Assassin's Creed Odyssey: The Next Odyssey

(Chateau Phoibe, Kephallonia)

Alexios Sat in His Chair on the Newly Reworked Vineyard Bought By Markos. Alexios had Convinced Markos to Cede Administrative Control and Legal Control to Him, so that the Wine would no Longer Taste like Shit. That and So That He Could Effectively Run Kephallonia From There. Much Had Changed since He Had Left This Place. After Taking Down The Cult of Kosmos, He had Seized Control of it, and aith The Help of Aspasia and His Sister Kassandra, Had Given it New Direction. The Cult was Now Renammed as The Knights of Leonidas, After Alexios and Kassandra's Grandfather. The Knights Had Become a Group that Sought To Improve the Lives of Others Over Using Them for Their Own Goals.

Of The Knights, Their Were a Coalition of Seven Leaders, Each With it's Own Domain of Rule. Alexios Led Kephallonia, Aspasia Ruled From Korinthia, Stentor From Megaris, Nikolaos From Phokis, Kassandra From Argolis, Kyra from Delos and Mykonos, and Myrrine From Naxos and Paros. Together They Brought Prosperity and Peace to Their Regions, Kephallonia was In the Beginning The Poorest of these, But Alexios Used the Staff Of Hermes and Knowledge Gained From Atlantis To Plant Hundreds of New Tree's. Tree's of Proportionately Higher Qaulity, Ones That Grew at Exceptionally Higher Rates, Had a Resistance to Extended Times of Drought or Fire. The Wood That wood Be Cut From them would be Extremely Sturdy and Light, Yet Very Fine.

These Weren't All he'd Done However, He'd Enriched Soil, and Used The Staff of Hermes to Create Deposits of Ores Such As Iron, Silver, Obsidian, Gold, Copper, and The Like so deep they'd eventually run out The Future Time of 2999, and Like the Tree's, these Ores Were Of Immense Qaulity. Any Fruit or Vegetables received Likewise Similar Qaulity Effects. Many Had Attributed These Boons to Alexios and His Respect for the Gods.

He'd Used The Income Generated from An Expanded Port and Market place To Buld Temples Deadicated To The Gods, Gods Like Ares, Artemis, Apollo, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, and The Like. The Followers of Ares and Daughters of Artemis Were Also Under His Control. The Daughters Served Him Following His Defeat of Their Former Leader in A Final Trial Following His Slaying of God-Sent Beasts and Showed Them Atlantis. The Followers Served Him After He Bested Them All In Combat and Showed Them Atlantis As Well. Beneath The Temples to Ares and Artemis Were Underground Cities He'd Created. These Cities Were Considered Sacred Ground, only The Daughters and Followers could Acess Them, and the Only Outsiders Allowed inside were The Knights of Leonidas. The Knights were Hand-Picked From An Early Age, and Given A Choice Join The Knights or Stay where They were. Many Accepted, since Alexios and His Mother Were Known To Be The Rignt Hands of The King of Sparta.

These Recruits Were Then Brought to The Old Meeting Place of The Cult, Alexios or Myrrine Would Reveal The History of The Cult, and Prove To Them The Cults Failings, Meanwhile Alexios/Myrrine would Take Them to One of Five Places. Megaris, Korinthia, Delos and Mykonos, or Argolis. There They'd Be Given A Set of Tasks. If they Were Successful in all, They were Sent to One of the Other Four Places of Control. This would Continue Until All of The Five Locations Had Been Completed.

But he was Getting Side Tracked, The Important Thing was That with War Looming Now More Than Ever, Between Sparta and Athens, King Archidamos had Decided that The Knight's of Leonidas needed To Become a Full Military Order, Subsequently He Recognized the Debt he owed to Alexios and his Mother, and Named Alexios The Successor Of Pausanias With all Pausanias's Wealth, Power, and Authority. Alexios Used that Influence To Improve The Lives of the People in the Seven Leaders's Pronvinces, he also Decreed that Any who Prayed to Kosmos were Heretics and Enemies of Life Itself.

