The year is 508 BC, and Deimos has turned 7years old this year.
He has grown to be 2 meters already.
And his strength has increased with strides.
The intake of dark matter never stopped.
And his strength never stopped growing.
If there would be one big change it is in his Devine blessing system.
Both his garan and origin snake bloodlines got consumed by his arch human bloodline.
While he keeps all traits from both bloodlines, he has now became a pure human.
That can consume foreign bloodlines and keep their strengths, and suppress the weaknesses of those bloodlines.
After a morning prayer Deimos got up from his bed.
This was the last day he and Phobos would spent with their mother this year.
For normal Spartan households, the boys at the age of 7 would need to begin their agoge.
But the firstborn of the Agiad and Eurypontid; families were exempt from this training that instilled loyalty to Sparta.
But because the Eurypontid family was wiped out, the Agiads had now two thrones and two kings so Deimos and Phobos were both exempt from the agoge.
But this did not mean that they would not be trained; no their training would only be harder so that they may become just and seasoned rulers.
For the next 13 years they would be trained to be full blood Spartans.
And at the age of 20 they would be seen as full grown adults.
Medusa would personally be taught by Gorgo how to be a qualified queen, and warior.
Something to note was that like Deimos all of his family's bloodline was changed to:
arch human, making them essentially the true royal human bloodline.
This also included Medusa, but like Deimos she kept her Naga traits.
And she would be trained by Gorgo as a politician too so Deimos could focus on military business, and not worry about how Sparta would be run after he ascended to the throne.
He and Phobos would be split up as Phobos was going with Leonidas to learn how to be a commander on land wile Deimos would be the head of the Spartan fleets.
So the one he would learn from is of course someone knowledgeable about Maritime warfare.
Sparta has changed a lot too during these two years.
The temple was build and city walls were erected.
The navy was expanded, and Deimos battleship was almost ready to be used as the flagship of the Spartan fleet.
Deimos was allowed to visit his ship a couple of days ago, and he could not be more enthusiastic about it.
It was gigantic being more than 150 meters long and 9 metres high and 10 meters wide.
A normal starten ship was one third this size.
This would be the biggest ship in antiquity.
It would be a warship with more than 1500 men on board.
Anyway today would be the day Deimos would meet his teacher and the day he said goodbye to his familie to go and learn the next year.
Deimos walked trough the hallways towards the supper room, where they would enjoy the first meal of the day.
"Deimos here here."
Phobos was waiting for Deimos together with Medusa.
He had become a great brother to Medusa.
While Deimos liked Medusa, he fully saw her as his little sister.
He gave her what Deimos couldn't be for her.
A big brother.
"Hey guys ready for our learning tour."
"Yes I can't wait to go to the battlefield with father."
"Hmm I also look forward to learning with mother about governing Sparta and learn her combat arts."
They walked inside where the servants had prepared their meals.
Leonidas and Gorgo were waiting for them.
"So kids are you ready"
"Yes father" they awnserd.
"Good"
They ate their food and moved towards the departure point.
There admiral syeinos, was waiting for Deimos he would be his teacher the coming years.
Gorgo come to Deimos and looked down on him.
And gave a hug.
"I will miss you"
"I will miss you too mother."
Phobos come up too giving Deimos a hug too.
"I will see you soon on the battlefield brother" Phobos said trying to sound like a adult.
"Pfff sure Phobos"
Then Medusa came up to him standing there akwardly.
Deimos seeing this was about to say something to ease the tension.
But before he could say something she gave him a pek on the cheek.
She then ran away with a red face.
"Don't die out there!!" She said while running.
"I won't" Deimos said while still in a daze.
"Haha good luck my son" Leonidas encouraged him.
"Well it is time to go your highness the seas are awaiting us" syeinos hinted.
"You are right admiral sorry for the holdup."
"Off you go Deimos"
"I want to hear of all your exploits once you return."
"No problem father."
And so Deimos set out on his first real adventure.
He got on the horse that was ready for him in the stable.
It was a white horse big and strong.
They set out immediately towards the Mediterranean sea.
The journey took several days and once they arrived the fleet was ready to set off.
"Your highness, the king has instructed me to teach you to command the fleet during combat, normal navigation and storms."
"We will first learn the basics and practice navigation, based on the position of the sun and the stars."
"Then we will practice maritime warfare against pirates."
"And finally we will navigate trough the storms."
"Yes admiral" Deimos awnsers.
The fleet would sail tomorrow, after all the supplies were secured on the ship.
So Deimos would sleep his first night in his own tent on the flag ship.
This was not his own metal ship for that one was not yet finished.
The sun began to set and Deimos slowly fell asleep underneath his sheep pelt.
But right outside the ship a shadow moved.
It made its way onto the ship, and snuck towards Deimos tent.
He slowly lifted the cloth on the tent opening.
And snuck inside.
When he got to Deimos he slowly unseated a dagger.
Just as he was about to strike Deimos disappeared.
"How boring" he heard behind him.
"This was the 87th attempt"
"Can't you guys think of something else."
"Well at least you used a metal that can hurt me unlike te last assassin."
The assassin's brow was sweating, this was not how it was supposed to go.
He got Intel that the prince of Sparta left the capitol and was alone.
Thinking this was a good opening he went for the kill but it didn't go as planned.
"KUCH"
Blood came out of his mouth.
Looking down he saw a arm going Straight trough were his hart was supposed to be.
"Hehe made a funny noice didn't hear that one so often"
" But damn now I have to clean this all up again"
Deimos mutterd to himself.