05. Experiment
Here's the chapter!
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"Mmmm my name eh... Well you can call me...Massimo Decimo Meridio, commander of the northern army, general of the Felix legions, loyal servant of the one true emperor Marco Aurelio, father of a murdered son, husband of a murdered wife... and I will have my revenge, in this life or the next. ' I speak, turning and walking out of the room, a tear welling in my eye.
(Yes, 'The Gladiator' is one of my favourite films, so seeing the 7-7 tie on names between Maximus and Alexander, I chose it! So from time to time I will insert a few phrases from the film).
Fuck what an epic exit I made! LOL Mmmmm I hadn't given myself a name yet??? Fuck! A bit of dementia? I was in doubt with Alexander the Great, but in the end better Maximus! An almost Emperor, who will become Emperor in this life.
Plans are going right now, in the next 10 days the Unsullied I bought from Astapor should arrive along with slaves with Essos language skills. The abilities of the Unsullied seem legendary, I will test them in person
before incorporating their abilities to my soldiers and I will get them out of the Ex-Men association (Varys, Grey Worm, Theon) reforming their stuff in short...
DIANA POV
It's been two weeks since my first fight and I never thought I could be a fighting sick person! I'm looking forward to the next fight, hoping it will be something great this time.
Right now we are placing our men at the head of the various pleasure houses of New Ghis and clearing them of the spies who have infiltrated inside, not killing them all but moving them slowly into more marginal roles. We do not want to alarm the various masters of the other cities of Essos too much, everyone on this continent is trying to plunder and control the other cities. For the time being our goal, as Massimo told us, is to strengthen ourselves internally and absorb forces and be impregnable. While we are doing this we will have to destabilise other cities, with murders and riots controlled by us, and in order not to be discovered and singled out as guilty we will have to sacrifice someone on our side, and it will be those useless Masters who think themselves so strong and powerful. In these weeks we are buying many slaves who should be nobles, from lesser houses in Westeros, and after verifying that they are they are made our men. Over the next few months we will have them returned to their homes, for a fee of course, at which point they will have to climb the ranks and take over the leadership of the family and continue to make it prosper.
It is of course a long-term plan to have footholds for our Emperor. Simplify the process he calls it... Since he made us what we are now, we are continuing to learn and improve everything we do! There will definitely be an end to this, but it's like if on a rainy day a gap opens up in the sky with rays of sunshine... From that moment on it keeps getting wider and wider and this knowledge I feel is indispensable. I have areas where I don't do well, quite a few I would say! But in fighting, being able to manipulate people with words and assassination too. If only we could get our hands on a Faceless Man, we would become war machines capable of anything!
It has already been five days since I have seen Emperor Maximus, who seems to be doing tests, or as he calls them 'experiments' on some animals... None of us can truly understand most of what he thinks or does, but our duty is to help him realise his wishes.
MASSIMO POV
I have been in this exotic animal warehouse for a few days now and well, how can I not be happy! I
managed to control and give some commands to some birds initially, which ranged from flying in certain areas of the city to dropping pebbles on some people's heads. I can't make them able to talk, I'm not a wizard LOL, but I can create a monitoring network even if the problems are obvious... They have to come back to me and I have to analyse their memory, so it's something that can be used in the same city or island if not too big. From New Ghis to Astapor a good quality hawk takes 2 days, depending on the weather and what it finds in the air while travelling. But of course a falcon is not usable for spying on people from a window... As Varys likes to call them, the little birds, in this really figurative sense, are the ones I'll have to use but the numbers are huge so I won't be able to use this one as much as I'd like... But for snakes, scorpions or dangerous animals things can change enormously! Silent killers, coming and going among the poorly constructed Magions or entering castles. Although the best part will be in battle, taking an example from the Golden Company I will have my elephants and why not lions and tigers... Until I find a fucking Dragon's egg!
There is also a lot of talk about the animals in the lands of Sothoryos with giant monkeys, basilisks and other fantastic animals. I think I'm a bit of a Newt Scamander, all I'm missing is a wand and a bag with almost unlimited space and well... I'd use them for war and not to save them.
Mmmmm a nice expedition to Sothoryos in preparation for the one to Valyria.... I wonder what that fucking city actually looks like after the volcanic eruption that caused its collapse. Remembering Pompeii, I'd say it's still there! Especially considering how advanced they seemed compared to all the known continents at this time. The glass of Lys looks like shit compared to that of Valyria, which in turn is shit compared to that of my world! In short, a dog biting its own tail....
I have all the time I want to do anything. In the next few moons I will have to take complete control of this city and then I will prepare to take my profits from the beginning of Robert's revolution, which remember will start around the end of 280 and beginning of 281 AC. We are now in the 2nd moon so I still have time to act, but I better start sending people to Westeros, I just need to send the right people with the right countermeasures.
Getting up from my chair I take one last look at Mufasa, Scar and Simba in their cages and think the whole thing is very funny.....
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Hi guys! Sorry again for the stop... unfortunately work is a giant shit in life! Sometimes I'd like to give it all up and open a farm in the country or go be a shepherd in the mountains. Not because in those jobs you don't do hard work, in fact you do a lot more!!! But working in an office drives me crazy and I think I have to make a decision and change something in my life LOL
The chapter is out, not my best for sure... I am doing some reading in the evening to find some elements and to set up where I want the story to go, which I should have done before writing....
Until the next chapter!