Summon The Council of Elders

Spartan Hegemony (Vassal state) Small City Level 1:

Population: 2,000 thousand (Helots 500)

Spartan Army: 20 Hippeis (King's Royal Guard) 260 Spartan Youths,100 Spartan Hoplites, Summoning (Recruitment) is possible at barracks. 

"Would you look at that? i have 100 Spartan Hoplites!,that's a force to be reckoned with,although small yet very strong",Alexios said with happiness as he walked throughout the streets,to his palace.System in front of him disappears as he push the X button on the right corner,he did not want waste too much time on the system than necessary,people were still looking at him with fear,and disgust.

Alexios walked through the small hill,with his Hippeis at his side,additional two Hippeis guarded the entrance to his palace,they stood firmly in attention as he walked down pass them.Alexios stopped at the entrance and said,"Send Messenger to Summon The Council of Elders,we have things to discuss" said with hard voice,"it shall be done my king",said one of the Hippeis guarding the entrance to the palace.

Alexios walked through the halls,crossroads and finally to throne room,on the other side of the room there was standing the mighty Throne its self.Alexios walked beside the Bronze pot in the middle of the room,and above it was hole in the shape of a square,and sat down,while his two Hippeis stand beside him in total silence.

¨until the arrival of the council i shall look at my equipment" said Alexios who summoned the equipment screen that was in the corner of his eyes.Grey colour was gone and,the icon become white symbolizing newly gained items he got after transfering.Alexios made sure that Hippeis were looking straight forward,after he checked that the Hippeis were still looking forward with their gaze he then proceed to look at his equipment. 

Equipment:

Alexios Level 1 

Head: Corinthian helmet,Rarity: uncommon

+3 armor 

Chest: Muscle Cuirass +8 to armor (Breastplate and Backplate),Rarity: rare

 Fear factor: medium,(fear factor,the higher it is the bigger chance to frightened or paralyse victim that,are looking at you,future battles are included too)

shoulders: Cloak (Red Chlamys),Rarity: epic

Fear factor: high,special ability: Aura of Respect (your voice is 20 times more louder and mighty,witch can be used in battles.And everyone within 15 meters around you get bonus to morale)

Arms: Vambraces +1 armor,Rarity: common

lower part of the body: Skirt + 2 armor,Rarity: common 

waist: Belt + 0,5 armor Rarity: common

lower legs: Greaves +1 armor,Rarity: common

foot: boots (Krepis) +0,5 armor,Rarity: rare

your movement is not penalised when on harsh terrain 

Gear:

Sword (Xiphos): medium damage,Rarity: uncommon (currently equipped) 

Shield Hoplon: (currently not equipped) if you want to see stats of this shield please pick it up for more details 

Spear (Dory): (currently not equipped) if you want to see stats of this weapon please pick it up spear for more details.

so that's why my voice was so loud,no wonder it was thanks to my cape,1 epic,2 uncommon,2 rare,and the rest is common except those other 2 items that i can't look right now,but i will do it later.Could been worse,i (hopefully) get better items,maybe blacksmith can do that,well after the discussion i will look in to that.

Alexios closed the screen when he heard footsteps that were getting louder.Messenger arrived,and it was a Spartan youth who arrived,"My king the council will arrive shortly",said the Messenger who was kneeling in front of the throne."Very well,now go back to your duties",Alexios said with his voice that was fitting of a strong ruler,"yes my king!",messenger said and quickly vanishes. 

"my king we answered your call,and we are ready to serve", said the same elder who was acting like moderator yesterday,during the hot debate,i must quickly find out his name.Throne room was filled with remaining 27 members of the council,i even saw familiar faces,Theron with his missing hair in the middle of his head,and the other familiar face being Edorus with his white beard and hair.

"Esteemed Elders of the council i have summoned you,to discuss few important matters",Said Alexios,"and what that be my king?",said the moderator from yesterday."The one thing of many currently being,is that i raised 100 strong warriors,and i would like to know how much it impacted our treasury",Alexios said in anticipation that the cost would not be big.Moderator as Alexios named him for the time being,unpacked a scroll he was holding and said.

 "The state of our treasury is currently 425 dachmars per month,and we have only 5,240 dachmars in treasury my king" said out loud moderator,This is not good,true few merchants would come,but this is not sustainable.especially in winter where everyone will be home in warmth rather than running in cold."Thank you,i would like to know if anyone got any idea how to add few hundred dachmars in to the treasury",Alexios asked the important question to the council.

"Well,we are located in far southern region of the continent,this region is known mostly for its valuable trade routes,thanks to the Mystara Abyss sea that is leading straight to the Capital of the Imperium of Arcadia,its very popular by pirates,they established several coves along the shores,the lack of dachmars could be solved if we started attacking their coves and taking their wealth",Moderator stopped speaking and was waiting for my answer.

"oh my,if that is the case then i must depart immediately,but there are still few issues that needed to be solved,after that i am gonna take their booty..hehehe",Alexios said with a grin on his face,he was ready to answer but hot tempered Theron was faster."Pirates?!,are you joking?! these barbarians are not even worthy of our broken spear!,we should not waste our precious time with this nonsense,there is bigger threat than pirates!" said Theron very passionately and he take a few seconds to continue,he was already oven at this point."Korithians!! they are 4 days of travel from here,and have more than 2,000 warriors in their ranks!!,we must prepare defences!"

2,000!?! that's insane,i must quickly depart i summoned only 100 men and 60 of them are light infantry!.I highly doubt that they only send messenger with a scroll declaring war,they come with their army to massacre us,no way they would waste their time with this formality.Either we give them double that amount (if they are feeling merciful,witch they are definitely no) ,or perish.

"Elder Thoren you are right about one thing",answered Alexios instead of moderator."we must prepare our defences,but in order to do that we need money to raise substantially big force to properly defend ourselves against them,i managed to raise 100 strong but that is not enough,we need to acquire more wealth".Alexios said straight to Thoren's face who was cooling really fast,it looks like he get what Alexios meant by that.

"After the discussion is over,i will head to the shores of Mastara Abyssal sea,and take their wealth,and before i depart i want see details of the state of our treasury",Alexios finished,when he scanned other Elders he saw that most of them nodded in agreement with his plan."With that out of the way the next issue is Prince Xenophon,how much time before he will arrive?",Alexios hoped that no one is gonna ask why,they see him as savior of all Sparta."W..Well when leafs started to fall,witch was a month ago.So two months if not sooner,he wants to arrive before winter,witch is dangerously close",Said confused Edorus this time.

"thank you Esteemed Edorus,and before you ask the reason is simple,i want to thank him by hosting a party,and military parade in his name,to thank him for saving Sparta".Of course this was a lie,he still find this guy suspicious,Alexios hoped that this was good enough to satisfy their old,yet curious mind.Elders seemed shocked,they were never expecting this answer."My king,you are very rational,this is indeed a god idea",Edorus said,while other elders were exchanging looks with a smile on their faces,yes they took the bait,"the last issues is matter of food,will it last this winter?".

Alexios asked in hope that those two strengths in his city-state system was enough to survive,cruel and unforgiving winter,"Yes my king,we have more than enough in our granaries that we will even get our stomachs full",Edorus answered to Alexios.Good,good well i think that's all the things i needed to know,thank Zeus for that Strengths,but i wonder why it was not in the city-state system. 

"Thank you again my Esteemed Elders all the matters that needed attention were solved,thank you for you wisdom",Alexios standed up and thanked them,he really meant that,now he knew how much time before the bigger,dangerous beast called Xenophon would come,but first he must survive the coming threat from Korithians,and that was more or less 4 days.Time was running out.