The Chronicles Of The Shark Empire

The Laws Of Polymartius

After Sarpi's great success in catching many fish daily, the food situation of the remaining citizens has improved.

Two weeks later, the first papyrus of laws of the city-state was present.

Don't steal, don't kill outside the arena, don't mess with your neighbor's wife and don't lie.

The first and last crime, punishable by lashes, from 0 to 250.

Other crimes punishable by death or human shield work.

When the laws came out, none of the citizens found them excessive. On the contrary, they felt much more secure.

Since there were a total of 15000 people, namely: 2 nobles, 3000 citizens, 5000 free men, 5000 tribals and 2000 slaves.

And the slaves were mostly wounded warriors left behind by the Greeks, so the citizens somehow didn't feel so safe, but now with the new laws they were feeling Count Demaclios' care towards them.

The old laws interpreted that only citizens could have civilian positions or military duties, but it was something that in the view of the new high command: (Demaclios, Sarpi and Kiro), it was something that didn't make sense, so they introduced a law to make it easier climbing the social ladder, turning all free men into labor for a possible war.

With the introduction of the new laws, Sarpi's navy increased to 500 men, armed with light wooden spears tipped with iron and simple wooden shields.

Every day they swam a kilometer away, dive 250 meters and then ran the entire coast of the city-state, from one end to the other.

Their average power level was between 125-160.

And Kiro, who had been placed as the deputy strategos, was in awe of the effectiveness of Polymartius' government.

As there was a lot for Count Demaclios to take care of, apart from training and organizing the city's warriors, it was left to Kiro, who, unlike Sarpi, was doing an inferior service.

He had 300 men in his hands, all fat from overeating and lack of daily training. none of them respected him as a leader, they were only there for the opportunity to receive an easy salary and the facilitation to become a citizen.

The Count seeing that, allocated fewer resources to Kiro and instead strengthened his own personal guard, increasing it from 25 men to 200.

The neighboring city-states, under the sway of Sparta's brutal rule, were envious and afraid of the rapid development of their rivals, who in a short time already had reasonable war forces to maintain for a while a defensive war.