- And again the right question. The gods do not possess all-powerfulness and do not know everything that is going on around them. They are just very sophisticated and very curious creatures. Why - I can not answer you, just do not convey the meaning through the language. If you want, consider it all a game.

- The game ? !

- Yes, by playing and playing. I am so amused. All this gives me pleasure and new information.

"Well, you have games! "

"Great talents give big flaws," he said, and winked.

- And where did you get this unusual armor?

- I made it myself, me those that you did not like at all. In them, this fragile human shell can easily collapse, and this is not part of my plans.

"Do you need priestesses? "

- Well, well! What an arrogance!

" I'm serious. "You can always guide me, but she still does not say anything. It is not with the priests to talk about what I'm all sinful and in general an abomination in a skirt.

- Do not you consider yourself as such?

Of course. Where did this stupidity come from with original sin. Why do I need to feel guilty all the time? I did not do anything wrong! It's not fair! Not fair!

"Hush, do not shout, I can hear you well. "

- Sorry.

" To become my priestess you must prove that you deserve it. "I do not need random people, because in this world I have quite ambitious plans.

- What you need to do, say. I'm ready for anything!

" For everything? "How reckless! And if I want to test the firmness of your will and ask you to sleep with all the porters of Athens port in turn?

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" That's it, that's" but ". Think first and calculate your own and other people's moves. Speaking now, you must clearly assume that it will be tomorrow. And what do you need from this "tomorrow"? And then they will destroy you as a child and you will work hard on your enemies for one meal. And it's good if you lose yourself, or even those entrusted to you. Did you hear me clearly?

Yes, sir.

Ok. Do you want to pass the priestess's test?

"Of course, sir. "

Ok. Here is your sword, go - kill your brothers. With these words, he took the shiavon out of its sheath and laid it on the stone in front of it. His face was calm. Cold, hard eyes looked at her slightly relaxed. Eric's whole body showed perfect calm and equanimity. Her face, on the other hand, was distorted and all was white. After staying in the stupor for about five seconds, she came to herself and, taking her sword, held it back.

- 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.