After escaping from the Adriatic Sea, the Seven Hills Empire's fleet docked at a safer port midway.
In this naval battle, Admiral Aulus of the Seven Hills Empire was killed, and nearly 50% of the ships were burned, sunk, and captured. After such a fatal blow, it is already a great miracle that this fleet can still maintain its organization. The remaining confidence of the soldiers came entirely from the "messenger of Apollo" who suddenly appeared on the battlefield and rescued them from the sea of fire.
But on the first night when the fleet docked, Ella took Amy and the pirates and slipped away quietly in the darkness.
"Your Majesty, is it okay if we just leave like this?" Amy asked.
"How can I stay? This group of pirates will clash with the Qiqiu Empire's navy at any time, and if I stay in the army, there is no chance that someone will recognize me. It's too dangerous."
"But if I leave like this, I feel that the morale of these soldiers will fall to the bottom immediately... How about Your Majesty leave first, and I stay alone first, and then send them safely back to Constantiniya?" Join His Majesty?"
Ella looked at Amy with a strange expression: "Amy, when did you care so much about the Qiqiu Empire's army? Ah... you must be reluctant to leave, right?"
Hearing Ella ask this, Amy grabbed the hem of her clothes a little shyly and smiled "Hey hey hey": "They all called me 'Goddess' or 'Goddess', which sounded very comfortable."
"Don't think too much. If you don't leave, Amy, you will be found out, right?"
"Huh? Your Majesty, I think I acted quite like Apollo's messenger..."
As the maid accompanying Ella, Amy has never been praised so highly before, and now she can't help but feel a little arrogant.
Ella, on the other hand, tried hard to wake her up: "It's different! First of all, Amy, you are dressed as a maid now? Dressed as a maid!"
When following Ella from Sweden, the clothes Amy wore were very expensive. But most of her clothes remained on Najirfa. She and Ella had stayed in Delphi for more than a month, and the clothes they wore were already dirty. Her current clothes were extremely simple maid outfits that she bought casually in Delphi.
"Yes, so the soldiers sometimes call me Maid of Victory, and one soldier said that he would build a statue of Maid of Victory for me in the future..."
"What is the statue of the Maid of Victory!" Ella complained loudly, "Apollo's protector must know how to use a bow! Amy, can you use a bow?"
"I can't use a bow, but I can use fire. It's not a problem to pretend to be a sun god, right?"
"It should be about the same. But Amy, our last name is Scipio, so another problem will arise..."
"Huh?" Amy obviously had never heard of such a thing. "Is there any connection between Scipio and Apollo's protection?"
"There is no connection at all. But from the opposite direction, it can also be said that there is... Amy, do you know that Apollo is the patron saint of which famous family in the Seven Hills Empire?"
"The patron saint of the family? In other words, most people in this family are protected by Apollo? Is this impossible?" Amy shook her head and said, "Apollo's protection is as rare as Artemis's protection. The person being protected is at least at the elf level. If Apollo is the patron saint of any family, wouldn’t this family’s bloodline be more powerful than the Scipio family?”
"Is it more powerful than the Scipio family? Maybe... The Temple of Apollo in Delphi has just been revived. If someone who knows Apollo's situation comes, we will be exposed soon."
Ella cast her gaze towards the sea ahead. When the wind blows, the sea surface sparkles; when the wind stops, the sparkling waves gather into a full moon again. I don’t know how many times the moon and waves have cycled like this over the sea in these thousands of years.
"Let's not mention this matter for now. I have another reason to leave." Ella said, "Even if we stay here, the navy of the Qiqiu Empire will no longer be able to continue fighting. But to deal with the island republic, the navy is the most powerful Crucial. For the sake of the next war, I must immediately find a navy strong enough to assist us."
After the fleet arrived at the shore of Azov, Ayla simply dealt with the pirates who came to greet them, and then hurried towards the dungeon.
Ella is anxious to see Andrea, who is imprisoned in Azov.
In the previous naval battle in Azov City, Andrea fell into the siege of Ella and was not allowed to surrender with the navy of the Republic of Liguria. Because of this move, the naval strength of the Republic of Liguria has not been reduced. As long as Andrea is willing to assist Ella, Ella can immediately form a first-class navy in Azov City as soon as he orders the release of the naval soldiers in the prison and returns the captured warships.
Last time, Ella failed to persuade Andrea to surrender with food, but it only made him more determined not to surrender. This time, Ella asked the pirates to prepare extremely generous gifts. She walked into the dungeon, opened the cell door herself, untied the rope from Andrea's body, and then helped Andrea sit down on a wooden chair. She stood by herself and said extremely seriously:
"General Andrea, I want you and your soldiers to fight for me. As long as you agree to my promise, you and all your soldiers will be free."
But Andrea closed her eyes and said nothing.
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to be loyal to me. I can treat you as mercenaries." Ella said, "The mercenary fee is calculated at twice the market price, and after the matter is completed, you can still be free."
Andrea still closed her eyes tightly, and her mouth seemed to be sewn shut, motionless.
"It's useless, this old guy hasn't spoken for months." Another man's voice came from one end of the dungeon, "Speaking of employment, do you want to consider me? Although I am not a navy, if You need a guard, so it’s a good deal to hire me.”
Amy looked in the direction of the sound and saw a tall man with a gloomy face sitting behind the cell door. The beard that covered half of his face was black and stiff, like a hairbrush.
"Who are you? Why are you being imprisoned here?" Amy asked, "If you have committed any unforgivable felony, His Majesty will not hire you!"
"Felony? What is a felony? Murder? Or framing? I was only doing things for my previous employer, and my employer only issued a commission for his country. As long as it involves national interests, nothing counts. Felony.”
The man answered Amy's question with a calm face.
"My name is Osor, the second-ranked archer in Britain. I was sent here by my employer to provoke a war between Liguria and the Khazar Khanate. But I was unlucky and was carried in the hands of a female doll. .”
