in the mountains. Thanks to the generosity of Amon and Aristotle, everyone made a small fortune. Not to mention anything else, even the weapons carried by the assassins were very valuable.

At this time, a great warrior had woken up, his body was sore and soft that he could not move. He found a guard touching his arms, and his face turned red and shouted in an atmosphere: "I am Moili, the great warrior of Yalun City. You can't be so rude! Even if I am a prisoner, I still ask for the prisoner's courtesy!"

Medanzo walked up and kicked him hard and sneered, "Pretty? Why don't you mention politeness when you ambush here and kill someone to silence him? Is the great warrior amazing? Don't show off your mightyness here and lie down honestly!"

The guards indeed found dozens of war horses in the hidden area of ​​the nearby forest. Medanzo woke up all the assassins. Not only did they use magic techniques to limit their strength, but they also tied their hands behind the back to walk, allowing them to walk behind the delegation. Medanzo rode a horse and escorted him, while Amon and Aristotle were on the road in the same car.

Only then did Eisen realize that there was not only one great magician in the assassin team, but also two great warriors! He couldn't help but be even more scared. Fortunately, Amon and Medanzo took action, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Such a team looked so strange. They walked out of the mountains and came to a town that afternoon, which attracted the attention of local residents.

Medanzo tied the assassins with their hands and followed the convoy with ropes one by one, but Aristotle did not stop him. Amon guessed the intention of the sage, so he quietly ordered Medanzo.

Did Meilin, the high priest of Yalun City, ever withstand such humiliation? He was tied with his hands and stringed with ropes, walking in the streets and alleys with a group of prisoners to be watched, and some children spit at him and threw stones, as if watching a monkey. The officials in the town were shocked to learn that the mission of the Kingdom of Macedonia was attacked in the mountains, and then they breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that there were no casualties, but then they began to feel sad again, because someone recognized Meilin and two other great warriors.

When I was resting in the inn that night, local officials came to express condolences and apologize. They said that the envoy met the criminals here, which was the responsibility of poor public security management, and hoped that the envoy would hand over the criminals to the local sheriff and punish them severely. Eisen received the group of people, and he shook his head and said, "They are not criminals but assassins. Now they are our prisoners and will be taken back to the Kingdom of Macedonia for disposal."

The local officials also said: "We are willing to pay how much ransom Aristotle and Lord Eisen need." However, Eisen refused this request under Aristotle's instruction. He had to make a request to the Kingdom of Macedonia if he redeems the prisoners of war. When the mission returns to Macedonia, the local officials in Midulli would not have to intervene.

The town officials had no choice but to send people to Yalun City State to report the news overnight. The next day, Aristotle's convoy continued to set off and left Midully and entered the city-state of Olintos. In the city-state of Olintos, thirty assassins were still tied into two strings and followed the convoy, which almost attracted the attention of the whole city. Of course, Merlin and the two great warriors were recognized again.

So the same thing happened again. Some people asked to redeem the "prisoners of war", and some people asked Aristotle to hand over the "assins" to the local sheriff severely punished, but Aristotle refused for the same reason. Aristotle did not ask what the assassins were, nor did they interrogate anyone. The captives were also frightened and confused. They didn't know what Lord Aristotle meant and what fate was waiting for them?

Especially the three arrogant great masters, such torture was more uncomfortable than killing them with one knife. They asked several times along the way to be interrogated quickly, but Medanzo ignored them. They were assassins who assassinated the Macedonian mission. Even if someone wanted to rescue or silence the silence, they could not openly take action, and could only set up an ambush in a hidden place. When the convoy left the border of the city-state of Olintos, they encountered another group of "assassins" in the mountains.

The target of the assassin's attack was not Aristotle's convoy, but the group of prisoners who had no ability to resist behind the convoy. As a result, after the team walked out of the mountains, the thirty prisoners escorted by Medanzo turned into ninety, and it was quite a bit of a mighty idea to walk on the road. Going northward, you entered the territory controlled by the Kingdom of Macedonia.

The second batch of assassins was also urgently sent by Yaren City State, but they were still taken down by Amon and Medanzo. Medanzo deliberately mixed the first batch of assassins with the second batch of assassins, tied them with ropes again so that they could talk to each other on the road, but the captives started arguing themselves.

The captured warrior Moili cursed the commander of the second assassin team, claiming that he took the risk of assassinating the mission of the Macedonian Kingdom under the secret order of the city-state. Unfortunately, he was captured by accident. The city-state sent reinforcements to the city-state but did not try to rescue them. He even wanted to kill them to silence them. It was so shameless!

