391 The Diadem Has Dropped

"Basileus! My emperor! Your majesty! Are you going to abandon us like this under the hooves of the infidels?!"

Pushed by the thirst for survival and the hope for the same kind of miracle in tales to happen again, some scattered shouts from the Romans themselves can be heard as they desperately try to fend off the incoming attacks by the Ottoman cavalries, totally unknowing that the first man who started all of these up is one of their enemies.