Hearing Aristotle's words, Amon could not help but think of Thales, the sage of Miduli. Thales preached and imparted all kinds of knowledge to the people in the square all day long, but everyone laughed at him and said that his knowledge was useless to the merchants of Miduli. As a result, Thales borrowed a sum of capital from Aesop to start a business, made a lot of money, and then went on to preach and impart all kinds of knowledge.
Thales only did business to prove one thing, and that was that the knowledge he passed on was not useless to the merchants, but that was not what he wanted. Thales had proved that he was an excellent merchant, but he was not a merchant. Looking at the supreme mage in front of him, Aristotle was indeed not a mage, and there was no need for him to pursue the identity of a mage.
Amon thought of himself again. Zeus had once made a promise to him: "Here, you can't be a god!" This promise sounded a little funny, because Amon was a god, and this was a fact that could not be changed no matter what. So how could he keep this promise and seek peace of mind at the same time? As soon as he met Aristotle, Amon got the answer.
Mortals often said thank you to the gods in their hearts, but Amon could only say thank you to Aristotle at this time.
Seeing that Amon was silent, Eisen finally could not help but ask: "What should we do with these assassins? Especially that high priest Merlin, he is an important person in Yaren City! "
Aristotle glanced at the unconscious assassins lying on the street, thought for a moment, and replied: "Take them all away, and wait until we are in a safe place."
Amon said, "Mr. Aristotle, as long as I'm here, it's a safe place."
Eisen asked again: "What about after the interrogation? What should we do with these people? We can't take so many captives with us. "
The current status of these assassins was equivalent to that of prisoners of war. In the conflicts between the various city-states in Hilton, the treatment of prisoners of war was basically the same. Nobles with status would be detained, and the other party would be required to pay a large ransom. Civilian prisoners of war with no "value" might be sold as slaves. Sometimes, they would be executed or released.
Since these people were captured by Amon, they were Amon's "spoils of war", so he had to seek Amon's opinion on how to deal with them. Aristotle continued, "This batch of assassins is very important to the Hilton Kingdom. If possible, I want to bring all of them back. Amon, Medanzo, if you want a ransom, the Kingdom of Hilton can pay. Please let me take him away. "
Amon waved his hand. "Do as you please. I don't need any ransom. From now on, they are your captives."
Eisen frowned and said, "It's such a long journey, how are we going to escort these assassins back? These people are here to silence them. If the news gets out, I'm afraid there will be people who will kill these assassins along the way to silence them. "
Medanzo smiled and said, "Don't worry, we're here to escort Mr. Aristotle.
Just leave these 30 assassins to me. I promise they'll be on their way obediently. You don't have to worry. "
Aristotle instructed the guards, "Disarm these assassins first. Search them for anything extra on their bodies. They'll be your spoils of war. They set up an ambush deep in the mountains, so they couldn't have come on foot. The horses must be hidden somewhere nearby. We've lost some warhorses. Search those horses too. "
Hearing that they could take advantage of the situation, the guards happily searched the assassins' bodies. Some even went to look for the horses hidden in the mountains. Thanks to the generosity of Lord Amon and Lord Aristotle, everyone had made a small fortune. Not to mention the other things, just the weapons carried by the assassins were worth a lot of money.
At this time, a supreme warrior had already woken up. His body was sore and limp and he couldn't move. When he found a guard fumbling in his arms, he blushed and shouted angrily, "I'm the supreme warrior of Ya Lun City, Moira! You can't be so rude! Even if I'm a captive, I still demand the courtesy of a captive! "
Medanzo stepped forward and kicked him lightly. He sneered, "Courtesy? Why didn't you mention courtesy when you were lying in ambush to silence us? What's so great about being a supreme warrior? Don't show off here, just lie down! "
Sure enough, the guards found dozens of horses hidden in the nearby mountains. Medanzo woke up the assassins. Not only did he use magic to restrict their strength, but he also tied their hands behind their backs and made them walk behind the convoy. Medanzo rode a horse to escort them, while Amon and Aristotle rode in the same carriage.
Only then did Eisen realize that there was not only one supreme mage in the team of assassins, but also two supreme warriors! He couldn't help but feel even more afraid. Fortunately, Amon and Medanzo took action. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Such a team looked really strange. That afternoon, they walked out of the mountains and came to a town, attracting the attention of the local residents.