Alexios's Marriages To Kyra and Aspasia Technically Made Them Queens of Sparta, As Well as Spartan Citizens. He also Adopted His Predecessors More Progessive Style of Rule, at least to Soms Degres, he also Followed Some of Perikles Examples. It was for These Reasons he was So loved by His Subjects. Alexios had Been Sending Countless Daughters and Followers to Investigate and Attempt To Locate First Civilization Artifacts and Places of Power, to That End He Asked Herodotos To Look into Ancient Legends. Nothing was Too Obscure or Far Fetched, After all, He'd Found and Been To Atlantis!!!

Alexios Had Slain Seemingly Mythical Creatures Such as The Minotaur, Sphinx, Medusa and Cyclops (The Legend! Not The Merc!), he'd killed God Sent Beasts, and With The Staff of Hermes In His Possession He Would Forever Be Able to Understand and Guard These Artifacts. But Such Artifacts were Immensely Powerful and Could Corrupt People Very Easily, So That Was Why The Daughters and Followers Had Strict Orders to Only Investigate Area's of Interest, and Legends In Various Regions. Only Approved Individuals Were Allowed to Even Attempt to Verify, and Since Very Very Few Individuals Had Sufficiently High Enough First Civilization Heritage Count, it was Quite Taxing for Alexios, Kassandra, and Their Mother Myrrine. So They Also Sought Out Fellow First Civilization Descendants of Legendary Heroes and Kings. Now The Odds were pretty Slim That Many Could Be Found, but as His Father had Said, ''Your Mothef and I Had A Duty to Continue Our Bloodlines.''. And He had Decided to Make Certain that Such Descendants Could Live in Peace and Secret. He already Knew of Several First Civilization Artifact Types, There were Swords, Spears, Staves, Orbs, and Possibly Axes. He'd Used Knowledge Garnered from Atlantis To Discern of Several Other Types of Artifacts.

These Artifacts were Said to Be Shrouds, Crystal Balls, Tridents, and Several Others. Alexios Had Been Gathering All The Knowledge Gathered In A Vault Beneath Kephallonia. It was Extremely Dificult, but it was very nearly complete, The Vault Could Only Be Opened by Someone With A Substantially High Enough Count of First Civilization Heritage and Of Good Intentions. The Vault was Highly Well-Protected. Alexios Had Been Training and Indoctrinating Young Children to Protect The Vault From Outsiders.

This was Not exactly Morally Acceptable, but The Need to Ensure Such Knowledge Remained Safe and away from Evil hands was too high not to. Alexios had Crafted A Set of Keys that Would Allow Full and Utterly Complete Access to the Vault, and Only Someone who had All Seven would Have such Control, These Keys Varied in Visage, But All Remained Key to Gaining Complete Access to The Vault.

Alexios Carried With Him A His Grandfathers Spear which doubled as a Secondary Key, butnThe True Key was the Eagle Statue Phoibe had Once Given Him. He Was Tortured by Her Every Day, He Had Named This Vineyard Chateau Phoibe, in Her Memory, and Markos was all too happy to agree when he heard How and Why She'd Died. They'd Named their First Truly Magnificent Wine after Her, Chaire Phoibe. The Wine was A Suitably Sweet and Well-Flavoured One. But he was once again getting sidetracked, Stentor Carried The Second Key, A Sword. The Sword was Unlike the Sword Kassandra had once carried, This Sword Had A Power Source inside the Hilt that Would Act as A Synchronization Point for the Other Keys. Myrrine Carried A Necklace, where the Centerpiece was The Key. This Particular Key was The Conduit for the Others. Nikolaos A Dagger. This Dagger was The Control Device for The Vaults Defences. Kyra Carried A Spear, Her Spear Granted Acess to The Vault's Archives. Aspasia Wore a Crown, this Crown Granted Ascess To The Restricted Wings. Kassandra Carried A Axe, An Axe which Finished the Grid of Keys.

Each of these Keys had A Failsafe which meant only someone who was designated as its user, their descendants following their passing, and Those whom the Previous User Entrusted them to and their own descendants.

But Suddenly there was a Knock at the door. ''You can come in Markos.'' Says Alexios.''How did You Know it was Me?'' Asks Markos.''Who else would Knock? What can I do For You Old Friend?''Asks Alexios. ''There's A Surly Spartan Here to see You.'' Says Markos. ''Tell Him I'll Be right there.'' Says Alexios