[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

Because of Messalina, Octavia went to a brothel under the name of Scylla.

There, boys and girls of various skin colors wore silk robes as thin as cicada's wings, like the forest banshee next to God Pan, exuding bewilderment all over their bodies, as if they were quickly ripened by the high temperature of the crater. The sweet and sweet smell of peaches makes people feel suffocated if they smell too much.

And behind the temple, there is no open-hearted lust in the brothel of the red-light district. Instead, there is a kind of hypocrisy and beauty and implicit sin in the style of Warren Cup.

The young solicitor at the door was only a little surprised when he saw Octavia, and then called two guards to drive them away.

"Young Hercules, before entering the door, you have to weigh your weapon." The guard looked Octavia in men's clothes up and down, and then laughed contemptuously.

Elius was very worried that their stupid actions would anger Octavia, and just wanted to reprimand him, but Octavia said ahead of time, "Give him a piece of Jupiter's gold."

At this moment, both the guards and the young man soliciting customers, all showed very funny expressions as if the pause button had been pressed.

Elius handed the gold coin that Conesia had given to Octavia to the guard of the temple. After the latter took it tremblingly, he lowered his head and smiled apologetically, "Dear guest, please forgive me for being blinded by arrogance. Let you bear the injustice."

"Lead the way." Octavia, who was not in the mood to talk nonsense to him, said bluntly: "You should have drunk the river of Styx and understand what to say and what not to say."

"Of course." The guard returned the coin to Octavia, still licking his face and smiling, "Our throat is a locked magic box, even if you have Pandora's curiosity, it won't help."

Then a young man standing by the arch, motionless like an ornament, like a statue of Pygmalion blessed by the God of Love, walked up to Octavia with steps like a shadow, and saluted her: " Please come with me alone."

Seeing this, Elius who was accompanying him could only pretend to be a visitor flirting with a child molestor.

However, the young man who led the way did not lead Octavia directly into the temple behind him, but led her around to the hidden door on the side, and knocked on the wooden door four times regularly.

"Who is the visitor outside the door?" A hoarse and unpleasant voice came from inside the house.

"It's Mercury disguised as Jupiter." After the boy answered, the hidden door was opened, revealing a crooked ugly woman.She held an oil lamp that looked like a three-headed dog and motioned for Octavia to come in.

"Little girl from the Claudius family? The last one who came to see me, this ugly woman, was Agrippina." The ugly woman did not have the slightest fear of Octavia, as if the most famous surname in Rome In her eyes, it was just an ordinary name.

"Have you met the great Agrippina?" Octavia did not reveal her identity, but the ugly woman had already guessed who she was, with an arrogant look on her face: "Not only the great Agrippina Na, even Julia Caesares, Livia Drusula, and even little Antonia were my guests."

"We are ghosts underground in Rome, Triodites in the night." The ugly woman led Octavia into a dark passage, and finally stopped in a damp center extending in all directions, facing Octavian Ya slowly said: "Since Konesia handed over the coin to you, it is transferring her right to enter here. Tell me, little Claudia, what do you want to do with this gold coin?"

"Assassination of the emperor? Stealing secret documents? Or obtaining a large amount of wealth." The ugly woman said lightly that was enough to be sentenced to death, and pointed three fingers at Octavia: "But you have to think about it. The value of gold coins The right can only be used three times, and you cannot ask me to execute any Matrona directly."

"Why?" Octavia wondered, "If you have the ability to assassinate the emperor, why are you afraid of a soft woman?"

"Because of the oath, my dear little Claudia." The ugly woman let out a strange laugh, and her cloudy eyes were full of malice: "I swore to the Styx River that I would not directly harm anyone Matrona."

"But when you finish using this gold coin, it may be handed over to someone else."

"Such as your enemy, little Agrippina."

The ugly woman expected Octavia to show an anxious expression, but the latter did not move at all, which made her a little confused: "Many gold coin holders will only use it twice or even once, because they are afraid of taking the gold coin It will be their enemies, or the first use of gold coins will cause irreparable results."

"Little Claudia, aren't you afraid?"

"I'm afraid I can't get the golden fleece." Octavia held the gold coin tightly and met the ugly woman's eyes: "You are not Medea, and I am not Jason. But I believe that taking the gold coin from me No, it will not be little Agrippina."

"Why?" The ugly woman raised her eyebrows in surprise: "You are not a person who talks nonsense, can you tell me the reason."

"Because you said that you have met Agrippina the Great, Antonia the Little, Livia Drusula, and Julia Caesares." Octavia smiled and said, "Unfortunately Yes, I'm good at genealogy."

"So the transfer of this gold coin is not random, but just like the crown of the Roman Empire, it is handed over to the next one by the Vitas Virgin according to the inheritance system of blood and the relationship with the emperor." Octavia Carefully pondering the relationship of the previous gold coin holders, he analyzed: "If I'm not mistaken, this blood relationship mechanism is the collateral or direct line of Holy Augustus, and there is an additional condition."

Octavia's gaze gave the ugly woman a feeling of being seen through: "That means the holder must be related to Livia Drusula."

"Or marriage, or offspring, or blood."

"I think the reason why you didn't attack the Matronas is because something embarrassing happened to you among the previous holders of the gold coins, and you had to add another condition." Via broke the ugly woman's heart little by little, causing her to show a terrified expression: "Thanks to you, I can deduce who the previous holders of the gold coins are just based on the previous conversation."

"They are Livia Drusula, Julia Caesares, Little Antonia, Big Agrippina, and Little Agrippina, right!" Octavia thought. Said: "So when I finish using this gold coin, the next holder should be Yulia Livia."

"What if she doesn't live to that day?" Octavia's face looked terrible in the dim environment: "If Julia Livia doesn't live to that day, and little Agrippina Imprisoned for life."

"Unless I, Nero, or Brittanycus have a daughter, the gold will never pass to the next person."

"So tell me, dear Triodites, what am I afraid of?"

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Trioditis: The goddess of the underworld representing magic and power, that is, Hecate, even Zeus will give her three points.

Livia Drusula: Great-grandmother of Octavia, wife of Augustus.

Julia Caesares: The daughter of Augustus, her last husband was Tiberius, the eldest son of Livia Drusula.

Little Antonia: Grandmother of Octavia, niece of Augustus, second daughter of Mark Anthony and Little Via, married to second son of Livia Drusula.

Agrippina the Great: Wife of Germanicus, eldest grandson of Livia Drusula, and granddaughter of Augustus.

Agrippina the Minor: The second daughter of Agrippina the Great.