Medanzo tied the hands of the assassins behind their backs and tied them together with ropes. Aristotle didn't stop him. Amon guessed the intention of the sage, so he quietly gave a few instructions to Medanzo.
When had the high priest of Ya Lun City, Merlin, ever suffered such humiliation? His hands were tied behind his back and tied with ropes. He walked in the streets with a group of captives and was watched by the onlookers. There were even children who spat and threw stones at him, as if they were watching a monkey show. The officials in the town were shocked to learn that the Kingdom of Macedonia's diplomatic mission had been attacked in the mountains. They were relieved to learn that there were no casualties, but then they began to worry because someone recognized Merlin and the other two supreme warriors.
That night, when they were resting in the hostel, local officials came to express their condolences and apologies. They said that the Special Envoy had encountered gangsters here and that it was the fault of poor public security management. They hoped that the Special Envoy would hand over the gangsters to the local magistrate for severe punishment. Eisen received the group of people and shook his head. "They are not gangsters, but assassins. They are now our captives, and we will take them back to the Kingdom of Macedonia for punishment."
The local official added, "We are willing to pay whatever ransom Lord Aristotle and Lord Eisen demands." But Eisen, at the behest of Aristotle, refused this request. The redemption of the prisoners would have to wait until the mission had returned to Macedonia, and the Miduli magistrates did not have to interfere in the matter.
The officials in the town had no choice but to send someone to Ya Lun City overnight to report the news. The next day, Aristotle's convoy continued to set off, leaving the territory of Miduli and entering the city of Olympios. In the city of Olympios, the thirty assassins were still tied in two strings and followed the convoy. Almost all the people in the city looked at them. Merlin and the two supreme warriors were, of course, recognized again.
So the same thing happened again. Some people asked Aristotle to ransom the "prisoners of war," and some people asked Aristotle to hand over the "assassins" to the local magistrate for severe punishment. However, Aristotle refused for the same reason. Along the way, Aristotle did not ask the identity of the assassins, nor did he interrogate anyone. The captives were also frightened and confused. They did not know what Lord Aristotle meant and what kind of fate awaited them.
In particular, the three arrogant great achievers felt that such torture was worse than death. Along the way, they asked several times to be interrogated, but Medanzo ignored them. They were assassins who assassinated the Macedonian diplomatic mission. Even if someone wanted to rescue them or silence them, it was not appropriate to do so openly. They could only set up an ambush in a hidden place. When the convoy left the border of Olympios, they encountered another group of "assassins" in the mountains.
The target of the assassins was not Aristotle's convoy, but the group of captives following behind the convoy who had no ability to resist. As a result, when the convoy walked out of the forest, the thirty captives escorted by Medanzo became ninety. They walked on the road in a grandiose manner. Further north, they entered the territory controlled by the Kingdom of Macedonia.
The second group of assassins was also urgently sent by the city of Yalen, but they were also taken down by Amon and Medanzo. Medanzo deliberately mixed the first group of assassins with the second group of assassins, and re-tied them with ropes so that they could talk to each other on the road. As a result, the captives quarreled among themselves.
The captured supreme warrior Moira cursed the commander of the second group of assassins, claiming that he had been secretly ordered by the city to assassinate the Kingdom of Macedonia's diplomatic mission. Unfortunately, he had failed and was captured. The city had sent reinforcements, but not only did they not try to rescue them, they even wanted to kill them. It was too shameless!
Medanzo could not help but scold, "Mr. Aristotle has no enmity with you, but he wants to tear up the treaty as soon as he signs it. He even resorted to despicable means of assassination, and he still has the nerve to scold others!" The captives lowered their heads and did not speak.
The delegation of more than twenty people with ninety prisoners of war passed through various towns of the Kingdom of Macedonia, and under the onlookers of the people, they arrived at the city of Macedonia. Before they could see the city walls of Macedonia, smoke and dust rose in the distance. The sound of horses' hooves rumbled, flags fluttered, and the King Philip II personally led the guards out of the city to welcome the returning delegation, giving the returning delegation the highest standard of courtesy.
