Axikus greeted the guards standing at the door of the wooden house, and then opened the door gently. A bad smell came to his nose. He just sniffed without any discomfort.

Aviya in the room was also not affected by the smell. She was wearing clothes specially made for animal trainers, her hair was tied into a ball, tied firmly behind her head, holding a fat black cat in one hand and holding a beast railing in the other, staring at the beast circle with a slightly nervous expression.

"Avia...Avia..." Perhaps because Avia was too focused, Axikus shouted a few times, but she didn't respond. Instead, the black cat turned around, stared at Axikus at the door with big eyes, and then "meowed" twice.

Only then did Aviya see Axicus waving at the door. She walked over with some displeasure and whispered: "Why have you talked to your brother-in-law for so long? Nana (a female antelope) is about to give birth!"

"Just just now, Lord Hilos's son Pekestas sent someone to me and said that he and his cousin brought some guests to the zoo and had been queuing outside. The weather was too hot and there were many people. I was afraid that the children would not be able to stand it, so I wanted to come in early." Axicus told a small lie and changed the person who asked him for help to Pekestas.

This trick really worked. Aviya immediately said, "Oh, Brother Pekestas is here, let them in quickly! I'll do it now-" At this point, she looked back at the beast circle with some reluctance, and changed her words and said, "When Nana is born, I will go to see him immediately."

In the past, the Henipolis family was called to the king's residence from time to time to attend the family dinner by Davers from time to time, including Aristias and Asuna, Bagule and Andrea, and Hilos family... So Avija is more familiar with Hilos' children.

"Then I'll go and greet them first." Axicus said, turning around and leaving.

At this moment, the voice of the trainer came from the room: "Princess, Nana is born!"

When Avia heard this, she immediately became excited, grabbed her husband's hand and ran in: "Nana has finally given birth to a lamb! Please pray with me, hoping that Hades will protect her, and this time the little guy can survive smoothly!"

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While the Socicles brothers took their guests to the zoo, an executive meeting of the kingdom ministers was taking place in the Royal Palace Hall in Turiine City.

After seeing that the regent and the chiefs of various departments had arrived on time, and each sat down according to the custom, he immediately reported to Davers who was resting in the side hall. Then Davers took the palace clerk Heniporis and walked calmly into the hall through the side door and walked onto the throne.

The ministers immediately stood up and bowed respectfully.

"Sit all." Davers smiled and waved his hand. The ministers sat down. Then he looked at everyone, speaking slowly, but his voice was heavy and clear: "Everyone, today is the last administrative meeting of this month. Turiyi will hold a sports meeting next month, so the focus of our discussion today is the issue of the sports meeting."

Speaking of this, he turned his attention to Crotokataks, who was sitting at the bottom of the right side: "Consul, you are the main person in charge of the preparations for this sports meeting. You can first introduce us to the preparations for the sports meeting in detail."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Crotokataks, who has served as the consul of the Kingdom for more than four years, stood up calmly and said in a loud voice: "My sir, since His Majesty announced that he would hold the sports meeting in June of the previous year, two years and one month have passed, and our preparation work has been basically completed. Now I will give you a specific report on the entire preparation situation."

Over the past two years, Crotokataks has devoted most of his energy to the preparation of the sports meeting, and has done most of the things himself, so he knows the whole situation well and has not prepared the speech in advance. He coughed lightly, sorted out his ideas, and then said loudly: "According to the advice of his Majesty, the sports meeting held in Tuliyi not only includes the traditional running, wrestling, boxing, racing, horse racing, five major events (including running, long jump, discus throwing, javelin, wrestling), but also has added archery, ball throwing, high jump, pole vault, marathon, swimming—"

"I can understand everything else, but what is this marathon?" The new regent minister Bagule couldn't help asking (in early March, Hemon requested to resign from his position as regent on the grounds of old age. Davers approved that with the support of Lucanian senators led by Hemon, the Senate elected the Roman chief executive Bagule to take over the post. Davers recognized the election result, and Bagule officially performed his duties last month).

