Chapter 10 - A sad night (1/2)

The time that remained Flavio on the farm concluded, he created a rotation of crops that will prevent the fields from losing their fertility and added sugar beet in the rotation of crops

Flavio left orders on the management of waste and the continuous creation of compost, apart from that he separate part of the waste to raise worms because the chickens need food to produce eggs constantly.

That same morning Flavio received a letter from his father, mentioning that the Cantabrians made a surprise attack on the Roman cities of the north, passing through the province of Tarraconensis into Lusitania, so they had to take the legion IX of Emerita Augusta and stop them before they arrived in Salamanca or Salamanca if no had other option

Because once the city fell the next destination was emerita Augusta, also asked his son to take charge of the defense of the city, he just needs to wait until his grandfather arrived with the bulk of the Roman army

This news made him scowl at Flavio, he knew that his father would have communicated with his grandfather but will take at least 2 to 3 months to arrive, this placed on the shoulders of Flavio a great weight

The city of emerita Augusta has approximately 120k of people and maybe adding to the two tribes loyal closest to emerita Augusta the population increases to 140k and if it frees the slaves this maybe reaches 160k.

On the way back he took the opportunity to enter the Artemis temple with Julia, but unlike the first time he could not feel the goddess but instead felt that his body was full of energy, after being in the temple for a few hours he could feel that his body was much lighter and stronger also discovered that the range of his perception ability increased to 10 meters.

Julia all the time just sit in a chair and see her son doing he stuff like sitting on the floor and practice with her tinny fist, every one-hour Julia forced Flavio to sit in his legs for taking a breath of the exercise he is making.

Flavio doesn't say anything to his mother because he loves the cares she is doing with him, he only thinks the love of a mother is something he likes, but in that happy moments, Flavio can't stop thinking the problems are coming to his home with the Cantabrians.

After leaving the temple he decided to do a task that he did not like but had no other choice, he remembered that the Cantabrians in his life last they had an army of more than 100k most of that troops are kids and adult men with only armed with a wood stick and some rusty swords.

But the problem its the large numbers of that Army Flavio can be sure that when they launch an attack to Salamanca their number must have been changed there are not many natives who like Roman rule in Hispania, the problem with that tribes it's they have knowledge of forge so what happens when you give better weapons to a big army, Flavio only had chills of think that.

Flavio knew that he will need the complete control Emerita Augusta and for that need to install a dictatorship with that he was able to make a defense that could rival Cantabrians, people are sometimes stupid and do not consider the danger until it is too late

Despite not liking the idea of being a dictatorship, Flavio no have other options because the Cantabrians will no have mercy when they saw his mother, the most likely scene will happen it's they will rape her mother and kill him, in this crazy time its better to take the destiny in your hands if the people did not want to cooperate he would do it the hard way.

To complete the task of taking all the city he organized high-level meetings where he meets with groups of the main members of the city, merchants, soldiers, priests, nobles, everyone who had power was assimilated (hypnotize).

Then followed with citizens, free people, slaves, and foreigners anything that enters the city had to be assimilated, there is no exception even in the underworld of the city, with the city in its control established a rule based on the regime that platón wrote in his book the republic, with touches of modernity

All People they were assigned a job, all the ”assimilation” that Flavio did was not easy but it helped to improve his mental control, unfortunately, he realized that the human mind can be stronger than he thinks.

Flavio knows that he will not be able to stand a long time the control over a large number of people, the mental burden on him is brutal, can only withstand thanks to Artemis temple reduces its pressure.

For reducing the pain he told Arabela to do what was necessary to prevent him from feeling pain, after that order every morning Flavio feels better.

During the next 4 weeks, Flavio freed the slaves from Augusta emerita and recruited freedmen (Free slaves), tribal people (loyal to Rome and him) and free citizens to create an army of defense specialized in the use of the crossbow

The number of recruits was 30k, not to mention that created a reserve composed of teenagers, elders, and women, the production of the crossbow is not complicated and can be produced more quickly than an arch

Flavio established 24hr production lines to be able to make crossbows, arrows, mini catapults, swords, paves, alcohol, crackers (like military rations), stirrups, normal arrows, ceramic pots, and the main dish bleach

For check her theory about if the strength of the bleach is from her divine energy, he ordered to the prisoners of death produce day after day bleach, it was normal to hear heartrending cries from Artemis's temple courtyard

Always the citizen of emerita august sees how soldiers cleansed of blood and corpses of Artemis temple, shortly after that Flavio was left without the condemned, the solution for him was to occupy normal prisoners unlike Previous devils he provided them with leather gloves and goggles, the death toll was reduced by 90%.