Nova Roma

Chapter 220 - Arrival to the city of Veii

The soldiers began to assemble the suitcases while Julio used the crossbow to kill as many cursed beings as he could before the crossbow’s ammunition would end.

The first to kill were those who could run, to find out who they were, he used one of the empty glass bottles of juice and threw it towards a stone.

The cursed beings heard the noise of the breaking glass bottle and headed towards the broken bottle, Julio was able to locate the cursed beings that could run at high speeds and aimed his crossbow to kill them.

The first to fall was the girl the soldier had seen, the Bolt pierced his little head while the girl fell to the ground without life, Julio continued with his crossbow attacks.

He did not always have such good aim some of those cursed beings had some Bolts in the face or neck as Julio had failed the shots.

Despite having been using the crossbow for half an hour, Julio had only killed 20 of the 50 cursed beings around the tower, so he decided to use something faster to kill them.

Julio went down to the first floor where the soldiers’ cupboard was and found a clay pot containing olive oil, the soldiers looked doubtfully but continued to store the material they might need for the road.

Another thing that Julio also took was another empty mud dish, he was going to do what his nephew called "Vulcano Cocktail", for that the first thing he did was divide the olive oil in the two clay pots and place in each of them A glass bottle with sealed water.

Then he just had to use a flint to light the fire on some paper and use it to light a fire in the clay pot, which had to be thrown after a moment so that the oil could ignite better.

The water would only work so that the hot oil shot out and did as much damage as possible, the most dangerous thing about using the Vulcano cocktail is that it can burst the water bottle inside it and damage the soldiers trying to use it.

Using one of the many empty bottles in the tower he threw them as close as possible to the tower where there was only one wooden wall so that the group of cursed beings would gather and could turn them into human torches.

The noise of the glass when it broke caused the cursed beings to gather around the wall, Julio lit the two pots to make the Vulcan cocktail using the help of the railing, he waits a bit for the oil to ignite correctly even with the risk that the water bottle inside the containers broke.

The two Vulcano cocktails fell after Julio pushed them from the wooden railing to one of the vessels the hot oil caused the glass of the water bottle to break halfway, releasing the liquid in the hot oil which broke the Mud container releasing oil with fire in all cursed beings.

The burning oil fell on them, lighting their clothes causing them to become human torches, which were indifferent to the fire when the second jar with oil fell, it did so on the head of one of the cursed beings.

The Jar did not splash the oil on fire just like the Vulcano cocktail that exploded halfway, but it did help stoke the flame of the cursed beings that were close to where the vessel fell.

Gradually the air was impregnated with the smell of burned meat, Julio was already accustomed to the aroma but the two soldiers did not have that capacity just like Julio, they understood the danger that these cursed beings represented.

When they saw them walking indifferently while they were burning, the scene was grotesque as pieces of skin detached as the fire burned the body fat.

Caelus contained his desire to vomit because of the sweet and burnt smell coming from the cursed beings that had become torches, his companion Cecilio also contained his desire to vomit.

They had to wait a few minutes until the cursed beings had burned when they saw that all of them were on the ground charred without the opportunity to fight they left the tower bound for the city of Veii.

The road was quite comfortable and because they knew the place they managed to avoid towns or villages where there could be concentrations of cursed beings.

During their advance, they could see some other watchtowers but there were no traces of the soldiers who should be taking care of them, after checking the towers they only found some food for what they assumed the soldiers fled or someone stole the provisions.

At noon they finally saw the city of Veii with the naked eye they could see that there were no traces of fire in the city, but the city gate was not guarded and was open which was a sign of being a trap.

Caelus looked at Julio "What Prince Julio thinks, it will be wise to enter the city through the entrance or we will walk to the next city."

Julio thought while looking at the city of Veii "With how much food and water we have, if we can hold on until we reach the city of Volsinii novae we will not need to enter the city, otherwise we can only enter and get enough supplies for the trip."

Cecilio smiled in a forced manner "We only have 3 days of food, which will not be enough to reach the city of Volsinii novae, but we have the option of looting the nearby villages without risking entering the city."

Caelus shook his head "Unlike Rome were suddenly be attacked, the towns and villages they most likely have evacuated taking with them the food, or in the worst case, the food is hidden and there are no more villagers with life.

The payment of taxes in remote areas is complicated and farmers tend to hide the crops of the collectors, so we will have to dig or break the houses to get the food.

I support the prince’s decision to enter the city as long as it is not for that entrance that seems more like a trap. "

Julio sighed and looking a little at the location of the sun he took his things "Follow me, there are some tunnels that not many know which were made in the wars against the Etruscans.

Its location is somewhere in the north, hidden in an old temple at Jupiter. "

The soldiers followed Julio to the temple to find the tunnels that lead to the city ...