Although Crotokataks had explained this issue several times in previous executive meetings, he patiently explained to Bagule: "I think everyone should know that after the Athenian army defeated the Persians in the marathon a hundred years ago, the soldier Fidipitz ran back to Athens City from the marathon and told the people that the good news and fell to the ground and died. In order to commemorate this historical event, his Majesty specially suggested that we set up this competition. Therefore, the marathon is a special long-distance race. Its running distance is the distance from the marathon to Athens City, which is a total of 84 miles."

"Eighty-four miles?" Bagule exclaimed: "Who can run down at such a long distance! Even if you can run down, you will probably be exhausted!"

"We have tested it specifically. As long as we don't run too fast, we can run down." Crotokataks replied seriously: "So far, there are 10 contestants in our kingdom who have signed up to participate in this event."

"Oh, as long as you can run," Bagule nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Your Majesty, I have always had a question to ask." Secretary of Military Affairs Olivers couldn't help but say. (The year before yesterday, Alexis also resigned from the position of Secretary of Military Affairs on the grounds of old age. Davers originally planned several candidates to replace him, Leotićdes, Matonis, Lizaru and Olivers, but the other three refused to leave the army, and finally hoped that the youngest Olivers would become Secretary of Military Affairs instead.)

"Tell me."

"The marathon is just a very long-distance race. Why do we have to be named after the marathon battle commemorating the Athenians? Instead of the famous battles that our kingdom army had carried out in the past? For example, the First Legion ran into the Roman army for a long distance in Wolsey, and our army landed on the beach of Peleus and raided Larissa for a long distance... Isn't it better to be named in the name of these battles?" Olivers tactfully put forward his own opinions.

"Of course this doesn't work!" Davers rejected without hesitation: "Whether it was the Romans or the Thessals, they are now citizens of the kingdom. Disrespect for them in the name of these battles and will have a bad impact. The marathon is a battle between the Greeks and the Persians. It not only does not have this concern, but also shows our respect for the Greek people, especially the Athenians, which will help enhance the recognition of the Greek people with us, and at least allow them to participate in this sports meeting more enthusiastically."

"Your Majesty is right. In the reply from Athens to us, there were 5 Athens athletes who signed up for the marathon." Crotokataks responded.

Olivers suddenly went in confusion, nodded and said, "I have no objection now."

"Everyone, in order not to waste time, after the consul has reported, what questions do you ask and let him answer in a concentrated manner." Davers reminded in a calm tone.

The hall immediately became very quiet. Crotokataks continued: "...Marathon, swimming, clutch rowing, sailing competition, and military competition (including heavy-mounted racing, javelin throwing, horse riding, swimming), there are 15 major events in total. At present, all the venues and equipment required for all competition events have been prepared. All regions of the Kingdom and the city-states that received the invitation letter have promised to send players to participate. According to their reply, the total number of contestants to participate is 1,982, and the number of participants in each event has exceeded 50...

According to the preliminary schedule, the sports meeting will last for 15 days. Therefore, we are preparing to evacuate the hotels around all arenas in Turiy and the rooms of the Kingdom Hotel in the inner city, and provide free accommodation and diet for players and officials sent by various regions and city-states to ensure that the athletes participating in the sports meeting can play in a relatively good state (initially, because of the Kingdom Rugby Finals and Football Finals held every year, the Turiy City Hall temporarily set up athlete camps near various arenas. Later, hotels managed by the City Hall were built on these temporary camps. While providing accommodation for players participating in two football matches every year, it also provided convenience to passengers. As a result, the rooms were often filled, making a lot of profits for Turiy City Hall).

At the same time, we also reached an agreement with the Turi's Carriage Association, where they will be responsible for picking up and dropping off athletes to the competition venue during the competition to avoid lateness.

The priest referee team from various temples organized by Hades Temple has been trained for several months and has basically mastered the criteria for judging various competitions. I believe that the entire referee team will be able to fairly judge problems in various competitions and avoid ugly phenomena such as cheating.

Lord Stacey Kodas has provided us with great help. During the game, the Medical Department will send medical teams with rich medical experience to each field to treat injured players and spectators (Helps is retired and the Medical Secretary is replaced by Stacey Kdas).

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Chapter completed!