The Sudden Change
338 Words
Another week seemed to go by without the situation being resolved, but it would, and in a way no one expected.
The Kingdom of Crete fell, and upon its ashes, dozens of city-states sprang up, some Greek, some Persian.
Thereupon Crete was split in half, on one side the golden Persian standard, on the other side the white and blue Greek flags.
And Sarpi? He, Kiro and Count Demaclios, together with their warriors, refused to surrender to their enemies, gained recognition from Athenas, which was enough for it to become an independent city-state, without the need to pay any kind of tribute to them. .
As the Count was the only one with a title of nobility and experience in managing territories, he became the first Arch-Strategos.
Something that was like, supreme civil and military leader, and of course, from now on it would be elected by the people, or not...
With suspicion they left the fort, and what they found was death and destruction throughout the territory of Polyrrinia.
Since the Greeks had failed to invade the fort and were forced to leave without killing their king's assassin, they took it out on innocent civilians.
After two days of hard work to make a huge pyre to burn the bodies of the slaughtered Cretans, and after a brief farewell ceremony, they rested until midnight of the same day, to perform the creation ceremony together with the Athenian diplomat on the blood of a lamb and the flame that seemed to extend to Olympus, so that the city-state of Polymartius comes into existence in fact, which the name means in Cretan, the eternal flame of war.
Sarpi was curious about such a ceremony of creation, so when he asked the Count, he replied:
_Don't be scared Sarpi. This ceremony is very old and very important. without her the world will not recognize us, and even if the whole world does, we will not have Mother Gaia's protection, which would make us an easy target for pests and diseases.
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