Patricia Taylor
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It is almost dusk when Antonius was led out of the palace, just as he left the palace gate, he caught sight of two men, one elderly and one younger, being pushed out by palace guards. Their big bag of belongings thrown out of a window, scattering what it seems to be scrolls of paper drawings on the ground. "Get out of the city with your bunch of croaked witchcraft!" A palace guard yelled as he tossed another bag of paper scrolls towards the elderly man. The man, weeping and crying on the ground. He…-
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It did not take long before Yuri could assemble all his companions from their Nordic lands scattered around the city. All bunch of burly merry man that sailed all the way south following the path walked once by their forefathers. It was widely circulated that once they retire formally as the Roman Emperor's Varangian guard, they will receive that greatest honour, a bunch of fine silks manufactured from the distant land of Serica, royal purple cloak, and other treasures gifted to them by the Emperor of the…
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Antonius watches emotionlessly as his camp medic treats the burnt wounds of Abdullah on his back. His right hand holding the grip of his cutlass. Although he is just sitting there, the anger from his eyes showed the beast within. The anger is boiling deep inside his guts. Churning within hot as lava, dying to draw his blade and avenge his anger. In the light through the window by port-side pouring into the room focusing itself onto Abdullah's back. His back is full of great patch of purple welts that has…
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Three Days Later, in the city of Bursa, formally Prusa, Opsikion, Anatolia. "Are you insane? Is your Emperor out of his mind? What is Loukas Notaras doing?" The Grand Vizier of the Ottoman, Candarli Halil Pasha, is appalled by this absurd piece of news that he looked outside of the window to make sure the sun rose from the west. Candarli Halil Pasha stared at the four ambassadors with his unique pair of bull's eyes. Still haven't recovered from the shock of receiving such a ridiculous letter, he leaned…
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"No! Please don't, I know Mehmed, he is not a man… he is not a Sultan to accept threats!" Abdullah ran forward clumsily, waving his silver cup mid-air, yelling as he runs. "Trust me! Lords! No one knows Mehmed here better than I do, trust me, he will definitely not accept a black mail like this and retaliate back, then most likely he will immediately end the peace with you and lay siege on the city, it is a risk that is way too heavy for us…" Loukas, who grew worried at the sight that some advisors…
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"Yes, Mega Doux, our new admiral has returned with the greatest victory that the empire has ever seen." Replied Andronikos Laskaris, an advisor in the court of Constantine. "I see, I see, that's indeed a great news." Loukas stopped his hands from trembling and took some effort to calm himself. "I'm sorry Andronikos, I am just over-joyyed you see." "Yes, I understand, I almost fell when I heard the news too! All Romans, including the Basileus, is rejoicing in the news of this triumph. The Basileus has…
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"Abraham turn back!" "But sir it is not worth it, it is full of fire back…" "Turn back!" "… Aye sir." Antonius nodded, looked back at the inferno he created, and shouted out to his crew. "Lads! Remember another rule of me! In a battle, we shall leave no brothers behind! Now go back!" The sailors forcefully changed their oaring direction in the orders of their captain, although they know that the merciless fire there might easily engulf them, but they still chose to follow the order of their…
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The Diekplous is a form of maritime military technique that is being invented and used by the ancient pagan Greeks. Especially suitable in the Mediterranean ocean which is like a water basin. It involves assembling an elite naval task force, place it in one breaking point in the battle line. This elite task force is in charge of plunging into the opponent's battle line and produce a hole in their line of defense. Then things are rather simple, the elite task force can pour into the gap produced like…
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The victory for the Battle just now did not last long, as people watch the vast fleet appearing up from North. The sheer size of the fleet is enormous that its sails went covering the horizon and the last trace of sunlight. This gives the massive fleet a kind of feeling, that they are the true ambassador of destruction, ready to descent eternal darkness and eventual death on the head of anyone, or anything there to stop them. Abraham immediately turned to Antonius and asked in an anxious tone. "What do…
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1452 AD, October 25th , Aegean Sea A massive fleet of Galleys and light ships powered by their sailors' oars pushing against the water and the breezy wind gently billowing the sails of the ships sailed into the Aegean Sea. The afternoon sunshine baked the wet deck making it filled with warmth. The fleet traveled across the white painted waves like a pack of ducklings swimming across a pond filled with snowdrop Calla lily flowers. Sailing across the channel of Izmir in open broad light into Ottoman naval…
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