Medanzo couldn't help but curse, "Mr. Aristotle has no grudges and grudges with you. He just signed the covenant and wanted to tear it apart in a blink of an eye, but he used despicable and vulgar assassination methods and had the nerve to scold others!" The captives lowered their heads and said nothing.

The mission of more than twenty people led ninety prisoners of war through various towns of the Macedonian Kingdom, and surrounded the people all the way to the Macedonian city state. Before they could see the walls of Macedonia, smoke and dust rose from afar, and horse hooves rumbling. King Philip II personally led the guards out of the city to welcome them, giving the returned mission the highest-level courtesy.

...

The Kingdom of Macedonia was a state that rose in the late period of the Hippopotism War. The current king Philip II was also an amazing hero. When the Poz army had just invaded, the Kingdom of Macedonia once surrendered to Poz. The Pozians recruited local civilians to build military fortresses and transported logistics and military supplies.

At that time, Philip II was the uncle of the young king. He sent a group of confidants to the civilian team to spy on and collect various information from the Potz people, and analyzed and sorted out a series of information such as the distribution of the Potz army on the Heaton Peninsula, including the route of material transportation, and provided it to Kibada and Yaren in the south. In the later Hippo decisive battle, the military intelligence provided by Philip II played an important role.

After the end of the Hippopotism War, the Pots army withdrew from the Heaton Peninsula. The situation in Macedonia was once very chaotic. Philip II took the opportunity to depose the young king and ascend the throne himself. Not only did he calm down the situation in his own country, but the Macedonian Kingdom also took advantage of the situation to fill the vacuum of chaos and unparalleled power in the surrounding area after the withdrawal of Pots.

At this time, in the south of the Heaton Peninsula, the Yaren and the Kibada Alliance competed for hegemony, and civil wars broke out one after another. In the relatively calm north, the sphere of influence controlled by the Kingdom of Macedonia was quietly expanding. The place where the Pots retreated was immediately occupied by Macedonia. When Yaren and Kibada, who were trapped in the quagmire of civil war, were greatly damaged, the climate of the Kingdom of Macedonia had become, becoming the most powerful force in the northern part of the Heaton Peninsula.

As the country expanded and its national strength became stronger, without internal or external troubles, the Macedonian Kingdom ushered in a golden period of development. Philip II specially invited the famous sage Aristotle to be a court teacher to teach his youngest son Alexander. When the ambitious Fox stirred up the melee between Yaren and Kibada and developed into an uncontrollable situation and the Pots power made a comeback, Philip II finally decided to pacify the southern part of the Heaton Peninsula.

He sent a delegation to Yalun City State to discuss alliance matters, with the intention of ending the civil war and unifying Heaton and completely expelling the Potsian forces. The people of Yalun signed an alliance, but turned around and repented, and sent assassins to try to make the delegation disappear forever. However, the assassin was captured and brought back to Macedonia.

Before Aristotle arrived, Philip II received the news. The king was not angry, but was overjoyed. In his opinion, Yalun, who was already at a loss, was seeking death. Originally, he had just made a covenant according to the traditional customs of the states of the Heaton Peninsula, and the treacherous behavior of Yalun City gave him an excuse to be completely unified.

Aristotle was so beautiful that he could capture the assassin alive and bring it back to Macedonia as evidence of living! In this case, if the Macedonian army headed south, the states of the Heaton Peninsula had nothing to say, so Philip II personally went out of the city to welcome the mission. He was in such an urgent mood.

The main god believed in Macedonia was Zeus. Just the night before Aristotle's return, Philip II received an oracle from Zeus, telling someone that he would follow Aristotle to the Kingdom of Macedonia. This person would bring unprecedented achievements to this kingdom, even beyond everyone's wishes!

The oracle did not say who this person was, and Philip II was so happy that in his opinion, the captives brought back by Aristotle already had great value.

...

Aristotle handed over the signed covenant and the captives to the king, even if he had fulfilled his mission. This was perhaps the most dramatic covenant ever in Heaton's United Kingdom, because it was torn down when it was handed over to the other party.

I wonder if the powerful people in Yalun City will cry, because the covenant clearly states that the two states form an alliance, do not invade each other, and will jointly resist foreign enemies. But now the covenant has expired, and those prisoners are evidence of the Yalun people breaking the contract.

Since Zeus' oracle did not mention the name of that "man", in theory, he might be anyone who brought back from Aristotle, or among the prisoners of war. Therefore, Philip II had to deal with it carefully. He did not kill any of the prisoners, and they were all under house arrest and interrogated separately, and were given preferential treatment but were not allowed to redeem.

Interrogation was not difficult, and there was no need to be punished, so many people took the initiative to confess. Medanzo had enough to mess with them along the way, and Philip II, who treated them preferentially, was like a savior sent by the gods.

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