章 507: Here! I! Come!

"Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein."

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." 

-        Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"…And please, be a better person in the future." 

The hundred plus Roman troopers kneeling on the ground broke into weeps, crying over the loss of their lucrative career in the army, crying over cutting away from their familiar way of life, and crying over the uncertain future when they go back to the civilian society. The villagers in the surrounding started getting affected by the atmosphere too as some of them who are way too kind and naïve started requesting the Caesar to pardon these soldiers, but Antonius remains unmoved.