- I can not do it!
"Do you understand that if you start a test and fail it, then I will have to kill you? "
"I do not care, sir, I'm ready to accept death if this protects my brothers. "
" It will not protect them. "After that I will kill them as unnecessary witnesses.
" Then, then I'll fight! " - She intercepted the sword and sent him a blade in the direction of our hero. Her frantic eyes were full of horror and fear, but she was willing to at least try to fight with the one who in her opinion was God. The Baron only smiled, reached out his hand, squeezed the blade tightly and gently pulled himself and sideways. She leaned behind the blade and, almost stumbling, dropped it from her hands. And Eric, slowly hid him in the sheath.
Well done,You passed the test. You could overcome fear. Sit down.
Then he talked with her about what she had to do next, already in the role of his priestess. The key issue was the issue of transport. Since our lady had her ships, it was a sin not to use them. She equipped all three ships that were to come from Venice one of these days, for a trip to Athens and carried out the transfer of his people and a significant part of the property there. First of all, the most valuable statues were sailing, which had to be hidden on the Templar courtyard for a fee. The next issue was the question of building relationships with the sullen manager. It was necessary to tone the whole trading company, as it could be very useful in the future. In addition, the three older brothers had to make every effort to learn the letter and the account as soon as possible, and to maximally adopt the experience of doing business with the manager. Need for a couple of years to prepare them for independent business management, and leave the manager only for the sake of ties. There must be three of them, because they need to deploy three permanent missions in Venice, Corfu and Athens with a single command center and a unified budget. The elder brother sits in the parents' house, the two younger ones are dotted. At each metochion it is necessary to collect in the future a small guard from 5-10 persons and normally to train / arm them. The third issue was an important, but difficult, task of forming an armed detachment. Eric will need loyal and adequately armed forces in two to three years to take the prize, so that such things can and should be taken care of right now. To clarify this issue, it was necessary to solve two problems: about the equipment and about the organization. To find out information about the quality and quantity of equipment available in the temple, Eric picked up the already frustrated brothers of the girl and made him work a little. And though the rumbling of their awkward activity shook the whole cave, but after three hours it was clearly visible - what and how much they have. The situation turned out to be not so rosy as he thought at first - from more than a hundred sets of armor to use, of course after the arrangement, only 23 Segmentals could be preserved, which were preserved, and therefore preserved perfectly. All the rest turned out to be either generally substandard, like, for example, seventy-two iron chain mails rusted to the perfect extremity, or sets of sewn scales whose base completely rotted, and the scales themselves lay loose. There were twelve such "collect yourself" sets. Also, there were eight anatomical bronzes in bronze in quite a good condition, but, alas, they were not used reasonably, since they were technologically very outdated. In addition to the elements of the protection of the hull in the room, there were still about a hundred kilograms of rusted iron, which was once helmets, and about five hundred copies of cold weapons: swords, axes, spears. As a result, they got a huge pile of iron, weighing about three hundred kilograms. It could have been very profitable to sell for processing to blacksmiths. Decided to do so - all the equipment, except lorik and scales, sell by the forces of our trading company, including bronze. Scale to restore on the basis of aketon, in lorikah to replace the leather elements and clean. Having solved this problem, they moved on to organize the detachment. Based on the available armor, it was decided to establish its strength of 35 people. Each fighter should be equipped with a well-quilted aketon, and on top of it - an ancient armor. In addition to this property, each soldier was put a simple spangelhelm with a sinker. If the means allow, it was necessary to further strengthen each helmet with headphones. Of the weapons needed to purchase 35 swords of type XII, the same number of simple approximately the same arrows cocked "goat leg". With him was supposed to carry 30 bolts. In addition, each fighter was equipped with a large rectangular shield, designed so that they could be hidden behind when reloading a crossbow, and a horse for transport. Command over the detachment receives a younger brother, who was to choose two assistants - sergeants, thereby dividing the squad into two equal-sized units. On it was the general training of the guys. The training should include the ability to keep the formation when attacking the enemy, either by the entire detachment or by the detachment; shooting fugitive volleys; fight on swords individually and in formation. After recruiting, manning and training, the detachment must go to Constantinople, where to stay for a while and, after registering with the Templar Bank, wait for his arrival, giving all the time to training. To reach the final point of the route was not later than mid-summer next year. Demeter - personally was responsible for everything and had to make every effort to achieve positive results.
Having set goals and distributed tasks, they, all together, engaged in the preparation of temple property for evacuation from the cave. Basically, it was reduced to traversing the entire territory, sorting out for removal and deciding what would go into preserving, and what to sell by the forces of the trading company. So the day passed unnoticed, Morrigan returned with the people of Eric. In total they drove twenty-four horses, four each. Irlandka showed ingenuity and took on her own initiative quite a few bags and ropes. The next three days was a slow and careful evacuation of things from the cave. The young baron with his people moved from the rented house to the farmstead of Demeter, where they collected for the first time the entire exported cargo. Noteworthy was the meeting of our hero with the manager. Since the sight of him was dashing and silly, it turned out to be not at all surprising that he, after a pair of fingers bitten off with a blacksmith's clipper, admitted to all the theft and sale of the company's ships, writing off them for loss from the storm. Prior to direct self-mutilation, he was beaten for a long time and with pleasure, trying to inflict maximum pain and humiliation, but not severely injuring his body. By the end of this petting, all his relatives were gathered, that they lived in Kerkir, that is, about one hundred and forty people. The guests were pleased with the elegant work of the wire cutters and his sincere, public repentance. Then, at their full meeting, they loudly and clearly announced that they would make an osmosis to him and all his male relatives to the third tribe in case he at least once lied to someone from the family of Demeter or their trusted people. It was also promised to cut out all of his relatives, without understanding their field and age, until the seventh tribe, if he does not return the cost of all the stolen property, including ships, plus half more from above, in order to compensate for moral damage. The time for a refund was put him in three hundred and twenty-four hours. They also discussed the conditions of flight and sudden death. If he makes his legs, then after a fixed time his relatives are cut out. If he suddenly dies, then the debt goes to his relatives. True, the amount will already be not one and a half of the stolen, but two parts. And if he decides to run away with his relatives, they will still be found and killed by all, and very painfully. In short - intimidated under the full program. Having endorsed this all, in the end, for the sake of memory, another one slowly biting off his finger, the boys all dismissed their business. That is - to seek them money. The sum, by the way, was very impressive and amounted to about two hundred Vienna marks in silver. All his six years of selfless and brazen theft at once auknulis in the form of one and absolutely immense genitalia. A week after the conversation with the manager came two ships Demeter, and our guys finally went to Athens.