Chapter 129 - 99: Bad News
"That will do."
"You’ve been in Sarabia for so long and haven’t gone to see Naisuya yet. You can take the chance to visit her later," Maximus reminded once more.
The Governor Mansion in Sarabia was quite spacious. Maximus arranged for the oldest group of children in the team to stay there to facilitate tasks, including Naisuya.
"She’s busy with her studies and work now. She probably forgot about her mother long ago," Acronis said with pride in her teasing tone.
Karina listened to their warm conversation from the side, feeling a tinge of envy...
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Metapontum, a coastal town in Tarentum Bay, was legendarily founded by Nestor and his Pylian people from Troy. It became very wealthy due to agriculture and maritime trade, attracting the covetous eyes of the northern mountain people, who attacked and destroyed the city state along with its neighbor Siris.
Later, the Achaeans rebuilt it, restoring its prosperity, and even attracted mathematician Pythagoras to reside there and design coin molds for Metapontum.
In the decades since, the Metapontum people lived in peace and were even too lazy to involve themselves in the Marci War.
However, since February of this year, one of the rebel leaders, Enomai, and his forces entered the Metapontum region, and warfare has been raging ever since. All villages were plundered, and Metapontum City was besieged. The rebel army launched multiple sieges, and without Metapontum’s well-equipped defenses, Governor Silanuus’s appropriate responses, and aid from neighboring towns via sea routes, it might have fallen.
By early March, after several days of rest, Enomai’s army launched another attack on Metapontum City.