Suddenly, I was surrounded. "I remember you, you're the one who killed the lord!" yelled the tall man. A barrage of arrows came in but luckily I wasn't hit. Their soldiers closed in and with all the chaos, the gunmen, who were our best attack, couldn't shoot without striking their allies. We were forced to engage them in close ranged combat. "Don't fire your guns!" I yelled. The fire stop and our soldiers rushed in. I dashed through the crowd and climbed up the tower. There were many books there and the room hadn't been touched to the point where you could still see blood stains. I took some of the books and stuffed them in my bag. I remembered that the guy had magic so maybe I could learn some from this book.
Our army far outnumbered them and was better equipped so we were obviously winning. I hurried back down and the battle had ended and we were the victors. We regrouped with the rest of the army and Han and Pearl looked confused. "What took you so long, it was just a weapons trade?" asked Pearl. "I just asked them for a smoke" I said. We still had no clues on where Apollo was. I opened the first book and began to read it. "There is an eye called Mati, capable of causing destruction which can easily annihilate most countries however, it's been hidden away by Zeus in an unknown land so I, Kratos aren't able to find it to execute Athena". That meant that I'd killed yet another God together with Han, making us the enemy of the supreme beings. Since we were enemies, that meant I could kill them since they opposed a hero.
The days went by and I continued reading the books. There were almost no mentions of Apollo except one part which mentioned his "Holy land". It was apparently a place in the sky, which seemed fake considering all of the other Gods lived on land but with all that I'd seen, it was probable. There were nymphs all around and even a race of flying humans there. That was at least a clue but for some reason, there was no mention of magic which meant that he probably expected this to happen one day. I was planning to go to the continent of Zagned and was planning to tell Han. Night came and I got off my carriage to go to his. "Hey Han, I wann-". I stopped in my tracks. They were trying to take care of their baby so I decided to hold what I wanted to say. I'd lost a lot so hopefully they could keep theirs.
Day came and we continued our journey. I managed to tell Han but last night had made me realised that we needed money right now. I still had a bit of the money from the adventures with Theseus which could pay for the child's needs but I couldn't pay for the whole army. We'd lost around two hundred soldiers from our last two battles. If the eye was true then with the ten thousand troupes we'd get from finding Apollo, we could defeat Thebes which had about three times out troops right now. An average army has fifty thousand and since the eye can kill that much, then I could end Thebes and the King of it.
We still needed more allies since I didn't want to bother Athens too much. I had to form a good reputation with the countries in Zagned. If I didn't then my plan would be ruined. Apollo's country could also maybe help me but I wasn't sure about what he had turned into considering Artemi's change into Artemis. I looked back up and saw that we were nearing the border to Zagned which was one of the few land connected areas. We had to climb up the wall which for some reason had no guards. It took a while for everyone but we managed to get over and set a camp.
Day came again and we set out once again. The trees were rather thin and had this yellow tone to them. In the distance was a village. There were four big torches on the corner of each wall and it looked rather tribal. I took a hundred troops and went inside. They all were dressed in long white robes and had curly blonde hair. They looked like the people inside the temple where we'd met Theseus except they were much harder to tell apart because of their hair. They seemed angry at us for some reason and a group began to walk towards us. They began speaking another language which was rare since seventy six percent of countries spoke Graken. "Pabia qi u kana visti a ropa sagrada?" said the leader.
"No sedo mercenarios y no ka sibi sobre isso" said someone from my army. I didn't understand anything and they turned peaceful so I just let him talk. A small girl came through the crowd and asked, "Where are you from?"
"No where".