The Kingdom of Macedonia was a state that rose in the later period of the Hibon War, and the current King Philip II was also a great hero. When the Bosnian army had just invaded, the Kingdom of Macedonia had once surrendered to the Bosnians. The Bosnians used the local people to build military fortresses and transport logistical supplies.
At that time, Philip II was the uncle of the young King. He sent a group of trusted aides to infiltrate the civilian troops to spy on and collect various information about the Bosnian people. He also analyzed and sorted out a series of information about the distribution of the Bosnian army on the Heaton peninsula, the supply routes, and so on, and provided it to Gebados and Yalen in the south. In the later decisive battle of Hibon, the military information provided by Philip II played an important role.
After the end of the Hibon War, the Bosnian army withdrew from the Heaton peninsula, and the situation in Macedonia was chaotic. Philip II took the opportunity to depose the young King and ascended the throne himself. Not only did he pacify the situation in the state, but the Kingdom of Macedonia also took advantage of the situation to rise, filling the chaotic power vacuum in the surrounding areas after the withdrawal of the Bosnian army.
At this time, in the south of the Heaton peninsula, the Yalen Alliance and the Gebados Alliance fought for hegemony, and civil war broke out one after another. In the north, where the situation was relatively calm, the sphere of influence controlled by the Kingdom of Macedonia had been quietly expanding. The places that the Bosnian people withdrew from were immediately occupied by Macedonia. By the time Yalen and Gebados, who were trapped in the quagmire of civil war, were greatly weakened, the Kingdom of Macedonia had become the most powerful force in the north of the Heaton peninsula.
With the expansion of the territory and the growing strength of the state, the Kingdom of Macedonia ushered in a golden period of development. Philip II specially invited the famous sage Aristotle to be the court teacher,
To teach his young son Alexander. When the ambitious Fawkes instigated the scuffle between Yalen and Gebados developed into an uncontrollable situation, and the Bosnian forces made a comeback, Philip II finally decided to pacify the south of the Heaton peninsula.
He sent a mission to the city of Yalen to discuss the alliance, with the intention of ending the civil war, unifying the Heaton peninsula, and completely expelling the Bosnian forces. The Yalen people concluded an alliance, but as soon as they turned around, they went back on their word and sent assassins in an attempt to make the mission disappear forever. However, the assassins failed and were captured, and were brought back to Macedonia.
Even before Aristotle arrived, Philip II received the news. The king did not fly into a rage out of humiliation. Instead, he was overjoyed. In his opinion, Yalen, who was at the end of the road, was courting death. Originally, he had only established an alliance according to the traditional customs between the states of the Heaton peninsula, but the treacherous behavior of the city of Yalen gave him an excuse to completely unify the peninsula.
Aristotle was able to capture the assassins alive and bring them back to Macedonia as living evidence, which was simply wonderful! Under such circumstances, if the Macedonian army went south, the states of the Heaton peninsula would have nothing to say, so Philip II personally went out of the city to welcome the mission. There was another reason why he did not hesitate to leave the city for dozens of miles and was in such a hurry.
The main god that the Macedonians believed in was Zeus, and on the night before Aristotle's return, Philip II received an oracle from Zeus, telling him that someone would follow Aristotle to the Kingdom of Macedonia, and that this person would bring unprecedented achievements to the kingdom, even beyond everyone's dreams and imagination!
The oracle did not say who this person was, but Philip II was elated. In his opinion, the captives brought back by Aristotle were already of great value.
Aristotle had completed his mission by handing over the signed covenant and the captives to the King. This was perhaps the most dramatic covenant in the history of the Heaton United Kingdom, because it was already torn up when it was handed over to the other party.
It was unknown whether the nobles in Yalen City would cry, because it was clearly written in the covenant that the two states would form an alliance, not to invade each other, and would jointly resist foreign enemies. But now the covenant had become invalid, and the captives were the evidence that the Yalen people had broken the covenant.
Since the oracle of Zeus did not mention the name of the "person," in theory, he could be anyone brought back by Aristotle, or he could be among the captives. So Philip II had to deal with the matter carefully. He did not kill any of the captives, but put them under house arrest and interrogated them separately. He gave them preferential treatment, but he was not allowed to ransom them.
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